There But For the Grace of God...

 Andrea Widburg has two stories that show the wisdom of our Founders in placing the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights.  The story can be found at the American Thinker entitled Two stories that highlight why the Second Amendent matters so much. One story is of the United States, the other is Australia. Australia has gone full on totalitarian. As you will see, the police are beating construction workers in the streets and shooting them with rubber bullets. The construction workers were protesting the requirement to stau locked down, sonce these people must work to put food on the table.

The Founders’ wisdom has been borne out by the history of the 20th and (to date) 21st centuries. Although the drive-by media loves to lead with stories about gun crimes, there are two data points even more significant than the fact that most seem to occur in Democrat-run, heavily gun-controlled regions.

The first is that, per a CDC study published under the Obama administration, having a gun is the safest self-defense strategy. Even more significantly, defensive use of guns occurred between 500,000 to 3 million times per year, far outweighing the annual 30,000-40,000 gun deaths in America (most of which are suicides).

The second fact is that, while criminals are bad, there is no killer more efficient than a government turning on its unarmed citizens.

             In 1915, Turkey killed 1.5 million unarmed Armenians.

From the 1920s to the 1930s, the Soviet government killed approximately 7 million unarmed Kulaks.

From the 1960s to the 1970s, communist China killed between 23 million to 50 million unarmed Chinese.

From 1933-1945, the Nazis killed 6 million unarmed Jews, along with 220,000 homosexuals, 250,000 gypsies, and up to 10 million Slavic people.

From 1975-1979, Pol Pot’s communists killed one-quarter of Cambodia’s citizens.

From 1954 to the present, the North Korean government has killed an estimated 1.3 million North Koreans.

Today, we have no idea how many Uighurs the CCP is killing.

You can expect Afghanistan to become a new killing field. Just last month, the Taliban ordered all citizens to surrender their privately owned weapons.

To avoid mass slaughter, government should have a respectful fear of its citizens, so much so that it stays carefully within a constitution’s clearly delineated lines, especially because free, well-governed citizens are peaceable...

The saying goes, and it fits here, that "There but for the grace of God go we."