The Left Is Preparing the Battleground

 I have said it hear before, but it is not new, and I don't take credit for it: Guns don't kill people, people kill people, as reported at the American Thinker by Andrea Widburg. Widburg tells the tale of a man with prior criminal history who after a fight with his boss, killed several colleagues with a bat and a knife.

When someone is coming at you with a knife, it’s almost impossible to defend yourself. As an experiment, put on old clothes, hand your friend a marker, and try to defend yourself as he “attacks” you with the “marker” in lieu of a knife. A frenzied knife attack will leave you covered with marker slashes. And if you’re interested in trying to defend against an equally frenzied baseball attack, have your friend arm himself with a pool noodle. Good luck avoiding “deadly” strikes.

In the hands of a person determined to kill, any and all weapons other than guns are devastating. That is, not everyone has to be a Timothy McVeigh to commit mass murder without a gun.

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The thing about the Second Amendment is that it’s premised on the belief—which still holds true in America—that there are more good people than there are bad people. That means that an armed population is disproportionately likely to use guns to save, not take, lives.

The reality is that the world is an imperfect place and there will always be bad people who use whatever weapons are available—guns, knives, fists, bats, poison, cars, rocks, broken bottles, teeth, acid—to attack their enemies. We are never safer than in a moral community with trained, armed citizens. (Obviously, this doesn’t apply to Democrat-run communities, which have substituted gun control for morality, and managed to end up with uncontrolled guns in the hands of an immoral, sociopathic population.)

Well said.

But while we are on the topic, the Democrats have been on a tear to take guns away from private citizens since I can remember.  The strategy has been to use Rules for Radicals RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Years ago it was the supposed "Saturday Night Special." Saturday Night Specials were small, snub nosed and cheap revolvers supposedly used by blacks to kill others on, of course, Saturday nights. This picking and freezing of the target lead to the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Recently the gun grabbers have been attempting to pick and freeze the AR-15 by calling it a military style "assault rifle." I have been puzzled by this, because rifles of any sort are so infrequently used in crimes. But as war with China has become more of a probability, I have come to the conclusion that the fact that the AR-15 shares its ammunition with the Army's M-16, M4 and other variations suggests the Left's reason for going after it. There are a lot of AR-15s scattered among us, and the fact that we can share ammunition with the military suggests the possibility of once again defending the homeland with militias.

An apocraphal quote of Admiral Yamamoto during WWII was that Japan could never invade the American continent because they would find a rifle behind every blade of grass. The Left is attempting to prepare the battle ground for foreign invasion. This makes them our enemies, sad to say.