If you need some convincing of this, please take a look at the article by Dave Kopel located here, entitled "Gun Bans and Genocide: The Disarming Facts". Kopel does an excellent job of describing how the government in Darfur is using gun control to expedite genocide. Here's the first paragraph... and don't forget to go read the whole article:
Gun Bans and Genocide: The Disarming Facts
By Dave Kopel
The international gun prohibition lobbies and their United Nations allies insist that there is no personal right of self-defense—that people should be forced to rely exclusively on the government protection. The prohibitionists also insist that there is no human right for people to possess the means of self-defense, such as firearms. But what are people supposed to do when the government itself starts killing people? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, is the direct result of the types of gun laws which the United Nations is trying to impose all over the world. Millions of people have already died because of such laws, and millions more will die unless the U.N. is stopped. (more...)By Dave Kopel
3 comments:
Thanks. It was very interesting for me to read it!
Interesting, but I find it strange coming from the "second amendment project." I hardly think one can equate Darfur with gun control issues in the United States. Further, gun control in the United States focuses on personal weapons. Although I am against the most radical forms of gun control (althouhg I think being forced to wait a few days is likely a good idea, after all, who needs a gun RIGHT NOW!, and preventing felons from getting them is probably wise) I don't oppose gun control due to some idea that the people could "rise up" and overthrow the government. If you really want anyone to have the capability to oppose the government, they have to have access to heavy weaponry. And I'd rather my neighbor didn't have an RPG. He's a bit of a kook.
Perhaps in Darfur personal weapons would healp, because of the backward and shambolic nature of the gov't there and their militias. But in Bosnia, you needed airstrikes and artillery to halt genocide. And I don't think that's what the second amendment project is about.
It only takes a fraction of a second for someone to take your life, Justiceiro. That doesn't change depending on the country you live in. Gun ownership is a human right because no one has the right to take away your ability to defend yourself.
All efforts to either confiscate guns or make it impossible to use or own them is the first step in establishing a police state. You don't get to the point of needing the ability to perform airstrikes if you stop the encroachment on this particular human right early on.
The world is full of people who would impose their will upon you with impuntiy. Darfur is a window on a world where this has become institutionalized... racism and religious discrimination given free reign. You may think we're immune from totalitarianism in the U.S., but I think you're burying your head in the sand...
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