Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, if elected, has declared her intent to push an anti-gun agenda that starts with an “assault weapons ban” but will morph into a mass disarmament campaign over time. Not only has she said as much, but Democrats have been fighting to push ever-stricter anti-gun laws over the last five to ten years, many of which are in direct opposition to pro-Second Amendment Supreme Court decisions such as Heller, McDonald, and now Bruen.
In the Second Amendment community, there is a small minority of vocal patriots who understand the dangers of voluntary disarmament based on recent history. Australia, England, Venezuela, and looking a little further back, Russia, China, and Germany all illustrate that when a state disarms its citizens, what happens next is unspeakable.
There are roughly 100,000,000 gun owners in the United States, and while a small percentage will resist a disarmament scheme by all means possible, we have no reason to believe today that MOST Americans will not voluntarily give up their arms under government pressure such as “assault weapons” bans, voluntary buy-backs, and registration requirements.
How do we arrive at this conclusion? Simply look at what happened during COVID in the last four years. We are told today by the same “experts” who forced them on us that measures like “social distancing,” masking, one-way aisles in grocery stores, closing businesses and churches, etc. were all arbitrary and made up. Yet, most Americans willingly complied.
If you put a piece of cloth over your face because the government said so, you will also likely give up your firearms because the government said so.
The Second Amendment was written for one purpose: to protect the God-given right of individual citizens to oppose a tyrannical government. That’s an uncomfortable truth because for most of us, the Second Amendment is manifested by the occasional range day with some friends, plinking in the backyard with our kids, or maybe carrying a concealed firearm that will likely never be deployed.
The average American gun owner is unprepared mentally, emotionally, and physically to pick up their firearm and defend themselves, their families, and their community against a tyrannical government. And if history is any indication, most of our population will voluntarily disarm.
The relatively few Americans who have made that profound oath and served their country in our military understand the implications much better. Some have made the ultimate sacrifice and poured their blood out in defending our ideals. Those who are still with us and have been in the heat of battle know all too well how difficult it is to engage in armed conflict, and the toll it inflicts.
In *The Gulag Archipelago*, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was sentenced to eight brutal years in the Gulag and then exiled for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter, wrote about the deep remorse he and his fellow prisoners had over not resisting tyranny:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
To our fellow Americans and patriots we say this: you have a very short period of time to draw your line in the sand and determine what your response will be when and if a tyrannical administration pushes disarmament, in any form.
Don’t let history repeat itself.
