(06-02-2022, 10:02 AM)The Drifter Wrote:

(06-02-2022, 04:37 AM)captivating Wrote: Settle down Rambo.  Just because you have a Constitutional right to bear arms, the Government can control what type of arms you can bear.  If you need a semi-auto rifle to put food on your table, then you're a terrible shot.

WOW! Just WOW! Just because I'm willing to stand up for, and fight for, my constitutional rights, and to be able to protect myself and my family makes me Rambo? So tell me, what does it feel like being a sheep that can be led to the slaughter at the whim of the goverment since you want us all disarmed? Disarming the populace was the 1st thing people like Hitler, Stalin and Mao did when they took power, and we all know what happened then (If you ever even picked up a history book, you'd know) I'm of the opinion that it's none of the Government business of how many firearms I own,or what type they are. When the 2nd amendment was written, all firearms were military grade so that we, the citizens wer on equal footing with them. To me, if the Government ever tells me that I don't need a firearm, well, I'll need a firearm.

That's a myth.  Three myths, actually.
Hitler inherited a government where many people legally owned guns but a license was required.  The only change he implemented was to forbid that any new licenses be offered to Jews or Communists.  This was part of his overall push to deny them of citizenship.  All other Germans kept their right to own guns, though. Licenses were easily obtained.
Stalin did confiscate a lot of guns, but not as a prelude to anything.  His military took guns away from the Kulaks as part of his broader campaign to collectivize their land and turn them into proletarians.  But this was done as part of a military campaign, not a legal effort.  Similar to how we disarmed many natives in an effort to take their ancestral lands and force them to assimilate.  In all three cases, Hitler with the Jews, Stalin with the Kulaks, the US army with the Indians, it was done after they were already being oppressed by their government, after they were already denied their privileges of citizenship.  None of these cases involved taking guns from ordinary people.  Only the repressed class.  
As for Mao, he made no real effort to restrict or confiscate guns at all for the first 8 years he was in power.  Yet he managed to starve and murder millions of his people in that time.  
None of these stories are any kind of parable about any gun restriction that is currently being proposed in the US.

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