Before tyrants “become” tyrants, they are simply politicians. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. One of the biggest reasons for respecting the right of individuals to the means to defend themselves is for protection against attacks by their government. One of the reasons founders like Patrick Henry and Gouverneur Morris forced the Second Amendment (with the other liberties explicitly respected) as a condition for ratification, was because the British had come attacking.
They attacked to protect the enforcement of the stamp act (and the self-written warrants to enforce them) and the tyranny of colonial rule.
The first step in the tyranny recipe is almost always gun control, adding ever more until finally it becomes gun confiscation. The propagandists do their job, many even believe in it, telling people they’re not interested in confiscation, just control and licensing.
There is never enough, because the more difficult it is for the people who obey the laws to get them, the more vulnerable they are, like in Newtown, Connecticut.
With the accumulation of records, then, what has happened after licensing they only have to look up the records and they know where to go to get them from freedom-loving citizens who might object to being arrested for speaking to their neighbors, or anything else they deem a “threat to national security”.
Germany’s Interior Minister bragged after Germany’s gun confiscation about how safe the streets were now. After licensing and registration controls, Turkey’s government knew which Armenians had weapons to confiscate, a couple of years before the massacre.
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