Dear Friends,
It seems to me, when a government disarms it’s people, the message is subtle and has many dark undertones. It tells the individual that their government doesn’t trust them. Since we know people project their own inadequacies and weaknesses on others, it tells society that government cannot be trusted. It allows people to become ever more childish because those who never enter the real world need never grow up. Plus, gun laws are a strong incentive for crime. A disarmed people are only a benefit to a government that plans on oppressing them, which is the only reason government would disarm it’s citizens. A well armed citizenry is the best deterrent to armed invasion. So we can conclude that if the people cannot be trusted with arms, the elite certainly cannot, since they too are people.
The individual knows he or she is not trusted by government when they are disarmed. You don’t give the keys to your car to someone you don’t trust with it, nor does a wise person allow a novice to fly a plane solo. Simply because it is foolish to trust a car or a plane to someone you don’t trust. Guns are no different, if the government doesn’t trust you with a gun, it considers you untrustworthy. When someone is not considered trustworthy, they are not trusted, and they know they are not trusted. When someone knows they are not trusted most will act the part. They will be less trustworthy, than they otherwise would be, because they will perceive the world as untrustworthy. Not being treated by the Golden Rule themselves, people will follow their leaders, and not apply the Golden Rule to others.
Disarmed people incentivize crime. Crime is a risky business, like predation or parasitism. If caught there can be mortal consequences. If however, the victim is disarmed, then the risk is also decreased. People take every path to get ahead. Most people take the easiest path and less take the harder paths. So, make a path easier, and more people will take it. Like creating a shunt in a circuit. Take burglary for instance like Beto O’rourke is inclined to do. If a burglar breaks into a home and someone with a gun is inside, Beto’s life is at risk. On the other hand, if guns are illegal, Beto need not worry about the victim being able to defend herself. So burglary becomes much safer, and therefore more people will take that path, as gun control makes it a safer way to get ahead. Which is probably why Beto is for gun control.
People who are never allowed to become adults… stay adolescents. The typical teenager of the 1800s was more mature than the typical 30 something today. Becoming an adult and maturing has more to do with life experience than with age. By the time someone lived to be 16 in the 1800s, they had dealt with losing a sibling or two, real hunger, had zero diversions, worked more than eight hours a day, might have lost a parent, probably had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, German measles, and at least one debilitating injury. Those are the life experiences that mature someone. Traveling to Europe in luxury, getting participation trophies, safe spaces, and being coddled to the extreme… isn’t maturing. What matures a person is responsibility and hard times. Children, no matter the age, act like children.
Government that disarms it’s citizens, is not a government that cares about them, it is a government intent on some nefarious purpose. Since the primary role of a national government is to protect from other national governments, and an armed populace is the best deterrent to armed invasion, an armed people should be desired by every national government. Even rendering a standing army redundant if the people are sufficiently armed and trained. A government that seeks to disarm it’s citizens must have motives other than the protection of the nation from armed invasion. The elite would rather a standing army, because a standing army answers to them, while they are supposed to answer to the people. So it seems clear, that when a government seeks to disarm it’s citizens, that government is up to no good.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
