Posted by
JTB on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:24:15 PM
Leftists are perpetually dishonest in their reasoning. "In one breath, they claim conservatives want to strip us of our civil liberties and create a police state. In the next breath, and with a straight face, they tell us only the police should have guns!"
These pseudo-intellectual leftists might want to note that they agree with the following "great figures of History":
Adolf Hitler (April 11, 1942): “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.”
Mao Tse Tung (Problems of War and Strategy, Nov 6 1938, published in “Selected Works of Mao Zedong,” 1965): “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
Benito Mussolini (address to the Italian Senate, 1931): “The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.”
Admiral Yamamoto: “You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”