LR1955 Wrote:Russia, China, and Cuba resulted from the people taking up arms and overthrowing the established government, which could be viewed as a good reason to prohibit the private ownership of guns.stanc Wrote:Those events are a historical record of populations that did not think their 'leaders' would ever do what they said they would do. And they found out that people most certainly will do what they say they will do.LR1955 Wrote:Hmmm. Kind of like Russia in 1917? How about Germany in 1934. China in 1949. Cuba maybe? Cambodia in 1975? Venezuela over the last ten years?You've lost me. How do those events relate to the campaign rhetoric of US Presidential candidates in 2019?
When you have presidential candidates who believe the Constitution is only a speed bump in their route towards making us a truly 'progressive' (Communist / Statist) society, and who will impeach conservative judges and replace them with leftists who will automatically put a stamp of approval on anything they dictate, only someone who knows nothing about history would believe that they are just catering to their base and have no intention of doing what they say they will do.
Cambodia was a civil war in which a communist government was overthrown by more radical communists.
Hitler gained popularity in Germany by blaming foreign countries and an ethnic group for his country's problems. I know of only one candidate for POTUS who's done that, and he isn't a Democrat.
In Venezuela, Maduro has been able to oppress the people because the army has been willing to do the oppressing. Do you think the US military would obey a President's orders to oppress the American people?