The most dangerous thing in the world is governments.
During the 20th century, 262 million people were murdered by their own governments, six times greater than the deaths from battles in wars, (according to political scientist R.J. Rummel, who revived and redefined the term democide). This can happen after guns have been confiscated. They were murdered by firing squads, hanging, gas ovens, government-contrived famines, or by torture.
That’s twice as many as died from bubonic plague, that once killed half the population of Europe. The plague killed indiscriminately, but governments murder the wisest, the bravest and the best, their best breeding stock, leaving the timid and gullible to breed and be their slaves.
The Second Amendment of our U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent gun confiscation and to keep such totalitarian power out of the hands of our government with the mass atrocities gun control facilitates. “Background checks” are de-facto registration of guns facilitating confiscation — and democide.
Robert Wassman
Vancouver
