It’s a real shock when a politician gets …
Posted on October 12, 2015 by Robert Ringer
It’s a real shock when a politician gets scorched by the media and doesn’t fall all over himself walking back his comments. But, then, that’s the whole point: Ben Carson is not a politician.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Carson didn’t flinch or budge an inch when Blitzer kept poking him in the eye with the drive-by stick. What Carson said was so crystal clear and logical as to be irrefutable:
“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. I’m telling you, there is a reason these dictatorial people take guns first.”
I say “irrefutable,” because history, not to mention common sense, backs him up. Carson is right, there’s a reason why evil people with designs on dictatorships always disarm the populace before they make their tyrannical objectives clear. It’s not just a coincidence that it happens 100 percent of the time.
BTW, it’s a bogus argument to say that there were less than a quarter of a million Jews in Germany by 1938, so even with guns it would have been impossible for them to defend themselves. If the entire population had had arms, millions of upstanding, moral, non-Jewish Germans not only would have fought to protect Jews, but to prevent the advent of a bloodthirsty dictatorship and their own enslavement.
I wish pro-gun advocates — including the NRA — would stop meekly talking about hunting, target practice, and defending against criminals, and put the real purpose of the Second Amendment front and center: to give people the ability to stand up to a tyrannical government.
As Noah Webster put it in a pamphlet urging ratification of the Constitution, “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.”
Sorry, Wolf, but Noah and Ben have this one right.
