WHY THE TYRANTS WANT YOUR GUNS

So reads the headline article of a publication called Infowars. I don't

want your guns and I don't want you to have them either. Is it

tyrannical to want to live in a gun-free society?

The Bible has been used to justify slavery and capital punishment. To

subjugate women to deny them the vote, owning property, higher

education, jobs, loans. To deny rights to due to race, colour, creed,

and sexual orientation. To justify corporal punishment.

The formers of the constitution did not have much confidence in the

common man. Only male property owners and men of substance were allowed

to vote and even then the election of the president was left in the

hands of an electoral college. Nor did they put their trust in any

branch of government setting up a tripartite system that pitted the

executive, legislative, and judicial branches against one another. Nor

did they coach the constitution in plain language substituting "the

pursuit of happiness" for "wealth". The right to bear arms was meant to

guarantee the right of states to establish militias for their defense.

The language used has been since perverted to justify the keeping of

personal arsenals.

As the saying goes, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. The

publication goes on to create pages of graphs that purport to justify

the keeping of weapons based on decreases in murder rates based on gun

ownership. Whether these statistics are fact or fiction no effort is

made to prove that one actually correlates with the other. In similar

fashion law enforcement agencies would trumpet their success in fighting

crime when the truth of the matter is that success rates in solving

crime are at an all time low. The decrease in violent crime, North

America wide is principally due to the fact that the population

demographic aged 16-36 which traditionally commits the lions share of

crime is at a 200 year low. On the other hand media reporting has served

to make a largely urban population who have become isolated from their

neighbours uneasy about their personal security. Nosy neighbours and

families who walk and own the streets are our best defense.