Fear the Government That Fears Your GunAugust 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Conservatism, FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, Germany, Guns
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When I first came upon this article, I thought of Obama’s snide remark during the Pennsylvania primary that people in some of the rural areas of America were “bitter, clinging to their guns and religion.”
I know that gun ownership is controversial in some quarters, but history is replete with examples of dictators ( Germany in the 1930’s and Vietnam in the 1970’s ) moving very quickly to confiscate all firearms from the general population as one of their first priorities.
Take the time to read this article if you are not up to speed on the issues surrounding the Second Amendment and why conservatives feel so passionately about this.
~~John Cronin~~
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28077
By: A.W.R. Hawkins
In West Texas, it was not uncommon to see the bumper sticker “fear the government that fears your gun” on a lot of pick-up trucks during both terms of the Clinton administration. Like the rest of the South and much of the Midwest, we were hypersensitive to the thought of having our right to keep and bear arms infringed upon in any way. Moreover, common sense and annual FBI crime statistics taught us that 99.9% of the population only used their guns for defensive reasons, thus we were particularly leery of an administration that sought to take away our instruments of self-defense. Yet as bad as Clinton was, his push to disarm the American people would pale in comparison to what we’d see from a President Barack Obama, a man who not only wants to disarm the American people, but America’s allies as well.
In the 1990s, my fellow West Texans and I were especially bothered by the way Clinton turned every crime — from Columbine to gang activity — into an opportunity to pass incremental legislation which made it harder for law-abiding citizens to purchase and carry guns, and therefore harder to be free. And if Obama’s past is any indication, this is the same course he would take in his attempt to get guns out of our hands.
