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Repealing the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights
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<blockquote data-quote="Riflehunter1776" data-source="post: 1425086" data-attributes="member: 103369"><p>This is a famous quote by somebody who went through the concentration camps in a socialist system, just like millions of other people who didn't stand up when they had the opportunity, but rather just went along in fear and trusted the government to be fair with them. I edited a few words for ease of understanding. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>"And how we burned in the [concentration] camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every [secret policeman], when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their [homes], paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The [government executioners] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed [system] would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Axes, hammers, and pokers he said. Imagine how a million AR-15's would have curtailed the whole thing. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riflehunter1776, post: 1425086, member: 103369"] This is a famous quote by somebody who went through the concentration camps in a socialist system, just like millions of other people who didn't stand up when they had the opportunity, but rather just went along in fear and trusted the government to be fair with them. I edited a few words for ease of understanding. [SIZE=4][I]“And how we burned in the [concentration] camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every [secret policeman], when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their [homes], paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The [government executioners] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed [system] would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”[/I] [I][/I] [I][/I] Axes, hammers, and pokers he said. Imagine how a million AR-15's would have curtailed the whole thing. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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