Pravda tells America: Keep your guns

[_bcspace]

Americans are getting a bit of advice from a columnist in Pravda, which long was considered the voice in front of the massive power of the Soviet Union: Keep your guns.

“This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth,” wrote Stanislav Mishin in his recent column on a news website that uses the same name as the longtime Soviet voice.

“This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well, those are bullet holders for rifles.”

However, the communists weren’t stupid, he wrote, and when they took power, “One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. ”

“From that point, mass repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a safe game for the powers,” Mishin wrote.

The commentary, which originally appeared on the author’s personal website, comes just as the gun control sentiment in America is at a zenith because of the deranged attack on a Newtown, Conn., school in which 20 children and six adults were killed.

As WND reported, a coalition of gun organizations already has told members of Congress that more restrictions on guns won’t increase security and will likely, instead, lead to more violence.

“Between the first significant school shooting, in 1966, and enactment of the 1996 (Gun Free School Zones Act], media summaries reveal eight shootings with 134 victims killed or wounded – a rate of 4.3 victims per year,” said the letter to members of Congress and other leaders.

“Between 1996 and 2012, the review finds 62 shootings and 367 victims – a fivefold increase to 23 victims per year. Yet, during the same period, FBI Uniform Crime Reports indicate homicide nationwide dropped by 14 percent,” the letter explains.

“Members of the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban demand that Congress refuse to use lawful gun owners as political scapegoats and instead reduce school violence by …. Defeating any attempt to pass gun control including, but not limited to, banning semi-automatic firearms or magazines, or requiring private gun transfers to be registered through the National Instant Check System; and repealing the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1996.”

The letter is signed by leader of the Firearms Coalition, Gun Owners of America, Rights Watch International, Second Amendment Sisters and USRKBA.org and dozens of state groups.

The Pravda column noted that taking over lands holding “an extremely well armed and aggressive population hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor” was no simple matter.

“To this day, with the Soviet Union now dead 21 years, with a whole generation born and raised to adulthood without the SU, we are still denied our basic and traditional rights to self defense. Why? We are told that everyone would just start shooting each other and crime would be everywhere …. but criminals are still armed and still murdering and [too] often, especially in the far regions, those criminals wear the uniforms of the police.”

Even today, the columnist wrote, authorities “do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This, in turn, breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse.”

Mishin said America’s Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, “is a rare light in an ever darkening room.”

“Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but … in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position,” he said.

“In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill, N.C.), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or ‘talking to them,’ it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.”

He continued: “Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.

“So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.”

Pravda tells America: Keep your guns

[_MeDotOrg]

“..Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth,” wrote Stanislav Mishin in his recent column on a news website that uses the same name as the longtime Soviet voice.

“This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar.

Ah, the heady freedom of peasants under Nicholas and Alexandra. The good old days...

It seems that every time the country begins to discuss gun control, it becomes a conspiracy to take away all guns, and we will end up like the Soviet Union.

Implicit in this argument are two assumptions:

1. Any talk about gun control is a secret threat from the left to take away all weapons.

2. The only thing that keeps our country from a tyrannical totalitarian state is the fact that we are such a well-armed citizenry.

I guess I have a couple of questions:

1. If a well-armed populace is the only thing that stands between a people and totalitarianism. why haven't all the countries that have much stricter gun control (i.e. Britain, Japan) been taken over by totalitarian regimes?

2. Why does ANY attempt for stricter gun regulation automatically become a way to take away all arms, when there many stable Western Democracies that have strict gun control but still have free governements and populations that can possess firearms?

[_Bret Ripley]

Ah, the heady freedom of peasants under Nicholas and Alexandra. The good old days...

Ah, if only Tevye and Golde had done their patriotic duty by stockpiling arms: "Here, in our little village of Anatevka, every one of us is a Sniper on the Roof ..."

[_krose]

Don't be fooled into thinking that this website has anything to do with the Russian newspaper we used to hear about years ago. If you want to see the site for the actual Pravda, go to gazeta-pravda.ru.

This is a tabloid site somewhere beyond Glenn Beck and WND in craziness, which explains why BC is treating it with such respect. It's just some Russian a-hole who happened to register the domain name (pravda just means "truth," ironically).

Pravda.ru is not afraid to tackle the big issues, claiming that global warming, the moon landing, evolution, and HIV are all hoaxes, that Atlantis has been discovered, and that the supercollider is a time machine. Oh, they also have informed their readers that the FBI and CIA have access to a parallel earth and have changed our current reality.

[_krose]

at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth

However, the communists weren’t stupid, he wrote, and when they took power, “One of the first things they did was to disarm the population.

So why didn't all those weapons keep the commies from taking power, and since it didn't prevent it there, what makes anyone think it would work any differently here?

Second, how were the commies able to take away all the weapons without armed resistance, and what makes anyone think it would work any differently here?

Maybe we are just special, chosen people.

[_krose]

The second amendment is equally as valid today as the third amendment is.