2018: “Nobody wants to take your guns. We just want commonsense gun safety laws”
— the ruling party
1994: “Nobody wants to murder Tutsis. We just need commonsense Tutsi control”.
— the ruling party
1931: “Nobody wants to kill all the Jews. We just want commensense Jew control”
— the ruling party
1915: “Nobody really wants to kill Armenians. We just need commonsense Armenian control”
— the ruling party
1867: “Nobody wants to decimate the Indians and expropriate their land. We just need commonsense Indian control and land management”
— the ruling party
Tyranny never comes to your door in a T-shirt saying “Hi! Ask Me About The Benefits Of Having Your Freedom And Humanity Crushed!”.
The rub here is simply what the “gun control” faction will not admit openly; given that the “modest proposals” they recommend cannot work, the end game always was, and always will be, disarmament of the populace in toto. And in light of that, reality is that we have over sixty million graves filled with the victims of governments who disarmed their subjects. Never again.