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You cannot invade the mainland United States. There
would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Commander-in-Chief, Imperial Japanese Navy
Killed In Action, April 1943
We suspect that Admiral Yamamoto was more right than
he could ever know.
As the economy continues its unimpeded fall into
depression and uncertainty grips the country, Americans are responding by
arming themselves at record levels:
Via The Daily Crux and Zero Hedge
Data Sourced via Gallup (1,2)
Forty-seven percent of American adults currently
report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property. This is up from 41%
a year ago and is the highest Gallup has recorded since 1993, albeit
marginally above the 44% and 45% highs seen during that period.
Almost half of American households have at least one
firearm in their homes. Considering that many households have multiple
weapons, we’d venture a guess that there are more firearms in American
homes than there are people living within our borders.
We can’t help but feel proud about that. The
second amendment, after countless attacks since the Republic came into
existence, has survived and remains a formidable force against the spread of
tyranny and criminal trespass by those who would do harm to the lawful.
There, are of course, those who would ban gun
ownership altogether. They’re more than likely the people that have
rarely picked up a history book to understand what happens when governments
disarm their people. You need look at only one historical example to see the
potentially horrific consequences of such actions:
German firearm laws and hysteria created against
Jewish firearm owners played a major role in laying the groundwork for the
eradication of German Jewry in the Holocaust. Disarming political opponents
was a categorical imperative of the Nazi regime.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
declares: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of
a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed.”
This right, which reflects a universal and
historical power of the people in a republic to resist tyranny, was not
recognized in the German Reich
Source: Stephen Halbrook
Luckily for us, Gallup indicates that banning gun
ownership is not as popular as some would like to make us believe. In fact,
the percent of Americans who would agree to a law banning hand gun ownership
has been on a steady decline for the last 50 years – another sign that
there is still hope:
We may often find ourselves playing in to the
stereotype that it’s the democrats that want to take away our guns.
While there is no doubt that the majority of those 26% of Americans who would
outright ban personal handgun ownership are left-leaning liberals, in
general, Gallup’s poll suggests that party affiliation isn’t as a
huge a factor as we may think. Sure, fewer left leaning democrat households
own firearms, but curiously, gun purchases by democrats in the last year have
outpaced those of their republican counterparts:
It looks like even Democrats have realized that the the right of personal protection affirmed by the Second
Amendment of the Constitution may come in handy during an economic depression
as burglary, robbery, rape, theft and random violence will undoubtedly rise.
These latest surveys suggest that the social
consciousness is responding to a threat – otherwise Americans
wouldn’t be buying guns at the levels they have in just the last year.
The people feel it. They may not know what it is, but it’s
there…looming.
Thanks to Mac Slavo, www.shtfplan.com
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