WHO WILL DEFEND US FROM THE US MILITARY? MY AR!
There have been some notable events that saw US citizens killed by their own military. There are or I should say were laws preventing this from occurring. The Posse Comitatus Act (latin for power of the country) was a law written in 1878 that basically prevented the president from using the military as a police force. There, of course were loop holes and the Obama administration passed legislation that negated Posse Comitatus.
In 1863 President Lincoln used battle hardened soldiers to put down a riot in New York City the issue was the drafting of soldiers to fight in the war.
In 1932 a group of World War One veterans marched on Washington DC to get a bonus they were promised. President Herbert Hoover ordered General MacArthur to use tanks and the Calvary to disperse the veterans. The Veterans called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force and they actually built a camp on what is called Anacostia Flats. The army under MacArthur killed 2 veterans and injured hundreds while burning the camp This was still the depression the veterans were desperate.
In 1967 the Detroit riots saw President Johnson send in the 81st and 101st Airborne units to quell the rioters, they killed 43 citizens.
In 1967 Newark Riots saw 26 killed with hundreds injured.
In 1968 the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. saw wide spread rioting across the country. In Washington DC alone it took 13,600 soldiers to restore order.
In 1992 The LA riots covered 32 square miles it took all the police plus 10,000 national guard troops and hundreds of marines, to restore order.
In May of 1970 I was just days from coming home from the war in Vietnam. On the 4th of May 4 protesters were killed and 9 injured when the Ohio national guard opened fire on protesters. It was a volatile situation and there is still debate if the soldiers that fired were justified.
As we can see the US citizenry are not secure in the knowledge that their military will not be turned on them. Also todays political situation is actually much more unstable than the other times depicted herein.* Just recently former President Trump wanted to kill protesters near the Capitol.
As the country moves closer to fascism the idea of disarming the public becomes more tenable In pre WWII Germany gun control was strict it loosened up a bit if your were a member of the Nazi party. Along with gun violence we see police departments looking more like military units than police departments. Some police departments have armored vehicles with heavy machine guns, just what are they planning for?
I do not want to make this a political commentary, but it's my gut feeling that the right will take your weapon before the left. I say this because the right is leaning toward Fascism. Regardless of what party is in charge we must stand together if and when they come for our rifles.
Since 1963, 193,000 children and teens were killed by guns, this is an appalling number and is indicative of a very sick society. No matter how appalling this carnage is of our children , it pales in comparison to the number of people killed by their own governments. Joseph Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 40 million Russians, Hitler executed 6 to 7 million people most of them jews. When the Nazis couldn't shoot them fast enough they built gas chambers to kill faster and more economically. Pol Pot killed at least 3 million of his Cambodian countrymen. They were especially noted for cracking babies sculls against palm tree trunks. They liked the sound. Idi Amin the Uganda dictator is said to have killed 300,000 citizens their crime was not agreeing with Amin. Latin and south America have had numerous dictators Pinochet of Chili and Juan Perón from Argentina, two notables where hundreds of thousands simply disappeared The world we've fashioned is a world that runs and thrives on violence. I say it thrives because our economy is greatly enhanced by the US war machine.
One child killed by a gun is too many we could with sensible gun laws eliminate some if not all of these senseless and insane crimes. The fact that this is true makes those not passing this legislation accomplices. If one sees things as they actually are then turning over assault rifles is a very bad idea.
DT
* Save the Civil War
