Timothy Birdnow

There is a saying much beloved by Second Amendment rights advocates that paraphrases the Bible:

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who keep their guns".

This saying has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, probably falsely. But it is still an astute observation.

During the '70's and '80's we had the nuclear freeze movement. The idiot liberals (but I repeat myself) thought that if America just unilaterally disarmed the Soviets would do likewise and we would have peace on Earth.

Now I know to many this was just a ruse to get us to surrender in the Cold War and so Communism would triumph. For others it was a handy political tool and nothing more; certainly Ted Kennedy supported it for that reason.

But a lot of the rank and file, the utopian moonbat types, believed the weapons were the problem and not the people wielding them.

Just get rid of the weapons...

I remember when Ronald Reagan began his Strategic Defense Initiative aka Star Wars. He wanted to abrogate the Outer Space Treaty which didn't allow any sort of weapons in space. Now this was logical at the time it was signed because nuclear weapons in orbit greatly reduced whatever lead time we had. But after a certain point it was pointless; what good does three or four minutes do you when your city will be turned to glass?

Reagan wanted to shoot Soviet missiles down before they ever got here.

(Bill Clinton shrunk the Reagan vision down, insisting on "hitting a bullet with a bullet" a near impossible task. Reagan's vision called for lasers and particle beams, essentially hitting a bullet with a shotgun blast. But that's another story.)

At any rate, there was a scholar of some note (whose name I do not recall) who, when asked about "militarizing space" said he dreamed that we would put ALL of our weapons there and that eventually they would just float away.

A lovely fantasy, but it's not the weapons that matter but those who would wield them.

Which brings us back to the point of this; the Ukrainians hammered their weapons into plowshares at the request of the United States in 1994, with the promise of being protected if they did.

Russia did not. Russia took money to do so and did in fact eliminate their nuclear arsenal - and used the money they saved to build a new, better arsenal.

So now Russia is invading Ukraine. Those who hammered their guns into plowshares are going to be plowing for those who kept their guns.

If ever there was proof the nuclear freezenicks were wrong this is it. Getting rid of your weapons doesn't  bring peace but rather war.

And the same holds true for gun control; take guns away from the citizenry and you only guarantee their are powerless to stop those who kept their guns. That is true of criminals and true of an out of control State (as in Canada.)

I doubt the Left will learn anything from this though.

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