Will the real authoritarians/dictator-wannabes please stand up?
Contrasting 1940 NAZI/Wehrmacht Vichi-French border occupation policy w/ Trump-Pence vs Bribe’m-Kalamatous weapons confiscation advocacy
Weapons confiscation/control is the lepers bell of dictatorship. Dictators and occupation forces in enemy territory make no pretense about demonstrating “who’s boss” or risking armed resistance from their captive populations.
A documented incident in WWII history echoes into and highlights our current political divide: one party’s top priority is overriding the 2nd Constitutional Amendment, confiscating all US citizens’ weapons—and the other party whose top priority is attacking crime and criminals while essentially upholding the Constitutional right of all law-abiding American citizens to keep and bear weapons, even those with potential military or paramilitary capability.
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