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  • XDs4me

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    Gun History
    After reading the following historical facts, read the part
    about Switzerland twice.

    A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
    In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.. From 1929 to 1953,
    about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
    up and exterminated.
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    In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million
    Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.
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    Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
    of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were
    rounded up and exterminated.
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    China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
    political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated

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    Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000
    Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.
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    Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
    Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated
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    Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
    educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.

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    Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
    because of gun control: 56 million.
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    It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by
    new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their
    own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500
    million dollars. The first year results are now in:

    List of 7 items:

    Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent.

    Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent.

    Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
    In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300
    percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the
    criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

    While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in
    armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the
    past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is
    unarmed.

    There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the
    ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public
    safety has decreased, after such monumental effort, and expense was
    expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The
    Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.

    You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
    disseminating this information.

    Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
    gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens

    Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!

    The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them
    of this history lesson.

    With guns, we are 'citizens.'
    Without them, we are 'subjects'.

    During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew
    most Americans were ARMED!

    If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message
    to all of your friends.

    The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in
    defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more
    important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is
    supplemental.
    SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
    SWITZERLAND 'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
    SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY
    CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
    IT'S A NO BRAINER!
    DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
    IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

    I'm a firm believer of the 2nd Amendment!
    If you are too,
    please forward.


    Just think how powerful our government is getting!
    They think these other countries just didn't do it right.
    Learn from history.



     

    jedi

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    SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!




    SWITZERLAND 'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.






    SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY





    CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

    Somewhat true but not entirely...

    Thanks for shouting! - Page 8 - snopes.com

    Plus check this one out. The Swiss government ban's ammo in the house in essence rendeirng guns mute! Hum.. I6BO should read this and get ideas. Sure beats having to register all those evil things or take them away.
    Switzerland Strips Citizens of Gun Rights. Concealed

    and this one
    The Swiss and their Guns

    The menatility of the swiss has been and continued to be that EVERY CITIZEN needs to be able to use a gun becuase of fear that a bigger country near them may attempt to over take them.

    You can read more about this in the book:
    TARGET SWITZERLAND
    [SIZE=+1]Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II[/SIZE]
    [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]by Stephen P. Halbrook[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=-1]Da Capo Press, 1998[/SIZE][/FONT]
    Stephen P. Halbrook - Books - Target Switzerland

    In 1943, Adolf Hitler proclaimed that "all the rubbish of small nations existing in Europe must be liquidated," even if it meant he would later "be attacked as 'the butcher of the Swiss.'" In his diaries Josef Goebbels described Switzerland as "this stinking little state." The Gestapo prepared lists of Swiss to be executed once the Nazis overran the country. Yet, as the Nazi tide spread across Europe from the Pyrenees to the Volga, one nation stood free, albeit armed to the teeth-its flag unbowed in a sea of twisted crosses.
    This book examines German plans for the conquest of Switzerland, as well as Swiss preparations to resist the assault. After the fall of France the German Army was at the height of its power-but would "blitzkrieg" have worked in the Alps? On the other side stood General Guisan, with the best armed and trained citizens army in the world. Guisan planned to concede the lowlands and take his forces to the mountains-an "Alpine Redoubt" the Germans would later consider as unassailable.
    Stephen P. Halbrook provides a brief military history of Switzerland, from the days when its pikemen ruled supreme on medieval battlefields, through the American Constitutional debates during which Swiss militia example was considered by the United States, to the 20th century, when Switzerland fielded Europe's highest per capita of trained riflemen. European neutrality has never been a "gift" but a status, earned through armed deterrence. The little-known magnitude of Alpine fortifications is examined, as well as Swiss military doctrine, including its concept of instant mobilization, and the record of its air force in border skirmishes with the Luftwaffe. The Swiss have remained armed and free, ready to combat any aggressor, since 1291. When the ultimate cataclysm came to Europe in the 1940s, even the Nazis were deterred by the Swiss.
    Beneath their benign "Heidi" image the Swiss have never trumpeted the fact of their military preparedness. The book will be an eye-opener to many Americans, who never imagined that the nation that retained its straight cross, not a twisted one, was a nation of shooters, fully prepared to turn the Alps into a deathtrap for the panzers, if the Germans had dared to attempt a conquest.
     

    MeltonLaw

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    Japan's leading admiral, Yamamoto? maybe, made the qoute concerning a rifle behind every blade of grass. But it wasn't a dominant factor in the why Japan did not invade the U.S. Other reasons such as stretched supply lines, the open front in Manchuria/China, losses at key potential supply depots like midway, and not gaining a foothold in the Aleutians.
     

    lovemywoods

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    Who was it that made the quote about "a rifle behind every blade of grass"?


    It's attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-04-041943-04-18) He was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. It is disputed as being a quote by him. However, other actual quotes from him express similar beliefs; that is that if Japan engages the United States, they had better have the resolve to carry through with the war since the US possesses greater strength than most Japanese believed.

    One of his actual quotes:
    "Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."


    See also a professional photo by Oleg Volk at:
    Rifle behind every blade of grass
     

    Chefcook

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    You just gotta love Paul Harvey...

    Commentary by Paul Harvey:


    "Are you considering backing gun control laws???"

    Do you think that because you may not own a gun, the
    rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment don't
    matter?

    CONSIDER THIS...
    In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control.
    - From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million
    dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
    up and exterminated.

    In 1911, Turkey established gun control.
    - From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to
    defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    Germany established gun control in 1938.
    - From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies,
    homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were
    unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.

    China established gun control in 1935.
    - From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents,
    unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.

    Guatemala established gun control in 1964.
    - From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to
    defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    Uganda established gun control in 1970.
    - From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to
    defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    Cambodia established gun control in 1956.
    - From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people,
    unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
    exterminated.

    That places total victims who lost their lives because
    of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last
    century.

    Since we should learn from the mistakes of history,
    the next time someone talks in favor of gun control,
    find out which group of citizens they wish to have
    exterminated.

    It has now been 12 months since gun owners in
    Australia were forced to surrender 640,381 personal
    firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the
    government more than $500 million dollars.
    - The results Australia-wide; Homicides are up 3.2%,
    Assaults are up 8 %, and Armed robberies are up 44%.
    In that country's state of Victoria, homicides with
    firearms are up 300%.

    Over the previous 25 years, figures show a steady
    decrease in armed robberies and Australian politicians
    are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no
    improvement in "safety" has been observed after such
    monumental effort and expense was successfully
    expended in "ridding society of guns."

    It's time to state it plainly; Guns in the hands of
    honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
    gun-control laws only affect the law-abiding citizens.
    Take action before it's too late, write or call your
    delegation.

    Paul Harvey
     

    Frankingun

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    Summarizing from a short bio I read a while back on Yammamoto - can't remember the site but will search. He was educated in the United States, and after he joined the Japanese Navy, he worked at the Japanese embassy in D.C. The "rifle behind every blade of grass" quote is definitely something I think he would have said. He remembered what his friends from his salad days did on weekends, and realized that a land based invasion of the U.S. would be next to impossible. The Wikipedia entry on him pretty much covers it, I'm still looking for the other bio. Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
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