Anti-2A activists, both politicians and those outside of D.C. and state capitals, like to tell you that they support the 2nd Amendment and that they don’t want to disarm you. They just want to keep guns out of the hands of unstable people who would want to shoot other people.
On its surface, their motivation doesn’t necessarily sound unreasonable (even though it is clearly unconstitutional by any rational reading of the Bill of Rights). But that’s just on the surface.
What you really have to ask (and what anti-2A activists desperately don’t want you to ask) is what actually happens after gun registration is put into place? Because, despite what anti-2A zealots want to gaslight you into thinking, history shows pretty clearly what happens over and over and over when gun registration is accepted. And the steps that follow registration are far far worse in terms of death counts than all of the mass shootings put together that anti-2A zealots keep pretending that they want to prevent.
You can watch the video below from Gun Owners of America.
Did you watch the video? Gun registration leads to gun confiscation (as the registration logs are used to find the gun owners and the guns to confiscate). And gun confiscation then enables and emboldens dictators such as Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, and Hitler in Germany.
And what did those dictators do to the disarmed people under their control? Killed millions of them. Estimates of the murders by the government of the people under their rule spiral upwards of 100 million people.
That’s not a typo.
So, if someone asks you why your gun rights are so important, just tell them to read a real history book that tells of the horrible things that just those four dictators (and there have been many more) did once gun confiscation was enacted.
And it all started with gun registration.