We know history, so we own guns.

Why are so many American conservatives, libertarians, and even a few liberals against what progressives call “common-sense gun control”? The reason is very simple: we paid attention in history class. We know about the human tendency to repeat history, especially the horrible, terrible parts. We lawful gun owners know that Hitler disarmed the Jewish people before he packed them into boxcars and sent them to die in crematoriums and gas chambers. We know that communist leaders like Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong confiscated weapons from their nation's citizens, which made it much easier for the two of them to slaughter tens of millions of people in peacetime. Gun confiscation often starts with simple, reasonable sounding policies such as gun registration, owner registration, and owner licensing. Yes, it is a horrible thing that so many people die at the hand of those holding a gun, but we also know that the majority of such crimes occur in cities where gun-ownership is heavily discouraged. Many large cities like New York, San Francisco, and the possible murder-capital of the United States, Chicago, place onerous requirements on their citizens, such as exorbitant taxes and fees and additional licensing requirements that are intended to deter and prevent people from legally purchasing firearms. And, then, when people cannot defend themselves against criminals, the anti-gun crowd screams for even more gun control. They even go as far as to say that our Second Amendment doesn't even guarantee a citizen's right to own a gun. They loathe the Second Amendment, and they want it gone.

I'll end this brief rant with a word from Mr. James Madison, Founding Father, author of our Constitution, and fourth President of the United States.

“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”- Federalist No. 46. January 29, 1778.

The progressives in government don't want us to have guns, because we gun owners stand in their way. They hate us because we won't let them have their try at repeating history.