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Disarmists<\/a><\/strong> use the bandwagon fallacy, (argumentum ad populum) to promote citizen disarmament.<\/p>\n In essence, the non-argument makes the claim; everyone else disarms their population \u2013 so we should do the same.\u00a0 This is a logical fallacy.<\/p>\n Perhaps you remember a parent telling you \u201cif everyone is jumping off a bridge, it does not mean that you should\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n How did most of the rest of the world come to have gun control imposed on them? It was done by force of arms.<\/p>\n Personal guns are a fairly recent innovation.\u00a0 They did not become common until the middle 1400\u2019s.\u00a0 Guns that could effectively be used by a single person were available by 1500.\u00a0 We have about 500 years of gun history.<\/p>\n Gunpowder was first discovered \/ invented in China.\u00a0 It may have been reinvented or discovered in Europe and India.\u00a0 It was Europeans that developed the gun into a practical personal weapon.\u00a0 In 1500, Europe was the center of gun development.\u00a0 Guns were adopted by the Ottoman empire<\/a><\/strong>, and spread to India.\u00a0 Foreign experts, often from Europe, where commonly utilized to operate them.<\/p>\n China may have suppressed the development of guns deliberately.\u00a0 The record is unclear, but it is clear that from 1500 on, the major developments in gun technology came from Europe.<\/p>\n Europeans underwent the black death shortly before the introduction of the gun.\u00a0 The loss of up to a third of the population made the remainder much more valuable. The development of the gun, the Reformation, the Renaissance, much wider availability of literacy and printed material, all interconnected and interrelated, followed.\u00a0 The technological advances among competitive states, spurred by numerous wars, including wars fought to roll back Muslim invasions, led to the abilities of the Europeans to navigate around the world, dominate other cultures, and to create vast empires.<\/p>\n The first reason for gun control around the world is war, conquest, and empire.\u00a0 The masters of the European Empires did not want their subjects armed, for fear of revolt.\u00a0 They had a clear technological superiority of arms, and they desired to keep it.\u00a0 The United States, as a set of colonies, was already armed.\u00a0 They refused to disarm, revolted, and escaped the fate of other parts of the British Empire.<\/p>\n Japan resisted colonization.\u00a0 It imposed strict gun control to protect its elites from its people, actively suppressing gun technology.<\/p>\n India had strict gun control imposed by the British Empire, and the local ruling elites. When India became independent, the Indian government kept gun control and strengthened it.<\/p>\n Africa had gun control imposed by various European empires, British, French, German, Italian.<\/p>\n The Dutch imposed gun control in Indonesia; The French in Vietnam; the Spanish and then Americans in the Philippines. The Portuguese imposed gun control in Brazil and the Spanish in South and Central America.<\/p>\n World War I started the next great wave of gun control.\u00a0 Instead of Empires disarming their foreign subjects, elites feared revolution by their own people and worked to disarm them.\u00a0 Communism is part of this wave.\u00a0 One of the first priorities of the Communists in the Soviet Union was to implement strict gun control.\u00a0 In much of the rest of Europe, gun control was implemented as a reaction to Communism.\u00a0 The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire<\/a>, which is credited with starting the First World War, certainly did not help.<\/p>\n In England, there were virtually no gun controls until after the First World War.\u00a0 Joyce Lee Malcolm <\/a>and Colin Greenwood<\/a> conclusively show the impetus for British gun control was fear of revolution, not crime.\u00a0 As part of the British Empire; Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand laid down the foundations of their current gun control schemes in the 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s. The basis for federal gun control was established in the United States in the 1930\u2019s, as part of the Franklin Roosevelt regime\u2019s consolidation of power.<\/p>\n Most of European Gun control was created in the turbulent time between WWI and WWII.\u00a0 Gun control was imposed on much of Eastern Europe by the Soviets after WWII.<\/p>\n Switzerland was and is a clear exception. Guns are fairly easy to get in Switzerland, even with the controls added in 1998.\u00a0 Switzerland has murder rates so low that only a tiny number of countries can match them.<\/p>\n The Middle East had gun control imposed by the Ottoman Empire<\/a> and the British Empire.<\/p>\n China had gun control imposed by its Imperial government.\u00a0 As China revolted against colonial rule, the European powers imposed gun control on the Chinese government, then a corrupt Nationalist Government did so against its own people, then the Communists imposed even stricter controls when they gained ascendancy after WWII and the defeat of the Japanese by the allies.<\/p>\n Some countries came out from under the thumb of gun control after they gained independence from Europe.\u00a0 Guns were generally available after the Bolivian revolutions in Central and South America.\u00a0 They were freely available in Costa Rica up until the 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Guns were easily available in Argentina<\/a>, Chile, Guatamala, Columbia, Nicaragua, and Uruguay for many decades.\u00a0 Mexico had a period when guns were not terribly hard to get, from the 1930\u2019s to the 1970\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 Gun control carried over in Brazil<\/a> from the Empire, after independence, becoming progressively harsh. A combination of threats of revolution\u00a0 and crack downs on the individual ownership of arms by authoritarian regimes of the left and right, imposed increasing gun control on all those societies over the last 40 years. Uruguay and Chile<\/a>, Costa Rica and Panama are the least restrictive at present.\u00a0 Jamaica had relatively mild gun control laws in the 1960\u2019s, and imposed strict gun control after independence.\u00a0 The United States Virgin Islands inherited their strict gun control laws from the Dutch empire.\u00a0 The United States bought the Islands in 1917.<\/p>\n In large portions of the world, it was imposed by outside conquerors, aided by the fact that many indigenous populations did not have the technology necessary to make their own firearms.<\/p>\n Revolutions in other countries gave lip-service to the right to be armed, but always left the State in charge.\u00a0 Mexico, for example, guarantees a right to arms \u2013 regulated by the State.\u00a0 Mexico has devolved to the point that there is only one legal gun store in the entire country, in Mexico city.\u00a0 It is state run, and sells few guns.<\/p>\n Only two societies have escaped the tyranny of gun control imposed by ruling elites.\u00a0 They are the United States and Switzerland.\u00a0 Both are federal republics. In both, the power of the state is limited by using divided government power as a means of checks and balances.<\/p>\n American armed society is truly one of exceptionalism. We have been able to keep government power limited, most of the time, in some ways.\u00a0 Most other countries have not.<\/p>\n Definition of\u00a0 disarmist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Permission to share is granted when this notice is included. Link to Gun Watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
The pattern is clear.\u00a0 Disarmament of people is not done to save them from criminals.\u00a0 It is done to keep them under the thumb of the ruling government.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n