Imagine a world without guns…
By David Codrea
codrea4@adelphia.net
November 14, 2003
"Use your imagination and imagine a world without guns," urges rock star Sting.
Celebrity dilettante naïveté aside, we don’t need to use our imaginations; the record of history is as clear as it is unspeakably brutal. This is the lesson of
Innocents
Betrayed, a powerful documentary by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership that shows the undeniable results when governments disarm their subjects.
If we are to imagine a world without guns, let us first:
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Imagine Armenians living in Ottoman Turkey without guns.
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Imagine the oppressed in Stalin’s Soviet Union without guns.
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Imagine Jews in Nazi Germany and conquered Europe without guns.
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Imagine the Chinese casualties of Chairman Mao’s terror without guns.
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Imagine Pol Pot’s Cambodian “killing fields” victims without guns.
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Now imagine the same genocidal scenario playing out in Guatemala, Uganda, Rwanda…
Innocents Betrayed doesn’t require you to use your imagination. It provides irrefutable historical proofs that people who are powerless to resist tyranny are time and again the victims of genocide. This is the common thread that runs through the mass atrocities of the twentieth century and continues to this day.
And without hyperbole, Innocents Betrayed shows how, with “gun control” and the right set of circumstances, we Americans are not immune to despotism.
I urge you to obtain a copy of Innocents Betrayed for yourself. I urge you to share it with your loved ones and friends. Decide if your children are ready to have it be part of their education (mine are nine and 12, and more than old enough to grasp the moral and logical lessons amidst the horror). Loan it to your neighbors and coworkers, or show it to a club or group meeting. Buy a copy for your library, or send one to a political representative, law enforcement official, editor or community leader…
I believe once you see it, you’ll want to do all these things. Because the monstrous events documented in
Innocents Betrayed happened to real men, real women and real children; people who were persecuted, terrorized, tortured and butchered; people who loved their lives and families as much as you love yours; people
like you, but who were powerless to protect themselves by government edict.
Use your imagination and imagine being able to declare “Never again!” and having within your hands the power to back it up. Use your imagination and imagine a world without “gun control.”
Innocents Betrayed is a giant step toward that goal.
