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Originally Posted by End_Times012
This is the reason why the second amendment must remain in place. Even though I personally hate guns, I cannot justify dis-arming the population as a whole because it removes the ability to fight back in nightmare scenarios, such as the one mentioned in this thread.
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From the horses mouth:
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Harper & Row, Publishers
Aleksanderl. Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipeago
Chapter 1, Arrest, Page 13, subnote 5 (To be complete.)
"And how we burned in the camps later, Thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the city, people had not simply sat there in their liars, paling with terror at every bang of the down-stairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose . And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroath. Or what about the black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur-- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quicky have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have groud to a halt!"
May his soul experience infinity in peace.