A view from the other side

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A view from the other side

 

 

December 28, 2012 | Filed under Gun control | Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic

 

Lots of arguments flying back and forth on gun control these days, and I came across and interesting piece from the other side. Other side of the globe, that is. From the glorious pages of Pravda comes this editorial from Stanislav Michin, reprinted from his blog Mat Rodina. I did a little editing to clean up the language but the content is all Stanislav.

 

Americans never give up your guns

 

 

28.12.2012

 

By Stanislav Mishin

 

These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one’s self and possessions.

This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.

Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them – and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.

Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression

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