Stanislav Mishin on his blog Mat Rodina came up with this excellent piece of history about Russia and the Soviet Union. It is also a warning to all Americans who are idly watching President Obama trying to strip Americans of the RKBA by Executive fiat Order.

Here is the money quote:

Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lieing guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot. (Emphasis mine)

Here is the lesson:

No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.

Read it. And open your eyes.

…Not one in a million.

What do I mean? I found this article and this scenario plays out a lot more than a tragedy like Newtown. I am a Life member of the National Rifle Association. I have been since I purchased my first firearm. The one steady part of every issue of the American Rifleman is the page that has 12-15 news article summaries where it made the news that someone successfully used a firearm in self-defense.

I have been a Life member for about 22 years, so that is about 3,168 articles that I have seen. And I guarantee you, for every article that made American Rifleman, there is 1,000 articles that didn’t make the cut. And for each of those, there is another 1,000 “events” that no one knows about, except for the people involved in that.

Millions of times each year, an armed citizen successfully defends themselves and/or innocents from evil people. And Newtown is literally one in a million occurrence. There are hundreds of thousands of schools in this country and tragedies like this occur so infrequently that when they do happen, they splash across the news like a 400 pound man doing a cannonball into a swimming pool.

What you never see in the news is a bad person coming to up to a law-abiding citizen and says “give me your money.” The law-abiding, legally armed citizen pulls their licensed firearm, points it at the bad person and says, “I don’t think so.” At this point, the bad person generally runs away, no shots fired. It doesn’t make the news because really nothing happened.

You should never expect the police to come to your aid in time. Events like this are measured in seconds. It takes minutes for the police to arrive on the scene, and that is after someone calls 911. When your life, or the lives of your family are in danger, what would you rather have, a gun in your hand or the police on the phone? The police are under no legal obligation to protect citizens.

The job of the police is to investigate crimes and make arrests. The police are paid and obligated to enforce all of the laws of the land, not just the ones they like. They will arrest you for some “petty” crime just as fast as they will arrest someone else for assault or murder. The police are not your friends. If you have their attention, they can arrest you for anything they want. I’ll tell you right now, it is impossible to walk down the street, minding your own business and not violate some law or ordinance.

The RKBA is not about hunting. It’s about self-defense from evil people, especially from the government. The Second Amendment protects the other freedoms we enjoy. If the government can take away the Second, what makes you think they won’t take the rest of them away from you?

I have waited until now to comment on the tragedy in Connecticut for several reasons. First, I wanted some facts to come out. The “facts” that came out Friday and Saturday were all wrong. With the 24 hour news cycle, and the up-to-the-second breathless news reporting the media feels they have to provide makes sure of that.

Second, I wanted to see who would stoop to the knee-jerk reaction of “let’s ban the guns,” a modified Godwin’s Law.

What happened is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. Make no mistake about that. It should never have happened. It should have been stopped long before the first bullet was fired. But, how do we do that?

Take a step back with me and look at this objectively. A young man, who as of this moment has some sort of a mental illness. Was he adequately treated for his illness? Was he monitored by professionals? That information may or may not come out in the future. We may never know.

It is a fact that someone like this does not wake up one day and go on such a rampage. There was a long train of events that preceded this and it was a sequential progression. There was a reason and purpose behind his actions. I promise you, no matter how hard you try, you will never fully “make sense” of his reasons. Unless you have personally experienced a mental illness, you will never comprehend it. I can try to explain, but it will still not make sense. In my dark past, I used to have “psychotic breaks” where I would lose at least some touch with reality. That’s what the shrinks say. Experiencing it, the best way I can describe is was that everything came into perfect clarity. You could see connections between things that no one else saw. Everything made perfect sense. And you knew you had to act on it. That’s what I remember from my psychotic breaks.

And he acted on it. With the tools he had on hand. And tragedy ensued.

Before you get all uptight about him using using firearms, There are two instances that I can recall where a man with mental health problems attacked a class of Kindergarteners… with a knife. One was in Japan, where there are virtually no private firearms. So, you use the tools that you have on hand. Banning guns only leads to knife and other hand weapons being used.

Next, the mental health system is currently focused on solving any immediate crisis, rather than the prevention and maintenance that would forestall the crisis situations. But maintenance and control of symptoms, and the effort to control and move beyond the effects of the illness loses out every time to the urgency of the crisis situations.

The adage of unintended consequences is also contributes to situations like this. All these mass shootings have one common denominator: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Newtown, Nickel Mines, PA., and so on. They are all “gun free zones.” Large groups of people, who have been intentionally disarmed, all in the name of “safety.” Perfect targets, because they can’t fight back.

And in just about all of the mass shootings I can think of, the shooter generally took their own lives, once armed opposition appeared on scene.

So, what are the solutions? More guns, less guns, lock up the mentally ill, or something else?

I think the most important factor is mental health services. If a person exhibits mental health symptoms, treating that before it becomes a crisis might stop at least some of these before they get to the point of violence. The shooter of Gabbie Giffords had a long history of uncontrolled mental illness, and his family begged time and again to get help for him. It never came until he ended in prison.

Abolishment of the “gun free zone” would be of great help. Eliminate the killing fields. Enable law-abiding citizens to protect themselves. The police can’t be everywhere, nor do they have an obligation to protect the citizenry. Don’t believe me? Check out South v Maryland (US Supreme Court, 1856) and go from there.

And before you start talking about the abolishment of the Second Amendment, the RKBA is not about hunting. It’s about the citizenry having the ability to overthrow an oppressive government. Citizens are armed. Subjects are disarmed.

The bottom line: You can’t prevent everything. There is only so much you can do to thwart evil people. You can only be prepared to adequately deal with such a situation when it does happen.

I found this, and I wanted you to see what our future looks like if Obama’s gun control agenda gets to move forward. That is, if we can have firearms in the first place.