Communism Witness on Gun Rights: You Don't Know Freedom Because You Never Lost It!

April 9, 2013
Kyle Becker



(IJ Review) - Gun control is serious business and those Democrats running around thumping their chests and boasting that an Assault Weapons Ban is “just the beginning,” better realize that millions of Americans are unamused.

In that vein, Communism survivor Manuel Martinez of Cuba called out Anti-Gun Committee Leader Floyd Prozansky during heated testimony on Friday. Mr. Martinez escaped Cuba’s Communist regime in 1954. His testimony included how citizens under Castro were first disarmed by gun legislation, and were later summarily executed. Mr. Martinez expounded:

“Malicious individuals, masquerading as Democrats,.. established … a dictatorial regime … in my nation called Communism, Socialism, Stalinism, Marxism, and whatever other named -ism you want to put on it. The reason why it was done was to take away the guns from the People.”

Many Americans know that if they turn in their guns to the Democrats, the progressives will run with breakneck speed towards some radical left-wing government.

It doesn’t matter what the intentions are of the politicians in charge or how benevolent they aim to be; when the government fears the people, there is liberty, and when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Security in the minds of many is not tantamount to being disarmed and allowing the government or the police to provide for their protection.

Despite the active effort of the schools, the universities, and the media to whitewash the gruesome record of communism, millions aren’t ignorant of the historical record of peoples being disarmed by force. Not saying that is what gun control advocates have in mind, but you know, history.

Rights are recognized in the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights for a reason. Americans understand that their rights have been incrementally whittled away under the premises of pragmatism and expedience for generations. If the American people are restricted from effective self-defense, many know that the government’s respect for their other rights will soon follow.