Ukrainians are being urged to arm themselves to resist the unprovoked Russian invasion of their country. The immediate question is, “with what?” noting that Ukraine has exactly the kind of gun laws the Democratic Left wants to inflict on the United States. Handguns are illegal unless licensed, and licensing is “may-issue” the same way it is in New York. It is also necessary to have a license to purchase a long gun (as is the case in Illinois with its firearm owner ID card), and authorities can exercise discretion as to who can have a license. There are at most thirteen firearms for every hundred Ukrainians, versus more than one firearm per capita for Americans. Magazine sizes are restricted to 10 rounds, which would of course delight the governments of California and New York.
Guess what, boys and girls — the Russian Bear doesn’t have magazine size limits, nor does he obey international norms and treaties that forbid invasion of other countries. Vladimir Putin is simply another Tsar, and I mean an expansionist land-grabber like Peter I, Elizabeth I Petrovna (“like father, like daughter”), Catherine II, and Nicholas I “the flogger.” Peter and Catherine are not called “the Great” for nothing, but they were great for Russia and not for Russia’s neighbors.
It is also to be remembered that Ukraine inherited roughly five thousand nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union. “When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine turned over thousands of atomic weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United States, and other countries.” The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a similar scrap of paper with Adolf Hitler, and we know what that got him. Ukraine’s former defense minister, Andriy Zahorodniuk, said of the more recent security assurances, “Now, every time somebody offers us to sign a strip of paper, the response is, ‘Thank you very much. We already had one of those some time ago.’”
Israel, despite its legacy of immigration by Holocaust survivors who were disarmed by Nazi gun control laws, also has the kind of gun laws the Democrat Left supports. Perhaps Ukraine’s recent experience will be a wake-up call for Israelis as well, noting especially the frequency of
What surprises me the most about the pictures and news reports that I see coming out of the Ukraine is people waiting in lines. I see no ramped looting. No mass crowds throwing garbage cans through storefront windows and grabbing everything they can in their arms and running. Imagine if the USA were being invaded? Would the typical American living in the big cities patient wait in lines? What would the reaction be in Baltimore? Calm or panic, patient or rioting and looting?
We already know when folks “feelings” are hurt or someone has been “dis-respected” it leads to panic, rioting and looting.
So lets not get into that position that Ukraine is in.
YES, that’s WHY we KEEP OUR GUNS !!!!!! DUGH With Democrats in Govt , we NEED THEM !!!!!
Americans WILL NEVER give up their guns !!!! This shows WHY they need them !!!
That’s WHY we have an NRA !!!!! in case the Govt goes Bad !!!! & it has !!!!!