Should we have more or less gun control? More guns, less guns? Should we even have the right to keep & bear arms? If so, how important is it in a modern society? How can we reduce gun violence? No matter what your opinion is, please look at this.
By SayNoTo Democide.
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saynotodemocide1.blogspot.com/2016/01/should-we-have-more-gun-control-more.html .
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When watching this, please bear with me here. I am NOT experienced in video making, nor have I invested in the resources for professional video making (I’m using my laptop’s microphone).
And get over my voice. I have Asperger’s syndrome, & this is just the way I am.
The credits for programs & pictures used will be at the end.
Most of the following will be my paraphrasing based on two videos, being "The REAL Purpose of the 2nd Amendment - The Ultimate Critique of Gun Control", “The Divine Right of Self Defense - Mike Adams documentary”, with more of my own substance.
Everything is of my opinion. By no means is this argument meant to represent the views of any other individual or group.
My personal beliefs outside of this topic are irrelevant to this slideshow-video, & I do NOT blame video games, movies or tv for violence. Those are talks for another time.
I am NOT calling for an immediate overthrow of the government, for reasons explained in a video called “So You Want to Topple the U.S. Government?”.
Please do NOT skip through. Watch (or read) the argument all the way through. If there’s something you disagree with, then post your opinion(s) in a comment either in this video or, if not possible (or if you’re reading the PDF version), in the original blogspot post.
Part 1: A lot of people agree that we all have inalienable rights, which are rights which should not be taken away. Just to name a few, many agree that we all should have the right to a fair & speedy trial, to be protected from cruel or unusual punishment, to peacefully assemble, speak without fear, practice religion (as long as others are not affected negatively), & so on & so forth.
But there's a right we often forget; the right to the defense of self & others, & thus, the right to keep & bear arms & armor.
The strange thing about rights, is that, they are actually boundaries. Freedom of speech, for example, can't exist unless boundaries are established to prevent those in power from harming or imprisoning those who speak against them. But who's ultimately responsible for upholding those boundaries? You may believe you have the right to speak. But what happens to those rights when a group of armed men start moving from building to building, home to home, injuring, killing &/or kidnapping those who disagree with them?
This exact scenario unfolded over & over again throughout history. It keeps repeating not really because history has been forgotten, but rather it hasn't been properly understood. What if the people who are the victims of the exact same scenario had a fighting chance?
You may believe that the government should have the monopoly on force. But in reality, the gang of armed men that I described often IS the government.
It was the governments of the world which were responsible for the genocides, ethnic cleansings, & mass murder of civilians. It was the governments who exterminated political & religious dissidents. It was the governments which built the concentration camps & secret prisons. It was the governments who committed the worst crimes against humanity.
Governments have been shown to be the most corrupt, most ruthless organizations on the planet. Even all of the worst mass shooters combined can not even come close to the scale of damage overpowered governments have caused.
According to Rudolph Joseph Rummel, in the 20th century alone, bad governments have killed an estimated 262 MILLION civilians. That is, shockingly, 6 times more than soldiers, in ALL pre 21st century wars, COMBINED. This is called “democide”, or death by government. So they killed more mostly unarmed civilians in 100 years than military personnel in tens of thousands of years.
Everything that government gives can be taken back. Thus, this is why I believe we need at least some form of hard "tyranny insurance" that could be used if all else fails.
Unstoppable massacres, or people being able to protect themselves & stand up for the weak?
What do you prefer?
When the people have no means of defense, the government has no real boundaries. We can not simply hope that their minions (often military & law enforcement) to disobey. That only allows the process to start all over again.
You may believe that we are safe from governments turning on us, but in reality, positions of power attracts tyrants, bullies & psychopaths like manure attracts flies. It always has, & always will. Government attracts these types of individuals because of power over others. And for the icing on the cake, they get a paycheck! What more can such an individual possibly ask for!?
Some people try to sidestep this issue by wanting things such as a stronger United Nations: essentially, a global government to keep the rest of the world in line. But this underscores a deep misconception.
Being a position of power, that will also attract tyrants, bullies & psychopaths like manure attracts flies. The more power there is, the greater the attraction. Again, for icing on the cake, they also get a paycheck! Do I really have to repeat that?
There's quite a few examples today that show that the U.N. & modern communications is not enough. Look at the Rwandan genocide. Look at the genocide going in Darfur & the violence in Israel & Palestine right now. The drone attacks Pakistan & other parts of the middle east being part of the fuel for terrorism.
Look at the very government the United States is living under right now, which is already brought out by corporations, foreign lobbies & international banks:
The "Patriot" act, giving law enforcement the ability to search a home or business without the owner's consent or knowledge & access to business, library & financial records. The National Defense Authorization act, gives the military the ability to arrest, kill &/or hold literally ANYONE with NO trial & COMPLETE IMPUNITY.
The CIA has conducted mind control experiments, such as Project MKUltra. The Guatemala syphilis experiment & Tuskegee syphilis experiments, which you can read about yourself, where in the former, people often took part involuntarily, & in the latter, people were lied to. Oakville, Washington clear blobs was a probable government experiment.
The Department of Homeland Security was buying about 1.6 billion buckshot shells & hollow point bullets, which are too expensive for training, but good for fighting, & the latter is restricted for use in war, but perfectly legal for use on civilians, & besides, the DHS only works domestically. In the past, the U.S. government has, at best, negligently, & at worst, intentionally killed its own civilians, like in the Ruby Ridge & Waco sieges, & has knowingly killed civilians, like in the drone strikes going on for years. Nothing is an unbacked theory.
And let’s not even get started with wars of aggression under “Anti-Communist” or now “humanitarian” reasons.
That is another whole discussion for political commentators such as Ryan Dawson & documentary maker John Pilger.
Tell me what the United Nations is doing about all of this. Show me where in school's history books is this highlighted in. TELL MEE!!! Now how much trust do you have in them now to do anything real? NO! Lookup an article called "The United Nations Exposed: Who Is In Control?" to see who's really in control of the UN. Again, hardly an unbacked theory; everything can be verified.
Now do you understand how an external authority is simply not reliable enough & too open to corruption?
There are historically & factually accurate examples of letting the fox guard the henhouse (or having politicians being told to not mistreat their people & have no one other than themselves or people who are controlled by them enforce the rules). We should NOT solely rely on laws & the legal system: you can read up on how, on paper, people living in places such as the Soviet Union, communist China & North Korea might've had rights on paper, but not in practice (look up their constitutions). This is what I mean by letting the fox guard the henhouse: how are we sure that they're not going to break the rules? And how are we sure that if they do break the rules, they get a sufficient consequence?
Once the types of individuals described get in, who would you turn to? You can not get safety by giving more of your power & rights away to someone else. The root of the problem is a total monopoly on force. The solution is to give NO MONOPOLIES PERIOD. We as humans simply are not mature enough to deal with that type of temptation. True power balance MUST be maintained. The right to self defense is that counterbalance. It is the boundary which truly makes other rights possible. We are ultimately the ones responsible for protecting ourselves & each other. However, the right to defense is meaningless without the MEANS of defense; this is when the right to keep & bear arms & armor comes in.
This is why I believe the right to defense of self & others, & to access arms & armor is a core right of ALL animals (even non-hostile extraterrestrials), including humans no matter their race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender identity, national origin, color &/or other characteristics.
Part 2: people who are rational, sober minded & follow a code of ethics neither seek out nor create violence & de-escalate it at every chance. This should be how all people operate, especially those who are armed.
Perhaps the best people we can find are those who despise violence, but are willing to unleash it on violent predators if they have no other way to stop the predator(s).
Peace activist John Lennon.
Martin Luther King.
Mahatma Ghandi.
The right to the defense of self & others should not be selectively right for some people, such as law enforcement officers & military personnel, while selectively wrong for others, such as average people who do not commit violence. Besides, in my view, law enforcement officers & military personnel are just citizens granted permission & extra (but not unlimited) power by we, the average people.
Law enforcement should directly protect our communities while the military provides an external defense, only to be deployed directly in communities if absolutely necessary (in situations such as disasters, invasions, major civil unrest or a crisis in that manner). Private security should protect private property & cover when law enforcement is unavailable. Fugitive recovery/bail enforcement & surety agents/bounty hunters should hunt down criminals at least in certain circumstances.
A lot of people would agree that it is right to cause pain, injury or even death to a violent psychopath who had already killed multiple people & intends on killing more. But a question that confuses some is rather or not it is right to do it to people,
rather they be regular civilians, bounty hunters, security agents, or law enforcement officers or military personnel.
While this may sound scary & be controversial, yes, it is the right thing to do rather or not someone is wearing a uniform. Law enforcement officers & military personnel are still human beings. They, like pretty much all human beings, are not perfect, & can still go bad, just as any other person can.
To round part two up, & science people may like this part, as explained in “The Divine Right of Self Defense - Mike Adams documentary”, many plants & animals practice their right to self defense. Cacti, for example, have sharp spines which teach animals to stay away. Similarly, porcupines have spines which do the same. A bird that uses a ranged defense mechanism is the Southern Grey Petrel, which has a stomach which produces wax esters & triglycerides, which can be projectile vomited onto predators. Some Tarantulas have what’s called “urticating hairs/bristles”, which can be flicked off into the air at a target using their rear legs. These hairs can irritate, & could even be lethal to small animals.
Some Geckos can fire a black or pale sticky fluid from glands in their tail for distances up to about a meter with good aim. The Spitting Cobra can spray venom from forward facing holes in their fangs, spitting up to 1.5 meters. The California ground squirrel has been known to fight predators such as snakes by kicking dirt into their eyes. Elephants have been known to throw various objects.
Many species of insects have chemical weapons at their disposal (not that I want humans to have lethal chemical weapons). The Bombardier Beetle, for example, uses thermal chemical reactions to launch a boiling, noxious chemical spray in rapid pulses from special glands in their abdomen. Some ants (specifically, Wood ants) can spray acid.
Some primates, including humans, have been known to throw various objects.
And, as a bonus, I’ll mention that Turtles & Tortoises, along with shellfish, have protective shells, which is animal body armor, if you will. Nature's equivalent to today's ballistic vests.
So, this turtle’s body armor is a shell, while this United States Navy Sailor’s body armor is a ballistic vest.
Why is this important? A lot of politicians say that they want the human species to be disarmed. Though not only is this within itself is a violation of an inalienable natural right, but also, it is not possible to fully disarm every last human on the planet. To disarm people, the people doing the disarming must be armed, & thus it becomes more like power re-distribution than disarmament.
How exactly are you going to disarm these people...
Without using these people!?
For example, let's say that the controllers of Place X wish to implement rules to restrict people from possessing functional weapons.
To do this, they must must hire an enforcement arm (military, law enforcement, etc), WITH WEAPONS, to control others from having weapons. Someone must be armed: is is extremely unlikely to virtually impossible that everyone will be unarmed outside a few remote islands. Doesn’t this at least seem questionable?
Part 3: so you think that a democracy (or republic) will be safe from violent tyranny? Democracy is as safe from corruption as religious holy books are of violence.
Though this may sound cliche, I have changed this argument around, let's look at Nazi Germany. The Weimar republic was in a bad situation from the end of World War one to the start of National Socialist Germany. Then Adolf Hitler came up, promising the people a lot of good stuff would come when he was in power. Guess what? He goose stepped his own people into a history of bloodshed.
He disarmed everyone EXCEPT for what he believed to be the "master race" (along with government agents), which made it easier to kill Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, political enemies, & so on & so forth. Adolf Hitler came from the right. Josef Stalin came from the left. Yet both caused plenty of death & destruction!
Not to mention how easily votes can be rigged & how easy it is for politicians to lie their way through anyway.
Besides, free places such as Switzerland & New Hampshire aren’t too afraid of average people being armed,
in sharp contrast with oppressed places such as Eritrea & North Korea, where their governments prefer their people to NOT to be armed.
Part 4: Some make the argument that the weapons possessed by civilians is little to no match to those possessed by the government. However, not only do many of the individuals who use this argument have little to no law enforcement or military experience, & often don’t have much knowledge, or at least don’t think deeply think about history. Just ask people from Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, & Afghanistan just to name a few. Guerrilla forces from these nations, along with various criminals & resistance fighters alike (often from third world countries) resisted often better equipped armed forces, & succeeded.
Sure, in some cases they did get help from external sources (communist bloc governments supplied communist Vietnam during the Vietnam war while the United States government supplied the Islamist Afghani Taliban), but neither the less they won. Besides, anti armor & anti aircraft weapons can be captured from government armories & military units. Things such as aircraft, armored vehicles & artillery are often meant for SUPPORT & will NOT guarantee victory. I will not deny that technology will be a factor, but it definitely is not the only factor.
We already see an even better example in the Yemeni Crisis. Even with almost all odds stacked against them, with Saudi forces being both better equipped & even having greater numbers than the Yemeni guerrillas, the larger & well equipped Saudi armed forces are still losing to impoverished Yemenis.
It is not easy for military or law enforcement units to keep fighting when they gain little to no progress for their hard work. Besides, the target isn't really military, law enforcement, or other armed forces, but the government officials who caused the mess in the first place.
Part 5: Concerning the types of weapons used in violent crime & overall numbers: despite what the entertainment industry would have you believe, in 2013, rifles accounted for LESS than 290 deaths, according to the FBI's "Expanded Homicide Data Table 8". According to the same article, that year, shotguns were used to kill LESS than 310. Added up, long guns killed only 593 people that year. This is EVERYTHING that counts as a rifle (from low powered plinking rifles & single shots to high powered hunting rifles & semi-automatic "military style" rifles) or shotgun (from single shot .410 to semi-automatic 12-gauge) in statistics, so the deaths involving "assault weapons" are almost guaranteed to be even lower. Also, many want to restrict those while not mentioning cutting instruments & blunt objects, which account for 1,940 & 428 deaths respectively (then again, they're work tools). Altogether, firearm-related homicides accounted for a GRAND TOTAL of 8,454 people that year. Divide that by 290,000,000 & about 0.00002915172% of the population was, in homicide, killed with a firearm that year.
Also, many people tout the slogan "more guns, more deaths". But how true is this? As seen in Wikipedia's "Gun politics in the Czech Republic" & in Gunpolicy.org's information piece of the Czech republic (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/czech-republic), the latter of which has some of the lightest weapon laws in Europe (even compared to Switzerland), while the amount of guns went up over the last couple of decades & number of licenced gun owners peaking in 2001 & not changing much since then, crime went down.
A similar case is also seen in Canada, in which, according to Gunpolicy.org, in Canada; while the amount of licenced gun owners went up, homicide rates went the other way. Interestingly enough, while most rifles & shotguns are regulated less heavily than handguns in Canada, handguns are still more commonly used in crime (http://gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/canada).
What’s wrong with the picture? They say that “More guns equal more death”.
(The last 2 images you just saw came credit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guns_in_czech_rep.png & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vra%C5%BEdy.png).
If more guns equals more deaths, then why is the U.S. #1 in guns per capita yet is actually does NOT even make it into the top 115 countries for homicide rate. Violence also varies. For example, Detroit, Michigan has a rather lengthy process to legally obtain functioning firearms (according to an article called "Gun Control Facts: Detroit Crime Rate is the Result Of Gun Control") & has a homicide rate so high that it would surpass El Salvador. However, there are places such as Chandler, Arizona that have light weapon laws & a low homicide rate.
Sources from Wikipedia:
List of countries by intentional homicide rate,
United States cities by crime rate.
Now, do you wish to keep our communities safe from crime & violence? Then we must address other issues, such as culture, economics, availability of services, education, substance (ie drug & alcohol) use, presence of chemicals, law enforcement effectiveness & even what counts as a certain crime & data manipulation just to name a few. There are places with a lot of guns that are not that violent, such as Kennesaw, Georgia (which requires every household to have a firearm) & Svalbard, Norway, which requires everyone to know how to use a rifle against polar bears.
I’ll also mention Northern Ireland. While sure, the U.S.A. has gang violence, social authoritarians & religious rivalries, the U.S.A. virtually never has armed religious war (the Civil War & Native American Persecution were economic & political).
But in Northern Ireland, despite a smaller population to cause trouble & less landmass to hide in, there has beem open ARMED religious conflict between Catholics & Protestants, with tension lasting to this day, & virtually every law enforcement agent is armed with firearms, unlike the most of the U.K. which has dedicated Authorised Firearms Officers & Advanced Firearms Officers (the latter of which are the equivalent of SWAT officers).
I would attribute the root of Northern Ireland’s violence being their culture, which affects politics. Unlike the U.S., which is founded on religious liberty & relatively heavy individualism, Northern Ireland’s conflict between Catholics & Protestants dates back centuries, & it seems like that there are a number of people who won’t let go of hard feelings, & worse, believe that it’s okay to hurt others for being too different.
As for violence in the U.S.A., much of it stems from the War on Drugs, in which gangs fight for control of territory & drug supplies, & the police state prioritises fighting the Drug war over fighting real crime, especially with private-prison lobbying & criminalising victimless crimes.
Other sources of violence are heavy taxation, lack of economic freedom & overall corruption in some cities, which makes it hard to make an honest living, the government schooling system teaching obedience instead of critical thinking or life skills, single parent households, overindulgence on welfare (as explained in Ryan Dawson’s video “Looting why some places and not others answers”), & either the failure to properly discipline children or the abuse or neglect of them.
As for many of the recent mass shootings, lookup how pharmaceutical drugs, such as antidepressants & especially SSRI’s have a definite correlation with people becoming violent, & may even be causation.
Restricting inanimate objects such as weapons (there are plenty of examples of homemade weapons & ammunition) is not enough to address the actual disease rather than the symptoms.
While I would like to improve the mental health system, I would not block someone from the duty, let alone the right, to keep & bear arms (& definitely not armor) for being "mentally ill", for reasons explained in a video called "The Truth About Mental Illness and Guns", unless, they are obviously violent (though criminal background checks should already cover it & if someone wants an exception from the duty for reasons such as not trusting themself, being too mentally/psychologically damaged to use a weapon, etc). Part of this is that most people with mental illnesses do not do anything violent, nor are most violent people mentally ill, along with how tests can diagnose many people as "violent" or "mentally ill" on paper, but not in actuality. Not to mention how people could get into the fear of being "blacklisted", then possibly stigmatized from merely being diagnosed with a symptom that would not provide a legitimate reason for putting them on such a list.
I’d also like to mention the issue of maritime piracy, & rather or not the right to keep & bear arms & armor should extend onto boats & ships.
We see that, in the western Indian ocean & off the coast of east Africa, where many ships employ armed guards on board, piracy has went down drastically.
In contrast, the Malacca straits, controlled by Indonesia & Malaysia, both places with very strict weapon laws, despite not being in quite as bad a situation as Somalia & having closer government forces, is still very much a piracy hotspot.
If you think that law enforcement on land is inadequate, then law enforcement at sea is even worse. It’s almost impossible for the navies & coast guards of the world to watch over every square mile of open water in the world.
While having weapons on civilian seagoing vessels will not solve the causes of piracy (mainly being poverty, which is often caused by chaos & lack of economic libert), at least it gives ship passengers, boaters, seafarers, fishermen & other people on the water a way to protect themselves against being taken hostage or otherwise being harmed by pirates or having their property damaged or taken.
I will acknowledge that, yes, incidents have happened in which weapons were used to harm those unnecessarily out on the water, such as in the Enrica Lexie case, in which Italian Marines have shot Indian fishermen .
But, I don’t think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. I mean, you wouldn’t disband all law enforcement because of police brutality committed by a minority of law enforcement agents, would you?
I’ll wrap this part up with some quotes. Most from good people, others (Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler) being some of the most evil people short of their bosses (like the central bankers described in “All wars are banker’s wars!”). And I know that Malcolm X. WAS racist against whites, though eventually he changed his mind. I also don’t necessarily agree with George Orwell being a socialist, particularly on economics & to a lesser extent collectivism but I understand his feelings. You can verify all of these with Brainyquotes & Goodreads.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
- George Orwell. Source: Source: Orwell: The Authorized Biography, by Michael Shelden.
. "Concerning 'nonviolence' - it is criminal to teach people not to defend themselves, when they are the victims of constant brutal attacks."
. "I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
. "Non Violence is okay as long as it works."
. "If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality."
- Malcolm X.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson. Source: The Quotations Page (I haven't been able to verify rather or not the 3rd sentence was real).
“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.” –James Burgh.
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” — Adolf Hitler.
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” - Mao Zedong.
“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
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Part 5: Do you want to support self defense and the right to keep and bear arms? Other than contacting politicians, visiting right to keep & bear arms rallies, liking or following social media pages dedicated to this & so on, there are many groups you can support. You can find ALL of these with a simple Ixquick/Startpage or DuckDuckGo search.
Worldwide: International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights, Firearms United - Worldwide confederation of gun owners, The World Forum on Shooting Activities.
Asia, Latin America & South Africa based groups:
National Association for Gun Rights India, Indians for guns, PROGUN Philippines, Gun Owners of South Africa, Pro Defensa, Viva Brazil Movement.
Europe & Australia based groups.
National Arms Association of Spain, Forum Waffenrecht, German rifle association, National Rifle Association United Kingdom, Firearms UK, British Association for shooting and conservation, Sportsman's association United Kingdom, Firearms Owners Association of Australia, The Coalition of Law Abiding Sporting Shooters, Sporting Shooter's Association of Australia, Outdoor Recreation Party Australia, Shooters and Fishers party, PROTELL Switzerland.
New Zealand & Canada based groups:
National Rifle Association New Zealand, New Zealand Shooting Federation, Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, National Firearms Association Canada.
National United States of America based groups (including groups that are for gun rights but not exclusively so.):
American Civil Liberties Union, Oath Keepers, The Liberal Gun Club, Pink Pistols, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Gun Owners of America, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, National Association for gun rights, Second Amendment foundation, Equal gun rights, 1 Million Moms Against Gun Control, Gun owners foundation, Gun owners against illegal mayors, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Concealed Carry Campus, U.S. concealed carry association, Handgun club of America, NRA-ILA, Knife Rights.
Regional U.S.A. based:
Gun Owners of California, California Gun Rights, The Calguns Foundation, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Gun Owners of New Hampshire, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Grass Roots North Carolina, Gun Owners Against Crime, Florida Carry, Georgia Carry, Arizona Citizens Defense League.
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About the author:
SayNoTo Democide is currently a student & blogger, being a political commentator & somewhat of an online activist.
He writes on his blog, SayNoToDemocide1, & has social media accounts on YouTube, Google+, Quora, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, & plans to expand more.
A few topics that he covers are foreign policy, social issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gun control, economics, & more.
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Links to images used in part 1 (again, nothing in repeated. Links will be in the description of the original video):
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3Y8rwXYdg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SWAT_team_prepared_(4132135578).jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danish_Military_Police.JPG,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_Police, http://www.visualbadge.com/, https://pixabay.com/en/photos/surveillance/,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_outline.svg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-winged_petrel,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticating_hair,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formica_rufa,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_box_turtle, http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Ballistic_glasses, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_don_macauley_-_Man_with_a_gun_2.jpg, http://www.flickr.com/photos/schluesselbein/3598107102/,
https://pixabay.com/en/police-duty-official-china-beijing-754567/,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Korean_soldiers_are_marching.JPEG,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_Party_of_Korea (the picture depicted in this slideshow is porbably a cropped version of this one), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day_269_-_West_Midlands_Police_-_Wolverhampton_officers_searching_as_No_Deal_continues_(9948682785).jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_040117-N-0331L-015_Spanish_Special_Operations_Forces_(SOF)_soldiers_search_a_role_player_aboard_the_Military_Sealift_Command_(MSC)_combat_stores_ship_USNS_Saturn_(T-AFS_10).jpg.
Part 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nazism_and_Stalinism,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag-map_of_Switzerland.svg,
https://pixabay.com/en/photos/new%20hampshire/,
https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag-map_of_Eritrea.svg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag-map_of_North_Korea.svg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_PAVN_strategy,_organization_and_structure,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Montgomery_arrest_1958.jpg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQsHP8f4I3U,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/d0ndy/15279947961,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800.jpg ,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/007bond/3048602601,
Part 5:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guns_in_czech_rep.png,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vra%C5%BEdy.png,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kennesaw_Hall.jpg,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_sign_Svalbard.jpg,
https://cdn2.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/article29961101.ece/38f1f/ALTERNATES/w620/IRA%20Patrol.jpg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Target_practice.jpg,
https://travelfrance.tips/le-havre-the-harbour/,
https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-body-of-water-under-clear-blue-sky-26681/,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Police_brutality.svg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enrica_Lexie.jpg,
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/migration_catalog/article25647205.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/sss,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSNI_Map_Northern_Ireland.png,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_rate_timeline.gif,
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/public-schools-increasingly-resemble-prisons-learning-centers/,
https://pixabay.com/en/drugs-pharmacy-medical-medicine-2907982/
Google docs search credit (note that the results may not always match the picture. You can find the picture by searching with these words, however. Never mind the capitalization. Nothing is repeated.): “ar-15”, “question mark”, "clean water", "protest", "freedom of religion", "freedom of speech", "2nd amendment", "police raid", "vietnam execution", "polish resistance", "native american genocide", "genocide", "File:Jew Killings in Ivangorod", "gaza", "holocaust execution" "polish resistance", "police brutality", "Rwandan genocide", "gaza killing", "bribery", "patriot act", "ndaa", "tuskegee syphilis experiment", "CIA mind control experiment", "waco", "fox henhouse", "guns", "diverse group of people", "martin luther king", "ghandi", "john lennon peace", "gun self defense", “concealed carry” "swat", "military", "armed security", "security guard", "human", "cacti", “libertarian porcupine”, "Southern Grey Petrel", "Bombardier beetle", "new world tarantula", "gecko", "spitting cobra", "california ground squirrel", "elephant", "throwing rocks", "turtle", "bullet proof vest", "man with gun", "police", "army", "pyongyang", "military search", “vietcong”, “afghan rebel”, “nuremberg trials”, "weimar republic", "nazi germany", "hitler", "stalin", "electoral fraud", "malcolm x", "dalai lama", "ron paul", "albert einstein", "edmund burke", "mao zedong", "vladimir lenin", "svalbard", "kennesaw".