As Rick, Daryl, Michonne, Carl, and the rest are forced to gather the weapons they’ve used thus far to protect themselves at great cost from both the living and the dead, then turn those weapons in to Negan’s tyrannical Saviors, the fear, at least for me, became just a bit more real. After all, isn’t peasant disarmament what tyrants have always done throughout history? I’m not likely to face any zombies (other than drug-addled ones who may try to block my street to “protest” something or other), but the threat of disarmament is always quite real, and quite scary.
The right to self-defense is God-given, natural, visceral, and as entwined with our humanity as breathing, eating, sleeping, or even love itself. So naturally, in their never-ending quest for power and dominance, liberals and would-be tyrants find it necessary upon seizing power to remove the right of their subjects to defend themselves and others. After all, why would individuals matter when the state is supreme? Really, shouldn’t we worry less about our own pathetic lives and get busy finding the state more “sh-t?”
Even gun registration played into “The Walking Dead” account of Negan’s gun confiscation— seriously, are these writers National Rifle Association members or what? But it’s true to life: any attempt at gun control, from registration to outright bans, is always at its core aimed ultimately at weakening and eventually eliminating the right to self-defense. Consider England, where strict gun control has existed for decades and where laws make it virtually impossible to legally defend oneself with deadly or even reasonable force.
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