Generations have been raised in a Stalinist personality cult of ignorance, fear, submission and deprivation. Purges have been successful at removing not just potential rivals, but any not sufficiently subservient. And even if you could find leaders who have not been compromised, or whose spirits have not been broken, there’s one other reality the Communist regime has been successful at imposing in its closed society: What “progressives” here call “common sense gun safety laws.” [More]Welcome to North Korea, where the leader is packing on the pounds, his favored sycophants enjoy special material privileges, guns are the exclusive province of enforcers, and the common people in "Everytown," who have neither the means nor the will to rise up, are told they'll have to eat roots and to die if so instructed.
How very "progressive."
"The Arduous March" is my newest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column.
And a curious coincidence -- no sooner does this get posted than India.com publishes an unconfirmed report quoting Defence Ministry sources that Un is dead or injured. Also curious: The Twitter account posting that information has been suspended.
But, if things are as bad as that, wouldn't that mean that the generals fighting any war would be as bad as Un? And why would anybody expect their high-tech weapons to really work? I know if I were running any sort of weapons development program I would do all in my power to make sure the leader got exactly the news he wanted - irrespective of its congruence to objective reality. And if the leader is watching a "test" I, for one, would damned sure make sure the test appeared successful. Anything can be made to look good in a carefully controlled, tightly scripted "test" or "demonstration".
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