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[Mr. Mason.] Recollect the history of most nations of the world. What havoc, desolation, and destruction, have been perpetrated by standing armies! An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed. Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them;


https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/foun...1_8_12s27.html Originally Posted by Needle D

Couple points:
This was 1788 and of course could not possibly apply to today. Second, you can try which ever way to slice this apple, the fact remains that mass shooting and crazy murder rate is a USA thing and only a USA thing. The rest of the planet doesn't kill citizens by gun at anywhere close to the level we do here. Also the UK for example has very low killing rates and their citizens for the most part do not own a gun and surprise, they are not slaves of their government.

This was 1788 and of course could not possibly apply to today. Originally Posted by Clit Eastwood

Incredibly incorrect.

the fact remains that mass shooting and crazy murder rate is a Dimocrat thing and only a Dimocrat thing. Originally Posted by Clit Eastwood

fify

Completely correct.
Originally Posted by Flair4Drama

ftfy

Most mass shooters don't come with a neat little partisan label attached. A lot of them are driven by personal grievance, mental instability, domestic chaos, or some ugly mix of all three. So anyone pretending there's a clean red-vs-blue spreadsheet for all mass violence is overselling it.

But if we're talking about ideologically motivated violence, the numbers are not remotely ambiguous. Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of domestic terrorism deaths. Left-wing extremists account for less than 5%. That's not spin. That's the dataset.

And a fun little extra: the Trump DOJ quietly removed the study showing exactly that from its website in September 2025. The data, inconveniently, stayed the same. They just decided the easiest way to handle it was to stop letting people see it.