Gun Control: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Tyranny Begins

Tyranny is defined as, "arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; deputies abuse of authority." (Tyranny) Some believe that more gun control is a good thing, but it could also lead to a tyrannical government. Cuba, Iran, and North Korea all currently have tyrannical governments. These countries are deprived of  most, if not all of their basic human rights and have to conform to their governments. Why are these countries so repressed, and what does this have to do with gun control? Once the government has the control of all of the weapons they will use this against us. As citizens, we will know longer be able to defend our natural rights and it only takes one person to step up to the tyrannical command in the government. 

          

    "Under the rule of Kim Jong-Un, North Korea remains among the world’s most repressive countries. All basic freedoms have been severely restricted under the Kim family’s political dynasty. A 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry found that abuses in North Korea were without parallel in the contemporary world. They include extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence. North Korea operates secretive prison camps where perceived opponents of the government are sent to face torture and abuse, starvation rations, and forced labor. Fear of collective punishment is used to silence dissent. There is no independent media, functioning civil society, or religious freedom." (North Korea) It is also illegal to leave or move in the country without permission from the government. Most people get denied if they do apply to move or to leave. "The North Korean regime has invested an incredible amount of time and resources creating the songbun system, a form of political apartheid that ascribes you with a level of perceived political loyalty based on your family background. Your particular songbun level (there are 51 of them) can then restrict your life opportunities, including where you can live, educational opportunities, Party membership, military service, occupation, and treatment by the criminal justice system. Any perceived political infractions by your family will lead to your songbun being demoted." (The People's)  This kind of behavior is inhuman and should not be tolerated. 

In Cuba, the government relies on arbitrary detention harassment to intimidate individuals who start to acknowledge their fundamental rights. "Arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention are the arrest or detention of an individual in a case in which there is no likelihood or evidence that they committed a crime against legal statute, or in which there has been no proper due process of law.^[1]" (Arbitrary) The Cuban government also has the right 
to deny exiting visa from the island. Government harasses,
assaults, and imprisons any human right activists that try to 
document any abuse in this country. (Cuba)

Political and human defenders in Iran are subject to imprisonment
 if their speeches do anything short of offending the government.
 "Under Iranian law, many crimes are punishable by death, including some that do not involve violence such as “insulting the Prophet,” apostasy, same-sex relations, adultery, and drug-related offenses. Convicted drug offenders sentenced after flawed trials in revolutionary courts formed the majority of prisoners executed in 2014. On November 24, the Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling sentencing Soheil Arabi to death for Facebook posts he had written that were interpreted as “insulting the Prophet.”"(Iran) Iranian women still face discrimination everyday. Regardless of her age, women can not marry unless it is approved by her male guardian.(Iran)  

These countries are all prisoners of their governments. No one so much as breathes without the fear of offending the government. The government has the power over their very lives. With one word it can all be taken away. Now these governments are in complete control of all of the weapons in these countries. With the use of lethal weapon force they make a whole body of people conform to their way with no regard to human rights. If the tables were turned and they had the same freedoms as America or other countries, their wouldn't be people trying to flee for their lives. The reason America is the favored place to live is because of it's freedoms. If we keep letting the government take more and more control on this gun situation there will be no turning back. Once they have control of all of the weapons we all will be forced to comply with the rules of the government and this will all just go down hill from there. As Americans we have the freedom of speech and we need to use this freedom to speak out against people trying to suppress our freedoms.

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