First They Took the Guns

History doesn’t whisper. It screams.
And if you listen close enough, the echoes might just chill your bones.

Across time and continents, a dark pattern weaves itself through the bloodstained pages of human history: before the mass graves, before the midnight knocks at the door, before the smoke curled into the sky—there was always disarmament.

It begins innocently enough. A government insists it’s for public safety. “No one needs that many bullets,” they say. “Only the military should have weapons,” they argue. “Trust us,” they smile.
But the road to hell is paved with government assurances.

Let’s rewind.

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire disarmed the Armenian population under the guise of national security. What followed was the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million souls.
In 1938, Nazi Germany implemented strict gun control laws—just one year before Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when the Jewish population began to be hunted like animals.
In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s regime ensured the peasants had no weapons. And with no means to resist, millions perished in forced famines, gulags, and quiet disappearances.
China, Cambodia, Rwanda—repeat, repeat, repeat.

The blueprint never changes. Disarm. Divide. Destroy.

Somehow, in the soft comfort of modern life, we’ve convinced ourselves that “it could never happen here.” But history isn’t a horror movie we watched once and forgot. It’s a warning.

Freedom isn’t taken in one fell swoop—it’s chipped away. A regulation here. A registration form there. A confiscation “for your protection.” Before long, you’re not a citizen. You’re a subject.

And when the day comes that you do need to defend yourself—against a tyrant, a mob, or even just a knock in the dark—it’ll be too late.
Because the last thing you’ll hear is the sound of someone else’s boots.

Make no mistake: when the people are armed, governments fear the people. When the people are disarmed, it’s only a matter of time before they start disappearing.

So ask yourself: if history is our teacher, why do we keep failing the test?

And remember—tyranny doesn’t begin with violence.

It begins with paperwork.