Disarmed and oppressed: The impossible challenge facing the Iranian people today.

Watch Iran. Really watch it. Millions are in the streets begging for basic liberty. Facing them is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with rifles loaded and consciences unplugged. They have already killed thousands of protesters. They will do it again tomorrow if ordered. That is what regimes do when cornered.

Gun control did not begin as a public safety seminar. It was a tool. The Nazis used it. Communist regimes used it.  Fascist governments everywhere understood one thing very clearly. Disarmed citizens are much easier to rule.

The American Bill of Rights is not self executing. It is not magic parchment. It works because there is a final check behind it. The Second Amendment is that check. Remove it and the rest becomes decorative.

Iran’s protesters can chant all night, but unless the Revolutionary Guard splinters or refuses orders, the math does not change. The side with the guns writes the ending.

Here in the United States, we are told that more restrictions are common sense. Common sense for whom. For the career criminal who ignores every statute already on the books. Or for the grandmother who wants a fighting chance if someone kicks in her door.

In 2023, there were approximately 46,728 firearm related deaths in a country of over 350 million people. More than half, 27,300 were suicides. That matters because suicide is a mental health crisis, not a gang war. There are a plethora of ways to end your life without firearms.Add in justified shootings by citizens and law enforcement. Accidental firearm deaths are at historic lows, likely reflecting expanded safety education.

The bulk of criminal gun violence is committed by repeat offenders. Yet the loudest voices demanding bans are often the same ones pushing policies that reduce incarceration for violent crime. Fewer guns for citizens. Fewer consequences for criminals. That is not policy. That is negligence dressed up as compassion.

History is clear. Governments go bad. Politicians fail. Power concentrates. When citizens surrender their means of resistance, they are trusting that every future leader will be virtuous. That is a bet history has never once paid out.

Firearms are not toys. They are serious tools. Train with them. Store them responsibly. Understand them. And understand this. Once a population gives up its ability to resist, it does not get that ability back with a petition and a candlelight vigil.  Never forget gun control is fascism.