In November 1940, Americans fully expected the Nazi invasion and defeat of the British Isles. And NRA members responded with the donation of thousands of small arms including rifles, shotguns, revolvers and pistols. Now in 1997, some of the handguns that will be confiscated from private homes by the British Government may be some of the very same guns that were given by NRA members so that British commoners could defend themselves. Our nation is run and influenced by people who ignore the lessons of history. Nor do its camp followers in the media.
Historians are the keepers of the truth.
History and the truth it protects are impediments to what people like Charles Schumer and Bill Clinton want. In 1940, when NRA members gave arms to their free British cousins, it was to stem an invasion. Yet that is precisely what Americans are facing. Violent crime is an invasion as dangerous as any by soldiers of any foreign power. Everything about unlawful armed force against innocent persons is an invasion.