Rudyard Kipling was right

[Grouse]

In the year 1919, an English poet named Rudyard Kipling penned a poem called “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” that many of us, a century later, would find eerily prophetic. There’s a particular stanza in the poem that should strike close to home for everyone who follows the history of gun-rights infringement worldwide, here and in Eastern Europe. It goes like this:

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.

But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." 

“Gods of the Copybook Headings” refers to an Edwardian method of teaching penmanship—children would copy Biblical quotes and aphorisms over and over in imitation of a perfect example rendered in the heading of their copybook. Perhaps there was something about writing those words repeatedly that reminded people of their wisdom.

By the time Kipling wrote the poem, the titular copybooks were already going out of style. Whether or not the fact that people stopped copying that down-home wisdom had anything to do with their having forgotten it, it’s fair to say that the tide of “gun control” was already well ashore in England and elsewhere in 1919, and that Kipling foresaw only trouble in its wake. Sadly, in this case and in that stanza, Kipling was right.

[Northcountryman]

Great post - wow !! 

[DoubleDose]

At the UN there is a statue dedicated to this:

Where is swords into plowshares in the Bible?

— Joel 3:10 or 4:10 in the Masoretic system. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

 

History has taught that those who do will involuntarily farm for those that did not!

[Robby]

Thomas Jefferson: “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not,”

Robby