The Jews were the first in recorded history I Samuel 13:19 – 22 to experience gun (or weapons) control. From that example you can extrapolate all modern dictatorships desire to control the people by preventing them from being able to defend themselves from the government that rules tyrannically over them. Co-author of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Papers # 28 excerpted Below:

“…If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then
no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defence,
which is paramount to all positive forms of government; and which, against
the usurpation of the national rulers, may be exerted with an infinitely better
prospect of success, than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In
a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers,
the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts, of which it consists, having no
distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defence. The
citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system,
without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed
with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of territory, the more difficult will it be for the
people to form a regular, or systematic plan of opposition; and the more easy
will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements; and the military force in the
possession of the usurpers, can be more rapidly directed against the part
where the opposition has begun. In this situation, there must be a peculiar
coincidence of circumstances to ensure success to the popular resistance.”

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