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Full quote - "“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjugated races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police.”

In 1972, the first order of business for the newly despotic regime under Ferdinand Marcos was to confiscate weapons:

“"NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ferdinand E. Marcos, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No.1081 dated September 21, 1972, do hereby order that henceforth and until otherwise ordered by me or by my duly designated representative, no person shall keep, possess or carry outside of his residence any firearm unless such person is duly authorized to keep, possess or carry any such firearm and any person violating this order shall forthwith be arrested and taken into custody and held for the duration of the emergency unless ordered released by me or by my duly designated representative."

In 1991, former United States naval intelligence officer William Cooper published a book called “Behold a Pale Horse”. In the book, Cooper detailed the coming effort of the U.S. government to disarm the American population:

“The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of military firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus enflame the antigun lobby. This plan is well underway, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the second amendment.”

Over the course of the past few decades, many western governments have engaged in similar campaigns to the one described by Cooper in the United States, and those projects have been much more successful. The government in Great Britain all but led the way in the western world in passing extremely restrictive gun control policies in the 1960’s. In 2002, Australia followed suit with its own massive gun confiscation push. In 2019, the New Zealand government passed its own regulations for mandatory gun registration; Prime Minister Jecinda Ardern stated that “[o]wning a firearm is a privilege not a right”.

The government stages false flags or capitalizes on legitimate events to try and seize the guns of the population, because a firearm-owning populace is a threat to any despotic, or would-be despotic, regime.