{"id":98999,"date":"2024-01-02T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98999"},"modified":"2024-01-02T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:04:39","slug":"98999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98999","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued Massacres of Christians in Nigeria Ensured by Citizen Disarmament<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA never-ending massacre of Christians being \u2018killed for sport\u2019 is reportedly happening in Nigeria, yet the world appears to be largely deaf to the matter,\u201d\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0reported Saturday<\/a>. \u201cMore than 52,000 Christians \u2018have been butchered or hacked to death for being Christians\u2019 since 2009 in Nigeria, according to Intersociety, a civil society group based in Onitsha.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChristians are killed for sport, especially Christian children,\u201d Rev. Johnnie Moore, a former commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and president of the Congress of Christian Leaders told\u00a0Fox<\/em>. \u201cEntire villages are burnt and pillaged. Thousands of churches have been destroyed. Children and women are hunted.<\/p>\n

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Hunted and killed by whom?<\/h4>\n

\u201cNigeria, which is Africa\u2019s most populous country with 206 million people, has grappled for over a decade with an insurgency in the northeast by Islamic extremist rebels of Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State West Africa Province,\u201d\u00a0The Hill<\/em>\u00a0reported in 2022<\/a>. \u201cThe extremists, who have killed more than 35,000 people by a U.N. count, are fighting to establish Shariah law and to stop Western education.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can they do that, with Christians estimated in the\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0report to \u201crepresent 46% of Nigeria\u2019s population\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Easy. The \u201claw-abiding\u201d are disarmed by law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Nigeria, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law,\u201d\u00a0GunPolicy.org documented<\/a>\u00a0[Note the link goes to the Internet Archive, as the site has closed down due to lack of funding.] For those not familiar with that resource, it was a project of the Sydney School of Public Health, and while of a decidedly anti-gun bent, nonetheless provided instructive and useful compilations of gun laws from around the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201c[C]ivilians are not allowed to possess machine-guns, military rifles and handguns \u2026 private possession of semi-automatic assault weapons [and] private possession of handguns (pistols and revolvers) is prohibited,\u201d the site advised. Add to that licensing, background checks and registration for what they are allowed to own, a prohibition on concealed carry, and stiff criminal penalties for gun law violations, and Nigeria is one of those places where not only are the \u201claw-abiding\u201d at an extreme disadvantage but also a place that has enacted many of the same \u201ccommonsense gun safety laws\u201d the Democrats are now furiously trying to impose on Americans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCommonsense gun safety laws\u201d in action\u2026 (Nigeria National Portal Page\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A more recent synopsis of Nigerian gun laws was posted in a 2023 \u201cOverview of Gun Regulation in Nigeria<\/a>,\u201d which offers a cognitively dissonant \u201csolution\u201d: Amend Nigeria\u2019s Firearms Act to \u201cenunciate\u2026 the right\u00a0 to kill in defense of oneself or in defense of one\u2019s family or property,\u201d while simultaneously advocating \u201cfurther restrict people from legal access to firearms [and] reduc[e] the circulation of firearms in the country, which will in turn save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fraudulently-named Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence recently reissued its \u201cAnnual Gun Law Scorecard<\/a>\u00ae\u201d (good grief, they\u2019ve registered it like it has some value), where it rates states from A to F based on how many ridiculous infringements that actually prevent defensive options their (mostly) Democrat co-prohibitionists impose under force of arms. They ought to expand it to rate countries \u201cwith strong gun laws.\u201d Nigeria would get an \u201cA++.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yes, \u201cthe world\u00a0does<\/em>\u00a0appear to be largely deaf\u201d to the massacre, which is curious, especially since it is blacks being slaughtered wholesale. You\u2019d think Giffords and fellow gun-grab groups that rely so strongly on urban members of color, along with black vote panderers Joe Biden and the Democrats, race hustlers like Al Sharpton and the NAACP, and the Council on Islamic American Relations would be all over this, but they\u2019re apparently too busy portraying non-leftist white people as racists and trying to impose Nigerian-style citizen disarmament on all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued Massacres of Christians in Nigeria Ensured by Citizen Disarmament \u201cA never-ending massacre of Christians being \u2018killed for sport\u2019 is reportedly happening in Nigeria, yet the world appears to be largely deaf to the matter,\u201d\u00a0Fox News\u00a0reported Saturday. \u201cMore than 52,000 Christians \u2018have been butchered or hacked to death for being Christians\u2019 since 2009 in Nigeria, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,24,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-rights","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99000,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98999\/revisions\/99000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}