David Hogg is a high-profile gun control activist who became a gun control activist after his involvement in the 2018 Stoneman High School shooting in Florida. Whatever one’s stance on the Second Amendment, it’s hard to imagine surviving such a tragedy.
Hogg has often advocated for strict gun control laws and took that message to a New Hampshire town hall this week.
There, he met a man who had been through another horrific situation and disagreed with his views on guns.
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“I will never give up my gun”
A woman who once lived under communist rule in China steps up to the microphone during a question-and-answer session.
Her views on guns are very different from Hogg’s.
Lily Don Williams to Hogg: “Hi, my name is Lily Don Williams. Welcome to my ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ status.
“I’m actually a Chinese immigrant who survived communism,” she said. “Under Mao Zedong, 40 million people starved to death after he sold communism to them. During his Cultural Revolution, 20 million people died and were murdered.
Williams was referring to former Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, who was in power from 1943 to 1976.
Williams continued, “So my question to you is, David, can you promise me, tonight I’m a gun owner, that our government in America, in Washington, will never be a cruel government?” ?
“Can you promise me that?” she added.
Hogg replied: “I cannot guarantee that any government will not be tyrannical.”
For Lily Don Williams, that answer wasn’t good enough.
“Okay, so the gun control debate is over because I will never give up my guns,” she declared. “Never, never.”
“You should go to China and see how gun control serves the Chinese Communist dictatorship,” Williams concluded.
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China’s gun control is extremely strict
China has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the world. CNN reported in 2021 that after the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, leaders eventually “believed that an armed public posed a threat to the security and stability of the still fragile newly victorious nation. For Communist leaders Weapons are a revolutionary tool. Chairman Mao Zedong famously said in 1927: “Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.”
“Just two years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the government implemented measures that prohibited citizens from buying, selling or privately manufacturing guns,” CNN noted. “Several smaller ministries passed gun control laws over the years, but the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 marked a turning point, when Chinese troops used lethal force to suppress protests led by university students in Beijing.”
“A few months later, the government implemented new gun control regulations as an extension of a broader crackdown on all forms of public dissent and organized resistance,” the report added.
So Lily Don Williams has a point. Most of us can’t imagine what it would be like to live under such a repressive authoritarian regime as she did. We should respect her experience.
So should David Hogg.
