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Paranoid about gun ownership?
Thomas Paine observed that "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
He also noted "... the strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the
fear of resistance."
The gun grabbers are at it again. President Clinton (the presumed ineffective
lame duck impeached president) continues to pursue his ultimate goal of total
gun confiscation.
The enemies are those who would erode Liberty and Freedom. Their weapon is
incrementalism. Although the U.S. senator from Rhode Island, Jack Reed, has
been unable to find any co-sponsors for his insidious S2099 finesse to gift
the IRS with new gun-licensing authority, the battle is joined. Some have
suggested the Reed bill is the product of mere legislative brain flatulence.
Others see it as the opening gubmint gambit, which will be followed with
"more reasonable" gun control proposals.
Limousine liberals will often ask me, "Why are you so paranoid about the
Second Amendment?" The answer is in facts, which contradict their
preconceived opinions, but nevertheless remain facts. The list is too long
for this space, but herewith is a Reader's Digest flavored version:
In 1911, Turkey established for real gun control. Subsequently, from 1915 to
1917, 1.5-million Armenians, deprived of the means to defend themselves, were
rounded up and killed.
Senator Diane Feinstein, speaking on "60-Minutes" immediately after the
passage of the Brady Bill said, "if I thought I could get the votes, I'd have
taken them all." That's not paranoia; that is the clearly stated objective of
a liberal Democrat U.S. senator.
The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. Then from 1929 to 1953,
approximately 20-millon dissidents -- again, deprived of the means to defend
themselves -- were rounded up and killed.
April 5, 1996, Charles Krauthammer wrote in the Washington Post, "the Brady
Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons
in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." "Ultimate," as in
inevitable, eventually, sometime in the future ... not now ... BUT soon.
Forget the phony Hitler quotes, and focus on the facts. In 1938 Germany did
establish gun control. From 1939 to 1945 over 13-million Jews, gypsies,
homosexuals, mentally ill, union leaders, Catholics and others, unable to
fire a shot in protest, were rounded up and killed.
Editor of the Boston Globe T. Winship wrote in Editor and Publisher Magazine,
April 24, 1993, "Investigate the NRA with renewed vigor. Print names of those
who take NRA funds. Support all causes the NRA opposes. ... The work a day
guy doesn't envision total confiscation, but many with the real power to sway
public opinion and effect change in America do."
China has more practice than anyone does in disarming potential dissenters.
Once upon a time they banned knives and swords. In 1935 they established gun
control. Subsequently, between 1948 and 1952, over 20-million dissidents,
again deprived of the tools for self defense, were rounded up and killed.
Democrat Representative W. Clay was quoted in the St. Louis Post Dispatch of
May 8, 1993, regarding the Brady Bill. He said it is "the minimum step"
Congress should take. "We need much stricter gun control and eventually we
should bar ownership of handguns except in a few cases."
Cambodia enshrined gun control in 1956. In just two years (1975-1977) over
one million "educated" people were rounded up and killed.
Guatemala locked in gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, over 100,000
Mayan Indians were rounded up and killed as a result of their inability to
defend themselves.
Former President of NBC News M. Gartner was quoted in USA Today, Jan. 16,
1992, as saying, "I now think the only way to control handgun use is to
prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the
Constitution." Hello?!
Uganda got gun control in 1970. Over the next nine years over 300,000
Christians were rounded up and killed.
Peter Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc. was quoted in the New Yorker
Magazine, June 26, 1976, with what frankly crystallizes the alleged paranoia
many of us have for preserving the Second Amendment. "We'll take one step at
a time, and the first is necessarily ... given the political realities ...
very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and
then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal,
total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to
make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions)
totally illegal."
Over 56-million people have died because of gun control in the last century.
Is there an identifiable trend? A common denominator? Sure! The victims were
unarmed.
In the shadows of the recently orchestrated whizzing match between the NRA
and the president, two ignored factoids remain axiomatic.
When law-abiding citizens have easy access to firearms for self-protection,
crime goes down.
When law-abiding citizens are denied easy access to firearms, crime increases
... significantly.
For those who continue to insist, "Hey, that stuff could never happen here,"
permit me to annoy you with two more facts. "Operation Garden Plot" and
"Department of State Publication 7277."
I had almost forgotten about Garden Plot until I got halfway through this
column. It is an old Operations Plan relating to Civil Disturbance. Here are
some selected quotes:
"If any civil disturbance by a resistance group, religious organization, or
other persons considered to be non-conformist takes place, under Appendix 3
to Annex B of Plan 55-2 hereby gives all Federal forces total power over the
situation if local and state authorities cannot put down said dissenters."
"Annex A, section B of Operation Garden Plot defines tax protesters, militia
groups, religious cults, and general anti-government dissenters as Disruptive
Elements. This calls for the deadly force to be used against any extremist or
dissident perpetrating any and all forms of civil disorder."
The Department of State Publication 7277 was Disarmament Series 5 released
September 1961. It states,
A strenuous and uninterrupted effort must be made toward the goal of general
and complete disarmament; at the same time, it is important that specific
measures be put into effect as soon as possible. Second, all disarmament
obligations must be subject to effective international controls: The control
organization must have the manpower, facilities, and effectiveness to assure
that limitations or reductions take place as agreed. It must also be able to
certify to all states permitted at any stage of the disarmament process.
Third, adequate peacekeeping machinery must be established: There is an
inseparable relationship between the scaling down of national armaments on
the one hand and the building up of international peacekeeping machinery and
institutions on the other.
Nations are unlikely to shed their means of self-protection in the absence of
alternative ways to safeguard their legitimate interests. This can only be
achieved through the progressive strengthening of international institutions
under the United Nations and by creating a United Nations Peace force to
enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds.
The cartoon character Pogo once observed, "We have met the enemy and he is
us." It is an irony that the fictional character resided in a swamp, and the
District of Criminals rests on a reclaimed swamp.
Frederick Douglass noted that "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet
deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the
awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a
physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a
struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never
will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong, which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted with either rods or blows, or
with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress."
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