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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT

There are a couple of updates to my Linda Hamilton page:

GUNOWNERS - We've been had: a letter from Russ Hamilton telling of unfulfilled promises for monetary assistance from the NRA, GOA, and GOAL.
Letter from attorney Cindy Hill: Ms. Hill is an attorney from Vermont with experience in firearms cases. In this letter she offers to represent Linda, but requires a $5,000 retainer that the Hamiltons do not have.

demitria monde thraam at Randomonium - 10.10.2000: good commentary on why you should tell your kids the truth about drugs, both good and bad. I.e. marijuana is almost harmless, acid flashbacks are no big deal (though why any sane person would want to intentionally induce schizophrenia, I no longer understand), but heroin is physically addicting and withdrawal is really hard. Monde fell into the heroin trap because after she discovered that she'd been lied to about the dangers of cannabis and acid, she thought the stories about smack were also lies. They weren't. I don't see any way to point to individual stories here. Search for "10.10.2000". [randomonium]

Brent Simmons at inessential.com - tuesday, october 10, 2000: Brent has found a weblog that is the exact opposite of his. He's not telling which one, but asks if you know of a weblog to which you have a similar relationship. [brent]

To me it reads like: "Pure evil is good." And people say: "Right on! You hit the nail on the head with that pure evil thing! So insightful!"

www.teesdale.com - 90 million: a flash video with a potent reminder for our "leaders". Many good quotes and images. [kaba]

90 million households harbor 240 million firearms. Feel like trying to come and take them? ... Don't even try it. You've been warned.

Peter Jennings at ABC News - NRA Declares War: algore has stopped talking about his gun grabbing policies, but Charlton Heston has not forgotten. He's asking people to vote their guns and defeat algore. [sierra]

"I don't want someone coming to my door, knocking on my door," said [NRA member Charles] Jones, "and telling me that I have to surrender my gun."
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The NRA will spend $15 to 20 million in this year's elections. Much of that will be spent on television in these last four weeks. Charlton Heston is the messenger in the ads: "Have you noticed how Al Gore has stopped talking about your gun rights? Is he afraid of gun owners' votes? Because if Al Gore wins, gun owners better be afraid of him. Vote George Bush for president."

Scott Jordan at Sierra Times - Script for Bush's Next Debate: If GW said this tonite, they'd have to wash algore out of the turret with a hose. [sierra]

"Another good indicator of character is the ability to talk straight and keep promises. Promises like a tax cut. Instead Mr. Gore and Mr. Clinton gave you the biggest tax hike in history. They even made it retroactive, bet you forgot that too. Lots of folks have to work second jobs, or send their spouse out to work, because the tax load is too high, higher than anytime since World War Two. Bet you didn't know that the average American spends more on taxes than food, clothing, transportation, entertainment and housing combined. Mr. Gore isn't gonna tell you that. Mr. Lehrer seems not to notice either. But boy, when I promise to give people some of their own money back, Mr. Gore is fit to pop. He'd rather give that money to someone who didn't earn it. Funny, that sounds familiar. Let's see, how's it go, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." Karl Marx said that. I think he and Mr. Gore would find a lot to agree on.

bob lonsberry - Should Rapists Get the Death Penalty? Tells the gruesome tale of a monster out on bail for a rape accusation who raped an 11 year-old girl, repeatedly, and locked her in a suitcase. I agree with Mr. Lonsberry that this animal surrendered its right to life by its actions. But capital punishment by the state? I no longer trust the courts to decide anything.

Joseph Sobran at LewRockwell.com - The Death Penalty: as if on cue, I found this article right after reading Mr. lonsberry's article above. [lew]

The modern state is itself a criminal enterprise. And though the death penalty is intrinsically just and does deter, we don't want justice enforced by criminals.

Mike Shelton at the Orange County Register - Before and After the Debates: cartoon commentary on how the debates have changed voter opinion. Hehe.

Roger Margerison at KeepAndBearArms.com - Switching Sides: Why Mr. Margerison has decided to join the Brady Bunch. Not! [kaba]

This brings us to gun control. I firmly believe in gun control. When I am not using my guns they are under my control. Safely stored where they can be reached and used if necessary. When they are in use I believe in gun control. Acting as they are all loaded all the time (even when they are not), being very careful where the barrel is pointing, and only pointing at what I wish to put holes in are just a few of the important areas of gun control in which I firmly believe. When shooting, keeping in mind what is behind the target I am putting holes in is a part of good gun control, as well. Remembering BRASS which I was taught in the USMC; Breathe, Relax, Aim, Slack, Squeeze, also helps gun control.

A Dear Friend of Brian Clifford at KeepAndBearArms.com - Forgive me, for I have sinned: An About Face After Being Saved by a Gun Owner One woman's experience on the way back from the Forty Thousand Moms March. [kaba]

J.C. Gardner at KeepAndBearArms.com - A Few Thoughts from "Becker Flats": We, a law-abiding people, have become slaves to a criminal state with no regard for the law. [kaba]

There comes a time when a people MUST determine when the Law of Man has become so evil that the Law of God must usurp the law of man and crush it! I believe that our Jewish brethren in large part learned this lesson earlier in this century, and I believe that the Christian peoples of this nation, at the dawn of the 21st century, are about to learn this same lesson.

R.D. Lee at KeepAndBearArms.com - The Election: A law enforcement officer tells us why he believes an algore presidency may trigger a civil war. [kaba]

Having been a law enforcement officer for a number of years, I have given much thought to the POLITICS of our country today. If you ask most any line police officer he will tell you the same thing, "he has never met a line officer that advocated the removal of firearms from the law abiding people of this country." Only those in law enforcement politics seem to think that removal is a good idea. I personally have had a citizen come to my assistance late one night because he heard on his scanner what I had not heard. When I called for back-up, the dispatcher had switched to the county frequency to get me that help. My closest back-up was 25 long minutes away. All I knew was suddenly a man I barely knew drove up gun in hand and helped me subdue a man that I might otherwise have had to shoot.
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What most people have not thought about is the Revolution was not started over taxes. The American Revolution was really engaged after the attempt to take powder and shot from the people - because King George had decided the Kings forces could protect the people better than they could protect themselves. Our own Government would do well to remember this. If slightly more than 10% of the then current population could defeat the then most powerful nation, what can 35% to 40% that is willing to fight do.

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-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

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Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

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"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair