Gun Control Kills

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:00:00 GMT

Karla finally decided what to do about the new computer. We're returning the iMac and trading it for the low-end Titanium Powerbook G4. Should arrive next Tuesday. More debt. Hey, might as well enjoy it. I figure I'll be killed or imprisoned by the nazis before long. Maybe it's time to lay down the plastic for a Les Baer AR .223, assuming I can buy one legally in New York state.

John Bergstrom's Attack Cartoons - Stupidity Redefined - cartoon commentary on the Middle East peace process. Hahahaha.

damaged justice's Radio Weblog - Thursday, November 22, 2001 - a bit of not-thanksgiving from dj. Capiche.

If I thought it would make a difference, I'd start right in on killing all those who so badly need it. Instead, I'm thinking that adults get angry because they're no longer capable of tears; and that for the first time in a long time, I am perilously close to crying.

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To all current and future tyrants: I just found my old ID, expired just over ten years ago. It's nice to know where it is, since I like the picture on it. But I still don't carry it. No, I won't get a new one. "I am who I am", and that either makes me Jesus or Popeye, your choice. Take your paperien and shove 'em, bitte, macht schnell.

Prediction: Sometime in 2002, interstate travel in the uSA will be somehow restricted.

Jack Duggan at LewRockwell.com - Gun Control Kills - And how! [lew]

Since the U.S. government will not admit that it was they who took away airline pilots' civil rights, particularly the inalienable right to defend oneself, it now will never admit that a $300 gun in each airline cockpit would have prevented over 27 BILLION dollars in damage and saved 5,000 lives by stopping the World Trade Center crash-bombings.

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While we are being forced to focus on Osama Bin Laden and the Al Queda terrorist network, not one talking-head "journalist" has had the courage to report the truth. The truth is that the disgraceful behavior of our federal government in both foreign policy and domestic victim disarmament laws is to blame for the horror of the WTC attack, as well as for the suffering of literally millions of crime victims across America. Those who impose such laws, from the U.S. Supreme Court all the way down the enforcement ladder to street cops, should be indicted for murder.

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So the next time elected officials who are victim disarmers brag about gun control laws and their newest goals for confiscation, call them what they truly are: MURDERERS.

Jude Wanniski at SupplySideInventor.com - Open Up Washington, D.C. - A letter to GW asking him to open up and listen to Louis Farrakhan. [lew]

When the police are told to button everything down, they do not fool around. It was not just that I found more concrete barricades and metal detectors in the federal triangle than I ever encountered before. There were far more barriers than I'd ever spotted on my trips to Red China and more police checking my photo ID and glaring menacingly at me (maybe I look Arab) than I'd seen in Moscow during the Cold War.

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You do probably know, Mr. President, that I have been defending the Nation of Islam's leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, since I watched the Million Man March in 1995 and since I met him for the first time in 1996. I'm satisfied beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is not only a good and holy man, but the most important Muslim in the world. You might think Bin Laden is, but Bin Laden is an outcast in the entire Muslim hierarchy outside Afghanistan. Min. Farrakhan's views on the Middle East are practically identical to yours, as you would find if you talked to him. But the political establishment long ago decided it did not want any of us to really listen to him, and so he has been effectively demonized.

Jack Boone at Project:Safe Skies - My advice to women - how to deal with being felt up at airport security if your goal is to get on the plane. Trust Uncle Sammy. Submit.

Jerry Pournelle - Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, 2001 - puts 9/11 into perspective. Will move here next week. [pournelle]

The United States took a hour's worth of highway casualties from the anthrax attacks, and about a month's worth of highway casualties from the attacks on the World Trade Center. We have incurred more costs from our new security measures than the value of all property destroyed by terrorist attacks, and of course the war will cost more than that. We also submit to bullying that does little to nothing to improve security: the other night one man got through a metal detector without being searched, and an airplane took off before he was found, so all the people of TWO airports were sent outside, both airports were shut down, and to what purpose? But that is the way things are in this world.

Vin Suprynowicz at Sierra Times - The Greatest Blessing: Why do we prosper while others fail? It's not the topsoil - capitalism + property rights = prosperity. [sierra]

What is the best indicator of whether a land and a people will prosper, or starve? It has precious little to do with climate, soil, or other "natural blessings." Rather, people are largely free and fulfilled and affluent to the point of excess in lands which practice capitalism in combination with a republican form of government which guarantees the enforcement of property rights and other God-given individual liberties -- familiar to Americans from their listing in the first 10 amendments to our Constitution.

And people are most likely to starve in nations where the separation of church and state is unknown, where the armed power of the state is harnessed to a compulsive and monochrome ideology (whether actually religious or of a secular "religion" like Marxism) evincing little respect for individual choice or liberty, driving away those with the ability to "vote with their feet" while swaddling the unfortunates who remain in a stifling cocoon of institutionalized jealousy and greed, a Bizarro world in which prosperity is a crime, punishable by the iron discipline of collectivism and redistribution, until poverty and hopelessness are spread with a "fairness" as relentless as it is debilitating.

Robert L. Kocher at Laissez Faire City Times - Armed Conflict in America: McVeigh and the Oklahoma Bombing, Epilogue 1: The World Trade Center Destruction - How Bush'es "anti-terrorism" has eclipsed Hitlary Clinton. Bin Laden is a false target. Mr. Kocher is no friend of Islam. I find it hard to believe that he has any idea of what he's talking about.

Unless Timothy McVeigh is replaced by thousands and millions of others, importantly, who don't make his tragic errors, America will become an authoritarian psychotic hellhole.

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Whether God keeps track of how many times a day each person lies prostrate with his nose and belly to the earth in religious expression to him is, in my mind, doubtful. But it is not allowed to be doubted in the Middle East. Neither is the obsessive-compulsive atmosphere around it.

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- 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.

Who is a libertarian?

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

Concise

"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