The first step in establishing authoritarian rule over a formerly free and self-governing people is to gradually inculcate the concept that the government is law and law is government. That is not the concept envisioned by our Founders. The gradual indoctrination of the populace that government and law are one and the same completely obviates our central rule of law that specifically limits central government functions.
The Founders knew that a strong central government continually feeds itself power by gradually depriving the people’s freedom. To ensure that the reasons for the creation of our republic are never again subverted, the Founders provided freedom of thought through speech and writing backed up by the unfettered right of the people to acquire firearms. This ensures both the free exchange of ideas and provides the people the ability for the forceful overthrow of despotic government.
The error of government can be traced throughout history. We had weak reasons to enter World War I, which caused WWII. As we fought an unnecessary war and returned to normalcy, we felt our oats and international power as demonstrated by the “roaring twenties.” The Tommy gun popularized by the war was used by criminal mobs, created by federal do-gooders under the banner of social engineering termed “Prohibition.” Today’s prohibition is the very expensive, failed “War on Drugs.” Organized crime provides the goods and services banned by government.
The establishment of organized crime resultant of Prohibition generated the same “turf wars” we see organized drug gangs engaging in today. Just as with Prohibition, there is a government element of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and police who are illegally profiting from the criminalized drug traffic. A great percentage of the two million people incarcerated in our prisons are hapless users, ensnared by a heartless, brutal government.
The band-aid legislation dealing with organized crime in the 1930s was the 1934 National Firearms Act, making illegal the private ownership of machine-guns and sawed-off shotguns. Our federal government murdered Randy Weaver’s wife and son in a dispute over a quarter of an inch of shotgun barrel that failed to comply with that Second Amendment infringement. The government didn’t even have a full inch violation to justify taking the lives of a woman holding a baby and a teenaged boy trying to protect his dog from federal murderers.
And then we have what amounted to almost a civil uprising in northern New Jersey when former Republican Governor Tom Kean decided to dump toxic waste from a high constituent polluted site to a dump adjacent to food-supplying farmland. Obviously, Kean powwowed with his Democratic successor, Jim Florio, to discuss the outrage of citizens armed with rifles threatening to shoot the truckers transporting the poison. Florio introduced an “assault rifle” ban in New Jersey shortly after.
“Assault rifles” are military weapons having the capability to fire full and partial bursts of automatic [machine-gun] weapons fire, machine-guns having been banned in 1934. “Assault rifles” targeted by Florio, Clinton, and other Democrats of their ilk, are military surplus rifles and imitations that are altered to fire semi-automatically each time the trigger is pulled. Though they’re not fully automatic, and therefore not technically machine-guns, people-fearing politicians continually need an excuse to ban another type of firearm in their never-ending quest to disarm America. They play their famous numbers games: one gun a month; ten round magazines; ninety-day waiting periods; .50 caliber bans; twenty-one years of age; etc.
Unquestionably, we all know the methods of Constitution-hating politicians and their media harlots who need a disarmed populace to save us from the very societal problems they’ve created. Consider that famous assessment of liberalism and the jack-asinine laws they establish: Liberal laws accomplish precisely the opposite of the results intended.
Environmentalism and liberal litigation caused the very destruction of the forests that they were supposed to protect. The “abused children” of Waco were gassed and burned to death. Prohibition established organized crime in America, and when Prohibition was abolished, organized crime remained. The War on Drugs has actually strengthened organized crime’s marketing of illegal drugs, which has reached more of our children than ever before. Government schools established to improve the education of our children has left them less educated, more suicidal, and more drug addicted. Gun control, gun free zones and zero tolerance have also killed more children at schools than ever before. And it is the War on Drugs, which has elevated armed gang violence and shootings, not a “proliferation” of firearms.
It is becoming apparent, especially since 9-11, that government is not only worse than incompetent, but totally unable to protect us. Hitler and Stalin never intended to invade us, but I’ll bet the Communist Chinese, the people Democrats have such a wonderful rapport with, are keenly interested in the Democrat Party’s progress with gun control. I’m sure they’re pleased with George Bush’s role as well!
And if more terrorists acts are perpetrated on America, you may rest comfortably assured that Americans will get guns the same way they got alcoholic beverages before, and the same way they continue to get drugs today. When Americans learn to ignore the government and establishment media’s anti-gun propaganda and realize that they alone are responsible for the assurance of their own safety, they will learn to oppose anyone that tries to take away their guns. And that mindset is best described by a resistance to all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
There is a fragile thin line separating justice from injustice, and lawful obedience from open rebellion, and our government seems to be losing the ability to make that distinction. Respecting the law is easy; reinstating that respect once lost by a people is another matter. America is people, not government.