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Assaulting Jim Zumbo The NRA on Extremists NRA scams its members The Lionel Show AirAm Radio's ignorant, crude, ugly, air waves barbarian Dear John Ashcroft The armed populace doctrine at the DOJ The Washington Post cultivating ignorance. Gun Policy News news stories compiled daily. "Sixty Minutes" Failing its Mission NPR's Diane Rehm Civilized without Substance. A longstanding dereliction. Violence Policy Center The public health agenda falls in line with the NRA. Militia Act of 1792 To enroll— conscript, register— That is, a coerced civic obligation. Return of Militia Inventory of private weapons in the early Republic reported to the President of the US History John Kenneth Rowland Lawrence Cress John K. Mahon Others Pseudohistory LaPierre's list The Quotes, the Quotes Fabricating the armed populace doctrine Libertarians, Conservatives Tenn. Law Rev., 1995 Chicago-Kent Symposium, 2000 What does the NRA want?
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Update, May 9, 2013. Cody Wilson who has produced a 3-D printed plastic gun, at this stage of dubious quality but which portends much with future technology, is a self-proclaim anarchist who want to produce "chaos for the state." In That Every Man be Armed," Stephen Halbrook describes the National Rifle Association's ideology, of which he is the primary formulator, as "extreme libertarian." Extreme libertarianism does not recognized the legitimacy of a governing authority. It is an anarchic adolescent presentist ideology blanched of all history, culture, and reason that is not self-serving. The adolescents shall govern us— Or, rather, they will put us on our own to govern ourselves in the State of Nature. We have not heard from the NRA on home produced plastic guns.
"Wishful Thinking Is Control Freaks' Last Defense Against 3D-Printed Guns,"
"In the Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over
Governments,"
3D-Printed 'Liberator' Handgun Successfully Test-Fired"
What Cody Wilson will produce is choas for himself.
"Be careful of your heart's desire. It shall be yours." Ernest van den Haag (1914-2002), the John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University, described the implications in "Libertarians & Conservatives," National Review, 1979:
force held by the state can be replaced only by polyarchy which cannot but be worse.
True liberty is under law and opposed to both tyrannical rule and licentiousness (anarchy, no law). Also, from vanden Haag:
in essential respects by the state, through the monopoly of legitimate coercive power exercised by its government. Any particular coercion (law) of the state may well be contested. But libertarians object not just to specific laws, but to legislation, to the authority of the state, and to its coercive power per se. Libertarians dissent from history and from the political institutions it has created in all known civilization. For, although political institutions vary no society has been able to do without them, as the libertarians propose. and
non-society and peace would be as precarious among individuals as it is now is among the [state] powers.
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Insert, March 17, 2013
After the provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934, already in place, the
only policy role for the Federal Government is to control and shut down the illegal
traffic between and among jurisdictions. That is empowerment policy for state and local
jurisdictions. That can only be accomplished by registration
and the reporting of private sales. Registration at the same time is the only effective mechanism for
effective regulation. The courts have opened the path for that national
policy in the Parker/Heller/McDonald rulings. The path is based on civic
obligation and military preparedness as manifest in the militia clauses of the
Constitution, the Second Amendment, and the Militia Act of 1792.
Anyone who does not accept the conclusion of the courts, does not accept
civic obligation and military preparedness, has only one choice:
to launch a campaign for a constitutional amendment that would redefine gun rights—
that is, redefine constitutional government.
It is not just the conclusion of the courts but what the gun rights crowd itself has
advocated that provides direction for policy,
The Firearms Freedom Act.
"... that any firearms made and retained in-state are beyond the authority of Congress..."
Give them their hearts' desire
"State, Local Lawmakers Rush to Enact Gun Laws Ahead of Federal Controls
Newsmax, Saturday, 09 Mar 2013, By Sandy Fitzgerald and Matthew Auerbach
The leadership has to start at the top.
We do not get leadership. We get more of the same gun control foolishness now characterized
as "gun safety". It is a strategy and approach that has already failed. The gun controllers
for their forty years of failure to educate the public and shape public consciousness
have had no choice but to fall in line.
"President Barack Obama’s gun control agenda is looking more doomed by the day, but gun control
advocates still haven’t said a word to complain."
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"How the White House silenced gun control groups", Politico, Reid J. Epstein, 3/7/13
There is no issue of vital political concern that is characterized by more ignorance and absurdity. If in their antagonistic exchange on March 14, Senator Feinstein had had any political savvy and if she had any of the constitutional knowledge she claims she would have asked Senator Cruz if he accepted and supported the conclusion of the courts in the Parker/Heller/McDonald cases that we could have "registration ... for militia service if called up"? If he said yes, he would be viciously attacked by the gun rights militants. If not, the next challenge would be, Will he launch a campaign for a constitutional amendment? Then we become seriously political.
What is so difficult to understand?
What the gun rights militants want, the right to be armed outside of the knowledge and reach of
law and government, can never be had under any viable concept of constitutional government. The right
has to be had by demagoguery. The demagoguery proceeds apace.
"NRA’s Keene: Democrats Shocked by Support for Second Amendment"
Newsmax, Thursday, 14 Mar 2013, By Cyrus Afzali and Kathleen Walt
The NRA's Wayne LaPierre has become even more hysterical than usual. He must certainly know if
no one else has pointed out that he has already lost in the courts. So we get the diversion:
The Chinese and Mexicans will hack a federal data base maintained for militia call
up and know who are gun owners. This raises an interesting question. NRA membership, gun
owner magazines subscription lists, and even hunting licenses are maintained on computer
data bases. Presumably they all have guns. If the NRA has a secure data
base that is protected from Chinese and Mexican infiltration and also
from state and federal government call up, will the NRA share its privacy techniques
with the malignancy of government?
III. Failing our history and historical concepts
IV. Civic values and the politics of the modern state
V. Guns and controlling political outcomes
VI. Toward a national firearms policy
VII. Adolescent insolence, insurrectionist fantasies and personal sovereignty
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