We've been telling each other this for years, but it nice to see it reflected in a college paper. I took 'em up on a "respond to this article" at response@uwire.com as I figured a lot of outraged campus liberals would be dumping on him and he would need some support and encouragement.
http://www.uwiretoday.com/members/membersopinion032000003.html
03/20/2000 U-Wire Today ... The Nation's College Newspaper
COLUMN: Right to own guns ensures American freedom
By Jason Van Dyke
The State News (Michigan State U.)
03/20/2000
(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Fidel Castro. These are some of the 20th Century's most evil people. Now let's add more names to the list: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Charles Schumer and Sarah Brady.
What do these politicians have in common with some of the most evil people to ever live? They support the most oppressive and tyrannical form of public policy: gun control.
Throughout history, it has been shown that disarming the population is the most effective way to enslave them. This held true in ancient Rome, when Christians were not allowed to own "offensive weapons," and kept its momentum through the racism of the 18th and 19th centuries when black codes prohibited enslaved and free blacks (even after the Civil War) from owning firearms.
In the 20th century, German fascists, along with Russian, Chinese and Cuban communists, used gun control laws very similar to the "common sense" legislation being proposed today. They did this to disarm political opponents and people they would later throw into concentration and death camps. The racism and hatred surrounding the idea of gun control has been completely evident throughout history.
These laws always start out as politicians crying for children and common sense. Hitler said the gun registration act in Nazi Germany would make police more efficient. It certainly did make the Gestapo more efficient when they rounded up unarmed Jews and other "undesirables" to be placed in death camps. Because a majority of Jews were unarmed, the Gestapo had a relatively easy job.
The exception was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when a few hundred Jews used "illegal" firearms to fight off the SS for nearly 28 days. They were eventually massacred, but the Nazis suffered casualties of their own. This is frightening when we realize the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 was copied almost word-for-word from the Nazi weapon laws.
Most gun control groups mistakenly assume the Second Amendment is all about hunting, or that it doesn't apply to any person outside the National Guard. These assumptions could not be further from the truth. This amendment was created to give citizens protection from their own government. The Army used to fight the British in the Revolutionary War was a militia army, composed of citizens bearing their own arms in defense of their country and freedom. The Second Amendment guarantees the use of lethal force for the defense of oneself and one's liberty from the government and criminals.
Some have claimed the right to keep and bear arms only applies to people in the National Guard. This is untrue. The Militia Act states militia forces are all able-bodied male citizens between 18 and 45 who are not members of the armed forces and are subject to a call to military service. This rules out the National Guard, because the members of this group are subject to the control of the U.S. Army, Navy or Coast Guard -- all of which are federal entities. Therefore, the militia of the United States would be everyone required to register for the draft.
Other people claim the Second Amendment cannot possibly apply to military-style assault weapons or handguns, which are made only to kill people. However, if any guns at all are protected by the Second Amendment, it would be those that would be most easily used in defense against an armed criminal or tyrannical government force. This means assault weapons and handguns are protected more by the amendment than a single-shot hunting rifle. These weapons are more practical for carrying out the intended purpose of the Second Amendment, which is to allow people to protect themselves against the government and criminals.
Wicked laws cannot be administered impartially -- and that is exactly what gun control is: wicked. When a politician or anybody else supports gun control, it is good cause to be afraid of them because they probably have something else up their sleeve. If politicians aren't doing things to law-abiding citizens they shouldn't be (in this case, taking away their rights), they have no reason in the world to be afraid of them.
Guns in the hands of citizens are assurance that the government will behave itself. If the right to bear arms is revoked, there is no telling what right or rights the government will revoke next. Eventually, we will have nothing left except the oppressive conditions of Soviet Russia, Red China and Nazi Germany.
They will start by going after the gun owners under the guise of protecting children or making our police more efficient. Then, one day, we will wake up and discover just how efficient our police have become. Nikita Khrushchev once said Americans themselves would one day hoist the red communist flag. Unless people who attempt to hand our freedom over to tyrants are stopped now, Khrushchev's prophecy may one day become a reality.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
http://www.uwiretoday.com/members/membersopinion032000003.html
03/20/2000 U-Wire Today ... The Nation's College Newspaper
COLUMN: Right to own guns ensures American freedom
By Jason Van Dyke
The State News (Michigan State U.)
03/20/2000
(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Fidel Castro. These are some of the 20th Century's most evil people. Now let's add more names to the list: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Charles Schumer and Sarah Brady.
What do these politicians have in common with some of the most evil people to ever live? They support the most oppressive and tyrannical form of public policy: gun control.
Throughout history, it has been shown that disarming the population is the most effective way to enslave them. This held true in ancient Rome, when Christians were not allowed to own "offensive weapons," and kept its momentum through the racism of the 18th and 19th centuries when black codes prohibited enslaved and free blacks (even after the Civil War) from owning firearms.
In the 20th century, German fascists, along with Russian, Chinese and Cuban communists, used gun control laws very similar to the "common sense" legislation being proposed today. They did this to disarm political opponents and people they would later throw into concentration and death camps. The racism and hatred surrounding the idea of gun control has been completely evident throughout history.
These laws always start out as politicians crying for children and common sense. Hitler said the gun registration act in Nazi Germany would make police more efficient. It certainly did make the Gestapo more efficient when they rounded up unarmed Jews and other "undesirables" to be placed in death camps. Because a majority of Jews were unarmed, the Gestapo had a relatively easy job.
The exception was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when a few hundred Jews used "illegal" firearms to fight off the SS for nearly 28 days. They were eventually massacred, but the Nazis suffered casualties of their own. This is frightening when we realize the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 was copied almost word-for-word from the Nazi weapon laws.
Most gun control groups mistakenly assume the Second Amendment is all about hunting, or that it doesn't apply to any person outside the National Guard. These assumptions could not be further from the truth. This amendment was created to give citizens protection from their own government. The Army used to fight the British in the Revolutionary War was a militia army, composed of citizens bearing their own arms in defense of their country and freedom. The Second Amendment guarantees the use of lethal force for the defense of oneself and one's liberty from the government and criminals.
Some have claimed the right to keep and bear arms only applies to people in the National Guard. This is untrue. The Militia Act states militia forces are all able-bodied male citizens between 18 and 45 who are not members of the armed forces and are subject to a call to military service. This rules out the National Guard, because the members of this group are subject to the control of the U.S. Army, Navy or Coast Guard -- all of which are federal entities. Therefore, the militia of the United States would be everyone required to register for the draft.
Other people claim the Second Amendment cannot possibly apply to military-style assault weapons or handguns, which are made only to kill people. However, if any guns at all are protected by the Second Amendment, it would be those that would be most easily used in defense against an armed criminal or tyrannical government force. This means assault weapons and handguns are protected more by the amendment than a single-shot hunting rifle. These weapons are more practical for carrying out the intended purpose of the Second Amendment, which is to allow people to protect themselves against the government and criminals.
Wicked laws cannot be administered impartially -- and that is exactly what gun control is: wicked. When a politician or anybody else supports gun control, it is good cause to be afraid of them because they probably have something else up their sleeve. If politicians aren't doing things to law-abiding citizens they shouldn't be (in this case, taking away their rights), they have no reason in the world to be afraid of them.
Guns in the hands of citizens are assurance that the government will behave itself. If the right to bear arms is revoked, there is no telling what right or rights the government will revoke next. Eventually, we will have nothing left except the oppressive conditions of Soviet Russia, Red China and Nazi Germany.
They will start by going after the gun owners under the guise of protecting children or making our police more efficient. Then, one day, we will wake up and discover just how efficient our police have become. Nikita Khrushchev once said Americans themselves would one day hoist the red communist flag. Unless people who attempt to hand our freedom over to tyrants are stopped now, Khrushchev's prophecy may one day become a reality.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.