THE SEVEN VARIETIES OF
GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES
by
Gus Cotey, Jr. http://www.jpfo.org/jp_seven.htm
The right of decent private citizens to personally possess, transport, and responsibly use arms without government interference is the ultimate freedom
and the main pillar supporting all other liberties. Few cultures have allowed their general population access to weapons, the tools of power, to the same
degree as the United States. Instead, most societies have restricted the keeping and bearing of arms to a select few power brokers and their agents, often
resulting in oppression on a grand scale.
Despite a massive amount of historical evidence to the contrary, there is a substantial body of Americans, many occupying positions of influence, who
contend that the abrogation of the Second Amendment is the quickest path to domestic tranquility. Since this is as absurd as advocating blood-letting as a
cure for anemia, it would seem advisable to question the motives and mentalities of the gun control advocates themselves.
In my observation, weapon prohibitionists can be broken down into seven major categories. Even though their motives may vary they all pose a
mortalthreat to liberty.
ELITISTS
Many of those in favor of oppressive firearms legislation are are best classed as elitists. Elitists frequently identify with a peer group based on wealth,
power, rank, social status, occupation, education, ethnic group, etc. and perceive themselves and their peers as inherently superior to and more
responsible than the "common people", thus more deserving of certain rights. Since elitists practically consider those outside their class or caste as
members of another species, that most anti-elitist list of laws, the Bill of Rights is viewed by them as anathema. Naturally, theSecond Amendment is their
first target as it serves as the supporting structure for other nine amendments.
AUTHORITARIANS
Another type of individual who favors the restriction of private gun ownership is the authoritarian. Authoritarian personalities are characterized by their
belief in unquestioning obedience to an authority figure or group and a disdain for individual freedom of action, expression, and judgement. Those with
authoritarian personalities function well in symbiosis with elitists occupying positions of power. Because authoritarians repress their desires for autonomy
they harbor a deep resentment toward free and independent thinkers. Of course authoritarians do not want firearms in the hands of the general population
as this constitutes a major obstacle to fulfilling their pathological and obsessive desire to control people.
CRIMINALS
It goes without saying that career criminals would like to see the public disarmed for obvious reasons. A well-armed population makes crimes such as
assault, robbery, and burglary hazardous for the perpetrator and this is bad for "business." Also, it would seem that even non-violentor "white collar"
criminals live in constant fear of retribution from the public that they financially bleed and would therefore prefer that the public be disarmed. Evidence
supporting this hypothesis can be gathered by studying the Second Amendment voting records of those legislators who have been convicted of willful
misconduct.
THE FEARFUL
Cowards by definition are easily or excessively frightened by things and situations that are recognized as dangerous, difficult, or painful. It therefore stands
to reason that the mere thought of guns and the circumstances in which they are employed causes them abnormal amounts of stress. Rather than admit
their weakness to themselves or others, some fearful types jump on the anti-gun bandwagon and purport moral superiority to those "barbaric"enough to
employ lethal force against armed assailants by claiming various humanitarian and pragmatic motives for allowing evil to remain unchecked. In reality,
many of these individuals harbor an envy induced resentment toward anyone with the means, skill, and will to successfully stand up to criminal aggression.
The desire to assert oneself exists in nearly everyone, wimps included, so cowards seek out tame enemies against whom they can ply their pitiful brand of
machismo. Instead of the sociopaths who commit acts of wanton aggression with guns, guns themselves and responsible gun owners are the main
targets of their attacks. After all, real criminals are dangerous, so cowards prefer doing battle with inanimate objects that do not have a will of their own
and decent law-abiding people whose high level of integrity and self discipline prevent them from physically lashing out against mere verbal assailants,
however obnoxious they may be.
IDEOLOGICAL CHAMELEONS
Ideological chameleons follow the simple social strategy of avoiding controversy and confrontation by espousing the beliefs of the people in their
immediate vicinity or advocating the philosophy of those who scream the loudest in a debate. Quite a few supposedly pro Second Amendment public
officials have shown themselves to be ideological chameleons when they supported restrictions on the private possession of military style semiautomatic
rifles following recent atrocities in which such firearms were employed. Like their reptilian namesake, people who merely blend in with the ambient
philosophical foliage seem to have little insight into the moral and social ramifications of their actions. Political and/or economic gain along with avoidance
of confrontation are their only goals.
SECURITY MONOPOLISTS
Security monopolists are those members and representatives of public and private security providing concerns who want the means of self protection out
of private hands so that they can command high fees for protecting the citizenry against the rising tide of crime. These profiteers stand to loose a great
deal of capital if citizens can efficiently defend themselves.To the security monopolist, each criminal who enters and exits the revolving door of justice is a
renewable source of revenue providing jobs for police, social workers, victim counsellors, judges, prison employees, security guards, burglar alarm
installers, locksmiths, and others employed by the security monopolies or their satellite organizations. No wonder it is so common for an honest citizen to
be more ruthlessly hounded by the authorities when he shoots a criminal in self defense than a criminal who shoots honest citizens.
THE DYSFUNCTIONALLY UNWORLDLY
Just as a limb will weaken and atrophy if not used, so will aspects of the mind fail to develop if nothing in one's environment exists to challenge them.
People who have led excessively sheltered lives tend to have a difficult time understanding certain cause and effect relationships and an even harder time
appreciating just how cruel the world can be. These dysfunctionally unworldly types are truly perplexed at the very notion of firearms ownership with
regard to defense. To them, tyranny and crime are things that happen in other places far removed from their "civilized" universe. Also, they do not
understand the value of private property and why some people would fight for theirs since they never had to work hard to acquire what they possess. While
those suffering from dysfunctional unworldliness are most often people who have been born into considerable wealth, this condition is also common in
members of the clergy, academicians, practioners of the arts, and others who have spent much of their lives cloistered in a safe and pampering
environment. While many of these people may be quite talented and intelligent in some ways, their extreme naivety makes them easy prey for the tyrants
who use them for the financial support and favorable advertisement of their regimes. Needless to say, the anti-gun movement is well represented and
financed by the dysfunctionally unworldly.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and it behooves all vigilant lovers of liberty to know and be able to recognize the various types of arms
prohibitionists and understand their differing but equally dangerous motives. Acquiring knowledge of one's foes is the first step toward defeating them. We
must never forget that a threat to private firearms ownership is a threat to all freedoms.
The inalienable and fundamental right to keep and bear arms which is enumerated by (but actually predates) the Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is not about hunting, gun collecting, or target shooting. Its purpose is to insure that every responsible American personally possesses the
means to defend the Republic from all forms of tyranny, within and without. It is what permits the other nine Amendments in the Bill of Rights to be more
than mere hollow phrases on a piece of paper. Its free exercise is the antitheses of serfdom and the only meaningful form of holocaust insurance known to
man.
We must never insult and degrade the spirits of our Founding Fathers by permitting the Second Amendment, the pillar of freedom, to be destroyed by the
cold flame of legislative ink.
GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES
by
Gus Cotey, Jr. http://www.jpfo.org/jp_seven.htm
The right of decent private citizens to personally possess, transport, and responsibly use arms without government interference is the ultimate freedom
and the main pillar supporting all other liberties. Few cultures have allowed their general population access to weapons, the tools of power, to the same
degree as the United States. Instead, most societies have restricted the keeping and bearing of arms to a select few power brokers and their agents, often
resulting in oppression on a grand scale.
Despite a massive amount of historical evidence to the contrary, there is a substantial body of Americans, many occupying positions of influence, who
contend that the abrogation of the Second Amendment is the quickest path to domestic tranquility. Since this is as absurd as advocating blood-letting as a
cure for anemia, it would seem advisable to question the motives and mentalities of the gun control advocates themselves.
In my observation, weapon prohibitionists can be broken down into seven major categories. Even though their motives may vary they all pose a
mortalthreat to liberty.
ELITISTS
Many of those in favor of oppressive firearms legislation are are best classed as elitists. Elitists frequently identify with a peer group based on wealth,
power, rank, social status, occupation, education, ethnic group, etc. and perceive themselves and their peers as inherently superior to and more
responsible than the "common people", thus more deserving of certain rights. Since elitists practically consider those outside their class or caste as
members of another species, that most anti-elitist list of laws, the Bill of Rights is viewed by them as anathema. Naturally, theSecond Amendment is their
first target as it serves as the supporting structure for other nine amendments.
AUTHORITARIANS
Another type of individual who favors the restriction of private gun ownership is the authoritarian. Authoritarian personalities are characterized by their
belief in unquestioning obedience to an authority figure or group and a disdain for individual freedom of action, expression, and judgement. Those with
authoritarian personalities function well in symbiosis with elitists occupying positions of power. Because authoritarians repress their desires for autonomy
they harbor a deep resentment toward free and independent thinkers. Of course authoritarians do not want firearms in the hands of the general population
as this constitutes a major obstacle to fulfilling their pathological and obsessive desire to control people.
CRIMINALS
It goes without saying that career criminals would like to see the public disarmed for obvious reasons. A well-armed population makes crimes such as
assault, robbery, and burglary hazardous for the perpetrator and this is bad for "business." Also, it would seem that even non-violentor "white collar"
criminals live in constant fear of retribution from the public that they financially bleed and would therefore prefer that the public be disarmed. Evidence
supporting this hypothesis can be gathered by studying the Second Amendment voting records of those legislators who have been convicted of willful
misconduct.
THE FEARFUL
Cowards by definition are easily or excessively frightened by things and situations that are recognized as dangerous, difficult, or painful. It therefore stands
to reason that the mere thought of guns and the circumstances in which they are employed causes them abnormal amounts of stress. Rather than admit
their weakness to themselves or others, some fearful types jump on the anti-gun bandwagon and purport moral superiority to those "barbaric"enough to
employ lethal force against armed assailants by claiming various humanitarian and pragmatic motives for allowing evil to remain unchecked. In reality,
many of these individuals harbor an envy induced resentment toward anyone with the means, skill, and will to successfully stand up to criminal aggression.
The desire to assert oneself exists in nearly everyone, wimps included, so cowards seek out tame enemies against whom they can ply their pitiful brand of
machismo. Instead of the sociopaths who commit acts of wanton aggression with guns, guns themselves and responsible gun owners are the main
targets of their attacks. After all, real criminals are dangerous, so cowards prefer doing battle with inanimate objects that do not have a will of their own
and decent law-abiding people whose high level of integrity and self discipline prevent them from physically lashing out against mere verbal assailants,
however obnoxious they may be.
IDEOLOGICAL CHAMELEONS
Ideological chameleons follow the simple social strategy of avoiding controversy and confrontation by espousing the beliefs of the people in their
immediate vicinity or advocating the philosophy of those who scream the loudest in a debate. Quite a few supposedly pro Second Amendment public
officials have shown themselves to be ideological chameleons when they supported restrictions on the private possession of military style semiautomatic
rifles following recent atrocities in which such firearms were employed. Like their reptilian namesake, people who merely blend in with the ambient
philosophical foliage seem to have little insight into the moral and social ramifications of their actions. Political and/or economic gain along with avoidance
of confrontation are their only goals.
SECURITY MONOPOLISTS
Security monopolists are those members and representatives of public and private security providing concerns who want the means of self protection out
of private hands so that they can command high fees for protecting the citizenry against the rising tide of crime. These profiteers stand to loose a great
deal of capital if citizens can efficiently defend themselves.To the security monopolist, each criminal who enters and exits the revolving door of justice is a
renewable source of revenue providing jobs for police, social workers, victim counsellors, judges, prison employees, security guards, burglar alarm
installers, locksmiths, and others employed by the security monopolies or their satellite organizations. No wonder it is so common for an honest citizen to
be more ruthlessly hounded by the authorities when he shoots a criminal in self defense than a criminal who shoots honest citizens.
THE DYSFUNCTIONALLY UNWORLDLY
Just as a limb will weaken and atrophy if not used, so will aspects of the mind fail to develop if nothing in one's environment exists to challenge them.
People who have led excessively sheltered lives tend to have a difficult time understanding certain cause and effect relationships and an even harder time
appreciating just how cruel the world can be. These dysfunctionally unworldly types are truly perplexed at the very notion of firearms ownership with
regard to defense. To them, tyranny and crime are things that happen in other places far removed from their "civilized" universe. Also, they do not
understand the value of private property and why some people would fight for theirs since they never had to work hard to acquire what they possess. While
those suffering from dysfunctional unworldliness are most often people who have been born into considerable wealth, this condition is also common in
members of the clergy, academicians, practioners of the arts, and others who have spent much of their lives cloistered in a safe and pampering
environment. While many of these people may be quite talented and intelligent in some ways, their extreme naivety makes them easy prey for the tyrants
who use them for the financial support and favorable advertisement of their regimes. Needless to say, the anti-gun movement is well represented and
financed by the dysfunctionally unworldly.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and it behooves all vigilant lovers of liberty to know and be able to recognize the various types of arms
prohibitionists and understand their differing but equally dangerous motives. Acquiring knowledge of one's foes is the first step toward defeating them. We
must never forget that a threat to private firearms ownership is a threat to all freedoms.
The inalienable and fundamental right to keep and bear arms which is enumerated by (but actually predates) the Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is not about hunting, gun collecting, or target shooting. Its purpose is to insure that every responsible American personally possesses the
means to defend the Republic from all forms of tyranny, within and without. It is what permits the other nine Amendments in the Bill of Rights to be more
than mere hollow phrases on a piece of paper. Its free exercise is the antitheses of serfdom and the only meaningful form of holocaust insurance known to
man.
We must never insult and degrade the spirits of our Founding Fathers by permitting the Second Amendment, the pillar of freedom, to be destroyed by the
cold flame of legislative ink.
