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       Date: December 18, 2012, 12:21 am
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       [center]Tyranny and the Monopoly of Arms
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       The indifference which seems to pervade many libertarian circles
       regarding recent gun control laws�laws which are likely to forge
       the final links on the chains shackled to the average American
       citizen�is dangerously surprising. Apparently no one perceives
       the importance of what has occurred.
       Few realize the extreme shackles placed on actual or potential
       gun owners by the acts snowballing into the Gun Control Act of
       1968 (Public Law 90-618). To purchase a gun one must make a
       sworn statement of identity, which is sent to the local police
       chief�who decides whether the applicant may own a gun on the
       basis of whether he is a �law-abiding� citizen (i.e., if he
       obeys every order of the power elite). Firearm ownership is
       denied to convicted felons, dishonorably discharged veterans,
       aliens illegally in the U. S., and former citizens who have
       renounced their citizenship, viz., all potential opposers of the
       Establishment. Users of �dangerous drugs� like pot, anyone under
       21, as well as many others are also denied the right of
       ownership. Ownership of fully automatic, large caliber, or other
       firearms is absolutely prohibited to everyone but the State.
       Even those qualified to own an arm are hampered by total
       registration, a fact unknown to the general public. Besides
       direct registration of newly purchased guns, �backdoor
       registration� of all other guns occurs due to the requirement
       that merchants record the name, address, etc., of all buyers of
       ammunition. These records are subject to police and Federal
       snooping. All producers and retailers are also fettered by high
       license fees and other outrages.
       Some state and local governments have gone even more berserk.
       In many areas, anyone possessing a firearm is under constant
       harassment by the police. Complete registration, as well as the
       charging of atrociously high license fees, have left many with
       the necessity of surrendering their guns. The states of New
       York, New Jersey, and Illinois are particularly oppressive in
       this regard.
       On the local level, the situation in Miami reads like a chapter
       from 1984. To apply for gun ownership, one must submit to the
       police extensive personal information. While at this point they
       have not gone quite as far as Rhodesia, where 32 blacks were
       recently sentenced to death for the �crime� of possessing
       firearms, anyone who is caught carrying a �dangerous weapon�
       without police approval gets a minimum of 6 months or $1,000 in
       fines. To help enforce these repressions, a $100 bounty is paid
       to anyone who is willing to squeal on his neighbor for firearms
       violations. Other cities are on the same road.
       The ultimate goal of the power structure is the total abolition
       of private (non-ruling class) gun ownership. In mid-January 1969
       the Illinois Academy of Criminology spoke favorably of this
       goal, and hundreds of other groups and individuals openly admit
       similar ambitions. The minimum they will settle for is complete
       police control of all firearms as is the case in Soviet Russia.
       The masses are taught to believe the lie that such laws will
       reduce crime. Nothing could be further from the truth, because
       gun ownership by the general population simply does not cause
       crime. In 1966, twice as many guns per home were owned in Canada
       as compared with the U. S., yet the gun homicide rate of the
       former was only one-fifth that of the latter (American Rifleman,
       Aug., 1968, p. 46). And surely, if one wants to kill another,
       the absence of a gun will act as no safeguard; in Japan, where
       civilian guns are outlawed, the murder rate without guns is
       almost twice as high as the U. S. rate without guns (American
       Rifleman, Nov., 1968, p. 17).
       On the contrary, gun ownership by the immense majority serves to
       prevent crime. Criminals have second thoughts regarding killing
       and plundering peaceful individuals who may be armed. But they
       have no hesitations when they are confident that their victims
       are helpless. Since criminals will always have guns (no
       criminals would register their guns, and besides, zip guns are
       easy to make), it is necessary that potential victims be able to
       arm themselves to prevent crime. Each month the American
       Rifleman, under the column �The Armed Citizen�, cites numerous
       instances in which private guns have prevented crimes.
       Thus the avowed goal of State gun control is false. What, then,
       is the real reason why the power elite wants to leave the people
       defenseless?
       It has already been observed that guns are necessary for
       peaceful individuals to protect themselves from criminals. But
       who has been the most ferocious criminal in history? It is
       obvious: the State!
       The U. S. Government, though they trust themselves with the
       largest arsenal the world has ever known, including everything
       from napalm and M-16�s to tanks and H-bombs, will not trust its
       thralls with .22-cal. revolvers. Why does this trust not exist?
       The people want to be free, a great number of blacks as well as
       many non-ruling class whites desire self-determination, and the
       Establishment must frustrate these movements. Laissez-faire gun
       ownership is feared for the same reason that Hitler would have
       been afraid of a gun-owning Jewish population or Stalin a bunch
       of pistol-packing Ukrainians. Well does the State know Mao�s
       dictum: political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.� The
       rulers realize that the only way to retain their control over
       the people is to monopolize the firearms. The powers-that-be
       perceive that the people can never exercise their right to be
       free if they have no might to be free. Thus it is in part by gun
       control that Big Brother perpetuates his hegemony.
       Besides those already mentioned, one of the most important
       steps taken by the U. S. Leviathan has been to forbid the
       importation into the U. S. of surplus military rifles. American
       gun manufacturers, including Winchester-Western, Remington, and
       Savage gave tremendous support to the passage of this act to
       prevent competition from old and low-priced but reliable foreign
       arms. The State�s motive is evident too: these inexpensive guns
       were within the buying power of everyone, and outlawing further
       importation prevents the many who cannot afford expensive
       American guns from acquiring a means of self-defense.
       Understanding the political (or rather, the anti-political)
       utility of guns for the people, it is deplorable that the police
       can know who owns which firearms. But unless present trends are
       reversed, these quasi-private guns will not be around to worry
       about�they will be confiscated, leaving the people with no
       protection whatever.
       There are few methods available to prevent this. The National
       Rifle Association has been a somewhat effective lobbyist in
       Congress to preserve the Second Amendment freedom to keep and
       bear arms, but it is likely that such efforts will only delay
       confiscation. The best mode available seems to be that employed
       by the people of Chicago last fall: only one-third of the city�s
       1,200,000 firearms were registered in accordance with the
       ordinance requiring total registration, and of the two million
       gun owners in Illinois, less than one-fourth obtained the
       required license (American Rifleman, Dec, 1968, p. 6). Only mass
       civil disobedience can prevent Big Brother from totally
       disarming his serfs.
       Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow at the Independent
       Institute, and has taught legal and political philosophy at
       George Mason University, Howard University, and Tuskegee
       Institute. He received his J.D. from the Georgetown University
       Law Center and Ph.D. in social philosophy from Florida State
       University.
       The winner of three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Printz
       v. United States, United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Company,
       and Castillo v. United States), he has testified before the
       Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary
       Committee, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Subcommittee
       on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee, Senate Governmental
       Affairs Committee, and House Committee on the District of
       Columbia.
       A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author
       of the books, That Every Man Be Armed: Evolution of a
       Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms; Firearms Law
       Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice; Freedmen, the
       Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876  ;
       State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees;
       and Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II.
       Dr. Halbrook�s scholarly articles have appeared in such journals
       as the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law,
       Drug Law Report , George Mason University Law Review, Journal of
       Air Law and Commerce, Journal of Law and Policy, Law &
       Contemporary Problems, National Law Journal, Northern Kentucky
       Law Review, St. John�s Journal of Legal Commentary; Seton Hall
       Constitutional Law Journal, Tennessee Law Review,University of
       Dayton Law Review, Valparaiso University Law Review, Vermont Law
       Review, and William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. His popular
       articles have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street
       Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA
       Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous
       national TV/radio programs such as �The Phil Donahue Show� and
       programs on Court TV, Voice of America, CNN, C-SPAN.
       See Stephen P. Halbrook's article archives
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