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FREEDOM Watch
A look at what’s new on “Project FREEDOM.”
( http://www.house.gov/paul/ )
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Issued: Friday, April 21, 2000
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Constitutional Rights Threatened
Firearms Under Increasing Attack
The constitutional rights of all Americans continue to be
threatened. Unfortunately, this election year has shades of past years when
the President and the anti-gun lobby were able to neutralize many key gun
rights advocates and back-down the congressional leadership.
I agree with our founding fathers and others who assert that the
right to keep and bear arms is a key cornerstone right that acts as an
insurance policy for all other liberties. The problem is that this right is
being eroded at the edges, and attempts to compromise have left us in a
position where the basic principle has been nearly erased.
The arguments of those who oppose gun rights make no sense at all.
New gun laws have gone on the book just about every decade over the last
century, and at the same time gun related crime incidents have increased. In
fact, in places where gun laws are most strict, gun crime and violence is
most rampant…..

…. SNIP ….
Read the rest of this column at

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst042400.htm