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To be left alone……..
Louis D. Brandeis – U.S. Supreme Court Justice “The right to be left alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people.” – Olmstead v. U.S. (1928).
The Gore Gun Agenda
The Gore Gun Agenda Source: National Review Published: 5/05/00 Author: Dave Kopel, Independence Institute Al’s ultimate objective would be to abolish all firearms privacy. By Dave Kopel, Independence Institute What’s in the future for the anti-gun agenda, should Al Gore be elected President? Just drop by the website for Handgun Control, Inc., to find out. [...]
Trigger locks…
Jimmy “The Bull” Gravano once laughed at the idea of gun control. He said something to the effect that you can obey the law and be a victim…he’ll break the law and be a victimizer. “You draw your gun with a trigger lock and I’ll draw mine without…we’ll see who wins” (or something like that)
Character doesn’t matter?
In Washington, in the highest office in the land character doesn’t matter. It seems that it doesn’t matter in the gun control question either. I’ve asked repeatedly what gun haters hope to gain by passing new laws (laws that they know won’t control crime)and I haven’t been answered yet. They’d rather claim something is “tastless” [...]
The Only Question About Registration
THE ONLY QUESTION ABOUT GUN REGISTRATION by Alan Korwin Dear Editor, Only one thing is overlooked in the common sense proposals to register guns, so here it is. How exactly would writing down my name, or your name, help arrest criminals or make you safer? Although at first blush, gun listing has a sort of [...]
Rape:
Rape is an ugly, degrading, and violent crime. Rapists are usually much bigger and stronger than their female victims, but they’re no match for handguns. Handgun Control Incorporated, the Violence Policy Center, and the Bell Campaign will all tell you, however, that handguns are bad. So we’ve come up with this handgun replacement: Much, much [...]
Is your Doctor a spy?
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America’s Aggressive Civil Rights Organization Date: May 3, 2000 Is Your Doctor A Spy? Anti-self defense lobbyists have enlisted family-practice physicians and pediatricians into collecting firearms ownership data. Doctors have been receiving literature urging them to ask their patients a lot of detailed questions about firearms [...]
National Review Online-5/02/00 6:30 p.m. Fatherlessness: The Root Cause The link between crime and fatherlessness is astonishing. By Dave Kopel, Independence Institute Roger Clegg’s article detailing the continuing rise in illegitimacy rates is terrible news not just for the children themselves, but for every potential crime victim in America. For all the talk about the [...]
Second Amendment Project Newsletter, May 2, 2000
========================================================= Second Amendment Project Newsletter, May 2, 2000. The Second Amendment Project is based at the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank in Golden, Colorado. http://i2i.org ========================================================= Table of Contents for this issue 1. New on the web. 2. Updates on anti-gun lawsuits. 3. Lorne Gunter compares the Canadian reaction to gun misuse and car [...]
