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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
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August 15, 2001

ALERT: A BLUEPRINT FOR ENDING GUN CONTROL

[Copyright 2001 by JPFO. Permission to reproduce in its entire
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        A BLUEPRINT FOR ENDING GUN CONTROL

    Copyright 2001

        By L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman


     WARNING! If you're the kind of self-defense advocate who
actually believes in doing something, it's likely that you'll
find this article interesting and useful. If, however, you'd
rather complain than act, if you believe "we can live with"
whatever unconstitutional measure has just been or is about to
be passed, or that perhaps we'd better write the next legislation
ourselves, before it's written for us -- in short, if you feel
more comfortable on your knees than on your feet, the authors
strenuously suggest that you skip this article, as they don't
wish to be responsible for raising your blood pressure and
possibly killing you.

STEP ONE: REMEMBER HISTORY

     By some estimates "gun control" -- better referred to as
_victim disarmament_ -- began in 1968, when retail gun sales
were first registered under federal law, and mail order sales
sharply regulated. Others say it was in the 30s, when the
government, in violation of the Second Amendment, began telling
Americans what kind of guns they could and couldn't have. Others
point to New York's 1911 Sullivan Act, which outlawed possession
of guns in that city, meaning that self-defense was effectively
outlawed, too.

     But the phenomenon is older than that. Some say victim
disarmament began in the 19th century, when Wyatt Earp and his
brothers tried to force a rival gang to disarm themselves. Under
similar circumstances, the Fourteenth Amendment had to be passed,
following the War between the States, because some jurisdictions
tried to prevent black people from exercising the individual
right to own and carry weapons.

     That right -- and attempts by those in power to suppress
it -- are central to American history. Our nation was born as
a result of an 18th century victim disarmament scheme, when
minions of King George III, meaning to steal rifles and
ammunition from their American cousins, were violently rebuffed
at Lexington and Concord.

     Recent clashes with those in power concerned weapons, as
well. Ruby Ridge was about a shotgun barrel allegedly a quarter
of an inch too short. The Waco Massacre occurred when members
of a church were accused of having too many, or the wrong kind
of, guns. It turned out, after they were all dead or in prison,
that they owned fewer guns, per capita, than the average Texas
family.

     Naturally, in this struggle, those on the pro-gun side have
spoken out. Groups have formed to see the Second Amendment
properly enforced. An early one was made up of former Union
officers trying to make sure the nation produced enough marksmen
to defend it. They were also instrumental in passing the
Fourteenth Amendment.

     Others have come and gone, responding to increasing
challenges to a right that was never supposed to have been
questioned. These groups have fought proposed new laws in
congress, the statehouse, and city hall. They've staged one
holding action after another, sometimes winning, sometimes
losing, always demanding that their members give more money
to counter the next threat. Yet in no case has any significant
restriction on the right to own and carry weapons ever been
repealed, overturned, nullified, or otherwise disposed of.

     The last three decades of legal and historical scholarship
are solidly on the side of an unviolable individual right to
own and carry weapons. Moreover, weapons in the hands of
individuals drastically reduce crime -- and increasingly,
ordinary people know it. And yet, although millions -- possibly
billions -- of dollars have been donated throughout a culture-war
lasting almost a century, and countless man-hours expended
lobbying, electioneering, and haranguing from soapboxes,
newspapers, TV, and radio, there's no record of any of these
supposedly pro-gun groups even _trying_ to roll those 25,000
laws back.

     Read the Second Amendment for yourself. Learn what the
Founders wrote about it, or just apply common sense: what
would a group of rebels (who'd just defeated the most powerful
and ruthless empire in the world) have wanted the Second
Amendment to mean? Did they want to make sure the new
government had guns (which victim disarmers have ludicrously
suggested) or did they want to make sure the government would
never have an unstoppable power to oppress its people the way
the King tried to do?

     Understanding the Founders' inentions, we can safely say
that not one of America's gun laws is constitutional. In their
view, and that of Supreme Court justices and other judges from
the 18th century to the 21st, each of them is null and void.

     Legal and historical scholarship, and the practical benefits
of an armed citizenry, demonstrate that victim disarmament isn't
just a bad idea, it's the worst possible idea for a free society.
The concept is defeated and discredited. Its proponents have
nothing left but lies and brute force. Still, governments gone
bad (as ours did at least half a century ago) desperately need
weapons registration -- and the confiscation that invariably
follows -- if they are to go about their business of "reducing
us under absolute despotism".

STEP TWO: ADJUST YOUR ATTITUDE

     Our challenge to other pro-gun groups is this: abandon a
strategy doomed to defeat; acknowledge that not one of the
25,000 gun laws in America is legal under the Second Amendment;
embrace the goal that should have been adopted in the first
place: work toward ending victim disarmament completely and
forever.

     Anyone who doubts the ultimate aim of "background checks",
of gun, and gun-owner registration in any form, should ask
unfortunate gun owners in California, Illinois, and, recently,
New Jersey, where police have begun going door-to-door (as the
Nazis did in Germany) with registration lists, demanding that
guns be turned over to them. In New Jersey, if you fail to
comply, your home and your business will be seized, without
any "due process of law". The FBI illegally retains the results
of "Brady" background checks -- which they were expressly
forbidden to do under the law as written -- and America's
corrupt police state courts have backed them up. The Bureau
of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has been computerizing the
records (Form 4473s) of gun dealers who've gone out of business
for years. Why should they do that, unless they plan to turn
the whole country into New Jersey and start going door-to-door?

     It isn't enough just to militarize the police until -- in
weapons, tactics, and objectives -- they can't be told from the
black-clad stormtroopers mindlessly serving state terrorism in
today's Europe. Their innocent victims of the productive class
must be stripped of all defenses in advance, helpless to resist
no matter how evil or illegal the aims of the state, forced to
grovel face-down in the dirt, cursed, bludgeoned, spat upon,
and kicked at the whim of the police and their masters. And if
they raise a hand, they're shot, dozens of times, by ski-masked
cowards wielding guns forbidden to ordinary people, in violation
of the highest law of the land, the Bill of Rights.

STEP THREE: LEARN THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

     This is what America has come to. The question is what will
we do about it? And before we answer, there's even worse news.
An historic correlation exists between victim disarmament on the
one hand, and racism and social prejudice on the other. Most of
America's 25,000 gun laws were originally passed to disarm --
and disenfranchise -- some economic, social, or ethnic class
that those in power were afraid of.

     New York's 1911 Sullivan Act was written to take the means
of self-defense from the hands of Italians and Jews. (Earlier
laws tended to disarm the Irish.) The Federal Firearms Acts of
1934 and 1937 relied on fear of Italian gangsters (although many
famous criminals of the time had names like Barker, Dillinger,
Lansky, Schultz, Floyd, Parker, and Barrow). When the 1968 Gun
Control Act became law, America's inner cities were in flames,
and while white politicians publicly stroked leaders like Martin
Luther King, Jr., they did their best to disarm his people.

     Recent laws against semiautomatic weapons that strike
ignorant politicians as "ugly", and laws against magazines
deemed, with equal ignorance, "too large", started in California,
where the perceived problem was Asian and Hispanic street gangs.
The infamous Brady law never stood a chance until male
politicians, many of them Republicans -- and left-wing females
willing to betray the feminist cause, along with the rights and
safety of their own sex -- suddenly noticed that women owned a
majority of the handguns in America, and in certain
jurisdictions -- Orlando, Florida and Toledo, Ohio, among
them -- had put a virtual stop to the crime of rape.

     Rooted in race prejudice and class hatred though it may be,
victim disarmament has an uglier face. Documents exist proving
that Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut had the Gun Control Act
of 1968 copied from the gun laws of Nazi Germany -- ominous in
light of the fact that, historically, genocide is always
preceded by sweeping gun laws and weapons confiscation.

STEP FOUR: AVOID PITFALLS

     A regrettable fact of human nature is that, sooner or later,
any group created for a specific purpose begins acting like an
independent organism, pursuing its own interests at the expense
of the purpose for which it was created. A tragic example is
the United States itself, established to enshrine individual
liberty, and gradually perverted, over 200 years, into protecting
"national security" and "overriding interests of the state" at
the expense of everything else.

     Nowhere is this more evident than with groups that claim to
defend the Second Amendment (those that weren't created simply
to provide their officers with comfortable salaries). Obsessed
with wheeling and dealing, using other people's rights as
bargaining chips, feeling important at Beltway cocktail parties,
and making trade-offs that somehow always turn out to be damaging
to the individual right to own and carry weapons, they have
forgotten what they were all about.

     Tangled in philosophical contradictions, unwilling even to
attempt getting rid of existing laws, the leaders of such groups
have become more interested in suppressing competition and
consolidating power, than in educating members who would throw
them out if they knew the truth. Clubbed into submission by
viciously slanted coverage by media slavishly devoted to
socialism, they eventually give in to compromise and defeatism,
having also forgotten Sun Tzu's first principle, that all that's
needed to defeat an enemy is to convince him -- before the
battle begins -- that he's already lost.

     Why haven't these groups warned their members that they have
no legal right to police protection? Or reminded them why we
fought a Revolution? Or shown them how blind faith in government
is a fatal mistake; that this government, no longer any different
from the king the Founders rejected in the 18th century, is
capable of doing extremely nasty things -- things like the Sand
Creek and Wounded Knee massacres, the violent mistreatment of
the World War I Bonus Marchers, the wrongful imprisonment of
Japanese-Americans, the genocidal Operation Keelhaul, Kent State,
the MOVE bombing, Ruby Ridge, and what happened at Waco. Why do
they let events like Oklahoma City and Columbine High become
leverage for more victim disarmament? Why don't they encourage
their members to do something really dangerous -- like think for
themselves? Why, instead, do we always get more treacherous
backroom wheeling and dealing -- such as their secret approval
and eventual acceptance of unconstitutional travesties like the
Gun Control Act of 1968 or the current oppressive National
"Instant" Check System?

STEP FIVE: ELIMINATE SELF-DEFEAT

     It's important to know your enemy, and even more important
to know yourself, your limitations and strengths. Bound only by
the laws of physics, people can do almost anything they want.
They can fly like a bird, break the sound barrier, even go to
the Moon. But people didn't get to the Moon by holding their
arms over their heads and fending it off. Certain objectives
simply can't be achieved defensively. Second Amendment advocates
have always made this error, and it will finish them off unless
they change.

     A few years ago, one of the authors was a regular guest on
a radio talk show. Callers, even the host himself, were fond of
complaining about the horrible things government had done to
them in the past, the horrible things government was doing to
them now, and the horrible things government was about to do to
them in the future. If the guest offered them good news, or
pointed them toward something they could do to change their
condition, they bitterly resented it.

     Complaining is not the same as acting. It's not even an
acceptable substitute -- although it's easier and less risky
than actually trying to do something. If you paralyze yourself
with depressing forecasts of doom, then _of course_ you'll lose.
And you'll deserve to. If you're serious about putting an end to
  victim disarmament, understand that it's only one symptom of a
cancer called socialism that afflicts our civilization -- and
you can't fight cancer by complaining about it or limiting your
treatment to its symptoms.

     Shuck your victim identity today.

STEP SIX: KNOW THE REAL ENEMY

     Understand, too, that there's no such thing as a "liberal".
It's a word socialists use to evade being properly identified.
And no wonder: socialism is nothing more than a cheap attempt,
philosophically and politically, to justify rape, robbery, and
murder on a scale Attila the Hun never dreamed of.

     In a way, that's good. To those who don't think much about
it, taking guns away from everyone but the army and police may
sound like a fine idea. The Germans who elected Hitler thought
it was. But it's harder for the other side, the socialist side,
to make rape, robbery and murder attractive to the average
individual.

     Since the Soviet collapse, the new world center for
socialism is the United Nations, no less an enemy of everything
worthwhile in the western world than Hitler and Stalin were.
The UN admits openly that it wants to obliterate the American
Constitution -- especially the Bill of Rights, with emphasis
on the Second Amendment. What it wants to substitute for it is
a dictatorial world government.

     Sovereign nations are like watertight compartments in a
ship. When one becomes "flooded" by dictatorship, victim
disarmament, and the mass killings that inevitably follow,
others remain free, provided their geographical and psychological
"bulkheads" remain sound. They act as a refuge for those who
escape the "flooded" compartments. Socialists know this, of
course. That's why they strive to establish a world government
nobody can escape from.

     Why do we tolerate the presence of this declared enemy of
liberty on American soil? Without a doubt, that will become
one of the most important political questions of the 21st
century.

     Defenders of the Bill or Rights have always been too polite.
It's one reason we're in this mess. Victim disarmament causes
thousands of injuries and deaths a year, many times the number
of injuries and deaths claimed for the weapons themselves.
Victim disarmers know this, and therefore must be evil, stupid,
insane, or unbelievably mentally lazy to go on demanding it.

     Privately-owned guns are used to take 30,000 lives a year
(some in perfectly justified acts of self-defense, three quarters
of them suicides). Guns are used to save more than 2,500,000
people from injury or death every year. Socialist victim
disarmers would sacrifice the 2,500,000 in a futile effort to
save the 30,000. That's crazy -- and there are mental health
experts who agree. Victim disarmers are people, largely, who
project their own mental and emotional shortcomings onto others.
They would never trust themselves with a gun, but they can't
admit that, so they convert their mistrust of themselves into
mistrust of others.

     Rosie O'Donnel, one of the country's foremost advocates of
victim disarmament -- who has demanded that anyone who owns a
gun should be locked up, yet travels with heavily-armed
bodyguards -- recently admitted that she's fought severe
depression for decades, and is medicated for it. Yet she
believes that everybody else ought to be forced to accept
her dictatorial and demented judgement.

     What about those who parrot Rosie's sentiments? Do they also
have mental problems? Should people who have mental problems be
making public policy that negatively impacts your ability to
save your life or the lives of your loved ones?

     Whatever they are, victim disarmers are not concerned
neighborhood moms with whom you've amiably agreed to disagree.
They're 50-year-old white males, mostly, more than a third of
whom own guns themselves. They're enemies of freedom who don't
mind if you're beaten up, jailed, and murdered "under color of
law" for exercising your rights. Their government representatives
are criminals who took a solemn oath to uphold the Constitution,
including the Second Amendment, but violate it every day, every
hour they scheme to assault the Bill of Rights. They're the
badguys, lying, thieving parasites who'd rather see a woman
raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see
her with a gun in her hand. They can't be argued with or made to
see the truth. They can't be reasoned out of beliefs they were
never reasoned _into_. They can only be defeated.

     This is not the polite democratic debate socialists would
have us believe it is. We're the goodguys, legitimate heirs of
the Founding Fathers. If we win, for the most part nothing will
change. You'll keep your guns. All government records of them
will be destroyed. It'll be easier to buy more if you want, in
the kind of anonymity the Founders regarded as essential (freedom
isn't secure if government knows who has all the guns) for the
Second Amendment to work.

     If the socialists win, thousands of innocents will be
assaulted, imprisoned, and killed -- along with thousands of
their would-be oppressors -- as government attempts to enforce
unconstitutional laws. Thousands more will die because they no
longer have the means to defend themselves against ordinary
criminals.

STEP SEVEN: DEVELOP GRIM DETERMINATION

     To end the kind of victim disarmament that annoys you most,
you must end all victim disarmament. To end all victim
disarmament, you must end all violations of the Bill of Rights,
even those you may quietly approve of. To end all violations of
the Bill of Rights, you must end all forms of socialism.
Socialists got us where they want us by offering us "candy" --
social security, national health insurance, federal highways,
national parks, public shooting ranges. As painful as it may be,
it's time for America to go on a diet.

     Get your family and friends -- and yourself -- out of
denial regarding their fear of government. Although at some
level they know better -- everybody saw what happened at
Waco -- they want government to be their friend, and despite
the evidence, they've tried to convince themselves it is. The
Founding Fathers knew better than that; they'd be horrified
today.

     Next time you start to write your congressman, remember:
constant petitioning of politicians gives them more power. Don't
beg -- throw away those Monica Lewinski knee pads -- don't be
polite. If you must write, tell them that if they won't enforce
the Bill of Rights, you'll do your best to see that their next
job will be standing on a corner with a tin cup, selling pencils.
(The tactic that works best with bureaucrats is to stand on their
toes, grab them by the lapels, and scream up their nostrils.)
Remind these government goblins of the limits on their power.
Tell them your new "Zero Tolerance" is for police states and
victim disarmament, and that they'd better get with the program,
or go back to chasing ambulances, selling used cars, and
flipping burgers.

     If you can't do that, if you can't overcome the urge to
grovel, you're a part of the problem.

     One of the authors is Jewish. He says it's time for Americans
of all faiths and ethnicities to stand up to Jewish, black, and
other minority politicians who've made a career blowing their
noses on the Bill of Rights. Most Americans have been sensitive
to and considerate of them because of unspeakable crimes
committed against their people in the past. Now it's time to
tell them that if they can't appreciate what America's done for
them, after long, dark centuries of oppression and slaughter, if
they really hate freedom so much, they should pack their bags and
leave.

STEP EIGHT: MEMORIZE THESE FIVE POINTS

     1. A holding action, no matter how prolonged, is doomed to
defeat. You must decide to take the offensive and eliminate
victim disarmament altogether and forever.

     2. You can't defend one right by sacrificing another. Other
people are going to do things with their lives you don't approve
of, just as they're unlikely to approve of everything you do.
Making criminals of them gives socialists a precedent for making
a criminal of you.

     3. You can't stay free -- or regain your freedom -- by
exalting your oppressors, no matter how flashy their cars and
uniforms may be.

     4. You can't defend without attacking. Let the world know
who the real enemies of liberty are, and that there's no such
thing as a liberal.

     5. And you must decide upon another kind of "Zero Tolerance" --
for compromise.

     Do you disagree? Then let's see _your_ blueprint.

STEP NINE: MAKE A NEW BEGINNING

     It's impossible to change a nation's politics before you
change its culture. Do that, and the politics will follow.
America will enforce the Bill of Rights when it has a Bill of
rights culture.

     The best way to start is to celebrate December 15th in your
family and community as Bill of Rights Day, making it fully
equivalent with Independence Day. Take charge of the celebration
yourself. Keep it out of the hands of politicians and the media.
Next time some socialist complains that "only America allows
people to own guns", tell him that's because only America has
a Bill of Rights to keep us from being slaves. The Bill of
Rights is what makes America different from other countries,
it's the one thing that keeps America from becoming the world's
largest banana republic.

STEP TEN: ENVISION THE FUTURE YOU WANT

     Socialists have made us waste our lives, spend decades
defending rights that were supposedly guaranteed. Consciously
or unconsciously, everyone carries a picture of the future in
his head. Until now, it's been the picture socialists want us
to carry, of a gradual, inevitable loss of our rights. If you
feel strangely disturbed or embarrassed at the notion of ending
victim disarmament, that's what they did to you and it's time
to get it fixed.

     Begin by carrying a new picture of the future in your head,
one of a nation that celebrates and enforces the Bill of Rights,
where you can afford to enjoy your life instead of using it up
fighting tyranny.

     Striking _through_ your opponent is a vital part of the
martial arts. _Thinking_ through to the future, seeing beyond
the victory of freedom, is vital to that struggle, as well.



The novel _HOPE_, by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, paints a
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