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In article <369a70fe.0@news.mho.net>, Melissa <Melissa9Z@Zmho.net> wrote:
>Let's face it, if someone decides to be a danger to themselves, no law is 
>gonna make any difference, least of all concealed carry.

That's not true.  Canada's increasingly stringent restrictions on guns
have reduced suicides by firearms.  Now, they use other mechanisms 
instead which are less likely to stain the carpets and rack up 
landlord cleaning bills.

>Let's get a few hundred Pro-Second Amendment folks together and go invade 
>Dottie Wham's office and demand that she stay out of the way! Sort of a 60's 
>style demonstration. :) I love it!

And what difference would it make?  Politicians have been warned that
anti-gun legislation will get them and their party booted out of 
office.  In an amazing display of solidarity, gun owners carried 
through on those promises and gave the Republicans control of 
US House and Senate.  It didn't make a difference to those that 
remained.

>>  Really, Melissa, you need to pull your nose out of that Soldier of
>>Fortune magazine and read http://civilliberty.miningco.com/ once in
>>a while. Not all the news is bad.
>
>But come on. I think if the proof is there, that all our gun control and 
>banning laws are patterned after Adolf's, don't you think this should be 
>looked into and that they should be repealed?

Contrary to popular belief, Hitler actually _relaxed_ the gun control laws 
instated by the Weimar republic.  Five years after his election in 1933, he 
reformed German gun laws, lowering the minimum age for legal ownership from 
20 to 18 years, dropped restrictions on the ammount of ammunition and number 
of guns that one person could own, and adding no new restrictions.

Until we occupied Germany and forced them to surrender their guns,
protestant Germans enjoyed guns rights comparable to those we do now.

There are some interesting connections between Senator Thomas Dodd who served 
at the Nuremburg trials, his staff translating German firearms law as it 
existed in Nazi germany, and remarkably similar passages showing up 
in GCA 1968.  As things are now, alluding to this trivia merely re-inforces 
the brain washed masses who believe that gun owners are nuts "They equate 
the murder of 12,000,000 people with firearms laws, and must be crazy"

>An email friend was telling me that in UK, they need to get permits to 
>exercise free speech. Are we headed for that too? 

Sounds good to me.  I'd also like to see the governments integrate
religion (the first ammendment says that Congress shall make no law 
respecting an establishment of religion.  It says nothing about state
governments, or using religion as a basis for laws), and Tobacco and 
alcohol on the controlled substances lists (with civil seizure laws 
applied with the same vigor they are for other drugs).  As it stands now, 
we have too many single-issue voters who believe that either the Democrats 
(abortion rights, drug decriminalization) or Republicans (gun rights) are 
less likely to affect them personally.  With enough restrictions coming 
from both sides, people will wake up to reality.

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