- On Gun Control
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- Gun-control laws are an effort by elitists to control
the people, whom they naturally fear.
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- This is borne out not only by the history of gun-control
laws but by current practices. Efforts to ban the Saturday Night Specials
are directed at poor people who cannot afford expensive guns. The claim
that they are most often used in crime is a cover-up.
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- "Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime and Violence in America,"
one of the most extensive federally funded studies of the subject in recent
years, found no conclusive evidence at all that criminals are any more
prone to use cheap guns than expensive guns.
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- Modern gun-control laws cropped up in the post-Civil
War South where the sale of cheap guns was prohibited -- obviously to keep
them out of the hands of poor blacks and whites.
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- Laws that require permits to carry or to own can be
used for elitist purposes. A study in New York City found that most gun
permits are issued to the rich elite, such as the publisher of The New
York Times, whose paper crusades for even more gun-control laws, and the
husband of pop psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who ridicules gun owners
as people with feelings of sexual inadequacy. Of course, the common people
who are the prey of criminals can't get them.
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- It was a great and significant thing when the framers
of the Bill of Rights included the Second Amendment to guarantee that private
American citizens could own and bear arms. Modern elitists who don't exactly
have a great reputation for intellectual or moral honesty claim the founders
only meant a National Guard. Of course, at the time there was no National
Guard, only militias of which every able-bodied man was automatically a
member. . . .
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- We have no rights that cannot be enforced. With one shot,
the killer takes away your right to life; in one act, the burglar or robber
takes away your right to property; and in one move, the rapist takes away
the right to privacy in the most profound sense.
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- The Constitution intended that every American have rights
and the arms to protect those rights. Elitists apparently believe that
the Constitution is a means-tested document intended only for the affluent.
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- On Morality
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- Years ago I had a conversation with a brilliant man who
once had headed the Strategic Air Command (those are the folks who actually
would fight a nuclear war).
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- I asked him what he thought about the future of the country,
and the general said bluntly, "I wouldn't give you two cents for it."
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- He was prophetic. I wouldn't give you two cents for the
future of any country that has turned morality upside down so that legitimate
businesses now feel called upon to punish the Boy Scouts for the Scouts'
high moral standards. I'm sorry to say that my own newspaper is among them.
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- The problem with adopting the position, which states
that the only sin is disagreeing with the proposition that there is no
sin, is that it leaches into every aspect of a nation's existence.
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- Everything people do or don't do, say or don't say, is
a result of their moral code. Whether a worker is conscientious or sloppy
is a moral decision on the part of the worker. Whether a soldier obeys
his oath is a moral decision. Whether people take care of their families
or abuse them is a moral decision.
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- In America's flight from morality, people have turned
to a self-appointed secular priesthood of social workers, psychologists
and propagandists for special-interest groups to tell them what is right
or wrong. The common theme of the secular priesthood is that individuals
aren't responsible for their actions.
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