"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
-- Thomas Jefferson
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves . . . and include all men capable of bearing arms . . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike . . . how to use them.” -- Richard Henry Lee, one of the first to push for action against Britain and signer of The Declaration of Independence
THE BEST PROTECTION AGAINST TYRANNY IS
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
By Charlie Reese
The Orlando Sentinel
October 12, 1993
If you think I’m passionate in my opposition to gun control, meet Aaron Zelman, executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
Zelman found the similarities between the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Nazi Weapons Law of March 1938. If you would like to read his detailed analysis as well as other interesting aspects of gun control and the Holocaust, you can order his book for $22.90 from JPFO Inc, 2872 S. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53207.
Zelman also offers a bumper sticker with a picture of Adolf Hitler, his right hand raised in the Nazi salute. The caption reads, “Those in favor of gun control, raise your hand."
To show you how tough he argues the case for the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, Zelman runs one ad that has pictures of Sarah Brady, leader of Handgun Control Inc., and Hitler. The big headline is “What Do These People Have In Common?” and here is the answer he gives:
1. The big lie (endless repetition of old lies equals new truth).
2. Salami tactics (impose evil policies a step at a time).
3. Exploit events (Jim Brady’s victimization by a psycho).
4. Do-gooder image (we want a kinder, gentler world).
5. Their victims helped them (some are easily duped).
6. Brutality is OK (Daryl Gates is a Brady soul-mate).
That's a good analysis. Zelman faults many Jewish organizations that support gun control for either having the passive attitude of the ghetto Jew or, in some cases, for promoting victimization as a means of promoting Jewish unity.
He argues eloquently – and truthfully – that the greatest killer of Jews historically has always been governments (they’re also the greatest killers of Gentiles) and that America, unique among nations, wanted its citizens to be free from fear and thus protected in the Constitution their right to firearms. Not for sporting purposes, but for purposes of defense against common criminals and, if necessary, against a tyrannical government.
“JPFO constantly makes this point,” Zelman says: “A gun-grabber wants to help criminals, and both criminals and their gun-grabbing allies are enemies of the law-abiding. The sooner law-abiding Americans get angry about the damage criminals do, and the way in which gun-grabbers help them do it, the sooner both of these evildoers will be brought under control.”
Again, he’s right. Think it through. The government tells you it has no obligation to provide you protection from armed thugs, and then it tells you that, if you slip a pistol into your pocket to provide for your own protection, you will be treated as a criminal.
He’s also right when he warns that a benign government today doesn’t mean a benign government tomorrow. Many Americans, Jews and non-Jews, have an implicit faith that government will always be sweetness and light. It is not a faith shared by the men who wrote the Constitution, for they understood that government is just institutional power and that evil people can gain control of that power. That has been practically the story of human governments.
Theodore Haas, a member of JPFO and a survivor of Dachau, warns people, “Vote only for politicians who trust the people to own all types of firearms and who have a strong pro-Second Amendment voting record . . . I see creeping fascism in America, just as in Germany, a drip at a time; a law here, a law there . . . soon you have total enslavement.”
As for the gun-control crowd, Haas said, “You cowards, you gun-haters . . . you don’t deserve to live in America. Go live in the Soviet Union if you love gun control so damn much.”
Strong words, but he speaks from terrible experience. He knows the practical effect of gun control and government tyranny. The greatest mass murderers in human history have been governments in our century. And you trust a government that wants to disarm you? What a dolt you are.
“. . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” -- The Declaration of Independence
