From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Is the firearms legislation the single most
important factor in casting your vote?
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Interesting that you ask, Paul.
It is *the* issue by which I judge any candidate
to public office. They can mouth any platitude they
desire on any issue they'd care to, but as soon as they
reveal any distrust - in the slightest way - of the private
citizen possessing and bearing arms, then in my mind it
is they who need to be watched more than the common
criminal, because once your arms are taken away, so is
your effective means to resist being carried off to a gulag.
How many lessons in recent history will you
need to review before it it hits home that what happened
in NAZI Germany can also happen in dear old Great Britain?
Firearms laws should be the bellwether issue
for any thinking man or woman, who values their liberty.
Remember: If they don't want *any* of your arms,
chances are they don't want much else either.
ET
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Actually the gun laws in Germany were enacted in 1929, before
the Nazis came to power and the Nazis actually loosened them
in 1938 to enable easier rifle practice. They did however use
the registration records to disarm Jews and so forth.
Historically the reasons for the 1929 law are almost
identical to the reasons for the 1920 law here, i.e. the
Government feared a communist overthrow, in fact they were
bulldozed by the Nazis who also crushed the communist movement.
I got an interesting email a while ago from someone whose father
held a gun license in Nazi Germany, and was a hunter. The SS
repeatedly pestered her father to turn in his guns, but he
refused. In the end he was drafted and killed at the Eastern
front.
The reality is that the police in this country actually have
greater powers under our Firearms Act than the SS did under
the Nazi law.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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