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No matter how thin you slice the salami, eventually you
eat it all.
The anti-gun campaigns in England, Australia, and coming to the USA are
classic examples of the "slippery slope" in action. The campaign's
leadership is so arrogant that they'll repeatedly admit it.
America has all the "gun Control" that is reasonable (more actually) and it
doesn't work (because criminals are, after all, criminals). There is
nothing to be gained by giving another inch (anywhere, anytime, whatever the
"purpose" or ocassion). Right lost are gone, gone, gone!
See: OLson and Kopel, All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun
Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America,
22 Hamline L. Rev. 399 (Winter 1999).
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D.,
LL.M. o-
651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/09/05 12:57 PM >>> Yesterday San Francisco enacted the ultimate goal of the
antigun movement: a total ban and confiscation of handguns and a ban on the sale
or transfer of long guns. It might be objected that the latter is not a
confiscation but that is only temporarily true. Upon the deaths of all current
long gun owners the rifles and shotguns must be surrendered to the police
because no heir or other person in the city may lawfully receive them.
For over a century the anti-gun movement has sought to deceive
gun owners into believing its goals were limited. At first it was only that
handguns had to be licensed. Then it turned out, as in NYC, that licenses were
unavailable to anyone not having special influence. Then the goal moved on to
banning and confiscating all handguns. Then it moved on to banning and
confiscating long guns -- but only those evil "assault weapons."
And some credulous long gun owners actually swallowed this
crap. But now the goal stands revealed. ALL GUNS are to banned and, sooner
or later confiscated.
This mirrors the fiction that facilitated the enactment of
alcohol Prohibition. Though the "liquor" interests fought the "temperance" (read
ban) movement tooth and nail, the wealthy and powerful beer manufacturers
refused to join in, but rather distanced themselves. Too bad for them [and, by
analogy, today's "hunters" - Ed.] that when Prohibition was enacted it
banned beer too.
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