The Tyranny Of Gun Control

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There is more disinformation about gun control in the mainline press than most any other issue. Every shooting raises the debate again, except that it is not a real debate because the facts are not being presented.

This book provides you a completely different point of view.

This smashing collection of essays makes a sweeping and uncompromising case for full rights to buy, own, and manufacture weapons without government interference. The case is very convincing from whatever angle you want to look at this issue. The reader comes away with the realization that the right to own weapons might be the most important right.

It leaves you with the realization that the 2nd Amendment might be the most important of all rights — the one that undergirds all the others. If that sounds like an exaggeration, this book might convince you otherwise.

The authors show that the founders gave us the 2nd Amendment not for personal protection or for hunting but as a safeguard against tyranny. They further show that widespread gun ownership leads to a more peaceful society. This is also one of the few books you will ever encounter that makes a strong case against even gun registration.

This book contains some very important prehistory of the war on terror, which has also been a war on gun ownership by Americans. The beginning traces to the assault on the Branch Davidians in 1993 in Waco, Texas. The small religious community had broken no laws, but was subject to a military assault that resulted in a massacre. This incident unleashed pent-up anti-government feelings in large parts of the population.

One part of the blowback from Waco was the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The FBI had stationed many agents within the cells that bombed the building. They failed to prevent it. The government’s response was an early look at what became the war on more violations of rights, but no real security for Americans. The police became progressively militarized. The Bill of Rights was shredded in the name of security.

Six years later, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., intensified the security state. The movement against guns worsened. Today, the federal government looks for any excuse to pass more legislation.

The way American politics break down today, the people who want to ban guns typically want to legalize drugs and vice versa. Actually, these battles are the same. In a free society, all individuals own themselves. Whether the government is arresting, prosecuting, or incarcerating people for the weapons they own or drugs they consume, it is ultimately an attack on the right to control one’s body or property.

Guns laws have rendered millions defenseless. Drug laws have left millions without their preferred treatments for cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma. Both drug and gun offenders have testified against others in exchange for lower sentences. This causes small-time offenders to get longer sentences than big-time offenders. This tattletale justice leads to a society of mutual suspicion and recrimination.

The massive amounts of money in black markets have inspired asset forfeiture in which suspects can be looted on only suspicion of crime. Another victimless crime involved in both guns and money laundering. This is heavily regulated today and violates the rights of Americans.

Contributors to this Jacob Hornberger, Jarret Wollstein, James Bovard, Richard Davis, Sheldon Richman, Benedict D. LaRosa, John Egolf, Richard Ebeling, James Bovard, Scott McPherson, Rick Lynch, Tim Kelly, Rich Schwartzman, Laurence Vance, and Anthony Gregory.