[url]keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3499[/url]  [b]Letter from an ANGRY Reader[/b]



Please do.  Excellent peice.  Pass it on.

damn right!

printing it out now......

I think this line says it all. Get prepared now, not after something tragic happens. I'm sure WE all are.

Magnificent. The only one responsible for your well-being is yourself.

Good article. I might post this over on the DU just to see how long it stays up.

  Keeping this topic alive, it may save some of us... fullclip

I put up a link this morning.  I doubt it will draw a response.  

Thinking seems to hurt them.

Damn.  I'd read that before, and it's still an eye opener.  I need to get my CHL ASAP, and obtain a good carry peice, and CARRY IT WITH ME WHEREVER I GO.

Refuse to be a victim.  That's what it's about.

Wow....

Great Article, thanks for the link[:D]

Btt just once.

I don't think it can be said any better than this.  Absolutely stunning.

You want angry? Here is by far the best editorial I have read to date.

Editorial by Jim Shults
Modern Gun Magazine
October 1994

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Perhaps it was fate that caused me to call LFP's President last year
to see if he would like to do a military or gun magazine. It seemed
like bad timing to start a major new national and international gun
magazine at a time when the government is going socialist, and with
their need to confiscate guns to enable enforcement of the new order
already in progress, but in spite of all this, it has worked out very
well. If I didn't have this job, I would not have learned of the
following information, which I personally related to the offices of
several U. S. senators and representatives

Some of this information was based upon an anonymous letter I got from
a reader about six months ago--a letter long since destroyed, but one
that lingers on in my memory, written by a person I felt had an
extensive military background. In my calls to the senators, I mixed in
some firearm-industry sales information as well as what I've been
hearing from around the country.

Well, if I can call U.S. senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-Colo.),
Hank Brown (R-Colo.), Robert Dole, Senate minority leader (R-Kan.),
Senate majority leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) and House minority
leader Bob Michel (R-III.), and Modern Gun special pro-jects editor
Robin Heid can inform blithering idiot Pat Schroeder's (D-Co.) aide in
a face-to-face meeting at Pat's Denver office, then I can sure tell
you folks. In fact, you might want to send a copy of this editorial to
your elected officials, because very few, if any, have considered what
follows.

THE CALL BEGINS

You folks (politicians) do not really understand what is going to
happen when this antigun legislation goes into effect; let me first
tell you about the gun industry. Ever since October, 1993 gun sales of
all types have grown so quickly that the factories--all of them--are
anywhere from 16,000 guns back-ordered for a small specialty company
to 178,000 for one major company. (I told them the names of these,
plus several others that have back-orders in the 45,000 to 56,000
range due to buyer demand) I told them that it was even getting
difficult to quickly get guns for articles, and that getting high
capacity rifle and pistol magazines was next to impossible,
except for the rare supply of military surplus at gun shows.

I related that many makers of primers and ammunition are backordered
until June of 1995, and that major wholesale distributors ofammunition
are now scrounging for any 9mm, .45 ACP, 5.56mm, 7.62mm NATO, 7.62 x
39mm .38/.357 and .30 06 ammo that they can get; I told of the small
foreign-bullet manufacturer who went to the SHOT show to try to sell 5
million 9mm bullets and came out after one day with orders for 97
million; that the sales of certain types of powder for reloading are
beyond belief, and making it nearly impossible for even major ammo
makers to turn out product.

Then I asked the aides: Do you think that the people who are buying
this stuff in these quantities are doing so to prepare for when these
socialist laws go into effect, so that they can turn this stuff in?
The aides gave me the answer: no!

I then told them that when this government" makes things like
magazines, springs, bayonet lugs, pistol grips, etc., federally
illegal, a person may as well go out and get a machine gun or
something even more deadly; after all, a federal crime is a federal
crime, and a felony is a felony. If our government is going to
artificially create nearly 40 million citizen/criminals,  a
significant percentage will get real serious about their new "job
title." Again, the aides agreed.

Who will these new criminals he? Well, they won't be some gang-banger
dirtbag who never finished the fifth grade, has no job, does drive-by-
shootings, holds up liquor stores and sells crack. This new federal
criminal will consist of men who are combat and military veterans from
WWII, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Saudi,
and special operations forces from around the world. Many of these
veterans really know how to shoot, move and communicate, and have
killed. Men who are no longer afraid of hostile artillery and are
hardly intimidated by a BATF agent in a ninja outfit!

The new criminal class will be made up of men, women and their
children, who are educated, run businesses or make businesses work,
and have raised or are raising families. People who pay taxes and
currently make this country work. In other words, a serious bunch of
potentially real mean, smart cookies who can make things happen. The
military may oppose them, but as the Russian experience taught, many
"kids" don't join the military to kill fellow citizens.

Now the aforementioned citizen criminal class will eliminate a lot of
people, and the people terminated, according to this letter, will
include city, state and national politicians, local and regional media
personalities (the propaganda arm), all forms of law enforcement
(drive-up assassinations while they are in their cars) and just
common, everyday federal employees.

The chilling part of the letter also said that the families,
neighbors, friends and coworkers, and the children and wives of these
people, would be under assault so as to cut off any moral and real
support. His scenario is similar to the famous Phoenix Program in
Vietnam, which found that by attacking the infrastructure and its
supporters, change can be forced--or else! And who wants to be the
next person (target) to lead, collect guns or taxes, or sell the party
propaganda at a network affiliate or newspaper, in any capacity, from
secretary to reporter, camera operator, or, especially, announcer or
columnist? Naturally, this activity would result in more government
controls, which would meet with more citizen resistance, and all of
this could ultimately lead to all-out civil war. Yes. I know I am
pushing the envelope of supposition, but this is how civil wars start.

I related to the senatorial aides that less than 2% of guns were
declared after California passed their state law against semiauto
rifles, and that less than 0.2% of the "semis" were declared after
Denver passed their gun law. This means tens of millions nationwide
will not comply, creating the world's largest "criminal" class of
people, all of which will fight, and fight hard, to turn things
around. While I did not relate the following excerpt, it is quite
possibly our future.

(continued)

From the book Atlas Shrugged, written in 1930 by Ayn Rand, I quote:
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on
criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible
for men to live without breaking laws.  Who wants a nation of law
abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the
kinds of laws that can be neither observed nor enforced nor
objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers- and
then you can cash in on the guilt."

I continued by telling them that they knew that gun control had
nothing to do with crime. and everything to do with control of the
citizenry. I asked them to work hard to communicate this to their
contemporaries in Congress: They are about to create a nation of
lawbreakers.

They took this to heart, and did not receive this as a threat hell, I
told them who I was, etc. In fact I was referred to Campbell directly
by his aide's Colorado State Representative). l will tell you folks,
for the first time in my life, this particular government has me
scared out of my wits for my personal and national security, and fear
held by millions of Americans does not promote polite behavior.

I really don't think that the politicians and media people at all
levels know what they are creating, because a direct price" has not
yet been extracted from them for their actions. All of the senators'
aides I talked with were surprised at the industry numbers and data,
and especially surprised at the concept of a huge, smart and highly
experienced criminal class that they are about to create. In fact, one
flat told me he had never thought of that, and he was the particular
senator's gun legislation aide.

I informed them that, to a huge percentage of our population, guns are
not just a thing they will do without. To many in this country the
military gun is a very real symbol of freedom. A symbol of the meaning
of our original Constitution, of the legacy of millions of fallen
brothers-in-arms over the last 250 years. I tried to communicate to
them that, to many people, guns are nearly a religion.

This concept is something many big-city Eastern or high-profile,
heavily insulated and privately guarded, millionaire political-elitist
types cannot understand. I told them that everyone knows any
registration will lead to punitive taxation or outright confiscation
down the road. After answering their questions, the calls were
concluded.

A couple of months ago I struck up a conversation with some guy at a
gun show. Eventually, I told him of the letter I received. He said
examples like the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents would serve to control
the population to some extent. However, he said illegal-gun arrests
would operate like drug busts. A friend, ex-wife, or paid informer
would simply target old Joe's house as having "illegal guns," etc.
Nighttime and odd-hour SWAT-type raids would result.

He informed me that if you have these kinds of "illegal" items, you
shouldn't tell people, show them, or fire them; you either put them to
preemptive use or you'd better surrender them and accept whatever your
government has in store for you. Hiding them in your home and then
having a fire--which is always investigated by law enforcement--will
result in your arrest, and burying guns in the hills is just plain
silly, because, according to him, now is the time to fight, not later.
He used the example of what would have happened to WWII if, in the
early 1930s, German citizens would have taken action to stop an
out-of-control government and propaganda machine. This old boy was
dead serious; he knew combat and had survived bayonet and hand-to-hand
fighting in Korea.

The ability to stop the insanity is in the hands of Congress and their
supporters in the media. Time is short. Citizens are very angry and
prepared. I'll tell you this, I sure as hell would not want to be in
any form of law enforcement and have to enforce this craziness. Eighty
thousand dollars a year is not enough pay when you have created one
federal criminal out of every four adults in an entire country.

My fav paragraph...

Thanks!

BTT, because this needs to be read by everyone who comes on this site.  Can we get it thumbtacked for a while?