JD>and they want to impose their notion of the "right" way on JD>all of us. 
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order to do that, they have to get our guns.
 GG> National Firearms Act of 1934. Is that how it started, 
 GG> or were they already
 GG> at it before that? How on earth did Roosevelt get that 
 GG> one through Congress I wonder?
Simple.  Ban something that people will do anyway regardless of laws, making
human nature criminal (18th Am. Prohibition).  Watch a black market develop, 
and
need its own private security and law enforcement staffs, since cops can't be
counted on to protect financial or personal safety interests of those 
nvolved
in a black market.  Move on to regulate or ban the tools of any such black
market, regardless of their larger existence as a protected right of all
citizens.  
Do you really think FOPA-86 or VCCLEA-94 could have been passed without
Prohibition-II, the "War on Drugs"?  
At least 50% of current murders include demographics that appear related to
drug Prohibition.  Now, is it more useful for politicians to do what it took 
to
end bootlegging by ending Prohibition and dealing with alcohol addiction as a
medical and social problem in those cases where some people use it abusively, 
or
for politicians to preserve the black market, 95% of whose revenues are to 
legal
businesses including some of their own law partners and firms, and use the 
side
effects of the black market they proliferate as a perpetual problem they
repeatedly promise to help fix in ways almost assured to fail, allowing a
revised but equally ineffectual promise to "do something" next election 
cycle?  
Address the underlying problem, laws making nonviolent consensual use of 
rugs
people use regardless of laws criminal, and the symptoms of a black market 
nd
related feuds loses its economic motivation faster than anything else that
legislatures or Congress could try.  
Terry
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