Terry Smith wrote in a message to Gus Gere:
JD>and they want to impose their notion of the "right" way on
JD>all of us. In 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?
 TS> Very much the same way as they got through most gun laws of the
 TS> past 20 years.  
 TS> Create a black market with prohibition of substances people will
 TS> produce, distribute, and use regardless.  That results in organized
 TS> crime, which has to establish its own law enforcement out of
 TS> inability to rely on cops, and competitive techniques not exactly
 TS> rooted in lawfulness.  
[...]
 TS> It's simple to end the problem.  This time we don't even need a
 TS> 21st Amendment to repeal the drug laws.  We have so many
 TS> politicians and large organizations making 95 million dollars for
 TS> every 5 million organized crime makes from the black market that
 TS> lots of mainstream appearance perpetrators of fraud can't stand to
 TS> give up their pretend war, by design unwinnable which is the best
 TS> possible kind for preserving an ongoing power and money base.   
 TS> RTKBA is just a secondary casualty.

It's incredible how many people don't understand this, or refuse to.
The answer of course is to look for the motive and "where the money
goes".  In this case it's government, prohibition police and
soldiers, and the NRA.  H.L. Mencken had it right:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep
the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be
led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
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