First of all, for those of you who keep complaining about people like me harping on "issues" then here is your chance to exit this post right now... for those of you who care about the direction of our country and our rights as citizens, read on.... but please, read with an open mind. I will no doubt be given the label of "extremist". For those of you that call me that, i feel sorry for you, but your opinion is respected.




Okay, I am a firm believer that evil works come from the heart of individuals, not the tools they use. I would like to give an example of a story that shocked my town yesterday, and hit very close to home. (i live in fort wayne, indiana for those who havent read my profile)

One of my co-workers and close friends called into work very early this morning. She was barely understandable through the intense sobbing that muffled most of her words. What had happend was that her best friend, and a friend of everyone at our work, had discovered something horrible when she entered her recently divorced husbands home late last night, to visit her two children, 7 and 4 years old (very well-behaved kids)

Distraught over his failed marriage, her young x-husband had beaten thier 2 kids to death with a hammer, and with a knife he then slit his own throat.

This was a very normal family, i knew them; they didnt like guns, they didnt own any guns... So how did this Gruesome taking of human life occur without a gun???

Simple. Bitterness, hatred, and evil works come from the heart of man. Guns dont kill people, people kill people. Should we outlaw hammers and knifes?


But i digress. The point of this post is about our rights.

"Gun control" is a hot topic but do you really know whats at stake? Al Gore wants to require licenses to own a gun. He wants to turn our rights into privledges. Sounds harmless. But once our liberties are turned into licenses, licenses can be revoked, and privledges can be denied.

Its all about Power. Gore and his liberal buddies are obsessed with power and controlling every minute facet of the lives of all citizens. The democratic underpinnings of our society such as the constitution and the bill of rights thwart their goal of absolute control, so the rights themselves must be undermined.

The most prominent elements of Mr. Gore's strategy to overcome the Constitution in pursuit of power are to destroy private property rights and national sovereignty through environmental badgering, while eliminating the means for citizens to resist government oppression by eliminating firearms ownership. Once self-defense is gone, we will no longer have any rights, only privileges. Once citizens cannot resist their own government, the
government is free to decide which rights we have, or don't have. That is why every gun-control proposal put forth by Gore and the left is focused almost exclusively on law-abiding citizens.

Crime is used as strategic tool used for Gore's ultimate goal of complete confiscation of all firearms, as has been done in Great Britain, Canada and Australia. The verbal acrobatics and constant spin required to scare the public into incrementally accepting
these very small but fundamental changes in our society require an utter contempt for the intelligence of the average citizen. but these qualities have been Algore trademarks for decades.

"Catchy but meaningless labels such as "assault weapons," "Saturday night specials," "cop-killer bullets," "plastic guns," etc. have been used as a disguise for outlawing whole classes of firearms.
(stephen J. centerville, maryland)


Want some Al Gore quotes to go with it? in the recent debates he stated proudly: "As president, I will do whatever it takes to get the guns away from children and criminals, and close every loophole in our law books. I will fight for a national requirement that every state issue photo licenses for anyone who wants to buy a handgun."

Gore now says "no restrictions on sport hunting". Well thats easy for him to re-nig on once he has power, why? the 2nd ammendment is not for hunters, and does not protect them. Thus, eventually Gore will confiscate those too because "guns for sport" are not constitutional.

Here is an except from a washington times article:

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The possession of firearms by the average citizen — not for sport, not for target shooting, but for his own protection — was deemed by the Founding Fathers the strongest bulwark against an oppressive, tyrannical government. Noah Webster wrote that "The Supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." In Federalist Number 46, James Madison wrote that the Constitution's clear statement of the right of the people to possess the means of self-defense "preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation . . ."
Mr. Gore, like other liberal Democrats, not only believes in the supremacy of the federal government, he has an abiding contempt for the rights and freedoms of the American people. Contrast his approach to that of Gov. Bush, who favors prosecuting and incarcerating those who misuse firearms — but who readily acknowledges the right of law-abiding Americans to possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes —including self-defense. Mr. Bush, a strong backer of excellent anti-crime measures such as Project Exile, does not believe that more restrictions on the right of peaceable citizens to possess and bear arms will curb crime.




Okay, forgive me for going so long, but i feel very strongly about this topic. The direction Gore wants to take us is to complete government control. And its scary.


CHRIS