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Free State Project

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The Free State Project (FSP) is a [[libertarian]] organization dedicated to promoting libertarian ideals by attempting to concentrate libertarian voters in one state, where they can influence local politics. In 2013, the Free State Project chose [[New Hampshire]] as the migration target because of its low taxes, strong economy, open-carry laws and generally independent and libertarian tradition, as espoused by it's motto "Live free or die."

Members of the Free State Project are sometimes called porcupines, after the FSP seal. Some members have been elected to the state legislature, but so far the total number of participants is lower than was originally hoped. As of December 2014, 16,332 people have signed the pledge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Membership Statistics|url=http://freestateproject.org/about/membership-statistics|publisher=Free State Project|accessdate=January 10, 2015}}</ref>

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Concealed carry

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Most [[State]]s of the [[USA]] allow citizens to carry concealed [[weapons]] (usually a [[handgun]]), providing they have a '''legal permit''' to do so. This concealed weapon permit is commonly referred to as a CWL, CCL, CWP, or CCP depending on the state. Contrast concealed carry with [[Open carry]].

In "[[free state]]s" such as [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]] the only "permit" required is the [[Second Amendment]]. This type of concealled carry is called [[Constitutional carry]].

==See Also==
* [[Pocket pistol]]: [[Glock 43]], [[Ruger LC9]], [[Walther PPK]], [[Derringer]]
* [[IWB holster]]
* [[Appendix carry]]
* [[Shoulder holster]]
* [[Ankle holster]] for [[Backup weapon]]

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Concealed carry

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TheAmericanRedoubt:

Most [[State]]s of the [[USA]] allow citizens to carry concealed [[weapons]] (usually a [[handgun]]), providing they have a '''legal permit''' to do so. This concealed weapon permit is commonly referred to as a CWL, CCL, CWP, or CCP depending on the state. Contrast concealed carry with [[Open carry]].

In "[[free state]]s" such as [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]] the only "permit" required is the [[Second Amendment]]. This type of concealled carry is called [[Constitutional carry]].

==See Also==
* [[Pocket pistol]]
* [[IWB holster]]

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[[Category:United States Law]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Firearms Glossary]]
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Concealed carry

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TheAmericanRedoubt:

Most [[State]]s of the [[USA]] allow citizens to carry concealed [[weapons]] (usually a [[handgun]]), providing they have a '''legal permit''' to do so. This concealed weapon permit is commonly referred to as a CWL, CCL, CWP, or CCP depending on the state. Contrast concealed carry with [[Open carry]].

In "[[free state]]s" such as [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]] the only "permit" required is the [[Second Amendment]]. This type of concealled carry is called [[Constitutional carry]].

==See Also==
* [[Pocket pistol]]
* [[IWB holster]]

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[[Category:United States Law]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Fireams Glossary]]
[[Category:Everyday Carry]]
[[Category:Bug-out Bag]]

Concealed carry

2016-04-01T01:25:33Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

Most [[State]]s of the [[USA]] allow citizens to carry concealed [[weapons]] (usually a [[handgun]]), providing they have a '''legal permit''' to do so. This concealed weapon permit is commonly referred to as a CWL, CCL, CWP, or CCP depending on the state. Contrast concealed carry with [[Open carry]].

In "[[free state]]s" such as [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]] the only "permit" required is the [[Second Amendment]]. This type of concealled carry is called [[Constitutional carry]].

==See Also==
* [[Pocket pistol]]
* [[IWB holster]]

[[Category:Laws]]
[[Category:United States Law]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Fireams Terms]]
[[Category:Everyday Carry]]
[[Category:Bug-out Bag]]

Concealed carry

2016-04-01T01:19:27Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

Most [[State]]s of the [[USA]] allow citizens to carry concealed [[weapons]] (usually a [[handgun]]), providing they have a '''legal permit''' to do so. In "[[free state]]s" such as [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]], [[Alaska]], [[Arizona]] the only "permit" required is the [[Second Amendment]].

== See also ==
* [[Open carry]]

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Hoplophobia

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'''Hoplophobia''' (colloquially known as '''[[gun]]-a-[[phobia]]''') is a [[neologism]] coined by renowned [[conservative]] [[firearm]]s trainer Col. [[Jeff Cooper]] to describe an "[[rational|irrational]] aversion to weapons."<ref name="cooper-to-ride">{{Cite book | last1 = Cooper | first1 = Jeff | title = To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth | year = 1990 | publisher = Paladin Press | location = Boulder, Colorado | pages = 16–19 | url=http://www.usrepeals.org/ca/mtbpers/hoplophobia.html }}</ref> The term was constructed from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ὅπλον - ''hoplon'', meaning, among other things, "arms,"<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%28%2Fplon ὅπλον], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> and φόβος - ''phobos'', meaning "fear."<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dfo%2Fbos φόβος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref>

That blind [[fear]] includes more specifically [[firearms]], the [[Second Amendment]] and [[citizen]]s exercising their [[unalienable rights]] to [[self-defense]] and defense against [[tyranny]] under the [[Bill of Rights]].

==Usage==
The term has gained very wide acceptance in [[conservative]], [[preparedness]] and [[gun enthusiast]] [[political]] debates over [[gun control]], but of course is not accepted in [[liberal]] [[mainstream media]] so called "[[Liberal obfuscation|open]] [[Liberal tricks|debate]]" or in medical contexts. For instance, hoplophobia is not a [[phobia]] listed in the [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]] (DSM) published by the [[liberal]] [[American Psychiatric Association]]. It is listed in The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology.

[[Colonel]] Cooper's colloquial meaning and usage falls outside of the [[medical]] [[Liberal redefinition|definition]] of a [[phobia]] used by the DSM. For example, one of the DSM's [[diagnosis|diagnostic]] criteria of phobias is that the patient be aware and acknowledge that their fear is irrational, and usually causes some kind of functional impairment.<ref name="dsm4">{{Cite book| publisher = American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. | authorlink = http://www.psych.org | title = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV TR (Text Revision)| date = June 2000 | location = Arlington, VA, USA | isbn = 978-0-89042-024-9 | doi = 10.1176/appi.books.9780890423349 | page = 449 | quote=Criterion C: "The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable. Note: In children and many [[leftist]]s, this feature may be absent."}}</ref> True medical phobias of [[firearm]]s and other [[weapon]]s can exist, but are unusual.<ref name=Ninan>{{Cite book | last1 = Ninan | last2 = Dunlop | title = Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Anxiety Disorders | year = 2006 | publisher = Handbooks in Health Care | location = Pennsylvania | isbn = 1-931981-62-0 | pages = 107 | quote = Table 7-1 Names of Some Phobias...Unusual...Hoplophobia-fear of firearms }}</ref>

In interviewing conservative [[gun rights|Second Amendment]] supporting [[psychologist]]s however, one finds differing opinions from the DSM and the [[professor values|university]]-dominated psychiatric establishment. According to these conservative psychologists, there are indeed many patients with phobias who are acutely aware of their fear but do not acknowledge that their fear is irrational, but instead feel it is justified. They also do not view their fear as causing a functional impairment, yet others do. In the case of anti gun [[unalienable rights|rights]] [[liberals]], they are indeed acutely aware of their fear of and [[Bullying|disdain]] for weapons and the [[unalienable rights|unalienable]] [[Second Amendment]] but do not acknowledge that their fear is irrational, but feel it is [[Liberal whining|justified]]. These same liberals certainly do not view their fear as causing any [[Liberal hate speech|impairment]].<ref>Source - conversations with several anonymous [[conservative]] [[psychologist]]s who are concerned with [[liberal]] [[Liberals and friendship|colleague]] [[peer pressure]] [[Scientific fascism|retribution]] in they speak out against [[left-wing]] [[Public school values|school system]], [[American Psychiatric Association]] and [[APA|American Psychological Association]] [[gun control]] [[propaganda]] in their [[leftist]]-dominated [[psychology]] profession.</ref>

==See Also==
* [[Phobia]]
{{Second Amendment groups}}

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Hoplophobia

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Category:Symptoms

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See [[Symptom]]

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Dizziness

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#REDIRECT [[Vertigo]]

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Vertigo

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For the 1958 film by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], see [[Vertigo (film, 1958)]]

'''Vertigo''' is a [[motion sickness]] caused by the false perception that the body is falling when the body is still. Vertigo is usually caused by an imbalance in the [[inner ear]] which (causing the perceived motion), but it can also be brought about by [[hallucinogen]]ic drugs which disorient space for the brain.

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Arrhythmia

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An '''arrhythmia''' is any disorder of a person's [[heart]] rate or rhythm. Their heart beats too quickly, too slowly or with an irregular pattern. When the heart beats faster than normal, it is called [[tachycardia]]. When the heart beats too slowly, it is called [[bradycardia]].

Many factors can affect the heart's rhythm, such as having a [[heart attack]], blood chemistry imbalances or abnormal [[hormone]] levels. Some substances or medicines may also cause arrhythmia.

Symptoms of arrhythmia include:
* Fast or slow heart beat
* Skipping beats
* Lightheadedness, [[dizziness]]
* Chest pain
* [[Shortness of breath]]
* Paleness
* [[Sweat]]ing<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/arrhythmia.html</ref>

==References==
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Arrhythmia

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An '''arrhythmia''' is any disorder of a person's [[heart]] rate or rhythm. Their heart beats too quickly, too slowly or with an irregular pattern. When the heart beats faster than normal, it is called '''[[tachycardia]]'''. When the heart beats too slowly, it is called '''[[bradycardia]]'''.

Many factors can affect the heart's rhythm, such as having a [[heart attack]], blood chemistry imbalances or abnormal [[hormone]] levels. Some substances or medicines may also cause arrhythmia.

Symptoms of arrhythmia include:
* Fast or slow heart beat
* Skipping beats
* Lightheadedness, [[dizziness]]
* Chest pain
* [[Shortness of breath]]
* Paleness
* [[Sweat]]ing<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/arrhythmia.html</ref>

==References==
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Cardiomyopathy

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'''Cardiomyopathy''' refers to diseases of the [[heart]] muscle. These diseases have a variety of causes, symptoms, and treatments. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes enlarged or abnormally thick or rigid. In rare cases, the [[muscle tissue]] in the heart is replaced with scar tissue.

As cardiomyopathy progresses, the heart becomes weaker and less able to pump blood through the body. This can lead to [[heart failure]], [[arrhythmia]]s (abnormal heart rhythms), fluid buildup in the lungs or legs, and, more rarely, [[endocarditis]] (a [[bacterial]] [[infection]] of the lining of the heart). The weakening of the heart also can lead to other severe complications.

The four main types of cardiomyopathy are:

* Dilated cardiomyopathy
* Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
* Restrictive cardiomyopathy
* Arrhythmogenic right ventricular [[dysplasia]] (ARVD)

Cardiomyopathy can have a specific cause, such as damage to the heart from a [[heart attack]], [[high blood pressure]], or a [[viral]] [[infection]]. Some types of cardiomyopathy are caused by a gene mutation and run in families. In many cases, the cause is unknown.

Cardiomyopathy can affect people of all ages, from babies to older adults. However, certain age groups are more likely to have certain types of cardiomyopathy. Treatment may involve medicines, [[surgery]], nonsurgical procedures, and lifestyle changes such as regular daily [[exercise]] and appropriate [[diet]] and [[nutrition]].

==External links==
* [http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cm/cm_what.html What is cardiomyopathy?] - National Institutes of Health

[[Category : Heart Diseases]]
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Cardiomyopathy

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TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Cardiomyopathy''' refers to diseases of the [[heart]] muscle. These diseases have a variety of causes, symptoms, and treatments. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes enlarged or abnormally thick or rigid. In rare cases, the [[muscle tissue]] in the heart is replaced with scar tissue.

As cardiomyopathy progresses, the heart becomes weaker and less able to pump blood through the body. This can lead to [[heart failure]], [[arrhythmia]]s (abnormal heart rhythms), fluid buildup in the lungs or legs, and, more rarely, [[endocarditis]] (a [[bacterial infection]] of the lining of the heart). The weakening of the heart also can lead to other severe complications.

The four main types of cardiomyopathy are:

* Dilated cardiomyopathy
* Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
* Restrictive cardiomyopathy
* Arrhythmogenic right ventricular [[dysplasia]] (ARVD)

Cardiomyopathy can have a specific cause, such as damage to the heart from a [[heart attack]], [[high blood pressure]], or a [[viral infection]]. Some types of cardiomyopathy are caused by a gene mutation and run in families. In many cases, the cause is unknown.

Cardiomyopathy can affect people of all ages, from babies to older adults. However, certain age groups are more likely to have certain types of cardiomyopathy. Treatment may involve medicines, surgery, nonsurgical procedures, and [[lifestyle changes]].

==External links==

*[http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cm/cm_what.html What is cardiomyopathy?] - National Institutes of Health

[[Category : Heart Diseases]]
[[Category : Diseases]]
[[Category : Medicine]]

Cardiomyopathy

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TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Cardiomyopathy''' refers to diseases of the [[heart]] muscle. These diseases have a variety of causes, symptoms, and treatments. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes enlarged or abnormally thick or rigid. In rare cases, the [[muscle tissue]] in the heart is replaced with scar tissue.

As cardiomyopathy progresses, the heart becomes weaker and less able to pump blood through the body. This can lead to [[heart failure]], [[arrhythmia]]s (abnormal heart rhythms), fluid buildup in the lungs or legs, and, more rarely, [[endocarditis]] (a bacterial infection of the lining of the heart). The weakening of the heart also can lead to other severe complications.

The four main types of cardiomyopathy are:

* Dilated cardiomyopathy
* Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
* Restrictive cardiomyopathy
* Arrhythmogenic right ventricular [[dysplasia]] (ARVD)

Cardiomyopathy can have a specific cause, such as damage to the heart from a [[heart attack]], [[high blood pressure]], or a viral infection. Some types of cardiomyopathy are caused by a gene mutation and run in families. In many cases, the cause is unknown.

Cardiomyopathy can affect people of all ages, from babies to older adults. However, certain age groups are more likely to have certain types of cardiomyopathy. Treatment may involve medicines, surgery, nonsurgical procedures, and lifestyle changes.

==External links==

*[http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cm/cm_what.html What is cardiomyopathy?] - National Institutes of Health

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Category:Obesity

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'''[[Obesity]]''' is a medical classification regarding an extreme and unhealthy level of excessive body weight. It is a more serious classification on the [[Body Mass Index]] (BMI) scale than ''overweight''.

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Heart disease

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'''Heart disease''' is a general term for conditions that affect the working of the [[heart]]. In 2005, 652,000 Americans died of heart disease (not counting [[stroke]]), accounting for 27.1% of all deaths in the U.S.

==Mortality==
By far the leading killer in the United States, accounting for 918,000 deaths in 2002 (37% of all deaths), is heart disease and stroke.

==Atherosclerosis==
The major cause of death is hardening of the [[arteries]], or '''[[atherosclerosis]]''' (pronounced ath-uh-roh-skluh-ROH-sis). Layers of [[plaque]] build up on the inside of [[coronary]] arteries. The plaque is comprised of [[cholesterol]], [[lipid]]s, and cellular debris. Too much plaque will reduce the flow of blood to the heart muscle, which eventually gives out in a [[heart attack]] ([[myocardial infarction]]).

Atherosclerosis is a normal part of aging, and begins about ten years earlier in men than women, and this is the major reason women live longer. The rate of plaque buildup varies greatly, even among people with similar diets; a family history of heart attacks is a bad sign. The onset may appear to be sudden, because a blockage of the arteries are wider than they have to be, and a narrowing of the arteries of more than 75% is needed to impede blood flow seriously. If enough plaque has built up, there is grave risk that a [[blood clot]] will come along, block all blood, and kill the affected organ—which might be the heart or the brain. [[High blood pressure]] ([[hypertension]]) and high blood-cholesterol ([[hyperlipidemia]]) are warning signs. [[Obesity]] and [[cigarette]] [[smoking]] weaken the body’s natural resistance; diabetes raises the level of blood lipids and speeds the buildup of plaque.

To avoid or postpone atherosclerosis physicians recommend the elimination of cigarette smoking, a reduction of dietary [[saturated fat]], a reduction in high blood pressure, more [[exercise]], and weight control. Perhaps Americans are heeding this advice; the age-adjusted annual death rate from heart disease plunged from 559 deaths (per 100,000) in 1960 to 240 in 2002, and it continues to fall. In addition to life style changes, major credit goes to advances in [[surgery]], especially balloon [[angioplasty]] (which widens the artery by flattening the plaque) and [[bypass]] surgery (which routes blood around the blockage). Survival of patients who reach the hospital has improved markedly, but about one-third of the 1,500,000 Americans who have a heart attack each year will die. About 250,000 people will die from their heart attack before they reach the hospital. For people who survive a heart attack, about 20% of women and 16% of men will have another during the next four years.

==Stroke==
Similar to heart disease, but counted separately, is '''stroke''' or "[[cerebrovascular accident]]" (CVA). It is the third most common cause of death, taking 163,000 American lives in 2002. It involves a sudden impairment of brain function, usually caused by atherosclerosis or a blood clot that cuts of the flow of blood to the brain. Stroke affects the brain, while a heart attack affects the heart. About half the fatal strokes come before age 70. Smoking, high cholesterol, [[diabetes]], [[aging]], and genetic defects make stroke more likely. The death rate fell in half between 1970 and the 1990s, perhaps due to better diets, exercise, and less smoking. If not immediately fatal a stroke may be more or less debilitating; therapy is often successful.

==Other heart diseases==
*''[[Cardiomyopathy]]'' - disease or deterioration of the heart muscle which can cause [[arrhythmia]] or [[tachycardia]] and may result in sudden cardiac death.

*''[[Cardiovascular disease]]'' - diseases that directly affect the heart and/or the [[vein]]s and [[artery|arteries]] that supply blood to the heart and may be caused by [[diabetes mellitus]], high [[cholesterol]] or [[hypertension]]

*''[[Coronary heart disease]]'' - a condition which can lead to a [[myocardial infarction]] ([[heart attack]]) that may be fatal, or [[angina pectoris]] (chest pains).

*''[[Ischaemic heart disease]]'' - disease where there is a restricted blood flow to the heart.

*''[[Heart failure]]'' - or [[congestive cardiac failure]], a condition whereby the heart fails to fill with enough blood or pump it adequately around the body.

*''[[Hypertensive heart disease]]'' - heart disease caused by high blood [[pressure]].

*''[[Inflammatory heart disease]]'' - [[inflammation]] of the heart [[muscle]] ([[myocardium]]), heart lining ([[endocardium]]), [[valve]]s or the surrounding [[tissue]].

*''[[Valvular heart disease]]'' - disease of one or more of the valves of the heart. This may be a [[congenital]] [[birth defect]] or a condition acquired later in life.

==See also==
* [[Mortality]]

==Further reading==
* Lilly, Leonard S, ed. ''Pathophysiology of Heart Disease'' (4th ed. 2006); basic textbook, 464pp

==External links==
* [http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/ Center for Disease Control, "Heart disease"]

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Cholesterol

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'''Cholesterol''' is a waxy, [[fat]]-like substance that occurs naturally in all parts of the body. There is actually a substance called cholesterol, but what is commonly called "cholesterol" is a group of cholesterol-related substances called [[lipid]]s, of which two are most important: "bad cholesterol" = "low-density lipids" ([[LDL]]) and "good cholesterol" = "high-density lipids" ([[HDL]]).

Cholesterol is not a foreign, harmful substance, whose presence in the body should be avoided. It is an excessive concentration of cholesterol what is harmful. We may be afraid of eating [[egg]]s or [[meat]] due to the cholesterol presence there, but there are good reasons why cholesterol is in eggs and meat, in the first place. Cholesterol is a component of every human [[cell membrane]], and it is necessary precursor for [[bile]] and for [[steroid]] [[hormone]]s. It also participates in transmission of signals by nerves. High cholesterol may even protect against infections <ref>http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/12/927.full?ijkey=172mwKXqzgmtE&keytype=ref
(many references quoted there)
</ref>

Only part (20-50%) of the body cholesterol comes from food, the other part is synthesized by the body, in the [[liver]]. If the food contains too little of cholesterol, one's own production of cholesterol increases to compensate for that deficiency. The body needs some cholesterol to work properly but if there is too much in the [[blood]], it can stick to the walls of the [[arteries]]. This is called [[plaque]]. Plaque can narrow the arteries or even block them causing [[atherosclerosis]].

Atherosclerisis is unquestionably a killer of millions of people, but what causes atherosclerosis is not so clear. Most commonly, cholesterol is blamed for that, but this correlation is controversial at best, since it has never been proven by research completely free of influence of special-interest groups; more of this is discussed below.

High levels of cholesterol in the [[blood]] can increase the risk of [[heart disease]]. Cholesterol levels tend to rise as a person gets older. There are usually no signs or symptoms that a person has high blood cholesterol ([[hyperlipidemia]]), but it can be detected with a blood test. A person is likely to have high cholesterol if members of their family have it, if they are overweight, or if they eat a lot of fatty foods.

The best way to lower cholesterol is by exercising more and eating more [[fruit]]s and [[vegetable]]s.<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cholesterol.html</ref>
That is true, but many people who [[exercise]], eat fruits and vegetables, still have high cholesterol level, experience heart attacks, [[stroke]]s, and even die, as the result of atherosclerosis. For this reason doctors prescribe [[statins]] to millions of patients.

Physicians recognize two types of cholesterol; [[HDL]] (high-density lipoproteins) and [[LDL]] (low-density lipoproteins). HDL is considered to be "good" cholesterol while LDL is considered to be "bad" cholesterol. Some physicians maintain that for good physical health the ratio between these two be considered rather than the sum, so that a high cholesterol level is not considered an adverse health issue if the ratio between the two (LDL:HDL) is low. Typically the ratio is about 4:1. That ratio can be achieved either by lowering LDL, by raising HDL, or by both ways, by using appropriate medication. Contrary to this belief, very recently published (May 16, 2012) reputable research <ref> http://www.webmd.com/salynn-boyles WebMD Health News, „Raising HDL Levels May Not Lower Heart Attack Risk.“ </ref> announced: „''studies failed to show a link between higher concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL and lower heart attack risk. ... studies of HDL-raising drugs have been largely disappointing.''“ It is quite disappointing indeed: since neither lowering LDL nor raising HDL helps preventing [[cardio-vascular disease]]s, then why are we wasting billions of dollars on those meaningless, if not harmful drugs?

Atherosclerosis and the cholesterol issue are not equally pervading around the world. This is an ethnic-related phenomenon, related somehow to national eating cultures, but not exclusively to them. It is mostly Americans who care so much about cholesterol, yet atherosclerosis kills Americans by millions. So called "French paradox" points out to the well-known fact that many other nations (the French, Swiss, Russians and a number of others) do not have a massive atherosclerosis problem even though their diet is very "unhealthy" by American standards.

The cholesterol research was pioneered in 1950 by Ancel Keys, who came up with a [[hypothesis]] that heart diseases were caused by eating high-cholesterol foods, animal fats in first place. Over the following twenty years Keys led an extensive research project, alas, not to test his hypothesis, but to prove it.
Keys studied correlation between [[cardio-vascular disease]]s (CVD) and concentration of cholesterol in blood in people of 22 nations, but used for publication data from seven nations, only those whose data agreed with his hypothesis. That became his famous "Seven Countries study" (12,763 men only, 40-59 year old). <ref>A. Keys - Seven Countries. A Multivariate Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease, Harvard University Press </ref>

Keys was able to indoctrinate the American public, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, who quickly recognized the huge business potential. Keys’s doctrine still rules, and its legitimate criticism is largely ignored. The criticism is neither trivial non un-professional; here is a typical example:
''“...careful examination of the death rates and associations between diet and death rates reveal a massive set of inconsistencies and contradictions. . . It is almost inconceivable that the Seven Countries study was performed with such scientific abandon. It is also dumbfounding how the NHLBI/AHA alliance ignored such sloppiness... In summary, the diet-CHD relationship reported for the Seven Countries study cannot be taken seriously by the objective and critical scientist."'' <ref>Diet, Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease: A Critical Review of the Literature, Volume 2, November 1991 </ref>

And another example:
''“One of the largest studies ... used rather questionable methods: all prospective subjects were given the investigative drug (Simvastatin) for 6 weeks, and anyone showing signs of abnormal responses to the drug was excluded from the formal study.”... “ ... and resulted in fully two-thirds of the initial pool of subjects being ineligible for the study.''” <ref> http://www.answers.com/topic/ancel-keys </ref> <ref> Heart Protection Study, Lancet. 2002 Jul 6;360(9326):7-22 </ref> If that is not a fraud, what is?

A contributing factor may be a very high consumption of [[sugar]] in USA. A statistical American consumes twenty times more sugar now, comparing to Americans two hundred years ago, and that coincides with the growth in heart diseases in that period. <ref> http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-diet-will-be-100-percent.html Stephan Guyenet, based on statistics from old US Department of Commerce reports and the USDA </ref>

There is also a growing, although all too slowly, awareness among doctors and scientists that chronic [[inflammation]]s contribute as much to atherosclerosis as does excessive cholesterol concentration. That is evident especially in case of [[thrombosis]], that is plaques which burst open, sending their fragments into the [[blood vessel]]s, often clogging them, with grave or fatal results. Inflammation is a beneficial tool of fighting many diseases e.g. bacterial ones, but a long-lasting ("[[chronic]]") inflammation is harmful. Study of this subject <ref> Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses; John Danesh et al., British Medical Journal 2000 July 22; 321(7255): 199–204. </ref> <ref> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright.html </ref> <ref> Heart on Fire, Scientific America, June 1998 </ref> concluded: „... '' markers of low grade inflammation were associated with one another and with future risk of coronary heart disease ..... These findings ... suggest that low grade inflammatory processes may be relevant to coronary heart disease.”''

The term "markers of inflammation" requires explanation. If a visible part of the body is inflamed, redness and/or [[swelling]] allows to notice it. Inflammation inside the body needs other means of detection, usually the presence of some substances in blood, called "markers", which allow detection of an inflammation and measuring its intensity. The most commonly used marker of inflammation is "C-reactive protein" (CRP). If blood tests show elevated CRP levels repeatedly and consistently, then treatment with [[anti-inflammatory]] drugs [[statins]], [[Aspirin]], enteric-coated Aspirin for stomach protection, [[Tylenol]], can be considered. It needs to be remembered though that Aspirin, Tylenol and other drugs from that group cause some burden to the [[kidney]]s. If used together with [[blood pressure]]-controlling drugs, that burden is severe. If Aspirin or Tylenol etc. is used together with blood pressure-controlling drugs and any [[diuretic]] (urination-enhancing) drug is added to the former two, then kidneys are devastated very quickly by that "Triple Whammy". <ref> “Recent studies have identified the ‘triple whammy’ in which combinations of diuretics, [[nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug]]s ([[NSAID]]s), ACE inhibitors (ACEI) and/or angiotensin receptor antagonists (ARA) may impair renal function.”
“Drug combinations and impaired renal function – the ‘triple whammy”
Katarzyna K. Loboz1, Gillian M. Shenfield
</ref> <ref> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.2005.59.issue-2/issuetoc British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, pages 239–243, February 2005 </ref>

The growing awareness of the inflammation factor in cardio-vascular diseases sometimes strays into a dangerous direction: developing CRP-suppressing drugs, instead of developing inflammation-suppressing drugs; that is an equivalent of the saying "killing the messenger".

Even though it is unclear which contributes more to atherosclerosis: high cholesterol level in blood or chronic inflammations, statins, having both anti-cholesterol and anti-inflammatory properties, may be beneficial both ways. The benefits of using statins is not sure though, and it is controversial due to the side effects, being a significant factor in case of statins. <ref> Beck, Melinda - Can a Drug That Helps Hearts Be Harmful to the Brain? Wall Street Journal 12 Feb 2008 </ref>

Statins do lower the risk of dying from a heart attack, but only slightly:
In one study (the WOSCOPS trial) 1.6% of previously healthy people had a heart attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 1.2% if they were using statins - less than one half of one percentage point of credit for statins.
In another study (the CARE trial) 5.7% of people who had a previous heart attack, had another attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 4.6% if they were using statins - about one percentage point of credit for statins.

National Cholesterol Education Program of The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has issued the following recommendations on the desirable levels, at which LDL should be kept by medication: less than 70 mg/dl for high-risk groups, less than 100 mg/dl for low-risk groups.
These recommendations are lauded by the pharmaceutical industry, and criticized by many independent researchers. An example of the critics: ''“Instead of preventing cardiovascular disease the new guidelines may increase the mortality of other diseases” (e.g. kidney),” and transform healthy individuals into unhappy hypochondriacs obsessed with the chemical composition of their food and their blood''.“ <ref> http://www.ravnskov.nu/uffe.htm </ref> The fact cited in references # 6 and #7 (see above: “One of the largest studies ...") that in the Simvastatin study two thirds of people suffered from adverse side effects, is by no means trivial.

==See Also==
* [[Atheism and obesity]]

[http://www.thincs.org/links.htm#about The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics]
There is a long list of links and references, whose titles are telling, e.g:

Angell, Marcia ''Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.'' By the previous editor of New England Journal of medicine.

Colpo, Anthony - ''LDL Cholesterol: "Bad" Cholesterol, Or Bad Science.'' A brilliant review of the cholesterol folly published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

Graveline, Duane - ''Lipitor, Thief of memory''

Kendrick, Malcolm - ''Cholesterol and the French paradox, the Swiss paradox, the Russian paradox, the Lithuanian paradox etc.''

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Heart Diseases]]
[[Category:Medicine]]

Cholesterol

2016-04-01T00:09:44Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Cholesterol''' is a waxy, [[fat]]-like substance that occurs naturally in all parts of the body. There is actually a substance called cholesterol, but what is commonly called „cholesterol“ is a group of cholesterol-related substances called lipids, of which two are most important: „bad cholesterol“ = „low-density lipids“ (LDL) and „good cholesterol“ = „high-density lipids“ (HDL).

Cholesterol is not a foreign, harmful substance, whose presence in the body should be avoided. It is an excessive concentration of cholesterol what is harmful. We may be afraid of eating eggs or meat due to the cholesterol presence there, but there are good reasons why cholesterol is in eggs and meat, in the first place. Cholesterol is a component of every human cell membrane, and it is necessary precursor for bile and for steroid hormones. It also participates in transmission of signals by nerves. High cholesterol may even protect against infections <ref>http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/12/927.full?ijkey=172mwKXqzgmtE&keytype=ref
(many references quoted there)
</ref>
Only part (20-50%) of the body cholesterol comes from food, the other part is synthetized by the body, in the liver. If the food contains too little of cholesterol, own production of cholesterol increases to compensate for that deficiency. The body needs some cholesterol to work properly but if there is too much in the blood, it can stick to the walls of the [[arteries]]. This is called [[plaque]]. Plaque can narrow the arteries or even block them causing [[atherosclerosis]].
Atherosclerisis is unquestionably a killer of millions of people, but what causes atherosclerosis is not so clear. Most commonly, cholesterol is blamed for that, but this corelation is controversial at best, since it has never been proven by research completely free of influence of special-interest groups; more of this is discussed below.

High levels of cholesterol in the [[blood]] can increase the risk of [[heart]] disease. Cholesterol levels tend to rise as a person gets older. There are usually no signs or symptoms that a person has high blood cholesterol, but it can be detected with a blood test. A person is likely to have high cholesterol if members of their family have it, if they are overweight, or if they eat a lot of fatty foods.

The best way to lower cholesterol is by exercising more and eating more fruits and vegetables.<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cholesterol.html</ref>
That is true, but many people who exercise, eat fruits and vegetables, still have high cholesterol level, experience heart attacks, strokes, and even die, as the result of atherosclerosis. For this reason doctors prescribe [[statins]] to millions of patients.
Physicians recognize two types of cholesterol; [[HDL]] (high-density lipoproteins) and [[LDL]] (low-density lipoproteins). HDL is considered to be "good" cholesterol while LDL is considered to be "bad" cholesterol. Some physicians maintain that for good physical health the ratio between these two be considered rather than the sum, so that a high cholesterol level is not considered an adverse health issue if the ratio between the two (LDL:HDL) is low. Typically the ratio is about 4:1. That ratio can be achieved either by lowering LDL, by raising HDL, or by both ways, by using appropriate medication. Contrary to this belief, very recently published (May 16, 2012) reputable research <ref> http://www.webmd.com/salynn-boyles WebMD Health News, „Raising HDL Levels May Not Lower Heart Attack Risk.“ </ref> announced: „''studies failed to show a link between higher concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL and lower heart attack risk. ... studies of HDL-raising drugs have been largely disappointing.''“ It is quite disappointing indeed: since neither lowering LDL nor raising HDL helps preventing cardio-vascular diseases, then why are we wasting billions of dollars on those meaningless, if not harmful drugs?

Atherosclerosis and the cholesterol issue are not equally pervading around the world. This is an ethnic-related phenomenon, related somehow to national eating cultures, but not exclusively to them. It is mostly Americans who care so much about cholesterol, yet atherosclerosis kills Americans by millions. So called „French paradox“ points out to the well-known fact that many other nations (the French, Swiss, Russians and a numbrer of others) do not have a massive atherosclerosis problem even though their diet is very „unhealthy“ by American standards.

The cholesterol research was pioneered in 1950 by Ancel Keys, who came up with a hypothesis that heart diseases were caused by eating high-cholesterol foods, animal fats in first place. Over the following twenty years Keys led an extensive research project, alas, not to test his hypothesis, but to prove it.
Keys studied corelation between cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) and concentration of cholesterol in blood in people of 22 nations, but used for publication data from seven nations, only those whose data agreed with his hypothesis. That became his famous „Seven Countries study“ (12,763 men only, 40-59 year old). <ref>A. Keys - Seven Countries. A Multivariate Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease, Harvard University Press </ref>

Keys was able to indoctrinate the American public, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, who quickly recognized the huge business potential. Keys’s doctrine still rules, and its legitimate criticism is largely ignored. The criticism is neither trivial non un-professional; here is a typical example:
''“...careful examination of the death rates and associations between diet and death rates reveal a massive set of inconsistencies and contradictions. . . It is almost inconceivable that the Seven Countries study was performed with such scientific abandon. It is also dumbfounding how the NHLBI/AHA alliance ignored such sloppiness... In summary, the diet-CHD relationship reported for the Seven Countries study cannot be taken seriously by the objective and critical scientist."'' <ref>Diet, Blood Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease: A Critical Review of the Literature, Volume 2, November 1991 </ref>

And another example:
''“One of the largest studies ... used rather questionable methods: all prospective subjects were given the investigative drug (Simvastatin) for 6 weeks, and anyone showing signs of abnormal responses to the drug was excluded from the formal study.”... “ ... and resulted in fully two-thirds of the initial pool of subjects being ineligible for the study.''” <ref> http://www.answers.com/topic/ancel-keys </ref> <ref> Heart Protection Study, Lancet. 2002 Jul 6;360(9326):7-22 </ref> If that is not a fraud, what is?

A contributing factor may be a very high consumption of sugar in USA. A statistical American consumes twenty times more sugar now, comparing to Americans two hundred years ago, and that coincides with the growth in heart diseases in that period. <ref> http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-diet-will-be-100-percent.html Stephan Guyenet, based on statistics from old US Department of Commerce reports and the USDA </ref>

There is also a growing, although all too slowly, awareness among doctors and scientists that chronic inflamations contribute as much to atherosclerosis as does excessive cholesterol concentration. That is evident especially in case of thrombosis, that is plaques which burst open, sending their fragments into the blood vessels, often clogging them, with grave or fatal results. Inflamation is a beneficial tool of fighting many diseases e.g. bacterial ones, but a long-lasting („chronic“) inflamation is harmful. Study of this subject <ref> Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses; John Danesh et al., British Medical Journal 2000 July 22; 321(7255): 199–204. </ref> <ref> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright.html </ref> <ref> Heart on Fire, Scientific America, June 1998 </ref> concluded: „... '' markers of low grade inflammation were associated with one another and with future risk of coronary heart disease ..... These findings ... suggest that low grade inflammatory processes may be relevant to coronary heart disease.”''

The term „markers of inflamation“ requires explanation. If a visible part of the body is inflamed, redness and/or swelling allows to notice it. Inflamation inside the body needs other means of detection, usually the presence of some substances in blood, called „markers“, which allow detection of an inflamation and measuring its intensity. The most commonly used marker of inflamation is „C-reactive protein“ (CRP). If blood tests show elevated CRP levels repeatedly and consistently, then treatment with anti-inflamatory drugs [[statins]], [[Aspirin]], enteric-coated Aspirin for stomach protection, [[Tylenol]], can be considered. It needs to be remembered though that Aspirin, Tylenol and other drugs from that group cause some burden to the kidneys. If used together with blood-pressure-controlling drugs, that burden is severe. If Aspirin or Tylenol etc. is used together with blood-pressure-controlling drugs and any diuretic (urination-enhancing) drug is added to the former two, then kidneys are devastated very quickly by that „Triple Whammy“. <ref> “Recent studies have identified the ‘triple whammy’ in which combinations of diuretics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), ACE inhibitors (ACEI) and/or angiotensin receptor antagonists (ARA) may impair renal function.”
“Drug combinations and impaired renal function – the ‘triple whammy”
Katarzyna K. Loboz1, Gillian M. Shenfield
</ref> <ref> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.2005.59.issue-2/issuetoc British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, pages 239–243, February 2005 </ref>

The growing awareness of the inflamation factor in cardio-vascular diseases sometimes strays into a dangerous direction: developing CRP-suppressing drugs, instead of developing inflamation-suppressing drugs; that is an equivalent of the saying „killing the messenger“.

Even though it is unclear which contributes more to atherosclerosis: high cholesterol level in blood or chronic inflamations, [[statins]], having both anti-cholesterol and anti-inflamatory properties, may be beneficial both ways. The benefits of using [[statins]] is not sure though, and it is controversial due to the side effects, being a significant factor in case of [[statins]]. <ref> Beck, Melinda - Can a Drug That Helps Hearts Be Harmful to the Brain? Wall Street Journal 12 Feb 2008 </ref>

Statins do lower the risk of dying from a heart attack, but only slightly:
In one study (the WOSCOPS trial) 1.6% of previously healthy people had a heart attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 1.2% if they were using statins - less than one half of one percentage point of credit for statins.
In another study (the CARE trial) 5.7% of people who had a previous heart attack, had another attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 4.6% if they were using statins - about one percentage point of credit for statins.

National Cholesterol Education Program of The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has issued the following recommendations on the desirable levels, at which LDL should be kept by medication: less than 70 mg/dl for high-risk groups, less than 100 mg/dl for low-risk groups.
These recommendations are lauded by the pharmaceutical industry, and criticized by many independent researchers. An example of the critics: ''“Instead of preventing cardiovascular disease the new guidelines may increase the mortality of other diseases” (e.g. kidney),” and transform healthy individuals into unhappy hypochondriacs obsessed with the chemical composition of their food and their blood''.“ <ref> http://www.ravnskov.nu/uffe.htm </ref> The fact cited in references # 6 and #7 (see above: “One of the largest studies ...") that in the Simvastatin study two thirds of people suffered from adverse side effects, is by no means trivial.

==See Also==
*[[Atheism and obesity]]

[http://www.thincs.org/links.htm#about The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics]
There is a long list of links and references, whose titles are telling, e.g:

Angell, Marcia ''Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.'' By the previous editor of New England Journal of medicine.

Colpo, Anthony - ''LDL Cholesterol: "Bad" Cholesterol, Or Bad Science.'' A brilliant review of the cholesterol folly published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

Graveline, Duane - ''Lipitor, Thief of memory''

Kendrick, Malcolm - ''Cholesterol and the French paradox, the Swiss paradox, the Russian paradox, the Lithuanian paradox etc.''

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Heart Diseases]]
[[Category:Medicine]]

Atherosclerosis

2016-04-01T00:08:18Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Atherosclerosis''' is a disease process in which [[cholesterol]] accumulates in the walls of an artery. It is a chronic process, that gradually leads to stenosis, or narrowing, of the artery. The rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque can lead to the formation of a thrombus, which can occlude an artery, preventing the flow of blood. Depending on the location of the artery, this can lead to a variety of medical presentations.

==Epidemiology==

Atherosclerosis generally does not affect individuals below the age of 35. While cholesterol may be transiently deposited, it is quickly removed. Above the age of 35, reports of prevalence are highly variable. Some studies report ranges of between 2.5% and 31.7% in asymptomatic individuals<ref>[http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/13.full.pdf Prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic population]. ''European Heart Journal, 21, 13-14''</ref>.

==Risk Factors==

A number of risk factors predispose to the formation of atherosclerosis. These include:
* age (over the age of 40)
* male gender
* genetic predisposition/family history
* hypertension
* high total cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides
* low HDL and total cholesterol:LDL ratio
* obesity, particularly around the abdomen
* poor diet, high in saturated and trans-saturated fats
* lack of physical exercise

==Disease Process==

Cholesterol circulates in the bloodstream contained in molecules called lipoproteins. The two most common forms are high-density lipoproteins ("good cholesterol", which reduces atherosclerosis) and low-density lipoproteins ("bad cholesterol", which increases atherosclerosis).

The wall of an artery is made of up three layers - the innermost ''tunica intima'', the muscular ''tunica media'', and the outer ''tunica adventitia''. Atherosclerosis affects the inner two layers. It is initiated by injury to the wall of an artery. In most cases, this is due to [[hypertension|high blood pressure]]. This increases the permeability of the tunica intima, allowing the passage of lipoproteins and white blood cells called [[macrophage|macrophages]] to the space between the tunica intima and media. Macrophages are responsible for engulfing debris through the process of phagocytosis, which allows its removal from the body. When they phagocytose lipoproteins, they trap the cholesterol in the artery wall, and become ''foam cells''.

The macrophages release chemicals known as cytokines, which cause an inflammatory response. This results in the migration of smooth muscle cells, or myofibroblast, which lays a fibrous outer shell around the foam cells. The foams cells eventually die, resulting in the trapping of cholesterol and cellular debris inside the shell. The shell and its lipid core is known as a plaque, or atheroma. Occasionally cholesterol may crystallise within the plaque, forming cholesterol clefts.

Over time, a number of plaques may form within the wall of an artery, some of which may combine to form larger plaques. This leads to a narrowing of the [[lumen]] of the artery, constricting the flow of blood. Depending on the artery affected, this may present as a variety of symptoms, including [[ischemic heart disease]] (coronary arteries), [[syncope]] (carotid arteries) or hypertension (renal arteries). Plaques can be either stable or unstable depending on the ratio of their shell thickness to liquid core, with a lower ratio corresponding to a less stable plaque. Unstable plaques may be eroded or rupture into the lumen of an atery, spelling their contents into the blood. This can lead to the formation of a [[thrombus]], which can further occlude the flow of blood. Large thrombi may completely prevent the passage of red blood cells, leading to [[ischemia]] and [[infarction]] of the supplied tissue.

==Investigation==

Atherosclerosis is not generally investigated unless it causes clinical symptoms/signs. While it is not possible to visualise the plaque within the wall of the artery, it is possible to measure its effects through either a [[doppler ultrasond]] or an [[angiogram]]. A ''doppler ultrasound'' measures the flow of blood through an artery using a probe which is placed on the skin. An angiogram involves injecting arteries with radioopaque dye, and then taking x-rays to identify any areas of constriction.

Serum cholesterol is often routinely measured. Elevated levels (hypercholesterolemia) can indicate an increased risk of atherosclerosis, and a need for lifestyle modification or pharmacological treatment. In general, high levels of LDL is associated with progressively worsening atherosclerosis, whereas high levels of HDL are associated with a reduction in atherosclerosis.

==Treatment==

Atheroscleosis is only directly treated if it is causing clinical symptoms/signs. Most of these cases are treated using a stent, a mesh tube which is passed into the artery and forces it open at point of stenosis. This stent is left in the body, and over time becomes incorporated into the artery wall. If a stent is unsuccessful or contraindicated, a patient may undergo bypass surgery, though this is generally reserved for the coronary and carotid arteries.

For most patients, treatment is aimed at reducing the risk factors (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia) in order to prevent the progression of and reduce atherosclerosis. This is commonly achieved through lifestyle modification, including improving one's diet, and increasing rates of physical exercise (to a minimum of 3 lots of 30 minute sessions each week). Pharmacological support may be given in the form of anti-hypertensives and anti-cholesterol medications.

Individuals with advanced atherosclerosis may be given treatment to prevent the secondary complications of the disease. A common example is the use of Aspirin to reduce the likelihood of a coronary thrombus forming in the event of plaque erosion/rupture.

==See Also==
*[[Heart disease]]
*[[Cholesterol]]

==References==
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[[Category:Heart Diseases]]
[[Category:Diseases]]

Angina pectoris

2016-04-01T00:06:03Z

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Angina

2016-04-01T00:05:10Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

According to the [[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]], '''Angina''' is "chest pain or discomfort you get when your [[heart]] muscle does not get enough [[blood]]. It may feel like pressure or a squeezing pain in your chest. It may feel like indigestion. You may also feel pain in your shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back."

"Angina is a symptom of [[coronary artery disease]] (CAD), the most common [[heart disease]]. CAD happens when a sticky substance called [[plaque]] builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, reducing blood flow."

"There are three types of angina: stable, unstable and variant. Unstable angina is the most dangerous. It does not follow a pattern and can happen without physical exertion. It is does not go away with rest or medicine. It is a sign that you could have a [[heart attack]] soon."

"Not all chest pain or discomfort is angina."<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/angina.html</ref>

==References==
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Constitutional carry

2016-03-31T23:52:25Z

TheAmericanRedoubt: /* Idaho Legislature Considering Constitutional Carry */

'''[[Constitution]]al carry''' is a [[legal]] term and a [[conservative]]-[[libertarian]]-[[prepper]]-[[Patriot]] [[political]] term that means that the [[Second Amendment]] is the only needed so-called "[[license]]" for [[Concealed carry]] and [[Open carry]] of [[weapon]]s including [[firearm]]s, such as [[handgun]]s ([[pistol]]s and [[revolver]]s) and [[long gun]]s ([[rifle]]s and [[shotgun]]s), [[knives]] and any other form of [[hand]]-carried weapons.

In practice, a "constitutional carry" law would be one that allows the open carry of firearms and prohibits police from stopping someone based merely on the fact the person is carrying a firearm.

Constitutional carry means that the carrying (see "[[Second Amendment]] [[gun rights|right to keep and bear arms]]") on one's person or in/on one's [[vehicle]] of firearms, [[concealed carry | concealed]] or [[Open carry | not]], is generally not restricted by the [[law]]. A constitutional carry [[state]] is a [[Essay:Free States Movement|free state]] from a [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable rights]] perspective.

The legal term "Constitutional carry" describes the [[unalienable rights|unalienable]] [[Bill of Rights]] legal interpretation that the [[Second Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] allows/permits no regulations or restrictions (see "[[Second Amendment|'''Shall not''' be infringed]]") on [[Gun Owners of America|gun ownership]].

In actual practice, the 2008 [[United States Supreme Court]] decision called "[[District of Columbia v. Heller]]" suggests that some [[state]] or [[city]]-[[county]] [[big government|government]] controls may be allowed, at least as to certain types of [[weapon]]s.

==States Who Implemented Constitutional Carry==
* [[Alaska]]: June 11, 2003 House Bill 102

* [[Arizona]]: April 16, 2010 Senate Bill 1108.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fischer|first=Howard|url=http://www.yourwestvalley.com/valleyandstate/article_82729ea3-6ae3-5eb8-9714-7faf96841636.html|title=Concealed weapons bill goes to Brewer for signature|work=Daily News-Sun}}</ref>

* [[Arkansas]]: April 4, 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansascarry.com/media/kunena/attachments/556/Act746pressrelease.pdf|title=Arkansas Act 746 of 2013 Press Release|publisher=arkansascarry.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2013/2013R/Acts/Act746.pdf|title=Arkansas Act 746 of the Regular Session|publisher=89th General Assembly - Arkansas State Legislature}}</ref><ref>See Opinion No. 2013-047, footnote 7 dated July 8, 2013 at http://arkansasag.gov/opinions/index.php.</ref>

* [[Vermont]]: Since the Constitution was first ratified in 1789, Vermont was the only [[state]] to permit "Constitutional carry". From 1789 until the [[1800s]], Constitutional carry was the [[law of land]]. During the [[20th century]], all states except Vermont had legislated [[gun control]] bans on [[concealed carry]]. In most states, however, there was an exemption for those [[citizen]]s with a [[license|permit]]. Thanks to Vermont's strictly worded state constitution,[http://www.usconstitution.net/vtconst.html#Article9] [[liberal]] "[[gun control|gun grabbers" have not been able to have any restriction added on the method of how one carries a firearm. Thus Vermont was the only [[free state]] in the nation from an [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable rights]] perspective. For this reason, Constitutional carry is often still referred to as "Vermont carry" among old persons.

* [[Wyoming]] (for residents): March 2, 2011 Governor [[Matt Mead]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2011/02/26/ap-state-wy/wy_xgr_concealed_carry.txt|title=Wyoming House approves concealed carry bill|publisher=Laramie Boomerang}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wyoming governor signs concealed gun bill|url=http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/article_1af6e2e7-74e8-51ed-a31e-5a96a22f5a9c.html|newspaper=Casper Star-Tribune|agency=Associated Press|date=2 March 2011}}</ref>

* [[Oklahoma]] (residents of constitutional carry states)<ref>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=69809 Accessed December 18, 2014</ref>

==Idaho Legislature and Governor Passed Constitutional Carry==
[[Alex Barron]], the self-styled "Bard of the [[American Redoubt]]" on his [[Charles Carroll Society]] podcast and blog says, "The [http://www.idahosaa.org/ Idaho Second Amendment Alliance] (ISAA) has pushed the [[Idaho]] State legislation to consider a Constitutional Carry bill. Constitutional or “permitless carry,” says that if you are a legal [[Gun Owners of America|gun owner]] you don’t need permission from the State to exercise your [[unalienable rights|God-given]] [[natural rights|natural right]]. The people of Idaho have tried this for several years without the Idaho House picking up the bill. This year ISAA has suggested that it will put an initiative on the ballot for the people to vote on."<ref>[[Alex Barron|Barron, Alex]], "[https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2015/02/12/idaho-constitutional-carry-bill-advances-rally-is-called-nra-idaho-2a/ Idaho Constitutional Carry bill advances & rally is called]#nra #idaho #2A". [[Idaho]], [[American Redoubt]]: [[Charles Carroll Society]]. Published February 12, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2015.</ref> Suddenly the Idaho legislature approved the Constitutional Carry bill and Governor [[Butch Otter]] signed it in March 2016.

==See Also==
* [[Open-Carry Movement]]
* [[Second Amendment]]
* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]: [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
** [[American Redoubt]]: [[Idaho]]-Montana-[[Wyoming]]-[[Oregon|Eastern and Southwestern Oregon]]-[[Washington State|Eastern Washington]]-[[Utah]]
** [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Free State Project]]

* [[Red state]]s - [[Republican]]
* [[Purple state]]s - swing states that can vote either [[Republican]] or [[Democrat]]
* [[Blue state]]s or [[Democrat]] [[Essay:Free States Movement#Naughty State List|Unfree states]] of [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Statist]]-[[Police state]]

==External Links==
* [[Alex Barron|Barron, Alex]], "[https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2015/02/12/idaho-constitutional-carry-bill-advances-rally-is-called-nra-idaho-2a/ Idaho Constitutional Carry bill advances & rally is called]#nra #idaho #2A". [[Idaho]], [[American Redoubt]]: [[Charles Carroll Society]]. Published February 12, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2015.

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User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt

2016-03-31T23:47:17Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

[[File:Cross flag mine.png|150px|thumb|left| Christian Conservatives]]

Be strong, be of good [[courage]], God Bless America, Long live the [[Republic]]. [[Blessing|God speed]] to everyone who accesses this page!

[[File:Send_a_gun_to_a_British_home.jpg|thumb|right|[[Second Amendment]]-supporting [[American]] [[citizen]]s gifted their [[firearm]]s to [[gun free zone]]-[[gun control]] supporting British citizens during [[World War II]] via [[The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes]]]]

==Back from my American Redoubt Permaculture Project==
I am back from my [[American Redoubt]]-based [[permaculture]] [[offgrid]] [[homesteading]] project I have been working on since March of last year and will be able to contribute again to Conservapedia with a focus on permaculture and my usual prepper interests. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 11:12, 23 January 2016 (EST)

==Sources for Public Domain Pictures==
I post this since I hope to soon be uploading several hundred [[:Category:Firearms]], [[:Category:Pro Second Amendment]], and [[:Category:Survivalism]] photos to enhance the SEO visibility of numerous new articles I will be creating in these categories. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 11:57, 17 January 2015 (EST)

=== Public Domain pictures and pictures with generous copyright provisions===
Flikr and [[Creative Commons]]:
* http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
* http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_identify_public_domain_creative_commons_photos_flickr.html
* http://www.sxc.hu/

Some other good sites for public domain images:
* http://www.pdphoto.org
* http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/index.cfm
* http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/
* [[NASA]] and [[USGS]] photos are also in the public domain
* http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_use.htm

Source: Thanks to [[User:Conservative/sandboxfile]]

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==Comments==
In general, please keep your comments to a specific Talk Page about a specific article. Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 22:27, 10 February 2015 (EST)

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== Important: Wiki policy related to Conservapedia's Manual of Style ==

The Conservapedia Style Guide has a policy (If it does not have this policy, I will create it after I do this edit) of one link to a particular article at Conservapedia within a given article.

For example, a gun related article can only have one link to Conservapedia's [[gun control]] article.

Why is this policy important?

Failure to follow this policy creates difficult to read link rich articles which are unappealing to the eye. And once your article is unappealing to the eye, people will quickly click off it. So a link rich article is self-defeating in terms of getting people to dig more deeply into a subject at a wiki. Furthermore, it will cause people to leave the website sooner rather than later.

In addition, most people judge a book by its cover. An unappealing looking article is assumed to be an inferior article by most people.

I removed about a dozen duplicate internal links from this article: [[Ammunition control]]. It looks better now, but it still needs much improvement as far as being too link rich. Please remove the duplicate links. For example, each state mentioned in the article (New York, California, etc.), should only have one link to its respective article at this wiki. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:12, 14 February 2015 (EST)
:The policy I am referring to is located at [http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages#Links Internal link policy]. Please take the time to read Conservapedia's [http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages Manual of Style].

:I hope this message to you is helpful. I would hate for you to lose the opportunity of gaining a loyal audience due to something that is easily avoidable.

:Please go through your key articles (your most important articles) and remove the link richness. You can remove the link richness in the other articles as you continue to edit them. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:21, 14 February 2015 (EST)

:: Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:33, 14 February 2015 (EST)

== Info you requested ==

*[http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Style-Fourth-Edition/dp/020530902X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition] by William Strunk Jr. (Author), E. B. White (Author),

*[http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417946335&sr=1-1&keywords=on+writing+well On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction] by William Zinsser

:: Just got them on Audible.com:
* http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Entertainment/On-Writing-Well-Audio-Collection-Audiobook/B002V8KQLC
* http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/The-Elements-of-Style-Recorded-Books-Edition-Audiobook/B002V1NRTW

Thanks. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 03:18, 14 February 2015 (EST)

== Layout of articles ==

The [[Conservapedia:Editing article and talk pages|Manual of style]] has a section on the layout of pages; in sequence, the final sections should be references, see also, and then external links. Just a heads up, considering your recent articles do not follow this progression. [[User:DanielJackson|DanielJackson]] 23:22, 14 February 2015 (EST)
:: Thank you for the headups, however, what you state is not correct necessarily. There are reasons for putting the "References" or "Notes" section last. If you do not, then sometimes, when you need to put a footnote on a "See Also" or on an "External Links" (as I sometime do), you will get an error message.
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:: For the best guidance on a well-written article that follows the Conservapedia format and has a high visibility, please see one of our most popular articles [[atheism]]. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 23:35, 14 February 2015 (EST)
:::Problem solved. I appended the manual of style. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:06, 15 February 2015 (EST)
::::Makes sense. Good explanation: [[Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages#Layout]]. Thank you for the clarification. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 01:29, 15 February 2015 (EST)

== Image uploading ==

The uploading of copyrighted images is prohibited, unless consent from the copyright owner is obtained. [[Public domain]] images, or images available under a Creative Commons type of license, are preferred. Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:28, 7 February 2016 (EST)
:: Will do. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 16:27, 7 February 2016 (EST)

:::Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:52, 7 February 2016 (EST)

== Pages with an enormous amount of internal links with small amount of space between them. Pages with big see also sections ==

I think it great that you are adding content at Conservpaedia.

Please keep these things in mind:

1. re: the article [[Vote with your feet]] and articles like this.

An internal article link to a Conservapedia article is a decision for people. Am I going to click this link or not. When you have a lot of internal links without much text between them, you are flooding people with a lot of decision at once. People don't like that.

In addition, it is unpleasing to the eye. Too much of anything on a page is not good. A Stanford study found that 50% of a web pages credibility is how it looks.

2. Keep category tags very relevant to the articles at hand. Use them where a lot of people will clearly see the connection. Avoid category tags which tangential in nature and people are not apt to use.

3. Please avoid category tag battles. A very small percentage of people use the tags. Battles over category tags don't make sense in terms of a cost/benefit ratio. The time spent arguing over them is just not worth it.

Focusing on making your content more informative, well-written and more pleasing to the eye (people do judge a book by its cover) is much more worth it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:43, 31 March 2016 (EDT)

4. Please avoid big "see also" section with a ton of links. (see #1 above). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:44, 31 March 2016 (EDT)

Right on. Thanks for the reminders. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 19:47, 31 March 2016 (EDT)

Sterile

2016-03-31T23:37:39Z

TheAmericanRedoubt: Reverted edits by JDano (talk) to last revision by TheAmericanRedoubt

Sterile means clean and free of any living [[organism]]s.

It also means unable to [[reproduction|reproduce]].

==See Also==
* [[First aid]]
* [[Aseptic Packaging]]
* [[Food storage]]
* [[Preservation (food)]]
* [[Dehydration]]
* [[Canning]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category : First Aid]]
[[Category : Food Terms]]
[[Category : Food Preservation]]
[[Category : Food Storage]]
[[Category : Medicine]]

Category:Police State

2016-03-31T23:12:49Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

{{Main|Police state}}

This is a broad category of articles related to the issues, people, [[politician]]s, organizations, laws, books, concepts, [[immorality]] that, when the [[unalienable rights]] of the [[Bill of Rights]] and the [[Constitution]] are ignored or suspended, can potentially lead to the continued creation of a modern [[Police state]] from the seeds of the current [[liberal]] [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]] ([[ObamaCare]]-[[Social Security]]) and [[Nanny state]] which offers 24/7 [[Surveillance]] and No-Knock [[SWAT]] raids.

See also [[big government]] [[progressive]] [[police state]], [[Marxism]], [[Socialism]], [[National Socialism]], [[Liberalism]]

Contrast with [[limited government]] of [[libertarianism]] and [[conservatism]].

[[Category : Liberalism]]
[[Category : Politics]]
[[Category : Political Ideologies]]
[[Category : Political Theory]]
[[Category : Threats]]
[[Category : Man-Made Disasters]]
[[Category : Atheism]]
[[Category : Anti-American]]
[[Category : Totalitarianism]]
[[Category : Communications]]
[[Category : Internet]]
[[Category : Privacy]]
[[Category : Computer Security]]
[[Category : Welfare State]]
[[Category : Government]]
[[Category : Gun control]]
[[Category : Oppression]]
[[Category : Marxist terminology]]
[[Category : Forms of Government]]
[[Category : Murder]]
[[Category : Murderers]]
[[Category : Genocide]]
[[Category : Holocaust]]

Category:Police State

2016-03-31T23:12:15Z

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{{Main|Police state}}

This is a broad category of articles related to the issues, people, [[politician]]s, organizations, laws, books, concepts, [[immorality]] that, when the [[unalienable rights]] of the [[Bill of Rights]] and the [[Constitution]] are ignored or suspended, can potentially lead to the continued creation of a modern [[Police state]] from the seeds of the current [[liberal]] [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]] ([[ObamaCare]]-[[Social Security]]) and [[Nanny state]] which offers 24/7 [[Surveillance]] and No-Knock [[SWAT]] raids.

See also [[big government]] [[progressive]] [[police state]], [[Marxism]], [[Socialism]], [[National Socialism]], [[Liberalism]]

Contrast with [[limited government]] of [[libertarianism]] and [[conservatism]].

[[Category : Liberalism]]
[[Category : Politics]]
[[Category : Political Ideologies]]
[[Category : Political Theory]]
[[Category : Threats]]
[[Category : Man-made Disasters]]
[[Category : Atheism]]
[[Category : Anti-American]]
[[Category : Totalitarianism]]
[[Category : Communications]]
[[Category : Internet]]
[[Category : Privacy]]
[[Category : Computer Security]]
[[Category : Welfare State]]
[[Category : Government]]
[[Category : Gun control]]
[[Category : Oppression]]
[[Category : Marxist terminology]]
[[Category : Forms of Government]]
[[Category : Murder]]
[[Category : Murderers]]
[[Category : Genocide]]
[[Category : Holocaust]]

David Clarke

2016-03-31T23:08:04Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

[[File:Sheriff Clarke.png|thumbnail|right]]

'''Sheriff David Clarke''' (born August 21, 1956) is a 32-year [[Democrat]] veteran of the Milwaukee police department and is a fierce critic of [[Barack Obama]], [[Eric Holder]] and the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement. Clarke's public campaign in defense of cops has won over many people who are sick and tired of the unjustified attacks against law enforcement, in defense of criminals. In appearances on [[Fox News]] and comments on [[Twitter]], he rips the BLM group as "Black Lies Matter," and labeling its members "subhuman creeps" and calling for the movement's eradication "from American society." <ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/black-milwaukee-sheriff-takes-black-lives-matter-movement-120700515.html;_ylt=AwrC0CNNotFWlEcA5xjQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBydWNmY2MwBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM0BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg Black Milwaukee sheriff takes on Black Lives Matter movement, Yahoo, 2-27-2016]</ref>

Clarke is no stranger to controversial remarks. He called on Milwaukee's inner city residents to take responsibility for their lives and take up arms to defend themselves against criminals.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Law Enforcement]]
[[Category:Law]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Oath Keepers]]

David Clarke

2016-03-31T23:07:43Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

Ammunition shortage

2016-03-31T23:02:39Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

An '''ammunition [[shortage]]''' occurs when demand greatly outpaces [[supply and demand|supply]]. This can be due to [[panic buying]], [[war]], or other spikes in demand.

The election of [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 and [[Barack Hussein Obama]] in 2008 and 2012, along [[September 11, 2001]] terrorist attacks, [[young mass murderers|mass murders]] in [[liberal]] [[gun free zones]] and the threat of [[ammunition control]] from the [[police state]] have been responsible for major ammunition shortages. During these shortages, the price of [[ammunition]] can double in only a few weeks as ordinary American citizens begin to [[preps|stock up]] on ammo.

[[Gun enthusiast]]s and [[prepper]]s-[[survivalist]]s any many [[conservative]]s and rural people often prepare in advance by purchasing a box or two of ammunition whenever they visit their local [[Walmart]] or [[gun store]]. Bulk purchasing is much cheaper online or from [[gun show]]s.

==See Also==
* [[President Obama]] - [[gun control|gun grabbers]] ([[gun control]]) start with [[gun registration]] leading to [[gun confiscation]]
* [[Second Amendment]]
* [[Handloading]]
* [[Panic buying]]

* [[Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms?]] -- According to [[Thomas Jefferson]] it is as the final deterrent against potential [[tyranny]] of [[Big government|government]]

* [[Essay:Invest_in_tangibles#2._Defense_and_Security_.28.22Bullets.22.29|Invest in tangibles: Firearms]] - buy [[Precious metal]]s (that is [[Copper-jacketed lead]] and [[Firearms]])
* [[Firearms]]
* [[:Category:Firearm components|Firearm components]]
* [[:Category:Firearm terminology|Firearm terminology]]
* [[Gun control]]:
** [[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]] - always [[Liberal]] [[Elitist]]s
** '''[[Big government | Big Government]]''': [[Liberal values|Liberal]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Gun control]], [[Militarization of police]], [[Asset forfeiture]] and Domestic [[mass surveillance]] of law-abiding [[citizen]]s via the '''[[Police state]]''': [[Globalist]]-[[United Nations]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]

* [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable]] [[Gun rights]] versus [[Liberal]] [[Gun control]] and [[Gun free zone]]s
* [[Boston T. Party]]’s [[Essay:State Firearms Laws Ranking]]s from ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'' -- [[Vote with your feet]] - [[Strategic relocation]] to a [[Free States Movement|Free state]]
* [[Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]]
** [[Essay:Jews and Gun Control - Fear of Freedom or Freedom from Fear]], [[Essay:Why Jews Hate Guns - Are they right]]
* ''[[You & the Police!]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]] a.k.a.[[Kenneth W. Royce]]
* ''[[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]]'' by Boston T. Party

==External Links==
* [[Massad Ayoob|Ayoob, Massad]], "[http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2012/04/06/gun-and-ammo-shortage-coming Gun and Ammo Shorage Coming]". [[Oregon]], [[American Redoubt]]: [[Backwoods Home Magazine]], Published April 6, 2012.

* [http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/?s=ammunition+shortage Ammunition shortage] at [[The Survival Podcast]] by [[Jack Spirko]]
* [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:thesurvivalpodcast.com+ammunition+shortage]
* [http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/tag/ammunition-shortage]

* [[Preps|Stock up]] on [[Ammunition]] - Find ammo deals:
** [http://ammoseek.com AmmoSeek.com]
** [http://gunbot.net GunBot.net]
** [http://slickguns.com SlickGuns.com]
** [http://gun-deals.com Gun-Deals.com]
** [http://wikiarms.com WikiArms.com]

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[[Category : Ammunition]]
[[Category : Firearms]]
[[Category : Investments in Tangibles]]

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Ammunition shortage

2016-03-31T23:02:06Z

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History of the Democrat party under Barack Obama

2016-03-31T22:51:14Z

TheAmericanRedoubt: Reverted edits by DavidB4 (talk) to last revision by JoeyJ

'''Obamunism''' is a portmanteau that was created by mixing together the words [[President Obama|Obama]] and [[Communism|Communism]],
coined by critics of the [[Obama administration]] to describe [[Barack Obama]]'s [[socialism|socialistic]] and "[[fascism]] light" economic policies ([[Benito Mussolini]] defined fascism as the wedding of state and corporate powers. Accordingly, trend forecaster [[Gerald Celente]] labels [[Obama administration corporate bailouts|Obama's corporate bailouts]] as being "fascism light" in nature).<ref>[http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2009/07/meet_manhattans_anti-obama_pro.html Obamunism, Inc.]</ref><ref>[http://www.smallbusinessadvocate.com/small-business-interviews/gerald-celente-6944 Is the government creating a bailout bubble?]</ref> Obamunism can also refer to Obama's [[Obama administration fiscal policy|ruinous fiscal policies]] and [[Obama administration monetary policy|reckless monetary policies]] which have contributed to [[Barack Obama and United States Unemployment|high unemployment rates in the United States]].

[[Wall Street]] firms and banks that were bailed out were among Obama's biggest campaign supporters.<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638 Top Contributors to Barack Obama, 2008 Cycle]</ref> Therefore, the Obama administration bailouts of corrupt, unproductive, and reckless Wall Street firms was hardly surprising, although it certainly was not helpful in making the United States economy more productive and prosperous. A 2005 study found that government corporate bailouts are often done for mere political considerations and the economic resources allocated exhibit significantly worse economic performance than resources that are invested using purely business considerations.<ref>[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=676905 Political Connections and Corporate Bailouts]</ref>

==Economic policy==
=== Massive deficits ===
[[File:Unemployment.jpg|right|300px|thumb| [http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/07/19/the-anti-stimulus-in-pictures-any-questions/?print=1 ''Chart courtesy Doug Ross @ Journal''] ]]
The Obama administration has also been criticized for its [[Obama administration deficit spending|massive deficit spending]] and [[Obama administration monetary policy|reckless monetary policy]] via vast increases in the [[Money supply|money supply]].<ref>[http://seekingalpha.com/article/120883-monetary-policynot-obama-s-stimulusis-what-needs-watching Monetary Policy-Not Obama's Stimulus-Is What Needs Watching]</ref><ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/05172009/postopinion/editorials/bams_wise_words_169731.htm Bam’s Wise Words], [[New York Post]]</ref><ref>[http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/ Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures], [[Heritage Foundation]]</ref>

Advocates of [[free market]] [[capitalism]] were also opposed to President [[George W. Bush]], who signed legislation passed by the Democratic House and Senate totaling over a trillion dollars in corporate bailouts in 2008. For example, the Treasury and Federal Reserve bailed out the leading banks and insurance companies in 2008 with hundreds of billions of dollars of guarantees of bad loans (called "toxic assets").
[[File:6a00d8341c60bf53ef011571a57670970b-500wi1.jpg|left|300px|thumb| [http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/07/19/the-anti-stimulus-in-pictures-any-questions/?print=1 ''Chart courtesy to Duane Lester''] ]]
Trend forecaster [[Gerald Celente]] predicts that the corrupt economic policies of the Obama administration will lead to a second [[Great Depression|great depression]] that is global in scope (Celente predicted the 1987 US stock market crash, the dot.com crash, the US 2008/2009 recession, and the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s) and "second [[American Revolution]]" (Gerald Celente predicted the [[Tea Party Movement|tax protests]] that are now occurring in America).<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMX3SKzrfU&feature=channel_page</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9bfw1ebgw&feature=response_watch</ref> Celente also asserts that the costly and inefficient temporary short term methods that the Obama administration is using to alleviate economic problems in the short term (which are causing massive increases in deficit spending) is only making matters worse and will not prevent the worse economic depression in United States history from occurring.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8K7rWkGGw</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LBffdIW0XA&feature=response_watch</ref> In addition, Celente predicts that if a "second American Revolution" occurs in a peaceful and productive manner, it may include a [[Third Party System|third party movement]] of governance that will advocate a more [[free market]] [[capitalism]] approach to the American economy and a more strict interpretation of the [[United States Constitution|United States constitution]] as far as the authors' [[original intent]].<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMX3SKzrfU&feature=channel_page</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9bfw1ebgw&feature=response_watch</ref>

===Gerald Celente commentary on Obama's economic policy===

In an April 20, 2009 interview with ''Russia Today'', Gerald Celente stated concerning Barack Obama's economic policy:

{{cquote|America is going from what used to be the major capitalistic country in the world of free market – a crusader – into what [[Mussolini]] would have called fascism: the merger of state and corporate powers. So it is not socialism as people believe, it is socialism’s egalitarianism. It’s not communism where the state controls monopolies – it’s fascism, plain and simple. The merger of corporate and government powers. State-controlled capitalism is called fascism, and fascism has come to America in broad daylight. But they’re feeding them it in little bits and pieces. First [[AIG]] was too big to fail. Mortgage companies [[Fannie Mae]] and [[Freddie Mac]] were too big to fail. Banks too big to fail and auto companies. And now we give money to the people that make the auto parts. And now there’s talk about the technology companies, wanting their piece of the action. The merger of state and government is called fascism. Take it from Mussolini; he knew a thing or two about it.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090422065521/http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/celente2.html Americans Live in a Fascist State - Russia Today Interviews Gerald Celente]</ref>}}
== Return of Stagflation Concerns ==
In February of 2010 the ''[[Washington Times]]'' reported:
{{cquote|Prices rose 2.7 percent during 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent update of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This is a worrisome fact because last year's unemployment rate averaged more than 9 percent. This trend may signal a return of "stagflation," a merger of stagnation and [[inflation]].

In the 1970s, stagflation shocked traditional [[Keynesian economics|Keynesian]] economists, whose models said the economy could not suffer from both high unemployment and rapid inflation at the same time. Unfortunately, the Keynesians were wrong, because an economy obviously can experience both evils simultaneously...

It seems every week the Obama administration announces some new tax or mandate that will further handicap businesses. Regardless of the official definitions of recession, the economy will remain sluggish for years to come. But if the [[Federal Reserve]] continues with its reckless policies, Americans will experience high inflation on top of high unemployment. As in the late 1970s, Americans will see that the pundits are wrong, because stagflation is very real.<ref>[http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/19/setting-the-stage-for-stagflation/ MURPHY: Setting the stage for stagflation], [[Washington Times]]</ref>}}

==Command and Control==
===Census Bureau===

President Obama made a decision to have the director of the U.S. Census Bureau work directly with the White House, a move in advance of the 2010 census that will determine redistricting of congressional seats.

The Census is used to redraw district lines for elected seats in Congress and state legislatures. Efforts were made by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]] after the 2000 Census to adjust the totals for states and cities using statistical sampling and computer models. In 1999, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled 5-4 in ''Department of Commerce v. U.S. House'' that sampling could not be used to reapportion congressional seats. But it left open the possibility that sampling could be used to redraw political boundaries within the states.

Not only is it the basis for congressional redistricting, it provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also uses the Census to prepare the economic data that so much of business relies upon.

Rep. Darrell Issa of [[California]] and Rep. Patrick McHenry of [[North Carolina]] on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, addressed President Obama:
"Requiring the Census director to report directly to White House Chief of Staff [[Rahm Emanuel]] is a shamefully transparent attempt by your administration to politicize the Census Bureau and manipulate the 2010 Census. The constitutionally-mandated decennial Census needs to be fair, accurate and trusted. By circumventing the secretary of commerce's oversight of the Census Bureau and handing it directly to a political operative such as Mr. Emanuel, you are severely jeopardizing the fairness and accuracy of the 2010 Census." <ref>[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/02/05/census_director_to_report_to_w.html Census Director to Work Directly with White House], By Philip Rucker ''[[Washington Post]]'', February 5 2009.</ref> Issa also stated, "Any attempt by the [[Obama administration]] to circumvent the census process for their political benefit will be met with fierce opposition. This ill-conceived proposal undermines a constitutionally obligated process that speaks to the very heart of our [[democracy]]."

Michael Barone of ''[[US News and World Report]]'' noted the White House power grab may violate the [[Constitution]].<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/2009/02/09/white-house-census-power-grab-may-violate-the-constitution.html ''White House Census Power Grab May Violate the Constitution''], Michael Barone, US News and World Report, February 09, 2009.</ref> Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution provides for an "actual enumeration" and a statute passed by Congress provides that the duties under this clause are to be performed by the secretary of commerce. Article is about the legislative, not the executive branch. Hence, the president can't substitute a sampling for the enumeration required to be done by the secretary.

Bruce Chapman, director of the U.S. Census Bureau under [[President Ronald Reagan]], explains
:"[I]f the nation's premier statistical agency were placed under White House direction, the danger to public trust would be enormous. The Decennial count is one of the few federal functions specifically described in the Constitution itself and must be operated above suspicion of politics. Power flows from an accurate census count. Everyone involved for years has seen the count therefore as a sacred trust. It must not be polluted with even a semblance of presidential meddling." <ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=88302 White House grabs 2010 census power], By Drew Zahn, ''[[WND|WorldNetDaily]]'', February 07, 2009.</ref>

===National Security Council staff===
The Tower Commission Report on the [[Iran/Contra]] fiasco during the [[Reagan Administration]] reviewed what was wrong <ref>Tower Commission Report (Report of the President's Special Review Board). February 26, 1987. U.S. [[Government Printing Office]], Washington DC 20402. [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/PS157/assignment%20files%20public/TOWER%20EXCERPTS.htm#PartIV]</ref> in the National Security process and made specific recommendations to avoid future potential abuses of power. The report stated the NSC staff had "developed an important role within the Executive Branch of coordinating policy review, preparing issues for presidential decision, and monitoring implementation. For this reason it has generally operated out of public view and has not been subject to direct oversight by Congress."<ref>Tower Commission Report (Report of the President's Special Review Board). February 26, 1987. U.S. [[Government Printing Office]], Washington DC 20402, p. 13.</ref> In [[Iran/Contra]], the "NSC staff assumed direct operational control,"<ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 62.</ref> and "Congress was never notified."<ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 63.</ref>

As specific recommendations, the Commission declared "Departments and agencies should not be excluded from participation in the process. The staff should not be implementors or operators;"<ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 93.</ref> when the NSC staff "take on implementation responsibilities, they risk compromising their objectivity. They can no longer act as impartial overseers of the implementation, ensuring that Presidential guidance is followed, that policies are kept under review, and that the results are serving the President's policy and the national interest."<ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 92.</ref> The Commission also noted, "Circumventing the departments...robs the President of the experience and capacity resident in the departments...Process will not always produce brilliant ideas, but history suggests it at least can prevent bad ideas from becoming presidential policy."<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cvxelgaMzIoC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=tower+commission+report%2Brobs+the+president&source=bl&ots=9I1sgHbSP6&sig=ChdzjK-dH1FBSh13jprsx98qFoc&hl=en&ei=ag_lSoSEGoH8tQPUwZm5Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=tower%20commission%20report%2Brobs%20the%20president&f=false Beyond a Government of Strangers: How Career Executives and Political Appointees Can Turn Conflict to Cooperation],''
Robert Maranto, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (May 2005), p. 89. ISBN-13: 9780739110904</ref>

In August 2009 it was revealed the [[Obama administration]] ignored the Tower Commission Report. In a profanity-laced screaming match at the [[White House]]<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8398902 Obama White House v. CIA; Panetta Threatened to Quit Tensions Lead to CIA Director's "Screaming Match" at the White House], Matthew Cole, Richard Espisito, and Brian Ross, ''[[ABC News]]'', August 24, 2009.</ref> [[CIA]] Director [[Leon Panetta]] protested Obama's decision to create a team of interrogators overseen by the White House.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112169988 ''White House To Oversee New Interrogation Team''], Dina Temple-Raston, [[NPR]] August 24 2009.</ref> Responsibility for interrogations of suspects was shifted away from the CIA and the National Security Council staff given direct operational control.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302598.html ''New Unit to Question Key Terror Suspects - Move Shifts Interrogation Oversight From the CIA to the White House]'', Anne E. Kornblut, ''[[Washington Post]]'', August 24, 2009.</ref> Independent Counsel for [[Iran/Contra]] Lawrence Walsh wrote in the Final Report, "The National Security Act of 1947, the statute that created the NSC,48 charges it to 'assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power, in the interest of national security," whereas the CIA, created by the same statute as an "agency involved in intelligence activities -- 'under the National Security Council,' and assigns the CIA the responsibility of 'coordinating the intelligence activities of the several Government departments and agencies in the interest of national security . . . under the direction of the National Security Council.50" <ref>Final Report of the Independent Counsel for [[Iran/Contra]] Matters. Lawrence E. Walsh. Washington, D.C. August 4, 1993. [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_iii.htm Part III The Operational Conspiracy: A Legal Analysis]. Page 55. Walsh cites 50 U.S.C. 402(c) and 50 U.S.C. 403(a),(d). Footnote 50 includes "emphasis added".</ref> The [[Obama administration]] has said the new arrangements will be involved in "intelligence gathering."<ref name=fullcircle>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090829080320/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/27/critics-question-shift-interrogations-away-cia/ Full Circle: Move to Shift Interrogations Away From CIA Draws Pre-Sept. 11 Comparisons], [[FOXNews]], August 27, 2009.</ref>

Critics such as former National Security Adviser Richard Allen said, "The National Security Council staff doesn't have, in my view, the expertise to be in the interrogation business" and puts the White House "in a position of micro-managing the process." Tony Shaffer, a former Army intelligence observed, "Once you have direct knowledge of day-to-day activities coming into a central location near or at the [[White House]], there's a tendency, almost a temptation, to meddle in actual field activities, such as [[LBJ]] calling in to commanders in rice paddies in [[Vietnam]] what he wants to have done that day."<ref name=fullcircle />

Unlike executive departments and agencies such as the [[Department of Justice]], [[FBI]], and CIA, the National Security Council staff is not subject to Congressional authority and oversight, and operate outside the spotlight of public view.<ref>[https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2009/08/25/national-security-council-reloaded/ National Security Council Reloaded], J. E. Dyer, ''[[Commentary]] blog'', 08.25.2009.</ref><ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 13.</ref> The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] made this point during the [[United States Presidential Election, 2008|elections of 2008]] when the George W. Bush [[National Security Council|NSC]] staff was involved only in decisions and authorizations and before the Obama NSC staff took on an operational role.<ref>[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35595prs20080610.html?s_src=RSS ACLU Urges Congress to Examine White House National Security Council as Central Decision-Maker on Torture], [[ACLU]] Press Release, (6/10/2008).</ref>

[[John Brennan]], who was Obama's first choice as CIA Director, had his nomination withdrawn over allegations he was involved in enhanced interrogations of terror suspects during the administration of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003909 John Brennan for CIA? Think Again], Scott Horton, ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', November 24, 2008.</ref>
<ref>[http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/ad_20081206_1783.php What's Behind Brennan's Withdrawal? Some former spies say left-leaning bloggers and columnists drove John Brennan out of consideration for CIA director], Shane Harris, ''National Journal Magazine'', Dec. 6, 2008.</ref> As Obama's adviser on counter-terrorism, Brennan was placed in charge of the operation.

==Civilian National Security Force==
[[File:Def01.jpg|left|300px|thumb| A poster of the [[Maoist]] Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. [http://www.okcu.edu/honors/colloquiums.pdf] ]]
Obama has called for a domestic "Civilian National Security Force" to be "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the United States military. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s Video])<ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html</ref> By contrast, the [[U.S. Army]] alone has nearly 500,000 troops, not counting reserves or [[National Guard]]. In 2007, the [[Pentagon|U.S. Defense]] budget was $439 billion.<ref>''[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=69601 Obama's 'civilian national security force']'', James Farah, [[WorldNetDaily.com]], July 15, 2008.</ref>

Rep. Bob Filner, a [[Democrat]] from [[California]] introduced H.R. 675, a [[backdoor spending]] bill that would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. The bill would amend the U.S. code with the following: “Sec. 1585b. Law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense: authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms… for any offense against the United States.” The bill would define a “law enforcement officer of the Department of Defense” as “a civilian employee of the Department of Defense,” including federal police officers, detectives, criminal investigators, special agents, and game law enforcement officers classified by the Office of Personnel Management Occupational Series 0083. The United States Office of Personnel Management is described as an “independent agency” of the U.S. government that manages the civil service of the federal government.

The [[Department of Defense]] has issued Defense Directive 1404.10 ([http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140410p.pdf read PDF]) that establishes a “DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce.” The Obama administration describes the Civilian Expeditionary Workforce as follows:

{{QuoteBox|Members of the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce shall be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations of the Department of Defense in accordance with DoDD 3000.05.}}

Both H.R. 675 and the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce directive will establish civilian “soft power” under the direction of the Pentagon. Alex Jones' [[Infowars]].com site states, "Obama is now actively working to create a paramilitary 'civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded' as the military. In order to skirt Posse Comitatus, Obama’s paramilitary [[brownshirts]] will be organized and run out of the Office of Personnel Management with orders coming from the Pentagon."<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/hr-675-building-obamas-civilian-national-security-force/ H.R. 675: Building Obama’s Civilian National Security Force], Kurt Nimmo, [[Infowars]], June 23, 2009.</ref>

Some critics have expressed concern over President Obama's intentions. <ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94CDDM80&show_article=1 Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship], Bob Evans, [[Breitbart.com]], Nov 10 2008.</ref>

===Indoctrination===
[[File:MyObama screen shot.jpg|thumb|450px|left|]]
By act of Congress and the signature of President Obama, the eighth anniversary of the [[September 11, 2001 terror attacks]] marked the first officially designated Patriot Day, a National Day of Service. The concept was championed by MyGoodDeed, an organization founded by family and friends of people killed in the attacks. The group's mission statement calls for honoring "the victims of 9/11 and those who rose to service in response to the attacks by encouraging" good deeds and various volunteer activities. A ''[[New York Post]]'' editorial alerted to the danger how
{{Cquote|Acts of kindness are easily distorted into [[propaganda]], issues advocacy and attempts to redefine 9/11 for political purposes. This cheapening has already happened, and in the most inappropriate place - the [[White House]]. <ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/30/2009-08-30_keep_faith_with_911_official_observances_must_not_obscure_days_true_meaning.html Keep faith with 9/11: Official observances must not obscure day's true meaning], Editorial, ''New York Daily News'', Sunday, August 30th 2009.</ref>}}
The [[Obama administration]] supports creating clean energy jobs in cities through a campaign called '''Green the Block''', started by the groups Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus. A video and statement are posted on the White House blog. Environmental Czar [[Van Jones]], founder of Green for All, said 9/11 commemoration would be an opportunity to "connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America." In 2004 Jones on behalf of his organization, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, signed on to the [[conspiratorial]] 911 Truth organization <ref>[http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633 Respected Leaders and Families Launch 9/11 Truth Statement Demanding Deeper Investigation into the Events of 9/11]</ref> alleging a U.S. role in planning and executing the attacks.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/04/radicalization-obamas-green-czar/ The Radicalization of Obama's 'Green Czar'], [[FoxNews]], September 04, 2009.</ref>

barackobama.com, which now is "Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America,"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090704092123/http://www.barackobama.com/learn/about_ofa.php Organizing for America] About OFA</ref> carries an event described as follows:

<blockquote>'''PHONE CALLS ON 9/11 - Illinois! (Health Care Organizing Event)''' 
What day? Our US Senators return to DC the Tues after Labor Day. That next FRIDAY, Sep 11, is Patriot Day, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the 9/11 attacks. 
All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.... 
...according to a White House Adviser to the President with whom I spoke ten days ago at a DNC Panel, he said, "ON ONE DAY you 'burn-up' the Senate Switchboards - THE NEXT DAY you've got the Senator's attention". We will achieve that effect, on Friday, Patriot Day 9/11. <ref>[http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:3kI-WRLXCWwJ:my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/healthcareorganizingevent/gpk4cj%20mybarackobama%20gpk4cj&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us my.barackobama.com]</ref></blockquote>

One week prior to the first Patriot Day and Green the Block action, President Obama's aides acknowledge the White House helped the [[U.S. Education Department]] craft a proposal for prekindergarten to sixth-grade students to write letters about "what they can do to help the president," and for students immediately after listening to a speech by the president to engage in a discussion about what "the president wants us to do." A curriculum was distributed nationwide by the Department of Education prior to Obama's presentation to students.<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/02/wh-withdraws-call-students-help-obama/print/ White House withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama], Matthew Mosk, ''[[The Washington Times]]'', September 3 2009.</ref> Part of the exercise was to include teachers putting up “quotations” from Obama on the walls, and having the children making a “pledge” to do what they can to “serve” President Obama. <ref>http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/porter/2009/09102009.htm</ref>

===Retribution against perceived 'enemies'===
President Obama rose to prominence as the Keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention declaring in the speech,
{{Cquote|there's not a liberal America and a conservative America... there's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. ... Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope? <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19751-2004Jul27.html Transcript: Illinois Senate Candidate Barack Obama], [[Washington Post]]</ref>}}

President Obama told the corrupt, scandal ridden [[ACORN]] organization, an organization involved in human trafficking, the teenage sex trade, and ballot box stuffing initiatives on behalf of Democratic candidates,<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187873/sen-al-franken-d-acorn-mark-hemingway Sen. Al Franken (D., ACORN)], [[National Review]]</ref>
{{Cquote|We're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda.<ref name=Malkinbook>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T-lmcZL_bXIC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=obama%2BWe+are+going+to+be+calling+all+of+you+in+to+help+shape+the+agenda&source=bl&ots=fkP3HHz1SW&sig=DrMGmbe0IaGWgqQ6ta9E4uPoVmA&hl=en&ei=t_LSTKnCL8SBlAfL6OW9Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=obama%2BWe%20are%20going%20to%20be%20calling%20all%20of%20you%20in%20to%20help%20shape%20the%20agenda&f=false|last1=Malkin|first1=Michelle|title=Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies|date=2010|publisher=Regnery Publishing|isbn=978-1596986206|pages=259}}</ref>}}
Before suffering a resounding rebuke of his leadership,<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110208183.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 For Mr. Obama, a rebuke and a chance to right himself], [[Washington Post]]</ref> his party, and the progressive liberal [[ideology]] in the [[2010 midterm election]]s, Mr. Obama urged partisan backers to exact revenge on their 'enemies'.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/28/AR2010102806270.html The great campaign of 2010], [[Washington Post]]</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110205027.html Obama's message for the day after], [[Washington Post]]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/250919/did-president-united-states-describe-some-americans-enemies-kathryn-jean-lopez Did the President of the United States Describe Some Americans as Enemies?], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-latinos-punish-your-enemies-voting-booth_511932.html Obama to Latinos: "Punish" Your "Enemies" in the Voting Booth], [[Weekly Standard]]</ref> The president suggested,
{{Cquote|We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends.<ref name=Malkinbook />}}

== Human Rights ==

=== Forced abortion ===
In March 2009 the [[Obama administration]] announced it would send $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA. UNPFA actively promotes abortion and is working closely with Chinese population control officials to implement China's forced abortion policy. The [[CCP]]'s coercive one-child rule has resulted in forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations and other [[human rights]] abuses.<ref>[http://www.lifenews.com/int981.html Group Confirms Obama Would Fund Forced Abortions if UNFPA Money Restored], by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, November 12, 2008.</ref>

UNFPA officials work side-by-side their Chinese colleagues and even share the same offices.<ref>[http://www.lifenews.com/int1138.html Obama Administration Announces $50 Million for Pro-Forced Abortion UNFPA], by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, March 26, 2009.</ref>

===Snitch list===
In July 2009 the [[White House]] began soliciting from its immense social media networks and the general public that if they were to "see something on the web about [[Obamacare|health insurance reform]] that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/ Facts Are Stubborn Things], [[White House]]</ref><ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27655039/ Congressman: Obama wants Gestapo-like force], [[MSNBC]]</ref>
Under the [[Privacy Act of 1974]], which was passed after the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon administration]] used federal agencies to illegally investigate individuals for [[political]] purposes, prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals exercising their right to [[free speech]].<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/white-house-collect-fishy-info-health-reform-illegal-critics-say/ White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal], [[FoxNews]], August 07, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/08/mark_your_calendar_flagwhiteho_1.asp Snitch List to be Released in 2018 (or 2022)?], [[Weekly Standard]]</ref>

Sen. [[John Cornyn]] of Texas stated in a letter to the White House, "I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed ‘fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests."<ref>[http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=InNews&ContentRecord_id=ebc2c77d-802a-23ad-4ae4-6ccf4c7a255c Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter To President Obama About "Fishy" Activities Program], Office of Senator [[John Cornyn]]</ref>
Congressman Darrell Issa also expressed grave concern about the administration blurring the lines between political and official business by collecting data on administration critics.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384070/issas-something-scott-coffina Issa’s Onto Something], [[National Review]]</ref>

===Data collection and privacy rights===

In August 2009 it was reported the White House was soliciting bids to outsource a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.” The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video.

Critics have charged the emerging pattern of information management and control as "yet another sign that this Administration is at best indifferent to privacy rights and at worst prepared to violate [[civil liberties]] for [[political]] purposes.<ref>[http://nlpc.org/stories/2009/08/31/obama-white-house-has-secret-plan-harvest-personal-data-social-networking-website Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites], Ken Boehm, 08/31/2009.</ref>

===Patriot Act===

The Obama [[Justice Department]] has been accused of being "secretive, tyrannical, and oppressive" and compared with [[President George W. Bush]], "even worse."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090924001648/http://donedems.com/2009/04/14/holy-crap-obama-actually-manages-to-make-the-patriot-act-worse-than-under-bush Obama Actually Manages to Make the Patriot Act WORSE than Under Bush], DONE, April 14, 2009,</ref> As a candidate, Senator Obama lamented that the Bush Administration "invoked a legal tool known as the 'state secrets' privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court," however in a motion to dismiss ''Jewel v. NSA'', the Electronic Frontier Foundation litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping, the [[Obama Administration]] argued that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. The Obama administration argued that simply allowing the case to continue "would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security." As in the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.

The Obama Justice Department then argued that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying — that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes. Birch Bricker writing in the ''Auburn Journal'' then points out, "This is a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one — not the [[White House]], not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the [[Bush Administration]] — has ever interpreted the law this way....The Obama Administration goes two steps further than Bush did, and claims that the [[US PATRIOT Act]] also renders the U.S. immune from suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws: the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. Essentially, the Obama Administration has claimed that the government cannot be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statutes." <ref>[http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/111477.html?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=Patriot+Act&user_id=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&event_ts_to=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=2&sub_type=&town_id= It's Actually Possible... The Patriot Act Gets Worse], ''Auburn Journal'', 4/12/09.</ref>

===Guantanamo===

As the Democratic candidate for president Obama pledged on numerous occasions to countless audiences closing the [[Guantanamo Bay]] Detention facility housing uncharged captured combatants in order to "regain America's moral stature in the world." <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQXZoM__vU0 60 Minutes: Obama Reiterates Promise To Close Guantanamo Bay], [[60 Minutes]]</ref> After assuming office, Obama made a budget request to transfer the detainees to the [[United States]] without specifying where the detainees would be held. The Democratic-controlled Congress repudiated Obama by denying funding for that transfer, and leaders from both parties spoke against it.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/us/politics/20detain.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo], [[The New York Times]]</ref> Obama then endorsed indefinite detention without trial.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104045.html Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some], Peter Finn, [[Washington Post]], May 22, 2009. </ref>

===Iran===
Obama has continued covert operations in [[Iran]] begun under President [[George W. Bush]]. Investigative journalist [[Seymour Hersh]] quotes numerous sources as saying that the [[U.S. Congress]] agreed to a Bush request in late 2007 to fund an escalation of covert operation in Iran. Hersh says those operations began as early as 2005. Bush signed a series of executive orders and findings [in late 2004] permitting the Pentagon to run clandestine, covert operations -- operations which Americans go into countries under cover.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2009/intell-090113-rferl01.htm ''Reports Suggest Obama Faces Early Choice On Iran Covert Ops''] By Ron Synovitz, January 13, 2009.</ref> Jeremy R. Hammond writes in the [[progressive]] website ''Foreign Policy Journal'': "[G]iven the record of U.S. interference in the state affairs of Iran and clear policy of regime change, it certainly seems possible, even likely, that the U.S. had a significant role to play in helping to bring about the recent turmoil in an effort to undermine the government of the Islamic Republic.

According to Ken Timmerman, the executive director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran ~ the Persian Service of [[Voice of America]] (VOA) clearly sided with Mir Hossein Mousavi against those dissident groups who wanted to boycott the election entirely, the position Timmerman favored. Timmerman saw the branding of Mousavi's "green revolution" as evidence that the US government was using its National Endowment for Democracy to support the former prime minister Mousavi. Post election violence claimed the lives of 69 people.<ref>[http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_13041572 ''Iranian reformists claim 69 dead in post-election violence''], By Nasser Karimi, The ''[[Associated Press]]'', 08/12/2009.</ref> Steve Weissman writes,
"[O]ur opposition to [ [[Ahmadinejad]] ] does not justify meddling in another country's election while proclaiming "universal democratic values."<ref>[http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/06/19.html ''Halt Cheney's And Now Obama's Covert Iran Operations''] by Allen L Roland, Salon.com, June 19, 2009.</ref>

Eric Margolis, a columnist for Quebecor Media Company in Canada and a contributor to ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', wrote: "While the majority of protests we see in Tehran are genuine and spontaneous, Western intelligence agencies and media are playing a key role in sustaining the uprising and providing communications, including the newest electronic method, via [[Twitter]]. These are covert techniques developed by the US during recent revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia that brought pro-US governments to power."

===China and Tibet===
On Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]]'s first official visit to [[China]], the Secretary told Chinese leaders the [[Obama administration]] considered [[human rights]] concerns secondary to economic survival<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4735087/Hillary-Clinton-Chinese-human-rights-secondary-to-economic-survival.html Hillary Clinton: Chinese human rights secondary to economic survival,] Richard Spencer, ''[[Daily Telegraph]],'' 20 Feb 2009.</ref> and asked the [[CCP]] leaders for help financing [[President Obama]]'s massive $787 economic stimulus plan by buying US Treasury securities.<ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.42a44b0f5d9cf5c9762e80574e79a3d5.831&show_article=1 Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt,] [[Breitbart.com]], Feb 22 2009.</ref>

The [[Dalai Lama]], often portrayed as a religious leader, was made [[Tibet]]an head of state in 1950, the same year that China invaded and annexed Tibet.<ref name=Dalai>[http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/18/analysis.china.dalai.lama/index.html Analysis: Why the Dalai Lama angers China,] Jaime FlorCruz, [[CNN]] Beijing Bureau Chief, February 18, 2010.</ref> [[CNN]] reports the Chinese find it "unacceptable when they see the Dalai Lama treated as a VIP, or even akin to a head of state."<ref name=Dalai />

After the Dalai Lama met with President Obama in February, 2010 he was unceremoniously escorted through a side door that trash is regularly carried out to a photo op with awaiting camaras.

===Religious persecution===

====Identity liberty vs belief liberty====

Prof. Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor nominated by President Barack Hussein Obama to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has declared society should “come down on the side” of homosexual equality at the expense of religious liberty. Feldblum reasoned the conflict between the two is “irreconcilable,” religious liberty -- also called "belief liberty" -- must be placed second to the “identity liberty” of homosexuals.

Feldblum published her beliefs in an article entitled “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in the Brooklyn Law Review in 2006. Feldblum recognizes that elements of the [[homosexual agenda]] may infringe on Americans’ religious liberties. “Protecting one group’s identity liberty may, at times, require that we burden others’ belief liberty. This is an inherent and irreconcilable reality of our complex society,” Feldblum wrote.<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59965 Obama’s EEOC Nominee: Society Should ‘Not Tolerate Private Beliefs’ That ‘Adversely Affect’ Homosexuals,] Matt Cover, [[CNSNews]], January 18, 2010.</ref>

====Book burning====
In May 2009 [[bible]]s were burned at Bagram Air Base in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/20/Military-burns-Bibles-sent-to-Afghanistan/UPI-70431242828660/ Military burns Bibles sent to Afghanistan], [[UPI]], May 20, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32000 Is the Military Supposed to Burn Bibles?], by Robert Maginnism, ''[[Human Events]]'', 05/26/2009.</ref>

===Free speech===

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would give the administration authority to conduct warrant-less spying and dictatorial power over Internet.<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet Should Obama Control the Internet?], ''Mother Jones'', April 2 2009.</ref>

*Section 215 -- drastically broadens the kinds of information the government can demand under Foreign Intelligence Security Act to "any tangible thing" while lowering the burden of proof to obtain such an order. According to the ''[[Washington Post]]'' this measure "allows investigators probing terrorism to seek a suspect's records from third parties such as financial services and travel and telephone companies without notifying the suspect. The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the provision, saying it violates the First Amendment rights of U.S. citizens."

*Section 206 -- grants the authority to use secret "roving wiretaps." "In the past, authorities had to seek court approval for each electronic device carried by a suspect, from a cellphone and a BlackBerry to a home computer," writes the ''Post'', "But under the provision, one warrant can cover all of those machines." "Unlike roving wiretaps authorized for criminal investigations," the ACLU explains, "section 206 does not require the order to identify either the communications device to be tapped nor the individual against whom the surveillance is directed, which is what gives section 206 the Kafkaesque moniker, the "John Doe roving wiretap provision."

*Section 6001 -- or the "lone wolf" provision, which allows for secret FISA surveillance orders against people who have no connections to a terror group or foreign nation. "The government justified this provision by imagining a hypothetical "lone wolf," an international terrorist operating independently of any terrorist organization," explains the ACLU, "but there is little evidence to suggest this imaginary construct had any basis in reality."

Rod Beckstrom, formerly in charge of coordinating the US government’s cyber-security operations, in a resignation letter to Secretary of Homeland Security [[Janet Napolitano]],<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/BeckstromResignation.pdf Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Janet Napolitano], [[Wall Street Journal]], March 9, 2009.</ref> cited the expanded control over the nation’s computer security efforts poses “threats to our democratic processes.” <ref>''[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/03/11/US-cybersecurity-head-quits-citing-growing-role-of-spy-agencies/UPI-64411236692969/ U.S. cybersecurity head quits, citing growing role of spy agencies]'', Shaun Waterman, [[UPI]], March 11, 2009.</ref>

==Further reading==

*[http://blogsforvictory.com/2009/06/22/understanding-obamunism/ ''Understanding Obamunism''] by Mark Noonan on June 22nd, 2009.
*[http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/human-rights-according-obamunism ''Human Rights According To Obamunism'',] ''[[Weekly Standard]]'', Rachel Abrams, January 15, 2010.
*[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf ''Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection''], Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein.
*[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein.

==See Also==
* [[Obama administration fiscal policy]]
* [[Obama administration monetary policy]]
* [[Obama administration corporate bailouts]]
* [[Barack Obama and uncharitableness]]
* [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Crony capitalism]]
* [[Obamacare]]
* [[Preparedness]] rather than [[Entitlement mentality]] - [[Essay:If times get tough, or even if they don't]]
* [[Essay:The Survivalist Mindset - A Biblical Case for Preparedness and Self-Defense]]
* [[Essay:Invest in tangibles]]

==References==
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==External Links ==

'''General Resources:'''

*[http://www.europac.net/whitepapers/BewareOfObamanomics.pdf Beware Of Obamanomics]
*[http://obamunism.us/ Obamunism]

'''Articles on Obama administration monetary policy''':

*[http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/07/18/feds-treasury-purchases/ Fed’s Treasury Purchases March 2009 to July 2009]
*[http://military.rightpundits.com/2009/08/13/federal-reserve-is-printing-money-prepare-for-hyper-inflation/ Federal Reserve is Printing Money: Prepare for Hyper-Inflation] August 13, 2009
*[http://seekingalpha.com/article/120883-monetary-policynot-obama-s-stimulusis-what-needs-watching Monetary Policy — Not Obama's Stimulus—Is What Needs Watching]
*[http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/ContrarianChronicles/printing-money-isnt-the-cure.aspx Printing money is not the cure]

'''2009 Obama Administration Monetary Policy Videos''':

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1hkEor6sM&feature=channel_page Glenn Beck on Printing Money]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdEuXuslrLA Ron Paul, Glenn Beck & Company: Monetizing the Debt - The Truth]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4v5x932cNE Peter Schiff - Impending hyperinflation]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpQqLCbD1EY&feature=related Inflation Is Going To Increase Very Substantially As A Result Of Money Printing] May 30, 2009
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/hyperstagflation Hyperstagflation]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVOuC0qSrR8 $78.8 Trillion; United States Debt Obligations exceed world GDP; Monetary Collapse Looming?] February 16, 2009

'''2008 Obama Administration Monetary Policy Videos'''

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ahaczm7Ahw Peter Schiff - Obama = print print print print print] - November 06, 2008

'''2009 Articles on Obama administration fiscal policy:'''

*[http://www.nypost.com/seven/05172009/postopinion/editorials/bams_wise_words_169731.htm Bam's Wise Words] - [[New York Post]], May 17, 2009
*[http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/ Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures] - [[Heritage Foundation]], March 24th, 2009

'''2009 Videos on Obama administration fiscal policy:'''

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9TG15xbGg Over 200 top economist against the Obama plan]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gjzr0JQuic&feature=related Obamanomics 101 - Obama's Real Fiscal Policy]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72GLNrYwjlQ America, we must find a new fiscal policy]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc Stop Spending Our Future]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MsdCuuW0j8 Obama Deficit Dishonesty?]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVOuC0qSrR8 $78.8 Trillion; United States Debt Obligations exceed world GDP; Monetary Collapse Looming?] February 16, 2009

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Income redistribution

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TheAmericanRedoubt: Reverted edits by DavidB4 (talk) to last revision by Progressingamerica

'''Income redistribution''' can be either the act of an individual's voluntary [[charity|charitable]] giving or government mandated compulsory transfer of [[asset]]s and [[income]] from one group of citizens to another group.

Most [[conservative]]s accept and advocate voluntary charitable giving as necessary to alleviate social problems, but believe the government should not interfere, but rather should encourage personal involvement and personal giving to the underprivileged, elderly, disabled, and other hardship cases. Also, many conservatives view some forms of government redistribution as an impingement on personal rights, leading to unjust expropriation of property, fostering irresponsible social conduct and acting as a disincentive for personal involvement to alleviate social problems. Also, mandatory giving may create jobs for bureaucrats and dependent constituencies as electoral bases. By contrast better off liberals like professors are more likely to vote for political parties that favor income redistribution. Income redistribution will increase the taxation they personally pay. They show altruism by the way they vote.

[[Liberal]]s generally support income redistribution based on their belief that individual charitable giving cannot be relied upon and tends to advocate some degree of compulsory redistribution of resources as necessary. Charitable institutions are sometimes bureaucratic and inefficient.

Examples of government programs performing compulsory income redistribution include [[welfare]] and [[progressive taxation]]. Socialists believe that increased redistribution and consequent reductions in inequality lead to better outcomes for individual welfare and freedom. Likewise, Professor Richard Layard has argued that "in societies where income differences between rich and poor are smaller, the statistics show not only that community life is stronger and people are much more likely to trust each other; but also there is less violence – including substantially lower homicide rates – health is better and life expectancy several years longer, prison populations are smaller; birth rates among teenagers are lower, levels of educational attainment among school children tend to be higher; and there is more social mobility. In all cases, where income differences are narrower, outcomes are better."

==History==
Progressives try to sell ideas of egalitarianism as new, however historically the concept of wealth redistribution is very old, having its roots in the [[Palace economies]] of early city-states. [[Benjamin Franklin]] at the [[Constitutional Convention]] mentioned how the Pharoahs engaged in it.<ref name=convention />

Benjamin Franklin was not the only one who noticed. Another Founding Father, [[James Madison]] made multiple observations regarding the theft of income or assets, "levelling", from one person to another. On June 26th, 1787, he said:

<blockquote>In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. An increase of population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labour under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former. No agrarian attempts have yet been made in in this Country, but symptoms, of a leveling spirit, as we have understood, have sufficiently appeared in a certain quarters to give notice of the future danger. How is this danger to be guarded against on republican principles? How is the danger in all cases of interested coalitions to oppress the minority to be guarded against? Among other means by the establishment of a body in the Government sufficiently respectable for its wisdom and virtue, to aid on such emergencies, the preponderance of justice by throwing its weight into that scale. Such being the objects of the second branch in the proposed Government.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40861/40861-h/40861-h.htm |title=The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, Volume I (of 2) |work=[[Constitutional Convention]] |date=June 26, 1787 }}</ref></blockquote>

Again, on August 7th, he observed:

<blockquote>"As the holders of property have at stake all the other rights common to those without property, they may be the more restrained from infringing, as well as the less tempted to infringe the rights of the latter. It is nevertheless certain, that there are various ways in which the rich may oppress the poor; in which property may oppress liberty; and that the world is filled with examples. It is necessary that the poor should have a defence against the danger.

"On the other hand, the danger to the holders of property cannot be disguised, if they be undefended against a majority without property. Bodies of men are not less swayed by interest than individuals, and are less controlled by the dread of reproach and the other motives felt by individuals. Hence the liability of the rights of property, and of the impartiality of laws affecting it, to be violated by Legislative majorities having an interest real or supposed in the injustice: Hence agrarian laws, and other leveling schemes: Hence the cancelling or evading of debts, and other violations of contracts. We must not shut our eyes to the nature of man, nor to the light of experience. Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third? Make the number as great as you please, the impartiality will not be increased; nor any further security against injustice be obtained, than what may result from the greater difficulty of uniting the wills of a greater number.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41095/41095-h/41095-h.htm |title=The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, Volume II (of 2) |work=[[Constitutional Convention]] |date=August 7, 1787 }}</ref></blockquote>

Outside of the Convention, other Founding Fathers such as [[Samuel Adams]] have written:
<blockquote>It is observable, that though many have disregarded life, and contemned liberty, yet there are few men who do not agree that property is a valuable acquisition, which ought to be held sacred. Many have fought, and bled, and died for this, who have been insensible to all other obligations. Those who ridicule the ideas of right and justice, faith and truth among men, will put a high value upon money. Property is admitted to have an existence, even in the savage state of nature. The bow, the arrow, and the tomahawk; the hunting and the fishing ground, are species of property, as important to an American savage, as pearls, rubies, and diamonds are to the Mogul, or a Nabob in the East, or the lands, tenements, hereditaments, messuages, gold and silver of the Europeans. And if property is necessary for the support of savage life, it is by no means less so in civil society. The Utopian schemes of levelling, and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable, as those which vest all property in the Crown, are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government unconstitutional. Now, what property can the colonists be conceived to have, if their money may be granted away by others, without their consent? This most certainly is the present case; for they were in no sense represented in Parliament, when this act for raising a revenue in America was made. The stamp act was grievously complained of by all the colonies ; and is there any real difference between this act and the stamp act? They were both designed to raise a revenue in America, and in the same manner, viz. by duties on certain commodities. The payment of the duties imposed by the stamp act, might have been eluded by a total disuse of the stamped paper; and so may the payment of these duties, by the total disuse of the articles on which they are laid; but in neither case, without difficulty. Therefore, the subjects here, are reduced to the hard alternative, either of being obliged totally to disuse articles of the greatest necessity, in common life, or to pay a tax without their consent.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adams|first1=Samuel |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4IoKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA137 |title=THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS TO DENNYS DE BERDT. |work=House of Representatives, Massachusetts |date=January 12, 1768 }}</ref></blockquote>
[[Samuel Adams]] has long been established as the author of this.

Likewise, [[William Bradford]] wrote in his book (p. 135) ''History of the Plymouth Plantation'':
<blockquote>The experience that was had in this comone course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos & other ancients, applauded by some of later times; – that ye taking away of propertie, and bringing in comunitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and florishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this comunitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion & discontent, and retard much imploymet that would have been to their benefite and comforte. For ye yong-men that were most able and fitte for labour & service did repine that they should spend their time & streingth to worke for other mens wives and children, without any recompence. The string, or man of parts, had no more in devission of victails & cloaths, then he that was weake and not able to doe a quarter ye other could; this was thought injuestice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and [97] equalised in labours, and victails, cloaths, &c., with ye meaner & yonger sorte, thought it some indignite & disrespect unto them. And for mens wives to be commanded to doe servise for other men, as dresing their meate, washing their cloaths, &c., they deemd it a kind of slaverie, neither could many husbands well brooke it.<ref name=bradford>{{cite web |last1=Bradford|first1=William |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4IoKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA137 |title=History of Plymouth Plantation |work=William Bradford |date=1650 }}</ref></blockquote>

After a few years of strife, deaths, and other calamity, Bradford wrote (p. 136) that he was thankful to God for showing the colonists the error of 'comunitie' of 'propertie' and 'comone wealth', saying "God in his wisdome saw another course fiter for them."<ref name=bradford></ref>

Generally speaking, early Americans and the Founders in particular considered wealth redistribution to be an injustice, a danger, and a form of slavery, and they said so. Either saying so directly, or indirectly with comparisons to well known historical tyrants.

Wealth redistribution was called "levelling" back then.

===Vote Buying===
Wealth redistribution has the net-effect of consolidating power for rulers by, in effect, rewarding certain groups for their support while punishing others. In a discussion regarding public debtors, [[Oliver Ellsworth]] made the following observation:
<blockquote>Mr Elseworth was for disagreeing to the remainder of the clause disqualifying Public debtors; and for leaving to the wisdom of the Legislature and the virtue of the Citizens, the task of providing against such evils. Is the smallest as well as the largest debtor to be excluded? Then every arrear of taxes will disqualify. Besides how is it to be known to the people when they elect who are or are not public debtors. The exclusion of pensioners and placemen in England is founded on a consideration not existing here. As '''persons of that sort are dependent on the Crown, they tend to increase its influence'''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_726.asp |title=Madison Debates, July 26 |work=[[Constitutional Convention]] |date=July 26, 1787 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsapejLQstkC&pg=PA147|last1=Zeckhauser|first1=Richard|title=Strategy and Choice|date=1991|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0262240338|pages147-151}}</ref></blockquote>

During the [[2016 presidential election]], then candidate [[Ben Carson]] discussed the role of [[welfare]] and the buying of votes.<ref>[http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/13/why_is_dr_carson_s_common_sense_totally_foreign_to_the_modern_day_gop Why Is Dr. Carson's Common Sense Totally Foreign to the Modern-Day GOP?], [[Rush Limbaugh]]</ref> He said: "You can’t take care of yourself and I’m going to give you food stamps, a housing subsidy and free health care, and all the things you need so you can stay dependent and vote for me."<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/12/ben-carson-welfare-perpetuates-poverty-buys-votes/ Ben Carson: Welfare Perpetuates Poverty, Buys Votes]</ref>

===Influence Peddling===
Preying on those with limited economic means for support does extend outside of government. Actor [[Sean Penn]] conducted an interview with notorious drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly referred to as ''El Chapo'', in an interview for [[Rolling Stone]] magazine.<ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109 El Chapo Speaks]</ref> In the article, Penn notes how in the process of establishing the Sinaloa cartel, El Chapo established himself as a mythical, "Robin Hood-like figure who provided much-needed services in the Sinaloa mountains" such as food,road building, and also medical relief. All of this support that El Chapo received was mainly because he purchased it, using the largess of his drug funding.

==Liberal Attempts to Redefine the Term==
Liberals have attempted to redefine the terms "income redistribution" and "redistribution of wealth" to demonize [[free market]] [[capitalism]] and small government. They claim that [[trickle down economics]], deregulation, and tax cuts have redistributed income from the poor and middle class to the rich.<ref>Robinson, Eugene. "Have and Have-not Nation." October 28, 2011. Washington Post Writers Group. http://www.truth-out.org/have-and-have-not-nation/1319808459</ref> As evidence they point to income data, such as data in the report released by the Congressional Budget Office in October 2011.<ref>Condon, Stephanie. [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20126373-503544/income-gap-will-keep-growing-without-changes-cbo-director-says/ Income gap will keep growing without changes, CBO director says.] October 27, 2011. [[CBS News]]</ref> However, the [[lamestream media]] and liberal politicians have heavily exaggerated this fact recently.

===Robin Hood Upside Down===
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In the original stories, the people of England suffered under the oppression of a high tax regime created by the King and enforced by the Sheriff. Robin Hood's unsanctioned tax cuts worked against this system. The new Robin Hood as a hero of redistributive purposes did not appear until the late 1700s, through the work of [[Joseph Ritson]]. This transformation is quite destructive of everything that Robin Hood fought for, considering that the King was imposing excessive taxes, and redistribution requires the same kind of high tax imposition.

==Quotes==
*"Attempts to redistribute wealth repeatedly led to the redistribution of poverty." -- [[Thomas Sowell]] [http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Earth-Rise-Fall-Socialism/dp/1893554783/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9_rdssss0]
*"Hence as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partizans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever." -- [[Benjamin Franklin]]<ref name=convention>{{cite web |last1=Madison|first1=James |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_602.asp |title=Madison Debates, June 2 |work=[[Constitutional Convention]] |date=June 2, 1787 }}</ref>
*"[Obama's] policies, like those of FDR, seek to destroy America from within as a pretext to comprehensively remake the republic into a servile, Marxist welfare state." -- [[Ellis Washington]], in reference to [[Obama|Obama's]] policies on income distribution<ref name=wnd>[http://www.wnd.com/2010/04/144865/ Kill the welfare state!], [[WND]]</ref>

==References==
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==See Also==
* [[Heaven on Earth]]
* ''[[The Naked Communist]]'' by [[Cleon Skousen]]
* [[Thanksgiving]]
* [[Palace economy]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1155 Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution], Robert Higgs, ''The Independent Institute'', December 5, 1994
*[http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj1n2/cj1n2-2.pdf Taxation and Income Redistribution: An Unsympathetic Critique of Practice and Theory], Richard B. McKenzie, ''The CATO Journal'', Accessed December 24, 2007
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/category/redistribution/ What Liberals Say - Category: Redistribution], [[Accuracy In Media]]
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Gun control

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TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Gun control''' is [[leftist]] [[doublespeak]] and a term used when advocating [[unconstitutional]] laws designed to disarm the American people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,<ref>''Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws'', Cramer C and Kopel D. Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994</ref> but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a [[civil right]], leftists and [[liberals]] alike push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens capable of fighting back against [[tyranny]]. The political effect of gun control is to shift voters leftward, and hence the primary supporters of gun control are the [[liberal media]] and [[leftist]] politicians.<ref>[http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/quotes/repeal.html Quotes of Leftists Demanding Gun Control]</ref> In the [[United Kingdom]], which already has the strictest gun control in Europe, [[leftists]] demand control over 120,000 ''deactivated'' guns, although their activation and use constitute only 0.04% of all gun offenses there. But leftists want gun control because fewer guns means greater dependency on government.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3168607.ece</ref>

Gun control is a denial or limitation by [[government]]s of the right to armed [[self-defense]],<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"> "In contrast to most other weaponry, firearms are preeminently defensive in effect." [http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/76holo.htm Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref> as promised by the [[Second Amendment]] of the Constitution of the [[United States of America]]. Genocide has occurred only after gun control first disarmed the citizenry.<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/>

Proponents use the discredited - but superficially appealing - claim that fewer lawfully-owned guns lead to less crime, although guns are primarily defensive weapons<ref>People who support gun control claim that gun control laws significantly reduce violent crime. [http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/irrationality.htm Why People Are Irrational about Politics]</ref><ref>Gun control primarily restricts the lawful acquisition and use of guns. Over 99% of the guns restricted by most gun control regulation are used in a lawful manner.</ref> (see [[Concealed carry]]).

Gun control laws cause enormous hardships. In May 2012, a gun control law resulted in a 20-year prison sentence against an [[African American]] woman for merely firing warning shots against her husband, and there was widespread outrage in [[Florida]] against this unconscionable sentence.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/justice/florida-stand-ground-sentencing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3</ref>

In the United States the three primary [[federal]] gun control laws are:
* [[National Firearms Act]] (1934)
* [[Gun Control Act]] (1968)
* [[Brady Bill]] (1993)

These laws have further been amended by other laws such as the Firearms Owners Protection Act (1986) and the Omnibus Crime Bill (1994).

Fed up with federal gun control, in 2009 States began considering (Utah) or passing (Montana) laws "making guns that are made and kept within state boundaries exempt from federal regulations" including "background checks, licensing and registration."<ref>http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6367553</ref>

== The Fallacy and Motivation for Gun Control ==
[[Image:No Weapons Allowed.gif|right]]
Gun control potentially causes an increase in crime by restricting its main deterrent: [[self-defense]]. A study by Professor Gary Kleck, initially a liberal critic of gun control, caused him to change his mind on this issue when the evidence showed that crime was predominantly ''prevented'' when people could carry guns. ''See Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America''.<ref>http://www.largo.org/effects.html</ref> In the United States, law-abiding uses of guns outnumber criminal uses by about a factor of 1000 to 1,<ref>http://www.americanselfdefense.com/gunfacts3.0.pdf (p. 60)</ref> and the removal of guns from everyone eliminates the lawful use of self-defense and its deterrent effect. "[[Americans]] use firearms to defend themselves from criminals at least 764,000 times a year."<ref name="Gallup_LAT">"This figure is the lowest among a group of 9 nationwide surveys done by organizations including Gallup and the Los Angeles Times." (Just Facts - [http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Gun Control])</ref> Specific examples of guns being used successfully in [[self-defense]] are easy to find.<ref>Two 70-ish store owners stopped armed robberies of their stores by shooting at the bandits. "The person came in and pointed the gun at him and my father shot him. I'm proud of him." [http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/253849.html Buffalo News]</ref><ref>[http://sittingduckpolicy.com/ Sitting Duck Policy: True Stories of Self-Defense]</ref> "In 1982, a survey of imprisoned criminals found that 34% of them had been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim."<ref name="Gallup_LAT"/> When [[Florida]] began allowing its citizens to carry a concealed weapon, [[Florida]]'s firearm homicide rate fell by 37% while the national average ''increased'' by 15%.<ref name="Gallup_LAT"/> As explained below, the political effect of gun control is to cause voters to become more dependent emotionally on government and more supportive of bigger government.

Studies by [[John Lott]] and others indicate that gun control causes higher crime rates.<ref>[http://www.johnrlott.com/ John Lott's Website]</ref> [[Washington, D.C.]] has one of the highest crime rates in [[America]] even though it completely bans private handguns.<ref>[http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm District of Columbia Crime Rates 1960 - 2006]</ref> "Switzerland, Israel, Denmark and Finland, all of whom have a higher gun ownership rate than America, all have lower crime rates than America, in fact, their crime rates are among the lowest in the Western World."<ref>Slashdoc - [http://www.slashdoc.com/documents/71244 gun control]</ref> Lott demonstrates that in [[Britain]], [[Australia]] and [[Canada]], increased gun control in the late 1990s led to increased crime, the exact opposite of what the proponents of the gun control promised.<ref>John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer - [http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/IBDGunConFailure.html Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten Gov't Plans]</ref> States in the [[U.S.]] that have enacted concealed-carry laws enjoy lower crime rates.<ref>[http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4706 Cato report]</ref>

[[image:Robbery victims per 100K.png|300px|thumb|Source data: Australian Bureau of Statistics]]
[[image:Robbery victims.png|300px|thumb|Source data: Australian Bureau of Statistics]]

In [[Australia]], where gun ownership was less widespread and the gun control measures were less strict, there was an immediate increase in robbery and armed robbery after the gun control went into effect in 1996 (see chart at right).<ref>

Gun control passed in Australia because "public was immediately whipped into a gun control frenzy by the press" after the "Port Arthur massacre" in Tasmania on April 28, 1996, in which 32 were shot dead and 19 injured. "Although polls done prior to the massacre indicated that the public was satisfied with the amount of 'gun control' they already had, a major newspaper did a poll just a few days after the massacre (while all minds were "clear") and, not surprisingly, found high levels of support for extreme gun control measures. This poll would be used forever by the commonwealth government and other gun controllers to claim that Australians supported the new gun laws to come." - [http://www.gunsandcrime.org/aussiegc.html Gun Control in Australia] (by gunsandcrime.org)</ref>

There is no clear evidence supporting a decrease in crime from gun control.<ref name="Results">[http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html Results of the Australian Gun "Buyback" & New Gun Laws], October 2001</ref><ref>[http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/azl084v1 Study showing lack of promised benefits from gun control]</ref> Although from 1979 to 1996, 11,110 Australians died by gunshot representing an annual average of 617. In the seven years after new gun laws were announced (1997 to 2003), the yearly average almost halved, to 331. In the decade up to and including Port Arthur There have been 11 mass shootings where 100 people were shot dead and another 52 wounded, while in In the 10 years since 1996 and the new gun laws, not one mass shooting (more than five victims) has occurred in Australia (although in 2002 a gunman killed two and wounded four at Monash University) <ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</ref>

Subsequent to gun control in England:<ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html</ref>
[[File:Send_a_gun_to_a_British_home.jpg|thumb|right|[[Second Amendment]]-supporting [[American]] [[citizen]]s gifted their [[firearm]]s to [[gun free zone]]-[[gun control]] supporting [[British]] citizens during [[World War II]] via [[The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes]]]]

:"from 1997 to 2001, the rate of violent crime more than doubled. Your chances of being mugged in London are now [as of 2002] six times greater than in New York. England's rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are far higher than America's, and 53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., where burglars admit to fearing armed homeowners more than the police. In a United Nations study of crime in 18 developed nations published in July, England and Wales led the Western world's crime league, with nearly 55 crimes per 100 people."<ref>However this increase in recorded violent crime between 1997 and 2001 is explained by the Home Office as a result of changes in the definition of violent crime and new counting rules introduced in 1998. [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/rdsolr1804.pdf Violent Crime in England and Wales] According to the British Crime Survey, which is considered a more reliable guide to trends in crime[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/crime-statistics-independent-review-06.pdf], violent crime fell 24% between 1997 and 2001/02, and burglary fell 40% over the same period.[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1105tab201.xls Trends in BCS incidents of crime]</ref>

Gun control in [[Britain]] and [[Australia]] has been followed by a predictable shift to the left politically by voters as they lost their instrument of self-defense and became more emotionally dependent on government. Contrast that with the [[United States]], where an effort to push gun control after the [[Columbine massacre]] failed in 2000 and the government has remained as [[conservative]] -- if not more so -- ever since.

The emasculation of the citizenry by gun control also arguably reduces the resistance of a society to intimidation, and exacerbates fear of consequences from causing offense. Subsequent to the passage of strict gun control in [[England]] some teachers have avoided teaching controversial subjects such as the [[Holocaust]], the Arab-Israeli conflict and the [[Crusades]] during history classes.<ref>http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RW100.pdf</ref>
Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19] (p.15) The anti-self-defense attitude of British authorities has also turned criminals into "victims" and victims who fight back into "criminals." One particularly egregious case involved a farmer being sentenced to life imprisonment for defending himself in his home after the home was repeatedly burglarized <ref>http://www.theinternetparty.org/commentary/c_s.php?td=200107200000&section_type=com</ref>

== Trends ==
After decades of increasing gun control laws, the current trend in the [[United States]] is in the direction of more gun rights. The 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill included a ban on certain new rifles labeled assault rifles solely because of features of their appearance, and on new high-capacity magazines. This law recently expired and was not renewed by [[Congress]]. Also, Washington D.C.'s gun ban was struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals on March 9, 2007.<ref>The New York Times - [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/washington/09cnd-gun.html?hp Appeals Court Says Gun Ban Violates 2nd Amendment]</ref><ref>The Washington Post - [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030902416.html D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out]</ref>

By removing the deterrent effect of guns, gun control causes dramatic increases in crimes committed with other weapons:<ref name="bbc">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2656875.stm</ref>

:You are now six times more likely to be mugged in [[London]] than [[New York]]. Why? Because as common law appreciated, not only does an armed individual have the ability to protect himself or herself but criminals are less likely to attack them. They help keep the peace. A study found American burglars fear armed home-owners more than the police. As a result burglaries are much rarer and only 13% occur when people are at home, in contrast to 53% in England.

Supporters of gun control argue that homicide with guns is much less in [[England]] than in the [[United States]],<ref>In 2005/06, the total number of victims of homicide by shooting (including crossbows) in England and Wales was 50 and there were 212 victims of homicide by sharp instruments. [Home Office Statistical Bulletin - [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0207.pdf Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2005/2006][http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb0104.pdf] The data for gun deaths in the United States include guns used in self-defense, as in fending off an assault, robbery or rape, and there were a total of 11,350 gun deaths (including deaths of criminals) in 2005.[US Department of Justice, FBI - [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html Crime in the United States by Volume and Rate per 100,000 Inhabitants, 1986 - 2005]</ref> but that was true even before gun control and is likely due to cultural reasons. "A study comparing New York and London over 200 years found the New York homicide rate consistently five times the London rate, although for most of that period residents of both cities had unrestricted access to firearms. When guns were available in England they were seldom used in crime. A government study for 1890-1892 found an average of one handgun homicide a year in a population of 30 million."<ref name="bbc" />

Gun control laws are often seen to conflict with the [[Second Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which recognizes the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a [[Free States Movement|free State]], the [[unalienable rights|right]] of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The "right to keep and bear arms" is a right guaranteed to the American citizen by the Bill of Rights through the virtue of a selective reading of said Bill. The phrase "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" precedes the statement, and most federal Courts of Appeals have held that this phrase requires that the "right to bear arms" relates to the collective rights of state militias, as opposed to the individual's rights to have any weapon desired. Just recently, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit went against nine other circuits in holding that the Second Amendment constitutes an individual right.<ref>The New York Times - [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/washington/10gun.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Court Rejects Strict Gun Law as Unconstitutional]</ref><ref>FOX News - [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258067,00.html Appeals Court Strikes Down Washington, D.C. Handgun Ban]</ref> However, according to the judge writing for the majority in this case, its decision does still allow for "reasonable restrictions" on gun ownership and use, such as carrying of guns by intoxicated individuals, or in churches.

Only six cities in the [[United States]] ban handguns: [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Chicago]], and four of its suburbs.<ref>David Kopel, "The Democrats and Gun Control," Wall St.J., Page A19, April 17, 2008 [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120839466717921537-lMyQjAxMDI4MDE4NzMxOTc0Wj.html]</ref>

==Overview==
"Gun control" can include:

* Restricting which persons can own firearms.
* Restrictions on the number of firearms a person may own, or purchase during a given time period
* Requirements that privately owned firearms be registered with the government.
* Bans on certain types of firearms; for example, "handguns" or assault rifles
* Restrictions on where firearms may be carried, for example into restaurants or post offices
* Requiring a "background check" and/or a "waiting period" to purchase a firearm
* Restricting when and where firearms may be bought and sold, for example banning their sale through the mail
* Requiring licenses or some other form of permission from the government to buy and/or sell a firearm
* Requiring some form of permission from the government to carry a firearm in public, either concealed or openly
* Laws granting special gun rights for some people, for example retired law enforcement officers, which are denied the rest of the public, which was used in several southern states.
* Outright bans on carrying firearms in public
* Outright bans on private possession of firearms, though this has never occurred in the United States

===Arguments in favor===
"The only purpose of a gun is to kill people."

Another oft overlooked argument is that of suicide prevention. Guns are highly effective tools for committing suicide with a reported success rate of over 95%, whereas other common methods such as overdoses and cutting have a less than 10% success rate. People who attempt and fail to commit suicide do not usually try again.

===Arguments against===
{{coulter-armed-self-defense}}

[[Emily Miller]] wrote,
"New York City Mayor [[Michael R. Bloomberg]] has spent tens of millions of his billions trying to get his gun bans instituted in the rest of America, even though these laws have never stopped criminals from getting guns."<ref> [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/26/miller-bloomberg-loses-stop-and-frisk-and-nra-gets/ Bloomberg loses stop and frisk, and NRA gets blamed: The mayor’s default disgust for gun owners tarnishes his life-saving program] - [[Emily Miller]]</ref>

==Constitutional Debate==
The [[Second Amendment]] reads:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Most constitutional scholars agree that since the amendment refers to "the right of the People" instead of the right of the militia, it protects an individual right to own guns. The reason for this was the fact that the supplying of guns for the military and militas was already provided for in Article I Section 8 as a power of Congress. The extent of that right was something hotly debated for decades, until the Supreme Court ruling of 26 June, 2008, Heller v District of Columbia.

The majority opinion, written by Justice [[Antonin Scalia]], held for the first time that the Constitution provides an individual right to bear arms, such as for self-defense, rather than a right that applies only to a state militia.

The decision upheld an appellate court ruling striking down Washington, D.C.'s 1976 handgun ban. The case marked the first time in more than 70 years that the Supreme Court had addressed the Second Amendment ''and the first time it spoke directly about the implication of an individual right''. The court struck down two of the District of Columbia's gun control laws: its handgun ban and its requirement that other firearms kept at home have a trigger lock or be disassembled.

Relying on the broader historical record, Justice Scalia wrote:
{{cquote|'''putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.'''}}

Scalia noted that the ruling should not be interpreted to "cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings." <ref>[http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-2901.pdf Supreme Court Opinion, District of Columbia v Heller]</ref>

==Racism of gun control==
In the [[United States of America]], gun control has a strong racist origin and reasoning. Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in its infamous 1857 decision in ''[[Dred Scott v. Sandford]]'' to uphold slavery.

The United States Congress overrode most portions of the Black Codes by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The legislative histories of both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as The Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867, are replete with denunciations of those particular statutes that denied blacks equal access to firearms. [Kates, "Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment," 82 Mich. L. Rev. 204, 256 (1983)] However, facially neutral disarming through economic means laws remain in effect.

After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1878, most States turned to "facially neutral" business or transaction taxes on handgun purchases. However, the intention of these laws was not neutral. An article in Virginia's official university law review called for a "prohibitive tax...on the privilege" of selling handguns as a way of disarming "the son of Ham," whose "cowardly practice of 'toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of crime.... Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a murder, or at least a row, before he alights."<ref>Comment, Carrying Concealed Weapons, 15 Va L. Reg. 391, 391-92 (1909); George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (GMU CR LJ), Vol. 2, No. 1, "Gun Control and Racism," Stefan Tahmassebi, 1991, p. 75.</ref> Thus, many Southern States imposed high taxes or banned inexpensive guns so as to price blacks and poor whites out of the gun market.

Today, "gun control" laws continue to be enacted so as to have a racist effect if not intent:

* Police-issued license and permit laws, unless drafted to require issuance to those not prohibited by law from owning guns, are routinely used to prevent lawful gun ownership among "unpopular" populations.
* Public housing residents, approximately 3 million Americans, are singled out for gun bans.
* "Gun sweeps" by police in "high crime neighborhoods" whereby vehicles and "pedestrians who meet a specific profile that might indicate they are carrying a weapon" are searched are becoming popular, and are being studied by the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] as "Operation Ceasefire."
* Some U.S. cities with high minority populations, such as Washington, D.C., are singled out for gun bans.
* "Project Exile" began in the U.S. city of Richmond, Virginia and mandated that people arrested for technical firearms violations (note: not for violent crimes committed with a firearm, but for technical violations of the law) be tried in federal court where they would be subject to lengthy mandatory minimum sentences rather than in state court under the more lenient Virginia laws. As with many other restrictions this was aimed primarily at the city's Black residents. It has since been copied in many other cities.

The [[Ku Klux Klan]] began also as a gun-control organization.<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/kkk-began-as-gun-control-organization-confirms-racist-roots-of-gun-control</ref>

== Sexism of gun control ==

Firearms, especially lower recoiling ones such as many handguns, allow any person to wield enough power to stop another person from attacking them.<ref name="genderDiscrimination1">http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/03/19/firearms-rights-are-a-gender-equality-issue-too/ </ref> Many women (quite reasonably) fear the threat of attack by a physically stronger man, and a firearm could prevent many of these attacks, but gun bans leave these women vulnerable. Take the case of the “North Side Rapist” in Chicago, a city where hand guns are banned, as an example: The rapist broke in to the womens homes, and at least one of the women heard him break in and then climb the stairs. Had this woman had a handgun, she almost certainly could have stopped the rapist before it was too late. This would have prevented her from enduring such a horrific crime, as well as preventing the rapist’s future victims from experiencing the same thing. Instead, Chicago law prevented her from being able to defend herself, and gave the advantage to the rapist/home-invader. This is not an isolated incident, and similar events happen every day across the county.

== Elitism of gun control ==

Many of the most ardent American anti-gun politicians, such as Chicago’s Mayor Daley, are protected by taxpayer-sponsored armed body guards, but deny law abiding citizens the right to defend themselves with a gun. <ref name="classDiscrimination1">http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/04/16/a-double-standard-anti-gun-politicians-and-their-gun-toting-bodyguards/ </ref> These politicians seemingly believe themselves to be part of an elite group who deserve to be protected against violent criminals, while ordinary law-abiding citizens are left with less-effective means to defend themselves, and must instead rely on the police arriving in time.

== Gun control outside the United States ==

Gun control advocates cite foreign countries to argue that gun control can reduce crime, but such comparison can be difficult due to the presence of other factors. For example, they cite [[Singapore]] as having gun control and a lower crime rate than the [[United States]], but Singapore has less than 5 million persons and one of the highest literacy and average wealth in the world. It lacks many of the freedoms found in the [[United States]] and strictly imposes harsh physical punishment, such as caning and the [[death penalty]], for crimes that are not punished so harshly in the [[United States]]. The real issue of the security in Singapore is its tight criminal control, not the gun control itself.

Gun control supporters also cite [[Gun Control in Japan|Japan's gun control laws]], which severely restrict gun ownership and crime rates are relatively low. But [[Japan]] also lacks many freedoms and diversity which exist in the [[United States]], and [[Japan]] has strong cultural deterrents to crime. Ironically, [[Japan]] is home to [[Tokyo Marui]], the world's largest airsoft gun manufacturer, which designs airsoft guns that are made to the same scale and with the same materials as the real counterpart and which have been mistaken by police for real guns.

In the [[European Union]], gun control is more strict than in the United States, but gun ownership differs widely between member states, from 36 per 100 people in [[Cyprus]] to one per 100 in [[Poland]]." In [[Switzerland]], on the other hand, gun ownership is quite widespread, which no doubt contributes to its reputation as a peaceful and neutral country.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/27/switzerland.shooting Gun control in Switzerland]</ref> In November 2007, the [[European Parliament]] passed legislation to tighten and harmonize gun control across the EU, and oblige each member state to set up a computerized database of firearms, as it "hoped to prevent Europe from becoming a gun-friendly culture like the United States". Parliament wanted to limit cross-border trade from states with less control to those with tougher laws, such as from [[Lithuania]], where replica guns can cost as little as [[Euro|€]]100 (US$150), to the [[United Kingdom]], where most replicas are outlawed.

In Australia, gun violence has always been significantly lower than other types of violence.<ref>http://www.gunsandcrime.org/aussiegc.html</ref>. Australia has not experienced considerable violence problems with legally purchased guns. It has always had a much lower homicide rate than the more violent culture in the [[United States]].<ref>In Australia the gun related homicide rate is 0.44 per 100,000 of population. In the US it is about 8 times as high at 3.72 per 100,000 of population.</ref> From 1979 to 1996, 11,110 Australians died by gunshot representing an annual average of 617. In the seven years after new gun laws were announced (1997 to 2003), the yearly average almost halved, to 331. In the decade up to and including Port Arthur There have been 11 mass shootings where 100 people were shot dead and another 52 wounded, while in In the 10 years since 1996 and the new gun laws, not one mass shooting (more than five victims) has occurred in Australia (although in 2002 a gunman killed two and wounded four at Monash University).<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</ref>

Gun control began in Australia in response to fears that guns would be used by home-grown Communist Revolutionaries.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1083528 This study discusses the parallel policies of early-mid 20th century Britain and Australia.</ref> The most restrictive reforms were made in 1996 and 2002, following highly publicized shootings.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html</ref>

Both sets of reforms (1996 and 2002) were lead by Prime Minister [[John Howard]] of the Coalition(Australia’s conservative government). Howard was well known as an anti-gun advocate.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/anger-lingers-among-those-who-lost-their-firearms/2006/04/27/1145861489398.html</ref> The move offended gun supporters, many of whom had traditionally supported the Coalition.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/anger-lingers-among-those-who-lost-their-firearms/2006/04/27/1145861489398.html</ref> Despite the loss of this voting group, Howard won elections following both reforms (in 1998 and 2004).

There is controversy over the success of Australia’s gun restrictions. Studies suggest overall gun violence has decreased since the 1996 and 2002 bans.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html</ref> However, Australia’s bike and drug gangs, the main perpetrators of gun violence, still easily access illegal firearms.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/a-disarming-cause/2006/04/27/1145861489519.html</ref> Further, the overall homicide rate remains constant.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04
/27/1145861484114.html?page=2</ref>

== Gun Control and Genocide ==

Gun control "contributes to the probability of its government engaging" in [[genocide]], including the three worst instances in the 20th century:<ref>"[A] society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. ... [I]t is [] an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed." [http://ls.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-3/753-4.html Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref>

*In 1911, [[Turkey]] imposed gun control and then, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million defenseless Armenians were killed.

*In 1929, the [[Soviet Union]] imposed gun control and over the next 24 years about 20 million defenseless dissidents were killed.

*In 1935, [[China]] established gun control from 1948-1952 20 million political dissidents were killed.

*In 1938, [[Germany]] imposed gun control and then over the next seven years 13 million defenseless Jews and other victims were exterminated. <ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed December 26, 2007</ref>

*In 1956, [[Cambodia]] established gun control and between 1975 and 1977 one million oppositionals were exterminated.

*In 1970, [[Uganda]] imposed gun control. Between 1971 and 1979 300,000 Christians and political oppositionals were killed.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/66751/gun-control-amin/dave-kopel#</ref>

"The Nazis made only two important changes to the Weapons Law that was in place when they came to power. First, they forbade Jews from owning guns or any other weapon. Second, they exempted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and many Nazi party officials from the law's strictures."<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/> The German Firearms Act of 1937 stated "No civilian is to have a firearm without a permit and permits shall not be issued to persons suspected of acting against the state. ''For Jews, this permission will not be granted.'' Those people who do not require permission to carry weapons include the whole of the SS, and the SA - including the Deaths Head group, and the officers of the Hitler youth." <ref name="Volokh">[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d04d5c7c40.htm The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars], Professor Eugene Volokh, FreeRepublic.com, March 15, 2000</ref>

Adolf Hitler said, "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." <ref name="Volokh" />

[[Josef Stalin]], former dictator of the [[USSR]] and murderer of over 20 million people, infamously supported gun control in the fear that his evil regime might be torn down and so only soldiers could have firearms.

== Gun Control and young mass murderers ==

''Main article: [[Young mass murderers]]''

Strict gun control failed and still fails to prevent mass murderers from starting killing sprees while the victims are unable to defend themselves.

Compare the cases of Pekka-Eric Auvinen ([[Finland]]) and Robert Steinhäuser ([[Germany]]) with the case of Matthew Murray. The latter was stopped by an armed citizen before he could harm more victims; Auvinen killed 8 people and Steinhäuser killed 16. Both Finland and Germany have gun control laws.

==Other terms==
Other terms sometimes used by those who are opposed to gun control include:
* "Gun grabbing"
* [[Unalienable rights|Rights]] restriction
* Victim disarmament

==See Also==
* [[Gun control quotes]]
* [[Gun free zone]]s: [[Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists]]
* [[Essay:The Politically Corrected Firearms and Second Amendment Glossary]]
* [[Essay:US Armed Citizens and Crime Control]]
* [[National Rifle Association]] - [[Gun Owners of America]] - [[Second Amendment Foundation]]
* [[John Lott]]
* [[Second Amendment]]: [[Self-defense]], [[Home security]], and [[Defense]] against [[Tyranny]]
* [[Gun Control in Nazi Germany]]
* [[Ammunition control]]
* [[1994 National Defense Authorization Act]]
* [[Fourth generation warfare]]
** [[Essay:World War III has already started]]
** [[Essay:The coming Islamic Tet Offensive in Europe]]

==External Links==

=== Opposed to gun control ===
*[http://www.2asisters.org/ Second Amendment Sisters]
*[http://www.nra.org/ The National Rifle Association]
*[http://www.nrapublications.org/AC/index.asp Armed citizens defending themselves.]
*[http://www.a-human-right.com/ A Human Right] Discussion of the human right to self defense with a firearm.
*[http://www.learnaboutguns.com/ Learn About Guns] Firearm information and politics.
*[http://www.gunowners.org/ Gun Owners of America] A no-compromise pro-gun lobby in Washington, D.C.
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/category/gun-control/ What Liberals Say - Category: Gun Control]
*[http://www.guncite.com/ GunCite: Gun Control and Second Amendment Issues]
*[http://jpfo.org/ Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]
*[http://nssf.org/ National Shooting Sports Foundation]
*[http://concealedcampus.org/ Students for Concealed Carry]
*[http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-long-racist-history-of-gun-control-in-america/ The Long, Racist History of Gun Control in America]

=== In favor of gun control ===
*[http://www.guninformation.org/ Gun Control and the Second Amendment]
*[http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-switzerland.htm Myth: Switzerland proves that high gun-ownership doesn't increase murder]
*[http://www.bradycampaign.org/ Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]
*[http://www.vpc.org/ Violence Policy Center]
*[http://www.lwv.org/ League of Women Voters]

==Bibliography - Further Reading==
* [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Boston's Gun Bible]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 2008. Contains several chapters related to gun control
* [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Molon Labe!]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 30 January 2004, 454 pp (first edition, paperback), ISBN 1-888766-07-7 - Conservative [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] [[dystopian]] fiction novel entirely based around the issue of [[States' rights]] and the [[Tenth Amendment]]'s connection with the [[Second Amendment]] right to [[firearms|armed]] [[citizen]] defense against federal [[tyranny]]. Contains several chapters related to the gun control.

==References==
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Gun control

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'''Gun control''' is [[leftist]] [[doublespeak]] and a term used when advocating [[unconstitutional]] laws designed to disarm the American people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,<ref>''Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws'', Cramer C and Kopel D. Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994</ref> but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a [[civil right]], leftists and [[liberals]] alike push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens capable of fighting back against [[tyranny]]. The political effect of gun control is to shift voters leftward, and hence the primary supporters of gun control are the [[liberal media]] and [[leftist]] politicians.<ref>[http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/quotes/repeal.html Quotes of Leftists Demanding Gun Control]</ref> In the [[United Kingdom]], which already has the strictest gun control in Europe, [[leftists]] demand control over 120,000 ''deactivated'' guns, although their activation and use constitute only 0.04% of all gun offenses there. But leftists want gun control because fewer guns means greater dependency on government.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3168607.ece</ref>

Gun control is a denial or limitation by [[government]]s of the right to armed [[self-defense]],<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"> "In contrast to most other weaponry, firearms are preeminently defensive in effect." [http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/76holo.htm Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref> as promised by the [[Second Amendment]] of the Constitution of the [[United States of America]]. Genocide has occurred only after gun control first disarmed the citizenry.<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/>

Proponents use the discredited - but superficially appealing - claim that fewer lawfully-owned guns lead to less crime, although guns are primarily defensive weapons<ref>People who support gun control claim that gun control laws significantly reduce violent crime. [http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/irrationality.htm Why People Are Irrational about Politics]</ref><ref>Gun control primarily restricts the lawful acquisition and use of guns. Over 99% of the guns restricted by most gun control regulation are used in a lawful manner.</ref> (see [[Concealed carry]]).

Gun control laws cause enormous hardships. In May 2012, a gun control law resulted in a 20-year prison sentence against an [[African American]] woman for merely firing warning shots against her husband, and there was widespread outrage in [[Florida]] against this unconscionable sentence.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/justice/florida-stand-ground-sentencing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3</ref>

In the United States the three primary [[federal]] gun control laws are:
* [[National Firearms Act]] (1934)
* [[Gun Control Act]] (1968)
* [[Brady Bill]] (1993)

These laws have further been amended by other laws such as the Firearms Owners Protection Act (1986) and the Omnibus Crime Bill (1994).

Fed up with federal gun control, in 2009 States began considering (Utah) or passing (Montana) laws "making guns that are made and kept within state boundaries exempt from federal regulations" including "background checks, licensing and registration."<ref>http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6367553</ref>

== The Fallacy and Motivation for Gun Control ==
[[Image:No Weapons Allowed.gif|right]]
Gun control potentially causes an increase in crime by restricting its main deterrent: [[self-defense]]. A study by Professor Gary Kleck, initially a liberal critic of gun control, caused him to change his mind on this issue when the evidence showed that crime was predominantly ''prevented'' when people could carry guns. ''See Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America''.<ref>http://www.largo.org/effects.html</ref> In the United States, law-abiding uses of guns outnumber criminal uses by about a factor of 1000 to 1,<ref>http://www.americanselfdefense.com/gunfacts3.0.pdf (p. 60)</ref> and the removal of guns from everyone eliminates the lawful use of self-defense and its deterrent effect. "[[Americans]] use firearms to defend themselves from criminals at least 764,000 times a year."<ref name="Gallup_LAT">"This figure is the lowest among a group of 9 nationwide surveys done by organizations including Gallup and the Los Angeles Times." (Just Facts - [http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Gun Control])</ref> Specific examples of guns being used successfully in [[self-defense]] are easy to find.<ref>Two 70-ish store owners stopped armed robberies of their stores by shooting at the bandits. "The person came in and pointed the gun at him and my father shot him. I'm proud of him." [http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/253849.html Buffalo News]</ref><ref>[http://sittingduckpolicy.com/ Sitting Duck Policy: True Stories of Self-Defense]</ref> "In 1982, a survey of imprisoned criminals found that 34% of them had been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim."<ref name="Gallup_LAT"/> When [[Florida]] began allowing its citizens to carry a concealed weapon, [[Florida]]'s firearm homicide rate fell by 37% while the national average ''increased'' by 15%.<ref name="Gallup_LAT"/> As explained below, the political effect of gun control is to cause voters to become more dependent emotionally on government and more supportive of bigger government.

Studies by [[John Lott]] and others indicate that gun control causes higher crime rates.<ref>[http://www.johnrlott.com/ John Lott's Website]</ref> [[Washington, D.C.]] has one of the highest crime rates in [[America]] even though it completely bans private handguns.<ref>[http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm District of Columbia Crime Rates 1960 - 2006]</ref> "Switzerland, Israel, Denmark and Finland, all of whom have a higher gun ownership rate than America, all have lower crime rates than America, in fact, their crime rates are among the lowest in the Western World."<ref>Slashdoc - [http://www.slashdoc.com/documents/71244 gun control]</ref> Lott demonstrates that in [[Britain]], [[Australia]] and [[Canada]], increased gun control in the late 1990s led to increased crime, the exact opposite of what the proponents of the gun control promised.<ref>John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer - [http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/IBDGunConFailure.html Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten Gov't Plans]</ref> States in the [[U.S.]] that have enacted concealed-carry laws enjoy lower crime rates.<ref>[http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4706 Cato report]</ref>

[[image:Robbery victims per 100K.png|300px|thumb|Source data: Australian Bureau of Statistics]]
[[image:Robbery victims.png|300px|thumb|Source data: Australian Bureau of Statistics]]

In [[Australia]], where gun ownership was less widespread and the gun control measures were less strict, there was an immediate increase in robbery and armed robbery after the gun control went into effect in 1996 (see chart at right).<ref>

Gun control passed in Australia because "public was immediately whipped into a gun control frenzy by the press" after the "Port Arthur massacre" in Tasmania on April 28, 1996, in which 32 were shot dead and 19 injured. "Although polls done prior to the massacre indicated that the public was satisfied with the amount of 'gun control' they already had, a major newspaper did a poll just a few days after the massacre (while all minds were "clear") and, not surprisingly, found high levels of support for extreme gun control measures. This poll would be used forever by the commonwealth government and other gun controllers to claim that Australians supported the new gun laws to come." - [http://www.gunsandcrime.org/aussiegc.html Gun Control in Australia] (by gunsandcrime.org)</ref>

There is no clear evidence supporting a decrease in crime from gun control.<ref name="Results">[http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html Results of the Australian Gun "Buyback" & New Gun Laws], October 2001</ref><ref>[http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/azl084v1 Study showing lack of promised benefits from gun control]</ref> Although from 1979 to 1996, 11,110 Australians died by gunshot representing an annual average of 617. In the seven years after new gun laws were announced (1997 to 2003), the yearly average almost halved, to 331. In the decade up to and including Port Arthur There have been 11 mass shootings where 100 people were shot dead and another 52 wounded, while in In the 10 years since 1996 and the new gun laws, not one mass shooting (more than five victims) has occurred in Australia (although in 2002 a gunman killed two and wounded four at Monash University) <ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</ref>

Subsequent to gun control in England:<ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html</ref>
[[File:Send_a_gun_to_a_British_home.jpg|thumb|right|[[Second Amendment]]-supporting [[American]] [[citizen]]s gifted their [[firearm]]s to [[gun free zone]]-[[gun control]] supporting [[British]] citizens during [[World War II]] via [[The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes]]]]

:"from 1997 to 2001, the rate of violent crime more than doubled. Your chances of being mugged in London are now [as of 2002] six times greater than in New York. England's rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are far higher than America's, and 53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., where burglars admit to fearing armed homeowners more than the police. In a United Nations study of crime in 18 developed nations published in July, England and Wales led the Western world's crime league, with nearly 55 crimes per 100 people."<ref>However this increase in recorded violent crime between 1997 and 2001 is explained by the Home Office as a result of changes in the definition of violent crime and new counting rules introduced in 1998. [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/rdsolr1804.pdf Violent Crime in England and Wales] According to the British Crime Survey, which is considered a more reliable guide to trends in crime[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/crime-statistics-independent-review-06.pdf], violent crime fell 24% between 1997 and 2001/02, and burglary fell 40% over the same period.[http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1105tab201.xls Trends in BCS incidents of crime]</ref>

Gun control in [[Britain]] and [[Australia]] has been followed by a predictable shift to the left politically by voters as they lost their instrument of self-defense and became more emotionally dependent on government. Contrast that with the [[United States]], where an effort to push gun control after the [[Columbine massacre]] failed in 2000 and the government has remained as [[conservative]] -- if not more so -- ever since.

The emasculation of the citizenry by gun control also arguably reduces the resistance of a society to intimidation, and exacerbates fear of consequences from causing offense. Subsequent to the passage of strict gun control in [[England]] some teachers have avoided teaching controversial subjects such as the [[Holocaust]], the Arab-Israeli conflict and the [[Crusades]] during history classes.<ref>http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RW100.pdf</ref>
Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19] (p.15) The anti-self-defense attitude of British authorities has also turned criminals into "victims" and victims who fight back into "criminals." One particularly egregious case involved a farmer being sentenced to life imprisonment for defending himself in his home after the home was repeatedly burglarized <ref>http://www.theinternetparty.org/commentary/c_s.php?td=200107200000&section_type=com</ref>

== Trends ==
After decades of increasing gun control laws, the current trend in the [[United States]] is in the direction of more gun rights. The 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill included a ban on certain new rifles labeled assault rifles solely because of features of their appearance, and on new high-capacity magazines. This law recently expired and was not renewed by [[Congress]]. Also, Washington D.C.'s gun ban was struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals on March 9, 2007.<ref>The New York Times - [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/washington/09cnd-gun.html?hp Appeals Court Says Gun Ban Violates 2nd Amendment]</ref><ref>The Washington Post - [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030902416.html D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out]</ref>

By removing the deterrent effect of guns, gun control causes dramatic increases in crimes committed with other weapons:<ref name="bbc">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2656875.stm</ref>

:You are now six times more likely to be mugged in [[London]] than [[New York]]. Why? Because as common law appreciated, not only does an armed individual have the ability to protect himself or herself but criminals are less likely to attack them. They help keep the peace. A study found American burglars fear armed home-owners more than the police. As a result burglaries are much rarer and only 13% occur when people are at home, in contrast to 53% in England.

Supporters of gun control argue that homicide with guns is much less in [[England]] than in the [[United States]],<ref>In 2005/06, the total number of victims of homicide by shooting (including crossbows) in England and Wales was 50 and there were 212 victims of homicide by sharp instruments. [Home Office Statistical Bulletin - [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0207.pdf Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2005/2006][http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb0104.pdf] The data for gun deaths in the United States include guns used in self-defense, as in fending off an assault, robbery or rape, and there were a total of 11,350 gun deaths (including deaths of criminals) in 2005.[US Department of Justice, FBI - [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html Crime in the United States by Volume and Rate per 100,000 Inhabitants, 1986 - 2005]</ref> but that was true even before gun control and is likely due to cultural reasons. "A study comparing New York and London over 200 years found the New York homicide rate consistently five times the London rate, although for most of that period residents of both cities had unrestricted access to firearms. When guns were available in England they were seldom used in crime. A government study for 1890-1892 found an average of one handgun homicide a year in a population of 30 million."<ref name="bbc" />

Gun control laws are often seen to conflict with the [[Second Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which recognizes the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a [[Free States Movement|free State]], the [[unalienable rights|right]] of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The "right to keep and bear arms" is a right guaranteed to the American citizen by the Bill of Rights through the virtue of a selective reading of said Bill. The phrase "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" precedes the statement, and most federal Courts of Appeals have held that this phrase requires that the "right to bear arms" relates to the collective rights of state militias, as opposed to the individual's rights to have any weapon desired. Just recently, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit went against nine other circuits in holding that the Second Amendment constitutes an individual right.<ref>The New York Times - [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/washington/10gun.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Court Rejects Strict Gun Law as Unconstitutional]</ref><ref>FOX News - [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258067,00.html Appeals Court Strikes Down Washington, D.C. Handgun Ban]</ref> However, according to the judge writing for the majority in this case, its decision does still allow for "reasonable restrictions" on gun ownership and use, such as carrying of guns by intoxicated individuals, or in churches.

Only six cities in the [[United States]] ban handguns: [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Chicago]], and four of its suburbs.<ref>David Kopel, "The Democrats and Gun Control," Wall St.J., Page A19, April 17, 2008 [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120839466717921537-lMyQjAxMDI4MDE4NzMxOTc0Wj.html]</ref>

==Overview==
"Gun control" can include:

* Restricting which persons can own firearms.
* Restrictions on the number of firearms a person may own, or purchase during a given time period
* Requirements that privately owned firearms be registered with the government.
* Bans on certain types of firearms; for example, "handguns" or assault rifles
* Restrictions on where firearms may be carried, for example into restaurants or post offices
* Requiring a "background check" and/or a "waiting period" to purchase a firearm
* Restricting when and where firearms may be bought and sold, for example banning their sale through the mail
* Requiring licenses or some other form of permission from the government to buy and/or sell a firearm
* Requiring some form of permission from the government to carry a firearm in public, either concealed or openly
* Laws granting special gun rights for some people, for example retired law enforcement officers, which are denied the rest of the public, which was used in several southern states.
* Outright bans on carrying firearms in public
* Outright bans on private possession of firearms, though this has never occurred in the United States

===Arguments in favor===
"The only purpose of a gun is to kill people."

Another oft overlooked argument is that of suicide prevention. Guns are highly effective tools for committing suicide with a reported success rate of over 95%, whereas other common methods such as overdoses and cutting have a less than 10% success rate. People who attempt and fail to commit suicide do not usually try again.

===Arguments against===
{{coulter-armed-self-defense}}

[[Emily Miller]] wrote,
"New York City Mayor [[Michael R. Bloomberg]] has spent tens of millions of his billions trying to get his gun bans instituted in the rest of America, even though these laws have never stopped criminals from getting guns."<ref> [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/26/miller-bloomberg-loses-stop-and-frisk-and-nra-gets/ Bloomberg loses stop and frisk, and NRA gets blamed: The mayor’s default disgust for gun owners tarnishes his life-saving program] - [[Emily Miller]]</ref>

==Constitutional Debate==
The [[Second Amendment]] reads:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Most constitutional scholars agree that since the amendment refers to "the right of the People" instead of the right of the militia, it protects an individual right to own guns. The reason for this was the fact that the supplying of guns for the military and militas was already provided for in Article I Section 8 as a power of Congress. The extent of that right was something hotly debated for decades, until the Supreme Court ruling of 26 June, 2008, Heller v District of Columbia.

The majority opinion, written by Justice [[Antonin Scalia]], held for the first time that the Constitution provides an individual right to bear arms, such as for self-defense, rather than a right that applies only to a state militia.

The decision upheld an appellate court ruling striking down Washington, D.C.'s 1976 handgun ban. The case marked the first time in more than 70 years that the Supreme Court had addressed the Second Amendment ''and the first time it spoke directly about the implication of an individual right''. The court struck down two of the District of Columbia's gun control laws: its handgun ban and its requirement that other firearms kept at home have a trigger lock or be disassembled.

Relying on the broader historical record, Justice Scalia wrote:
{{cquote|'''putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.'''}}

Scalia noted that the ruling should not be interpreted to "cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings." <ref>[http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-2901.pdf Supreme Court Opinion, District of Columbia v Heller]</ref>

==Racism of gun control==
In the [[United States of America]], gun control has a strong racist origin and reasoning. Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in its infamous 1857 decision in ''[[Dred Scott v. Sandford]]'' to uphold slavery.

The United States Congress overrode most portions of the Black Codes by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The legislative histories of both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as The Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867, are replete with denunciations of those particular statutes that denied blacks equal access to firearms. [Kates, "Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment," 82 Mich. L. Rev. 204, 256 (1983)] However, facially neutral disarming through economic means laws remain in effect.

After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1878, most States turned to "facially neutral" business or transaction taxes on handgun purchases. However, the intention of these laws was not neutral. An article in Virginia's official university law review called for a "prohibitive tax...on the privilege" of selling handguns as a way of disarming "the son of Ham," whose "cowardly practice of 'toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of crime.... Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a murder, or at least a row, before he alights."<ref>Comment, Carrying Concealed Weapons, 15 Va L. Reg. 391, 391-92 (1909); George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (GMU CR LJ), Vol. 2, No. 1, "Gun Control and Racism," Stefan Tahmassebi, 1991, p. 75.</ref> Thus, many Southern States imposed high taxes or banned inexpensive guns so as to price blacks and poor whites out of the gun market.

Today, "gun control" laws continue to be enacted so as to have a racist effect if not intent:

* Police-issued license and permit laws, unless drafted to require issuance to those not prohibited by law from owning guns, are routinely used to prevent lawful gun ownership among "unpopular" populations.
* Public housing residents, approximately 3 million Americans, are singled out for gun bans.
* "Gun sweeps" by police in "high crime neighborhoods" whereby vehicles and "pedestrians who meet a specific profile that might indicate they are carrying a weapon" are searched are becoming popular, and are being studied by the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] as "Operation Ceasefire."
* Some U.S. cities with high minority populations, such as Washington, D.C., are singled out for gun bans.
* "Project Exile" began in the U.S. city of Richmond, Virginia and mandated that people arrested for technical firearms violations (note: not for violent crimes committed with a firearm, but for technical violations of the law) be tried in federal court where they would be subject to lengthy mandatory minimum sentences rather than in state court under the more lenient Virginia laws. As with many other restrictions this was aimed primarily at the city's Black residents. It has since been copied in many other cities.

The [[Ku Klux Klan]] began also as a gun-control organization.<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/kkk-began-as-gun-control-organization-confirms-racist-roots-of-gun-control</ref>

== Sexism of gun control ==

Firearms, especially lower recoiling ones such as many handguns, allow any person to wield enough power to stop another person from attacking them.<ref name="genderDiscrimination1">http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/03/19/firearms-rights-are-a-gender-equality-issue-too/ </ref> Many women (quite reasonably) fear the threat of attack by a physically stronger man, and a firearm could prevent many of these attacks, but gun bans leave these women vulnerable. Take the case of the “North Side Rapist” in Chicago, a city where hand guns are banned, as an example: The rapist broke in to the womens homes, and at least one of the women heard him break in and then climb the stairs. Had this woman had a handgun, she almost certainly could have stopped the rapist before it was too late. This would have prevented her from enduring such a horrific crime, as well as preventing the rapist’s future victims from experiencing the same thing. Instead, Chicago law prevented her from being able to defend herself, and gave the advantage to the rapist/home-invader. This is not an isolated incident, and similar events happen every day across the county.

== Elitism of gun control ==

Many of the most ardent American anti-gun politicians, such as Chicago’s Mayor Daley, are protected by taxpayer-sponsored armed body guards, but deny law abiding citizens the right to defend themselves with a gun. <ref name="classDiscrimination1">http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/04/16/a-double-standard-anti-gun-politicians-and-their-gun-toting-bodyguards/ </ref> These politicians seemingly believe themselves to be part of an elite group who deserve to be protected against violent criminals, while ordinary law-abiding citizens are left with less-effective means to defend themselves, and must instead rely on the police arriving in time.

== Gun control outside the United States ==

Gun control advocates cite foreign countries to argue that gun control can reduce crime, but such comparison can be difficult due to the presence of other factors. For example, they cite [[Singapore]] as having gun control and a lower crime rate than the [[United States]], but Singapore has less than 5 million persons and one of the highest literacy and average wealth in the world. It lacks many of the freedoms found in the [[United States]] and strictly imposes harsh physical punishment, such as caning and the [[death penalty]], for crimes that are not punished so harshly in the [[United States]]. The real issue of the security in Singapore is its tight criminal control, not the gun control itself.

Gun control supporters also cite [[Gun Control in Japan|Japan's gun control laws]], which severely restrict gun ownership and crime rates are relatively low. But [[Japan]] also lacks many freedoms and diversity which exist in the [[United States]], and [[Japan]] has strong cultural deterrents to crime. Ironically, [[Japan]] is home to [[Tokyo Marui]], the world's largest airsoft gun manufacturer, which designs airsoft guns that are made to the same scale and with the same materials as the real counterpart and which have been mistaken by police for real guns.

In the [[European Union]], gun control is more strict than in the United States, but gun ownership differs widely between member states, from 36 per 100 people in [[Cyprus]] to one per 100 in [[Poland]]." In [[Switzerland]], on the other hand, gun ownership is quite widespread, which no doubt contributes to its reputation as a peaceful and neutral country.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/27/switzerland.shooting Gun control in Switzerland]</ref> In November 2007, the [[European Parliament]] passed legislation to tighten and harmonize gun control across the EU, and oblige each member state to set up a computerized database of firearms, as it "hoped to prevent Europe from becoming a gun-friendly culture like the United States". Parliament wanted to limit cross-border trade from states with less control to those with tougher laws, such as from [[Lithuania]], where replica guns can cost as little as [[Euro|€]]100 (US$150), to the [[United Kingdom]], where most replicas are outlawed.

In Australia, gun violence has always been significantly lower than other types of violence.<ref>http://www.gunsandcrime.org/aussiegc.html</ref>. Australia has not experienced considerable violence problems with legally purchased guns. It has always had a much lower homicide rate than the more violent culture in the [[United States]].<ref>In Australia the gun related homicide rate is 0.44 per 100,000 of population. In the US it is about 8 times as high at 3.72 per 100,000 of population.</ref> From 1979 to 1996, 11,110 Australians died by gunshot representing an annual average of 617. In the seven years after new gun laws were announced (1997 to 2003), the yearly average almost halved, to 331. In the decade up to and including Port Arthur There have been 11 mass shootings where 100 people were shot dead and another 52 wounded, while in In the 10 years since 1996 and the new gun laws, not one mass shooting (more than five victims) has occurred in Australia (although in 2002 a gunman killed two and wounded four at Monash University).<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</ref>

Gun control began in Australia in response to fears that guns would be used by home-grown Communist Revolutionaries.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1083528 This study discusses the parallel policies of early-mid 20th century Britain and Australia.</ref> The most restrictive reforms were made in 1996 and 2002, following highly publicized shootings.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html</ref>

Both sets of reforms (1996 and 2002) were lead by Prime Minister [[John Howard]] of the Coalition(Australia’s conservative government). Howard was well known as an anti-gun advocate.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/anger-lingers-among-those-who-lost-their-firearms/2006/04/27/1145861489398.html</ref> The move offended gun supporters, many of whom had traditionally supported the Coalition.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/anger-lingers-among-those-who-lost-their-firearms/2006/04/27/1145861489398.html</ref> Despite the loss of this voting group, Howard won elections following both reforms (in 1998 and 2004).

There is controversy over the success of Australia’s gun restrictions. Studies suggest overall gun violence has decreased since the 1996 and 2002 bans.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04/27/1145861484114.html</ref> However, Australia’s bike and drug gangs, the main perpetrators of gun violence, still easily access illegal firearms.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/a-disarming-cause/2006/04/27/1145861489519.html</ref> Further, the overall homicide rate remains constant.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-safer-place-after-howards-gun-buyback/2006/04
/27/1145861484114.html?page=2</ref>

== Gun Control and Genocide ==

Gun control "contributes to the probability of its government engaging" in [[genocide]], including the three worst instances in the 20th century:<ref>"[A] society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. ... [I]t is [] an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed." [http://ls.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-3/753-4.html Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref>

*In 1911, [[Turkey]] imposed gun control and then, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million defenseless Armenians were killed.

*In 1929, the [[Soviet Union]] imposed gun control and over the next 24 years about 20 million defenseless dissidents were killed.

*In 1935, [[China]] established gun control from 1948-1952 20 million political dissidents were killed.

*In 1938, [[Germany]] imposed gun control and then over the next seven years 13 million defenseless Jews and other victims were exterminated. <ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed December 26, 2007</ref>

*In 1956, [[Cambodia]] established gun control and between 1975 and 1977 one million oppositionals were exterminated.

*In 1970, [[Uganda]] imposed gun control. Between 1971 and 1979 300,000 Christians and political oppositionals were killed.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/66751/gun-control-amin/dave-kopel#</ref>

"The Nazis made only two important changes to the Weapons Law that was in place when they came to power. First, they forbade Jews from owning guns or any other weapon. Second, they exempted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and many Nazi party officials from the law's strictures."<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/> The German Firearms Act of 1937 stated "No civilian is to have a firearm without a permit and permits shall not be issued to persons suspected of acting against the state. ''For Jews, this permission will not be granted.'' Those people who do not require permission to carry weapons include the whole of the SS, and the SA - including the Deaths Head group, and the officers of the Hitler youth." <ref name="Volokh">[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d04d5c7c40.htm The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars], Professor Eugene Volokh, FreeRepublic.com, March 15, 2000</ref>

Adolf Hitler said, "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." <ref name="Volokh" />

[[Josef Stalin]], former dictator of the [[USSR]] and murderer of over 20 million people, infamously supported gun control in the fear that his evil regime might be torn down and so only soldiers could have firearms.

== Gun Control and young mass murderers ==

''Main article: [[Young mass murderers]]''

Strict gun control failed and still fails to prevent mass murderers from starting killing sprees while the victims are unable to defend themselves.

Compare the cases of Pekka-Eric Auvinen ([[Finland]]) and Robert Steinhäuser ([[Germany]]) with the case of Matthew Murray. The latter was stopped by an armed citizen before he could harm more victims; Auvinen killed 8 people and Steinhäuser killed 16. Both Finland and Germany have gun control laws.

==Other terms==
Other terms sometimes used by those who are opposed to gun control include:
* "Gun grabbing"
* [[Unalienable rights|Rights]] restriction
* Victim disarmament

==See Also==
* [[Gun control quotes]]
* [[Gun free zone]]s: [[Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists]]
* [[Essay:The Politically Corrected Firearms and Second Amendment Glossary]]
* [[Essay:US Armed Citizens and Crime Control]]
* [[National Rifle Association]] - [[Gun Owners of America]] - [[Second Amendment Foundation]]
* [[John Lott]]
* [[Second Amendment]]: [[Self-defense]], [[Home security]], and [[Defense]] against [[Tyranny]]
* [[Gun Control in Nazi Germany]]
* [[Ammunition control]]
* [[1994 National Defense Authorization Act]]
* [[Fourth generation warfare]]
** [[Essay:World War III has already started]]
** [[Essay:The coming Islamic Tet Offensive in Europe]]

==External Links==

=== Opposed to gun control ===
*[http://www.2asisters.org/ Second Amendment Sisters]
*[http://www.nra.org/ The National Rifle Association]
*[http://www.nrapublications.org/AC/index.asp Armed citizens defending themselves.]
*[http://www.a-human-right.com/ A Human Right] Discussion of the human right to self defense with a firearm.
*[http://www.learnaboutguns.com/ Learn About Guns] Firearm information and politics.
*[http://www.gunowners.org/ Gun Owners of America] A no-compromise pro-gun lobby in Washington, D.C.
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/category/gun-control/ What Liberals Say - Category: Gun Control]
*[http://www.guncite.com/ GunCite: Gun Control and Second Amendment Issues]
*[http://jpfo.org/ Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]
*[http://nssf.org/ National Shooting Sports Foundation]
*[http://concealedcampus.org/ Students for Concealed Carry]
*[http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-long-racist-history-of-gun-control-in-america/ The Long, Racist History of Gun Control in America]

=== In favor of gun control ===
*[http://www.guninformation.org/ Gun Control and the Second Amendment]
*[http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-switzerland.htm Myth: Switzerland proves that high gun-ownership doesn't increase murder]
*[http://www.bradycampaign.org/ Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]
*[http://www.vpc.org/ Violence Policy Center]
*[http://www.lwv.org/ League of Women Voters]

==Bibliography - Further Reading==
* [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Boston's Gun Bible]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 2008. Contains several chapters related to gun control
* [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Molon Labe!]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 30 January 2004, 454 pp (first edition, paperback), ISBN 1-888766-07-7 - Conservative [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] [[dystopian]] fiction novel entirely based around the issue of [[States' rights]] and the [[Tenth Amendment]]'s connection with the [[Second Amendment]] right to [[firearms|armed]] [[citizen]] defense against federal [[tyranny]]. Contains several chapters related to the gun control.

==References==
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Talk:Essay:Why Patriot Conservatives should use the Tor anonymous browser bundle

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Hi, it looks like you've got an extra closing bracket after the link to AmRD in the second sentence.

I like the idea of TOR, but as I understand it, you cannot view all websites with it. Rather, my understanding (which could be wrong) is that a website must be created for and hosted in the TOR network, with it's own special "giberish" URL. Am I wrong?
Also, I must question the security of TOR with the NSA's power, having a quantum computer, large staff, and incredible funding. These articles seem to agree with that concern of actual security [http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/TOR-Network-Isn-t-So-Anonymous] [http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/tor-is-not-as-safe-as-you-may-think]. Maybe you or I could be in the 19% which can not be traced, but I must question how effective it really is.

I do hope someone finds a way to stop packet tracing in TOR, but until they do, do you think it is even worth while? Sure, you make them work for it, but if they get it in the end, all you've done is made them add you the list of "Darknet" suspects.--[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 12:34, 9 February 2016 (EST)

I am new here and still exploring my way around the landscape. This article has a section with the title, "Quotes on the Need for Tails OS due to Unconstitutional Police State Surveillance". That certainly caught my interest because I had not seen a documented direct connection between Unconstitutional surveillance and the Tails OS which is produced by the Tor Project. Instead of finding more than one quote, there was just a 1928 quote on the need for privacy.

Could somebody please explain the argument made in this essay to me? We have terrible problems with terrorism and criminals seeking to evade United States scrutiny by using a "Darknet." Someone is advocating doing more to hinder the preservation of society, so that a private computer infrastructure can be in place just in case society crumbles. If the fall of civilization is not a guaranteed result, why not defend civilization (with privacy safeguards)? Who is the intended audience for this essay? [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 02:05, 10 February 2016 (EST)

Fourth generational warfare

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#redirect [[Fourth generation warfare]]

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Mitchell David Kapor

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'''Mitchell David Kapor''' was the designer of [[Lotus 1-2-3]] and one of the founders of the liberal [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]].<ref>http://www.kapor.com/bio/index.html </ref> He currently serves on the advisory board of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] which runs [[Wikipedia]].<ref>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board </ref>

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Bernard Madoff

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'''Bernard L. Madoff''' (born April 29, 1938) is in dollar terms the biggest crook in history. While holding many prestigious positions such as chairman of the [[NASDAQ]] stock exchange, he directed his company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, in a [[Ponzi scheme]] that last for decades. The scheme was exposed in December, 2008, revealing that over 13,000 investors, especially from the Jewish community, lost about $13 billion. The exact amount will take years to determine. People invested and Madoff sent them monthly reports showing in detail how their investments were rapidly growing. There actually were no investments. He was using money from new investors to pay off old clients who needed to redeem their holdings. When the [[Financial Crisis of 2008]] broke, so many people needed cash fast--and so few new ones came to invest--that he could not pay anyone. He told his children and they called the authorities.

The watchdog of Wall Street, the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]], was warned repeatedly of what was happening. It made superficial investigations, accepting at face value Madoff's lies, then cleared Madoff. Canny investors, realizing that Madoff's promises of a guaranteed 10% annual return were impossible, avoided him. But he had a winning personality as he consented when people came and begged him to accept his money. He also had feeder operations in the U.S. and Europe that were complicit in his scheme by directing billions of dollars to his funds in return for very high paybacks; they now face very complex legal proceedings.

==Arrest==

Madoff pleaded guilty to securities [[fraud]]. His company was, according to his own words after his arrest, "Basically a giant Ponzi Scheme." <ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/11/madoff.arrest/?iref=mpstoryview Former NASDAQ chairman charged with fraud.</ref> He was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison.

Before his arrest, Madoff was a leader in [[philanthropy]].

==Silver Lining==

[[Abortion]] groups invested heavily in Madoff. The result, [[Planned Parenthood]] is laying off about 20 percent of its staff. Another Madoff investor, the [[Florida]]-based Picower Foundation shut down in December. The foundation was worth $1 billion and is one of the top financial backers of pro-abortion groups. The JEHT Foundation gave $24 million in 2008 to abortion groups as well as the [[ACLU]], also announced closing its doors in December. <ref>[http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/madoff_funding_abortion/2009/01/12/170584.html Madoff Scandal Rocks Pro-Abortion Groups] NewsMax, January 12, 2009</ref>

== Campaign Contributions ==
Madoff gave considerable financial support to the [[Democratic party]]. A partial list of Democrat campaign contributions from Madoff; <ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91510 Who'da thunk? Dems made off with Madoff loot!] WND, March 11, 2009</ref> <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/12/madoff-and-company-spent-nearl.html Madoff and Company Spent Nearly $1 Million on Washington Influence] OpenSecrets</ref>

* Sen. [[Charles Schumer]], D-N.Y.: $10,000.
* Sen. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], D-N.Y.: $1,000.
* Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.:$ 2,000.
* Rep. [[Charles Rangel]], D-N.Y.: $2,000.
* Sen. [[Chris Dodd]], D-Ct.; $1,500.
* Sen. [[Frank Lautenberg]], D-N.J.: $11,200.
* Gov. [[Jon Corzine]], D-N.J.: $1,000.
* Rep. [[John Dingell]], D-Mi.: $1,000.
* Rep. [[David Obey]], D-Wi.:$1,000.
* Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: $102,000.

==See Also==
* [[:Category:Banksters|Banksters]]: [[Quantitative easing]] of the [[Federal Reserve Bank]], [[MF Global]], [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Rothschild family]], Bernie Madoff

== External links ==

*[http://www.madoff.com/ Bernard L. Madoff Investments Securities LLC (“BMIS”)]

*[http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14720 Madoff fallout drains funding of abortion advocacy groups]

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Essay:List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment

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{{Essay By|TheAmericanRedoubt}}

==Incremental Gun-Grabbing of the Police State - Nanny State==
According to all of the major [[Second Amendment]] defender organizations, [[liberals]] and [[socialist]]s support so-called "common sense" measures - a "good first step" of the [[Police state]] - [[Nanny state]]. To a [[conservative]] [[citizen]]-[[prepper]]-[[patriot]] [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] and to the [[Bill of Rights]], this is "[[incrementalism|death by a thousand paper cuts]]". (See [[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]])

[[Conservative]] [[Gun Owners of America|gun owners]] support the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] and this video, which is the formal response to [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]]'s [[Demand a Plan]] [[gun control|gun-grabbing]] [[propaganda]] video. The video shows one of the main differences between [[liberal]] [[gun control]] [[Nanny state]]s ([[Blue states]]) and [[conservative]] and/or [[libertarian]] [[Second Amendment]]-supporting "[[free state]]s" ([[Red states]]). This video shows why [[conservative]]s and [[libertarian]]s "[[vote with your feet|vote with our feet]]": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY<ref>As of December 8, 2014, there are 60,819 views on [[YouTube]] of [[Second Amendment Foundation]]'s ''Equal [[Gun Rights]]'', Online. Published on Feb 24, 2013. http://equalgunrights.com and http://saf.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY.</ref>

It’s a common misconception that all [[celebrity|celebrities]] are liberal, anti gun snobs. This is simply not true. Just like in any group of people there are those who support and those who oppose private gun ownership, [[self-defense]] and [[home security]]

Now, I’m sure many of you who normally despise keeping up with what celebrities are thinking, “Hey, why should we care what these celebrities think?”

Good question, and the answer is simple, it’s good, positive exposure for private gun ownership. You might not care what some celebrities think, but a lot of people [sadly] do, so having some on our side certainly doesn't hurt.

Just like all other [[elitist]] "[[United Nations|one world government]]" [[globalist]] [[socialist]]s (including the celebrity-celebrating [[Obama Administration]]), one of the key elements to the [[National Socialism|National Socialist-Nazi)]]'s initial success in taking over all of [[Germany]] and much of [[Europe]] was [[citizen]] [[disarmament]] through the [[National Socialism|National Socialist]]'s [[liberal]] policies of [[gun control]] and [[mainstream media]] [[propaganda]] [[demonization]] through [[class warfare]].

In the article ''[[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]]'' is a list of [[liberal]] "[[gun grabbing]]" [[Hollywood values|celebrities]] who are against the [[Second Amendment]] and the [[unalienable rights]] of [[self-defense]], [[home security]], and [[Castle Doctrine]]. May of these persons have earned a lot of [[money]] in [[movie|movies]] and TV shows where they routinely use [[firearm]]s. You may consider [[boycott|boycotting]] them and not supporting these [[gun control|gun grabbing]] celebrities who make [[liberal]] [[mainstream media]] [[propaganda]] against our [[unalienable]] [[gun rights]].

The following is a list of generally [[conservative]] or [[libertarian]] [[American Patriot]] celebrities who are for the [[Second Amendment]]. May of these persons have earned a lot of money in movies and TV shows where they routinely use firearms. You may consider supporting those [[List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment|celebrities who support our gun rights]]:

==Summary List of Celebrity Second Amendment Supporters==
* [[Adam Baldwin]]
* [[Dan Bilzerian]]
* [[Charles Bronson]]
* [[Chef Alton Brown]]
* [[Jimmy Cagney]]
* [[Dean Cain]]
* [[Eric Clapton]]
* [[S.E. Cupp]]
* [[Johnny Depp]]
* [[Clint Eastwood]]
* [[Sam Elliot]]
* [[R. Lee Ermey]]
* [[Gandhi]]
* [[James Hetfield]] of [[Metallica]]
* [[Ice-T]]
* [[Angelina Jolie]]
* [[James Earl Jones]]
* [[Tommy Lee Jones]]
* [[John F. Kennedy]]
* [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
* [[Miranda Lambert]]
* [[Dana Loesch]]
* [[Joe Mantegna]]
* [[Chuck Norris]]
* [[Ted Nugent]]
* [[Joe Perry]] of [[Aerosmith]]
* [[Brad Pitt]]
* [[Tom Selleck]]
* [[Gary Sinise]]
* [[Brooke Anne Smith]]
* [[Kevin Sorbo]]
* [[Jimmy Stewart]]
* [[John Wayne]]
* [[Bruce Willis]]

==Detailed Profiles of Celebrity Second Amendment Supporters==
<ref>[[Fair use]]: http://gunssavelives.net/blog/11-pro-gun-celebrities-yes-they-do-exist 23 Pro Gun Celebrities – Yes, They Do Exist! **UPDATED July 2014** Accessed December 26, 2014</ref>

===Brad Pitt===
[[Brad Pitt]] said in a recent interview with British magazine Live (in response to more gun control following the [[Colorado]] movie shooting), “I absolutely don’t believe you can put sanctions or shackles on what is made. Nor do I want to pretend the world is different than what we witnessed that night… America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.”

Pitt also recently built a $400,000 shooting range as a wedding gift to fiance [[Angelina Jolie]].

===Angelina Jolie===
[[Angelina Jolie]], an avid shooter (she has to be, to be getting her own $400k shooting range), Jolie has several times expressed her support of the Second Amendment.

In 2008, Jolie told the U.K.’s [[Daily Mail]], “I bought original, real guns of the type we used in ‘[[Tomb Raider]]’ for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to … If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I’ve no problem shooting them.”

===Joe Perry of Aerosmith===
[[Joe Perry]] of [[Aerosmith]] recently spoke at length about his support for the Second Amendment in an interview with [[Fox News]]<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/09/21/aerosmith-leader-joe-perry-talks-ons-guns-classic-firearms-defending-second/?intcmp=features Accessed December 26, 2014 </ref>.

Perry says, “I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run,” he said. “I’ve been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.”

===Miranda Lambert===
[[Miranda Lambert]], the famous [[country music]] star told Self.com earlier this year that she’s packing heat.<ref>http://www.self.com/healthystars/2012/06/miranda-lambert-slideshow#slide=6 Accessed December 26, 2014</ref>

Lambert said, “I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don’t want bodyguards. I am my own security.“

===Johnny Depp===
[[Johnny Depp]] recalls fond memories about shooting as a kid and plans to teach his children to shoot.

Depp says, “We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with [[rifle]]s, [[handgun]]s and at times, [[submachine gun]]s,” Depp admits. “When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren’t shooting at humans – we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.”

===Clint Eastwood===
This list obviously wouldn’t be complete without [[Dirty Harry]] [[Clint Eastwood]] himself.

Eastwood once said, “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

Eastwood is a tireless supporter of the Second Amendment and a supporter of the [[NRA]] and other pro gun organizations.

===James Earl Jones===
[[James Earl Jones]] once said, “The world is filled with [[violence]]. Because [[criminal]]s carry [[gun]]s, we decent law-abiding [[citizen]]s should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.”

Jones is also a member of the NRA.

===Dana Loesch===
"Dana Loesch exposes the global alliance of [[elitist]]s, media activists, [[Hollywood values|Hollywood celebrities]], campus radicals and political power mongers who have openly attacked sacred [[American values]] and the people who cherish them with ruthlessness, contempt and downright hatred. She calls out these [[atheist|Godless]] [[Left]] saboteurs for sharing the same fanatical fervor to tear apart the foundations of America as the [[Islamic terrorism|Muslim terrorists]] who threaten our very survival." See her excellent video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag_LjM3x_oQ NRA News Commentators | Dana Loesch: "The Godless Left"]

===Bruce Willis===
[[Bruce Willis]], the famous action star, said in a 2000 interview with USA Weekend<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5msOk5618 Accessed December 26, 2014. Original was at http://www.usaweekend.com/00_issues/000213/000213willis.html</ref>, “Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.” Even a [[pacifist]], he insists, would get violent if someone were trying to kill her. “You would fight for your life. You’d use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor.”

===Ice-T===
The rapper/actor [[Ice-T]] is not only a supporter of the right to bear arms, but it sounds like he understands the historical point of thee Second Amendment better than most. Saying earlier this year following the shooting in Colorado, “The right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt.”<ref>http://www.hollywood.com/news/Ice_T_Pro_Guns/34931660 Accessed December 26, 2014</ref>

===Ted Nugent===
We would list some sources to show [[Ted Nugent]]’s support of the Second Amendment, but I don’t think we have the space. Nugent might be the most outspoken celebrity supporter of the Second Amendment ever.

===Tom Selleck===
[[Tom Selleck]] is a member of the [[NRA]], an NRA board member and one of the NRA’s spokesman. Selleck has long found himself defending his views throughout his career, but has remained a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment.

===Chuck Norris===
[[Chuck Norris]] has been a long time defender of the right to bear arms.

While Chuck Norris’s feet and hands may be more deadly than any weapons, and as such he doesn’t need firearms, he supports the rights of normal humans to own them.

He even did a funny commercial a while back for “Trigger the Vote” campaign.

Norris is an [[Air Force]] [[veteran]], [[martial arts|martial artist]] and [[actor]].

===Eric Clapton===
According to an interview with The Sun in 2008, the rock singer [[Eric Clapton]] took up shooting in 2003 and has built up quite the collection of firearms including many high end shotguns.

The singer/songwriter said, “I like a gun to look like a working tool but it’s a magnificent piece of art as well.”

Clapton liquidated some of his collection in 2008.

“It is following the same pattern as when I collected guitars,” he says. “I get obsessed, then engulfed and finally narrow the collection down.”

Trust me Mr. Clapton, we can all relate.

===Gary Sinise===
[[Gary Sinise]] gave a great, commonsense interview to Larry King (see below).

Sinise makes the point that it’s a Second Amendment right and that bad guys aren’t going to turn their weapons in so good people need to be able to protect themselves.

===Joe Mantegna===
[[Joe Mantegna]], the Criminal Minds star, has been an outspoken supporter of gun rights, giving interviews and hosting pro gun TV shows as well. Mantegna is an avid skeet shooter and competition shooter.

In an interview with the [[NRA]] magazine [[American Rifleman]]<ref>http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/talking-with-joe-mantegna/ Accessed December 26, 2014</ref>, Mantegna sheds some light on his favorite guns.

I guess we’d have to break it down into categories. For a handgun? No question. It would be the [[M1911]]. That wasn’t the very first handgun I shot, but it was the one I ultimately used competitively. I just enjoy the [[caliber]], I’ve shot pretty much every handgun caliber you can think of, and the [[.45 ACP]] is perfect. It has mass, the recoil is a little more, you get a lot of push, but you don’t get a lot of torque. And it’s just the aesthetics of it—it’s old school—it’s what I carry on “Criminal Minds.” I made that choice as I thought this guy would be old-school and this would be the firearm he would carry. The M1911 is classic. I think it’s the first one we’re doing in our series “Gun Stories.”

===Adam Baldwin===
[[Adam Baldwin]] is no relation to the anti gun Baldwin brothers.

It wasn’t just Baldwin’s iconic character Jayne on [[Firefly]] and [[Serenity]] who liked guns. In real life Baldwin himself is also an avid gun owner and Second Amendment supporter.

Baldwin regularly uses his Twitter fan base of over 100,000 followers to promote pro gun articles and ideas.

Baldwin also wrote an editorial on [[Breitbart]] in the wake of the recent Sandy Hook shooting.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/01/11/Godwin-s-Gun-Grabber-Salon Accessed December 26, 2014</ref>

===Kevin Sorbo===
[[Kevin Sorbo]] has regularly used his Facebook page (with over 150,000 followers) to talk about the issue of [[gun rights]]. Sorbo posted the following to one status update last year, “You can [take] all guns away and the bad guys will still get guns!! Do you honestly believe the bad guys care about any stupid law that is passed??!! This is why we call them bad guys!” It sounds like he gets it!

===R. Lee Ermey===
The Gunny himself! [[R. Lee Ermey]] is a [[veteran]] [[Marine]] and accomplished actor now spends his time as one of the official spokesmen for [[Glock]] firearms. I’m pretty sure being pro-gun is a requirement for that job. Ermey can often be found at media events, gun shows and other public engagements to promote the Glock brand as well as firearms ownership overall.

===Dan Bilzerian===
[[Dan Bilzerian]] has had minor roles in “Lone Survivor,” “Olympus Has Fallen,” and “The Other Woman.” He is also an accomplished professional poker player with reported winnings in the tens of millions of dollars.
Over the last 2 years, Bilzerian has continued his movie and poker career, but has also become a social media celebrity. Between his Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts, Bilzerian has tens of millions of fans who follow him for his photos of beautiful women, extreme adventures, and his impressive gun collection, including numerous NFA items.

===Dean Cain===
[[Dean Cain]] who played [[Superman]]. Yep, it seems like Superman himself is fairly pro-gun. The actor has repeatedly used his Twitter account to slam gun control policies and he told fellow celeb Rob Lowe that he “would be keeping his guns” during one exchange.
Another celeb who gets it.

===S.E. Cupp===
[[S.E. Cupp]] is a well known political commentator, writer and television host. Cupp is currently a regular on [[CNN]] and is a co-host of the popular television show [[Crossfire]]. Cupp regularly uses her position to speak out in favor of gun rights and gun ownership.

===James Hetfield (of Metallica)===
[[James Hetfield]] of [[Metallica]] is a strong supporter of both gun rights and hunting. In an interview with [[Field and Stream]] Magazine Hetfield is reported as saying the following, “I love my guns. I love that my dad handed them down to me, and I’m taking care of them. To me, though, some of the gun laws definitely don’t make any sense, but also the Second Amendment is very important to me.”

===Brooke Anne Smith===
An aspiring actress, Brooke Anne Smith has made posts on her Twitter and instagram where she makes clear her support for the military as well as for gun rights.<ref>https://twitter.com/Brookeannesmith</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/3ITDQXJ_IV/?taken-by=brookeannesmith</ref>

==See Also==
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* [[Hollywood conservatives]]
* [[List of Conservative or pro-Conservative Hollywood stars]]
* [[Conservative_media#Hollywood_Conservatives|Hollywood conservatives]]
* [[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]]

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* [[Firearms]]
* [[Gun control]]:
** [[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]] - always [[Liberal]] [[Elitist]]s
** [[Hollywood values]]
** [[San Francisco values]]
** [[Professor values]]
** '''[[Big government | Big Government]]''': [[Liberal values|Liberal]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Gun control]], [[Militarization of police]], [[Asset forfeiture]] and Domestic [[mass surveillance]] of law-abiding [[citizen]]s via the '''[[Police state]]''': [[Globalist]]-[[United Nations]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]

* [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable]] [[Gun rights]] versus [[Liberal]] [[Gun control]]
* [[Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms?]] -- According to [[Thomas Jefferson]] it is as the final deterrent against potential [[Tyranny]] of [[government]]

* [[Essay:Invest_in_tangibles#2._Defense_and_Security_.28.22Bullets.22.29|Invest in tangibles: Firearms]] - buy [[Precious metal]]s (that is [[Copper-jacketed lead]] and [[Firearms])
* [[Boston T. Party]]’s [[State Firearms Laws Ranking]]s from ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'' -- [[Vote with your Feet]]
* [[Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]]
** [[Essay:Jews and Gun Control - Fear of Freedom or Freedom from Fear]], [[Essay:Why Jews Hate Guns - Are they right]]
* ''[[You & the Police!]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]] a.k.a.[[Kenneth W. Royce]]
* ''[[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]]

===Celebrity Mass-Murdering Elitists===
* [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Chairman Mao]], [[Kim Jung Il]], [[Polpot]]
* [[Liberalism]]: [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Mobocracy]], [[Social Effects of the Theory of Evolution]], [[Anti-Semitism]], [[Communist Racism]], [[Genocide]], [[Holocaust]]
* [[National Socialist German Workers Party]] ([[Nazi]])
* [[National Socialism]] - the Nazis were elitist [[Police State]] [[liberals]] not [[conservative]]s
* [[Propaganda]] and [[Liberal bias]] of the [[Mainstream media]]

===The Alternative is to Vote with Your Feet away from the Gun-Grabbing Elitists===
Like many [[Jews]] were able to do before the [[Nazi]]s fully implemented their [[National Socialism]] [[gun-control|gun-grabbing]] elitism, one should [[Vote with your feet]]:
* [[Strategic relocation]]
* [[American Redoubt]] - [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], [[Wyoming]], [[Eastern Oregon]], [[Eastern Washington]]
* [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Molon Labe!]] by [[Boston T. Party]]
* [[Free State Project]]
* [[Brink of Freedom]]
* [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]] by [[Joel Skousen]]
* [[Rawles on Retreats and Relocation]] by [[James Wesley Rawles]]
* [[Second Amendment]] - [[Shall not be infringed]] - [[Bill of Rights]]
* [[Republicanism]] - [[Founding Fathers]]
* [[Oath Keepers]] - uphold your [[Oath]] to [[support and defend]]

== External Links ==
* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Demand+a+Plan
* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Pro+Gun+Celebrities
* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Anti+Gun+Celebrities
* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Hollywood

==References==
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Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists

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= France Pays Dearly - [[Liberal]] [[Gun control | Gun Control]] Laws and [[Gun free zone | Free fire zones]] that Welcome [[Muslim]] [[Jihad]] [[Terrorist]]s =

In this [[:Category:Essays about Conservatism|conservative]] [[essay]], I will discuss how [[Constitutional carry]] (as both [[concealed carry]] and [[open carry]] as is common in [[Israel]]) can be a useful [[antiterrorism]] tool in the [[American]] [[War on Terror]].

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On the 7th of January 2015, [[Muslim]] [[jihadism|jihad]] [[terrorist]]s execute [[law enforcement | cops]] on the sidewalk in [[Paris]]. Then calmly walk into the [[satire | satirical]] [[liberal]] [[atheist]] [[newspaper]] [[Charlie Hebdo]]'s office and do the same. Their goal is to [[censorship | silence]] and put in [[fear]] opposition voices to their [[Anti-Americanism]] and [[Islamofascism]] cause.

The [[Jihadism]] [[apologist]]s within the [[Obama Administration]] suggest that Charles Hebdo exercised bad judgment and brought this upon themselves. "Earnest" [[Obama Administration]] spokesman Josh Earnest said "I’m describing a reason why we have not chosen to use that label because it doesn't seem to accurately describe what had happened."<ref>Hoft, Jim, "[http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/01/wh-spokesman-josh-earnest-its-unfair-to-call-americas-enemy-radical-islam-video Whitehouse Spokesman Josh Earnest: It’s “Inaccurate” to Blame Charlie Hebdo Attacks on Radical Islam (Video)]. [[Washington D.C.]]: The Gateway Pundit, Publish January 13, 2015. Accessed January 17, 2015</ref> The [[Obama Administration]] refused to call the [[gun free zone]] slaughter as an act of [[terrorism]].<ref>Ibid.</ref> [[Obama]] [[White House]] Spokesman Josh Earnest said it was “inaccurate” to use the phrase “[[Jihadism|radical Islam]].”.<ref>Ibid.</ref>, <ref>Henry, Ed, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAM-7L4E2I "White House Denies Paris Attacks 'Radical Islam']. [[Washington D.C.]], [[Fox News]], Published on Jan 13, 2015. Accessed January 17, 2015.</ref>

==More Liberal Apologists for Radical Islamic Jidaish==
On September 19, 2012 at the White House daily press briefing then press secretary Jay Carney condemned the judgement of Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing “deeply offensive,” anti-Islamic cartoons.<ref>Key, Pam, [http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/01/07/flashback-wh-condemned-judgement-of-deeply-offensive-charlie-hebdo FLASHBACK: WH CONDEMNED JUDGEMENT OF ‘DEEPLY OFFENSIVE’ CHARLIE HEBDO], [[Breitbart]], Published 7 Jan 2015, Accessed January 17, 2015</ref>

==French Artist Beaten Bloody By Muslims For Advocating Coexistence==
"Often we hear [[Israel]] be lambasted as a [[Nazi]]-like regime that mistreats its [[Muslim]] inhabitants. The truth happens to differ like night and day. Israel treats all his citizens – gays, Muslims, Assyrians, Samaritans, Africans, etc. – extraordinarily well. The only reason the [[Palestinian]]s fare worse is because they openly and proudly associate with [[Hamas]], a [[terrorist]] organization that uses little children as [[suicide bomber]]s. Outside of [[Gaza]], however, [http://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arab-coexistence-peace-no-one-talks-about/ everybody coexists peacefully], as they should."

"Now meet Combo, a French street artist who is the son of a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[Christian]] father and a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] Muslim mother. According to Artnet, he got [http://news.artnet.com/art-world/street-artist-combo-brutally-attacked-for-pacifist-tag-post-charlie-hebdo-244569 severely beaten up] last week for publicly advocating for the exact same sort of coexistence that exists in Israel:

<blockquote>"It seems like something one would be hard pressed to disagree with: the word “coexist,” written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C,” a [[Star of David]] as the letter “X,” and a Christian cross as a “T.”

But in Paris, this particular iteration of the popular inscription — here, created by the street artist Combo, who also pasted a life-size photo of himself next to it — didn’t go down well with everybody. [[Le Monde]] reports that four young people asked the artist to remove it last weekend, and beat him up severely when he refused to do so."<ref>220 word [[Fair use]] citation. Saxena, V., "[http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/french-artist-combo-coexistence French Artist Beaten Bloody By Muslims For Advocating Coexistence]". Published by: "DownTrend.com - Because that's the direction of our freedoms." Published on February 10, 2015. Accessed February 10, 2015 </ref></blockquote>

==Liberal-created Gun Free Zones are actual "Free Fire Zones"==
The bigger issue attacked here is the impunity at which the [[murder|gunmen]] operated in yet another [[liberal]] "[[gun free zone]]" created by [[Hoplophobia|hoplophobic]] [[leftist]] [[gun control]] laws.

These Islamic terrorists promise to do the same elsewhere. So-called [[political correctness|politically correct]] "gun free zones" are known to [[Second Amendment]] [[self-defense]] supporting [[conservative]] [[patriot]]s, [[veteran]]s, [[:Category:Survivalists|preppers]] and [[gun enthusiast]]s via the [[Essay:The Politically Corrected Firearms and Second Amendment Glossary|politically corrected]] term "free fire zones". "Free fire zones" are where [[criminal]]s, [[gang]]s, [[War on Drugs|drug dealer]]s, [[mafia]], [[murderer]]s, [[young mass murderer]]s, and [[terrorist]]s are free to fire at will on defenseless [[gun control|disarmed]] conservatives and [[pollyanna|never armed]] liberals.

The concept of a place where "people can be sure no one has a gun" has always been absurd [[left wing]] "[[unicorn]] [[utopia]]" [[wishful thinking]] [[pollyanna]] [[fantasy]] of the [[:Essay:Anti-self-defense movement|Anti-self-defense movement]], for the simple reason that [[criminal]]s by their nature ''never'' follow laws. The [[United States]], [[Europe]] and most recently [[liberal]] [[Paris]] at [[Charlie Hebdo]]'s offices have seen a number of [[mass murder]]s and [[Muslim]] [[jihad]] [[terrorist]] attacks occurring in such zones.

Can you expect [[Islam | Islamic]] [[execution]] squads in your town soon? Maybe. They likely will be in-country nationals who respond to Islamic [[Anti-Americanism]] [[propaganda]] to "fight in place." But I think terrorists and criminals in general might find [[American]] cities, especially in the West (such as [[Arizona]], [[Utah]], [[Alaska]], or the [[American Redoubt]] area of [[Idaho]], [[Wyoming]], [[Montana]]) and the South ([[Texas]], [[Arkansas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Florida]]) , much more hazardous to their [[evil]] operations.

As a nation, we should have a [[truth]] discussion, not [[mainstream media|lamestream medica]] [[liberal media elite|liberal media elitist]] "discussion" on how [[gun control]] destroys public [[:Category:Safety|safety]] and creates victims.

"The situation during the Charlie Hebdo attack was very lopsided–in favor of the terrorists–because of current policing and arms policy. [[Breitbart]] News reported that “unarmed Paris police officers” were forced to flee when confronted with the armed attackers. UK’s Independent reported that “three policemen arrived [at the scene of the attack] on bikes but had to leave because [the attackers] were armed.” A policeman assigned to the duty of body guard to Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier was killed, and an officer on a mountain bike was gunned down."<ref>Hawkins, Awr, [http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/19/french-police-gun-control-isnt-working-for-us/ FRENCH POLICE: GUN CONTROL ISN’T WORKING FOR US], [[Breitbart]], 19 Jan 2015. Accessed January 21, 2015</ref>

==Constitutional Carry is the Conservative [[Antiterrorism]] Solution to "Free fire zones"==
[[Constitutional carry]] (as both [[concealed carry]] and [[open carry]] as is common in [[Israel]]) is the [[conservative]] alternative to the "Free fire zones" supported by the [[progressive]] [[police state]]'s [[:Essay:Anti-self-defense movement|Anti-self-defense movement]]. Constitutional carry can also be a useful [[antiterrorism]] tool in the [[American]] [[War on Terror]]. An example of an antiterrorist policy is [[Israel]] permitting its citizens to [[open carry|carry weapons]]. This has helped to cut down on terrorist attacks there.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2002/02/22/mideast_020222.html Israel shopper users her gun to stop a [[suicide bomber]]]. Accessed January 12, 2015</ref>

Renowned [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] [[gun enthusiast]] [[Air Force]] Lt. [[Colonel]] [[Nutnfancy]]<ref> [https://www.youtube.com/user/nutnfancy/about YouTube Channel] has 174,010,430 views and 505,609 subscribers since he established it on Jul 9, 2006</ref>, says "Gun free zones are a LIE. There is no such thing and [[criminal|wolves]] can always get a [[firearm]] into these areas. Given an evildoer with a willingness to die, these areas then become '[[Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists|free fire zones]]' where [[shooting|shooters]] have engaged with initial impunity. In these areas, few law abiding citizens possess the most efficient means to stop the killing: the [[gun]]. There are many case studies which prove the abhorrent failure of this [[polyanna|feel-good]] but dangerous policy. It is a misguided and [[corruption|corrupt]] political system that seeks to [[gun control|disarm]] the [[Oath Keepers|good guys]] in some dragnet-type, pseudo-[[:Category:Safety|public safety]] policy that happily disarms ALL [[citizen]]s in the slight hope that the [[terrorist|lawless]] will also comply. They won't and haven't and never will. The 'gun-less' approach has failed miserably in the face of disturbed but motivated [[young mass murderers|mass killer]]s. It continues to cost lives."

Nutnfancy asserts that "No technology, no system, no law will or can prevent such a determined individual in taking lives. If it isn't the gun, he will find [[knives|other means]] to accomplish his [[violence|brutal]] agenda. The REAL solution is [[political correctness|politically incorrect]] but proven to work: [[firearms|lethal force]] ([[concealed carry]] and/or [[open carry]]) employed immediately by a [[Essay:Sheepdogs for the sheeple|sheepdog]], either [[civilian]], [[Oath Keepers|veteran]] or [[law enforcement]] (also reference [[Nutnfancy]] video 'The [[Essay:Concealed Carry Protocol|Concealed Carry Protocol]]" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8OK4WdoW0 Youtube]). [[Police]] have an unreliable track record in being able to quickly stop the [[young mass murderer|mass murderer]]; they can never arrive in time to prevent [[death]]. Better it is to have responsible citizens [[Everyday carry|armed]] and at the ready and vigilant. The gun will stop the gun and has many times. As in my video 'Close to Engage' ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH3GV7EmzI4 YouTube]) shows, other methodologies exist but all require increased risk and closer contact. Instead we should abolish Gun Free Zones and encourage responsible, mature [[concealed carry|CCW]] holders to prevail in the next [[Charlie Hebdo|mass killing]] by allowing them to have the most effective means of [[self-defense|resistance]]. For some individuals, it may be necessary to engage in 'conscientious objection' against these [[gun control|disarmament]] restrictions. A [[preparedness|prepared]] 'Sheepdog' who is [[courage|courageous]], with sound judgment, has been proven to be the real life saver in past mass shootings."

Nutnfancy encourages 'Sheepdogs' by saying that "All manner of political pressure should be applied in allowing these individuals to legally possess and carry whatever [[weapons]] are needed that will truly protect the public against these killers. Join and contribute generously to the [[NRA]] and [[NRA-ILA]] as they fights these [[freedom]] battles to genuinely increase public safety."<ref>[[Nutnfancy]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbXuwDiUSo "Gun Free, Death Pay"], [[Utah]] in the [[American Redoubt]], [[YouTube]]. Uploaded on Nov 8, 2009. 116,632 when accessed January 12, 2015.</ref>

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* [[Progressive]] [[Police state]] [[Gun control]], [[Ammunition control]] and [[Gun free zone]]
* [[Vote with your feet]] - [[Strategic relocation]]: Move to a [[Free state]] with [[Free market]]s, [[Firearms freedom]] and hence less likelihood of [[Muslim]] [[jihad]] [[terrorism]]
** [[American Redoubt]] - [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], [[Wyoming]], [[Utah]]
** [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Molon Labe!]] by [[Boston T. Party]] and [[Free State Project]] - [[New Hampshire]]
** [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]] by [[Joel Skousen]]
** [[Rawles on Retreats and Relocation]] by [[James Wesley Rawles]]

==Bibliography==
* [[Boston T. Party]], ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'', [[American Redoubt]] [[Wyoming]], [[Javelin Press]], 2009

==External Links==
* [http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/french-artist-combo-coexistence French Artist Beaten Bloody By Muslims For Advocating Coexistence]

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Liberty

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[[File:Liberty2.jpg|thumb|The [[Statue of Liberty]] is one of the most famous symbols of freedom]]

'''Liberty''' is the political [[freedom]] of an individual. It is one of the "[[unalienable rights]]" listed in the [[Declaration of Independence]]. America's core political values, called [[republicanism]], are based on the extension of liberty to all. Liberty has been a powerful force in politics since the early 1800's, as [[government]]s around the world saw the success of the American model and have attempted to emulate it.

== Quotes on Liberty ==
* [[JFK]] said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the [[survival]] and the success of liberty." [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html]

* "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no [[constitution]], no [[law]], no [[court]] can save it." - [[Supreme Court]] [[Justice Learned Hand]]

* "I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a [[tyrant]], and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave." - [[H.L. Mencken]], 1927

* "Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end." - [[Lord Acton]]

* "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - [[George Bernard Shaw]]

* "[[Firearms]] are second only to the [[Constitution]] in importance; they are the peoples' [[liberty's teeth]]." - [[George Washington]]

== See Also ==
* [[Second Amendment]]: "[[Firearms]] are second only to the [[Constitution]] in importance; they are the peoples' [[liberty's teeth]]." - [[George Washington]]
* [[Republicanism]]
* [[First Amendment]]
* [[Statue of Liberty]]
* [[Liberty Bell]]
* [[Bravery]]
* [[Duty]]
* [[Courage]]
* [[Veteran]]s
* [[Hero]]: [[Gallery of American Heroes]]
* [[Memorial Day]], [[Veterans Day]], [[Remembrance Day]]
* [[Oath Keepers]] - Support and defend the [[unalienable rights]] of [[America]]
* [[5 U.S.C. § 3331|Oath for federal officials]]
* [[28 U.S.C. § 453|Oath for federal judges]]
* [[Vow]]
* [[Police state]]s-[[Nanny state]]s violate the [[United States Constitution]]-[[Bill of Rights]] (especially [[Second Amendment]] and [[Fourth Amendment]]) and [[Citizen]]'s [[Unalienable rights]] by not upholding their oath to support and defend the [[Constitution]].

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Liberty

2016-03-31T22:16:19Z

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[[File:Liberty2.jpg|thumb|The [[Statue of Liberty]] is one of the most famous symbols of freedom]]

'''Liberty''' is the political [[freedom]] of an individual. It is one of the "[[unalienable rights]]" listed in the [[Declaration of Independence]]. America's core political values, called [[republicanism]], are based on the extension of liberty to all. Liberty has been a powerful force in politics since the early 1800's, as [[government]]s around the world saw the success of the American model and have attempted to emulate it.

== Quotes on Liberty ==
* [[JFK]] said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the [[survival]] and the success of liberty." [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html]

* "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no [[constitution]], no [[law]], no [[court]] can save it." - [[Supreme Court]] [[Justice Learned Hand]]

* "I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a [[tyrant]], and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave." - [[H.L. Mencken]], 1927

* "Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end." - [[Lord Acton]]

* "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - [[George Bernard Shaw]]

== See Also ==
* [[Second Amendment]]: "[[Firearms]] are second only to the [[Constitution]] in importance; they are the peoples' [[liberty's teeth]]." - [[George Washington]]
* [[Republicanism]]
* [[First Amendment]]
* [[Statue of Liberty]]
* [[Liberty Bell]]
* [[Bravery]]
* [[Duty]]
* [[Courage]]
* [[Veteran]]s
* [[Hero]]: [[Gallery of American Heroes]]
* [[Memorial Day]], [[Veterans Day]], [[Remembrance Day]]
* [[Oath Keepers]] - Support and defend the [[unalienable rights]] of [[America]]
* [[5 U.S.C. § 3331|Oath for federal officials]]
* [[28 U.S.C. § 453|Oath for federal judges]]
* [[Vow]]
* [[Police state]]s-[[Nanny state]]s violate the [[United States Constitution]]-[[Bill of Rights]] (especially [[Second Amendment]] and [[Fourth Amendment]]) and [[Citizen]]'s [[Unalienable rights]] by not upholding their oath to support and defend the [[Constitution]].

==References==
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[[Category:Republicanism]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Libertarians]]
[[Category:Bill of Rights]]
[[Category:Veterans]]
[[Category:War]]
[[Category:Wars]]
[[Category:Conservatism]]
[[Category:Libertarians]]
[[Category:Libertarianism]]
[[Category:United States History]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Survivalism]]

Fourth generation warfare

2016-03-31T22:14:13Z

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#redirect [[Essay:World War III has already started]]

[[Category : Fourth Generation Warfare]]
[[Category : War]]
[[Category : Terrorism]]

Aikijutsu

2016-03-31T21:32:03Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Aikijujutsu''' (Japanese Martial Art) is a form of jujutsu which emphasizes the 'early neutralization' of an attack. Like other forms of jujutsu it emphasizes throwing techniques and joint manipulations to effectively control, subdue or injure an attacker. It emphasizes using the timing of an attack to either blend or neutralize its effectiveness and use the force of the attacker's movement against them. Daito-ryu is characterized by the ample use of atemi, or the striking of vital areas, in order to set their jointlocking or throwing tactics. Some the art's striking methods employ the swinging of the outstretched arms to create power and to hit with the fists at deceptive angles. Tokimune regarded one of the unique characteristics of the art to be its preference for controlling a downed attacker's joints with one's knee in order to leave one's hands free to access one's weapons or to deal with the threat of other oncoming attackers.

Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu, originally called Daito-ryu jujutsu, is a Japanese martial art that first became widely known in the early 20th century under the headmastership of Takeda Sokaku. Takeda had extensive training in several martial arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryu and sumo) and referred to the style he taught as "Daito-ryu". Although the school's traditions claim to extend back centuries in Japanese history there are no known extant records regarding the ryu before Takeda. Whether he is regarded as the restorer or founder of the art, the known history of Daito-ryu begins with Takeda Sokaku. Perhaps the most famous student of Takeda was Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido.

There are a number of [[martial arts]] in addition to aikido which claim to descend from the art of Daito-ryu or the teachings of Takeda Sokaku. Among them is the Korean martial art of hapkido founded by Choi Yong Sul, who made unverified claims to have trained under Takeda Sokaku, Hakko Ryu founded by Okuyama Yoshiharu who trained under Takeda, Nippon Shorinji Kempo founded by Nakano Michiomi (So Doshin) who is known to have trained under Okuyama. There are several modern school and org that are connected to Daito ryu.

The term aikijujutsu (variations aiki-jujutsu and aikijutsu) in a number of cases have been adopted by newly synthesized martial arts and refer to aikido techniques performed in a "harder" manner such as Tenshin-Ryu, Senso-Ryu, Shindo-Ryu. It also relates to arts that teach jujutsu with an aiki application. Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu was the first system to coin the phrase Aikijujutsu.

In the Daito Ryu school the main sword system is Ono-ha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu. The in house version is known as Ono-ha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu Sokakuden to credit Sokaku Takeda with putting his own twists on the Ono-ha system.

== See Also ==
* [[Martial arts]]: [[Tai Chi]], [[Aikido]], [[Kung Fu]], [[Jujutsu]], Aikijutsu, [[Tae Kwon Do]], [[Karate]]
* [[Lao Tzu]], [[Taoism]] and the [[Tao Te Ching]]
* [[Qi]] or Prana
* [[Meditation]]
* [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]] and [[Acupuncture]] are commonly used in the Asian martial arts
* [[Zen]] [[meditation]], [[Bushido]] and the Martial Arts
* [[Feng Shui]]
* [[Yoga]]
* [[Exercise]] and [[Sports]]
* [[Confucianism]]
* [[Buddhism]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Martial Arts]]
[[Category:Traditional Chinese Medicine]]
[[Category:Taoism]]
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:Vietnam]]
[[Category:Japan]]
[[Category:Korea]]
[[Category:Asia]]
[[Category:Breathing]]
[[Category:Chi]]
[[Category:Meditation]]
[[Category:Sports]]
[[Category:Leisure activities]]
[[Category:Exercise]]

Aikijutsu

2016-03-31T21:31:31Z

TheAmericanRedoubt: Reverted edits by JDano (talk) to last revision by Tenteisai

'''Aikijujutsu''' (Japanese Martial Art) is a form of jujutsu which emphasizes the 'early neutralization' of an attack. Like other forms of jujutsu it emphasizes throwing techniques and joint manipulations to effectively control, subdue or injure an attacker. It emphasizes using the timing of an attack to either blend or neutralize its effectiveness and use the force of the attacker's movement against them. Daito-ryu is characterized by the ample use of atemi, or the striking of vital areas, in order to set their jointlocking or throwing tactics. Some the art's striking methods employ the swinging of the outstretched arms to create power and to hit with the fists at deceptive angles. Tokimune regarded one of the unique characteristics of the art to be its preference for controlling a downed attacker's joints with one's knee in order to leave one's hands free to access one's weapons or to deal with the threat of other oncoming attackers.

Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu, originally called Daito-ryu jujutsu, is a Japanese martial art that first became widely known in the early 20th century under the headmastership of Takeda Sokaku. Takeda had extensive training in several martial arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryu and sumo) and referred to the style he taught as "Daito-ryu". Although the school's traditions claim to extend back centuries in Japanese history there are no known extant records regarding the ryu before Takeda. Whether he is regarded as the restorer or founder of the art, the known history of Daito-ryu begins with Takeda Sokaku. Perhaps the most famous student of Takeda was Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido.

There are a number of [[martial arts]] in addition to aikido which claim to descend from the art of Daito-ryu or the teachings of Takeda Sokaku. Among them is the Korean martial art of hapkido founded by Choi Yong Sul, who made unverified claims to have trained under Takeda Sokaku, Hakko Ryu founded by Okuyama Yoshiharu who trained under Takeda, Nippon Shorinji Kempo founded by Nakano Michiomi (So Doshin) who is known to have trained under Okuyama. There are several modern school and org that are connected to Daito ryu.

The term aikijujutsu (variations aiki-jujutsu and aikijutsu) in a number of cases have been adopted by newly synthesized martial arts and refer to aikido techniques performed in a "harder" manner such as Tenshin-Ryu, Senso-Ryu, Shindo-Ryu. It also relates to arts that teach jujutsu with an aiki application. Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu was the first system to coin the phrase Aikijujutsu.

In the Daito Ryu school the main sword system is Ono-ha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu. The in house version is known as Ono-ha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu Sokakuden to credit Sokaku Takeda with putting his own twists on the Ono-ha system.

== See Also ==
* [[Martial arts]]: [[Tai Chi]], [[Aikido]], [[Kung Fu]], [[Jujutsu]], Aikijutsu, [[Tae Kwon Do]], [[Karate]]
* [[Lao Tzu]], [[Taoism]] and the [[Tao Te Ching]]
* [[Qi]] or [[Prana]]
* [[Meditation]]
* [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]] and [[Acupuncture]] are commonly used in the Asian martial arts
* [[Zen]] [[meditation]], [[Bushido]] and the Martial Arts
* [[Feng Shui]]
* [[Yoga]]
* [[Exercise]] and [[Sports]]
* [[Confucianism]]
* [[Buddhism]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Martial Arts]]
[[Category:Traditional Chinese Medicine]]
[[Category:Taoism]]
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:Vietnam]]
[[Category:Japan]]
[[Category:Korea]]
[[Category:Asia]]
[[Category:Breathing]]
[[Category:Chi]]
[[Category:Prana]]
[[Category:Meditation]]
[[Category:Sports]]
[[Category:Leisure activities]]
[[Category:Exercise]]

Tai Chi

2016-03-31T21:28:29Z

TheAmericanRedoubt:

'''Tai Chi''' or '''Tai Qi''' is a [[martial arts|martial art]] originally developed in [[China]]. Also called '''Tai Chi Chuan''', the martial art originally developed among [[Taoism|Taoist]] [[monk]]s but was later influenced by other forms of Chinese thought such as [[Confucianism]] and [[Buddhism]]. Tai Chi is most easily recognized by the slow, almost dance-like or [[meditation|meditative]] nature of the movements. In [[America]] (and throughout the world), Tai Chi is practiced by individuals from many different backgrounds, but it is particularly popular among Chinese immigrants, practitioners of [[Traditional Chinese medicine]] - [[acupuncture]] and [[New Age|New Agers]].

== See Also ==
* [[Martial arts]]: Tai Chi, [[Aikido]] and [[Kung Fu]]
* [[Lao Tzu]] and the [[Tao Te Ching]]
* [[Taoism]]
* [[Qi]]
* [[Meditation]]
* [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]]
* [[Zen]]
* [[Falun Gong]]
* [[Feng Shui]]
* [[Yoga]]
* [[Exercise]]
* [[Confucianism]]
* [[Buddhism]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Martial Arts]]
[[Category:Meditation]]
[[Category:Traditional Chinese Medicine]]
[[Category:Taoism]]
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:Vietnam]]
[[Category:Japan]]
[[Category:Korea]]
[[Category:Asia]]
[[Category:Breathing]]
[[Category:Meditation]]
[[Category:Chi]]