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to do. This in no way made them less patriotic or entitled
try should be registered, the owners of these firearms should
them to abuse from the liberal commentators and writers."
be fingerprinted and photographed and there should be a
"fee" charged for these services. Some liberals in Los Angeles
Add to this excellent editorial the editorial quoted above
decided to initiate a gun registration bill that provided for
from the Tulsa Tribune Monday, November 25: "For the
these three things in their city during the mid-1940's. When
presumption that only ultra-conservatives could be guilty of
public hearings on the legislation were called, one of the per-
assassinating the President in Dallas was strong, it was per-
sons who spoke on behalf of the propased laws was the Los
haps to be expected that Pravda in Moscow immediately ac-
Angeles Legislative Chairman of the Communist Party. For-
cused Texas TFascists' of killing the President. But, a number
tunately, an informed public managed to defeat the bill
of America's TV commentators, notable for their liberal lean-
ing, immediately began owlishly expressing the pious hope that
However, you can expect now, since the assassination of
'certain groups' were not responsible. Such hopes' are a sub-
tle way of backing into an accusation."
the President, that there will be a new clamor to register the
guns of the land. The liberals will claim this is the only way
we can prevent something similar to whac happened last weck
The American people now must demand an apology from
from happening again. These laws are presumably designed
the major television networks for the biased handling of the
assassination by these ultra-left-wing commentators, with few
to curb the criminals but they usually succeed in curbing only
the Constitutional rights and personal security of honest citi-
exceptions. Protests should be sent to the NBC Television
zens who own guns. However, we should face the facts. The
Network and also to ABC Television Network, especially.
criminal will not comply to the registration law, He will not
Edward P. Morgan, one of the reporters representing ABC,
go into a store and register or give his name (and address.
is an enemy of every conservative, anti-communist cause in
this country. He is the paid commentator on the AFL-CIO
He will not let hímself be fingerprinted or photographed, nor
Radio News show and on every occasion possible he vents
will he submit to a cooling off period. The criminal buys his
guns on the black market or he steals them. And, if he sells
his spleen against the anti-communist movements, including
Christian Crusade. To let a man like this handle the story as
them, burns them or throws them away, he is certainly not
tragic as the assassination of the President, thus giving him a
going to report it to the authorities. As for restricting the
enraged, impulsive killer, if he can't get a gun and is deter-
chance to give it the political interpretation that his distorted
thinking is capable of, is a crime beyond measure in the an-
mined to kill, he will do it with a butcher knife, a club, by
nals of fair play and justice.
poison, or by some other means. In other words, only the
law-abiding citizen will comply with the law and since he is
a responsible person, he poses no threat, But, the red tape and
restrictions are an affront to his dignity as a free man.
WHAT HAVE THE LIBERALS LEARNED?
It is my sincere prayer that this great tragedy of the last
The question now before us is, what have the liberals
few days will not panic the American people into giving up
learned? Have they learned the mistake of their ways, that is,
their Constitutional right to own weapons in the event they
trusting the communists, appeasing the communists, co-exist-
must defend their homes and lives should a communist dictator
ing with the communists? Do they now see the necessity to
overthrow our government.
be firm with communism internally and internationally? Or,
have they been so brainwashed by internationalism and peace-
ful co-existence that they refuse to recognize the reality that
a communist shot our President and that it was needless for
WHERE DO WE GO FROM MERE?
him to be shot if the communists had only been prosecuted
according to the law?
I would like to reprint here an editorial which I read to-
day in the Daily Oklahoman entitled "Law of the Jungle."
No, I'm afraid that most of our liberals will not gain this
very obvious lesson. Instead, they are going to work on the
'gun registration laws." Unbelievable, yet true. As a part of
"Americans need to think deeply and coolly about the
the disarmament package there is a provision to destroy all
meaning of the fatal shooting of President Kennedy's assassin
private weapons in the United States. Our Constitution pro-
by a Dallas nightclub operator.
vides that citizens have a right to own firearms to protect
their families. The disarmament program that was passed by
"It is only human for any of us to think with grim satis-
Congress in 1961 was designed to eventually eliminate all of
faction, that the assassin died by the same kind of violence he
our Armed Forces so that as a sovereign nation we would have
spawned. There's a temptation to say, 'He got just what he
no means to protect ourselves. This would also eliminate all
deserved."
weapons owned by private individuals. This law is obviously
in direct violation of our Constitution since the Second
"Yes, in terms of our deepest, primitive emotions. But
Amendment to the Bill of Rights stipulates that "the right of
the way in which Lee Oswald was killed is as much of a
the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon."
danger to our way of life as any other taking the law into one's
It is a historical fact that most of the centrally-controlled, so-
own hands. It's the law of the jungle, not of 20th century
cialistically-inclined European and Balkan countries had gun
America.
registration laws before World War II. When the armies of
Hitler and Stalin conquered their countries, they acquired
"The assassination itself was a violation of every orderly
these gun registration lists and immediately confiscated all
process. The killing of the assassin in this fashion adds more
private weapons. This constituted a vital blow to patriotic
fuel. If a conflagration of violence and lawlessness spreads
citizens who were thus severely handicapped from carrying
across America, we could see a virulent epidemic of purge and
on effective underground movements.
anti-purge, attack and revenge (remember Germany and Japan
in the 1930's?) that would destroy the foundations of our
For some time now, the liberals have advocated gun regis-
government and our society. It is in such an atmosphere that
tration laws, that is that all firearms within the city and coun-
revolution and assassination are bred.
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