At the Toledo Blade, a former US Ambassador advocates for fascism in the name of “stopping gun violence”:
The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.Every totalitarian regime in existence has started by trying to ban the population from having weapons for their own self-defense.
…That is my idea of how it could be done. The desire to do so on the part of the American people is another question altogether, but one clearly raised again by the Blacksburg tragedy.
That last sentence, while perhaps true, is practically redundant. The mere methods by which Simpson argues the gun laws should be enforced is a much bigger gap in civil liberties than an unarmed populace.
Comment by trumwill — April 27, 2007 @ 11:09 pm