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"Some readers assume that since I live in Berkeley, look like a hippie and hate war more than anything else the government does, I’m some kind of pacifist – or that I support gun control, or, more accurately, victim disarmament."
"No. I’m a libertarian, I believe in self-defense, and gun control is the stuff of tyranny. One of the very few positive things to happen on the national political scene in recent years is the expiration of the abhorrent ban on so-called 'assault weapons.' It is a triumph for liberty."
"But it is not without its downside. All libertarians know the many upsides to any reduction in anti-gun tyranny. I want to focus on the downside."
"George W. Bush – a president who has flouted the gun rights of Iraqis and American airline pilots, to say nothing of American airline passengers – will get credit for the expiration, when he deserves the scorn of every decent gun-owner in America. ..." ... |
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