The following is a very loose transcription of an editorial in a trade
magazine for the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers
Jan. 1990 by Andy Molchan, President of N.A.F.L.F.D. that is hereby offered
WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.  My apologies to the author but I believe
this is worth reading and discussing. 
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From the election of President Kennedy in 1960 to now, not one single
government betterment program has worked, not one.  Every socialist betterment
program has been a failure and has been counter productive!  Everything, not
one single success.  Bussing, welfare, the war on poverty, public housing,
etc., all failures.  At the top of the list is gun control.  Everyplace where
honest people have been denied the ownership  of guns, crime has increased! 
If you want a guaranteed increase in violent crimes, just have more gun
control.  I can guarantee that California five years from now, after the ban
of semi-autos will have more crime than it did in 1991.  The more anti-gun
laws they pass, the greater will be the increase in crime.

Gun control is yesterdays idea, based on yesterdays Marxist socialism.  It's
yesterdays idea that socialism is the key to paradise.  It's yesterdays idea
that socialism is salvation, and all you need is complete government control
of everything, and paradise on earth is guaranteed.  It's yesterdays socialist
idea that all you need is all private property (guns especially) in the hands
of the government and we'd have the perfect society.  Just like Marx dreamed,
no crime, no poverty, no want, no violence, heaven-on-earth.  Nice idea, only
problem is that everyplace it's been tried it produced a hell-on-earth.

What are the new realities?  Marxist anti-gun, anti-property is an 1880 idea,
and completely discredited by history.  What are tomorrow's ideas and facts? 
What is the reality of the 90's?

The reality is that government has no ability to address serious social
problems.  Government is are powerless to control criminals, helpless in the
struggle to stop the drug epidemic and despite spending hundreds of billions
on efforts to improve the economic status of a relatively few american
citizens,  has lost the war on poverty.  

Exactly the same result will be the reality in the war on drugs and the war on
crime.  Why?  The police have been defeated!  The police have no offensive
power, the never were intended to be an offensive force against criminals. 
Police are strictly an after-the-fact force.  After your home is robbed, they
will be there,  after your car is stolen, they will be there.  After you are
mugged, robbed, raped, or murdered, they will be there, making chalk marks and
filling out reports.  The police are not protecting you and are not there to
protect you!  A recent court decision found the police not negligent in
failing to respond for a murdered citizens urgent plea for help.  Why?  The
court maintains that the police are only a protection of society as a whole
and not of individuals and therefore are not obligated to protect any single
person.  For some Americans, me included, having the police getting to the
scene of my murder with chalk drawn and notebooks at the ready is simply not
good enough!  The anti-gun people in Washington just can't seem to understand
that, which is what the heart of this debate is about.  They say "Just trust
us, we will take care of you.  Everything will be all right if you just let us
take control".  Meanwhile, our cities are war zones and the police are still
not protecting anyone.  

The honest street cop has nothing to do with the failure of the police.  The
honest street cop is great!  Every American should be eternally thankful that
we have honest street cops who will put up with this no-win system.  The
failure of the police is caused by 30 years of liberal dominated Congress that
has been brutally insensitive to honest middle class citizens.  The failure of
the police is due to 30 years of radical law professors , and radical
politicians, who have distorted and perverted the very idea of "rule of law"
into something that works against honest citizens and police.  Many of the
politically appointed police chiefs in the nations large cities, with
aspirations of higher office, take the side of these radical politicians and
the left-wing big media and kiss their ass in the hope of winning political
friends.

The liberal anti-gun groups in America are just like the Communists in Eastern
Europe,  They take an idealistic concept and force it upon their unwilling
subjects.  And they fail, and fail again, and fail again, and they just keep
on doing what fails.  This is what's so frightening about them, they refuse to
learn anything.  And like the Communists,they will blame their failures on the
failure of the people to embrace their ideals, and not question the ideals
themselves.  They remind me of the joke about the airline pilot announcing to
the passengers" Ladies and gentlemen, we are hopelessly lost and are running
out of fuel, but you will be happy to know that we are making excellent
progress". One of the first rules of good management is "when you find
yourself in a hole, quit digging!"  When the liberals find themselves in a
hole, their answer is they need a bigger hole!  They hope it will turn into
that tunnel that they are always seeing light at the end of.  Taking guns away
from honest American citizens is a complete absolute failure.  The more gun
laws government passes, the more street crime goes up.  The record is as clear
as the economic failure of Communism.

Of all the bad things about gun control, the very worst is that it has
destroyed the trust that was basic to the American system of government. 
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, George Mason, Ben
Franklin, all of them, looked at Europe and saw an "us versus them" system. 
In Europe it was the government versus the people.  Our founding fathers
created a government where the people ruled.  Firearm ownership was
specifically put into the Constitution because if the people are the
government and the people are armed and strong, then the government is strong. 
It is crystal clear that the framers of our constitution wanted Americans to
own the latest military firearms.  There were 'gun accidents' and criminal use
of guns in Jefferson's time, and he lived till 1826.  He never changed his
mind about private military gun ownership. 
 
The left-wing liberals have reestablished the old "us versus them" system. 
Today it's the government versus the people.  The government no longer trusts
the people, and thus can not trust them with firearm ownership.  Have we
forgotten that it is irrelevant what government wants?  The only purpose that
our government has is to serve the people, not aspire to be our master!  Gun
control is a perversion and corruption of relationship between the people and
government that was the core of Americas success as a democracy.  ty to add