 The following is an excerpt from J. Neil Schulman's book 
 SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control, to be published Nov. 30,
 1995 by Synapse--Centurion.  Reproduction in computer file
 and message bases is permitted for informational purposes
 only. Copyright (c) 1995 by J. Neil Schulman.  All other
 rights reserved.


The following article appeared in _Out of Step_ Vol. 3, No. 11
November 25, 1994.

                     CAN YOU HANDLE VICTORY?


November 9, 1994
      We won the elections.
     You. Me. The NRA. Gun Owners of America. The Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Jews for the
Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
     According to Connie Chung on CBS News tonight, about one-
third of registered voters went to the ballot box yesterday, and
25% of them were gun owners, and about four out of five of them
voted for the more conservative candidate or ballot issue.
     You know the results. An avalanche which swept the
Democratic Party out of power in both houses of Congress for the
first time in forty years--and control of a majority of
governor's mansions.
     Today's _Los Angeles Times_ reports that out of 24 races
which the NRA targeted, they won 19: a batting average of .791.
     Sell-outs on the assault-weapons ban gone: Tom Foley,
Jack Brooks.
     Enemies gone: Governor Ann Richards of Texas, whose
threatened veto killed CCW reform there; Governor Mario Cuomo of
New York; Howard Metzenbaum's hand-picked successor; Dan
Rostenkowski.
     Enemies humbled: Daniel Patrick Moynihan (who won't get
much of a chance to talk about 10,000% ammunition taxes anymore);
Charles Schumer (who lost chairmanship of the House Judiciary
Committee's Subcommittee on Crime); Ted Kennedy; and Rudy
Guiliani, who endorsed both greater gun control and the losing
Cuomo.
     Friends now in power: Orrin Hatch, who'll take over the
chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and numerous pro-
gun Republicans who will now control House and Senate rules and
the committees.
     Distinct possibilities if we press for it: real
investigations of Waco (because Republicans control the judiciary
committees of both Houses _and_ the governor's mansion in Texas
now); as well as investigations of the ATF and FBI misconduct in
the Randy Weaver case; and Whitewater, including the numerous
mysterious Arkansas-related deaths.
     What we have, my friends, is a real possibility of
pressing our agenda, if we can avoid fighting each other for a
little while and close ranks.
     We must, first and foremost, press home to the
Republicans who was responsible for putting them in office: _we_
did it.
     We must let elected officials know that running against
gun owners is political suicide. The final returns on the
Feinstein-Huffington race are not in yet, but even if Huffington
loses, an analysis of the vote will show it was lack of gun-owner
enthusiasm that cost him his victory--in spite of $28 million
dollars he spent buying TV time.
     Our overall agenda: we must use this breathing space to
educate the public on three points: (1) private guns in this
country save lives; (2) when 5% to 10% of the public carries guns
in public, random street crime in this country will be reduced by
90%; and (3) gun control tends to increase violent crime by
shifting the balance of power to the well-armed criminal.
     Our immediate political agenda: (1) reduce the impact of
the Brady Law by speeding up implementation of instant background
checks and depriving states which still cause gun owners delays
of federal criminal justice funding; (2) eliminate restrictions
on the manufacture and importation of firearms and magazines
banned by the 1994 Crime Bill and redirect the restrictions only
to convicted violent felons; (3) passage of a federal law
recognizing the Second Amendment as an individual right and
implementing a national standard restricting ownership or
carrying of arms _only_ to persons prohibited by reason of
criminal convictions, criminal insanity, or provable criminal
intent; (4) repeal of the 1934 Firearms Act and the 1968 Gun
Control Act, and the abolition of the ATF, a federal agency which
uses as its symbol a handgun with a circled slash through it.
     Longer term: we must make the Second Amendment a litmus
test for the appointment of all federal judges, particularly the
next appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
     And we must ram home to the Republican Party that
Republicans such as Riordan and Guiliani and Warner who attack
gun-owners can be counted on to stab the Republican Party in the
back by supporting Democratic candidates.
     A few weeks ago I was convinced the United States, as a
federal constitutional republic, was finished, and was busy
distributing copies of a ballot initiative to break up the United
States, hoping some of the states could regain their liberty.
     Now the American people have crushed my cynicism and
convinced me that this is _still_ America.
     We have a chance for victory, folks.
     Let's pat each other on the back, then get back to work.

                                ***


                         THE NEW BOOK
                    from J. Neil Schulman!

                           Author of 
        STOPPING POWER: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns


                 SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control


   "Schulman interestingly and insightfully raises a number of
  liberty-related issues that we ignore at the nation's peril.
   His ideas are precisely those that helped make our country
  the destination of those seeking liberty.  The book's title
 says it all: personal responsibility, not laws and prohibitions,
                is the mark of a civil society."
     Professor Walter E. Williams, Chairman
     Department of Economics
     George Mason University
     Fairfax, Virginia


Publisher: Synapse--Centurion
Price: $24.95 U.S.; $32.95 Canada
Publication Date: November 30, 1995
Approx. Shipping Date: Oct. 15, 1995
ISBN: 1-882639-05-7
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 95-74682

Full info is on J. Neil Schulman's World Wide Web Page at:  
http://www.pinsight.com/~zeus/jneil/ or download the file
SELFCONT.ZIP from GunTalk.

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