http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle444-20071118-02.html
The River Rubicon
by L. Neil Smith
The Libertarian Enterprise
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Seven years ago—although thanks to the horrors of George Bush’s reign of state terrorism it seems vastly longer than that—the Waco Willy Clinton administration, ever fearful that Americans might be equipped for and capable of defending themselves from its predations, served up a list of 83,000 human sacrifices on the altar of victim disarmament.
“Victim disarmament” is the accurate term for “gun control”, as its principal purpose and effect is to render the act of self-defense impossible. Its visible effect on gun-grabbers in public debate is soul-satisfying.
Those 83,000 names belonged to military veterans suffering from disabilities like “post-traumatic stress disorder”, a phenomenon as old as war itself—it’s been called many different things: “shell shock”, “combat fatigue”—but which genuine science (as opposed to the primitive religion known as “psychology”) knows very little about. The names were added to the National Criminal Information System (NCIS) presumably so they would be red-flagged by a Brady background check and their owners could thereby be deprived, for highly dubious pseudomedical reasons, of their Constitutional right to buy or own firearms.
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Do you think perhaps that the congress critters might be a little afraid of having such a large segment of the population armed and unhappy? The fact that the gooferment has screwed over “the troops” in various wars has been well established. This war is no different. Leaving aside the media biases, which during the Clinton era swept “vet gets screwed” stories to the dust bin of history and now regales us with “vet gets screwed” stories on the front page because the White House is held by the “other team”, leave that aside, it’s an article of faith that the first casualty of war is truth. And, boy, do we have a lot of wars going, foreign and domestic. War on Drugs, which is really against our own people. War on Terror, (how does one make “war” on a “tactic”?) which covers anything the gooferment wants it to cover.
Sigh!
I’d say the experiment — as in the American Experiment with a republican form of government — is over. It failed. Shall we try anarchy?
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Reinke Faces Life 
The above is inaccurate. It was November of 1999…before Bush was president. The VA provided the names of 88.898 veterans to the NICS database. PTSD had nothing to do with it…that is absolutely wrong. All of the veterans had been adjudicated to be mental defectives or had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
Veterans who are being (and have been) treated for PTSD regularly purchase weapons and pass the NICS check system.
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