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+# joinforc.xml wrapping
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+- ```Find: ^[A-Z].+Schulman$ / Replace with <meta>\0</meta>```
+- ```Find: ^[A-Z].+JNS] / Replace with <meta>\0</meta>```

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+The following article is reprinted by permission from the
+Los Angeles Times of June 8, 1992.  Reproduction on 
+computer bulletin boards is permitted for informational
+purposes only.  Copyright (c) 1992 by the Los Angeles
+Times.   All other rights reserved.
+
+[Note: the following text is drawn from the original
+manuscript; there are insignificant changes in the
+published version. -- JNS]
+
+
+
+JOINING FORCES AGAINST A COMMON FOE 
+
+by J. Neil Schulman
+
+
+There are about 200 million guns in America in the
+hands of about 60 million Americans.  The sale of guns
+nationwide following the Los Angeles riots has reached
+record levels, many of them to first-time buyers.  Firearms
+training classes are filled to capacity.  The National
+Rifle Association currently has 2.8 million members -- ten
+times the membership of the American Civil Liberties Union
+-- and expects to exceed 3 million by the end of 1992.
+
+Both advocates of gun control and advocates of gun
+rights agree that there is an epidemic problem with the
+criminal use of guns in America.  But every time a gun-
+control advocate points to the latest atrocity committed
+with a firearm, the gun-rights advocate will surely ask:
+why was there no armed citizen who could have tried to stop
+the criminal?
+
+The difference between the advocate of gun control and
+the advocate of gun rights lies in a perception of the
+cause of the criminal use of a gun.  Those who advocate gun
+control think the cause is wide and easy availability of
+guns.  The advocates of gun rights think the cause is a
+legal system which leaves criminals free to prey on a
+public which is socially discouraged, and often legally
+forbidden, from using guns for personal defense.
+
+The war over gun control is fought with news reports.
+Advocates of gun control have no shortage of reports that
+prove guns in the hands of criminals are a plague on our
+society. Advocates of gun rights find, however, that the
+use of firearms to prevent or stop a crime is often left
+unreported by media which are worried that reporting gun
+defenses will encourage irresponsible vigilantism.
+
+The war over gun control is fought with statistics. 
+The number of gun attacks in the United States is easy to
+compile: just count up the thousands of bodies in the
+morgues, and the hundreds of thousands of gunshot victims
+treated in hospitals. The number of times a gun is used for
+defense, however, has a built-in problem: the use of a
+firearm to deter, prevent, or stop an attack is unrecorded,
+overwhelmingly because the defense was accomplished without
+pulling the trigger, and less often, because the person
+using the gun for self-defense was legally forbidden to be
+in possession of it at that time or place, and thus did not
+report it.
+
+The war over gun control is fought with historical
+debates about the intent of the Second Amendment.  Those
+who advocate gun control say the Second Amendment has no
+Supreme Court ruling which defines the Second Amendment as
+protecting an individual right of the citizenry to keep and
+bear arms for personal defense.  Those who advocate gun
+rights say that the intent of the authors of the Second
+Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment which would apply
+it to the states, is indisputable, and it is a politicized
+Supreme Court which does not have the courage to enforce
+it.
+
+It's likely that the only other issue with such
+polarized and deeply felt world views is abortion.  Oddly,
+those who advocate the right of choice on abortion are
+often the same people advocating eliminating the right to
+choose firearms as a defensive option.
+
+It's also likely that a final Supreme Court ruling on
+the Second Amendment would fail to end the issue.  A ruling
+in favor of an individual rights interpretation of the
+Second Amendment would probably coalesce gun-control
+advocates into a movement to repeal the amendment.  A
+ruling against an individual rights interpretation of the
+Second Amendment would alienate and radicalize the millions
+of Americans who believe in that right as firmly as the
+advocates of abortion rights believe in theirs.
+
+As long as the advocates of gun control write laws and
+court rulings that abridge the right of private citizens to
+buy, own, and carry the firearms they feel are theirs by
+right to have for defensive and sporting use, gun owners
+will continue to be alienated and radicalized, and become
+more and more willing to engage in civil disobedience
+against such abridgements.
+
+Advocates of gun control need to realize that passing
+laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-
+defeating strategy.  Gun owners are not about to surrender
+their rights or their guns, and only the most foolish of
+politicians would risk the stability of the government by
+trying to use the force of the State to disarm the people.
+
+If gun-control advocates do not acknowledge the right
+of the people to keep and bear arms for individual and
+civic defense before they attempt to remove guns from the
+hands of those who abuse them, then sensible gun laws will
+be out of reach, and the criminal plague of gun victimizing
+will continue.
+
+Can't advocates of gun control see the advantage
+of recruiting gun-rights advocates to a joint cause of
+eliminating gun tragedies?  We can all agree that guns
+need to be kept out of the hands of the violent criminal
+and the lunatic.  We can agree that the solution to gun
+accidents is safety training.  We can agree that those who
+own and carry firearms for protection must take
+responsibility for knowing how to use them safely and
+appropriately.
+
+Surely, instead of fighting one another, we can join
+forces to fight our common enemy: the armed criminal?
+
+#
+
+J. Neil Schulman is a writer, hosts a radio program on the
+American Radio Network, and is founder and chair of the
+Committee to Enforce the Second Amendment.
+
+

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