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<!--Fill in your link line for CSS and JS in the XSLT here! -->
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1 id="title-index">Politics-Conspiracies-Project</h1>
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<h1 id="title-index">gun-ctrl</h1>
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<nav id="menu">
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<a href="../index.html">
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<div class="button">Home</div>
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</a>
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<a href="../fulltext2.html">
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<a href="../fulltext.html">
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<div class="button">Fulltext</div>
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</a>
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<a href="../analysis.html">
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</div>
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</a>
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</nav>
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<h2>gun-ctrl</h2>
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<p>GUN CONTROL, PATRIOTISM, AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE</p>
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<p>By JACOB G. HORNBERGER</p>
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<p>The State of California recently enacted a law which requires
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his government schools: he places unwavering faith and trust
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in the judgment of his popularly elected public officials.</p>
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<p>The other concept of patriotism was the type which
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characterized the British colonists during the late 1700s.
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characterized the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> colonists during the late 1700s.
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These individuals believed that patriotism meant a devotion to
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certain principles of rightness and morality. They believed
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that the good citizen had the duty to make an independent
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legitimacy of the actions of their public officials.</p>
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<p>Let us examine how "real-world" applications of these two
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concepts of patriotism differ dramatically.</p>
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<p>In the late 1700s, the British colonists were suffering under
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<p>In the late 1700s, the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> colonists were suffering under
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the same type of oppressive regulatory and tax system under
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which present-day Americans are suffering. What was the
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reaction of the colonists to this regulatory and tax tyranny?
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citizens on the juries regularly voted verdicts of acquittal.</p>
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<p>And civil disobedience was not limited to economic regulations
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and taxation. There was also widespread resistance to
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conscription, especially during the French and <span class="NORP">Indian</span> War.
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conscription, especially during the French and <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Indian</span> War.
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Those who were conscripted deserted the army in large numbers.
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And those who had not been conscripted hid the deserters in
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their homes.</p>
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"patriotic" agents of their own government's tyranny.</p>
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<p>Therefore, there is no doubt that the American of today would
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feel very uncomfortable if, all of a sudden, he found himself
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in the British colonies in 1775--in the midst of smugglers,
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in the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> colonies in 1775--in the midst of smugglers,
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tax evaders, draft resisters, and other patriots of that time.</p>
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<p>This brings us back to the individuals in California who are
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refusing to register their guns.</p>
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harmful to the American people. But let's look at just a few
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twentieth-century examples. They confiscated people's gold.
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They repudiated gold clauses in government debts. They
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provoked the <span class="NORP">Japanese</span> into attacking Pearl Harbor and then
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acted like they were surprised. They incarcerated <span class="NORP">Japanese</span>-Americans for no crime at all. They injected dangerous, mind-altering drugs into American servicemen without their
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knowledge. They radiated the American people in the <span class="PERSON">Northwest</span>
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provoked the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span> into attacking Pearl Harbor and then
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acted like they were surprised. They incarcerated <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span>-Americans for no crime at all. They injected dangerous, mind-altering drugs into American servicemen without their
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knowledge. They radiated the American people in the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Northwest</span>
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and then deliberately hid it from them. They have
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surreptitiously confiscated and plundered people's income and
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savings through the Federal Reserve System. They have
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