Below is a brief e-mail I received relating to an amendment to the IRS Tax
Code. The amendment is under consideration and has not been enacted yet. I
verified that it is a real amendment and encourage you to do the same by
visiting the Senate website (http://www.senate.gov) and doing a bill search
for (SB-2099). I encourage you to contact your Congressional and State
Representatives and encourage them to quit reducing the freedoms gauranteed
in the U.S. Constitution (the right to bear arms
in this instance).
Nick
Original e-mail follows
Make sure you read the bottom...
Where We're Headed
By Robert A. Waters -
06.23.00
You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half
awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least
two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your
heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You
rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.
In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks
like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise
the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes
and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches
outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in
trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few
that are privately owned are so -stringently regulated as to make them
useless.
Yours was never registered. Police arrive and inform you that the second
burglar has died. They arrest you for First-Degree Murder and Illegal
Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to
worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter. "What
kind of sentence will I get?" you ask. "Only ten-to-twelve years," he
replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven.
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you
shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an
unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities
acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the
next day's headline says it all:
"Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."
The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type
pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media
pick it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a
folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably
win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several
times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their
lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you
told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District
Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars. A
few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your
lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at
the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of
you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict
you of all charges. The judge sentences you to life in prison.
This case really happened. On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth,
Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000,
he was convicted and is now serving a life term.
How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British
Empire? It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable
law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun
sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of
1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except
shotguns. Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any
weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man
with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead. The British public, already
de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher
restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective
even though Ryan used a rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a
semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public
school. For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to
beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media
gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all
handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the
few sidearms still owned by private citizens.
During the years in which the British government incrementally took away
most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.-
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened
claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real
criminals were released. Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police
spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into
their own hands."
All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several
elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no
fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of-antiques, had seen
most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars. When the Dunblane
Inquiry ended citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn
them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people
obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened
with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply. Police later bragged
that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered
and licensed. Kinda like cars. Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT
IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
* Samuel Adams -
Subject: IRS Gun Registration Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:54:52 -0400 From:
“Jim Hungate, CPC” <jhungate@neocomm.net To:
<Undisclosed-Recipient:@mail.neocom.net;;
FYI - thought this might be of some interest. I'm not a "gun toting fanatic"
but this demonstrates the federal government's efforts to erode our
constitutional rights. Jim Hungate Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to
put on our yr. 2000 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It
may require fingerprints and a tax of $50.00 per gun. This Bill was
introduced on Feb. 24. This Bill will become public knowledge 30 days after
it has been voted into law. This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act
of 1986. This means that Finance Committee can pass this without the Senate
voting on it at all. The full text of the proposed amendment is on the US
Senate homepage (http://www.senate.gov). You can find the bill by doing a
search by the Bill number (SB-2099j. You know who to call or write, your
Senators and Representatives. I strongly suggest that you do. Please send a
copy of this to every gun owner that you know to help stop this nonsense.
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