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Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D., is Senior Fellow and author of “The Founders’ Second Amendment, Gun Control in the Third Reich,” and “Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France.” Readers may write him at at the Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94621.
OAKLAND, California —The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle warned of the dangers of oligarchy: the rule of the few.
In America today a new oligarchy, independent of any democratic control, has arisen. It seeks to install its ideology through economic coercion, outside of any legal process.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — No sooner had the smoke cleared when the canned clamor for more “common sense gun safety measures” began.
Those are Orwellian code words for further criminalization of law-abiding gun owners in violation of the Second Amendment. But it did not take long for the actual facts to emerge behind the horrible murders of 17 innocents at the high school in Parkland, Florida.