• Official position statement: why I am fighting gun control.
• A strategy for counteracting gun control in the United States.
• Reporting misconduct by antigun groups: fundraising fraud, abuse of 501(c)(3) tax exempt status
• Research links (This page: new, 3/11/01)

• Gun Safety page
• Win-win solutions to firearm misuse (and underlying social problems); a related subject.

Centurion, Legio II (on our Enemies)
Experienced centurions learned all about the enemies of Rome. Today he might have a masters in public administration which would prepare him to achieve the desired outcomes in relation to our enemies regardless of political correctness run amok.  Here's some information about our enemies.

• Enemies of the Second Amendment
• Friends of the Second Amendment, for comparison with our enemies
  
• The antigunner dirty laundry page.

The Statue (Humor)
He doesn't know what else to do, so let's have some fun:

• "You might be an HCI member if..." Jews for the Abolition of Firearms Ownership (JAFO)
• Also see, "If guns were licensed and registered like cars" and "ABCs of Gun Control" (same page)
• Great Britain (Sunday Herald writer Neil Mackay attacks Second Amendment Sisters, England abolishes civil rights) and Europe
• Does violent entertainment make kids violent? Here are some examples from the good old days of the 19th and early 20th centuries, before they had graphic violence in movies and video games.

Legionary, Legio II (Other)

• Dianne Feinstein mishandling a rifle in front of an audience (and three police officers)
• "This is Julie," by Bill Kelly. A story about gun control. Includes Uncle Romulus' sideshow freak exhibit: see Liberalis Limousini and other oddities.
• See and hear Rosie O'Donnell squeal like a stuck pig. In Orwell's Animal Farm, the pigs got all the special privileges.
• Fascism: It can't happen here? Here's what prominent gun control supporters have to say.
• Dishonest lawsuits against gun manufacturers
• Virginia SLAM and SLAM the NRA
• Who vandalized the Violence Policy Center's Web site?
• Communitarian Ivory Tower suggests animal abuse and cruelty (moved)
• Gun Control = Big Government. Graphs of state taxes versus Handgun Control Inc. gun control ratings
  

Terroristic threats by U.S. mail are, incidentally, a felony. It is heap bad medicine, heap bad juju, to use the U.S. Mail for illegal activities. Anthrax jokes by mail are especially Not A Good Thing. What next? Will they threaten to get Million Mom March organizer Barbara Lipscomb (or Graham) out on parole, give her a .223 rifle, and have her start shooting Second Amendment supporters? (She's the convicted violent felon who gunned down an innocent man in "revenge" for an attack on her son.)

"The Tennessee Republican -- who was driving near the accident scene --stopped and helped emergency workers treat the crash victims after their vehicle rolled over several times after an apparent tire blowout." I wonder if your typical Million Mom Marcher would have even bothered to call 911 on a cell phone upon coming on a crash scene.

I would personally advise against buying any gun cabinet or gun storage box that has an electronic-only lock, even with a battery backup. Per Ivan Amato, "Crossed Signals: the wireless threat to our electronic infrastructure" (U.S. News & World Report, 16 December 2002, 54-56), "Virtually any electronic system could be disabled, or even destroyed, by electromagnetic interference." The article describes how a high school student built a prototype EMI weapon from scavanged parts and shut down his computer and phone lines in tests.

Almost-homemade EMI weapons have also been successful in disabling cars, radios, medical intravenous pumps.  A more-powerful EMI weapon (trailer-sized) fried engine control computers at 1000 yards (almost a kilometer). Japanese criminals used an EMI device to make a Pachninko machine spit out cash.

The danger of criminals or terrorists disabling gun storage cabinets (so they can't be opened) and the electronics of any "smart guns" that anyone was stupid enough to purchase for self-protection is obvious. My personal advice (does not constitute engineering advice) is to buy mechanical-only or electronic plus mechanical lock backup gun storage cabinets.

Robert Byrd (D-KKK) opposes Second Amendment

A spokesman for Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., told protesters this week that he wasn't sure whether his boss had helped lynch any African-Americans when the top Senate Democrat was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s.

• Robert Byrd as ASCII Klansman, holding a burning cross.
• Klansman with hangman's rope wearing Million Mom March sheet and objecting to "Negrotown Saturday Night Specials." "Negro" isn't the word they used, either.
• Klansman with swastika praising the American Jewish Congress and Union of American Hebrew Congregations for their anti-Second Amendment work.

• "You are too old."
• Senior citizens should not be able to protect themselves.
  
• "Your husband can protect you."
• Women should have to rely on men for protection.
  
• "You do not have the right type of house to have a firearm."
  
• "You have not been attacked yet."

Historical comment: the soldier's breastplate is a lorica segmentata (segmented armor). The javelin is a pilum, and it was normally thrown into the enemy ranks as the Romans closed with their enemies. The soldier used his gladius (short sword) from behind the protection of his scutum (tower shield). His footwear consists of caligae (boots or military sandals, doubtlessly good for many miles).

The Romans won their wars because they were highly trained and disciplined, and they never gave up.

Center for Disease Control mortality rates by cause.
Crime.com statistics page; get crime data by locality and zip code
United States Crime Statistics with breakdown by states

Rate your risk for murder, assault, and burglary. Security pointers for reducing your risk of becoming a crime victim.

American Liberty Foundation (Harry Browne, Libertarian)

Armed Females of America
AWARE
Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Citizens of America (Brian Puckett)
Concealed Carry Inc.
Crimetalk radio show, hosted by Stephen Wolf
Doctors for Responsibile Gun Ownership. Physicians for Social Responsibility and Doctors Against Handgun Injury are the disease, DRGO is the cure!
Dutchess County Pistol Association (local interest: Mid-Hudson region, New York)
New (8/4/99) Equal Rights for CCW (Carry Concealed Weapons) Home Page  (CA)

Front Sight Training Institute
Gun Owners of America (GOA)
Guntruths.com Great downloadable leaflets and posters!
Handguncontrolinc.org
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)