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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (491392)	11/12/2003 1:20:50 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

I don't know what drugs your on but if ALL arabs, homosexuals and liberals are being rounded up and shipped off to the KZ in cattle cars, I would think that maybe, just maye the media would have picked up on it. I know you are Marxist/Communist. Just come out and admit it. Don't claim your just a socialist or Democrat. Also be honest and say that the reason why you are for gun-control is routed in assurance of power. Here is a little history lesson that more fits your genre. I have to admit that the Hitler example I provided earlier doesn't really fit your type: The Bolsheviks were a minority of Communists in a vast and disparate nation where Communists themselves were a tiny minority. It should not be surprising that the Bolsheviks worked hard to ensure that any person potentially hostile to them did not possess arms. The first Soviet gun controls were imposed during the Russian Civil War, as Czarists, Western troops, and national independence movements battled the central Red regime. Firearm registration was introduced on April 1, 1918. On August 30, Fanny Kaplan supposedly wounded Bolshevik Lenin during an assassination attempt; the attempted assassination spurred a nationwide reign of terror. In October 1918, the Council of People's Commissars (the government) ordered the surrender of all firearms, ammunition, and sabres. As has been the case in almost every nation where firearms registration has been introduced, registration proved a prelude to confiscation. Exempt from the confiscation order, however, were members of the Communist Party. A 1920 decree imposed a mandatory minimum penalty of six months in prison for (non-Communist) possession of a firearm, even where there was no criminal intent. After the Red victory in the Civil War, the firearms laws were consolidated in a Criminal Code, which provided that unauthorized possession of a firearm would be punishable by hard labor. A 1925 law made unauthorized possession of a firearm punishable by three months of hard labor, plus a fine of 300 rubles (equal to about four months' wages for a highly-paid construction worker). P.S. Do you find yourself to be an admirerer of Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, Levin and Lautenburg?