Gun Control: What is the Agenda?

Paul Craig Roberts / VDARE.com:
Some years or decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America's first gun control laws. New York state senator Timothy Sullivan, a corrupt Tammany Hall politician, represented New York’s Red Hook district. Commercial travelers passing through the district would be relieved of their valuables by armed robbers. In order to protect themselves and their property, travelers armed themselves. This raised the risk of, and reduced the profit from, robbery. Sullivan’s outlaw constituents demanded that Sullivan introduce a law that would prohibit concealed carry of pistols, blackjacks, and daggers, thus reducing the risk to robbers from armed victims.

Posted by Editor at June 26, 2009 03:01 AM