Victim Disarmament Repeal

This is our first proposition for California; a Constitutional amendment. In accordance with our stated goals on the home page this new law will suppress crime in the state and restore a measure of respectability -- that has been lacking for far too long -- to the police, courts and other governmental agencies.

The suppression of crime will be accomplished by deterrence. An armed society is a safe society because criminals know that their intended victims are often armed and will shoot them dead in the course of the crime. Nationwide, the armed citizens of the United States "stop in the act" over two and one-half million crimes per year by the use of firearms. That is -- a crime is stopped every 13 seconds and a life is saved every 83 seconds -- by an armed citizen (a member of the citizen militia). This is usually done without firing a shot.

An armed society is a polite society because people are more respectable when armed than when disarmed. The power imparted to an individual by the possession of a weapon instills a sense of responsibility for his behavior as nothing else can. People avoid conflict to prevent it's escalation to violence that can be deadly. We are all more polite to someone that we know to be armed than someone we know to be disarmed.

We will increase respect for the law by removing "laws" that are not respectable. This is a two way street. We cannot respect a person who holds us in contempt. Our governments have held us in absolute contempt for over 65 years in the United States. By eliminating those acts of government that treat us as insane criminals and mentally deficient slaves we force government to come closer to respectability. This reduces conflict between the people and their servants in government.

We will reduce the costs of both crime and government by reducing the amount of crime on the order of one half. The people of California lose tens of millions of dollars to crime each year. We spend many millions more on excessive police forces to mop up after it and wage war on the people by the enforcement of illegal gun and weapon "laws." Our crime rate is more than four times the "natural" rate for a society such as ours. Some say it is more than ten times the natural rate. By reducing crime losses and police forces we will save tens of millions of dollars. We will also save the pain and suffering of victims that will not happen due to the crimes that we deter.

By reducing crime and the associated costs; and increasing civility; we will move closer to the state of "domestic tranquility" that we set up this Republic to accomplish in the late eighteenth century. By proving that "Bill of Rights enforcement" works to give us what we want; by enforcing the Second Amendment; we will create an atmosphere of hope and enthusiasm for further enforcement of our most basic law, the Constitution of the United States.

Our country has no major problems that are not caused by government violations of the Bill of Rights and other Constitutional restrictions on government action. By enforcing the Bill of Rights and abandoning the illegal policies of Socialism that have dragged us toward slavery and genocide for most of this century; we can transplant the hope, optimism and progress of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the the twenty first.

We will accomplish this by:

• Restating the meaning of the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and Article One, Section One of the Constitution of the state of California in excruciating detail in plain English and "legalese."
• Defining the most important words, such as "right", "arms" and "infringe" in broad and precise terms.
• Repealing all of the statutes, ordinances and regulations in California that infringe in any way the people's right to keep and bear arms.
• Re-establishing civil remedies for past and future infringements of our right to keep and bear arms. This means that we can sue the government and it's employees for the damage they have done to us.
• Providing "teeth" for the punishment of government officials or employees who violate the Constitution. This is a felony conviction that carries a fine of ten thousand dollars and a prison sentence of ten years at hard labor. These penalties are mandatory. There can be no reduction of them.