To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Subject: INFO: JPFO statement on Kopel Book Review Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:15:45 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna Date: 24 Jun 95 23:39:43 EDT From: "Alan M. Rice" <76500.3727@compuserve.com> To: Chris Behanna Subject: JPFO Press Release Chris: Sorry about the confusion. I made a few changes, please discard what I previously sent you and use the following. Thanks, Alan M. Rice JPFO - Board Member JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP - PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: AARON ZELMAN, Jay Simkin or Alan M. Rice 2872 So. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207 Phone: 414 769 0760 FAX 414 483 8435 Internet EMAIL: 76500.3727@compuserve.com Noted legal scholar David Kopel has reviewed "LETHAL LAWS", published by JPFO in 1994. "Lethal Laws" contains the authentic original texts of the "gun control" laws in force in the seven nations where major twentieth century genocides occurred; 1915 - 1917 Ottoman Turkey, 1.5 million Armenians, murdered; 1929 - 1953 Soviet Union, 20 million people that opposed Stalin were murdered.; 1933 - 1945 Nazi occupied Europe, 13 million Jews Gypsies and others that opposed Hitler, murdered; 1948 - 1952 China, 20 million anti-communists or communist reformers, murdered; 1960 - 1981 Guatemala, 100,000 Maya Indians, murdered; 1971 - 1979 Uganda, 300,000 Christians and political rivals of Idi Amin, murdered; 1975 - 1979 Cambodia, 1 million educated persons, murdered. There are 56 Million corpses thanks to "gun control". Mr. Kopel's review was published in the: "New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law". Mr. Kopel has challenged those who say they support "gun control" because they wish to save lives. The prevention of genocide through an armed citizenry will save human lives. "Genocide is a human rights violation that dwarfs all other crimes. If we are to be serious - and not merely sanctimonious - about human rights than we must be serious about eradicating genocide." "If the people of the world were much better armed, many fewer people would be the victims of genocide. Unless one can propose a different method of ending endemic genocide, than the authors' prescriptions stand as the best, and only, potentially effective medicine. The burden has shifted to the opponents of firearms rights to either come up with a more effective anti-genocide medicine or to admit that saving lives was never the primary objective of the gun prohibition movement in the first place." JPFO urges persons and organizations who still support "gun control" to read "Lethal Laws". To those individuals and organizations who claim that they would like to put an end to "gun control", we simply say that unless they immediately begin to use the material contained in "Lethal Laws" they are destined to lose the fight to preserve our civil right to own firearms. Destroying "gun control" is the best way to save human lives. The debate surrounding "gun control" has nothing to do with hunting or sport, or much to do with ordinary criminals. The biggest murderer in this century has been governments gone bad. Anyone wishing a complete copy of the law review may contact: Joe Sciacca, Editor - Journal of International and Comparative Law New York Law School 57 Worth Street New York, NY 10013 Phone: 212-431-2113 The single issue price is $10.00 ask for Volume 15, Numbers 2 & 3, 1995 "Lethal Laws" is $28.95 postage paid and available from: JPFO, 2872 So. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207 - Phone: (414) 769 0760 FAX: (414) 483 8435 [end]