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14 N. Y. L. F. 694 (1968)
Gun Control Legislation: Valid and Necessary

handle is hein.journals/nyls14 and id is 716 raw text is: GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION: VALID AND NECESSARY STANLEY MOSK* You're all chasing dollars, but there are other people who are chasing dollars to buy guns .... We need lawyers today who have a lawbook in one hand and a gun in the other ... so that if he goes to court and that... doesn't come out right, he can pull out his gun and start shooting. Eldridge Cleaver, Sept. 19681 Don't overlook the potential of .22 long rifles, pistols or rifles, as guerilla warfare or resistance weapons.... The .22 can be silenced completely with materials that are always available. Although the .22 lacks killing power, this can be readily increased by filling hollow point bullets with poison. Robert DePugh, Jan. 1966' IT is utterly incomprehensible that the sovereign people of these United States, through Congress, are impotent to act in the face of the dangers to internal peace and security inherent in possession of lethal weapons by the Cleavers and the DePughs, by black revolution- aries and white counterrevolutionaries, or by any criminals, ex-con- victs, narcotic addicts, alcoholics, minors, aliens, or mentally ill per- sons. The need for meaningful gun control legislation is so evident that, it seems to me, the burden shifts to the opponents to explain their intransigence. In meeting that burden, the negative adopts this posi- tion: the salutary effect of gun legislation on crime control and the possible reduction in violent deaths are outweighed by the inconve- nience of registration imposed upon lawful possessors of guns. When * Ph.B., 1933, University of Chicago; LL.B., 1935, University of Chicago. Justice Mosk is currently a Justice of the Supreme Court of California and prior thereto served as Attorney General of California (1959-64) and as a Superior Court Judge in Los An- geles (1943-59). 1 Eldridge Cleaver, so-called Minister of Information for the Black Panthers and presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to address the Barristers Club of San Francisco, a respected group of young lawyers. His remarks were reported in Newsweek Magazine, Sept. 16, 1968, at 30. 2 The quotation is from the Minutemen Bulletin of January 1966. Robert DePugh is the leader of the Minutemen, an organization with headquarters in Narbonne, Mo., and branches purportedly throughout the country. The Minutemen, who drill in private and secrete caches of weapons and ammunition to use against their fancied imminent communist takeover, have a political arm known as the Patriotic Party. Its number one project has been to oppose all gun control legislation.

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