be appalled at the number of attempts by autocrats and their armed supporters to sodomize our Second Amendment to the Constitution. The major constitutional issue of gun control makes the content and message of this book more important than when the first volumes were published in the 1970s. Today our basic freedoms (i.e., our treasured Bill of Rights) are in imminent danger. That gun control has become a cultural jihad-a holy war — in the United States is obvious. According to its own leaders, the major objective of Handgun Control, Inc. is the total confiscation of all privately held firearms. Their strategy, and they make no secret of it, is to nibble and chip away at the gun control issue until they achieve total prohibition. Their argument against universal armament is that we don't live in dangerous colonial times anymore; that the code of the Western frontier is obsolete; that we don't need guns anymore to protect ourselves. If they believe this hogwash. I'd like any one of them to walk down a darkened street early some morning in any of America's nastier 1,000 or so cities, and take along their spouses and kids and pets and some personal valuables. Will anything be left to be found? No serious, thinking person can possibly believe that once guns are outlawed the entire world will turn peaceful, kind, and gentle and that everything and everyone bad will go away. First, our world's not kind and gentle, and neither are many of us who live here. Nature is cruel and nasty. You have to be tough to win and to survive. Making artificial rules to ban such technology as weapons does nothing to counter the emotional, biological, genetic, rational/ irrational baggage that each of us carries. My point? Gun prohibition doesn't work. A free people is an armed people. And if you take away free people's personal firearms, as the One World Order Police State that now owns America is trying to do, they will make others. As this book points out, while the method, means, and technology are simple, convenient, and in place, policestate dictators provide the motive. Both ancient and current histories are replete with frightening examples.