Tuesday, May 01, 2007

A Human Right to Self-Defense


Better to fight with a keyboard today than with a rifle tomorrow.
What have you done for freedom?
World of Gun Control
from Independence Institute
http://www.davekopel.com/
Links to some essays from this awesome site.

Media violence and media bias.

Cutting Through the Fog. The role that firearms, malaria, AIDS, and kleptocracy play in development failure. America's 1st Freedom, January 2007.

"Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right?" 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1275 (2006). Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also discussing other genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of the international community's response to genocides, such as "targeted sanctions" or international peacekeeping forces.

Ancient Greece and Rome
Arms and the Greeks. What Plato and Aristotle thought about arms control. Liberty. August 1999.

Australia
Who Needs Guns? Lessons from Down Under. Chronicles, Oct. 2003. Gun confiscation in Australia. PDF file.
Canada
Ban on the word "gun" in spelling books, 2/11/03.
Britain
Police instructions about not resisting criminals, 5/15/03.
Fear in Britain. They have no guns — so they have a lot of crime. National Review Online.
Germany
Hitler’s Control. The gun control lessons of Nazi history. National Review Online. May 22, 2003.

Iraq
blog: Guns and Iraqi civilians, 4/21/03.

Israel
To Your Tents, O Israel! The history of ancient kingdom of Israel, and how the people created a strong central government for national security, but then found that their own liberties were endangered by that government. And the lessons that the American colonists and Founders drew from Israel's experience. Liberty, April 2007. PDF.
Follow the Leader. Israel and Thailand set an example by arming teachers. Russia should follow, to prevent more hostage-taking in schools. National Review Online. Sept. 3, 2004.

Japan
An Open Letter to the People of Japan (gun prohibition). Liberty, May 2000. By Dave Kopel.
Japan: Gun Control and People Control. The American Rifleman. Dec. 1988.

Asia/Pacific
The Dalai Lama’s Army. A right to self-defense is recognized by the Dalai Lama — indeed, his predecessor tried to recruit an army. National Review Online, April 5, 2007.
Follow the Leader. Israel and Thailand set an example by arming teachers. Russia should follow, to prevent more hostage-taking in schools. National Review Online. Sept. 3, 2004.
Arms in the Celestial Kingdom. Dave Kopel investigates what Confucius had to say about bearing arms. From Liberty magazine.
U.N.
Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People. Uganda terrorizes its own citizens under the auspices of a UN gun control mandate. Reason Online. Feb. 23, 2007.

U.N. To World: You Have No Human Right to Self-Defense. Thwarted by the demise of its global gun ban treaty, the United Nations declares the human right of self-defense null and void. America's 1st Freedom, November 2006.

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