Aaron Zelman, the founder and mystic mainspring of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership ( www.jpfo.org ) died in December of 2010. His death represents a significant loss to advocates of The Bill of Rights, particularly to those of us who supported JPFO and benefitted from Aaron’s his writing enriched and informed.
Only Aaron and JPFO alerted us that then-Senator Dodd concocted the Gun Control Act of 1968 from a virtually verbatim translation of the gun control law implemented by Adolph Hitler in the mid-1930s in Nazi Germany, implemented in Austria immediately after the Anschluss, and subsequently enforced in the Sudetenland, Vichy France etc. Neither the NRA nor other Second Amendment organizations informed gun owners of that insidious heritage of GCA68, but JPFO and Aaron Zelman did!
I joined JPFO (house goy?) many years ago and I hope it doesn't die with Aaron. We need JPFO; America needs JPFO!
Aaron was a great defender of gun rights. He was a totally stand up guy. I explained to him how the Drug War was a danger to gun rights and after some discussion he changed his position. He will be sorely missed.
That is a shame. I used the literature and symbolism of his organization quite a lot when I was campaigning for gun rights. At least he lived long enough to see his ideas more secure than they were when he started.
Diogenes wrote:That is a shame. I used the literature and symbolism of his organization quite a lot when I was campaigning for gun rights. At least he lived long enough to see his ideas more secure than they were when he started.
Shalom.
Yes. That was a blessing for him indeed. Did you know that he co-wrote books with L. Neil Smith? A hard core Libertarian (guns at home - peace at any price abroad). Which is rather strange for a Jew - well you know how it is - politics makes for strange bedfellows. Take you and me for instance. ;-)
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Diogenes wrote:That is a shame. I used the literature and symbolism of his organization quite a lot when I was campaigning for gun rights. At least he lived long enough to see his ideas more secure than they were when he started.
Shalom.
Yes. That was a blessing for him indeed. Did you know that he co-wrote books with L. Neil Smith? A hard core Libertarian (guns at home - peace at any price abroad). Which is rather strange for a Jew - well you know how it is - politics makes for strange bedfellows. Take you and me for instance.
I don't always agree with you, but I believe your heart is in the right place.
On the Gun issue, Libertarians and Conservatives could join in common cause. For what it's worth, i've seen several articles lately that demonstrate Martin Luther King and various other civil rights people were very much in favor of the second amendment and exercised it themselves judiciously.
