They forbade you to buy more than one book a month. In Massachussetts and New Jersey, the mere possession of a book meant an automatic year in jail. Yes, books are dangerous. Okay, maybe that feeling's hard to understand. But just try justifying your own love of books to a Pat Robertson or an Ayatollah Khomeini.
Guns are dangerous.
Like books, the right to create, exchange, and collect them without a trace of government harassment, is supposed to be guaranteed. No matter who thinks it's wrong. Novelist and self-defense advocate L. Neil Smith is concerned for both the First and Second Amendments. Next to advance to the next article, or Previous to return to the previous article, or Index to return to The Libertarian Enterprise, Number 22, February 15, 1997.