The Weapon Shops of Isher

A.E. Van Vogt

In the Atlanta Journal:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/04/14/when-newt-lectures-the-nra-hilarity-ensues/

When Newt lectures the NRA, hilarity ensues

2:16 pm April 14, 2012, by Jay Bookman

Most politicians wouldn’t dare use a speaking appearance before the National Rifle Association to criticize that powerful organization. But as Newt Gingrich demonstrated once again Friday, he’s not most politicians.

The NRA, he told the group’s annual convention, has been much too timid and moderate in its defense of gun rights. If elected president, he said, he will “submit to the United Nations a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right for every person on the planet because every person on the planet deserves the right to defend themselves from those who would oppress them, those would exploit them, rape them or kill them.”

“Let’s take the George Soroses and the Hillary Clintons head on,” Newt said to the cheering crowd. “They represent a world in which elites disarm the rest of us so we are then helpless when elites turn sour and when evil reappears.”...

The title is the name of a story by A.E. Van Vogt, and we are living in the fantasy world of fiction...