Retired diplomat Dan Simpson is an ardent supporter of civilian disarmament. He is quite candid in describing what this would entail.
In an April 25 opinion column entitled ?The Disarming of America,? Simpson calls for enactment of federal and state laws making civilian gun ownership a felony punishable by a $1,000 fine and mandatory one-year prison term ? for each weapon.
Americans would be given a month's amnesty to surrender their firearms, after which time:
?Special squads of police would be formed...[.] [O]n a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building.?
Thereafter, individuals would be subject to searches at any time, and summary arrest and prosecution should they be found with guns.
What Simpson describes has been implemented before ? in Cambodia in 1975, and Rwanda in 1993, just before each country succumbed to genocide.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.