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Should Political<br />
RefugeeS Be aRmed?<br />
ameRica haS Plenty of them<br />
When a ruthless dictator seizes<br />
control of the power structure<br />
at some backwater nation in a<br />
dark corner of the planet, people tend<br />
to flee. They pack up their meager<br />
belongings, focusing on food, water,<br />
clothes and life’s necessities, and<br />
take to bomb-pocked roads, seeking<br />
safe haven. Rarely are they armed,<br />
leaving them potential victims to<br />
thugs along the way, or the new<br />
thugs running their government.<br />
It seems impossible for that to happen in our great nation, but increasingly,<br />
people are fearful it could occur. Certainly, American Indians faced<br />
it. Preppers, people who plan and prepare for catastrophe, with escape<br />
routes memorized, are increasing in number. Even mainstream TV is<br />
starting to sport ads for long shelf life food packages, “victory farm” seed<br />
assortments and other survival gear that used to be the bailiwick of deepend<br />
tin-hat survivalists. Hey, having at least some bottled water, flashlights,<br />
canned goods and a battery-powered radio is a basic requirement for any<br />
sensible person living in the world today.<br />
But I’m concerned here with a softer type of refugee. I’m concerned<br />
with increasing migration within the US, of people moving away from<br />
where their right to keep and bear arms is seriously infringed, to a place<br />
where that precious right is held in high esteem and well protected. I’m<br />
talking about armed political refugees within America.<br />
We have a supply of them here in Arizona. People who are proud to<br />
have left behind the highly repressive regimes in their home states for<br />
the relatively free air of constitutional carry in the Grand Canyon State.<br />
My good friend Charles Heller, formerly of Chicago, where even getting<br />
a firearm is a bureaucratic entanglement defying freedom, arrived here<br />
knowing and proclaiming he was a political refugee. That had an impact<br />
on me. And he has had a significant impact on Arizona. Arizona is arguably<br />
the gun friendliest state in the Union.<br />
Ultimately, this is about federalism, that brilliant idea of the Founders to<br />
make us subject to two sets of law instead of one. By being a citizen of both<br />
the nation and the state you are in, you have choice. Your feet can vote.<br />
Continued on page 105<br />
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