to call in the National Guard, the Special Forces, or Boutros-rnBoutros and his Blue Helmets to do the job civilian authoritiesrnrefuse to do.rnIn any case, the policemen we already have seem to spend anrninordinate amount of their time enforcing the law against thernmarginal lawbreaker and avoiding enforcement against seriousrncriminals. This became a national scandal in the Los Angelesrnriots when police actually arrested store owners who were carryingrnweapons to protect themselves against the rioters whilerncarefully avoiding confrontations with rioters and, in at leastrnone case, even passed by a store that was being looted.rnIn Virginia, we have a recent and outstanding example ofrnanarcho-tyranny at work in Governor Douglas Wilder’s “onerngun a month” law. Since last July in Virginia, it has beenrnillegal to buy more than one handgun a month, on the reasoning,rnoffered by the BATF, that more than 40 percent of thernguns used in crimes in New York and Washington are importedrnfrom Virginia, where gun control laws are lax. The gunrunners,rnvows a BATF spokesman, just “fill up their trunks”rnwith hrepower and “hightail it up Interstate 95.” One hopesrnthey do not drive on the shoulders of the road or leave their seatrnbelts unbuckled.rnWhat never seems to occur to any of these anarcho-tyrantsrnis that Virginians were able to buy guns legally (and as many asrnthey wanted) and still avoid murdering each other as much asrnNew Yorkers and Washingtonians do. Thus, in 1989, there werernabout 72 murders for every 100,000 people in the District ofrnColumbia but less than 8 per 100,000 in the whole state of Virginia.rnIn the same year, the Big Apple took a bite out of thernlives of neady 26 people per 100,000. The point is that in Virginiarnpeople buy guns legally and do not slaughter each otherrnwith them the way they do in New York and Washington,rneven though both cities have strict gun control laws and Virginiarnhad virtually none. Unable or unwilling to punish therncriminals who sell guns, buy them, or use them in thesernmetropolises, the anarcho-tyrants must therefore punishrnlaw-abiding Virginians by restricting their gun rights. Underrnanarcho-tyranny, government fails to enforce the laws andrnperform the functions it has a legitimate duty to enforce andrnperform, while it invents laws and functions it has no legitimaternduty or valid reason to make or carry out.rnWhile one characteristic of anarcho-tyranny is its propensityrnto criminalize and punish the innocent and the law-abidingrnwhile refusing to punish the criminals, another is its refusal tornenforce the laws it has already enacted and to enact more lawsrnthat have no effect on real crime and that further criminalizernthe innocent or restrict their rights. Governor Wilder’s lawrnshows this, and it is interesting that barely two months after thernlaw went into effect in Virginia, the BATF announced that 40rnpercent of the guns now used in Washington crimes come fromrnMaryland, so we must have a similar law there. The logical conclusion,rnof course, is that there should be a United NationsrnConvention on Handguns, under which handguns would bernoutlawed everywhere in the world, with international sanctionsrnand tribunals against the provinces of the New World Orderrnthat fail to obey and with contingents of blue berets, presumablyrnarmed with handguns themselves, to enforce it. I suggestrnGeneral Aidid as the commander of the force.rnColorado’s new law forbidding minors from owning guns isrnalso a recent instance of gun control anarcho-tyranny. Passedrnthis summer on the grounds that too many minors are killingrneach other with guns, the law merely imposes a five-day jailrnsentence on any minor who possesses a gun (except sometimes).rnOf course, no minor with a gun who is disposed torncommit a crime with it is likely to be deterred by five days inrnjail; most such teenagers spend a good part of their adolescencernin and out of jail. The only people who will be so deterred willrnbe otherwise law-abiding minors who carry guns to protectrnthemselves from their not-so-law-abiding cohorts whom thernanarcho-tyrants do nothing to control.rnnder anarchotyranny,rnthe staterncreates a problem,rndeclares an emergency or crisis—therndrug war, the carjacking crisis. Islamicrnfundamentalism—and then exploitsrnthat problem as an instrument by whichrnit continues to enhance its power, thoughrnneither the fake problem it exploits norrnthe real problem that exists is affected.rnYet one of my favorite examples of anarcho-tyranny is therncrime bill that Congress considered last year. Its most notablernfeature was the authorization of the death penalty for no lessrnthan 51 different crimes, so that senators could boast to theirrnconstituents of the Draconian retribution they are itching tornvisit upon wrongdoers. That sounds really tough, but the newrncapital crimes included such exotic offenses as genocide, treason,rnand espionage, and inflicting death for these would protectrnthe average citizen on the street about as much as directingrntraffic regulates pigeon droppings. The average housewife usuallyrnis not too worried that Pol Pot or Julius Rosenberg willrnjump her when she walks through the supermarket parking lotrnat night.rnMany of the other 48 offenses for which the law would havernexecuted you simply protect officeholders. The bill authorizedrnthe death penalty for murdering the President, members ofrnCongress, members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court,rncourt officers, and relatives of a federal official; for the killers ofrnjurors, witnesses, crime victims, informants, foreign officials,rnstate officials assisting federal officials; and, specifically, for thernmurderers of officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,rnincluding horse inspectors, poultry inspectors, egg inspectors,rnnuclear regulatory inspectors, and meat inspectors. Senatorsrnwho voted for the bill do not have to worry about losing thernegg-inspector vote.rnIt then proceeded to dispatch to the scaffold a whole penalrncolony of atrocity-doers: aircraft hijackers; those who commitrnarson on federal property; those who commit murder in therncourse of a violent crime, murder in the course of deprivingrnsomeone of his civil rights, murder in the course of deprivingrnsomeone of his religious rights, murder in the course of a kidlULYrn1994/17rnrnrn