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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He,
Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short
a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his
own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all
others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the
same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls
the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the
present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature
alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from
everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was
an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control',
they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'.
--George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently.
'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front
of my eyes? Two and two are four.'·
'Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three.
Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not
easy to become sane.'·
Gun purchases are going up because gun ownership is on the decline.
The NAS "Firearms and Violence" review reported there were 65 million private handguns in 1999.
The recent "Guns in America" TV series reported there were 112 million private handguns in 2011.
There are more private handguns because gun ownership is on the decline.
FBI NICS background checks
Mostly 4473 firearms transaction forms:
YEAR NICS
1999 9,138,123
2000 8,543,037
2001 8,910,191
2002 8,454,322
2003 8,481,588
2004 8,687,671
2005 8,952,945
2006 10,036,933
2007 11,177,335
2008 12,709,023
2009 14,033,824
2010 14,409,616
2011 16,454,951
2012 19,592,303
Gun purchases are going up because gun ownership is on the decline.