40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL
(From the AR-15 forum)
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago
cops need
guns.
2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to
strict
gun control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9
per 100,000 is
due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but
statistics
showing increasing murder rates after gun control
are "just statistics."
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, which both took
effect in 1994, are responsible for the decrease in violent crime
rates, which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a
shooting spree at any time, and anyone who would own
a gun out of
fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray,
but if
shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman
with a
smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up
no defense
- give them what they want, or run" (Handgun
Control Inc. Chairman
Pete Shields, Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p.
125).
10.The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert
advice
about guns, just like Guns & Ammo has some
excellent treatises on
heart surgery.
11.One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts,
a
civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for
internal medicine,
a computer programmer for hard drive problems, and
Sarah Brady for
firearms expertise.
12.The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National
Guard,
which was created 130 years later, in 1917.
13.The National Guard, which is federally funded, with bases on
federal land,
using federally-owned weapons vehicles buildings and
uniforms,
punishing trespassers under federal law, is a "state"
militia.
14.These phrases: "right of the people peaceably to
assemble,"
"right of the people to be secure in their
homes," "enumerations
herein of certain rights shall not be construed to
disparage others
retained by the people," and "The powers
not delegated herein are
reserved to the states respectively, and to the
people" all refer
to individuals, but "the right of the people to
keep and bear arms"
refers to the states.
15."The Constitution is strong and will never change."
But we should
ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th,
and 5th
Amendments to that Constitution.
16.Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense! Of
course,
the army has hundreds of thousands of them.
17.Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they aren't
"military weapons" and therefore are not
covered by the Second Amendment, but private citizens shouldn't
have "assault
rifles," because they ARE military weapons.
18.In spite of waiting periods, background checks,
fingerprinting,
government forms, etc., guns today are too readily
available,
which is responsible for recent school shootings. In
the 1940's,
1950's and 1960's, anyone could buy guns at hardware
stores, army
surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears
mail order,
no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no
government
forms.
19.The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign
about kids
handling guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun
lobby's attempt to
run a "don't touch" campaign is
responsible social activity.
20.Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use
them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder
easy.
21.A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the
typical
adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile
that only has 20.
22.Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman
with
a gun is "an accident waiting to happen"
and gun makers' advertise-
ments aimed at women are "preying on their
fears."
23.Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering
butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is
removed.
24.Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass
killings
at gun shows.
25.A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a
majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26.Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to
be a
"weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault
weapon."
27.Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against
guns,
which most people will abide by because they can be
trusted.
28.The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be
questioned
because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill
of Rights, but
the use of handguns for self defense is not really
protected by the
Bill of Rights.
29.Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters,
computers,
and typewriters, but self-defense only justifies
bare hands.
30.The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain
parts
of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it
defends other
parts of the Constitution.
31.Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a
cheap
lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas,
a movie actor
as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an
ambassador for
peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms
control summit.
32.Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they
need
larger capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians"
who must face
criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
33.We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other
inexpensive guns
because it's not fair that poor people have access
to guns, too.
34.Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over
handguns
that private citizens can never hope to attain.
35.Private citizens don't need a gun for self-protection because
the
police are there to protect them even though the
Supreme Court says
the police are not responsible for their protection.
36.Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but
police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who
work in a
building filled with cops, need a gun.
37."Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill
large numbers
of people. The police need assault weapons. You do
not.
38.When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft
preferential promotion, that's bad; but when the
Federal government
pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith &
Wesson, that's good.
39.Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun
for
defensive purposes, which is why you see police
officers with one
on their duty weapon.
40.Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out
of the wrong
hands." Guess what? You have the wrong hands.