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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, both of which went into 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, 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 arm" refers to the state.
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", 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 and there were no school shootings.
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' advertisements 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 obtain.
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.
"It is a commonplace that the history of civilization is largely the history of weapons......that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships, and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand grenades are inherently democratic weapons.
A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon.....gives claws to the weak."
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see
that it stays there."
-- GEORGE ORWELL, from an essay in 1945:
Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)
Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half
Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the
ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with
600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace
of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a
handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas
shouted these two words back. Molon Labe!
They mean, “Come and get them!” They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the
classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and
spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It
reads: “Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie.”
We have adopted this defiant utterance as a battle cry in our war against oppression because it says so clearly and
simply towards those who would take our arms.
It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and
all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you
will – rights to suit their own ends.
"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist, or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim." ~W.Emerson Wright
"Firearms stand next to the constitution itself. They are the American peoples liberty teeth and keystone under
independence. To ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very
atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
-- George Washington
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye
were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams, speech at the
Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.