Posted on 08/25/2005 12:35:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Michael Moore argues that America possesses "too many guns." If so, why in the last 20 years — with gun ownership up — has violent crime declined in America? Liberals believe gun control reduces crime. Does it? What about the effect on urban crime when cities outlaw so-called "cheap Saturday night specials"?
How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes? I wanted to put this question to Moore. He tells us, for example, that over 11,000 people die each year because of guns. But how many Americans credit their lives with their ability to use a gun to defend themselves?
"Michael & Me" asks why, if America possesses "too many guns," is the murder rate among Japanese Americans actually lower than in Japan? And why, in England, with severe gun restriction, is the English murder rate growing, and the violent crime rate — assaults, car thefts, hot burglaries — now exceeding ours?
As Moore did in his entertaining film "Roger & Me," I sought out the director — some might say "ambushed" — in order to ask him a few questions. (You'll have to see my film to find out what happens.)
My film interviews victims of crimes, those who protected themselves with firearms, gun owners, criminals, police officers, authors and academicians. Texas State Representative Susanna Hupp describes how she witnessed her mother and father executed by a gunman in a restaurant. The film also interviews Jane Doe, who, two days before she got raped, attempted to purchase a handgun — only to be thwarted by California's 10-day waiting period.
Some believe that the Second Amendment only confers a collective right — as part of a state militia — rather than an individual right to keep and bear arms. The film notes that the Founding Fathers clearly intended the...
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Michael Moore is living proof that thoughts can't kill.
They can, but they do so by destroying the brain of their intended victim ... so now you understand why MM is still taking up space and sucking in air.
Maybe they can do a study on Michael Mooreon's comsumption of Big Macs and the tonnage he puts on annually.
Given the loony libs' idea that the only people who should have weapons are militias, what if the Second Amendment was written as follows:
"An educated electorate, being necessary to the best operation of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."
Does this mean then that ONLY EDUCATED PEOPLE should be allowed to own and read books?
According to the loony left that's EXACTLY what it means.
Show me where I'm wrong.
Michael Moore is a quisling.
Well, he is brain dead...does that count?
Mikey Moore is also proof that looks can't kill either, no matter how ugly you are.
What about these, Garry?
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government." -- Thomas Jefferson.
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence." -- George Washington
"The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would surely shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors." -- James Madison
I guess the road to becoming a "respected historian" is to completely ignore the factual record. Academia is a degenerate mass that requires occasional excision.
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