Posted on 04/14/2003 3:01:59 AM PDT by 2nd_Amendment_Defender
WE SAY: Not sure what to say here, except that 40 or 50% of all violent crime is committed by young black males, probably in inner cities, so that perhaps the problem is with a specific segment of the population, concentrated in specific areas, and that a gun ban won't solve the problem. (The implications are 1. that guns are racist, therefore evil and must be destroyed and 2. that if the ratios were more politically correct then their premise would be proper.)
WE SHOULD SAY: The number of deaths is irrelevant. Otherwise, you might as well kills all snakes or hippos for the numbers of people they kill every year. What is important that these tools are necessary for protecting the weak and the innocent and my loved ones.
Then, as an aside, say, "However, even if the numbers of deaths were a valid measure of the propriety of a Constitutional issue, you should note that the number of lives saved every year exceeds the number of gun deaths every year." (When they try to argue that number, remind them that in addition to private gun use for protection, every police and military person carries a weapon, and their most important purpose is the protection of life.)
Just proving again what a total jerk you are. You don't have to bother, I already well aware of your personal deficiencies.
If you think the NRA doesn't do it, why don't you do it?
Well I did. I spent more hours and personal funds working on gun rights than you dream of. This is obvious, because you don't have a clue as to what the NRA does, and I've seen what they do first hand.
Then you can collect all of those "millions" of dollars sent to you and you can be a "rich", "fatcat", lobbyist like you're always complaining the NRA is.
Actually I donated my time and money. Didn't get nor want any recompense
Did you write those letters to your Senators and Congressman about the Assault Weapons Bill already?
Of course I did, Did you?
Acccidental deaths of REAL children from guns is less than 100/year. The real stats/numbers, etc., are available through NRA,
The Richmond program was sponsored by the NRA, by the way. It's a program whereby those perps who used a weapon in the commission of the crime are prosecuted by the FEDS (as well as the local DA) for Federal gun-law violations. Generally, a perp using a gun has violated several Federal laws, and they go to jail for quite a while.
In the opinion of the Supreme Court in U.S. vs Miller, the following excerpts are found:
"The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. 'A body of citizens enrolled for military discipline.' And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time."
"In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense."
Therefore, according to the opinion of the Supreme Court in U.S. vs Miller, every physically capable adult male has not only the right, but the duty, to keep and bear an M16, the weapon in common use by the military at this time. There is also a great degree of certainty that the Supreme Court would have also ruled for Miller had the government attorneys properly informed the court that sawed-off shotguns were also used by the military in previous wars.
THEY'LL SAY: "That is why we have the police."
YOU SHOULD SAY: "Okay. Put yourself into this scenario: You are alone in your home when you hear someone breaking into your home. Lights are obviously on in it, so it is not likely the person doing this believes no one is inside. What do you do? Call the police? Now think from a logical standpoint. How many times have you heard of the police arriving in time to thwart the commission of a crime? Do you think they will get there in time for you? Is that something you would want to bet your life on?"
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You might tell them that there are about 1,000,000 abortions a year and 40,000 automobile fatalities.
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