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I do not think that former police officers should have any special rights to carry a gun to places an ordinary citizen cannot. That said Bloomberg is an idiot for wishing to bar any legal weapons carrier from city hall.

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80 million firearms owners agree with you.

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There are not enough police to protect everyone. Currently, there are about 150,000 police officers on duty at any one time, per U.S Justice Department 1998. 450,000 TOTAL.

This is on-duty police. This included desk clerks, command sergeants, etc. far fewer than 150,000 cops are crusing your neighborhood. With approximately 271,933,702 people living in the U.S resulting in only ONE on-duty cop for every 1,813 citizens.

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HERE IS SOME STUFF FOR THE ANTI GUNNERS TO CHEW ON!!

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Someday someone may kill you with your own gun.

Here is how to apply the story.

They say: Someday someone may kill you with your own gun!!

You say: Yes, But I bet it will be empty and they will have beaten me to death.
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Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun, In less than 1% of the time is the gun ever actually fired. National Crime Victimization Survey, 2000 Bureau of Justice Statistics, BATF
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Guns are often used to commit violent crimes. Fact 90% of all violent crimes in the U.S. do not involve firearms of any type. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 1998
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Self-Defense is a Basic Human Right
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Myth: Stricter gun control laws could have prevented the Columbine massacre.
Fact. Harris and Klebold violated close to 20 firearms laws in obtaining weapons. Would 21 laws really have made a difference?
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth." - Daniel Webster
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* Supreme Court admits "the people" in the Second Amendment are the same "people" as in the rest of the Bill of Rights -- In U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez the Court stated that "'the people' seems to have been
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Justice Department study:
* 3/5 of felons polled agreed that "a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."
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* 74% of felons polled agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime."

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* 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."30
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Do firearms carry laws result in chaos? No. Consider the case of Florida. A citizen in the Sunshine State is almost twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator than to be assaulted by a concealed carry holder. During the first ten years that the Florida law was in effect, alligator attacks outpaced the number of crimes committed by carry holders by a 146 to 88 margin.21