Posted on 11/29/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by RWB Patriot
> the majority of those killed were teenagers <
Add:
who lived predominantly in households without fathers, and who in many cases were gang members.
It's about control.
There is a nearly 1 to 1 correlation between state instituted gun control and the mass genocides and democide of the 20th century.
Governments have killed over 150 million in the 20th century, check out "Death By Government" by R.J. Rummel.
If you're looking for an A, do one on how bad the country is after six years of Bush or one on how the Democrats will save America from Bush. Or you could do one on how over 600,000 Iraqis have died. A pro gun presentation will get you a D and a strong rebuke from the "enlightened" professor.
Which one? He's got several.
One thing I probably should have mentioned is that this assignment is due next week, so please focus on websites with info. Thank you.
If you google NY's Sullivan Law, you'll see that it was pushed by this Sullivan who was a crime boss turned politican (OK, yeah, I know there's no difference) who wanted to insure that HIS bodyguards could be armed while those of his criminal/political adversaries could not be armed. This is probably the landmark gun control law in the nation and, if you read up on it, it was clearly a "workplace safety for criminals" law from the git-go.
All good sources to date.
however, the best is
Gun Facts 4.1 by Guy Smith
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/4.1/GunFacts4-1-Print.pdf
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st176/
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2205
http://www.mcsm.org/gunfacts.pdf
These web sites are very enlightening.
Philadelphia magazine has a cover piece on it. Didn't read it but the topic was why efforts to stop "gun" violence won't work.
www.jpfo.org
Order "Innocents Betrayed" on DVD.
Guns, Crime, Freedom
I have a bunch of quotes on my profile page, I try to add them as I come aross them.
I'd even like to possibly use it to organize some of the miscellaneous info I've collected over the years regarding the subject. And then post that result. If others did the same, it could be used as a real resource for those fighting for RKBA. And if you're interested in what our Founders wrote about arms, here's just a few. [Note especially the last one]:
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
--James Madison
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
--Thomas Jefferson.
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
-- George Mason
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
-- George Washington
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes....Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment", 1764
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
--Patrick Henry
"The great objective is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
--Patrick Henry
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to William S. Smith, 1787, in 'Jefferson, On Democracy' (1939), p. 20.
"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
--Thomas Jefferson
Why don't you start your Power Point presentation with the Samuel Clemens quote, "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session"?
Then take it from there...
CA....
I'm trying to keep it non-political. I might consider that quote or one similar to it.
I probably will.
One argument that I sometimes use is that much (if not most) of the violence committed with guns involves drug dealers. A drug dealer must have a gun -- if he can't protect his stash and cash then he's out of business. And drug dealers will always have guns -- if all else fails they can smuggle them into the country disguised as a routine cocaine shipment. Or bribe somebody in the military to look the other way while they drive off with a truckload of guns. Or just hire an unemployed machinist to MAKE them
Anyone know where I can get some gun-related clipart?
Good Luck
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