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Posted on 08/23/2019 2:15:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic incidents in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, in early August 2019.
The message is clear: Guns cause violence. Tax them, take them, ban them, regulate them. Do something, maybe anything! Such knee-jerk, emotional responses are dangerous, writes Charles W. Cooke in National Review, “for when a nation sets up a direct pipeline between its emotions and its laws, it does not keep its liberty for long.”
Liberty isn’t the only thing likely to be lost when gun laws are passed to appease emotions over reason, evidence, logic, and rights. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too. Lots of them.
This raises a point amplified in another context almost two centuries ago by Frederic Bastiat in his famous essay with a title that sums it up, “That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen.”
How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership? This is a supremely important question that the grandstanders and ideologues usually—and conveniently—ignore.
~snip~
I checked online and found some fascinating numbers. A good website with footnotes and references to authoritative sources is GunFacts.info. There I learned the following:
If you doubt the objectivity of the site above, it’s worth pointing out that the Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be even higher—as many as 3 million annually, or some 8,200 every day.
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Click the link. Lots of info here.
Bottom line they need to get guns away from us so we will not be able to challenge them. They are not the least bit concerned about our safety, crime in the streets, or us being able to protect our selves and our families. Thank God for the second amendment
Ping for later.
Re-instate the second amendment in full, and fire, fine and imprison any governmental official who infringes it.
THAT will put a swift halt to violent crime, and save lives.
The only reason the Democrats want gun control is that they know a well armed middle class cannot be usurped.
That is the way they work it.
JFK was murdered with an Italian army surplus rifle, mail order bolt action rifle, they demanded an end to mail order guns and Evil military 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles(actually to protect Winchester, Remington and Savage from cheap competition).
Bobby Kennedy killed with a cheap American made handgun-calls for registration and bans on foreign made “Saturday night specials” and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles. They got the ban, but the pistol used to kill Bobby was American made and not banned and still legal.
George Wallace—calls to ban American small handguns.
Gerald Ford —attempt calls to ban large handguns.
John Lennon-calls again to ban handguns.
Ronald Reagan-calls to ban handguns. I remember Frank Reynolds of ABC, when it was mentioned the handgun had been bought in Dallas suddenly threw his hands in the air and yelled...”A-G-G-H! DALLAS!”
The San Ysidro McDonalds massacre-calls to ban UZI rifles.
Columbine School-calls to ban Tec-9s.
Stockton School-Calls to ban the AK-47/s rifles.
A decade or so ago, some man left his NYC apartment with an M1 Garand, fired ONE shot and killed a another man. The NYTimes went ballistic demanding a ban on all semi-auto rifles, all over ONE SHOT.
Please notice it is not the shooter they are after, it is his weapon. It has always been the weapon.
And so on, and so on.
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5 times as many homicides are committed with Fists than with rifles...
Why do the liberals claim to be pro-woman yet seek to deprive women of the best tool against a larger, stronger male opponent? Because they’re nucking futs!
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More Guns=Less Crime
It always has and always will.
Guns put every man and woman on an relatively equal footing with the largest and most powerful thug and changed human society forever.
I have never been broken into but all of my neighbors know i am batshit crazy and walk around with my nra hat. Guns also prevent a lot of crime
Sorry, but that’s not allowed to be true. If the facts contradict the narrative, the facts lie.
“We choose truth over facts.”
...and the totality of all the guns and ammo in our society is stopping leftists from murdering us all. They certainly are not willing to come to our houses to round us up and place us onto trains to the liquidations sites since their life is threatened if they try.
Buy more guns and ammo, folks.
JoMa
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