But I N E E D my guns !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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# Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops
need guns.
# Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict
gun
control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due
to the
lack of gun control.
# Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but
statistics
showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just
statistics."
# The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went
into effect
in 1994, are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates,
which have
been declining since 1991.
# We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a
shooting
spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such
a
lunatic is paranoid.
# The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
# An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but
if shot
with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
# A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a
smoking
gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
# When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up no
defense --give
them what they want, or run" (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete
Shields,
Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).
# The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice
about
guns; just like Guns and Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart
surgery.
# One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a
civil
engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for spinal paralysis, a
computer
programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady [or Sheena Duncan,
Adele
Kirsten, Peter Storey, etc.] for firearms expertise.
# The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard,
which
was created by an act of Congress in 1917.
# The National Guard, funded by the federal government, occupying
property
leased to the federal government, using weapons owned by the federal
government, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a state
militia.
# These phrases," right of the people peaceably to assemble," "right
of the
people to be secure in their homes," "enumeration's herein of
certain rights
shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,"
and "The
powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively,
and to
the people," all refer to individuals, but "the right of the people
to keep
and bear arms" refers to the state.
# We don't need guns against an oppressive government, because the
Constitution has internal safeguards, but we should ban and seize
all guns,
thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments to that
Constitution.
# Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense, which is
why the
army has millions of them.
# Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they serve no
military
purpose, and private citizens shouldn't have "assault rifles,"
because they
are military weapons.
# The ready availability of guns today, with waiting periods,
background
checks, fingerprinting, government forms, etc., is responsible for
recent
school shootings,compared to the lack of school shootings in the
40's, 50's
and 60's, which resulted from the availability of guns at hardware
stores,
surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, mail order, etc., etc.
# The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids
handling guns
is propaganda, and the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't
touch"
campaign is responsible social activity.
# Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
# A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the
typical adult
to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
# Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with
a gun is
"an accident waiting to happen" and gun makers' advertisements aimed
at
women are "preying on their fears."
# Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering
butchers
but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
# Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings
at gun
shows.
# A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a
majority of
the population supported owning slaves.
# A self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a
"weapon of
mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."
# Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns,
which
most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
# The right of online pornographers to exist cannot be questioned
because it
is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of
handguns
for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
# Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters,
computers, and
typewriters, but self-defense only justifies bare hands.
# The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts
of the
Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of
the
Constitution.
# Charlton Heston as president of the NRA is a shill who should be
ignored,
but Michael Douglas as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is
an
ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms
control
summit.
# Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need
larger
capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face
criminals alone
and therefore need less ammunition.
# We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns
because
it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
# Police officers, who qualify with their duty weapons once or twice
a year,
have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that private
citizens can
never hope to obtain.
# Private citizens don't need a gun for self-protection because the
police
are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the
police are
not responsible for their protection.
# Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but
police
chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building
filled with
cops, need a gun.
# "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers
of
people, which is why the police need them but "civilians" do not.
# When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft
preferential
promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures
cities to
buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.
# Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for
defensive
purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their
duty
weapon.
# When Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out of
the wrong
hands," they don't mean you.