guns

Showing posts with label Firearms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firearms. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Gun Supporters Battling Back in Maryland

credit: ap
Second Amendment supporters came in droves to Annapolis, Maryland, making sure gun bills they support aren't changed to infringe upon their right to bear arms.

What is different this time is former gun support gatherings have focused on what they reject in the bills, while this time they're looking at what they approve of.

Gun control resisters in the crowd said they won't stop the fight to maintain their constitutional rights.

Of the bills firearm supports agree with are those addressing mental health issues and getting tougher on criminals using guns in crimes.

Incredibly, in Maryland, even off-duty police officers aren't allowed to have a gun on their person in the schools. Even though there is no doubt armed people are the answer to minimizing the victims of
potential killers.


Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Christopher Dorner Would Have Passed Background Check

There is no doubt every nonsensical idea to put restrictions and rules on guns will fail, if the stated reason of protecting people is the real reason.

For example, the infamous former Los Angeles police officer, Christopher Dorner, who murdered several people recently, would have had no problem passing a background check. All something like that does is have criminals simply go to the black market to obtain firearms. Only law abiding citizens would be will to partake in a background check, and so that does absolutely nothing.

Another little known way to obtain firearms is through what are called 'gun trusts.' These trusts include members who are exempt from rules that individuals looking for guns are subject to. There are essentially little or no requirements for buying guns and ancillary items.

Even here some concerns being aired are about controlling this part of the gun market. For example, a family member simply has to pass on their guns to another family member in these trusts.

Think of that though. That's already the practice among families already, and there's not a law in the world that will change that.

We'll continue to pound on the only way to protect people from killers using guns or other weapons, and that is to have armed people in public places, or gun protection in the home. Nothing else can even the odds of surviving attacks than that.

Those who are attempting to create a utopia on earth, are also behind the gun grab movement. This is an evil idea that dictator types always have as part of their makeup, and the removal of guns, people, certain businesses, and any other thing that gets in the way of this terrifying vision of the earth they want will be attacked.

Of course gun control is one of the greatest prizes they're looking for, as they have gotten bolder and bolder in trying to impose their will on the population, and in America, if they are allowed to restrict guns, they will continue to grab and take until they get everything else they want.

Contrary to gun owners and freedom-minded people, these liberals and tyrants aren't willing to stand up for their rights to the death, which is why they don't ever try to attack conservatives and libertarians straight on.

But as far as their ridiculous attempts to assault the right to bear arms, it's easy to see they are feeble and anemic, and will do nothing to stop violence.

Violence is in the hearts of some men and women, and it's what is within that is the source of hate and murder, not the fantastic tool that a gun is. Only having an armed populace will protect people from extreme damage from crazies.

All we can do as a society and people is to limit the damage by quickly responding to a killer. Anything else is an illusion and dangerous idea that can only result in tyranny wrapped in the dream of a liberal, progressive utopia.

NJ Firebrand Teacher Blasts Lawmakers on Gun Control

Retired New Jersey teacher Carole Moore educated some New Jersey lawmakers recently, in a two-minute exhortation that left their ears warm.

Moore laid into them about the fact that tyrants like dictators Hitler and Stalin made it one of their major goals to disarm the people in the early stages of their rule so when they took absolute power, there would be no one in their respective countries to significantly oppose them.

She was only getting going with that. Moore than let them know how things could have turned out differently at Newtown.

“If I had been in that school in Connecticut, I would have been the first one out of the door, I would have been the first one charging,” Moore said. “The principal should have had a firearm. The associate principal should have had a firearm. They should have been prepared.
    
“I can protect my grandchildren when they’re at my home, but when I send them to your school system, who’s protecting my kids?
    
“You’ve’ been educated. I’m a school teacher, I’m also a firearms instructor and lifetime member of the NRA that’s been teaching firearm safety for the past 150 years. I’m damned proud to be here, and I’m so glad you listened.”


Monday, February 25, 2013

Freedom and the Right to Bear Arms

There is nothing in the Second Amendment suggesting any politician or lawmaker can change or adapt it to make it say anything but in America we all have the right to bear arms. Not only does that apply to protection against criminals and crazies, but also against a government that attempts to assert itself in a manner that results in tyranny.

So even though the attempt by mainstream media to demonize "assault" rifles as being unnecessary and evil, the fact is there are very few of the homicides in America that are the result of a rifle. Only about 348 of all guns deaths in America, as of 2009, were as the result of a killer using a rifle. The vast majority of those using guns for murder, use handguns.

The other lie is the use of the term assault rifle in the first place. In reality there is no such thing. It is a rifle ... period. Nothing else.

Most people that have some wisdom understand that Americans with automatic and semi-automatic firearms don't have them for the purpose of taking on the U.S. military in a direct confrontation, as that's ludicrous. They own them for personal protection, and to make a statement that we're a free people; which is what owning guns is really all about.

Having said that, if a government does turn evil, they know it'll cost a lot if they want to try to subdue a population that is packing.

Over the last 100 years of so various nations have talked their citizens into turning in their firearms, and it wasn't long afterwards they brutally suppressed them.

The bottom line is America was birthed in freedom, and gun ownership was a symbolic and practical way for its people to express that freedom, and if it ever came down to it, fight for it.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Firearms Low on Death Causes List in America

When combining death causes from the CDC and FBI, it is found that firearms are very low on the causes of death in America. Here are the leading causes of death from all types, with the final two from 2009 FBI data.

Below are the leading US killers and the source of data:

 •Annual deaths from heart disease based on CDC data: 597,689
 •Cancer deaths from CDC data: 574,743
 •Chronic lower respiratory diseases (CDC): 138,080
 •Stroke deaths (CDC): 129,476
 •Deaths from accidents, unintentional injuries (CDC): 120,859
 •Alzheimer’s disease deaths per year (CDC): 83,494
 •Diabetes (CDC): 69,071
 •Influenza deaths each year (CDC): 50,097
 •Suicide deaths (CDC): 38,364
 •Overall weapons deaths (2009 FBI): 13,636
 •Overall firearm deaths (2009 FBI): 9,146

Some may question the firearms deaths being at that level, as the media attempt to make it look like it's an epidemic, when it in fact is very low in comparison to other leading causes of death.

The reason the data are inflated concerning firearm deaths in America is because they include suicides from firearms, as well as accidental deaths. Actual homicides though are accurately represented by the 9,146 in 2009.

So instead of the 30,000 or so lied about the media as to murders where firearms are used (lies of omission, because they purposely don't attempt to break down the data), it is about a third of that.

The other data left out are those from 2007-2011, where it is found that violent crime has plummeted during those years, undermining the hype and hysteria of gun control fanatics.