Illusion
of Safety: The False Promise of Gun-Free Zones. Mandating college campuses be gun-free zones
provides as much safety as holding your hands over your eyes. Danger is either there or it's not.
Holding your hands over your eyes so you can't see danger has nothing to do with whether danger is
approaching. … How could a fatal shooting happen in a place where guns are not allowed? The answer:
Gun-free zones don't make college students or their campuses safe.
Here's more proof that 'disarmed'
and 'victim' are synonymous. It's one thing to be homicidal and suicidal, but it's quite another
to consider that one's murderous intent could be brought to an untimely halt through the immediate application
of superior firepower. However, there are places that draw these people like magnets, and they, too, are
easy to locate: They are the places where the possession of firearms is forbidden, and that fact is
widely advertised. Some of these places even go so far as to publicly display their vulnerability to
mass murder through the posting of signs that say "No Guns Permitted" or "Gun-Free Zone."
How many more will die in 'gun-free' zones before the
media start asking why? Police have identified Robert A. Hawkins, 19, as the assailant who killed
eight people with a semi-automatic rifle (not an assault rifle) at the Westroads Mall in Omaha Dec. 5.
Chalk up eight more deaths to "gun control." The shooting was at least the fourth at an American mall or
shopping center so far this year, including one in February in Salt Lake City. Once again, the killer
chose a "gun-free" zone.
Going
postal in gun-free zones. It should be no surprise that evil strikes in areas of
least resistance. People intent on committing mass murder seek a high level of certainty
that they will not face immediate armed confrontation.
Gun Control
Linked to Milwaukee Crime Spike, Group Says. A recent crime spike in the city of Milwaukee is an
example of how gun-control laws can lead to more crime, according to a group that advocates for gun ownership.
Gun Control
Disarmed Sean Taylor. There are some lessons that we should learn from the murder of the
Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor. Taylor was gunned down in his Miami house. It did
not have to be. Taylor, by submitting to a bad law, brought a knife to a gun fight. To be precise,
Taylor was trying to defend himself, his fiancé and their child with a machete. Why would he have
not had a gun?
Skewed views of crime:
Self-defense against criminals is anathema to the left in both Britain and the United States. But in
Britain the left has greater predominance. Britons who have caught burglars in their homes and held them
at gunpoint until the police arrived have found themselves charged with a crime — even when using
only a toy gun. Given the prevailing view in the British criminal justice system that burglary is a
"minor" offense and the fierce hostility to guns, even toy guns, the homeowner is far likelier than is the
burglar to end up behind bars.
Gov. Should
Compensate Crime Victims, Says Gun Rights Group. Wisconsin's Democratic governor should reimburse
victims of recent armed robberies in the state because its citizens are not permitted to carry concealed weapons
and protect themselves when confronted by criminals, a gun rights group said. It's "time for politicians
to pay the price for their decisions," said Joe Waldron, executive director of the Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), pointing to Gov. Jim Doyle's opposition to concealed carry laws.
Excellent! Paul
Harvey on Guns: In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From
1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves,
were rounded up and exterminated. In 1911, Turkey established gun
control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. China established gun control
in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to
defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. [The list goes on and on.]
The Tragic Results of Gun
Control: A look at history will show us that gun control does not benefit
ordinary citizens. In fact it makes them far more likely to fall victim to violent
crime. After a thorough investigation of the history of gun control, any logical-thinking
person can only come to one conclusion — gun control advocates are either ignorant
or they are evil.
Gun
free in D.C.: This is life in "gun free" Washington, D.C. No one is
safe. Marion Barry's a victim of a home invasion. Supreme Court Justice David
Souter was assaulted while jogging last year. Teresa Heinz was mugged outside her
Georgetown home. Wanda Alston, the head of the mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Transgender Affairs was murdered in a home invasion robbery. You are
not safe in Washington, D.C. No one is.
Fables, Myths & Other Tall
Tales: Washington, D.C.'s ban on handgun sales took effect in 1977 and
by the 1990s the city's murder rate had tripled. During the years following the
ban, most murders — and all firearm murders — in the city were committed with
handguns. Chicago imposed handgun registration in 1968, and murders with
handguns continued to rise. Its registration system in place, Chicago
imposed a D.C.-style handgun ban in 1982, and over the next decade the annual
number of handgun-related murders doubled. [This list also goes on and on.]
Guns Banned in Britain; Crime
Soars: During the first two years after the ban went into effect, the criminal use of guns
in street crimes soared 40 percent.
Knife crime rockets in UK.
Knifepoint robberies have doubled in the last two years according to a report. ... The figures mean on average
in the last year there have been 175 knife robberies per day on the streets of England and Wales.
The fruits of gun control:
There
are 164 muggings a day in London.
The Gun control Experiment - Two More Data
Points: Two seemingly unrelated recent events have highlighted fundamental flaws in the basic
model of gun control. They involve the national gun registry in Canada and a small gun shop in
Tacoma, Washington.
Three Reports from Australia
The first two give details about a gun buy-back program, saying it hasn't helped at all. The
third article say exactly the opposite. I'll leave it up to you to sort it out.
Buyback
has no effect on murder rate. Half a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of
guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential
British journal.
Gun Buyback is not
Helping. Half a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port
Arthur massacre — a 1996 killing spree that claimed 35 lives and caused 37 serious injuries in
Tasmania, Australia — had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential
British journal.
Gun
deaths in rapid decline since buyback. The risk of dying by gunshot has dropped dramatically
since the gun buyback scheme was introduced after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a new report says.
Dr. Philip Alpers, a University of Sydney academic who helped write the report, said the buyback saw the
number of gun deaths a year fall from an average of 521 to 289, "suggesting that the removal of more than
700,000 guns was associated with a faster declining rate of gun suicide and gun homicide".
Everyone is
checked for guns – except known terrorists! Database used on law-abiding
Americans while al-Qaida and other enemies get a free ride. Even the names of suspected
al-Qaida cell members in the U.S. would not show up in a background check by
a gun store.
More Gun Control,
Please! Why does Washington, D.C., a district whose laws make it illegal to buy, possess,
transport or acquire a handgun, experience the highest per capita murder rates in the nation?
More gun control, please --
Part II: Why do the media refer to the "epidemic" of school shootings? In fact, the number
of rampage killings since the mid-1970s has not been on an upward trend. Why did many in the media fail
to report that, in at least three school shootings, Edinboro, Pa., Appalachian Law School and Pearl, Miss.,
someone used a firearm to halt the shooting?
NY Jury Rules
Gun Industry Not Cause of Minority Violence. After five days of deliberation, a jury in Brooklyn,
N.Y., found on Wednesday [05/14/2003] that 45 gun makers and distributors were not to blame for rising violence
in minority communities.
Racist Rampage in N.Y. Bar Shows
"Failure of Gun Control": A weekend shooting rampage at a bar and restaurant on Manhattan's East
Side is a clear demonstration that New York's gun control laws have failed to protect the public, says a gun
rights group.
How
Many Gun Laws Are There? Study Disputes 20,000 Number. Why pass more
gun laws, when there are 20,000 of them on the books that should be enforced? Many gun
owners use that argument in the effort to stop gun-control groups from infringing on their
Second Amendment rights.
None Dare Call it a "Hate
Crime": A heavily armed black man allegedly shot three people and tried to set patrons at a
Manhattan bar on fire Sunday [6/17/2002] before being wounded by officers and arrested in what police said was
a racially motivated attack.
Echoes of "Fahrenheit 451" Haunt
England: Laws against self-defense have sent to jail Englishmen who would have been hailed as
crime-fighting heroes in America. Years of expenditures and sacrifice have simply created the world's
safest working conditions for criminals. Instead of repealing the counterproductive laws, English
politicians prefer to pile on more laws outlawing knives, air guns and toys. Their utter faith in
government and their complete ignorance of human nature is stunning.
Part 1 of 2: Guns and
Violence: Did you know that a person's chances of being mugged in London are six times higher
than in New York City? Did you know that assault, robbery and burglary rates are far higher in England
than in the United States?
Part 2 of 2: How the British
Maximize Crime: Blaming violence on guns and fanning hysteria over accidental deaths to children
from firearms are staples of anti-gun propaganda. Media help gun-control zealots spread false information
that gun ownership and self-defense are certain paths to injury and death.
Tough Gun Laws Fail to Halt German
Columbine: Germany has some of the toughest gun control laws in the world, but that didn't stop a
gunman from opening fire [4/26/2002] in an Erfurt school, killing 18 people and wounding six. How
could this have happened in a country where private gun ownership has been virtually outlawed?
Anti-gun Crackdown Didn't Lower
Crime: Higher licensing fees, mandatory background checks and a crackdown on part-time gun
dealers, all changes that went into effect in the mid-1990s, had little to do with America's drop in violent
crime in the years that followed, according to a new study from a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gun Control Misfires in Europe: European gun laws have
everything American gun control proponents advocate. Yet, the three very worst public shootings in the
last year all occurred in Europe. Indeed around the world, from Australia to England, countries that have
recently strengthened gun control laws with the promise of lowering crime have instead seen violent crime soar.
Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent
crime: Rates Down Under increase despite strict gun-control measures.
UK
ban on handguns has not lowered gun crime figures.
Gun laws offer no protection.
Impact of the Brady Act on Homicide
and Suicide Rates: After the act took effect, and with almost no prosecutions for felonious
attempts to obtain guns, President Clinton claimed that the law worked and should be expanded to cover gun
shows, where he mistakenly thought the NRA had said criminals got their guns. Actually, the same survey
found that less than 0.5% of criminals obtained guns from gun shows.
Crime keeps Cincinnati reeling:
During the first five months of the year [2002], there were 30 homicides in Cincinnati, up from 17 in the
same period of 2001. Rapes were up 36.7%, and the number of armed robberies soared as well.
Study says Guns are No Safer When Locked
Up: Trigger locks and gun safes don't reduce the number of gun accidents, and they actually put
gun owners and their families in greater danger, a new report says.
Gun Control Makes Cities Dangerous Places
to Live: Crime statistics released Monday by the FBI suggest strongly that tough gun control laws
do little to curb violent crime. Interestingly enough, cities having strict gun control laws saw their
respective crime rates jump well in excess of the national average.
Wake Up, Maryland: In Vermont, where citizens can
legally carry a concealed firearm without a permit, the murder rate is half that of New Jersey's. The
District of Columbia has been waiting 25 years for its complete handgun ban to reduce crime, but it hasn't
happened yet. England has waited five years for its handgun prohibition to work, but crime has gone up,
not down.
Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent crime:
Rates Down Under increase despite [or because of] strict gun-control measures.
"Gun Control" Failures:
The federal Gun Control Act was imposed in 1968, yet violent crime increased until 1991.
Washington, D.C., banned handguns in 1976 and by 1991 its homicide rate had tripled, while the U.S. rate
had risen only 12%. Chicago, the only other city to ban handguns, has had more murders than any city for
the last two years. Despite having some of the most restrictive gun laws, Maryland's robbery rate remains
highest among the states, and Baltimore's murder rate has nearly overtaken D.C.'s.
Australia's Gun Control
Failures: It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced to surrender
640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the government more than $500 million.
The results are in: Homicides are up 3.2 percent. Assaults are up 8.6 percent. Armed
robberies are up 44 percent.
Response to the article, "Realistic solutions to gun
violence": Gun prohibition heaven, Massachusetts, has five times the violence of gun prohibition
hell, Vermont, where just anybody can carry a hidden handgun to protect themselves.
A sterling example:
If you are looking at England as a model of gun control, says Kevin Baker, you'd best look elsewhere.
There's plenty that the anti-gun nuts aren't telling you.
Lessons From Columbine
High: Enough is enough. Enough of lies, fallacies, and manipulative clichés.
Enough of scapegoating and distractions. We cannot hope to put an end to the carnage wrought by the
Dylan Klebolds and Eric Harrises in our communities by following the diversionary lead of Rosie, Bill
and Hillary, and HCI propagandists. You do not need to be a "gun nut" to recognize the Big Lie that
undergirds the foundational premise of their arguments: that it is the prevalence of guns in America and
the ease of access to firearms that is responsible for the lethal violence afflicting our society.
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