Thursday, July 26, 2012

Let citizens defend themselves

We know this much:

First, the left will always go after the guns, i.e. the gun control argument; and,

Second, the media will always make a fool of itself, i.e. Brian Ross of ABC immediately pulling out The Tea Party connection.

We repeat.  There is no evidence that gun control stops criminals from buying or using guns against law abiding citizens.  Furthermore, there is no evidence that Tea Party gatherings have been violent.  Nevertheless, the myths live on!

We also know this:  Citizens should, and are very capable, of defending themselves.  In fact, the truth of these "mass murders" in the US is that they generally happen in gun restricted areas.

Please see this from The NY Daily News:

"With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms.
 
The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, like others run by the chain around the country, displayed warning signs that it was illegal to carry guns into the theater.
 
This applied to all nonlaw enforcement personnel, including individuals with concealed handgun permits. In other words, despite more than 4% of the adult population of Colorado having concealed handgun permits, a gunman intent on killing a lot of people could be confident that law-abiding citizens there would be sitting ducks.
 
If one of the hundreds of people at the theater had a concealed handgun, possibly the attack would have ended like the shooting at the mega New Life Church in Colorado Springs in December 2007."

What if someone in the crowd had been able to kill the alleged killer?  What if a security guard had a gun?  

I trust citizens and believe that they should have the right to defend themselves.  Better than that, our Founding Fathers believed that too and they gave us the 2nd amendment.


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