Red Flag Security Alert: When guns are banned, only criminals and governments will have guns. Those two groups are not mutually exclusive at all.
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. - - - Thomas Jefferson
Act in Haste. Repent at your leisure.
More Guns = Less Crime. The evidence is clear! Do your own internet search on this fact.
Approximately 2 million times a year gun owners have stopped a criminal act. - - - 2018 data
T-Shirt:
[x] Gun Owner
[ ] Victim
Select One
Gun Free Zones are free range hunting zones for criminals. Ditto for red porch lights.
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
Participating in a gun buy
back because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having
yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.
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Democrat Logic:
The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for three years. Quit trying to change it.
The 2nd Amendment has been the law of the land for 222 years. But DEMs keep trying to change it.
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Democrat Logic:
“We are told NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics."
BUT...
“We are told NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics."
BUT...
"We are encouraged TO judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.”
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Abortion is the leading cause of death in the USA, not guns. - - - poster on Facebook
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If we make guns illegal, then nobody will get shot anymore. That’s how we stopped everybody from doing drugs. Right?
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A gun without ammo is just a paperweight. Democrats know this.
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20 companies that want to take your guns away
20 Wells Fargo = acct rep fraud
19 Sprint
18 Verizon Wireless
17 NBC
16 Hallmark Cards
15 Hyatt Hotels
14 Hasbro
13 Levi Straus
12 Sara Lee
11 Dannon Yogurt
10 Volkswagen = mpg milage issues
9 Gap Inc
8 Disney = moving left quickly
7 Ben & Jerry’s
6 Toys ‘R Us = now closed
5 7-Eleven
4 Google
3 Bank of America
2 Staples
1 MTV [buzzpo.com] 12/25/14
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Shopper Alert
Gun Free Zones:
Be Aware. Enter at your own risk. Criminals know that nobody will be there to stop their illegal acts.
Federal Buildings
Military bases
Panera Bread
Post Offices
Public Schools
Starbucks
Target
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After 30 Years Of Lies, NY Times Admits “Assault Weapons Are A Myth”
… Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets. [bearingarms.com] 9/13/14
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What Happened to Chicago’s Murder Rate After Illinois Upheld Concealed Carry and Why it Matters … the U.S. has many more guns than other countries, but 99.995% of firearms every year are not used to commit homicides. The rate of gun homicide is in the thousands every year in a nation of over 300 million – meaning that there are numerous “killers” that far exceed gun homicides. [ijreview.com] 4/4/14
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Liberals refuse to base their political views and actions on facts.
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More and more stories appearing about law enforcement officers who refuse to enforce gun bans. April 2014
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Democrat Crime Wave Sweeps America … Yesterday we had story after story after story on the latest crime wave in this country, and that crime wave is corrupt Democrat officeholders -- mayors, state senators, you name it. ... CA Dem State senator running guns. [rushlimbaugh.com] 3/29/14
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Thought Provoking Statistic
Think about this:
A. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
B. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
C. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(US Dept. of Health &Human Services)
Then think about this:
A. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
B. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500.
C. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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This 15-year-old girl bats down nearly every strawman gun control argument in about three minutes. SHARE this with liberals who think they can debate straight foward logic and statistics with a teenager. 3 minute video [ijreview.com] undated
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Enforcement. Chicago is last in enforcing gun laws while being among the top gun crime cities in the nation. Heard on the radio news 3/25/13
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2,191 Americans use guns in self-defense every day [Second Amendment Foundation] eblast on 3/19/13
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Gun Bans. Obama to prohibit former soldiers from owning guns. How will that impact people who hunt and live off the land as well as people, women and men, who find themselves needing to fend off armed predators.
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Rumor: Chicago murder rate higher now than in No-Gun Controlled Capone era. [breitbart.com] 2/3/13
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Safety. New Obama gun laws will make crime safer for criminals. Democrats take care of their constituent groups, and the criminals know it? 1/17/13
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Ban Guns or Ban Liberals with Guns? [sodahead.com] 1/16/13
• California former policeman is a self-documented Democrat who supports Obama, Hillary and gun control
• Family Research Council shooter, used Democrat "hate group" map to identify the target he hates
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• NY newspaper that listed area gun owners hires armed guards.
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NY reports that 58% of their deadly crimes involve pistols.
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11. Number of armed guards protecting the children where the Obama girls go to school as Democrats clamor for gun control and gun bans. 12/27/12
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Knee Jerk Legislation is Just Politics ...
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[3] Arming teachers and all others should be considered appropriate and legal after a gun safety course is passed.
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Upon the shooting deaths involving a pro football player and his girlfriend ... Liberals will not miss an opportunity to state that Guns cause Crime.
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Look who is buying rounds and rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammo
• Homeland Security – 750 million rounds
• NOAA [prisonplanet.com]
• Social Security Administration – 174,000 thousand rounds of hollow points [infowars]
Is this part of an Obama pre-election plan to decree Marshall Law on US Taxpayers? Are they working on a new and improved Fast and Furious. Are they planning a war on street gangs. How about drug enforcement … by NOAA? =TheRightJack on 8/15/12
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Point #1. Where are the statistics that show how banning guns prevents crimes?
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Colorado shooter had $26,000 federal NIH grant. [cbsnews.com] 7/22/12
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Is this how he financed his gun purchases and killing spree?
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Left calling for bans on guns again against the advice of their fellow Leftists. See Point #1.
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You know you are in the wrong place when you can get arrested for protecting yourself.
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More guns = Less crime. We really should name the cities that have the most gun control ... so criminals will know where they can go to carry out their dirty deeds without fear of resistance ... and leave the rest of us alone who have guns.
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262,000,000 people were killed by governments in the 20th century. Confiscate all guns from civilians and then a government mad man named Major Hasan comes along. 7/22/12
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Colorado theater is a gun free zone. 7/21/12
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Bank of America is anti-gun rights.
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16 Undeniable Truths about Gun Control
1. Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.
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2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
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3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
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4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
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5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
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6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
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7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
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8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
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9. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
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10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
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11. 84,999,987 firearms owners didn’t kill anybody yesterday and won’t kill anybody today.
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12. The United States Constitution © 1791.
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13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
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14. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you NOT understand?
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15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
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16. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
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Source: Godfather Politics 5/1/12
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17. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws and governments will have guns.
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UN still on track to achieve gun control in USA with the full support of Hillary Clinton.
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Gun sales up in 2011. Gee. TheRightJack wonders why?
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Thought Provoking Statistic. Think about this:
A. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
B. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
C. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Then think about this:
A. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
B. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500.
C. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR!
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health measure, I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.
Self-defense felons. Anyone can become one ...
• Denver, Colorado- An owner of a Denver lounge was arrested after shooting an intruder.
• St. Charles, Louisiana - An 82-year-old man was arrested after he shot at a thief who was trying to steal the roof off his carport.
• Key Largo, Florida - After repeatedly warning a burglar that broke into his house to leave, a man shot the criminal in the foot. He was arrested.
• Baltimore, Maryland - After an armed assailant invaded a family Christmas gathering, a father held the thug at gunpoint for two and a half hours before police arrived. He was sentenced to three years of probation and later denied a conceal carry permit.
• Coeur d'Alene Idaho - A father was arrested and charged for shooting a grizzly bear that was about to kill his 6 children who were playing outside. He's facing up to three years of supervised probation.
Source: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Open carry gun permits in Virginia reduce crime in restaurants that serve alcohol. Too soon to make a judgment, THEY say. Virginia is one of 43 states that allow concealed guns in restaurants that serve alcohol. 8/14/11 [Richmond Times Dispatch]
UN gun ban lead by captured and imprisoned nations. US leads the free world. Tell your Congressional representative that “we don’t need any stinking gun ban.”
When guns are banned, only outlaws and governments will have gun … and those two groups are not mutually exclusive.
UN wants to make all firearms subject to international law. The Arms Trade Treaty could:
• Prohibit firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public.
• Prohibit any transfer of firearm ownership.
• Require US citizens to deliver any banned firearms they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment.
• Require micro-stamping on all guns.
• Destruction of "excess" firearms.
[Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms]
Project Gunwalker by BATFE whose US agents were killed called worse than Iran-contra deal. The BATFE purposefully armed men who are considered by our own Federal law enforcement agents to be more dangerous than al Qaeda. Is this going to be another one of those many Democrat events that Eric Holder, DOJ and their anti-gun allies are going to sweep under the rug?
[National Association for Gun Rights]
NRA caught off base, 2nd base ... Rand Paul, champion of Second Amendment freedoms, desired to add a provision to legislation which would protect gun owners and firearms purchase records from the warrant-less searches authorized by the mis-named “Patriot” Act … and the NRA opposed it. [National Association for Gun Rights] 6/9/11
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Secret US Army!
Why US Big Dem Gov wants to ban guns and ammo.
• 2,199,524 licenses of all types were sold, 2009-2010
• 2,134,545 sold in 2008-09
• 2,085,048 sold in 2000
• 1,718,050 licenses & permits of all types sold in 2005
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For example, when looking at the hunting numbers …
• 452,723 hunting licenses were sold in 2009-2010
• (305,472 were annual resident hunting licenses)
• 624,908 deer permits sold in 2001
• 394,146 hunting licenses (resident, nonresident, youth and three-day) were sold and • 406,779 deer permits in 2001 Click Here for the story. Remember, when gun ownership is banned, only criminals and government will have guns. They are not mutually exclusive.
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T-Shirt:
[x] Gun Owner
[ ] Victim
Select One
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Gun Control:
• Massachusetts safe for illegals but legals may not get their permits
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According to the ATF Study, here are the characteristics that the study has decided are UNSUITABLE for "sporting" use:
• Magazines over 5 rounds, or a drum magazine
• Excessive bulk (greater than 3 inches in width and/or greater than 4 inches in depth
• Flash suppressors
• Forward pistol grips or other protruding parts designed or use for gripping the shotgun with the shooter's extended hand
• Folding, telescoping, or collapsible stocks
• Excessive weight (greater than 10 pounds for 12 gauge or smaller)
• Light enhancing devices
• Bayonet lugs
• Integrated rail systems (other than on top of the receiver or barrel)
As a sporting gun enthusiast, you know what that really means. The Obama administration does NOT want you to participate in any "sports" or self defense with your guns! [Second Amendment Foundation] posted 4/21/11
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PC kills. Fort Hood soldier murders 13 in attack on base, more injured. 11/7/09. Apologists in military keep looking for ways to "not" call him a terrorist for fear of political correctness penalties. Click Here.
Ann Counter on gun control. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60% and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80%. [Ann Coulter]
GUNS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT YOU CAN CARRY IN YOUR PURSE
Mass murderers apparently can’t read, since they are constantly shooting up “gun free zones.” With no armed citizen to stop them-because law abiding citizens are obeying the “Gun Free Zone” signs-murderers are able to kill unabated, even pausing to reload their weapons, until they get bored and commit suicide or try to escape. Some only stop pulling the trigger when they develop carpel tunnel syndrome.
Contrary to current faddish ideas, we can’t justify, much less imprison, “potential” mass murderers. For most such killers, mass murder is their first serious crime. It’s not against the law to be crazy-in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office. The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and1999, the estimable economists John Lott Jr. and William Landes found that concealed –carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect on saving lives. And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Abortion is the leading cause of death in the USA, not guns. - - - poster on Facebook
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If we make guns illegal, then nobody will get shot anymore. That’s how we stopped everybody from doing drugs. Right?
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A gun without ammo is just a paperweight. Democrats know this.
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Smart?
Some [far left?] teacher/anti-gun advocates are advising their students to steal their parents’ guns. Then bring them to school and turn them in to their teachers. What could possibly go wrong with that far left liberal idea ... at home, on the way to school, in school, after school? 12/25/14
Some [far left?] teacher/anti-gun advocates are advising their students to steal their parents’ guns. Then bring them to school and turn them in to their teachers. What could possibly go wrong with that far left liberal idea ... at home, on the way to school, in school, after school? 12/25/14
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20 companies that want to take your guns away
20 Wells Fargo = acct rep fraud
19 Sprint
18 Verizon Wireless
17 NBC
16 Hallmark Cards
15 Hyatt Hotels
14 Hasbro
13 Levi Straus
12 Sara Lee
11 Dannon Yogurt
10 Volkswagen = mpg milage issues
9 Gap Inc
8 Disney = moving left quickly
7 Ben & Jerry’s
6 Toys ‘R Us = now closed
5 7-Eleven
4 Google
3 Bank of America
2 Staples
1 MTV [buzzpo.com] 12/25/14
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Shopper Alert
Gun Free Zones:
Be Aware. Enter at your own risk. Criminals know that nobody will be there to stop their illegal acts.
Federal Buildings
Military bases
Panera Bread
Post Offices
Public Schools
Starbucks
Target
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After 30 Years Of Lies, NY Times Admits “Assault Weapons Are A Myth”
… Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets. [bearingarms.com] 9/13/14
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What Happened to Chicago’s Murder Rate After Illinois Upheld Concealed Carry and Why it Matters … the U.S. has many more guns than other countries, but 99.995% of firearms every year are not used to commit homicides. The rate of gun homicide is in the thousands every year in a nation of over 300 million – meaning that there are numerous “killers” that far exceed gun homicides. [ijreview.com] 4/4/14
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Liberals refuse to base their political views and actions on facts.
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More and more stories appearing about law enforcement officers who refuse to enforce gun bans. April 2014
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Democrat Crime Wave Sweeps America … Yesterday we had story after story after story on the latest crime wave in this country, and that crime wave is corrupt Democrat officeholders -- mayors, state senators, you name it. ... CA Dem State senator running guns. [rushlimbaugh.com] 3/29/14
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Thought Provoking Statistic
Think about this:
A. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
B. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
C. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(US Dept. of Health &Human Services)
Then think about this:
A. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
B. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500.
C. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Outrages of the week. … This week, we have not one, but four outrageous incidents of ridiculously enforced zero-tolerance policies to report. [nraila.org] 10/4/13
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School administrators demonstrate their Far Left political stance.
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3rd or 4th
The United States ranks 3rd
in murders throughout the world. If you take out Chicago [the murder capitol of the USA],
Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans, the United States ranks 4th
from the bottom for murders. Those four cities have the toughest gun control
laws in the United States.
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It just shows us that
criminals do not obey the law. Dah!
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We would like to see that
regularly appearing List that tallies the number of people [1] killed, [2]
imprisoned and [3] starved to death by dictators and terrorists around the
world. =TheRightJack on 9/20/13
"All
vets are mentally ill and government should prevent them from owning
firearms" - - - Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Yep, - she really said it on
Thursday in a meeting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. . and the
quote below from the LA Times is priceless. Some times even the L.A.
Times gets it right.
Kurt Nimmo: "Senator
Feinstein insults all U.S. Veterans as she flays about in a vain attempt to
save her bill."
Quote of the Day from the Los
Angeles Times:
"Frankly, I don't know
what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect
really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no
other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending
left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around
the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne
Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when
the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The four of them are like
jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab.
You don't know if you should
condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form
words." - - - Columnist Burt Prelutsky, Los Angeles Times
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Hmmmm. Pro gun control advocates continue to ignore the relationship between crime, criminals and illegal guns. Their focus is on legal guns and ordinary US citizens who are hunters, collectors and defenders, but not criminals. 4/29/13
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Placard: North Korea has won the coin
toss. They have elected to receive.
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Survey Finds Law Enforcement
United Against Gun Control. Stats show us Obama is not telling the truth about
police and gun control … More than 76 percent indicated that legally armed
citizens are important to reducing crime. Many more stats. N = 15,000 in
the survey of law enforcement officers. [nraila.org] 4/8/13
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Historically, Democrats routinely make up “facts”
to fit their political agenda. They know the Big Dem Media will not call them on this or
even ask them to produce their backup data.
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Criminals emboldened in
Australia after guns are taken from legal gun owners by Big Aussie Gov. Home
invasions and homicides have increased. 6:28 minute video. [YouTube] Posted 8/2/12.
This 15-year-old girl bats down nearly every strawman gun control argument in about three minutes. SHARE this with liberals who think they can debate straight foward logic and statistics with a teenager. 3 minute video [ijreview.com] undated
Enforcement. Chicago is last in enforcing gun laws while being among the top gun crime cities in the nation. Heard on the radio news 3/25/13
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... as Chicago Major Rahm Immanuel, a Democrat, tells Chicago gangs to keep your crimes and gun crimes in the hood. Do you think a Republican could get away with that strategy for peace with the added racial insult like that? Not a chance.
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2,191 Americans use guns in self-defense every day [Second Amendment Foundation] eblast on 3/19/13
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Gun rhetoric vs gun facts.
[factcheck.org] 12/20/13
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Liberals with their anti-gun
agenda are not going to be convinced by the facts that more guns in the hands
of legal gun owners does not mean more gun deaths. Read this entire article to
have a good understanding about guns, gun deaths, deaths by means other than
guns, crime and inner city crime and deaths.
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Democrats are widely know to ignore the real facts and make up their own "facts" to suit their political agenda. Neither the Big Dem Media nor their uninformed followers question or challenge what they say. =TheRightJack on 3/16/13
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Gun Bans. Obama to prohibit former soldiers from owning guns. How will that impact people who hunt and live off the land as well as people, women and men, who find themselves needing to fend off armed predators.
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Hmmm. Obama inauguration ceremonies 2013. Did you see that the military men in the Obama parade were not permitted to have shells and bolts for their rifles.
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Taking the 5th. Registered felons will not be required to register their guns [guns that they are not permitted to have] when it comes to that. Registering their guns will be consider an act of self-incrimination - the 5th amendment.+ + + + +
Another Liberal Democrat goes
on a shooting rampage. Read about his support for Obama, Hillary and gun control. [godfatherpolitics.com] 2/8/13
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See our post here below dated 1/16/13
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Assault rifle compared to
sporting rifle look-alike. YouTube video from Military Arms Channel. About 6:30
minutes [youtube.com] See Facebook link at the end of the video. 2/8/13
Rumor: Chicago murder rate higher now than in No-Gun Controlled Capone era. [breitbart.com] 2/3/13
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This is likely to be true in any region - government controlled by dictatorial power, IF "their" deaths, secret "camps" and disappearances are not counted.
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Safety. New Obama gun laws will make crime safer for criminals. Democrats take care of their constituent groups, and the criminals know it? 1/17/13
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Ban Guns or Ban Liberals with Guns? [sodahead.com] 1/16/13
"Why is it the
progressive liberal that steals guns then go and kill movie goers and children
in school has never been an NRA member?"
• California former policeman is a self-documented Democrat who supports Obama, Hillary and gun control
• Family Research Council shooter, used Democrat "hate group" map to identify the target he hates
• Ft Hood - Registered
Democrat, Muslim
• Columbine - Shooter was too young to vote
- both families were registered democrats and progressive liberals
• VA Tech - Wrote hate mail to
Pres Bush and to his staff. Registered Democrat
• Colorado Theater - Registered
Democrat, staff worker on the Obama campaign, occupy wall street participant,
progressive liberal
• Connecticut School Shooter -
Registered Democrat, hated Christians
• Arizona shooter - young Democrat
• Arizona shooter - young Democrat
Common thread is that all of
these shooters were progressive liberal Democrats." Interesting...isn't it?
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Obama out to ban guns be executive order bypassing Congress again
Unintended consequences of
banning guns by Obama and the Democrats
Increase in wildlife that
will die from starvation
Increase in archery sales
Increase in Crime [not
totally unexpected]
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12,000 die annually from binge drinking, women outnumber men. Radio report on 1/8/13
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Democrats should immediately ban liquor bottles and beer cans, not to mention the forks and spoons that are responsible for obesity.
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Anti-Gun Democrats secretly own guns for self-protection.
• Another Double Standards Democrat is ... Senator "Do as I say, not as I do" Soles. State Senator R.C. Soles (D - NC) shoots a home intruder.
• Another Double Standards Democrat is ... Senator "Do as I say, not as I do" Soles. State Senator R.C. Soles (D - NC) shoots a home intruder.
• NY newspaper that listed area gun owners hires armed guards.
• Diane Feinstein [D-CA] has a concealed carry permit. This Malifornia Democrat is offering many new Knee Jerk anti-gun laws for adoption.
• Liberal anti-gun TV anchor sends his own offspring to a school with armed guards.
Stars like to have their own guns and have armed guards for their protection but not for ordinary people. RoseAnne Barr's name comes to mind, first.
Remember the Big Dem news columnist who was an avid anti-gun proponent for others but had a gun for his own personal protection. What is his name?
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Gun Sales Up. Crime Down ...
Gun sales are up in California and, contrary to what politicians and the media
say, gun deaths and injuries in the State are down sharply. … in California and
nationwide. [personalliberty.com] 1/2/13
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Nuisance research like this
is not going to slow down the Big Dem Gun Grab. They simply ignore resarch that does not support their political objectives.
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Among the many misdeeds
of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole
nation of arms as the blackest. - - - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page
446.
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Note: This quote caused
Facebook to shut down the page of the author who published it. Facebook appears
to be declaring war on our history that does not match their Leftist ideology.
1/2/13
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NY reports that 58% of their deadly crimes involve pistols.
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Outrage Over New York
Newspaper Publishing Gun Owners’ Addresses [townhall.com] 12/ 25, 2012
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The upside is … criminals
will know whom to avoid as they are making their nightly rounds of stalking,
breaking and entering in their daily pursuit of other assorted crimes.
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Update: Tit for tat. Blogger posts names and addresses of NYC newspaper brass that presumably approved this. Betcha they have guns too but do not want others to have them.
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11. Number of armed guards protecting the children where the Obama girls go to school as Democrats clamor for gun control and gun bans. 12/27/12
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Knee Jerk Legislation is Just Politics ...
Q. How many gun laws are
there in the USA?
A. There are so many gun laws
at the state and federal level that nobody has been able to figure out how many
there actually are. Of course, gun laws do not stop the illegal actions of
disturbed people, criminals and despots.
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45%. Percentage of the gun deaths that are
linked to black children and teens. Yet these two demographic groups represent
only 15% of the child/teen population. Stats from an AP newspaper article
decrying the lack of attention to this problem. 12/23/12
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Violence and death in the
black community have not been a concern of highly visible black leaders. In
fact, when people like Bill Cosby take a stand, they are squashed by black
leaders. Democrat politicians have motives unrelated to the real problems surrounding violence and guns.
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Obama holds guns accountable
for deaths. Does that mean we will fine the guns, imprison the
guns, shoot the guns, or deport the guns? What happens when a gun enters a gun free zone? [godfatherpolitics.com] 12/22/12
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NRA opts for armed guards at schools.
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Guns Save Lives … Based on a
2000 study, Americans use guns to defend themselves from crime and violence
989,883 times annually. Banning guns would leave about 1,000,000
Americans defenseless from criminals who have no problem acquiring guns
illegally. More studies on self protection seldom if ever reported by the Dying
Big Dem Media. [townhall.com] 12/23/12
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Some stats from studies
reported in this article ...
• 500,000 times annually, home
breakin perps frightened off by guns annually
• Armed citizens shoot
criminals more than twice as often as police each year (1527 to 606). [Just dial 911 and hope?]
• More than 32,000 attempted
rapes, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or
knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful.
• A survey of male felons in 11
state prisons across the USA found that 34% had been scared off, wounded or
captured by an armed victim of their crime.
• 40% of felons made a decision
not to commit a crime because they feared the potential victim had a gun. [Good reason to have an NRA decal on your front door.]
• 69% of felons knew other
fellow criminals who had been scared off or captured by an armed victim.
• 57% of felons polled agreed
that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they
are about running into the police."
When governments fear
the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is
tyranny. - - - Thomas Jefferson
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Failure: Obama Adm cannot
protect the lives of our US Adm staff in Benghazi Embassy with the entire US
Military at their beck and call. Now these same inept politicians want to take away
our guns so we cannot even protect ourselves. But wait until the Big Gov ObamaCare disaster comes into effect. 12//21/12
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Ban Guns? Obama wants to ban
guns. Lawful US citizens will not be safe at all if we were to live in a nation
where only criminals and The Obama Government and/or Big Dem Gov have guns. =TheRightJack on 12/19/12
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Gun Control:
[1] Commit any crime with a
gun and receive the death sentence within six [6] months. That is Zero
Tolerance and gun control.
[2] Provide immediately
amnesty for any US citizen who shoots an assailant or robber in self defense
involving any illegal act. Self defense is legal, necessary and encouraged.
[3] Arming teachers and all others should be considered appropriate and legal after a gun safety course is passed.
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Gun sales up again after mass shooting in Connecticut.
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Gun sales up again after mass shooting in Connecticut.
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41. Gun related deaths per
month in Chicago. Heard on the radio 12/18/12
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Predictable. CT school
shooting brings out cries for gun control while blaming the NRA for this loon.
Nothing is known about the shooter at this time but all blame is attributed to
the political Right. [godfatherpolitics.com] 12/15/12
Values. What perverse values
can the CT shooter of innocent children and their teachers hold? 12/15/12
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Upon the shooting deaths involving a pro football player and his girlfriend ... Liberals will not miss an opportunity to state that Guns cause Crime.
Well then, Spoons cause Obesity,
And Autos cause Wrecks.
The evidence, which Liberals ignore is that ...
More Guns = Less Crime
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Bias. Only the Media Baffled that More Guns Lead to Less Crime. … Gee, there are more innocent people with guns and people are surprised that criminals are now more reluctant to commit crimes? [finance.townhall.com] 11/28/12
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This lead statement above in red continues to be very much a truism. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws and governments will have guns. Hence the UN effort to outlaw guns. The UN is replete with dictatorial regimes that squash dissent.
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More Big Gov ammo purchases [freedomoutpost.com]
8/15/12 WHY?
Look who is buying rounds and rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammo
• Homeland Security – 750 million rounds
• NOAA [prisonplanet.com]
• Social Security Administration – 174,000 thousand rounds of hollow points [infowars]
Is this part of an Obama pre-election plan to decree Marshall Law on US Taxpayers? Are they working on a new and improved Fast and Furious. Are they planning a war on street gangs. How about drug enforcement … by NOAA? =TheRightJack on 8/15/12
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Point #1. Where are the statistics that show how banning guns prevents crimes?
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Colorado shooter had $26,000 federal NIH grant. [cbsnews.com] 7/22/12
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Is this how he financed his gun purchases and killing spree?
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Left calling for bans on guns again against the advice of their fellow Leftists. See Point #1.
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You know you are in the wrong place when you can get arrested for protecting yourself.
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More guns = Less crime. We really should name the cities that have the most gun control ... so criminals will know where they can go to carry out their dirty deeds without fear of resistance ... and leave the rest of us alone who have guns.
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262,000,000 people were killed by governments in the 20th century. Confiscate all guns from civilians and then a government mad man named Major Hasan comes along. 7/22/12
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Colorado theater is a gun free zone. 7/21/12
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Bank of America is anti-gun rights.
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You cannot regulate crazy. [dailycaller.com]
7/20/12
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16 Undeniable Truths about Gun Control
1. Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.
.
2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
.
3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
.
4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
.
5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
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6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
.
7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
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8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
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9. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
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10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
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11. 84,999,987 firearms owners didn’t kill anybody yesterday and won’t kill anybody today.
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12. The United States Constitution © 1791.
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13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
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14. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you NOT understand?
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15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
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16. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
.
Source: Godfather Politics 5/1/12
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17. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws and governments will have guns.
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UN still on track to achieve gun control in USA with the full support of Hillary Clinton.
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Gun sales up in 2011. Gee. TheRightJack wonders why?
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Thought Provoking Statistic. Think about this:
A. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
B. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
C. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Then think about this:
A. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
B. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500.
C. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR!
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health measure, I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.
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• Denver, Colorado- An owner of a Denver lounge was arrested after shooting an intruder.
• St. Charles, Louisiana - An 82-year-old man was arrested after he shot at a thief who was trying to steal the roof off his carport.
• Key Largo, Florida - After repeatedly warning a burglar that broke into his house to leave, a man shot the criminal in the foot. He was arrested.
• Baltimore, Maryland - After an armed assailant invaded a family Christmas gathering, a father held the thug at gunpoint for two and a half hours before police arrived. He was sentenced to three years of probation and later denied a conceal carry permit.
• Coeur d'Alene Idaho - A father was arrested and charged for shooting a grizzly bear that was about to kill his 6 children who were playing outside. He's facing up to three years of supervised probation.
Source: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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When guns are banned, only outlaws and governments will have gun … and those two groups are not mutually exclusive.
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• Prohibit firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public.
• Prohibit any transfer of firearm ownership.
• Require US citizens to deliver any banned firearms they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment.
• Require micro-stamping on all guns.
• Destruction of "excess" firearms.
[Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms]
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[National Association for Gun Rights]
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Why US Big Dem Gov wants to ban guns and ammo.
• 2,199,524 licenses of all types were sold, 2009-2010
• 2,134,545 sold in 2008-09
• 2,085,048 sold in 2000
• 1,718,050 licenses & permits of all types sold in 2005
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• 452,723 hunting licenses were sold in 2009-2010
• (305,472 were annual resident hunting licenses)
• 624,908 deer permits sold in 2001
• 394,146 hunting licenses (resident, nonresident, youth and three-day) were sold and • 406,779 deer permits in 2001 Click Here for the story. Remember, when gun ownership is banned, only criminals and government will have guns. They are not mutually exclusive.
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[x] Gun Owner
[ ] Victim
Select One
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• Massachusetts safe for illegals but legals may not get their permits
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• Magazines over 5 rounds, or a drum magazine
• Excessive bulk (greater than 3 inches in width and/or greater than 4 inches in depth
• Flash suppressors
• Forward pistol grips or other protruding parts designed or use for gripping the shotgun with the shooter's extended hand
• Folding, telescoping, or collapsible stocks
• Excessive weight (greater than 10 pounds for 12 gauge or smaller)
• Light enhancing devices
• Bayonet lugs
• Integrated rail systems (other than on top of the receiver or barrel)
As a sporting gun enthusiast, you know what that really means. The Obama administration does NOT want you to participate in any "sports" or self defense with your guns! [Second Amendment Foundation] posted 4/21/11
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Mass murderers apparently can’t read, since they are constantly shooting up “gun free zones.” With no armed citizen to stop them-because law abiding citizens are obeying the “Gun Free Zone” signs-murderers are able to kill unabated, even pausing to reload their weapons, until they get bored and commit suicide or try to escape. Some only stop pulling the trigger when they develop carpel tunnel syndrome.
Contrary to current faddish ideas, we can’t justify, much less imprison, “potential” mass murderers. For most such killers, mass murder is their first serious crime. It’s not against the law to be crazy-in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office. The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and1999, the estimable economists John Lott Jr. and William Landes found that concealed –carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect on saving lives. And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Among the mass murders at “gun-free zones” in the past decade are these:
• In 2007, a deranged student killed thirty-two at Virginia Tech - thirty of them in a very short period of time in a single building - before killing himself.
• At the Amish school shooting in 2006, the killer murdered five little girls and then committed suicide.
• At Columbine High School in 1999, two students killed twelve people before ending the carnage themselves by committing suicide.
• In 1998, two students in Craighead County, Arkansas, killed five people, including four little girls, before deciding to attempt escape.
• In 1996 in Dunblane, Scotland, an adult shooter killed seventeen, then committed suicide. There was no one to stop him.
There was no way to stop any of them.
Contrast these with the school shooting where, by sheer happenstance, a law-abiding citizen at the scene had a gun. The classic case is the shooting at a high school in Santee, California, in 2001. When a student began shooting his classmates, the school promptly activated its “safe-school plan,” as the principal later told CNN.
Unfortunately, the “safe-school plan” did not involve anyone at the school having a gun. Instead, the school sent in an unarmed “trained campus supervisor” to stop the killer. Stop it right now or I’ll call a “trained campus supervisor”! The killer promptly shot the “trained campus supervisor.” Fortunately, an armed San Diego policeman happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day. He stopped the killer -with a gun- and held him at bay until more police could arrive.
Two dead.
In 2002, an immigrant student in Virginia started shooting his classmates at the Appalachain School of Law. Two of his classmates in another part of the building retrieved guns from their cars, approached the killer, and forced him to drop his weapon, allowing a third student to tackle him.
Three dead.
In 1997, a student at Pearl High School in Mississippi had already shot several people at his high school and was headed for the junior high school when assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a .45 pistol from his car and pointed it at the gunman’s head, ending the slaughter.
Two dead.
A few days later, a student attending a junior high school dance at a restaurant in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, started shooting. Whereupon, the restaurant owner pulled out his shotgun, chased the gunman from the restaurant, and captured him for the police.
One dead.
When you need a gun, nothing else will do.
Taken from “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans” by Ann Coulter
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Subject: Should Bans Against Carrying Concealed Weapons Be Lifted On College Campuses?
Pre-Note by a citizen contributor to the right jack: NOW FOR A FEW FACTUAL STATISTICS, NOT THE MEDIAS SPIN VERSION. NO MATTER YOUR POSITION ON THIS SUBJECT YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION TO MAKE AN EDUCATED OPINE. THIS ARTICLE IS NOT JUST ABOUT GUN FREE ZONES.
By John Lott
Published March 09, 2011
FoxNews.com
Should permitted faculty and students have the right to carry a concealed handgun on college campuses? Right now once someone qualifies for a permit they can carry a concealed handgun with them virtually anywhere in a state except for a few designated gun-free zones.
Prominent among those "protected" areas are universities and schools. Yet, twelve states, including two large ones, Texas and Florida, are currentlly engaged in the debate over whether to end these bans.
Florida and Idaho have legislative hearings scheduled for Wednesday. The Idaho House should be voting on the bill by the end of the week. Legislative committees in Arizona and Oklahoma have already passed bills. Texas is planning votes during the week of March 21st.
But are these changes dangerous? Would faculty and students pose a danger to others? Wouldn't police accidentally shoot permit holders who are trying to stop an attacker?
Fortunately, we don't need to speculate about what might happen. We actually already have a lot of evidence and experience from numerous campuses.
Seventy-one college campuses allow students with permits to carry concealed handguns, and many more let faculty carry, some for over a decade. But none -- absolutely none -- of these schools have experienced the type of harm predicted by opponents. Not a single permit holder on these campuses has been involved in a firearm accident or crime.
We also have extensive experience with permitted concealed handguns on campuses prior to the push for gun-free zones during the early 1990s. Back then, in the states that allowed concealed permitted handguns, students and professors frequently carried handguns, and there simply weren't any problems then either.
But we have even more evidence than that. Permit holders, not just on campuses, are exceedingly law-abiding. Consider the two states at the front of the current debate, Florida and Texas: Both states provide detailed records on the behavior of permit holders on easily accessible websites. During over two decades, from October 1, 1987 to February 28, 2011, Florida has issued permits to over 1.96 million people, with the
average person having a permit for more than a decade. Few -- 168 (about 0.01%) -- have had their permits revoked for any type of firearms related violation, the most common was accidentally carrying a concealed handgun into a gun-free zone such as a school or an airport, not threats or acts of violence.
Over the last 38 months, only four permit holders have had their permit revoked for a firearms related violation -- an annual revocation rate of 0.0003%. The numbers are similarly small in Texas. In 2009, there were 402,914 active license holders. 101 were convicted of either a misdemeanor or a felony, a rate of 0.025 percent, with only few of these crimes involving a gun.
Permit holders have succeeded in stopping a wide range of multiple victim public shootings, at schools and elsewhere. Yet, so far there has not been a single incident where a permit holder has accidentally shot a bystander.
Likewise, the police have managed to get to these attacks without shooting any permit holders. Gun-free zones don’t deter criminals, just the law-abiding. -- A faculty member with a concealed handgun permit who breaks the campus ban would be fired and find it impossible to get hired at another university.
A student with a permit faces expulsion and won’t get admitted to another school. For law-abiding individuals, violating the ban dramatically impacts their lives. Yet, for someone like the Virginia Tech killer the threat of expulsion from having a gun on campus means essentially nothing, even if he had lived, given he would already face 32 death penalties or 32 life sentences.
Not only does the overwhelming research on right-to-carry laws show that letting citizens defend themselves reduce violent crime, but schools that have allowed permitted concealed handguns have seen drops in crime there also.
Americans have experienced over and over again what a failure gun-free zones have been. Chicago's and DC's murder and violent crime rates soared after their handgun bans were imposed and fallen after their bans ended.
No gun ban around the world that has produced a drop in murder rates. Gun-free zones are a magnet for crime of all kinds. In addition, even the strictest gun regulations or bans haven't stopped multiple victim public shootings from occurring.
In Europe, these attacks are quite common. Last year in England, despite it very strict gun laws, 12 people were killed and another 11 wounded in one attack. The two worst K-12 public school shootings have occurred in Germany, and both of those attacks have taken place in the last decade.
The fears over concealed carry on college campuses are the same as the earlier debates in the 40 states that now have right-to-carry laws. But despite predictions about innocent blood being shed, no right-to-carry state has even held legislative hearings about rescinding the law. Just as with these other places, the debate over letting permitted concealed handguns on college campuses will quickly be forgotten.
John R. Lott, Jr is a FoxNews.com contributor. He is an economist and author of "More Guns, Less Crime” (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
• At the Amish school shooting in 2006, the killer murdered five little girls and then committed suicide.
• At Columbine High School in 1999, two students killed twelve people before ending the carnage themselves by committing suicide.
• In 1998, two students in Craighead County, Arkansas, killed five people, including four little girls, before deciding to attempt escape.
• In 1996 in Dunblane, Scotland, an adult shooter killed seventeen, then committed suicide. There was no one to stop him.
There was no way to stop any of them.
Contrast these with the school shooting where, by sheer happenstance, a law-abiding citizen at the scene had a gun. The classic case is the shooting at a high school in Santee, California, in 2001. When a student began shooting his classmates, the school promptly activated its “safe-school plan,” as the principal later told CNN.
Unfortunately, the “safe-school plan” did not involve anyone at the school having a gun. Instead, the school sent in an unarmed “trained campus supervisor” to stop the killer. Stop it right now or I’ll call a “trained campus supervisor”! The killer promptly shot the “trained campus supervisor.” Fortunately, an armed San Diego policeman happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day. He stopped the killer -with a gun- and held him at bay until more police could arrive.
Two dead.
In 2002, an immigrant student in Virginia started shooting his classmates at the Appalachain School of Law. Two of his classmates in another part of the building retrieved guns from their cars, approached the killer, and forced him to drop his weapon, allowing a third student to tackle him.
Three dead.
In 1997, a student at Pearl High School in Mississippi had already shot several people at his high school and was headed for the junior high school when assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a .45 pistol from his car and pointed it at the gunman’s head, ending the slaughter.
Two dead.
A few days later, a student attending a junior high school dance at a restaurant in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, started shooting. Whereupon, the restaurant owner pulled out his shotgun, chased the gunman from the restaurant, and captured him for the police.
One dead.
When you need a gun, nothing else will do.
Taken from “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans” by Ann Coulter
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Pre-Note by a citizen contributor to the right jack: NOW FOR A FEW FACTUAL STATISTICS, NOT THE MEDIAS SPIN VERSION. NO MATTER YOUR POSITION ON THIS SUBJECT YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION TO MAKE AN EDUCATED OPINE. THIS ARTICLE IS NOT JUST ABOUT GUN FREE ZONES.
By John Lott
Published March 09, 2011
FoxNews.com
Should permitted faculty and students have the right to carry a concealed handgun on college campuses? Right now once someone qualifies for a permit they can carry a concealed handgun with them virtually anywhere in a state except for a few designated gun-free zones.
Prominent among those "protected" areas are universities and schools. Yet, twelve states, including two large ones, Texas and Florida, are currentlly engaged in the debate over whether to end these bans.
Florida and Idaho have legislative hearings scheduled for Wednesday. The Idaho House should be voting on the bill by the end of the week. Legislative committees in Arizona and Oklahoma have already passed bills. Texas is planning votes during the week of March 21st.
But are these changes dangerous? Would faculty and students pose a danger to others? Wouldn't police accidentally shoot permit holders who are trying to stop an attacker?
Fortunately, we don't need to speculate about what might happen. We actually already have a lot of evidence and experience from numerous campuses.
Seventy-one college campuses allow students with permits to carry concealed handguns, and many more let faculty carry, some for over a decade. But none -- absolutely none -- of these schools have experienced the type of harm predicted by opponents. Not a single permit holder on these campuses has been involved in a firearm accident or crime.
We also have extensive experience with permitted concealed handguns on campuses prior to the push for gun-free zones during the early 1990s. Back then, in the states that allowed concealed permitted handguns, students and professors frequently carried handguns, and there simply weren't any problems then either.
But we have even more evidence than that. Permit holders, not just on campuses, are exceedingly law-abiding. Consider the two states at the front of the current debate, Florida and Texas: Both states provide detailed records on the behavior of permit holders on easily accessible websites. During over two decades, from October 1, 1987 to February 28, 2011, Florida has issued permits to over 1.96 million people, with the
average person having a permit for more than a decade. Few -- 168 (about 0.01%) -- have had their permits revoked for any type of firearms related violation, the most common was accidentally carrying a concealed handgun into a gun-free zone such as a school or an airport, not threats or acts of violence.
Over the last 38 months, only four permit holders have had their permit revoked for a firearms related violation -- an annual revocation rate of 0.0003%. The numbers are similarly small in Texas. In 2009, there were 402,914 active license holders. 101 were convicted of either a misdemeanor or a felony, a rate of 0.025 percent, with only few of these crimes involving a gun.
Permit holders have succeeded in stopping a wide range of multiple victim public shootings, at schools and elsewhere. Yet, so far there has not been a single incident where a permit holder has accidentally shot a bystander.
Likewise, the police have managed to get to these attacks without shooting any permit holders. Gun-free zones don’t deter criminals, just the law-abiding. -- A faculty member with a concealed handgun permit who breaks the campus ban would be fired and find it impossible to get hired at another university.
A student with a permit faces expulsion and won’t get admitted to another school. For law-abiding individuals, violating the ban dramatically impacts their lives. Yet, for someone like the Virginia Tech killer the threat of expulsion from having a gun on campus means essentially nothing, even if he had lived, given he would already face 32 death penalties or 32 life sentences.
Not only does the overwhelming research on right-to-carry laws show that letting citizens defend themselves reduce violent crime, but schools that have allowed permitted concealed handguns have seen drops in crime there also.
Americans have experienced over and over again what a failure gun-free zones have been. Chicago's and DC's murder and violent crime rates soared after their handgun bans were imposed and fallen after their bans ended.
No gun ban around the world that has produced a drop in murder rates. Gun-free zones are a magnet for crime of all kinds. In addition, even the strictest gun regulations or bans haven't stopped multiple victim public shootings from occurring.
In Europe, these attacks are quite common. Last year in England, despite it very strict gun laws, 12 people were killed and another 11 wounded in one attack. The two worst K-12 public school shootings have occurred in Germany, and both of those attacks have taken place in the last decade.
The fears over concealed carry on college campuses are the same as the earlier debates in the 40 states that now have right-to-carry laws. But despite predictions about innocent blood being shed, no right-to-carry state has even held legislative hearings about rescinding the law. Just as with these other places, the debate over letting permitted concealed handguns on college campuses will quickly be forgotten.
John R. Lott, Jr is a FoxNews.com contributor. He is an economist and author of "More Guns, Less Crime” (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
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