I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on the value of gun control and a lot on the value of having a gun and it got me to thinking.
All too often you cannot trust what a person says, you have to look at their actions and what the results will be of their proposed actions.
A person who wants to harm you wants you defenceless, powerless to stop them.
A person who wants you to survive wants you smarter, stronger, more powerful and capable of defending yourself against any and all who would harm you.
The American fathers wanted their citizenry to be able to defend themselves again foreign invaders and domestic tyranny. So they enshrined into the basic fabric of the foundational documents of the country that all citizens should be able to arm themselves.
The people who would take away this right point to the mass murders purpetrated and blame the gun. They compeltely ignore the number of would be mass murderers who are prevented in their aims by a single armed citizen present.
Good people with guns are not the problem. They are the solution! It is no good disarming the good people. That just removes from every potential mass shooting a person who could stop it. The bad will always get guns. Same as they get drugs now. Despite the drugs being illegal.
So the net result of removing guns from the good people is to prevent them from being able to defend themselves and others. In other words to make them potential victims. Whatever glossy, sugar coated rhetoric is mouthed, the net result of disarmament is to make a population unarmed and unable to defend themselves against individual lunatics, tyrannical governments or invasion.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I have seen various reports that sum the total number of people killed by their own government last century. Some 220 million. It could be said that on the basis of those figures that the greatest threat to a person’s life is not a terrorist but their own government!
These governments that murdered millions of their populations last century had gun confiscation programs in place prior to their genocides.
Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership and one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world.
The city Kennesaw in the USA once again was in the news on May 1, 1982, when the city unanimously passed a law requiring “every head of household to maintain a firearm together with ammunition.” After passage of the law, the burglary rate in Kennesaw declined and even today, the City has the lowest crime rate in Cobb County. ...from 1982 through 2009, Kennesaw had been nearly murder free with one murder occurring in 2007.
So guns are not the problem. Lack of a gun in the right hands at the right time is the problem.
But people who do not want you to be able to protect yourself will tell you different.
Especially the government. They want to be the only ones able to use force. They don’t like competition.
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