Guns

‘‘A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than

any other tool... A gun is as good or bad as the man
using it. Remember that.’’
— Alan Ladd’s character in the film: ‘‘Shane’’

http://ron.dotson.net/guns.htm

It’s wrong to equate guns with violence. In almost all cases of lawful civilian use
(2.5 million each year), guns are used to prevent violence. Only criminals use guns to
commit violence, and it has always been illegal for criminals to possess guns. There
are already more than 20,000 gun laws on the books, and yet the government wants to
pass more!

The fact is, you are much safer if there are normal citizens around who have guns
and are trained in their safe use. Armed civilians prevent far more crimes than police
do. Several books have been written about heroic citizens who have prevented robbery,
rape, and even mass murders because they were armed, yet you only hear about the
cases in which no one was around to prevent the crime. In every study ever conducted,
crime decreased when more law abiding citizens were allowed to carry concealed
weapons. Not convinced? Need proof? Read some of the citations below, check my
Recommended Reading list, or contact me directly. The single misconception that guns
cause violence is behind all anti-self-defense sentiment in everyone I’ve talked to who
opposes firearms.

Sometimes we gun owners ourselves allow these fallacies to propagate by not

voicing our opinion except to each other. Not long ago I had a telephone conversation
with Sam Paredes, Deputy Director of the Gun Owners of California (GOC). He told me
that their biggest problem was getting gun owners to register to vote and to join an
organized pro rights group such as the NRA or GOC. He said that most gun owners will
contribute money, but they won’t make the effort to vote or to defend their own rights.

Although I’m a life member of the NRA, at the time I wasn’t registered to vote because
I hoped it would help avoid jury duty, but I was incredulous at his statement that most
gun owners weren’t registered to vote, and even more so that most weren’t members
of the NRA. He said to ask a few friends whether or not they belonged to the NRA (or
GOC, etc), so I did. I was shocked. One friend who is an avid ‘‘gun nut’’, and even
carries one illegally in his car, said he was not a member of the NRA because he was
afraid to have his name listed in a database as a gun owner because the police could
use the list to come and confiscate his weapons. If that does come to pass, he himself
will have contributed to it because of his failure to publicly support gun ownership.
Another friend says he is not a member of the NRA because it is too ‘‘radical.’’ That is
one of the most asinine statements I’ve ever heard. The NRA is the least radical gun
group I know of, and not nearly as radical as I would like them to be.

So if you haven’t already done so, get off your butts, register to vote (voter
registration cards are available at all U.S. Post Offices), and join the NRA, the GOA, and
join your state and local pro gun rights organizations. In California those are the CRPA
and the GOC. In the words of gun rights activist Bob Buffa, ‘‘stand up and be counted
or line up to be numbered!’’

 Facts & Figures

 Famous Gun Quotes
 Physicians on Guns and Violence
 Government Murders Innocent Men, Women and Children
 Quotes from U.S. v. Emerson Ruling.
 Pro-Gun States in the U.S.A.
 2,500,000 Defensive Uses Of Guns Per Year!
 170 Million Reasons to Own a Gun
 What the Supreme Court has said about the Second Amendment
 What One Woman Really Needed
– This story says it all

 A World Without
Guns

 Fascism in Gun control works!

America
o The Hitler Threat
o Fascism Comes to Massachusetts
o – A must read!
o Fascism Comes to California (PDF)
o – Firearm Confiscation Notice.
o California Reichstag Passes SB23
o – Russia now has more respect for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms than
California.
o Connecticut Gestapo Defies Constitution
o – Seizes private property without trial.
o BATF SS troups carry out covert operation to prevent sales of John Ross’
book, Unintended Consequences
o New Jersey Law evicts homeowners for possession of semiautomatic
rifles.
 The President's Column
– by Charlton Heston
The Second Amendment Guarantees an Individual Right To Keep and Bear Arms
 Australian Gun Ban Results in 44% Increase in Armed-Robberies. See also
Sporting Shooters Association of Australia. and in particular Western Australia
and the fewer guns myth
 British Crime Rates are higher than U.S.A. for assault, burglary, motor vehicle
theft and robbery, according to a U.S. Department of Justice Report. England
has had severe gun restrictions since 1967, yet a graph of the Statistics shows
that crimes increase when gun ownership declines. In fact, in spite of a total
ban on firearms of all types, authorities estimate there are 3 Million illegal guns
in the hands of street criminals in the U.K. Gun crimes are surging in London and
in the rest of this country where guns are banned. See also two recent news
articles titled ‘‘Did British gun control work?’’ and ‘‘A nation of criminals.’’ On Oct
25, 2003 the London Telegraph announced that handgun-banned Britain is ‘‘The
Most Violent Country in Western Europe’’ and that the ‘‘"victimisation risk" -
showing the risk of suffering a crime - in England and Wales is higher for overall
crime than anywhere else in Europe, and higher than in America. The same
is true of falling victim to "contact" - violent - crime.’’ (Click here for an archived
copy of the story in case the preceeding link is broken). For a history of gun
prohibition in England, please see "All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun
Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America", by
Joseph Olson and David Kopel
 News and Letters

 The Opposition
o Sergei Hoff on Treason
o Revolution in the U.S. and Canada a Certainty?
o Cops call on Clinton to stop playing politics with guns
o AOL Ban’s Gun Websites
o HCI advises women to ask a rapist to use a condom.
o A Study Proves Media Bias Against Second Amendment.
o And of course don’t forget SB2099
 Solutions
o How to Stop Mass Shootings
o When will we learn?
o The Cause and Cure of Firearm Accidents among Children.
o Editorial: Guns make society safer
o Children Who Own Guns Do Not Commit Crimes
o A Speech by Lt. Harry Thomas
o A Reverend Speaks on Self-Defense
o Letter to My Anti-Gun Friends by Angel Shamaya
 Positive News Stories on Guns
– Unbelievably, I actually found three of them!
o Guns Save Lives
– CBS News
o Encouraging Kids to Pick Up a Gun
– The Los Angeles Times
o ALERT: Citizens need guns for their protection
– The Fresno Bee
 Odds and Ends
o Assault Tools
– Putting America’s Children at Risk
o Footballs Deadlier than Guns
o Airbags Deadlier than Guns
o Buckets Deadlier than Guns
o Boy Scouts and Prostitutes
o Dog Shoots Man
o Stick Death
o Fingers and nail-clippers Banned in School
o 12 FBI Agents armed with M-16s, Uzis and 9 mm pistols, arrest man for
selling bird feathers.
o You just might be a gun nut, if ...
o The Slippery Menace