Gun Control - A Reminder to US Citizens

Posted by Tony Vilgiate at 11/13/2008 7:00 AM
Categories: Gun Controll, Religious Intolerance, Political Culture

Our founding fathers saw the need to give our citizens the right and obligation to own firearms.  They saw our individual right to bare arms essential for protecting our personal freedoms against not only hostile foreign powers but as a check against excessive domestic government power. There has been a significant push by many to try to rewrite history and minimize the framers intent for the private citizen's right to own firearms as the next round of anti-liberty liberalism.

Seven years ago, Emory University historian Michael Bellesiles published a book purportedly proving there were few guns and gun owners in early America. The book garnered  Columbia University's coveted Bancroft Prize. Two years later, primarily due to the efforts of a brilliant young research historian, Clayton Cramer, who had studied that period in history extensively, the book was revealed to be a total fraud, full of lies and fabrications. Bellesiles was forced to resign from Emory University and, for the first time in history, Columbia University rescinded the Bancroft Prize.(1)

Lets take a look at how gun control in the 20th Century worked out (2):


You do not need to point to despotic regimes to see how a government's abridgment of its citizens to bare arms can prove to be disastrous.   In Australia a gun ban on semi-auto fire arms, including .22 plinking rifles and shotguns, has not had the desired effect of lowering crime, but the reverse has happened. 

Though lawmakers responsible for passing the ban promised a safer country, the nation's crime statistics tell a different story:(3)

  • Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent;

  • Assaults are up 8.6 percent;

  • Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent;

  • In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent;

  • In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily;

  • There has been a reported "dramatic increase" in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly.
Gun Control turns citizens into subjects and deprives them of the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What possible gain, seeing the years of gun control failures in our friends and allies, could the US Government expect in the disarming of its citizenry?  It may seem like a trite cliche', but I believe it is accurate and worth consideration: Fear the government who fears your guns.
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1. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=41950

 

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