2013: Twelve people were gunned down on a Navy base by a well-armed BAD GUY because the GOOD GUYS had no way to stop him.
1993: President Clinton barred members of the military, including officers, from carrying firearms on military bases.
Everybody in the military is not only vetted and well-trained in the use of firearms, but also has taken a solemn oath to put their own lives on the line to protect and defend others.
But they aren’t allowed to carry firearms on base?!?!
Gun control laws are not about reducing gun violence.
They are about disarming law-abiding citizens.
In 1976, Washington, D.C. imposed the strictest gun control law in the nation.
It prohibited anyone other than law-enforcement officers from carrying a firearm in the city. Residents were even barred from keeping guns in their homes for self-defense.
By disarming law-abiding citizens, lawmakers EMBOLDENED criminals!
- DC homicides in 1975: 188
- DC homicides in 1988: 369
- DC homicides in 1993: 454.
In 2011, the state with the strongest gun control laws had more than THREE times the gun murder rate of the state with the weakest gun control laws. In DC, it was TWELVE times higher.
CALIFORNIA: Strongest Gun Control State 3.25 gun murders per 100,000 people.
UTAH: Weakest Gun Control Law State: 0.97 gun murders per 100,000 people.
WASHINGTON D.C.: Model Gun Control City: 12 gun murders per 100,000 people.
Clearly, people are going to have guns no matter how much you tell them it’s wrong, so let’s junk all that useless legislation and focus on teaching our young people to use their guns safely and responsibly.
We could start in elementary school with age-appropriate lessons about how you should not let anyone make you feel bad about your trigger finger but that you should never point a gun at anyone until you’re really ready.
Older kids would learn what the parts of a gun look like and how to clean, oil, assemble and safely carry one’s weapon. This would naturally include a lesson on how to properly rubber-band a condom on the barrel to keep water out. (For the sake of the children of gun-prudish Progressives, we could have the condom part demonstrated with a banana instead of a real gun.)
There would also be field trips to gun stores to see the wonderful array of possibilities that await the eager buyer as soon as s/he comes of age, plus assemblies where members of law enforcement, the military and the hunting and competitive shooting communities would come to talk about firearms.
Every high school would have a firing range and passing the gun safety, maintenance and shooting skills class would be mandatory before graduation unless the child’s parents filed a protest with the courts citing their rights under the Constitution to raise their children according to their absurd gun-prudish moral codes.
We could start somewhere small … say Washington, D.C. … and watch what happens to those gun crimes statistics. You know, the way they did with Charter Schools.
Source:
- http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/clinton-era-gun-law-responsible-mass-carnage-us-naval-yard/
- http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/06/the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see/
- http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011
- Gun control rankings by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
- Gun murders per 100,000 date by FBI.
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“For the sake of the children of gun-prudish Progressives, we could have the condom part demonstrated with a banana instead of a real gun.”
Love it! I think we should start using that word much more often! “Gun-Prude” What a wonderful reverse-Alinsky thing to do! Progs shame us for being moral; we should shame them for being gun prudes.
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Thanks! I am feeling giddily pleased with that bit. 🙂
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That part about gun familiarization classes and contests in school; they really DO that in Switzerland and Russia and Israel. We should, too.
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I wrote that as a satire on sex ed, but I was totally serious about teaching gun safety in schools.
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Would you consider allowing this to be a guest post over on 4gfc? If so, please email me the entire html code for the post, and I’ll take care of it. I think we have lots of folks who would appreciate it. 🙂
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Does it have be CODE? I have no idea how to do that. I just write in Word and copy/paste the text, upload the images and clic PUBLISH. I’ll email the data now. Feel free. I was kinda hoping my little satire would get passed around a bit.
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That would be fine. It’s easy to pass along the “html code”, though. All you have to do is edit the post, and go to the main text window where you cut and pasted your stuff from WORD. Then, click on the tab at the upper, right corner of the box that says “text” instead of the usual “visual.” You’ll notice that everything is all text interspersed with html gibber-jabber with no images whatsoever. Just highlight and copy that, and paste it into your email. When I get it, I simply paste it into my window and publish with a few annotations, like “Guest post by Chrissythehyphenated,” etc.
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The reason I ask for it his way is that it preserves all your graphics and images exactly as they are so I can’t mess them up.
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Oh I get it! This way, you keep all my pretty colors and indents and stuff!
I actually work hard at that stuff to make it as easy as possible for skimmers to catch my meaning.
Done!
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Exactly! I’m not good at reproducing a lot of those effects, so it will look terrible if I re-do it. Thanks!
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