THERE'S NEVER BEEN A MORE
IMPORTANT TIME FOR YOU TO JOIN NRA.
Ted Nugent with Evan Smith - Texas
Monthly.
Ted explains so clearly how so many
of us feel and what we believe in.
Gun Free Zones do not work.
Finally, a news organization with the guts to air the truth we
already know!
What you need to
know
There are people in this country that for some reason want law-abiding citizens defenseless
against crime. Does that sound crazy? Here is a test. Ask someone you know who
believes guns are the root of all evil or even yourself this question.
You are at home in your study finishing up some work, your spouse is in
another room and your two daughters are sleeping. Next thing you know two guys
are in your house. One has a BB gun and the other has a rope. What would you do?
My guess is you would get one of the following two answers.
1. I would do what they say and hope they don't hurt or kill me and my
family.
2. The odds of that happening to me or my family are slim to none.
Both answers are programmed responses. We are raised to believe that the
police are our saviors but in real life they are not. We are our own saviors. If
we can't protect ourselves then what good are we?
We need to protect ourselves from those in society that do not hold our
beliefs or morals.
After reading the above ask yourself this.
Can you protect your family?
The police can
not be everywhere all the time. Usually the police do not get to a crime scene until after
the crime is done. By the time they get there you, a family member or a friend could be
seriously injured or dead. Criminals choose the time and place of their
assaults, and they ensure that their crimes occur when the police
are not around. Criminals choose their victims, and they choose
those over whom they believe they have an advantage, be it due to them having possession of
a weapon, their youth, strength, or numbers. It is in the nature of things, therefore,
that the victims will almost certainly be alone and be at a disadvantage relative
to their assailant. The encounter will not be on equal terms; the fight will not
be "fair." Without a weapon, an "equalizer" to overcome those natural
disadvantages, it is unlikely that the victim will have an effective means of
defending themselves. Without a weapon, it is very likely that whether the victim
lives, dies or is injured will depend largely or entirely on the mercy of
his assailant.
The most fundamental justification for concealed-carry laws is the right to
life. Each person has a right to life, not just those who have demonstrated some
special "need" or "proper cause". Indeed, our Declaration of Independence
asserts that governments are instituted to secure the right to life. The right
to life of necessity implies the right to maintain or continue one's life by
defending it against violent criminal assault. Yet the right to defend one's
life is meaningless, or a hollow promise, unless that right also encompasses the
right to the means necessary for the effective exercise of that right.
Since the right to life implies a right to the means to protect that life, the
individual's right to his own life necessarily implies a right to keep and bear
arms suitable for self-defense. In this place and time, that means a handgun,
small enough to be carried at almost all times. The presumption, therefore, of a
government that respects its citizens' right to life and self-defense must be
that they are permitted to carry arms to protect themselves.
Peter Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc.
(Now known as
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) -- the largest gun control
group in America -- has some advice for women threatened by attackers.
He said,
"give the attacker what they want."
Did you know:
As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves
against sexual abuse.
Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5
million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice
Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every
year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as
part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun
criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig
Armed citizens stop more crooks than the police. Citizens stop at least twice as many criminals as police do every year.
To outlaw guns would potentially allow 2-1/2 million more
crimes a year to happen. Think about that.
Most news agencies will have you believe that guns are a problem and
getting rid of the guns will get rid of the crimes they are used in. This is so
far from the truth. We live in a time where terrorists want to kill us,
unemployment is at an all time high and crime is at an all time high. So what is
the answer, "take guns from the law abiding citizens." Guns are not the problem, people are the problem. Bad people
do bad things and they will use any weapon at their disposal to get what they
want. If no gun is available they will use a sword, if no sword is available
they will use a knife, if no knife is available they will use scissors. The question is will you have access to a weapon that meets or exceeds the
attackers or will you and your family fall prey to them.
The UK outlawed guns, are they better off today? Their death rates are just
as high and in some parts of the country even higher. The criminals still have
guns and the law-abiding citizens do not. Now they are
outlawing swords.
See Here. What will be next? Their knives, their scissors? Liberal politicians want you to think the UK is
safer now since guns are illegal.
See Here. Their citizens are going to jail for not being victims. They are
going to jail for defending their property.
See Here,
Here and
Here. In the UK the burglar has a right to the homeowners' property.
UK law gives the first-time criminal a punishment of a warning.
See Here.
A study found American burglars fear armed homeowners more than the police.
As a result, burglaries are much rarer and only 13% occur when people are at
home, in contrast to 53% in England.
Gun controls disarm only the law-abiding, and leave predators with a freer hand.
Nearly two and a half million people now fall victim to crimes of violence in
Britain every year, more than four every minute. If they try to defend
themselves they will go to jail, if they don't defend themselves they might be
killed.
This is what the Liberal left and Brady Campaign want for you.
Take a look at the map below. Forty eight of our fifty states allow concealed
carry of some form. No matter what you hear on the news or from politicians, Americans
expect the right to protect themselves. We see it every day. Our most recent
example of that is the
lift of the gun ban in Washington DC.
In 1976, the District Court had banned the possession of all handguns not acquired
and registered before that year. D.C. law also prohibits keeping an assembled
rifle or shotgun in the home, effectively outlawing the use of firearms for
lawful self-defense. Despite these Draconian gun control laws, Washington, D.C.,
consistently has one of the highest murder rates in the nation. The reason in
not because they need tougher gun control but because gun bans only effect the
law abiding citizens. Think about it, if a criminal in DC decides to
rob a store they have nothing to worry about. Guns are not allowed in DC so the
law abiding store clerks will be unable to protect themselves. Only criminals and police have
guns. For over thirty years DC was an almost guaranteed win for the criminals. They had nothing
to worry about when it came to resistance other than the police and their murder rates prove it.
See
the statistics here (District of Columbia).
Since 1991, 24 states have adopted
right-to-carry laws. In the same period, the number of privately owned
firearms has risen by nearly 70 million and violent crime is down 38%. In 2005,
right-to-carry states had, on average, a 22% lower violent
crime rate, a 30% lower murder rate, a 46% lower robbery rate and a 12% lower
aggravated-assault rate.
UPDATE: On June 26 2008 the US Supreme Court voted to abolish the ban
on fire arms in Washington D.C. It was decided that the ban violated the
citizens second amendment rights.
See Here
On June 26 2008, the NRA filed a law suit against Chicago for their ban on
firearms.
See Here
On June 27 2008, Wilmette, Ill Suspended it's Local Handgun Ban.
See Here
Researchers
John Lott
,David Mustard
and
Gary Kleck have found that allowing citizens to
carry
concealed weapons deters violent crimes,
and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states that
did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992,
approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes and over 60,000 aggravated assaults
might have been avoided yearly.
Something to think about.
"A GOVERNMENT THAT CAN GIVE EVERYTHING TO US IS A GOVERNMENT THAT CAN TAKE
EVERYTHING AWAY FROM US"
