Reasons For Gun Control

Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago
police need guns.

Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to
strict gun control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per
100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.

We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a
shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun
out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.

The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.

An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if
shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.

A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman
with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice
about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises
on heart surgery.

One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil
engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a
computer
programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms
expertise.

The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard,
which was created 130 years later, in 1917.

The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land,
using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings, and uniforms,
punishing trespassers under federal law, is a "state" militia.

These phrases: "right of the people peaceably to assemble,"
"right of the people to be secure in their homes,"
"enumerations herein of certain rights shall not be construed to
disparage others retained by the people," and "The powers not
delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to
the people" all refer to individuals, but "the right of the people
to keep and bear arms" refers to the state.

Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense!
Of course, the army has hundreds of thousands of them.

Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they aren't
"military weapons", but private citizens shouldn't have
"assault rifles", because they are military weapons.

In spite of waiting periods, background checks, finger printing,
government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available,
which is responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940's,
1950's and 1960's, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores,
army surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order,
no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no government
forms and there were no school shootings.

Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.

A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical
adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.

Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman
with a gun is "an accident waiting to happen" and gun makers'
advertisements aimed at women are "preying on their fears."

Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering
butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.

Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass
killings at gun shows.

Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to
be a "weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."

Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against
guns, which most people will abide by because they can be
trusted.

The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain
parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends
other parts of the Constitution.

Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA was a cheap
lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor
as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for
peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.

I kinda like this one!

Nice. I'm gonna steal this for a forward if ya dont mind.

It all makes sense now. Thanks for explaining this for me.

Now that it is explained to me I realize how wrong I've been all these years. Thank you for the clarification. Where is the line to turn in my rifle?

Well Said.