"The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed."
The Second Amendment reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary
to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word "infringe" means:
"Act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on."
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The soap box,
The ballot box,
The jury box,
The cartridge box.
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Today I swung my front
door wide open and placed my Remington 870 shotgun
right in the doorway. I gave it 6 shells; I
even placed it in a wheelchair to help it get
around.
I then
left it alone and went about my business.
While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the
neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a
girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few
cars stopped at the stop sign right in front of our
house.
After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was
still sitting there in the wheelchair, right where I
had left it. It hadn't rolled itself outside. It
certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the
numerous opportunities it had been presented to do
so. In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself.
You can imagine my surprise, with all the media hype
about how dangerous guns are and how they kill
people.
Either
the media is wrong and it's the misuse of guns by
PEOPLE that kills people,
or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the
world.
Well, I'm off to check on my
spoons. I hear they're making people fat.
There are 30,000
gun related deaths per year by firearms. That is not disputed. What is never
shown, though, is a breakdown of those deaths to put them in
perspective;
as compared to other causes of death.
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which
would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and
justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug
related or mentally ill persons
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually but drops to
5,100.
Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across
the nation?
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington DC (a 54%
increase over prior years)
So basically, 25%
of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have
strict gun laws so it is not the lack of law that is the
root cause. Maybe it's gangs and the lack of the historic family
unit with a father and a mother.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation or about
75 per state.
That is an average because some States have much higher rates than
others.
For example, California had 1,169.
Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California of course
but understand, it is not the tool (guns) driving this. It is a crime
rate spawned
by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and
states.
So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be
something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other
deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission
of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape,
assault; all are done by criminals to victims and thinking that
criminals will obey laws is ludicrous.
That's why they are criminals.
But what of other deaths? Remember total gun deaths is
30,000/year (really only 5,100).
• 40,000+ die from a drug overdose – THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR
THAT !
• 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the
criminal gun deaths
• 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities
(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide)
Now it gets good
• 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from
preventable medical malpractice.
• You are safer in Chicago than you are in a hospital
!
• 710,000 people die per year from heart disease.
Time to stop the cheeseburgers !
So what is the point?
If Obama and the anti-gun movement focused
their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease would save
twice the lives annually of all gun related deaths (including suicide,
law enforcement, etc.).
A 10% reduction in malpractice would be 66% of the total gun deaths or 4
times the number of criminal homicides.
Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions!
So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why
the focus on guns?
It's pretty simple. Taking away guns
gives control to governments. This is not conspiracy
theory; this is a historical fact. Why is it impossible for the
government to spill over into dictatorship?
The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of
government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as
the British did.
They too tried to disarm
the populace of the colonies because it is not difficult to understand;
a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.
Thus, the Second Amendment
was proudly and boldly included in the Constitution.