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Gun control builds on tragedies and claims its constant failures are because
there is not enough of what caused the tragedies in the first place. There is a
well-documented fact that 2,500,000 times a year firearms are used to stop
crimes. Take into account that the 2,500,000 apply only to the 80,000,000 or so
gun owners in the United States; the other 220,000,000 people had no option.
Had those poor people been armed, many more crimes – 9 or 10 million – would
have been prevented. If you live in certain cities, such as Chicago, or
Washington D.C., criminals roam at will. I would be willing to bet there are
millions of crimes that go unreported because people have given up. Why report a
crime when nothing happens? Citizens have had their individual right to defend
themselves taken away and replaced by bureaucratic systems. Why waste time
reporting crime to the police when nothing is going to be done to the offender.
Only 20% of the offenders are caught. Recently, I received a call from an ISRA
member living in Cook County, who said he witnessed a gangbanger shooting in an
alley by his house. He called the police… they did arrive, but they got there
two hours later. Some of us ask why these people living in high-crime areas
don’t just get a gun to defend themselves? I think the answer is they fear the
public officials more than they fear the criminal.
Who is the sovereign power in the United States? Is it the United States
government? The state government? The county? The local municipality? No, it is
the individual – you and I. The anti-gunners would like us to forget all about
that fact. They claim that society is broken and that the only way to fix it is
more bureaucracy and more laws – the very thing that has not and will not work.
Anti-gunners claim that citizen safety is at stake and that is the reason more
laws are needed. But every law they propose is after the fact. The laws, they
say, are to protect the victims, yet, what they propose results in more victims.
Actually, two types of victims – those of criminals and those who are the
victims of the system because they wanted to defend themselves. People are much
more likely to become victims of the bureaucrats because of the draconian laws
they impose on them. They also are more likely to wind up in the court than the
criminal.
More and more of these laws take your rights and deny you due process at the
same time. One good example comes from the Department of Children and Family
Services’ proposed law, HB5191 (Harris D-13), that says if you have a mentally
unstable child and he or she steals your gun twice, you, the parent, lose your
F.O.I.D. card. No due process, it is just gone! I could give you many other
examples – if one looks at the list of the proposed bills in legislature and
proposed local ordinances, you will know what I mean. We are under a broad based
attack by many agencies and at many levels of government.
The only way to stop crime is at the point of attack. The anti-gunners say just
call 9-1-1. That is after-the- fact, if you are still alive to make that call.
Crimes occur in seconds and the police are just minutes away. Everything being
proposed is for after-the-fact legislation. The best way to survive is to stop
the crime during-the-fact. Think what happens after-the-fact – very few crimes
are solved – the victims and their families are left hurt, frustrated, helpless,
and defeated. Crime occurs because of a lack of resistance to crime. Anti-gun
laws only lessen the ability to resist.
Some anti-gunners claim that to fight back causes hate and violence. Hate and
violence is already there – in the criminal’s mind – when you are being
victimized. Survival instinct, not hate, kicks in while being victimized. The
hate argument is just one more anti-gun fallacy perpetrated on the public.
It is time to remind our public officials that sovereignty in the United States
lies with the individual, and not in some government body or official. It is
time to gather more people who demand the right of self-defense in and out of
their homes. It is time to expose gun control for what it is – a fraud!
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