Gun Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime!

Gun Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime
By Charles A. Hall

Saturday, 17 October 2009

The debate about gun rights and gun control rages on on a daily basis. I receive at least two e-mails a day about “gun control this” and “gun rights that.” To me it is a literal battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. And I will tell you right now that the forces of good are those that want to protect gun rights, gun owners, and preserve the Second Amendment (National Association of Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Defenders of America, etc.). The forces of evil are those that want to not only limit the Second Amendment but completely and utterly destroy it (The Brady Campaign, Million Mom March, President B. Hussein Obama and his Administration, and almost every Democrat in Congress).

Yes, I have called these individuals The Forces of Evil. Why? Because instead of protecting the Constitution of the United States (which politicians make an oath to preserve, protect, and defend), our Nation, and Her citizens they are harming and destroying it one bill at a time until we, pro-Second Amendment citizens, don’t have the strength to fight anymore.

Watch the following clip from the 1970s show “All in the Family.” Archie Bunker (played by the late Carroll O'Connor) had it right and so did America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLjNJI54GMM

“What was the first thing the communists done when they took over Russia? Answer: gun control.” This is a historical fact! The same can be said about China and Nazi Germany. But is this really a thing of the past? If you said “yes, it is” you are wrong!

In 1996, after several massacres, new laws were passed in Australia to basically ban all longarms, pump shotguns, and handguns from private ownership. Handguns can still be obtained after a huge waiting period, large fees, and you must be apart of a shooting club to get “permission” to have a gun for “shooting purposes.”

In 1997 under the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 private gun ownership in the United Kingdom became illegal. All British subjects had to turn in their firearms. Did you know that even the United Kingdom’s Olympic Shooters can’t train in their own country? They have to go to neighboring countries that allow private gun ownership to train so they can represent their country to the world, but as long as it isn’t on British soil. The 2012 Summer Olympics this ban will be lifted ONLY for shooting events in the Olympics, but not for British citizens.

Here is a news report about the gun registrations and then gun bans in both the United Kingdom and their former colony of Australia:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1c_1228321106

And just coming to my attention this evening was that Canada, our northern neighbor, passed a law (C-68) that as of 1 January 2001 all guns must be registered in the Canadian Firearm Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Canada#Laws_and_regulation), failure to do so results in no more guns and off to jail for you. Canadians can still purchase a firearm as long as you wait for your Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) and be a member of a certified range. “Canada's federal laws also restrict the ability of persons, including most security guards, to carry restricted or prohibited firearms in public, although generally carrying non-restricted firearms is permitted (although subject to other restrictions such breaching the peace if carried in manner that might alarm bystanders, such as in a city setting).”

Watch this video on Gun Control in Canada and tell me this can’t happen in America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrqT9SIkQw

Now we show that gun control and gun registration isn’t a thing of the past, it has happened in three different countries in the last thirteen years. All three countries have already seen an increase in crime rates since they have instituted their bans on private gun ownership. Why? Because the law-biding citizens have given up the fight and have turned in their guns, the criminals have not. Who is gun control protecting: the innocent or the guilty? If we just look to these three countries it is the criminals.

In the movie above about Gun Control in Canada you heard it from police officers/constables themselves that such laws are ridiculous and don’t work, almost “unenforceable” as one constable put it. It only disarms the innocent and protects the guilty. Now here are a few other videos from ABC News series “Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity with John Stossel” that look at gun control right here in the United States:

Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_YTM_eAWnQ

(A great part about the video about it shows that the gun ban in Washington, D.C. didn’t stop crime, it increased it!)

Gun Myths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9RN_iSKtg

What I like in these two videos is that the criminals they interview in a maximum security prison say they will still carry a gun even if the law says they can’t, that the law will not stop them.

Criminal #1 (Video 2): “When I had a gun, I didn’t care what laws they had… I’m not going into no store to buy a gun so I could care less if they had a background check or not.”

Criminal #2 (Video 2): “I bought it on the street.”

It is true that most every criminal buys their firearms on the streets on the black market. Instead of targeting gun shops and law-biding citizens with gun regulations why not focus effort on tracking down black markets and getting those guns off the “streets” (literally)?

During the 2008 Presidential Election I was talking to some individuals about then Senator B. Hussein Obama (D-IL) running for President of the United States and his anti-gun/pro-gun control record. A person that overheard our conversation said, “He isn’t going to take our guns away.” I’m sorry to say but this person is very naive.

In February of this year President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, seemed to have “jumped the gun” announcing that the President would be seeking to reinstate the “Assault Weapons Ban” that was signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1994 and that expired in ten years later in 2004 due to its “sunset clause” under President George W. Bush. As shown in the ABC News videos the assault weapons ban didn’t decrease crime, it increased it! Holder backed off as the pro-gun rights movement went on the attack, having already known it was coming and were prepared to head it off before it could go any further. Good move, Attorney General Holder, stay away from our guns!

All three countries and their citizens that I have listed have said the exact same thing: Do not believe for one second that it can’t happen in the United States because you are next. And right they are.

House Bill 45 (also known as Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009) will do exactly what has already been talked about from the British, the Aussies, and now Canadians. Not only will this bill start the process of taking private firearm ownership away but will also invade your right to privacy via your home and medical records. Here is National Association for Gun Rights Executive Director Dudley Brown about this bill:

NAGR – H.R. 45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yz6FwMJmMM

He identifies the following in this bill:

--Written exam before firearms purchase (I thought they couldn’t do this to exercise your right to vote, but they can for your right to keep and bear arms?!)

--Releases medical records (No more right to privacy there!)

--Two day waiting period

--$25 tax on any gun purchase (More taxes! YEAH!)

--A National Database of Firearms Owners (just like Soviet Union and Nazi Germany!)

--Massive, new penalties against the firearms industry (Destroying capitalism?)

--A Federal ban on any private gun sales (No more grandpa’s giving a .22 rifle to their grandkids and teaching them to shoot!)

Now I will be honest that I haven’t read the whole bill (I let groups like NAGR do that for me most of the time) and I will be looking it over soon myself. A myth I have heard about this bill (that I will verify at a later date if it is myth or fact) is that it will allow the police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) to come in and make sure your firearms are locked up and out reach of children. Now if they aren’t (like I have a firearm right now on my desk that stays there, but won’t be there after my first child is born in April 2010) they can hull your butt off to jail and say goodbye to your Second Amendment right along with all your other rights.

This looks like liberty and freedom to me! NOT!

In April of this year President Obama went to Mexico and came back with a little unknown treaty that would institute a national gun registration to help in the “War on Drugs and Cartel” in Mexico because some say that the cartels are getting their guns from the United States and shipping them back to Mexico. So to protect Mexico the American people will suffer.

Obama Pushes Anti-Gun Treaty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9X2VbhSH9o

In Article VI of the United States Constitution it states in the second paragraph, quote: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every States shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any States to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

The watered down version of this part of the Constitution: If the Senate ratifies the treaty it will create a national gun registration without the vote of the House of Representatives or debate by The People. How damaging is that?! Is that what the Founding Fathers wanted with this part of the Constitution? I am attending a six-week class called “Know Your Constitution” and instructor Sheryl Devereaux says, no, it isn’t. This part of the Constitution is about the safety and security of the United States, mainly in regard to treaties to end conflicts.

At this same class when we were talking about the Second Amendment one individual said she would like to see assault weapons banned and out of the hands of citizens. I had to pipe up and say that we can’t allow even that to happen because if you give the anti-gun movement an inch they will take a mile. Any gun legislation is bad because it just keeps opening the door for the gun control and anti-gun movement to get in a little further and further. We have seen it in England, Australia, and Canada. We can’t give them anything because if we do, if we let our guard down, amen to our rights!

There are a few lines I like to use when people ask me why I carry a firearm:

“Because I can’t carry a cop.”

“When seconds count the police are just minutes away.”

“A gun in the hand is better then a cop on the phone.”

There is a coming storm and it is just off the coast of the United States. We see the storm coming from Mexico, we see the storm from Washington D.C., we see it in state capitals across the United States, there is a storm coming. We must head it off as quickly and as fast as possible, just as hotshots in California Wildfires do.

The Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime!
The Fact: It Increase Crime!

The Myth: Gun Control Will Make Our Streets Safer!
The Fact: It Will Make Our Streets More Dangerous!

The Myth: The Second Amendment Is A Thing Of the Past!
The Fact: The Second Amendment Is Alive And Well In The 21st Century!

The Myth: Pay No Attention To The Man Beyond The Curtain!
The Fact: Throw That Curtain Open And Watch With Both Eyes! (Unless he is in the shower, then keep it shut.)

The Myth: H.R. 45 Will Never Pass!
The Fact: That Is What They Said In Australia, England, And Canada! If Unchecked It Will Pass!

The Second Amendment protects all of our other rights. It is The People’s Check on the government!

Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

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