weve probbly seen this before

>1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.
>
>2. 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.
>
>3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics
>showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics."
>
>4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into
>effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates,
>which have been declining since 1991.
>
>5. 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.
>
>6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
>
>7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot
>with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
>
>8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking
>gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
>
>9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up no defense -
>give them what they want, or run" (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete
>Shields, Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).
>
>10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about
>guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
>
>11. 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.
>
>12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which
>was created 130 years later, in 1917.
>
>13. 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.
>
>14. 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 arm" refers to the state.
>
>15. "The Constitution is strong and will never change." But we should ban
>and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments to
>that Constitution.
>

cont:

>16. Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense! Of course, the
>army has hundreds of thousands of them.
>
>17. 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.
>
>18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting,
>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.
>
>19. The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids handling
>guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch"
>campaign is responsible social activity.
>20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
>properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
>
>21. 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.
>
>22. 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."
>
>23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers
>but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
>
>24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun
>shows.
>>25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority
>of the population supported owning slaves.
>
>26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a
>"weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."
>
>27. Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which
>most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
>
>28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned
>because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use
>of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
>
>29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and
>typewriters, but self- defense only justifies bare hands.
>
>30. 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.
>
>31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is 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.

>
>32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger
>capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face criminals alone
>and therefore need less ammunition.
>
>33. We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns
>because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
>
>34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that
>private citizens can never hope to obtain.
>
>35. Private citizens don't need a gun for self- protection because the
>police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the
>police are not responsible for their protection.
>
>36. Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but police
>chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with
>cops, need a gun.
>
>37. "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of
>people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.
>
>38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential
>promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to
>buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.
>
>39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for
>defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their
>duty weapon.
>
>40. Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out of the wrong
>hands." Guess what? You have the wrong hands.

I don't know why more people are not reading this! only 22?
Although someone posted the link to this that was posted somewhere not to long ago.
Lynn

This is'nt funny,it scary because alot of anti-gunners believe alot of that stuff.
I have had quite a few brain dead soccer moms
say this garbage to me,its kinda funny,they just
keep repeating stupid phrases and messed up statics that they never looked up themselves.
One even said I could/would become a mass murder
for owning "assualt rifles","sniper rifles","assualt/riot shotguns" and "deadly handguns".


"Yea, lady,I guess because I own several high preformance vintage mustangs from the '60's and
70's I am/will be a get-away driver for bank robbers." [rolleyes]


oh,yea great thread,thanks.