40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL - 2

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' advertise-
  ments 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.

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