I heard this one today at another forum.
If this has already been posted, and I just don't remember, my apologies.
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1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and 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 advise about guns, just like Guns and 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, 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 arms..." 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.
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