On "gun control"

5 March, 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFBsFDN1LUg

People who think that widespread gun ownership is the reason for violence haven't thought through the situation at all. Humans are violent - there's no other way to put it. Without guns, people would still be subject to violence from other people using any number of tools. Hear what this immigrant from Venezuala has to say on the subject.

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2 January, 2016:
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2015/12/21/book-excerpt-gun-control-in-the-third-reich/ Essentially, governments tend to disarm their citizens immediately before massacre/genocide. We have severe economic problems which are currently being masked over by our government. Social Security and Medicare will be bankrupt soon, with the different funds projected to be entirely drained between 2028 and 2034 (various funds are projected to go bankrupt at different times). When that happens, many people are going to go hungry, and they are going to be very angry due to the poor management of the money which was seized from their paychecks with the promise that they would have money when they got older. Instead, many other agencies are "borrowing" from these funds with no way to replace the money.

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7 Dec, 2015: No amount of laws will stop a mass killing (the killer knows he/she will die and already doesn't care - no law will stop them at that point). However, a citizen with a gun can. Here: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-driver-with-concealed-handgun-prevents-mass-shooting-in-chicago-2015-4
http://controversialtimes.com/issues/constitutional-rights/12-times-mass-shootings-were-stopped-by-good-guys-with-guns/?utm_source=AFY
http://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/
Finally, people who are insane and mean to die while killing as many as possible will inevitably prefer gun-free zones, as the people there cannot return fire, having been disarmed by their government: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/10/11/report-92-percent-of-mass-shootings-since-2009-occured-in-gun-free-zones/

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2 Sep, 2015: Every 13 seconds, a US citizen uses a gun in self-defense against a criminal.

http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/noframedex.html

I was listening to NPR Monday night, and while conspiring with each other to establish more gun control, several callers suggested mandating gun insurance. One caller even explicitly linked home burglaries with gun defense, stating that if the homeowner were forced to buy gun insurance over a period of years prior to a burglary, they most likely wouldn't want the expense, and therefore wouldn't have the gun at hand. In their twisted minds, that was a positive.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/26/survivors-of-rape-speak-out-against-gun-control-i-was-denied-the-one-equalizing-factor-that-i-had/
Simply put, these people would deny innocent civilians the right to defend themselves against armed rapists, mass killers, thugs, and thieves. It is more probable that they worry what will happen to their government positions should the safety net run out of money than that they want to protect any actual civilians' lives or property. They want government to have a massive advantage in moving people to internment camps should that happen. Nothing else makes a bit of sense.

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30 Aug, 2015:
Britain is not satisfied with the gun ban now that they have successfully disarmed their citizens. Now they want knives too. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-28/knife-murders-spiking-after-gun-ban-uk-urges-save-life-surrender-your-knife

While several high profile knife attacks have occurred in China (another country with severe anti-gun laws), these would not have happened if the many victims had tools to defend themselves.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html
http://www.mining.com/fifty-killed-in-a-knife-attack-at-a-chinese-colliery/


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30 Aug, 2015:
Britain is not satisfied with the gun ban now that they have successfully disarmed their citizens. Now they want knives too. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-28/knife-murders-spiking-after-gun-ban-uk-urges-save-life-surrender-your-knife

While several high profile knife attacks have occurred in China (another country with severe anti-gun laws), these would not have happened if the many victims had tools to defend themselves.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html
http://www.mining.com/fifty-killed-in-a-knife-attack-at-a-chinese-colliery/
Knives can be used to kill large numbers of people, but only in a disarmed society. Government can never successfully stop killings from happening. The people who think that by removing tools from others we are safer do not understand that where there's a will, there's a way. The best you can hope for is to have a means to defend yourself.

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30 Sep, 2015 (out of order, didn't add it earlier): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhyWd0ZqNs&feature=youtu.be This is an NRA ad. I fully agree. Our media organizations are dishonest, heavily biased in favor of making innocent people more in danger, and quite frankly, a danger to themselves and others.

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Link posted 29 Apr, 2015. Commentary posted to this blog 3 Jul, 2015, day before "Independence Day". May we not have to do it again. http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/20805#.VT_tOypAslI.facebook If we were ever to get into a fully "all in" scenario for gun grabbing, this is what it would look like (with many other agencies as well, like FEMA and the rest, such as the ATF, FBI, etc). I'm not sure that a governor and state militia could fully keep it from rolling, but they could definitely serve as a canary in the coal mine for the rest of us.

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16 Feb, 2015: Courageous 11 year-old girl saves herself from a criminal with a shotgun:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/preteen-girl-able-fend-off-attacker-grabbing-shotgun/
The folks (I use that term loosely) on NPR do not want that girl to have the shotgun. They want the criminal to be able to do what he will with your daughters.