Bangity bang.

Editor's note... I was surprised to find that I had posted this. I guess I ought to look at prior postings before re-posting the same idea... then again this is an important issue.. Originally this post was made on,Sunday, February 8, 2009


Today I want to talk about gun control.

I occasionally wonder about the lack of common sense I see around me. One area where I find common sense to really be lacking is in the area of Gun control!

Proponents for gun control insist that by controlling guns crime will be reduced. My response is " what world are you living in??? !!! I mean come on here! really if you take away honest citizens guns then crime will go down???" I think not!

If you make a law to control guns then who will give up their guns? law abiding people.
The term Law abiding means "people who follow the law!"

Do criminals follow the law? NO! the word criminal refers to someone who breaks the law!

I guess I have to spell this one out for people though... Crime is committed BY
C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-S.

what do you expect the criminal to say... "oh I was going to use a gun to rob that convenience store but oops apparently NOW it is "illegal to have a gun... oh well."???

I recently found out that statistics point out that somewhere around 450,000 crimes a year are committed with a gun. that is a figure that makes people go "see see told you." But wait there is more to the story!
On average over 2,000,000 VIOLENT crimes a year are STOPPED BY SOMEONE WITH A GUN!

So there are two MILLION crimes that are stopped PER YEAR by the possession of handguns.

There are four hundred and fifty THOUSAND Crimes committed with handguns.

And let's be honest... Even if you could enforce gun laws, criminals who don't have the possibility of owning a handgun would still NOT be deterred from committing crimes. They would simply prey on whoever was weaker than they are or they would group together to take out easier targets.

Now for a few little known facts...

Hitler implemented gun control laws prior to subjecting people to concentration camps.
(They could not defend themselves because they had no guns.)

Areas that have a high gun ownership rate amongst their populace have lower crime levels.

Hawai'i implemented gun bans and saw their crime rate skyrocket. (so did Washington D.C., Chicago, Britain, Ireland, Australia...)

So please people let's start thinking again. let's make "common sense" Common again.
Posted by Colt at Sunday, February 08, 2009