One of the arguments you always hear from those who are against gun ownership, is that we need more laws to protect people from guns. You often hear them use buzz words like “high-powered” “cop killers” or “large capacity clips” to scare the public into thinking that we need more gun laws.
Do we really need more laws, or do we need to enforce the ones that are on the books?
There are already a numerous “Gun Laws” on the books
You must be 18 years of age to buy rifles and shotguns and 21 years old to purchase a handgun. This law also covers the purchase of ammunition making it illegal for anyone under 18 to buy long gun ammo and anyone under 21 to buy handgun ammo.
It is illegal to sell a gun that has its serial number removed, changed, or missing.
If someone buys multiple firearms in a single purchase, an official record is made to notify the ATF
It is illegal to sell or manufacture ammo that is explicitly made to shoot through body armor.
It is illegal for the following people to own firearms: felons, those convicted of domestic violence, mental defectives, citizens who renounce their citizenship, anyone who has been dishonorably discharged from the military, those addicted to any controlled substance, and illegal aliens.
And these are just a small number of the gun laws that have already been passed by congress. The list doesn’t take into account the many local and state laws that also prohibit where, when, and how you can carry a weapon.
What about gun safety?
This is another area that is often used by the media to scare people into thinking that “guns are bad.” But what do the actual numbers show?
- According to the National Safety Council, accidental gun fatalities are at their lowest level since 1903.
- Since 1930, the number of guns has quadrupled while the number of accidental gun related deaths has dropped by 80%.
- In the U.S. guns cause 0.5% of accidental deaths, compared to motor vehicles which cause 37% …. Should we ban cars?
Do Gun Bans make people safer?
If gun bans worked then cities like Chicago and New York would be utopias where crime has been wiped out and everyone skips through the streets giving each other high fives.
But what really happens when a city bans guns?
1966 New Jersey – New Jersey passes a law which local politicians call “the most stringent gun law” in the nation.
Results: Murder rate up 46%; Robbery rate doubles.
1976 Washington, D.C. – One of the most restrictive gun laws in the country goes into effect.
Results: Murder rate up 134%
1982 Chicago – City of Chicago passes a ban on handguns.
Results: Murders committed with handguns up 40%
1986 Maryland – Maryland passes a law banning small, inexpensive handguns knows as Saturday night specials.
Result: Murder rate increases by 20%
2005 Morton Grove Illinois – Morton Grove becomes the first city in Illinois to approve a gun ban for anyone other than police.
Result: The Cities crime rate jumps by 15.7%.
Do less restrictive Gun Laws make people safer? Let’s look at those numbers.
1987 Florida – Florida passes right-to-carry law
Result: Murder rate down 21%
1996 Texas – Texas passes right-to-carry law
Result: Murder rate 30% lower than before the law was passed.
2001 Michigan – Michigan passes right-to-carry law
Result: Murder rate down 4%.
And what did the Founders have to say?
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
— George Washington
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed — unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
–James Madison
“The great objective is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
–Patrick Henry
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
George Mason
“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms”
Samuel Adams
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them.”
Richard Henry Lee
We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.
Patrick Henry
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence.”
George Washington
some things I would like to say:
1. Notice that the gun statue w/ the twisted barrel is modeled after a colt python w/ an 8inch barrel.
2. I believe that the 2nd Amendment is the only thing that holds America together, and w/out it we would erupt into chaos.
3. Not counting our nation’s military, American citizens make up one of the largest armys in the world (why do you think the terrorists havent executed a mass invasion of America).
4. While Anti-gin polititions spout that phrase “90% of all weapons that Mexican cartels aquire, comes from America”, this is incorrect information from the Mexican government which is payed off by the cartels.
5. Anti-gun polititions apparently don’t know that the black market exists.
6. I also believe that guns are tools.
7. The UN includes the Armalite AR-15 and Barret M82 in their ban, because they were quote “designed to kill human beings”. This information is incorrect, both the AR-15 and M82 were originally designed FOR CIVILIANS BY CIVILIANS, they were also both adopted by the U.S. Military, however a certain bolt action military rifle (actually designed for killing human beings), is not banned.
8. Someone needs to ask anti-gun ppl. why they are against guns. The answer would probably be something like a past experience in their lives.
9. While there is no such thing as “right” opinions, there are factual opinions (knowing the facts).
10. Have the individuals against guns, PROVE their point.
-Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war let it begin here.
Captain John Parker, commander of the militiamen at Lexington, Massachusetts, on siting British Troops (attributed), April 19, 1775
-Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book, 1774-1776
-The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
-The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, Bill of Rights, December 15, 1791
-Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
A Pennsylvanian, The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788
-[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.
Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, No.18, January 25, 1778
-[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.
Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 25, 1778
– And I’ve saved the best (and most important) for last…
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Amen !!!!!
I have a question, what if a 19 year old has, say a Kel-Tec SUB2000, can he still buy the ammo for a rifle that uses pistol ammo? Or does he have to do a “straw purchase” to get ammo?
One of the very few things that makes Canadian gun laws slightly better than the US, 18, bought my first handgun, though I did need a licence
I think more people need to remember the first gun law. It is called the Militia Act of 1796. It says that all able-bodied males from 18 to 45 is required to purchase and maintain a firearm. I challenge anyone to show this as being repealed. The second amendment only recognizes what is pre-ordained by GOD. It is a God given RIGHT to own a firearm and this was unequivocally recognized by the framers of the constitution. I don’t care what you call your God but it is still your RIGHT. Open Carry all the time. Only criminals hide their guns.
i will not surrender my freedom. i will not give in to a goverment whom want control of it people and to enslave them. i servered the u.s.army in nam and by hell i will not give up. never never never give up. where i stand with my fellow americans are stand alone. never give up never give in. when we stand before god and accound for what we did with this life and account to the founding fathers what we did with our liberty and freedom i will not be ashamed and hide. i will stand.
doomer
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You know what? Figure it out!
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well guys i think the goverment is well on the way of makeing laws to take away the 2nd amendment. but on the other hand many americans have risen up to fight and fight hard to stop the actions of so many few. in n.y. state where they have ban the big black rifle ( ar 15) 90% of the people of that state have refused to give up the weapon. all right hang in there and keep on fighting. many city in washington ( where my son lives) are refuseing to obey the law of surrender of simi auto weapons. they though makeing weed leagle would make the people more likely to give up their weapons. not so true right guys.
i started peppering 30 years ago, just starting off as food storage and putting away the things my family would needed. after a while i found out it will be much more than that and started puting away medical,water,weapons,ammo,solar,knifes,power,recharabal batterys, water,oh i said that, reloading supplys, ( food falls into 3 types, long (wheat,rice,corn) comfort (can good normaly used now) and useable ( freez dryed and such) we must prepair as much right now as we can for i think the much worse is to come.
remember never never never give up. prepair now before it is too late.
mikkel ( doomer)
Is it against the law in NC for a private citizen to sell a Russian AK 47 with ammunition ?