Do gun bans really work?

Date:   12/16/2012 7:41:08 PM ( 12 y ago)

THE 10 MOST EXPLOSIVE GUN CONTROL FACTS:

How to Save Lives

• 1) What is the common feature of these shocking, mass attacks? They take place where guns are banned.

• 2) Take the Aurora, Colorado movie theater example: there were seven movie theaters showing the movie Batman within a 20-minute drive of where the killer lived.

Key note *** He didn't go to the movie theater closest to his home. He didn't go to the movie theater with the largest audience. He went to the one movie theater -- the only one -- that posted a sign that banned concealed handguns from the theater.

• 3) Look at gun bans more generally: Now if you look at bans generally, you can't point to any place, { Chicago and Washington, D.C. }, where we have banned guns with any positive results. Instead, murder rates and violent crimes went up after gun control was put in place! In the U.K. and Jamaica, Ireland, island nations that have banned guns -- you can't find any place where murder rates have actually gone down. They have continued to go up usually by large amounts.

• 4) Let's look at gun-free zones hypothetically on a personal level: " Let's say someone was stalking you. " This person is threatening violence against you and your family. Would you feel safer putting a sign in front of your home that read, "This home is a gun-free zone"?

Would that deter someone intent on violence from your residence -- or encourage one? Actually the latter is true; because, no sane person would put a sign like that in front of their home. Yet some businesses and offices think posting such a sign, at movie theaters and malls will help -- when common sense would tell you how stupid this is. It is like inviting any scatter brain or person with a grudge to stop by!

• 5) True Fact: Rather than repelling criminals, gun bans actually encourage violence. Gun-free zones guarantee the malevolent criminal that victims can't defend themselves.

• 6) The reason these mass attacks occur is because the killer wants to commit suicide in a spectacular way! If you read the notes they leave or their diaries, if you watch their videos, you'll find that -- time after time -- they want to kill themselves in a way that will make people notice them. In their sick minds, they want to go out in a blaze of violence that will have people pay attention to them.

In these mass attacks, 75 percent of the time the killers die at the scene; the other 25 percent they planned on dying, but they couldn't bring themselves to finish the act of suicide, or are stopped by police. {It is too bad that they do not just commit suicide before attempting to kill others!}

• 7) These people want to get media attention. They know that the more people they kill, the more media attention they'll get. So they target the places where they can kill as many people as possible. And they're planning these things months and months in advance. {If the news media would stop broadcasting the events and making " Big Hype " out of senseless tragedy, then these off balance glory hounds would stop seeking this attention!}

• 8) Should schools have armed guards? We should learn something from Israel. Israel has had a terrorist problem since the forties. For years they tried to do just that - have more police, more military, more armed security guards and they discovered they simply didn't have enough money. Terrorists have huge strategic advantages to patiently find weak points. It is too involved and expensive!

The better ides is starting in the early seventies, Israel finally realized they couldn't flood areas with enough military or police. They instead began permitting citizens to carry concealed weapons. About 15 percent of citizens are so licensed. Where as citizens with concealed weapons give two different scenarios:

1A) first no one is sure exactly who they are.

2A) they are on the scene therefore have a better understand who the students & facility are and can access the strangers who threaten the school!

At the time of the Virginia Tech shooting, something similar was attempted. Before the shooting, you had about one police officer for every 80 acres of campus. After the attack, it was one officer for every 40 acres. It doesn't scale.
{ Besides it is a waste of resources for both the police and military guards = who are easy to spot and avoid } This has nothing to do with the duty or performance of either, just the facts at hand!

** You see this in the methodical way these killers choose locations where people cannot defend themselves.



• 9) Do gun bans really work?

Not really: The natural reaction is to say, "If I can just get rid of the gun, I can stop bad things from happening." While this is a good idea in actually it does not work! Because you can't think about all of the unintended consequences, you can not prevent or stop such things from happening - it is impossible to have perfect always safe environment here upon the earth!

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What about all of the successful defensive uses of guns?

It has been proven over and over that armed citizens have prevented or stopped crimes often with out even firing the weapons once the perpetrator found out they were armed! Generally the insane , loose cannon manics wants an easy target; not an armed person to attack!

More importantly, how can you prevent evil individuals from getting guns? {No way! Because like drugs where there is a demand there is someone who willing to sell you one!} Most importantly you can't find a country around the world that ever imposed a gun ban where murder rates actually fell after the ban. Or where guns have disappeared or became unavailable! Simply does not exist!

Even island nations -- you would think these would be the ideal experiment -- even with gun bans it has been impossible to prevent criminal gangs from bringing in guns, drugs, and other contraband. DUH!
{If this were true then Hawaii, Jamaica, Ireland, the UK and Porto Rico should be Drug & Murder free! But it is not so!}

It's the good, law-abiding citizens which are impacted most by gun bans, not criminals. To the extent that you disarm law-abiding citizens and not the violent, you find the perverse result that things get worse.
** This occurred in Washington, DC and Chicago. After their gun bans, violent crime and murder rates spiked. {When will the Government learn this fact?}

The question you have to ask yourself about gun laws: who are you most likely to disarm: the law-abiding citizen or the criminal? Remember the criminals do not obey the laws to begin with, so why do you think they will start now?

The gun-free zone provides a clear field for evil to carry out mass murder. It creates sitting ducks for violence. Those who push gun control may mean well (or not), but they haven't thought through what they want to do.

If gun-control zealots could point to even a few countries where gun bans lowered murder rates, they might have a legitimate argument. Why? Because they can't, there are none, because they don't exist.

• 10) Europe has about the same rate of public shootings per capita as the U.S., yet it has far more draconian gun regulations. Germany, which has two of the worst with four school shootings, plus has a year-long waiting period with two psychological screens in order to get a fire arm. But when you have people who will take months to plan attacks, and are willing to die to pull the attacks off, they will not be deterred. So it does not seem to be working out!

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Now some real solutions:

If you want to stop these attacks, you can take two actions:

(1B) The media can stop giving publicity to these killers. The media shouldn't name the killers. This would reduce to a large extent the motivation for the attacks. {Amen!}

(2B) We must reduce and eliminate "gun-free zones". Since 1950, with but one exception, all public shootings with three or more victims were attacked; have all taken place in venues where guns were banned. The theater shooting, the Sikh Temple shooting, the school shootings, you go down the list and in each case, the gun-free zone is the place the deranged killers always choose.

3B) Conclusion advertising a gun free zones just encourages the unbalanced and insane or deranged to attack there!


{From the following article}


Via Professor John Lott, the world's foremost expert on the impact of gun control laws on society. Paraphrased from an interview on The Mark Levin Show.


 

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