Gun Control is hitting your target.....

Everytime that the second amendment is introduced into the argument, liberals love to try to convince everyone that it was not meant for the individual but rather for the states. Considering that the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights pertain to the individual should we assume that this idea is correct?? As a conservative I think not. But then again perhaps I am wrong and the liberal interpretation is correct, the second amendment applies to the state, and if that is true that would also mean that the other nine amendments also only apply to the states.

Also the idea that the second amendment was needed because the militia need the right to bear arms to defend against the British, shows a severe lack of historical knowledge. Refresher, the Battle of Yorktown occurred in 1781, which for all practical purposes ended the Revolutionary War. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, officially ending the war. THe Bill of rights, which included the second amendment was not ratified until 1789....I don't think it had anything to do with the British!!!!

By definition, a criminal is one who commits illegal acts. Making guns illegal will keep them in the hands of the criminals, and leave the citizen defenseless. I will not argue with the circular reasoning of the liberal on this point. Guns don't kill people, a person is needed to pull the trigger. Nor will I argue with the facts that we have a violent society. We do, we see it everyday, and for the most part we have become immune to it. But there is one statistic that is often overlooked, mainly because all too often it goes unreported, and this has been stated by the FBI who maintain most of the statistics, and that is how many times a day a gun is used to prevent a crime.

When the several of the states tried to enact right to carry laws, we heard the claims of how the states would revert to the wild west days of old, yet this has failed to occur. In every state one statistic has declined, and that is violent crimes against the individual. By allowing the citizen to protect themselves, it has made it harder on the criminal to do their jobs, because unlike in the past, they never know who is packing. Washington DC has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, yet time and again it is at the top of the list of murders per capita. Gun control is only helping the criminal.

Some like to argue that there are too many accidental deaths with guns, considering in 2002 there were 4000 accidental deaths and considering there are some 8,000,000 million gun owners that equates to a 1/2000 ration. In the same year there were some 120,000 accidental deaths caused by doctors, consider there were some 800,000 doctors that equates to a 1/8 ratio, should we outlaw doctors?????

It is not that there are too many guns, it is that there are too many guns in the hands of criminals. The answer is not to take away the guns from the citizens, but to punish the criminals. Rehabilitation does not seem to work in prison. Let's quit coddling them, and make them work or go to school while in prison. The military has it right on this issue, manual labor, let 'em pound big rocks into little rocks. When someone is sentenced to prison, first they should feel as if it is a punishment, and then we should work on their rehabilitation.

dmk