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The truth about gun laws is that that more often they are targeting responsible citizens rather than those who are not responsible and often are criminal.

In every state of the Union and by almost every major univeristy in the nation has done studies about crime and gun control!

What all those studies have found is that where the citizens are well armed there is virtually no crime to speak of. What crime there is happens to be minor.

Here in Texas a little community down by Victoria allowed its citizens to do open carry which is not legal here in Texas. The city and sheriff decided that more crime could be prevented especially violent crime. The little community had out of control crime where homes were being robbed, rapes were out of hand from a few a year to a few a week! After the open carry was allowed, crime came to a halt!

Robbery dropped 99%! Rapes went from 4 a week to 2 a year! There has not be a murder in that community in 18 years since the open carry was allowed!

The truth is that people kill more criminals out of self defense protecting themselves against a crime in progress than the police by more than 60,000 a year!

The FBI and several other related fields have reported their findings about guns and gun control which you can read in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The FBI although says that criminals should never be allowed to own guns or purchase guns, that where communities which are often more rual and have a gun tradition have significantly less crime that places which have strict gun control!

The problem is that gun control beyond criminals to regulate crime only gives more power to the criminals to over power the people and do more crime!

As a black gun rights person named Thomas Sowell states that citizens are being disarmed by the government much the same way slaves were disarmed! If the slaves has access to guns, there would have been no slavery.

But the main point is that where private law abiding citizens are well armed the crime rate is exceedingly low.

If places like Washington DC, Chicago, Philidelphia and LA would promote to the law abiding citizens to arm themselves against the criminals then you would see better than 80% drop in crime in those cities.

Crime is only out of control because the criminals have nothing to fear! After all, they are armed and the most common citizens are not!

My neighbor shot a man crawling through his 7 year old son's window last year. The guy was a known meth user and was on the sex registry as a pedophile. So I tell everyone who is law abiding! Arm yourselves. Do not expect the police to be on the scence when the crime happens. Police 99% of the time only show up after the event happened. Its just rare for them to make it while the crime is in progress. Be responsible gun owners. Have gun locks and a bolted down heavy metal gun cabinate! Get yourself a concealed gun permit and go to the shooting range at least 4 times a year! Know your guns inside and out. Be able to use your gun at night! Which means requesting that your range offer realistic night shooting conditions at certain times so that you will not be scared of and know what you are doing in the dark.

This is common sense to those of us who have been around weapons all our lives. I have a permit to carry but never have had to draw my weapon. But there have been times, I was more than glad I had the gun. Simply, the act of reaching is enought to make a criminal think twice and run away!!

See:http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0210e.asp

the comment [ at bottom ] is informative regarding the the previous removals of rights to bears weapons has had very bad effects -- some of them colossal. Granted one can argue that bigger historic issues/agendas were at play in some of them, but even then state abuses of unarmed 'civilian' sectors would certainly have been difficult if not impossible to fully carry out. It is critical that the state must always be wary of some actual physical prowess of those it might choose to walk willy-nilly over. It does not take any state long to modify its behavior especially under trying circumstances. Under the constitution, it is the duty of the expressed duty of state to support the right. I found the comment in another blog site :
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" Maybe the reason Chicago public schools have such a gun violence problem is because the city of Chicago has such strict gun control laws. History shows that gun control laws do nothing more than increase lawlessness. So it's not surprising the increased lawlessness would carryover into their schools. Just consider history. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of
13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up an d exterminated. In 1938, soon after legislation took guns out of the hands of the German public, Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass" occurred. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were vandalized and 91 Jews were killed. They could not protect themselves since their guns were taken away.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated by government forces.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated people", unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
So, the number of defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th century due to gun control equals 56 million.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new laws to surrender 640,381 personal firearms. Their government, through this legislation, spent $500 million dollars in Australia taxpayer money, to destroy these guns. Their crime statistics, year after removing private ownership of guns is as follows. Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent. Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent. Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent. In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned their guns in, the criminals did not, and the criminals still possessed their guns to commit crime. While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past
12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns."

Another great hoax:
"The New American magazine reminds us that March 25th marked the 16th anniversary of Kennesaw, Georgia's ordinance requiring heads of households (with certain exceptions) to keep at least one firearm in their homes. The city's population grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996 (latest available estimate). Yet there have been only three murders: two with knives (1984 and 1987) and one with a firearm (1997). After the law went into effect in 1982, crime against persons plummeted 74 percent compared to 1981, and fell another 45 percent in 1983 compared to 1982. And it has stayed impressively low. In addition to nearly non-existent homicide (murders have averaged a mere 0.19 per year), the annual number of armed robberies, residential burglaries, commercial burglaries, and rapes have averaged, respectively, 1.69, 31.63, 19.75, and 2.00 through 1998. With all the attention that has been heaped upon the lawful possession of firearms lately, you would think that a city that requires gun ownership would be the center of a media feeding frenzy. It isn't. The fact is I can't remember a major media outlet even mentioning Kennesaw. Can you? The reason is obvious. Kennesaw proves that the presence of firearms actually improves safety and security. This is not the message that the media want us to hear. They want us to believe that guns are evil and are the cause of violence. The facts tell a different story. What is even more interesting about Kennesaw is that the city's crime rate decreased with the simple knowledge that the entire community was armed. The bad guys didn't force the residents to prove it. Just knowing that residents were armed prompted them to move on to easier targets. Most criminals don't have a death wish. There have been two occasions in my own family when the presence of a handgun averted potential disaster. In both instances the gun was never aimed at a person and no shot was fired."

By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000. This was not what some predicted.

B. Hamilton Langrehr:

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