Another excellent piece by Emily Miller of The Washington Times. Yes, it's from the Opinion section, but she shares many of the same facts I've been mentioning here for months to combat the lies and misinformation being spread by the gun control advocates.
Are 2nd Amendment supporters getting through? The polls are showing significant change in that direction. There's still more work to do though. The attacks are not over. Sign the petitions opposing these gun control measures. Write your politicians and tell them to oppose these new proposals and demand that any conversation about increased gun control be one of openness, honesty and the "common sense" and "reason" called for by the hypocritical gun control advocates who are employing anything but these qualities.
Here's are some points from the article that I've made more than once:
"The problem with all the polling on Second Amendment issues is that the surveys don’t give enough detail on terminology, so respondents are using their knowledge from the massive public relations battle waged by Mr. Obama and paid for by New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg."
"Another follow up question would go to weeding out the misconception that there are “assault weapons” on the streets. ...this month, Mr. Obama released a statement commending the upper chamber for regulating “these weapons of war.” He went on to say that these rifles have “are designed for the battlefield, and they have no place on our streets, in our schools, or threatening our law enforcement officers.”
But according to Mrs. Feinstein herself, there are an average 35 people in the U.S. killed each year by rifles with these characteristics. ... I’ve not been able to find any law enforcement officers killed by rifles with those characteristics."
"The ABC poll also asked: “Would you support or oppose a law requiring background checks on people buying guns at gun shows?” This question gets an astounding 91 percent support.
I’d suggest that this is because Mr. Obama gives the impression that this is a bigger public safety issues than it is. As he said in January, calling for a long list of gun restrictions, “It’s hard to enforce that [FBI background check] law when as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check. That’s not safe. That’s not smart.”
The president gets this number from a Justice Department study released in 1997 that showed that 40 percent of guns were transferred privately (the president rounds up from 38 percent.) Even assuming the respondents in the study told the truth to a government agency calling them at home, the number is misleading to cite. Of the 38 percent, 22 percent were received from a family member and 12 percent from a friend.
That leaves the remaining 4 percent buying at a gun show. A study by the Treasury Department showed that 75 percent of vendors at gun shows are federally licensed firearms dealers — meaning they run the FBI check at the time of sale. So that leaves one percent of private citizens who make an occasional sale of a firearm at a gun show."
"And it’s not as if this is a major source for criminals getting weapons. The Justice Department surveyed state and federal prison inmates about where they got the gun used in the crimes for which they were convicted. Only 0.7 percent of the bad guys claimed to have bought their weapon at a gun show."
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March 28, 2013
Let's hope that America is indeed irreversibly "pro gun" as suggested by the title of this article. After all, guns were responsible for the birth of this great country. What's that you say? It wasn't the "gun", it was the Founding Fathers who gave birth to our country? Hmmm. Perhaps I'm confused on this issue. How can 'people' be responsible for what they did with guns when it was for good but at the same time the 'gun' is blamed for the evil people do with them? Isn't there a contradiction or some hypocrisy built in there? Go after the criminals with guns and leave our Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights alone. Stop infringing on that which, in the words of our Founding Fathers, "shall not be infringed".
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576707/is-america-irreversibly-pro-gun/
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