http://www.issues2000.org/2000/Alan_Keyes_Gun_Control.htm
Alan Keyes on Gun Control
No federal role in gun safety-leave it to states & parents
Q: What do you propose to protect children from injury or death from firearms?
A: There is almost no proper federal role in the area of firearms safety. Legislation concerning responsibility for negligence has traditionally, and properly, fallen to the states. Irresponsibility of parents with regard to firearms is part of the question of the general responsibility, or lack thereof, of parents. As a people, we must honor and foster a recovery of personal and political self-government.
Source: National Association of Children’s Hospitals survey Jan 8, 2000
Teach high school students to use guns
Speaking at the Gun Owners of New Hampshire’s presidential forum, Keyes’ proposal that high school students be taught how to use guns went over well.
Source: Boston Globe, p. A23 Dec 17, 1999
Columbine killers lacked moral development - not gun laws
The gun control mentality is that guns are in control of situations, and when we see kids like those in Columbine High School, we shouldn’t see human beings who have gone off the right moral road because their consciences and self-discipline have not been properly developed. Instead, we should see guns in control of the situation, and then we should react against the guns. “Gun violence†should be called human violence, leaving us at least the dignity of being responsible for our own sins.
Source: (Cross-ref from Juvenile Crime) WorldNetDaily “Standing on p Jun 14, 1999
Gun control is an outcome of godless materialism
The premise of the gun control agenda is that people can’t control things, but that things control people. At the root of the gun control agenda, as with the sex education agenda and so many other liberal agendas, is a denial of our moral nature. And that denial of our moral nature rests ultimately on a denial of the existence of God and of a relationship between God and human things. So the gun control agenda is a natural outcome of the agenda of godless materialism.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle†May 14, 1999
Control people’s passions - not the things they use
[Gun control proponents] propose controlling the things we use, as if this will control people. Violence is not a function of the things; it’s a function of the heart. If the heart is wrong, then violence will come out of the heart as a consequence -- and if a gun isn’t handy, a machete will do. What is in control is not the thing, but the human being that allows his evil passions to control his actions, and thus lead to the awful situations we have seen from Indonesia to Littleton.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle†May 14, 1999
Against banning guns since that won’t end violence.
Consider the phony assertion that certain weapons should be banned because “they have no purpose except to kill people.†This debate is not about certain kinds of weapons that kill people; all kinds of weapons can kill. It is people that kill people, and they can use countless kinds of weapons to do so, if killing is in their hearts. If we want to end violence in our land, we must warm the hearts of this people with a renewed dedication to the God-given equality of all human beings.
Source: www.keyes2000.org/issues/secondamendment.html 1/7/99 Jan 7, 1999
Supports right to bear arms for all types and uses of guns.
The 2nd Amendment was not put into the Constitution by the Founders merely to allow us to intimidate burglars, or hunt rabbits to our hearts’ content. The Founders added the 2nd Amendment so that when, after a long train of abuses, a government evinces a methodical design upon our natural rights, we will have the means to protect and recover our rights. That is why the right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights.
Source: www.keyes2000.org/issues/secondamendment.html 1/7/99 Jan 7, 1999
No bans on legal firearms; allow concealed carry
Eliminate all bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from owning legally obtained firearms; Allow law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed firearm that is legally owned and registered.
Alan Keyes on Gun Control
No federal role in gun safety-leave it to states & parents
Q: What do you propose to protect children from injury or death from firearms?
A: There is almost no proper federal role in the area of firearms safety. Legislation concerning responsibility for negligence has traditionally, and properly, fallen to the states. Irresponsibility of parents with regard to firearms is part of the question of the general responsibility, or lack thereof, of parents. As a people, we must honor and foster a recovery of personal and political self-government.
Source: National Association of Children’s Hospitals survey Jan 8, 2000
Teach high school students to use guns
Speaking at the Gun Owners of New Hampshire’s presidential forum, Keyes’ proposal that high school students be taught how to use guns went over well.
Source: Boston Globe, p. A23 Dec 17, 1999
Columbine killers lacked moral development - not gun laws
The gun control mentality is that guns are in control of situations, and when we see kids like those in Columbine High School, we shouldn’t see human beings who have gone off the right moral road because their consciences and self-discipline have not been properly developed. Instead, we should see guns in control of the situation, and then we should react against the guns. “Gun violence†should be called human violence, leaving us at least the dignity of being responsible for our own sins.
Source: (Cross-ref from Juvenile Crime) WorldNetDaily “Standing on p Jun 14, 1999
Gun control is an outcome of godless materialism
The premise of the gun control agenda is that people can’t control things, but that things control people. At the root of the gun control agenda, as with the sex education agenda and so many other liberal agendas, is a denial of our moral nature. And that denial of our moral nature rests ultimately on a denial of the existence of God and of a relationship between God and human things. So the gun control agenda is a natural outcome of the agenda of godless materialism.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle†May 14, 1999
Control people’s passions - not the things they use
[Gun control proponents] propose controlling the things we use, as if this will control people. Violence is not a function of the things; it’s a function of the heart. If the heart is wrong, then violence will come out of the heart as a consequence -- and if a gun isn’t handy, a machete will do. What is in control is not the thing, but the human being that allows his evil passions to control his actions, and thus lead to the awful situations we have seen from Indonesia to Littleton.
Source: WorldNetDaily “Standing on principle†May 14, 1999
Against banning guns since that won’t end violence.
Consider the phony assertion that certain weapons should be banned because “they have no purpose except to kill people.†This debate is not about certain kinds of weapons that kill people; all kinds of weapons can kill. It is people that kill people, and they can use countless kinds of weapons to do so, if killing is in their hearts. If we want to end violence in our land, we must warm the hearts of this people with a renewed dedication to the God-given equality of all human beings.
Source: www.keyes2000.org/issues/secondamendment.html 1/7/99 Jan 7, 1999
Supports right to bear arms for all types and uses of guns.
The 2nd Amendment was not put into the Constitution by the Founders merely to allow us to intimidate burglars, or hunt rabbits to our hearts’ content. The Founders added the 2nd Amendment so that when, after a long train of abuses, a government evinces a methodical design upon our natural rights, we will have the means to protect and recover our rights. That is why the right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights.
Source: www.keyes2000.org/issues/secondamendment.html 1/7/99 Jan 7, 1999
No bans on legal firearms; allow concealed carry
Eliminate all bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from owning legally obtained firearms; Allow law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed firearm that is legally owned and registered.
