grampster
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I sent this off to the local newspaper after reading
the latest issue of "America's First Freedom"
There are people who tell you gun bans work, that the banning of firearms reduces crime and makes people safer. The Brady Bill has kept 1,000,000 guns out of the hands of criminals.
Professor Gary A Mauser of Canada's Simon Fraser University recently studied the impact of gun bans in Canada, Australia, England. He not only looked at gun crime but all crime. What he found was that in England and Australia violent crime increased by double digits and in Canada it remained the same. Billions were spent and freedom and safety were lost not only on the street, but in the home.
Conversely, in America since 1991, the percentage of population in Right-to- Carry states has gone from 30% to 60% and the number of Right-to-Carry states has doubled to 37. The number of privately owned guns also grew by 70 million. What has been the effect? Violent crime has been cut 35%, dropping every single year! Guns are used defensively four times more frequently than to commit crimes. Jailhouse interviews with inmates tell us that criminals fear armed citizens more than armed police.
As for the Brady Bill, even the Brady gun grabbers cannot sustain their point of view. They cannot point to one study that says that the so-called denial of firearms to 1,000,000 people actually kept a firearm out of the hands of a felon. The Department of Justice statistics merely alludes to "denials" from background checks, nothing about criminals. In fact, Drs. Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig, gun control advocates, published a study for the Journal Of The American Medical Association concluding that the Brady Bill is a failure.
The evidence appears to be overwhelming. Disarmed citizens are at risk. Armed citizens are not and the criminals fear them. The question is......Why is there still a debate about this?
grampster
the latest issue of "America's First Freedom"
There are people who tell you gun bans work, that the banning of firearms reduces crime and makes people safer. The Brady Bill has kept 1,000,000 guns out of the hands of criminals.
Professor Gary A Mauser of Canada's Simon Fraser University recently studied the impact of gun bans in Canada, Australia, England. He not only looked at gun crime but all crime. What he found was that in England and Australia violent crime increased by double digits and in Canada it remained the same. Billions were spent and freedom and safety were lost not only on the street, but in the home.
Conversely, in America since 1991, the percentage of population in Right-to- Carry states has gone from 30% to 60% and the number of Right-to-Carry states has doubled to 37. The number of privately owned guns also grew by 70 million. What has been the effect? Violent crime has been cut 35%, dropping every single year! Guns are used defensively four times more frequently than to commit crimes. Jailhouse interviews with inmates tell us that criminals fear armed citizens more than armed police.
As for the Brady Bill, even the Brady gun grabbers cannot sustain their point of view. They cannot point to one study that says that the so-called denial of firearms to 1,000,000 people actually kept a firearm out of the hands of a felon. The Department of Justice statistics merely alludes to "denials" from background checks, nothing about criminals. In fact, Drs. Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig, gun control advocates, published a study for the Journal Of The American Medical Association concluding that the Brady Bill is a failure.
The evidence appears to be overwhelming. Disarmed citizens are at risk. Armed citizens are not and the criminals fear them. The question is......Why is there still a debate about this?
grampster
