In
2011, 8,583 fatalities
resulted from firearms. Of those, 6,220 were from handguns, 323 were
from rifles, and 356 were from shotguns. 1,694 fatalities
were caused by knives or cutting instruments, 496 were from blunt
objects, and 728 people were beaten to death by hands, fists, or
feet.
An
assault rifle is an automatic weapon, primarily used by
military or police forces with the sole purpose of killing other
human beings. These weapons are widely criticized by the American
public because they are not generally used for hunting, sport
shooting, or self defense. The beauty is, assault rifles have been
banned for 30 years.
Assault
weapons on the other hand, are semi-automatic firearms that function
the same as any other socially acceptable weapons (hunting, sport
shooting, or self defense), but have similar cosmetic features as
those that are used by the military or police forces. In other words,
they are scary looking because they take advantage of technological
advances of our time.
Spokespeople
that support gun control are taking advantage of the ignorance of the
average American people when it comes to guns. They want to use the
term “assault weapon” to scare you into thinking that it is
something that it is not.
The
Virginia Tech massacre was the deadliest school shooting in our
nation's history. The gunman shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17
others. Surely he used those scary assault weapons, right? Nope. He
used two handguns.
High
capacity magazines are another joke that they are trying to sell on
the American people. Since the overwhelming majority of firearms
deaths in the United States are committed with hand guns, they must
be talking about those, right? More than likely not though, since the
average number of rounds in a handgun magazine is already 10 or less.
Most handguns cannot even support that many. At
Virginia Tech, the shooter had a backpack with 19 full magazines in
it. Would things have been different if all the magazines had only 10
rounds (which they almost all did, already)? Probably not. What about
Columbine? Certainly that would have made a difference, right? They
had 16 magazines and most of the deaths were attributed to a
sawed-off shotgun.
This
assault weapon ban is new and will cut down on all future firearms
deaths though, right? Wrong again. As the President would say, “we've
tried his way, and it didn't work”. The previous assault weapon ban
was active between 1994 and 2004. Did it cut down on firearms deaths
then? According to a study conducted by the National Research Council
in 2004, academic studies of the assault weapon ban "did not
reveal any clear impacts on gun violence" and also said "due
to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were
used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the
ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small.” Oh, but we will
do it more effectively this time, right? Nope. President Obama is
asking for the exact same ban to be reenacted.
This
whole thing isn't really about guns or even about safety. It is about
the systematic removal of the rights that make this country what it
started as. It is about the gradual increase in big government
control and how they are effectively convincing us that it is not
only okay, but done for the better of society. We are being dooped
and most of us don't even know that it is happening. But hey, they
talked us into reelecting Obama, right? We have a system of
government in place that no longer allows us to pick the best people
to lead us. Instead, we are given a choice between two people who we
are most likely to vote for. Americans are enabling this type of
management and most of us don't even know it. This is the reason that
I do not claim to be a member of the Republican party anymore. I want
people who are chosen because they are the best suited for the job.
Stay tuned for a video on the topic.
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