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Gun Rights and Arguments Against Them Are Founded in Fear and Misinformation. Where Gun Rights Are Preserved, Crime Decreases. Restrictive Gun Rights Encourage Crime.

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Gun rights and arguments to against them them are many and varied, but how reasonable are the arguments calling for restrictive and excessive gun control?

We know the ruling class wants an easily managed citizen. Is this why they call for gun control?

This article will present these arguments and expose their embedded fallacies.

The first issue that most antigun advocates wheel out is that guns don’t prevent crime.

In Missouri recently, they passed a law requiring municipalities to issue conceal and carry permits. As a result murders decreased 3%, rapes dropped 2%, and robberies declined 2%.

This is proof positive that an armed citizenry lowers crime levels anywhere gun restrictions are relaxed. Consider it from the other side also.

The Commonwealth of Virginia passed a law in 2006 that made it illegal to carry a gun on college campuses within the state.

On April 16, 2007, Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people before turning the gun on himself.

These students were sitting ducks, completely unable to protect themselves from a madman with a gun.

How would the nation remember that day differently if, for instance, the hero of the day, Liviu Librescu had a handgun with which to protect his students instead of merely a door lock?

Many of the questions and issues surrounding gun rights and arguments against them are borne of fear and ignorance.

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Guns and Children

The second round of gun rights and arguments come from organizations like the “Million Mom March”.

Apparently, if you own a gun and have children, you are an unfit parent who is placing them in imminent danger.

Never mind that as children, our forefathers hunted along side their parents in an era when everyone had guns in their homes.

The problem is that liberals mystify guns, and children are curious of mysteries.

Every year, G. Gordon Liddy’s family gets together for a Fourth of July celebration.

And every year, the family treks down a hill to a firing range to unload some ammunition, right down to his 4 and 5 year old grandchildren.

Since Mr. Liddy is a felon, Mrs. Liddy boasts quite the collection.

The point is, by taking these kids and showing them what firearms do and the damage they inflict, they learn to use them properly, under supervision.

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Emotional Propaganda

The next thing you need to understand about gun rights and arguments against them, is that they will tug at your heartstrings for effect.

Throw out the facts; throw out the statistics that prove societies with an armed population is safer.

They want to parade the tragedy of illegal gun violence to show you that no one should have weapons.

This is a ploy to disarm, and therefore more easily control the citizenry.

By this logic, the United States government should outlaw or regulate kitchen knives, pick axes, and shovels. All have been implements of murder.

The truth is, when it comes to guns and violence, you have to look at it from a purely objective point of view.

Bad people do bad things with guns, and with drugs, and with dogs, and the list goes on.

Statistically, conceal and carry laws prevent violence everywhere they are enacted.

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