I've been trying to come up with an updated "what one has to believe" list... just in time to save you all from my painful effort, Mike Williamson did it better than I ever could have... so here's his list...
It's amazing what one has to believe
to believe in gun control
by Michael Z. Williamson
KeepAndBearArms.com — It's amazing what one has to believe to believe in gun control:
That guns
are the real cause of crime, but we will blame and jail the owner of
said gun for the crime, even if the owner wasn't the person involved.
That a
mugger will kill you in the half-second it takes to draw from the
holster, but won't harm you while you dial 911 on your cell phone, talk
to the dispatcher and wait half an hour for the cops to arrive.
That gun control works, which is why there are no illegal weapons in Northern Ireland or Beirut.
That the Second Amendment only applies to flintlocks, just as the First Amendment only applies to quills and lead type.
That the proper response to an attack is to call the police, but only unarmed police, because "Violence never settles anything."
That it's wrong to make snide, sexist comments about women, unless the comments are about women who own guns.
That a gun with an 11 round magazine is dangerous, but a gun with fifteen 10 round magazines is much safer.
That a
hijacker could easily take a gun away from a pilot, but the hundreds of
passengers aboard would then be unable to take the gun away from the
hijacker.
That if there'd been a gun aboard American Airlines Flight 11, someone could have been hurt.
That rapists prefer to attack armed women so they can take the guns and use them against the victims.
That 1
firearm owner in 10,000 will commit an act of violence in his or her
lifetime, and this is far more frightening than the 25% of drivers who
will cause a serious or fatal accident.
That you should rely on police in lieu of your gun, just as you should rely on a dentist in lieu of your toothbrush.
That car keys, umbrellas and hairspray are good tools for self-defense, despite the fact that police continue to carry guns.
That Washington DC's low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to
strict gun control, but Arlington, Virginia's high murder rate of 1.6
per 100,000 is attributable to the lack of gun control.
That the depressed and emotionally disturbed should not be allowed to
own guns that shoot bullets with 250 ft-lbs of energy, but should be
allowed to own 4000 lb cars with 1,136,000 ft-lbs of energy (at 65 mph).
That "assault weapons" are "very powerful" but big game hunters oddly prefer .30-06s and .375 H&Hs.
That we should outlaw bullet proof vests so criminals can't use them,
and private citizens should be then proud to be killed in the
crossfire, knowing they are doing their part for society.
That among the hundreds of documented cases against anti-gun freaks we
note that: the press secretary of Handgun Control was arrested in DC
for discharging an illegal handgun, a ranking regional officer of the
Million Moron March was convicted of felony assault, and other Million
Morons in Colorado have been arrested for attacking firearm dealers and
activists, but "gun nuts" are "obsessed with violence."
That the laws against specifically named weapons have been found
unconstitutional, that the laws against "types" of weapons have been
considered vague, that the laws against cosmetic features are easy to
comply with and still produce the identical mechanism, and that laws
against particular mechanisms are unconstitutional is an indication of
the "obsessiveness" of firearms enthusiasts to do what they enjoy
doing, against the wishes of the narrow minded prudes who wish to stop
them, and not an indication of the obsessiveness of the ignorant
paranoids who fear them.
That NASA, the military, physiologists, anatomists and trainers all
agree and Olympic scores confirm that men on average have tremendously
more upper body strength than women, but women should try to defend
themselves with martial arts and not a gun.
That it's terrible when police officers plant weapons on a suspect to
enable them to make an arrest, but we should have tougher laws against
weapons and trust the police not to abuse them in this way.
That police arriving at 80mph are a better way to stop criminals than bullets arriving at 800mph.
That people buy guns as "substitute penises," because they know that
only people with small penises ever get attacked by criminals.
That Hitler and Stalin didn't disarm citizens, only Jews, Gypsies,
gays, unionists and other "undesirables." (Yes, a liberal member of the
MMM actually said this ...[Message truncated]
Ted C Hall
Republican/History/Weather/Crime/Debate This!
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - George Washington
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