In Nov. 2010, new stats on death in America was published and reported by .stpeteforpeace.org. Their site linked study after study to the facts...there are worse killers out there than criminals with guns!
On average, there are 32 gun homicides each day in the U.S. 32. 11,680 a year.
What could kill MORE people than guns? MANY things!
~PRESCRIPTION PAIN PILLS kill more than 18,000 people a year, according to estimates by the Prescription Monitoring Program Center of Excellence at Brandeis University.
[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-04-25-fight-painkillers-with-prescription-monitoring.htm]
~Smoking related deaths: 443,000/year due to cigarette smoking and 49,400/year due to second hand smoke.
~Obesity related deaths: 300,000/year.
~Deaths due to lack of health care: 101,000/year.
~An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die EACH MONTH,of "adverse events" that happen in hospitals, says a government study" . That's 180,000 a year!!! "Reducing the incidence of adverse events in hospitals is a critical component of efforts to improve patient safety and quality care" in the U.S., the inspector general wrote.
~ On average in 2009, 93 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day. That's 33,945 in a year.
ALL of the ABOVE kill more than gun crimes.
See this amazing little chart to see how guns rank in the "killing of Americans".
WHAT KILLS AMERICANS?
What logical conclusion may we draw from these statistics?
MAYBE that cultural conditions, not gun laws, are the most important factors in a nation's crime rate. Young adults in Washington, D.C., are subject to strict gun control, but no social control, and they commit a staggering amount of armed crime. Young adults in Zurich, Switzerland are subject to minimal gun control, but strict social control, and they commit almost NO crime.
The gun crime rate in Switzerland is so low that statistics are not even kept!
So, do we ban pain pills, fatty foods, tobacco, hospitals, doctors, automobiles???
What next? Knives, rocks, sticks, tire irons, golf clubs, human fists, human feet???
ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN USED TO KILL AMERICANS!
Any person with criminal intent, one who is "emotionally unbalanced", one who may be called "criminally insane", or just plain old determined to kill others will ALWAYS find a way to accomplish that! Before there were guns, before there were weapons of iron or steel, human beings were bashing one another's brains out with rocks!
So why are things so different in Switzerland? Let's look at Switzerland for a bit.
In 1978, Switzerland refused to ratify a Council of Europe Convention on Control of Firearms. Since then, Switzerland has been pressured by other European governments, which charge that it is a source for terrorist weapons. As a result, in 1982 the central government proposed a law barring foreigners in Switzerland from buying guns they could not buy in their own countries and also requiring that Swiss citizens obtain a license to buy any gun, rather than just handguns.
Outraged Swiss gun owners formed a group called "Pro Tell," named after national hero William Tell. In 1983, the Federal Council (the executive cabinet) abandoned the restrictive proposal because "the opposition was too heavy" and suggested that the cantons regulate the matter. A few months earlier, the Cantonal Council of Freiburg had already enacted such a law by a one-vote margin. A popular referendum overturned the law the next year, by a 60%-40% vote.
Whatever the effect of Swiss guns abroad, they are not even a trivial crime problem domestically. Despite all the guns, and virtually EVERY home in that country has guns, the murder rate is a small fraction of the American rate, and is less than the rate in Canada or England, which strictly control guns, or in Japan, which virtually prohibits them. The gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept!
Go have a read about Switzerland. You will be astounded!
GUNS IN EVERY HOME
GUN CONTROL HAS FAILED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA
"The Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London, recently issued a study titled Illegal Firearms in the UK, examining the effect of gun control measures in the United Kingdom. In the years since the ban was enacted, the criminal use of firearms has increased by 40%."
September 2, 2001
GUN CONTROL FAILS IN THE UK
"Whilst the change in the law on handguns has reduced the number, it does not appear to have been difficult for criminals to get hold of them whenever they want." — Police Superintendents' Association, Hampshire Branch.
Imagine that! Law abiding Britons are disarmed, but criminals have no trouble getting weapons "whenever they want". Are we supposed to be surprised by that? Thomas Jefferson would not have been surprised:
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." — Jefferson, quoting Enlightenment philosopher Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishment", 1764.
The International Crime Victims Survey, released by the Dutch Ministry of Justice in February, 2001 found the three countries with the most draconian handgun bans recently enacted — the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada — to be among the top five countries in the world with the most frequent incidents of criminal violence (the U.S. ranked ninth). And while violent crime showed a declining trend in America, the trend was found to be increasing in the U.K. and Australia.
DARE WE IMAGINE THINGS WILL TURN OUT BETTER IN THE USA?
One definition of INSANITY is doing the SAME thing over and over, expecting different results.
Gun control, disarming of the law-abiding citizenry, never worked in Germany, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, or Japan.
GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, LUNATIC CRIMINALS ARE!
A guy named Rick Toledo made this point in an online discussion following the Aurora theater shooting: "We have 2 rooms: lock 2 men in one room and leave them there for 40 years. Chances are that one will kill the other with his bare hands. Second room fill with all types of guns, lock it up, and after 40 years no gun will attack the other. Point: GUNS DON'T KILL, PEOPLE DO!"
In a PBS program on gun control, DAVID KOPEL made the point that:
"Gun control laws are dangerous because they don't do a very good job of taking guns away from people who shouldn't have them. They're more effective at taking guns out of the hands of people who can and should use them, if they chose to, for lawful protection. Laws tend to change the behavior most effectively of law-abiding people who have some connection to society. And the problem is, when you discourage those people from owning guns, you're making public safety worse off. Guns in the hands of good people improve things."
Since the tragedy in Connecticut some of our politicians have made some incredible statements.
A statement attributed to Press Secretary Ari B. Adler, spokesman for Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger:
" It is the belief of many representatives in our caucus that it is criminals who have no intention of following any law that are the perpetrators of such heinous crimes as school shootings. Strict gun-control laws do not stop criminals from committing evil acts, they merely infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens who might be able to take action against evil if given the chance."
A spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, told the Tampa Bay Times:
"The challenge with gun laws is that, by definition, criminals do not follow the law. For example, Connecticut’s gun laws, some of the strictest in the nation, were not able to prevent this atrocity."
GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, CRIMINALS ARE! AND IF A CRIMINAL COMES TO MY DOOR, ARMED, WITH INTENT TO KILL, I WANT TO HAVE A GUN TO FIGHT BACK WITH!
I have to wonder what is wrong with people who DON'T want the ability to SURVIVE AN ATTACK on themselves or their family!
***UPDATE 08/25/2013***
Bob Barr, a former member of Congress, reports on what you were NOT told about that UN "Arms Treaty" your own CONGRESS loved enough to accept for you!
He ought to know, he was part of that pig herd...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/19/barr-the-un-comes-after-americas-guns/?page=2
August 19, 2013
<<According to experts familiar with this process, the mere act of signing the treaty — a responsibility that would fall to Secretary of State John Kerry — would “obligate” the U.S. government as a signatory not to act “contrary to” its terms. Those “terms” are, to quote Ross Perot, the “devil in the detail” — found not only within the four corners of the document itself, but in companion, foundational documents on which it is based.
For example, a 2006 U.N. report (authored by an American academic, Barbara Frey) lays out with frightening clarity where advocates of the approach reflected in the Arms Trade Treaty are coming from. According to this Eurocentric worldview, there is no “right” to self-defense, and the national government is obligated to restrict civilian ownership of firearms, including determining which citizens properly “understand” firearms and might, therefore, be permitted to possess them.
Another important but little-known set of documents that reveal the true purposes of the treaty were crafted by the U.N. Coordinating Action on Small Arms. These include the International Small Arms Control Standard, which is developing “modules” on gun control to serve as “model legislation” for countries that sign on to the treaty. The most relevant of these is the one titled, “National controls over the access of civilians to small arms and light weapons.”
One need read no further than the introduction to this missive to understand its goal. The operative focus is strict regulation of civilian possession of firearms by the “central” or national government. This is necessary because “some civilians misuse small arms” by using them illegally or “improperly stor[ing]” them. The document bases this notion of government control of firearms and ammunition on “international law” — an inaccurate interpretation of such body of laws, but one that fits conveniently the U.N.’s agenda.
From this global perspective, the International Small Arms Control Standard module then directs, in excruciating detail, the manner in which national governments should restrict access to firearms and ammunition:
Restricting civilian possession of firearms only to those “at the lowest risk of misusing them.”
Limiting sales and other transfers of firearms only to commercial transactions at licensed “sales premises” (in other words, no transfers at gun shows).
Only persons licensed and periodically relicensed by the national government could possess firearms.
All firearms must be registered with the national government.
All persons wishing to possess a firearm must pass a rigorous exam administered by the national government.
All firearms must be stored in locked containers separate from ammunition, and “bolted to a heavy or immovable object.”
Only a predetermined number of firearms and rounds of ammunition may be possessed by a properly licensed civilian.
Magazine capacity is limited to 10 rounds.
Possession of a firearm may only occur after a seven-day waiting period.
[THE NEXT 2 ITEMS ARE THE "KILLSHOTS" FOR AMERICANS (PUN INTENDED.]
No civilian could own or possess a firearm for self-defense unless he first demonstrates a clear and convincing need.
Individuals licensed to own firearms are subject to periodic and random inspections of their homes or businesses.
In order to be granted a license to possess a firearm, an individual must secure recommendations from “responsible members of society,” attesting to their “suitability to possess a small arm.”
The above list is by no means exhaustive of the restrictions in the U.N. model legislation, which is designed to limit the possession of firearms and ammunition to the smallest possible number of civilians, and it provides clear insight into where this process is going. If CONGRESS [YES, CONGRESS COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS INSANITY!] fails to take swift action to prohibit the administration from implementing any part of the Arms Trade Treaty or taking any action pursuant to it, we now know exactly where we are headed.>>
FOR WHERE WE ARE HEADED, SEE THE 2 VIDEOS BELOW...
GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.!!!
"An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject."
***UPDATE, 08/25/2013***
Bob Barr, a former member of Congress, reports on what you were NOT told about that UN "Arms Treaty" your own CONGRESS loved enough to accept for you!
He ought to know, he was part of that pig herd...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/19/barr-the-un-comes-after-americas-guns/?page=2
August 19, 2013
<<According to experts familiar with this process, the mere act of signing the treaty — a responsibility that would fall to Secretary of State John Kerry — would “obligate” the U.S. government as a signatory not to act “contrary to” its terms. Those “terms” are, to quote Ross Perot, the “devil in the detail” — found not only within the four corners of the document itself, but in companion, foundational documents on which it is based.
For example, a 2006 U.N. report (authored by an American academic, Barbara Frey) lays out with frightening clarity where advocates of the approach reflected in the Arms Trade Treaty are coming from. According to this Eurocentric worldview, there is no “right” to self-defense, and the national government is obligated to restrict civilian ownership of firearms, including determining which citizens properly “understand” firearms and might, therefore, be permitted to possess them.
Another important but little-known set of documents that reveal the true purposes of the treaty were crafted by the U.N. Coordinating Action on Small Arms. These include the International Small Arms Control Standard, which is developing “modules” on gun control to serve as “model legislation” for countries that sign on to the treaty. The most relevant of these is the one titled, “National controls over the access of civilians to small arms and light weapons.”
One need read no further than the introduction to this missive to understand its goal. The operative focus is strict regulation of civilian possession of firearms by the “central” or national government. This is necessary because “some civilians misuse small arms” by using them illegally or “improperly stor[ing]” them. The document bases this notion of government control of firearms and ammunition on “international law” — an inaccurate interpretation of such body of laws, but one that fits conveniently the U.N.’s agenda.
From this global perspective, the International Small Arms Control Standard module then directs, in excruciating detail, the manner in which national governments should restrict access to firearms and ammunition:
Restricting civilian possession of firearms only to those “at the lowest risk of misusing them.”
Limiting sales and other transfers of firearms only to commercial transactions at licensed “sales premises” (in other words, no transfers at gun shows).
Only persons licensed and periodically re-licensed by the national government could possess firearms.
All firearms must be registered with the national government.
All persons wishing to possess a firearm must pass a rigorous exam administered by the national government.
All firearms must be stored in locked containers separate from ammunition, and “bolted to a heavy or immovable object.”
Only a predetermined number of firearms and rounds of ammunition may be possessed by a properly licensed civilian.
Magazine capacity is limited to 10 rounds.
Possession of a firearm may only occur after a seven-day waiting period.
No civilian could own or possess a firearm for self-defense unless he first demonstrates a clear and convincing need.
Individuals licensed to own firearms are subject to periodic and random inspections of their homes or businesses.
In order to be granted a license to possess a firearm, an individual must secure recommendations from “responsible members of society,” attesting to their “suitability to possess a small arm.”
The above list is by no means exhaustive of the restrictions in the U.N. model legislation, which is designed to limit the possession of firearms and ammunition to the smallest possible number of civilians, and it provides clear insight into where this process is going. If Congress fails to take swift action to prohibit the administration from implementing any part of the Arms Trade Treaty or taking any action pursuant to it, we now know exactly where we are headed.>>
DID YOU GET ALL THAT?
DO YOU SEE WHAT THIS WILL LEAD UP TO?
IF NOT, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY NOT!
GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.!!!
"An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject."
FINAL WARNING...CHILLING!
http://youtu.be/JXm5hklbBsA
"In our world, there will be no emotions except: fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement . . . there will be no loyalty except loyalty to the party; but always, there will be the intoxication of power. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy that is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face . . . forever."
FULL MOVIE, GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984
A 1954 BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM
UPDATE:CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BEGINS IN NEW YORK!
ReplyDeleteAssault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,” The Post has learned.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hit_us_with_your_best_shot_andy_5rxZg0gYBJJhkLBtiTPMfJ
Gun-range owners and gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to defy the law, saying it’d be the largest act of civil disobedience in state history.
“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline comes,’’ said Brian Olesen, president of the American Shooters Supply, one of the largest gun dealers in the state.