Banning Guns
Well, we have had the Virginia Tech tragedy. Not suprisingly, the anti-gun nut Liberals wanted to ban guns. There were many shouts of "if guns were banned, this wouldn't have happened." Interesting since the guy who did it bought the gun legally. In other words, nothing prevented him from legally buying the gun. Now, let's look at the banning of guns. For example, Austrailia banned guns. So what, you say. Well, lets look at it before and after they banned guns.
Austrailia before gun ban:
1.8 crimes (of any kind) per 100,000 people.
Austrailia after the gun ban:
homicides jumped 3.2 percent
armed robberies were up 44 percent
assaults up 8.6
in the state of Victoria there was a 300 percent increase in homicides.
So, keep in mind, this is after their gun ban. Now, what, pray tell, spawned the gun ban? Well, apparently a nut ball shot and killed 35 people. Hmmm. How many did the nut ball in Virginia shoot? About 30 or so if I remember right.
However, there is one other aspect that needs to be examined here. The Libs want a gun ban, right? Ok, how's this. The school's campus banned guns on campus. The students were not allowed to have guns on campus. Period.
So, how'd banned guns work out in THAT situation? Well, let's see, 30 some odd people dead, can't honestly remember how many injured. Now, as I have read in some accounts, some of the students did have guns in their cars. So, why didn't they go get them? Well, primarily because they weren't allowed to have them on campus. But to be far, a mentally ill gun wielding individual was roaming campus too.
Let's peek at a different concept. Had some of the students been allowed to have guns on campus, would it have been as bad? Sure, could have been. But, isn't it also possible that someone could have shot back at the dude? I mean, we've already established that he had to re-load at some point. Isn't it at least possible that at that point, at some point when he's re-loading, that someone could have shot him?
So, what we know for a fact is, no one on campus could have guns, effectively, they were banned, and that didn't work out for them too well for them. So, isn't it possible that having guns, effectively NOT banning them, could have had another effect. Let's say 5% of the people on campus, teachers and students alike, had guns, that's pretty good odds someone could have taken the guy out right?
So, at the very minimum, I think we can see that banning guns is not the answer. In this one instance whereby they were banned, it doesn't seem to have helped. And in Austrailia, they banned them, and that doesn't seem to have worked out too well either, right?
So, how is it that banning guns would effectively cut down on these situations? Have we not noticed that where these things take place, these acts of gun violence take place, they are all "gun free zones". If they knew that people in a particular location had guns, why on earth would they go there?
However, if you do believe that banning guns is the answer, thereby allowing more people to be held hostage and shot, by God, you've got that right. Please contact your Senator or Representative, as well as President Bush and express your opinion. The web addresses are below.
www.senate.gov
www.house.gov
www.whitehouse.gov
Austrailia before gun ban:
1.8 crimes (of any kind) per 100,000 people.
Austrailia after the gun ban:
homicides jumped 3.2 percent
armed robberies were up 44 percent
assaults up 8.6
in the state of Victoria there was a 300 percent increase in homicides.
So, keep in mind, this is after their gun ban. Now, what, pray tell, spawned the gun ban? Well, apparently a nut ball shot and killed 35 people. Hmmm. How many did the nut ball in Virginia shoot? About 30 or so if I remember right.
However, there is one other aspect that needs to be examined here. The Libs want a gun ban, right? Ok, how's this. The school's campus banned guns on campus. The students were not allowed to have guns on campus. Period.
So, how'd banned guns work out in THAT situation? Well, let's see, 30 some odd people dead, can't honestly remember how many injured. Now, as I have read in some accounts, some of the students did have guns in their cars. So, why didn't they go get them? Well, primarily because they weren't allowed to have them on campus. But to be far, a mentally ill gun wielding individual was roaming campus too.
Let's peek at a different concept. Had some of the students been allowed to have guns on campus, would it have been as bad? Sure, could have been. But, isn't it also possible that someone could have shot back at the dude? I mean, we've already established that he had to re-load at some point. Isn't it at least possible that at that point, at some point when he's re-loading, that someone could have shot him?
So, what we know for a fact is, no one on campus could have guns, effectively, they were banned, and that didn't work out for them too well for them. So, isn't it possible that having guns, effectively NOT banning them, could have had another effect. Let's say 5% of the people on campus, teachers and students alike, had guns, that's pretty good odds someone could have taken the guy out right?
So, at the very minimum, I think we can see that banning guns is not the answer. In this one instance whereby they were banned, it doesn't seem to have helped. And in Austrailia, they banned them, and that doesn't seem to have worked out too well either, right?
So, how is it that banning guns would effectively cut down on these situations? Have we not noticed that where these things take place, these acts of gun violence take place, they are all "gun free zones". If they knew that people in a particular location had guns, why on earth would they go there?
However, if you do believe that banning guns is the answer, thereby allowing more people to be held hostage and shot, by God, you've got that right. Please contact your Senator or Representative, as well as President Bush and express your opinion. The web addresses are below.
www.senate.gov
www.house.gov
www.whitehouse.gov
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