An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Top 40 Reasons To Support Gun Control
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Arlington, VA’s high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just statistics.”
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994, are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense — give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die – People Do, 1981, p. 125).
10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns and Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
For the other 30 reasons, go here.
Pic nabbed from Theo Spark.
Please excuse me if I’m rong. However, your post said Rop 40 reasons to support gun control. However I only see 10? 10 Great reasons though. I think they are all funny.
Here is what the laws on guns SHOULD be.
You have the right to bear arms but no machine guns or automatic weapons.
You should NEVER be allowed to discharge one inside the city limits unless in self-defense.
Frank, right after the 10 listed, above the picture, it says “For the other 30 reasons, go here.” Click the ‘here’.
Kyle, what about shooting ranges inside the city limits? Why not automatic? Why should you, or anyone else, decide what I can own? I’m a reasonably sane woman, I’m not a criminal, I don’t rob banks, or do drugs, or drink. Who are you to say? Just asking.
Because they are just far too risky and one does not need a machine gun for self defense. Shooting ranges are okay but no back yard target practice.
You are kidding, right? And are you telling me I can’t set up a target in my own yard?
If you live inside the city limits it should not be allowed. Lets say you had an accident and fired one into the air and it landed on somebody, the result, somebody would die, granted in self defense there is also the risk of that happening but I want the risks minimized. I don’t think the neighbors would think too highly of such backyard target practice either, plus it would scare people. They might think a crime was taking place. Nope, if you’re inside the city, self defense only. That’s the only time you need it.
Then, I’d suggest you stay out of Podunk, TN. Or Podunk, KY. Or Podunk, TX.
And I don’t need another mother. I had one. She died of old age. Odds are, my grandchildren will too.
Okay so would you say that same phrase to the person who passed the laws banning marijuana?
Oh for cryin’ out loud. I am so sick and tired of nannies telling law abiding citizens what they can and can’t do. Sheesh!! I don’t live in Podunk, but I’m willing to guess that the neighbors also have targets set up in their own backyards.
And if the neighbors get scared, they can always call the police, who would politely tell them that no laws are being broken, if in fact that is the case.
Two different issues. One, responsible gun ownership, the other a drug. Hmmm…. Gee, wonder what the difference is?
So why should the government be telling you waht drugs you can and can’t use?
Off topic, but I will tell you…I know that medical marijuana is a good thing.
Isn’t that a violation of freedom? The answer is yes.
I also believe in medical marijuana. But the point is, right now at least, guns are legal and pot is not
I agree. And in a time like now I would be all for recreational pot and putting a tax on it. I would not smoke it but the fact is that alcohol is more dangerous and if you tried to ban that you’d have a problem with me.
Again of topic, but I’m curious about how you feel about all of the smoking bans. It’s a legal activity, and the government is telling business owners what they can and cannot do in their own property.
Well, I neither drink, nor do drugs……now.
Well Chris I think there are more important laws to enforce. BUT I DO believe that it should be the law in restaurants to provide NON-smoking sections as well as smoking sections.
Olbroad that was a wise decision on your part, I drink but only in moderation.
I absolutely agree with you. Yet, in Illinois (which is where my husband owns a business) there is no smoking in any restaurants or bars. My husband has since decided that all gatherings will take place over the border in Wisconsin. Not very good for those business owners. Yet, the government can feel good because they’re helping save people’s lives…or whatever their point is.
Here in Wisconsin, they are doing their best to ban smoking everywhere, while raising taxes on cigarettes because they need the revenue. Soooo, when cigarettes get too expensive, or they’re banned in businesses, isn’t revenue lost? Where’s the sense in that? BTW – Wisconsin has one of, if not the, highest cigarette tax in the nation.
Crap – went totally off point… Sorry Ol’ Broad!!
OK, let’s combine the two. Legalize drugs and vacate the prison beds containing drug offenders. Next, fill those beds with criminals who commit any crime with a gun — with sentences identical to those for murder. Why coddle those who were simply lucky that nothing went wrong, or in the case the gun is actually used but no one dies, are lucky enough to be a lousy shot.
Jim “Gun Owning Liberal” Spice
Jim, I don’t have a problem with social “smoking”, and more than I have a problem with social drinking. But I have seen, first hand, what can come of it when it become just more than social. We’re talking pot here, right? Well, what’s to stop a group advocating for legalizing coke….and not the kind ya drink. What about crack? How ’bout heroin? A little recreational meth?
We’re talking about the difference between the 2nd Amendment, a right of self defense, from foreign and domestic and mind altering drugs. Hmmm….