GUN CONTROL DOESN'T WORK!

Disarming innocent people does not protect innocent people!

After every incident involving guns, there are cries from the left for stricter gun control. In one day (Jan. 24) 11 cops were shot! What the heck? Is this crazy or what?

"In just 24 hours, at least 11 officers were shot. The shootings included Sunday attacks at traffic stops in Indiana and Oregon, a Detroit police station shooting that wounded four officers, and a shootout at a Port Orchard, Wash., Wal-Mart that injured two deputies. On Monday morning, two officers were shot dead and a U.S. Marshal was wounded by a gunman in St. Petersburg, Fla.

On Thursday, two Miami-Dade, Fla., detectives were killed by a murder suspect they were trying to arrest."

"It's not a fluke," said Richard Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations. "There's a perception among officers in the field that there's a war on cops going on." (Jim Gold-msnbc.com)

I actually heard someone say that it was a plot to get everyone into a frenzy over gun control. Well, that may be alittle too far-fetched for me to believe but you got to admit that things are not looking good, considering the horrible deaths and injuries in the Arizona shooting. Within 24 hours, a democrat was introducing gun legislation. Gun control becomes more hotly debated now more than ever. We must have a balanced debate here! We need for people to see what it's like in other countries with stricter gun laws before emotional voting takes place.

Read the article: With Gun Control; Canadaian Criminals are making a killing at www.personalliberty.com/ It shows that strict gun control doesn't work.

Read Bazookaman's blog where he tells of his Oregon trip where he is confronted by evil criminals ready to do harm on a lonely stretch of highway years ago. Without the right to bear arms, we may have never had the pleasure of knowing this man. He is alive today because he was able to defend himself.

Gun control doesn't work! Disarming innocent people does not protect innocent people! This is a lesson that is still not being learned! If we disarm the American citizen, you give the criminals even more power!

Read your history, people! The Revolutionary War was sparked by the act of British soldiers being dispatched to de-arm the colonists. (April 19, 1775) It was a failed attempt. They were met with resistance by colonists who braved the ocean to live in a country where they would have the right to defend themselves. Over 50 Militiamen met them at Lexington and fought until they retreated. This example alone will tell you what our forefathers thought of gun control.

Almost all the major gun control laws were passed under a Democrat controlled Senate/House or Presidency. They were in control of the White House from 1933 to 1953: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. (Source: World Book Encyclopedia)

Major events in our history have always been followed by major gun control laws, such as the Gun Control Act of 1968, which happened shortly after the assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. My question at this time is whether that law made a difference? Has crime risen since 1968? Was there a sudden drop in crime afterwards? I think most of you know the answer to that.

Well, at least there is still come sanity left in this country. "On Jan. 19 a Fresno Superior Court judge ruled that a California law that would have banned mail order ammunition sales and required all purchases of so-called "handgun ammunition" to be registered was unconstitutionally vague. The law was set to take effect Feb. 1, and the ruling means the burdensome and ill-conceived restrictions on the sales of ammunition will not be enforced." (Ammunition Ban Struck Down by Court-Personal Liberty Digest) All I can say is Thank God, Amen.