The transparency of gun-grabbers

WND ^ | January 31, 2013 | Joseph Farah

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Fact: Every year, the lives of thousands of private citizens in America are saved because they had firearms when they needed them.

Fact: Nations like Australia and the United Kingdom have seen an increase in violent crime and murder by firearms since banning their possession by private citizens.

Fact: The kind of legislation prompted by recent anti-gun hysteria over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre would not have prevented the tragedy, but, in fact, make future mass murders more likely.

Fact: The very same politicians promoting a new classification of gun confiscation for private citizens specifically exclude themselves – in fact all government officials – from the ban.

Fact: Everyone concedes the presence of firearms in the hands of good people is a deterrent to violent attacks. That’s why, for instance, Barack Obama is surrounded by armed agents at all times.

Fact: While the government debates how many more kinds of semi-automatic weapons will be banned and confiscated from private citizens, the civilian government, not the military, is stockpiling massive numbers of semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms as well as billions of rounds of hollow-point ammunition for some unknown, undisclosed purpose.

Fact: The Constitution’s Second Amendment was written by America’s founders specifically so that private citizens would never be tyrannized by their government.

Fact: Every genocide, since firearms were invented, has been preceded by disarming of the private citizenry by government.

Nevertheless, despite these indisputable facts, there are still far too many Americans ready, willing and eager to go along with the latest government gun grab scenarios being promoted in Washington.

While the reaction of the public is irrational and programed by fear fanned by government and media propaganda, the motives of government and politicians