1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 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.
11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady [or Sheena Duncan, Adele Kirsten, Peter Storey, etc.] for firearms expertise.
12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created by an act of Congress in 1917.
13. The National Guard, funded by the federal government, occupying property leased to the federal government, using weapons owned by the federal government, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a state militia.
14. These phrases,” right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumeration’s herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people,” all refer to individuals, but “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” refers to the state.
15. We don’t need guns against an oppressive government, because the Constitution has internal safeguards, but we should ban and seize all guns, thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments to that Constitution.
16. Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary to national defense, which is why the army has millions of them.
17. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they serve no military purpose, and private citizens shouldn’t have “assault rifles,” because they are military weapons.
18. The ready availability of guns today, with waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting, government forms, et cetera, is responsible for recent school shootings,compared to the lack of school shootings in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, which resulted from the availability of guns at hardware stores, surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, mail order, et cetera
19. The NRA’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, and the anti-gun lobby’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign is responsible social activity.
20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun is “an accident waiting to happen” and gun makers’ advertisements aimed at women are “preying on their fears.”
23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26. A self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a “weapon of mass destruction” or an “assault weapon.”
27. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
28. The right of online pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self-defense only justifies bare hands.
30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.
31. Charlton Heston as president of the NRA is a shill who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
33. We should ban “Saturday Night Specials” and other inexpensive guns because it’s not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
34. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that’s bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that’s good.
35. When Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to “keep guns out of the wrong hands,” they don’t mean you. Really.
Intelligent? maybe. Wise, not so much.
(Hey, and as I notice your screen name....interesting.)
Let’s see, they choose slavery over freedom and they can’t make it without government aid.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
A dangerous subset of intelligent people thinks they can decide what is best for others, and rule the world.
That’s no surprise, and it doesn’t make fascism OK.
It is so reminiscent when the Nazi's with their "science" to prove that the jews were of lower intelligence and all that sh!t they used to prove their point.
I cant wait till the NAMBLA crew gets paraded out as a viable group.... oh wait the APA already did that.
Stupid me
Secondly, if liberals are so smart, why do they believe so many stupid things. Even after their cherished beliefs have been demolished, socialist, planned economies for example, why do they continue to believe in them? Learning from stupid mistakes is a sign of intelligence. Continuing making stupid mistakes is a sign in the other direction...stupidity. Obviously there are many libs who are very intelligent in certain aspects. But in general, common sense seems to be very deficient in the lib population.
Liberals are mental midgets.
The WISC assumes that the child has had an adequate education that is typical for a Northern European child, and can give false positives and negatives.
For example:
My 3 homeschoolers were given the WISC. My kids scored 96%, 98%, and 97% on the math portion of the WISC. Well!...Duh!...In the Saxon math books, our kids were more than four to five years ahead of the normal U.S. government schooled child and they had perfect master of the subject.
However....In a test of memory ( reciting numbers backward) on the WISC they score in 10% to 15% from the **bottom** range. When I asked my kids about this they responded that they were confused as to why anyone would want them to do something so silly.
Also...Many of the questions were fact based and had nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence. For instance, they were asked what is the capital of Greece. ( All of my kids very likely got that question wrong.)
Anyway...The three children did start community college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13, based on their outstanding ( but false) IQ scores in math. All did very well and finished all general college requirements and Calculus III by the age of 15. The two younger finished B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18. The older of these two earned a masters in math by 20. The oldest was also very successful as a nationally and internationally ranked athlete, and in studying accounting.
Many of the professors from 2 local colleges, most bankers and accountants, and most school teachers, are dumb as rocks beyond the limits of profession.
Basic principles of mechanics and electrical systems were beyond them.
Case closed.
Cheers!