[WhiteyAppleseed]

Every time someone, anyone, calls for more gun control, someone, anyone, needs to be there to tell the world what the media won't say, and what the world will not hear and that is that guns are used defensively 2 million times a year.

Add those numbers to the death toll and broadcast it every time a gun is used defensively and see what public opinion thinks about the matter.

Eventually, they are going to take the guns. I don't see how it isn't going to happen. We can beat our chests all we want, when a squad shows up dressed in black and your chest is dotted with red light, you will hand them over and provide them with a combination to your safe. If you don't and you resist, you'll either be 1) eliminated or 2) subdued and arrested and imprisoned.

The way things are going--this will happen in our lifetime.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court have all taken the extraordinary steps of what Justice Thomas called 'the most significant abridgement of the freedoms of speech and association since the Civil War' with campaign finance reform.

On another thread, freepers are e-mailing someone demanding that campaign finance reform be enforced, and enforced with a vengeance.

Tell me what's wrong with that picture. And then tell me it won't happen with guns, something that an even greater number of people feel should be controlled.

[supercat]

Every time someone, anyone, calls for more gun control, someone, anyone, needs to be there to tell the world what the media won't say, and what the world will not hear and that is that guns are used defensively 2 million times a year.

A few statistics I like, which are harder to dispute: even if every single crime involving a firearm involved a different one (doubtful), that would still leave well over 99% of firearms that aren't used criminally.

There are four BILLION rounds of ammo used every year--the vast majority of it by law-abiding shooters. By contrast, all of the ammunition used criminally in a year could fit in a reasonable-sized closet.

Even if every criminal act required a different firearm (again, doubtful), it would not take very many small machine shops to keep the entire criminal underground in the U.S. supplied indefinitely.