Don't trust the government that does not trust an armed society.
There is a reason why our founding fathers wrote the "Right to bear arms" into the Constitution.
Even if you look outside our boarders, it's always the same story. Disarm the people and you have them by the balls! It's the first thing the NAZI's did (Germany’s first gun laws were under Hitler), the first thing that the Serbs did as Yugoslavia was falling apart and later they started killing the Bosnians and others.
Crime and gun ownership correlations have been proven to be bogus relationships that in fact have backfired on many who tried to establish them. In many places where concealed carry became legal, crime dropped. Some of the cities with the highest murder rates (Washington, LA, New York….) also have some of the stiffest gun laws. This however, does not discourage the gun control fetishist. As gun laws got stiffer in Britain and Australia (I believe Australia as well), crime went up, not down. Yet they keep grinding the same old disproven dogma of guns equals’ crime.
The right to defend and protect yourself is as instinctual and basic as breathing itself. Those who think the Police is always there, that the government is your friend and can always be trusted, that people are all good natured and moral are naïve at best.
Yes, buy a gun and join the crowd of gun toting weirdo Americans. We’re such “Cowboys” and so redneck stupid to believe in this “Right to bear arms”, yet many foreigners just don’t seem to understand why we have lasted so long as a democracy. Do you think 6 million Jews would have gone to the ovens as easily had they been able to resist? In a society such as the US, a government has to “think” about what decisions it makes. Waco and Ruby Ridge were horrible events, but they also caused for a reevaluation of policy and how to go about dealing with people.
This sums it up best: Armed you’re a citizen, once disarmed you’re a subject.
Even in Iraq we allow the people to remain armed. Fact is, the ones with an AK at home are not the ones building IED’s or even shooting at us. Even there, the gun owner is no real threat. Even there the statement that the “bad guys” will get the weapons anyway is true. In fact, they will get a lot more than AKs.
Red6
When guns are banned then gunownership does equal crime.
Lefties want to get all the guns away from the citizens because their vision of the good society is them as Rulers.