The Problems with Government Gun Control Firearm Control in Other Countries - Why it increases crime and restricts liberty. Why do socialists want to mimic the same laws in America?
Gun Control and the War on Drugs ...these two issues are more similar than many people might think. - Anthony Gregory, May 23, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]
Dumb Legislation The ban on assault weapons had no effect on crime, and ending the ban will have no effect on crime. - Charley Reese, September 21, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]
New York City hates gun owners Now, Bloomberg and the city's ruling class are preparing to "cure" the Big Apple of another politically incorrect constituency: ordinary gun owners. - Michelle Malkin, February 11, 2004 [WorldNetDaily]
Dumb, Dumber And Dumbest The positions of most urban liberals on firearms are dumb, dumber and dumbest. - Charley Reese, November 11, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
The Limits of Gun Ownership Such limits don't reduce crime. They either render innocent people defenseless, give the police more power than they should have, or they are simply stupid, unenforceable laws. - Harry Browne, October 23, 2003 [HarryBrowne.org]
CDC Study Rips Guts Out Of Gun Control Indeed, when the Associated Press reported the new study recently, that seems to have been one of the main concerns about it. "The findings," the story whimpered, "could be used to undercut the gun-control movement." - Sam Francis, October 13, 2003 [VDare.com]
Bill promotes anti-gun teaching in schools? Virginia-based Gun Owners of America claims H.R. 1078, which establishes "academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics," would further erode support for the Second Amendment. - Jon Dougherty, September 1, 2003 [WorldNetDaily.com]
Sheep, goats and guns Nowhere in the American political landscape is the divide between left and right greater than in the realm of self defense. - Craig McMillan, February 20, 2003 [WorldNetDaily.com]
America's 80 Million Potential Snipers As fear grips residents of Virginia and Maryland over the latest sniper murders, gun-control groups see the opportunity to advance their agenda. - Timothy Wheeler, M.D., October 23, 2002 [Claremont Institute]
Guns for Rapists, But Not For Potential Victims Under Massachusetts law, ordinary citizens have no guaranteed right to carry a firearm for self-protection. - Jeff Jacoby, October 6, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
No Guns In The Cockpits Our federal government gets awfully quirky at times. - Charley Reese, March 18, 2002 [Charley Reese]
Criminalizing Toy Guns? No Computers For Gun Stores? In Michigan an eight-year-old boy is being prosecuted for pointing a toy gun at three other youngsters and threatening to shoot them. - Paul Craig Roberts, March 5, 2002 [VDare]
The Missing Gun The attack at the Appalachian Law School was stopped by two students with guns in their cars. How many newspapers reported it?- John R. Lott, Jr., January 25, 2002 [NY Post]
The Gun Control Gestapo Gets 9/11 Wrong The latest sophistry is that gun shows—where people come to look at, admire, fantasize about and buy and sell guns and the paraphernalia that go with them—are helpful to terrorism and ought to be subject to government control, if not banned. - Sam Francis, January 7, 2002 [VDare]
Guns and (Character) Assassination It was only a matter of time before the gun ban lobby took advantage of Americans' fears of terrorist attacks to scare them into giving up more of their rights. - Timothy Wheeler, M.D. and Dave Kopel, December 21, 2001 [Claremont Institute]
Reconquista, Terrorism, and Gun Control Occasionally I hear someone who is otherwise very bright say that the world might be a better place if there were no weapons. It wouldn't. - James Fulford, October 17, 2001 [VDare]
Teachers, Guns, and Zero-Tolerance Tyranny Teachers are the forgotten casualties of the education establishment's absolutist war on guns. - Michelle Malkin, September 7, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
Anatomy of a gun-controller "What is it about gun-controllers that makes them so seemingly oblivious to the Constitution, history, human nature and common sense?" - David Kupelian, September 5, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Ashcroft’s Lies "John Ashcroft (like his master Bush) is no true friend of constitutional government. Despite his psalm-singing reputation, his boot seeks to grind our freedom into the dust just as surely as Janet Reno’s high-heel ever did." - Jeff Elkins, July 19, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Gun-control radicals target Ashcroft "I think it's reasonable to infer that they will not be satisfied until the citizenry is disarmed. They say we should be afraid of weapons. Perhaps we should be afraid of them." - David Limbaugh, July 13, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
A tale of tragic irony Barbara Graham was sentenced to 10 years to life for shooting and paralyzing an innocent 23-year-old man she blamed for killing her 19-year-old son...Barbara Graham is an active member of a Maryland group that helped organize the Million Mom March against firearms last year in Washington. - Joseph Farah, July 6, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Doctors are 3 times as deadly as guns. So why is the AMA targeting firearms? "Doctors kill three times as many people every year as guns do -- which is why the new head of the American Medical Association should stop crusading against guns and target incompetent physicians instead, say Libertarians." - released June 28, 2001 [LP Press Release]
The Anti-Gun, Anti-Boy Scout AMA "These guys at the AMA badly need to purchase a ticket on the clue train. As a group, they’re more dangerous (and gaseous) than a battalion of shotgun-wielding beer drinkers in an unventilated duck blind. We have about 700,000 doctors in the US and annually they cause about 120,000 deaths per year." - Jeff Elkins, June 26, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
W. Wimps Out on Guns The GOP president was silent about the untold number of gun shootings committed every year in self-defense. - Michelle Malkin, May 24, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
History re-written to undermine gun rights? "In December, Geoff Metcalf interviewed Dr. Joyce Malcolm, a professor and historian. Dr. Malcolm wasn't convinced of the assertions made by Professor Michael Bellesiles in his book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture." Bellesiles claims that the American colonists did not, by and large, own or value firearms. In her critique of Bellesiles' work, Malcolm takes on his research methods, conclusions and use of selective information." - May 20, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
High school shooting and car massacre: Ultimate proof of media's anti-gun bias? The media's anti-gun bias is showing loud and clear this week as the latest high school shooting (two dead in California) is plastered all over every front page in America -- while last week's murderous college car rampage (four dead in California) was virtually ignored, charge Libertarians. - released March 8, 2001 [LP Press Release]
More facts, fewer liberals While having dinner recently with John Lott, author of 'More Guns, Less Crime,' one of life's enduring debates came up: Are liberals evil or just stupid? - Ann Coulter, March 8, 2001 [TownHall.com]
A War on Guns? Even if Diaz were granted his druthers, and guns were banned, criminals would still exist. And they’d be much safer. - Ryan Gorsche, February 26, 2001 [The Dartmouth Review]
Disarming Harriet Tubman The Associated Black Charities of Baltimore, which had initially offered to display the mural on its downtown building, flat-out rejected sketches of a gunslinging Tubman. - Sara Rimensnyder, December 2000 [REASON]
The Million Mom Murmur The marginalization of the Million Mom Marchers did not come at the hands of the NRA, but at the hands of howling gun-control hypocrites themselves. - Michelle Malkin, November 3, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Real Gun Criminals "And let us not forget what history teaches us about a disarmed nation where only the government has guns. It has ushered in every tyranny of the last hundred years, from Hitler’s Nazi Germany to Stalin’s Communist Soviet Union – so the government can enforce its ideology on the rest of us." - Dave Duffy, April 11, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
When it Comes to Suicide, Gun Control is not the Answer A lowering suicide rate is undoubtedly a good thing, but to think that gun control laws can magically reduce the rate further is going too far. Suicide is far too serious a subject to be used as a pawn in the struggle over firearms. - Iain Murray, December 14, 1999 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Criminal Advantage President Clinton has proposed using $15 million of federal tax money to artificially stimulate the demand for guns. Anti-gun activists used the President’s plan as a public relations platform for the usual array of weepy arguments in favor of more gun control. - Linda Gorman, September 14, 1999 [Independence Institute]
Ugly Guns and Olympic Dreams The centerpiece of this summer's frenzy of gun control legislation was Senator Don Perata's (D-Oakland) "assault weapons" ban. California voters seem to have bought the idea that the ban will keep violent gangbangers and racist mass-murderers from killing more innocents. - Timothy Wheeler, MD, September 14, 1999 [Claremont Institute]
Blaming the Guns Again By banning the "culture of guns" we will not stop teen murderers. - Timothy Wheeler, M.D., April 25, 1999 [Claremont Institute]
For Your Own Good The American Medical Association (AMA), once devoted to the interests of doctors, is now showing an unhealthy interest in the private matters of Americans. - Timothy Wheeler, M.D., November 15, 1998 [Claremont Institute]
Can't Bear It To liberal politicians, guns represent violence and disorder. This symbolism is more important to them than the real-life consequences of gun control--a point illustrated by the issue's role in two U.S. Senate races. - Jacob Sullum, August 5, 1998 [REASON]
Backfire on Gun Control As the federal government tries to pass new gun control laws, demand for firearms soars. - Dale Steinreich, November 1995 [Mises]
Call for Gun Bans Professor Eugene Volokh, at the UCLA School of Law, has put together evidence which shows that the actual goal of those trying to impose gun control is total disarmament.
Guns Used in Crime: Selected Findings [U.S. Department of Justice] - 1995 Report includes such information as, "Recent studies of adult and juvenile offenders show that many have either solen a firearm or kept, sold, or traded a stolen firearm..." So how would registering guns help??? (PDF format)
Federal Gun Nuts [Self-gov.org] - "An astounding 60,000 federal employees in 45 different agencies now carry guns as a routine part of their job. So says a new study by the General Accounting Office (GAO)."
Heck, Give Everybody a Gun! John Lott, Richard Poe, and all manner of libertarians have been making the case that widespread gun ownership decreases crime; and that personal gun ownership is consistent with, even guaranteed by, the 2nd amendment. - Brad Edmonds, November 11, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
'We already have a civilian reserve to fight terrorists: Armed citizens.' Responding to Democrat presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark’s plan to create a “civilian reserve to respond to terrorist attacks,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today, “We already have that, Gen. Clark. They’re called armed private citizens.” - October 15, 2003 [CCRKBA Press Release]
"A Manual for the Murder of Federal Agents?" If you have ever wondered why U.S. tax agents wear facemasks and carry high-power rifles, or if you have ever felt powerless to halt the seemingly inevitable onslaught of fascism in America, there is one book that you must read. - Carter Laren, May 13, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Why of Gun Ownership A citizen actually used a gun, a shotgun, to defend his home and his family against armed intruders. - James Ostrowski, May 9, 2003 [Mises]
Blacks and Guns Law abiding blacks must be free to defend themselves and each other so that they can live as safe as other people without being under the heel of the police. - Alec Rawls, January 26, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]
Christians and Guns He gave men the gifts of conscience and intelligence, so that they may decide if an action is good or worthy. So it is very hard to justify, from a Christian point of view, a law whose prime effect is to disarm honest people. - Carlo Stagnaro, August 30, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Important New Book Refutes Gun Control Myths Now comes an important new book from Harvard University Press. Guns and Violence by Bentley College history professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, who brings new evidence that guns reduce violence. - Paul Craig Roberts, July 27, 2002 [VDare]
Guns Save Lives In June, a new book will be published that I urge every American to read. It's called "Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives With Firearms." - Charley Reese, April 1, 2002 [Charley Reese]
Interview With Jeff Snyder Discussion: our natural right to be armed. - Carlo Stagnaro, February 8, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Guns in the Hands of Private Citizens Make Us All Safer To the anti-gun lobby, the worst news of all had to be the way in which tens of thousands of Americans reacted to the atrocities of Sept. 11: They went out and bought guns. - Jeff Jacoby, January 19, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
Repeal gun control laws that leave us defenseless against evil terrorists "With sales of guns soaring and support for the Second Amendment peaking after the September 11 terrorist attacks, it's time for politicians to start repealing burdensome gun laws..." - released October 30, 2001 [LP Press Release]
Tennessee bus hijacking shows need for 50-state concealed-carry gun laws "In the wake of the Tennessee bus hijacking yesterday that left six people dead, every state should immediately pass Vermont-style concealed-carry gun laws so Americans can defend themselves against terrorists or deranged murderers, the Libertarian Party said today." - released October 4, 2001 [LP Press Release]
Drop Your Guns! "If Ashcroft really wants to restore public trust in the FBI, I can think of some things that he could do immediately that would be a wonderful start." - Jeff Elkins, July 18, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Their Aim Is True "The gun culture is a fundamental part of American culture as a whole. Members of America’s gun culture don’t live in a vacuum. They serve on school boards; they attend town meetings; they go to neighborhood parties and community picnics; they go to their jobs in large and small places of business. They have incorporated guns into their lives, and many of them really aren’t interested in changing that fact. Until critics of guns and the gun culture recognize that fact, they are only going to alienate gun owners and polemicize the gun debate. Neither result will further a goal sought by both sides: to reduce the amount of violence in American society." - Abigail Kohn, May 2001 [REASON]
You have a right to a firearm "You have a constitutional right to own a firearm -- handgun, shotgun, rifle -- if you so choose. And, like all our other rights -- free speech, freedom of religion, the right to avoid self-incrimination -- your right to own a gun cannot be 'infringed,' taken away, banned, limited, or ignored." - Jon E. Dougherty, May 11, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
America Will Be Safer If You Give Grandma an Uzi Giving fully automatic weapons to old ladies sounds extreme, and I’m not claiming that people too weak to care for themselves should brandish sidearms; neither should drunks or children. But arming decent people, including your Aunt Bea, and arming them with – yes – machine guns if they want, is the way to make America safer for all of us. - Brad Edmonds, April 23, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Guns Save Lives - M. Ryan Clark, February 26, 2001 [The Dartmouth Review]
More Guns, Less Crime CATO sponsored book forum featuring the author of More Guns, Less Crime, John R. Lott Jr, Yale Law School; with comments by Carl Moody, Department of Economics, College of William & Mary; and William Vogt, Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University. - June 16, 2000 [CATO]
How to sell gun rights ...you can help him understand how much safer he'll be in a society of armed citizens, rather than living in one where only criminals and government employees have guns. - Harry Browne, October 19, 1999 [WorldNetDaily]
Chicago Gun Show All this confirms a long-standing constitutional principle: People have the right to own a gun for self-protection. - Mark Skousen, October 1999 [LibertyHaven]
Loaded Guns Can Be Good for Kids If a family with small children lives in a safe neighborhood, then keeping the guns locked up may indeed be the safest choice. But if a family must live in a dangerous neighborhood, and if the parents have taught gun safety to responsible older children, then having the gun ready for immediate protection might be safer. Parents, not members of Congress, are best suited to make these kinds of decisions. - Dave Kopel and Eugene Volokh, June 1, 1999 [CATO]
Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun Concealed-carry reform reaffirms the basic idea that citizens have the right to defend themselves against criminal attack. And since criminals can strike almost anywhere at any time, the last thing government ought to be doing is stripping citizens of the most effective means of defending themselves. - October 22, 1997 [CATO]
Gun Owners of America 1999 Firearms Fact Sheet - facts with references - (e.g., Criminals avoid armed citizens, Licensing or registration can lead to confiscation of firearms, Concealed carry laws help reduce crime)
Private firearms 'almost certainly' save 400,000 lives per year Vin explores the "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns" 45-page report by John R. Lott, Jr., of the School of Law, and David B. Mustard, of the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. - Vin Suprynowicz, November 27, 1996 [The Libertarian]
Gun Control, Patriotism, and Civil Disobedience The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government. - Jacob G. Hornberger, May 1991 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]
Trust the People: The Case Against Gun Control Gun control is based on the faulty notion that ordinary
American citizens are too clumsy and ill-tempered to be trusted
with weapons. Only through the blatant abrogation of explicit
constitutional rights is gun control even possible. It must be
enforced with such violations of individual rights as intrusive
search and seizure. It most severely victimizes those who most
need weapons for self-defense, such as blacks and women. - David B. Kopel, July 11, 1988 [CATO]
Some socialists claim that the prevention of accidental firearm deaths is a good reason to limit our freedoms. On the Center for Disease Control site, the July 24, 2000 National Vital Statistics Reports shows that only 866 people died in 1998 as a result of accidental firearm injury. Of those, only 121 were ages 14 and under. To be sure, any death is a tragedy. But, out of the 280 million people in the United States, 866 is a very small number. By comparison, unintentional drownings account for 4,406 deaths per year and accidental falls cause 12,595 deaths per year.
