I Support the 2nd Amendment, BUT…

Have you heard people say this? “I support the 2^nd Amendment, BUT ______.”

No matter what they say after, it shows that they really don’t support or perhaps understand the 2^nd Amendment.

The 2^nd Amendment is not about having to jump through tons of hoops, only to be restricted to one gun with one bullet. It’s about being able to keep (meaning to own) and bear (meaning to carry) arms without infringement.

All the data shows that the Founders had it right, that when Americans are more free in their gun rights, crime goes down, and when they are restricted, crime goes up. (see Gun Facts eBook, and John Lott’s book.)

But this phrase, “I support the 2nd Amendment, BUT ______” is how the gun banners appeal to the public to sound as if they understand both sides of the issue, it makes them sound centered in their approach, it’s a way to appeal to uneducated gun owners, and a way to divide gun owners into smaller groups that can be more easily conquered (hunters vs. enthusiasts vs. collectors vs. self defense, etc.).

Sadly more gun owners and politicians have been heard saying this phrase recently, perhaps with the worry that if they don’t, they will offend some of their constituents.

The right thing to say is, “I support the 2^nd Amendment, PERIOD!”

Gun Rights ARE Civil Rights

There is a new video commercial you should watch and share to help educate people of that fact, created by the 2^nd Amendment Foundation.

http://youtu.be/UBelF4UddcY

The 2^nd Amendment Foundation differs from the NRA in that the NRA’s main strength is with Congress who creates gun legislation, where the 2^nd Amendment Foundation is made up of lawyers who systematically bring court cases to trial on the issues of gun civil rights, in order to restore lost gun rights from bad legislation, which sometimes takes decades or longer. This is why we must fight now, before bad laws are created.

(A great read on why we have guns in America, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet writes this article: Why We Have Guns)

Gun bans never slow crime, new bans won’t either.

Gun banner groups say that the reason past bans have failed is because they didn’t go far enough in stripping Americans of their gun rights, and therefore they want to take new gun bans even further.

These new proposed gun bans are not at all about stopping violence, but instead they are designed to ban and confiscate millions of firearms from law-abiding citizens.

If it were about decreasing violence, and if it were even true that banning inanimate and amoral objects would somehow increase morality and decrease murders, then why not ban those instruments used the most often in murders?

And what are those items used most often? If you were to get your view of the outside world from the media, than you might guess guns. But according to the FBI, people are far more likely to be killed with clubs, hammers and feet, than with guns, particularly the certain rifles and gun parts that banners can most easily demonize in the news.

Obama Has Caused Gun Sales to Soar, & Murders Are Down.

If President Obama really believes that we have a “growing culture of violence” and that guns are to blame, then why didn’t he do anything about guns when he was first elected, when murders were much higher?

In actuality, since he was first elected, gun sales have been through the roof as millions of Americans have taken his threats towards bans seriously. Each new threat has brought more new shooters into the market and has made experienced shooters buy more too. As a result, gun ownership is at an all-time high, and murders and violence keep declining.

In fact, Obama should instead be touting the successful drop in murders and violence since he came into office, but instead he hides good news on guns because it goes against his agenda and narrative that we live in a “growing culture of violence.”

Rampage Murders Are Obviously Politicized

Even rampage murders are down despite the news. Rampage murders are mass murders committed by a coward who wants to commit suicide and decides to do it while killing a lot of innocent people at the same time. They always happen in "gun-free zones" as a way for the coward to finally become infamous, and finally get the attention he seeks so desperately.

The media and politicians like to blame rampage murders on inanimate objects like guns, but the truth is that rampage murders use bombs, blunt objects, and anything else they can find. There was even a rampage murderer who attacked a school on the same day of the Sandy Hook event, but it got no media coverage because the attacker used a knife to stab a class full of petrified 5 year babies. Where was the outcry towards certain makes and models of knives?

There is a particular mind-set of a rampage murderer and the answer is not creating more useless laws banning objects used by millions of good people for self-defense, but rather to deal with the actual problem of broken families, mental illness, and the fact that the media’s undivided attention on such killers feeds future rampage murders.

But still, despite the media’s incessant attention to make infamous the cowards who commit rampage murders, we still have less violence in or society despite having more guns.

"I Support the 2A, BUT Magazine Bans Save Lives." False!

The gun banners keep saying this, and various proposed bills are trying to limit magazine capacity under the guise that the reload time will give the un-armed and helpless victims in a "gun-free zone" murder spree, a chance to fight back with their hands.

Feinstein is saying that the restriction must be 10 rounds, New York says 10 and even 8 rounds is too much and it must be 7, California not wanting to be out-done is looking for an even lower number but they'll have to try and outdo New Jersey who says it should be 3, and Connecticut who wants it to only be 1 round!

What none of the gun banners are saying is the number they really want, and the number they're trying to get to eventually – which is ZERO! They see no need for guns and want a completely gun free America. But instead they try to divide gun owners in an attempt to conquer some and say, "I support the 2nd Amendment, BUT no one should be able to have more than __ rounds."

Magazine Capacity Myth Debunked

Here in this recent video, Sheriff Ken Campbell demonstrates that both experienced and inexperienced shooters can still fire the same about of rounds, and that banning normal capacity magazines (1) does not pass the common sense test, (2) it does not give un-armed victims a realistic chance to tackle a murderer, (3) but it does make it harder for civilians to defend themselves against a violent attack.

What Can You Do?

(1) Send 22 Emails With 2 Clicks

Both Ruger and Smith & Wesson have set up a website where you can send 11 pre-written letters by emails at once to your local and state representatives. Use both sites each week to send letters each week.

• Rugar Email Site
• Smith & Wesson Email Site

(2) Call Your State Reps Weekly

It'll take less than 1 minute per call and the message should be short and clear:

• "Universal Background Checks are a fancy gun-ban term for total registration and then confiscation."
• "All gun bans and restrictions have proven to fail to stop crime."
• "We are watching you very closely on this issue and will send you home if you support any part of these proposed anti-gun bills."

Find your reps here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ and save their phone numbers in your phone as Congress 1, 2, and 3 with their names so that they are easy to call. Be friendly and to the point.

(3) Send Personal Emails Too

Even with the automated email links above, I've been sending certain representatives custom written emails. I think it's important to send something that is personally written so that it gets read. You can address certain things they've said both good and bad, and of course remind them that you are strongly motivated, and vote specifically on this one issue of gun rights.

(4) Join the NRA

There is no group better when it comes to access and influence with Congress and gun rights, and numbers of NRA members matter. The media has been trying to demonize and mock the NRA, but membership is growing leaps and bounds.

Be a year member for only about $25 using a discount with this link.

(5) Spread the Word

Spread the word by passing this around to all your friends and encourage them to all do the same thing. We have the facts and the majority of people in our favor. We just need to speak up.

(6) Take Someone Shooting

It’s amazing how taking someone shooting inoculates them against the lies of gun-banners. The more people get into shooting and study self-defense, the more they realize how much they want to prepare to defend themselves, and how much the government gets in their way of doing so.

(7) Read and educate yourself on the subject.

The sources I used above are listed below. Check them out as well as more of my articles right here.

• Conn Lawmaker Pushes for Limits to ONE Round
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/11/Conn-Lawmaker-Pushes-Barney-Fife-Law-Limits-Guns-To-One-Round

• Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet: Why We Have Guns
- http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/why_we_have_guns.html

• Free E-Book of Gun Facts
- http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/6.1/gun_facts_6_1_screen.pdf

• Medved: Why Obama Hides Good News on Guns
- http://www.michaelmedved.com/column/why-obama-hides-good-news-on-guns/

"Universal Background Checks" & the High Moral Verbiage of Gun Banners

Right now gun banners are using devious marketing tactics to stake out the higher moral ground on the issue of gun bans, and they're using specific and nice sounding words to do it to appeal to the uninformed.

They are using words like “common sense,” “reasonable,” “compromise,” and “universal” when they describe any of their agendas to strip Americans of their civil rights that pre-date the creation of this country.

Listen, and you'll hear the gun banners say “common sense legislation” instead of massive gun bans, and they'll say “reasonable measures” in place of “registration and confiscation.”

They say that gun owners need to “compromise” and discuss their “reasonable and common sense” legislation, but in this case compromise doesn't mean that both sides get something, instead it means that gun owners are stripped of more civil rights and get nothing in return – not even safety or lower crime.

What's the Opposite of "Reasonable" & "Common Sense?"

If the gun banners are labeling themselves as the ones who are “reasonable” and having “common sense,” than that leaves us gun owners by default as the ones who must be un-reasonable and having no common sense. The gun banners feel it's their job to be our mom and to tell us what we can and can’t own, even if we haven't broken any laws, and even if more guns means less crime in society.

In their opinion, we are supposed to be grateful that they even “allow” us to own anything at all, because they feel we shouldn't have any guns in today's world. The feel that it's through their generosity that we can even have some. The heads of the gun banner groups feel that the 2nd Amendment is an archaic idea written for frontier times by old, irrelevant, dead people, and it needs to be updated to coincide with their utopian, gun-free, modern society. In their perfect world, not even police would have guns, because they wouldn't need them if no one else had them.

To do that, they constantly stake out of the moral high ground as their way of dividing gun owners into separate and smaller groups that can be more easily conquered (ie. hunters vs. enthusiasts vs. collectors vs. self protection). If they can get some gun owners to agree and turn against themselves by agreeing to more restrictions, the gun banners win bit by bit.

But “Universal Background Check” Sounds Like a Good Thing

By labeling their gun registration and confiscation plan with an innocuous and vague term like “Universal Background Check,” they are in fact creating a box that they can put anything into, at any time. It will be a permanent system that they can grow as they'd like.

They can add to this system over time to further restrict and ban future ownership. If all guns must pass through the gun banner's UBC system, including the passing down of heirlooms, then future ownership can and will be squashed with future bans.

The News Doesn't Check Obama's "Facts"

The UBC may sound good when the news doesn’t check Obama’s grossly exaggerated figure that 40% of guns are sold privately, or his claim that it’s this so-called “loophole” that allows criminals to spend their hard-earned money on guns used in crime.

The truth is that private sale is not a loophole at all, but used to be the norm for hundreds of years until the gun banners created the current system. If anything, this is a concession that their past gun regulations didn't go far enough, and they want even private sales to go through their new system.

The 40% figure is a lie because private gun sales are really in the single digits, not to mention that most criminals don’t buy their guns from law-abiding citizens. Criminals may trade or buy guns from each other on a black market, but they steal them from law-abiding citizens.

The news doesn’t check Obama’s statement that our current background check system stopped 1.5 million people from getting guns, because the truth shows how failed the current system really is. The truth is that 94% of those rejected were errors, and the actual group of people that were prosecuted for trying to buy a gun illegally could all fit into your living room.

Most private gun sales are family gifts and heirlooms that are passed down from generation to generation, and that infuriates gun banners. They want to know what guns you have, even if it’s an old shotgun inherited from your grandpa. They want to know about it, record it in a database, so that down the road they can demonize it in the news, and then come and take it from you.

Registration equals confiscation, but not for criminals.

All Gun Control Has Proven to Fail

Remember that all gun control of every kind has failed. President Clinton's decade long "Assault-Weapon's Ban" was a complete failure by all accounts on both sides. But the gun banners say it failed because they didn't go far enough or use "confiscation."

The truth is that gun control only prevents good people from having guns, and not criminals – because criminals will always break the law and will always have weapons and will always refuse registration.

Every time someone says, “We must do this, or criminals will get guns,” or “We must do that, or criminals will carry guns,” remember that criminals already have guns and already carry them.

All of the 20,000+ gun laws only stop law-abiding citizens from their inalienable right to keep and bear arms. Each law bit by bit, strips good people from their ability to keep (own) and bear (carry) guns – a civil right that we're supposed to have without infringement from the government.

Every gun law is another infringement that we've put up with, and this UBC seems to be the final line in the sand for many. Right now gun banners are fighting harder than they ever had, and we have to fight back harder than we ever have for our civil rights and our children's.

I believe that the gun banners are pushing for so much registration that they hope to wear us out and then come up with a “compromise” and get what they really want, “Universal Background Check.” They even admit that the UBC system will be toothless without registration, and registration is useless without confiscation.

But What if UBC Doesn't Have Registration?

Sometimes the gun banners will say in one news clip or another that the "Universal Background Check" system won't have registration, but then they admit that it will, or will be useless without it.

Remember that this is all a shell game to them to get support from the un-educated, and the media has been shown 8-to1 to be complicit in the anti-gun agenda and they don't question it. As another example of media bias, look at the media's portrayal of two very different rallies.

The gun banners will insist on full registration and a database kept of all firearms. The question is whether it goes into their original bill, gets slipped in at the end, or gets added after it passes because they'll say that UBC just isn’t reducing crime like they planned. (FYI - No gun ban law ever reduces crime.)

They know they need it, they’re just trying to gain support by dividing gun owners before they slip it in. The real question is what happens after Registration? And will we let it go that far?

Two Videos

In closing, here are two videos that stuck out to me this week. The first is only 6 minutes long, by an Ex Secret Service Agent. It is powerful and worth watching.

The second is about 25 minutes long on the repercussions of UBC, by NUTNFANCY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4RRiobuzY

Finally, What Can You Do?

(1) Send 22 Emails With 2 Clicks

Both Ruger and Smith & Wesson have set up a website where you can send 11 pre-written letters by emails at once. Instantly email your local and state representatives, your Attorney General, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, as well as the President and Vice President.

Use both sites each week to send letters each week. Don't worry about annoying them, that's the idea. We want them to be so sick of us, that they finally start to take us seriously. It is working too.

• Rugar Email Site
• Smith & Wesson Email Site

(2) Call Your State Reps Weekly

Keep it up. The calls and emails are working, but the gun banners are expecting us to get tired out. Continue to call your state reps every week for the next 8 or so weeks. It'll take less than 1 minute per call and the message should be short and clear:

• "Universal Background Checks are a fancy gun-ban term for total registration and then confiscation."
• "All gun bans and restrictions have proven to fail to stop crime."
• "We are watching you very closely on this issue and will send you home if you support any part of these proposed anti-gun bills."

Find your reps here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ and save their phone numbers in your phone as Congress 1, 2, and 3 with their names so that they are easy to call. Be friendly and to the point.

(3) Send Personal Emails Too

Even with the automated email links above, I've been sending certain representatives custom written emails. I think it's important to send something that is personally written so that it gets read. You can address certain things they've said both good and bad, and of course remind them that you are strongly motivated, and vote specifically on this one issue of gun rights.

(4) Join the NRA

There is no group better when it comes to access and influence with Congress and gun rights, and numbers of NRA members matter. The media has been trying to demonize and mock the NRA, but membership is growing leaps and bounds.

Be a year member for only about $25 using a discount with this link.

(5) Spread the Word

Spread the word by passing this around to all your friends and encourage them to all do the same thing. We have the facts and the majority of people in our favor. We just need to speak up.

(6) Take Someone Shooting

It’s amazing how taking someone shooting inoculates them against the lies of gun-banners. The more people get into shooting and study self-defense, the more they realize how much they want to prepare to defend themselves, and how much the government gets in their way of doing so.

(7) Read and educate yourself on the subject.

The sources I used above are listed below. Check them out as well as more of my articles right here.

• Free E-Book of Gun Facts
- http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/6.1/gun_facts_6_1_screen.pdf

• Obama’s false numbers that 40% of guns are sold privately and the background check system stopped more than 1.5 million people from getting guns.

- http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338735/40-percent-myth-john-lott

- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/30/the-gun-show-loophole-myth/

• Gun banners insist on total registration, and anything else is "toothless."
- http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obamas-senate-gun-outreach-falling-short-88055.html?hp=t2_3

• Medved: Two Rallies, Two World Views
- http://www.michaelmedved.com/column/two-rallies-two-world-views/

Gun Violence vs Total Violence

Do you really care what weapon is used to kill you or a family member? If a loved one is raped and killed, does it really matter if the weapon used is a bat, a knife, fists, or a gun?

America has substantially lower murder rates and violent crime compared to England, Australia and Canada – countries constantly shown by gun banners as having lower "gun" violence when compared to America.

But their information is misleading. Aren’t we looking for less total violence and fewer murders in America? Why then are anti-gun politicians and gun banners so pre-occupied with one of the smallest numbers in the violence category – “gun” violence? Why not total violence? It is because using the one number that fits their agenda is a way of mis-informing the gullible and uninformed.

How Gun-Banners Work

Gun banners believe in their hearts that more guns equal more crime, even though the stats all prove them wrong. Gun banners also know that they can’t remove all guns from society, even though they would like to, so they instead use the emotion of tragedies to keep people from looking at facts, while they take what freedoms and guns they can get with mis-information.

They attack on all fronts to strip Americans of as many civil gun rights as possible, but then pull back and “compromise” by just taking some. By “compromising,” they get what they always wanted, and they look like the good guys in the media and public opinion.

Truth: More Guns = LESS Crime

The truth is that when there are more guns in society, total violence and murder rates go down dramatically!

Economist John Lott used to be a gun banner, but he wanted to use a smarter approach and use numbers that could withstand debate, instead of the normal emotion-driven messages of other gun-banners. Being one of the nation’s lead economists, he set up a series of studies to prove that guns were bad, but instead proved again and again that they were actually good for society.

He listened to the numbers rather than bend them to his agenda and became a pro-gun advocate and wrote a book called More Guns, Less Crime amongst others.

Now in its 3^rd edition, More Guns, Less Crime is a must read in this political anti-gun climate. Forbes describes the book like this:

“Lott’s book... presents highly sophisticated regression analysis of copious data relating to violent crime and guns city by city, county by county, and state by state, for several recent decades. Lott’s regression equations,

‘account for not only all the law enforcement variables (arrest, execution, and     imprisonment rates), income and poverty measures, (poverty and unemployment rates, per capita real income, as well as income maintenance, retirement and unemployment payments), the thirty-six measures of demographic changes, and the national average changes in crime rates from year-to-year and average differences across states …. In addition, the [regressions] account for the difference in various concealed handgun laws and other types of gun control laws.’

In short, this is the most sophisticated and comprehensive presentation of the data relating to violent crime and guns in the world.”

This and similar work relating to other countries worldwide shows that where the local population owns more guns, there is less crime. That it is because criminals avoid victims who are or might be armed, and prefer to prey on the defenseless and unarmed, such as in “gun-free” zones. And because the presence of guns that can be used in self defense stops the commission of the more violent crimes, such as murder.”

After the release of his book, Lott was interviewed by the anti-gun city of Chicago. You can read his short debate with the interviewer here, at the Universityof Chicago Press.

Someone else has put together this free ebook packed with facts that debunk the gun banner's myths.

So why don’t you hear about this in the news?

It's no news flash that the news outlets themselves are anti-gun. Media Research Center showed recently that news stories from "ABC,CBS, NBC Slant 8 to 1 for Obama's Gun Control Crusade." 

So despite the fact that guns are used by millions of people every day for good, far more than then they are ever used for bad, you wouldn't know it listening to the news. If your view of the world comes from the news, you would think it is the opposite.

Remember that the media needs dysfunction to survive and tragedies are fraught with dysfunction. Plus it feeds into the long-told myth that we live in a “growing culture of violence,” a myth that politicians need people to believe in order to push through their agendas that would otherwise fail if facts were allowed into the discussion.

The New Media = Individuals & the Internet

Because of the strong media bias, frustrated individuals are turning to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other internet sources to share the truth on their own, as I am doing here. In this way, we all are sharing the truth and also showing how irrelevant the mainstream media really is.

As an example, here is someone who has started a YouTube channel, and in this short clip he quickly shows where got his crime facts and how misleading the gun banners really are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa98FHuaU0&feature=share&list=UUaGoVAB64Ojh3JU_VPis8ig

What Can You Do?

(1) Send 22 Emails With 2 Clicks

Both Ruger and Smith & Wesson have set up a website where you can send 11 pre-written letters by emails at once. Instantly email your local and state representatives, your Attorney General, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, as well as the President and Vice President.

Use both sites each week to send letters each week. Don't worry about annoying them, that's the idea. We want them to be so sick of us, that they finally start to take us seriously. It is working too.

• Rugar Email Site
• Smith & Wesson Email Site

(2) Call Your State Reps Weekly

Keep it up. The calls and emails are working, but the gun banners are expecting us to get tired out. Continue to call your state reps every week for the next 8 or so weeks. It'll take less than 1 minute per call and the message should be short and clear:

• "Universal Background Checks are a fancy gun-ban term for total registration and then confiscation."
• "All gun bans and restrictions have proven to fail to stop crime."
• "We are watching you very closely on this issue and will send you home if you support any part of these proposed anti-gun bills."

Find your reps here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ and save their phone numbers in your phone as Congress 1, 2, and 3 with their names so that they are easy to call. Be friendly and to the point.

(3) Send Personal Emails Too

Even with the automated email links above, I've been sending certain representatives custom written emails. I think it's important to send something that is personally written so that it gets read. You can address certain things they've said both good and bad, and of course remind them that you are strongly motivated, and vote specifically on this one issue of gun rights.

Make sure it's an email and not a written letter, as written letters sometimes take weeks to go through security tests when being delivered to various representatives.

(4) Join the NRA

There is no group better when it comes to access and influence with Congress and gun rights, and numbers of NRA members matter. The media has been trying to demonize and mock the NRA, but membership is growing leaps and bounds.

Be a year member for only about $25 using a discount with this link.

(5) Spread the Word

Spread the word by passing this around to all your friends and encourage them to all do the same thing. We have the facts and the majority of people in our favor. We just need to speak up.

(6) Take Someone Shooting

It’s amazing how taking someone shooting inoculates them against the lies of gun-banners. The more people get into shooting and study self-defense, the more they realize how much they want to prepare to defend themselves, and how much the government gets in their way of doing so.

(7) Read and educate yourself on the subject.

The articles and books I talked about above are linked below. Read them and pass this on.

• Forbes: 'Assault Weapon' Is Just A PR Stunt Meant To Fool The Gullible.
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/12/28/assault-weapon-is-just-a-pr-stunt-meant-to-fool-the-gullible/

• Gun Facts Info
- http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/6.1/gun_facts_6_1_screen.pdf

• John Lott - More Guns Less Crime.
- http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493636

• Interview with John Lott by the University of Chicago Press
- http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html

• Media Research Center: "ABC, CBS, NBC Slant 8 to 1 for Obama's Gun Control Crusade"
- http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/02/mrc-abc-cbs-nbc-slant-8-to-1-for-obamas.html?m=1
- http://www.mrc.org/media-reality-check/abc-cbs-nbc-slant-8-1-obamas-gun-control-crusade

• FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs Each Year Than Rifles
- http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-rights/2013/01/03/fbi-more-people-killed-hammers-clubs-each-year-rifles#ixzz2M9UijH9y