Common Sense Gun Laws

What are "Common Sense Gun Laws?"  They are a phrase that has been focus group tested by the gun control lobby and found to be more agreeable to American Citizens.  So lets explore this further.

Should we prohibit guns from criminals & those who are mentally ill?  The obvious answer seems to be yes, but think about this.  If we disagree with the government, they can declare us criminals or mentally ill.  Anyone who would want to own a gun must be mentally ill in their minds.... right?  Anyone who owns the wrong kind of gun, that gets more and more restrictive over time is a criminal, right? Can you see where this could go.  Next, an annual mental examination will be required to own a gun at our expense and a huge government fee/tax.  Slowly over time, more and more "Common Sense" gun regulations are put in place until it becomes nearly impossible to legally own a gun... no problem for criminals as they actually prefer unarmed victims.  Interesting how a large majority of all mass shootings are in Gun Free Zones.  Perhaps the people who implement those gun free zones are in part responsible for the victims who are shot, far more so than the gun manufactures being responsible when a criminal uses a gun to commit a crime.

Ok, but obviously we should keep guns out of the hands of Terrorist?  Problem with that is the FBI definition of Terrorism would include George Washington and basically every other hero who fought in the American Revolution for our freedom from an oppressive government (England) who would have also been glad to ban our guns.

So it is very important to realize that "Common Sense Gun Laws" are part of a strategy to slowly take away the right to bear to bear arms over time and effectively ban guns just like Australia did. Australia first required that every gun be registered and then a few years later implemented a mandatory buyback. This is the type program that gun banners like Hillary Clinton support.

We hear the figures 90 gun deaths per day from Gun Banners. According to PolitiFact, this includes police shootings and only 1/3 are from homicides.  The largest part are suicides who would simply find another way if they didn't have a gun. Of the gun homicides:

• 71% of gunshot victims had previous arrest records.
• 64% had been convicted of a crime.
• Each had an average of 11 prior arrests. ^{1, 2}
• 63% of victims had criminal histories and 73% of that group knew their assailant (twice as often as victims without criminal histories). ³
• 74% of homicides during the commission of a felony involve guns.

If we want to act on Gun Violence, we should start by keeping these criminals in jail instead of releasing them early.  Since most crime is committed by repeat offenders, we could cut crime in half by putting and keeping them in jail or use the death penalty.

Unfortunately, we hear few statistics to demonstrate how many crimes are avoided, and lives are saved because of the presence of guns and the media never covers these cases like shooting victims get.
But as Gun ownership has increased, crime has gone down according to the FBI background checks required to buy a gun and their crime statistics.

We also know restrictive places like Chicago and Mexico that have very few guns per capita (mostly the criminals & drug cartels), their Homicide rates are much higher than the US average which has a high gun ownership rate per capita.

In fact, crime is at a 44 year low according to FBI data complied by the NRA who is the leading supporter of American gun rights.  Every Patriot who believes that American should have the right to own guns should join this organization.

We hear statements like Europe bans guns and have far less gun deaths, but their total violent crime is much higher and in France (and California) where guns are highly restricted, they have more mass shootings than the US and our population is five times larger.  If you don't count the 5 US states with the strictest gun laws, then our crime rate is lower than most countries that ban guns.

There are many things that cause more deaths than guns like heart disease, tobacco, aids, cars and even swimming pools.  Yes, there are far more (about 11X) children die per swimming pool than there are per gun in the US.  the purpose of Gun Control is not really about public safety or saving lives, its about controlling we the people, so the Government can do what ever they want to. The more the government infringes on the right to bear arms, the more we need that right.  The right to bear arms is not about the right to protect your home or hunt, it is to insure a Free State.

 Abortion Doctors kill about 1,000 times more children each year than guns do, so gun control is NOT about protecting children. Granted the Supreme Court has said this is a woman's choice, so I'm not debating this issue but if a criminal kills a pregnant woman and her unborn child they are charged with a double homicide.

 

According to the US Constitution, only the powers it grants are given to the Federal Government.  All others belong to the States and Citizens.  So the Federal Government should not even have the power to regulate guns, even those that cross state lines.

So once again, every Patriot who loves this country and believes that Americans should have the right to own guns should join the NRA.  You can apply for membership here.

As a note, this content was not reviewed nor approved by the NRA and does not necessarily reflect their opinion or position on the subject of gun control.

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Gun Free Zone Facts
Why I avoid doing business in Gun Free Zones 
The Rule of 3 (set priorities by this);

The Best Gun
Best Handgun Selection Criteria

The right amount of Ammo  

Terrorist Attack - Best Preparations

Protecting America 

Urban Survival Perspective

The end of Free America

The US Government in its current form is almost 250 years old while the average government age of all the countries in the world is about 150 years old.  Many countries have been over thrown and gone through several different governments during this same time.

So for thousands of years, governments have risen up and countries have fallen. How could this possibly happen to the USA?

Suppose we elected a charismatic President of the United States that was secretly a Muslim Manchurian Candidate, with the intention of covertly destroying the US.

During his time in office, he does the following:

1. Adds trillions of dollars to the national debt.
2. Put expensive government programs in place (Affordable Care Act) to help break the US.
3. Slowly allows thousands of military-aged Muslim male immigrants into the US that were not fully checked out. 
4. Appoints Muslim colleagues to key government positions in the military, homeland security and NSA.
5. Release multiple Muslim terrorists
6. Give Iran, the largest supporter of terrorism and a country with some of the largest oil reserves and no need for nuclear power, a $150 Billion dollars, while they are developing "nuclear power" and launching missiles in violation of trade sanctions.
7. Makes huge purchases of personal protection ammo (not target practice rounds) that are unprecedented in history.
8. Stage military martial law drills in potentially hostile states (Jade Helm 15)
9. Have the Pentagon prepare for mass civil unrest
10. Over the years, police departments around the country get armed with armored vehicles, riot gear and machine-guns with high capacity magazines.  Then you decide that you many not be able to control all the local police departments and move to disarm them by stopping sales of excess military equipment to local and state police.
11. The government buying up massive amounts of emergency food.
12. You appoint a liberal "big government" Supreme Court Justice.  This is the single most harmful thing that can be done.

Once all this is in place, the president's Muslim organization commit terrorist attacks on early voting locations and then declare martial law and  "temporarily" suspend elections until it is safe.  This will drag on indefinitely or more accurately for ever.  This happened in Germany when Hitler, an elected leader, took over as a Dictator with the Reichstag Fire Decree, a response to a staged terrorist attack (like 911?).

The NSA has the address of everyone ordering guns or ammo and posting stuff on Facebook.  These unfortunate people will be the victims of night-time violence and disappear during the night like Hitler's opposition did with his feared SS.  They will take us down one at a time until there is no one brave enough to speak out.

An alternative, is to stage his own death at the hands of a white redneck live on TV and his last words are "rise up black brothers ... avenge my death"..... This country will erupt in to race violence like never before.  With 97% of the black voters voting for a Black President while about 50% of the whites voted for him and 50% voted against him (an even distribution), what does that tell you about racism?

Since the beginning of time, people have been predicting doom, the sky is falling... that never comes.  At the same time, people have been ignoring risks like Hitler and end up being caught by surprise. 

The Native Americans could have defeated the white man IF they had united and struck soon enough.  Instead, they waited and waited until the resistance was eliminated one by one.  When they finally recognized the seriousness of the threat.... it was too late.

So it doesn't hurt to take a few precautions, but what?  We must decide now that we will refuse to suspend or delay elections; if this is enforced, we must rise up in masses and vote anyway.

Author:  Anonymous 

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Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

 
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton

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