GUN POLICY
By Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© October 2019, LD Wilson
Consultants, Inc.
UPDATE 11/19/19. Gun violence decreases in America. The American Federal Bureau Of Investigation just released the crime statistics for the USA for 2018. The crime rate is down compared to the previous year, continuing a 30-year trend in the USA.
Over the same time period, gun ownership in America has drastically increased and there are now estimated to be 400 million guns in the hands of the people. This means the more guns, the safer the people.
According to the FBI statistics, robbery in 2018 fell 12% over the previous year. The murder rate fell 6.2%. There is no Ògun violence epidemicÓ, as we are told by the media.
I. THE REAL GUN STATISTICS
According to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and other reporting agencies:
* 65% of gun deaths in the USA are suicides. These are mostly done
by old men who are very ill and no longer want to be a burden to their families. Gun control laws wonÕt stop these
deaths because they can use knives or other methods.
* The next largest category of gun deaths (about 20%)
are inner-city gang-related deaths of young men, age 15-24. These guns are often illegally
obtained, so gun control laws donÕt stop them. Cities such as Chicago
and Los Angeles, which have the tightest gun control laws in America, are among
the cities with the highest numbers of gang-related gun deaths - a few every
week. Obviously, gun control
does not work here!
* The next largest category of shootings are of women shot during domestic violence. Gun control laws will not stop domestic violence, which does not require a gun.
* School and related shootings. Last year in America there were six of these in America. Even the very left-wing Mother Jones Magazine only recorded seven because they included a terrorist attack in their numbers. However, you would think they occur every day. Some groups inflate the numbers by reclassifying all sorts of events into Ômass shootingsÕ.
In other words, the shootings that make the news such as school shootings represent a tiny proportion of shootings. Gun control laws would not stop these. They often take place in cities with strict gun control laws.
Testing of the hair for
toxic metals would help, however, to identify these sick individuals before
they commit crimes.
Also, while liberal politicians scream about banning rifles, the FBI statistics show that only 2% of homicides involved rifles in 2018! This is fewer homicides than involved knives (11 percent), hands, fists and feet (5%) and blunt objects (3%).
CONCEALED CARRY IS A GOOD IDEA
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center the
number of permits issued for concealed carry of a weapon has increased to over
18 million in the USA, and this does not count the people in 16 American states
that do not require a permit for concealed carry.
Women, especially black women, are the fastest growing group of
Americans acquiring permits to carry concealed weapons.
Yet, some want to reduce the ability of the people to defend themselves. This is an old trick of the authoritarians, socialists and communists. Of course, these people have their armed guards that follow them around day and night.
The real reason they want gun control is that a well-armed population is difficult for the socialists and communists to control.
II. UNDERSTANDING GUNS
QUOTES FROM THE
AMERICAN FOUNDERS
The
founders of America pondered carefully the issue of whether the people should
be allowed to own and use firearms.
Here is a sampling of their observations and conclusion:
"The (American) Constitution shall never be
construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
"This may be considered as the true palladium of
liberty.... The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most
governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the
narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right
of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever,
prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of
destruction."
- St. George Tucker, Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803
ÒA militia when properly formed are in fact the people
themselvesÉand include, according to the past and general usage of the states,
all men capable of bearing armsÉ "To preserve liberty, it is
essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught
alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal
Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are
ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able
might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall
not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people,
trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
- James Madison, I Annals of
Congress 434, June 8, 1789
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the
ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the
invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as
property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same
balance would be preserved were all the world
destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare
not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is
proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were
one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and
ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the
strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts
need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
- Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania
Magazine, July 1775
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be
disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in
America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the
people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular
troops."
- Noah Webster, An
Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October
10, 1787
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the
people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which
must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to
the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the Article
(The Second Amendment) in their right to keep and bear their private
arms."
- Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18,
1789
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the
United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may
exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way
to enslave them."
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by
Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the
Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the
whole people, except a few public officers."
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but
disciplined..."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January
8, 1790
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of
arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful
slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
"What country can preserve its liberties if their
rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit
of resistance. Let them take arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws
of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted
and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent
homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an
armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace
Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare
Beccaria), 1774-1776
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the
species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to
the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games
played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body
and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant
companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr,
August 19, 1785
"On every occasion [of Constitutional
interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution
was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of
trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented
against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was
passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
"I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and
captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in
April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any
consequence ... I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the
number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This
difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every
soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June
8, 1778
ÒThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the
Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence
of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the
militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of
ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form
can admit of."
- James Madison, Federalist
No. 46, January 29, 1788
"...the ultimate authority,
wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."
- James Madison, Federalist
No. 46, January 29, 1788
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
- William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18,
1783
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has
justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since
it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of
rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance,
enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
- Joseph Story, Commentaries
on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to
prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty
.... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the
people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army
upon their ruins."
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789
"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has
attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring
their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least
suspicion."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist
No. 25, December 21, 1787
"If the representatives of the people betray their
constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that
original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of
government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be
exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the
rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons entrusted with
supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or
districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take
no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms,
without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and
despair."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist
No. 28
"[I]f circumstances should
at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army
can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large
body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use
of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their
fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for
a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should
exist."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist
No. 28, January 10, 1788
"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as
great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good
Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is
undermining the very bonds of Society? ... The Scriptures tell us
"righteousness exalteth a Nation."
- Abigail Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice,
ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our
Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for
a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other."
- John Adams
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and
are always ready to guard and defend it."
- Daniel Webster
QUOTES FROM
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Moses ordered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai to
pick up the weapons of the Egyptian army after this army had been drowned in
the Red Sea. (Exact quote coming)
- The Old Testament Of The Bible, Book of Exodus.
"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his
possessions are safe."
- The New Testament Of The Bible, Luke 11:21
"Jesus said, 'But now
whoever has a purse or a bag, must take it and whoever does not have a sword
must sell his cloak and buy one.'"
- The Bible, Luke 22:36
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad
necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate
if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
- Saint Augustine
"Without doubt
one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's
goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressorÕs
death.... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving oneÕs life or oneÕs goods
and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right
of the victim."
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
III. MORE DETAILS
The above is an important introduction to a critical subject. Please re-read it many times. They were wise men and women.
Today, some in America want to reduce the ability of the people to defend themselves. This is an old trick of the authoritarians, socialists and communists. A well-armed population is difficult to control.
WORLD WAR II EXAMPLES
During World War II, about 100 people with handguns kept an entire Nazi army out of the Polish Warsaw ghetto for an entire month.
During the same war, the law in Switzerland that every home was required to have a semi-automatic assault rifle kept the Nazis completely out of that nation, although Switzerland is the close neighbor of Germany.
THE DOUBLE STANDARD
The liberals who rant and rave about gun control are total hypocrites. They have armed bodyguards and they are not about to give them up. They just donÕt want everyone to have protection because they know that an armed population is difficult to control. Their real agenda is to disarm the American people to make them easier to control.
PHONY LANGUAGE
Today the Democratic Party gun grabbers in America couch their rhetoric in statements and organizations with sweet-sounding names. They call it ÒA peace planÓ, ÒMarch For Our LivesÓ and ÒMothers Against ViolenceÓ.
It is nothing of the sort. It is a simple power grab so that the people of the United States will lose more control over their lives.
GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM
The truth is that guns do not cause violence. The cities in America with the strictest gun control laws such as Chicago have the highest crime rates. Meanwhile, those areas with the highest rates of gun ownership have lower crime rates.
The criminals find ways to get guns illegally. The people need access to them easily, privately and inexpensively.
Guns protect people and stop thousands of murders, rapes, other assaults and robberies every year in America and everywhere else in the world. That is why bodyguards and security forces have guns.
SICK MINDS CAUSE VIOLENCE
WeÕre breeding sick minds with junk food. If you donÕt believe this, look up The Twinkie Defense on Wikipedia or other websites. It is the legal excuse that hypoglycemia causes murder.
Medical drugs such as anti-depressants, especially given to young people, have suicide and homicide as known side effects. Look up Peter Breggin, MD on Wikipedia or other sites. Most of the mass shooters around the world were taking SSRI anti-depressants such as Prozac when they committed their crimes.
Toxic metals are another cause of violence. Look up manganese madness on Wikipedia or other websites.
Brain allergies are also a serious and largely avoidable problem. Look up the work of Benjamin Feingold, MD, author of Why Your Child Is Hyperactive and Doris Rapp, MD, author of Is This Your ChildÕs World. They proved that reactions to foods easily cause erratic behavior and violence – and they can be prevented by removing the chemicals in our food supply.
Other imbalances in body chemistry besides toxic metals, toxic chemicals and hypoglycemia also cause violence.
This is well-proven by the studies of prisoners by William Walsh and Dr. Richard Gottchaulk. Another man who researched the subject is Alexander Schauss, PhD, author of Diet, Crime And Delinquency.
For more details, read Why People Kill?
WHY IS THIS RESEARCH NOT USED TO DETERMINE PUBLIC POLICY?
The research above is not taught to policy makers. Also, many in government want to bury the real causes of violence and instead ban guns. This serves at least two purposes for them:
1. They acquire much more power over the people. Many government employees have disdain for the ÔordinaryÕ people and for the doctrines of America which places sovereignty in the hands of the Citizens, not the government.
2. Ongoing violence and shootings keeps the people afraid and therefore more likely to go along with all the schemes to ban guns.
RE-ELECT MR. TRUMP
Normally, a policy article would not mix in advocacy for a political candidate. However, things are at a crossroad in America.
An important reason to re-elect Mr. Trump, no matter what you think of him personally, is his staunch support for the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms. By the way, the militia in America still exists. It is the Citizens of America.
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