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Why this website is Pro-gun

Steve Watson | 25 March 2004

In response to our new pro-gun section in the online shop, some have reacted by informing me that the website now resembles something akin to "white supremacy". It has been said by some that our opinions are "dangerous" or "radical". This article is our response to those people. Let us begin by outlining ten key points:

1. It is a constitutional right of every American citizen to keep and bear arms.

2. It is proven that gun control INCREASES violent crime both in the US and the UK.

3. Gun control has led to an explosion in the black market with illicit trading leading to yet more violent crime.

4. Great republics like America and France would have never existed if people had not been able to rise up and overthrow the corruption ruling over them.

5. Throughout history dictators have sought to remove people's weapons for this very reason. The first things Mao, Hitler, Stalin all did was to ban guns.

6. If we further give up our liberties for so called security we will end up with neither, do you trust your government anymore? I don't.

7. I do not wish to own a gun but I believe that responsible people have the right to defend their homes and families should they have to.

8. People are being brainwashed into believing all guns and everyone who owns them is evil, whilst at the same time their (in the most) corrupt police are being armed to the teeth.If we don't need guns why do police? the answer is because gun control has led to MORE violent crime and therefore more armed police to combat it.

9. sample states in the US that have relaxed gun ownership laws have vastly reduced gun crime and robbery.

10.There are tens of thousands more deaths due to motor car accidents per year than gun related incidents, should we ban cars too? They are seemingly thousands of times more "dangerous".

It is now apparent that if you believe in freedom and the right to defend yourself should you have to then you are bad, radical or a supremacist.

I am all for a peaceful revolution first and foremost, but history has been defined by human uprising and forceful revolution, this no one can deny.

If you dis-arm the people for good this will never happen again, history will "end" and tyranny will continue to slowly creep up on us until we cannot see it anymore because it is natural and all around us.

Lets look in detail at some statistics:

CRIME RATES LOWER IN STATES THAT ALLOW LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS TO CARRY FIREARMS

States with favorable concealed carry laws have lower rates of crime than states with restrictive concealed carry laws. Overall, the homicide rate for states with favorable carry laws is 31% lower, and the robbery rate is 36% lower, than for states with restrictive concealed carry laws. States which have recently changed their laws have experienced reductions in homicide rates. Since 1987, when Florida enacted a favorable CCW law, its homicide rate has dropped 22%, even while the national rate has risen 15%. Only .007% of Florida CCW permits have been revoked because of a crime after licensure.

England now has twice as many homicides with firearms as it did before adopting its repressive laws, yet its politicians have responded to rising crime by further restricting rifles and shotguns. During the past dozen years, handgun-related robbery has risen 200% in Britain, five times as fast as the rise in the U.S. In 2002 alone gun crime soared by 35% in England. Yet still I hear people in this country tutting and hissing and see them shaking their heads, declaring the US to be "gun crazy" whilst we are civilised and sensible because we have banned guns. If you do any kind of minor research you will find that guns and gun related crime is increasing much faster in England than the US.

LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (latest data)

ALL CAUSES 2,169,518
Heart Disease 720,862
Cancers 514,657
Strokes 143,481
ACCIDENTS 89,347
Motor Vehicle 43,536
Falls 12,662
Poisoning (solid, liquid, gas) 6,434
Drowning (incl. water transport drownings) 4,685
Suffocation (mechanical, ingestion) 4,195
Fires and flames 4,120
Surgical/Medical misadventures* 2,473
Other Transportation (excl. drownings) 2,086
Natural/Environmental factors 1,453
Firearms 1,441
Chronic pulmonary diseases 90,650
Pneumonia and influenza 77,860
Diabetes 48,951
Suicide** 30,810
HIV Infections (AIDS) 29,555
Homicide and legal intervention*** 26,513
Cirrhosis and other liver diseases 25,429

* A Harvard University study suggests 93,000 deaths annually related to medical negligence, excluding tens of thousands more deaths from non- hospital medical office/lab mistakes and thousands of hospital caused infections.
** Approximately 60% involve firearms.
*** Approximately 60% involve firearms. Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck estimates 1,500-2,800 self-defense and justifiable homicides by civilians and 300-600 by police annually.

NOTABLE GUN LAW FAILURES

Since enacting a virtual handgun ban in 1976, Washington, D.C.'s murder rate has risen 200%, with a 300% rise in handgun-related homicide, as handgun use went from less than 60% of killings to 83%. No gun law in any city, state or nation has ever reduced violent crime, or slowed its rate of growth, compared to similar jurisdictions. With less than 3% of the U.S. population, New York City annually accounts for more than one-eighth of the nation's handgun- related homicides. Since it became a felony to go outside the city to evade its virtual handgun ban, the homicide rate in N.Y.C has risen three times faster than the rest of the country's. Gun rationing schemes have failed miserably. In 1975, South Carolina limited handgun sales to individuals to one per month. Since then, South Carolina's violent crime rate has skyrocketed over 100%.

Am I "dangerous" because I don't like my life and that of others to be dictated, controlled, regulated whilst all along being told again and again that I am free, I have rights, I have the right to my own beliefs?

People are too scared over what their neighbour thinks about them, when their neighbour's opinion (for the majority) has been shaped by the media and the government.

Is it just and right to ban guns under law, as they are now in many countries?
Under "the law" Women did not have the right to vote - was this just?
under "the law" black people were deemed sub-human - was this just?
My point is that just because you make something a law, does not automatically make it right or just.

To believe that you can trust your government and we can all live in harmony and peaceful union is sadly a utopian and disillusioned dream.

Saying this does not make me a pessimist, it makes me a realist, and I am realistic when I say I do not want my liberty further eroded.

If you agree, buy a pro-gun t-shirt from our store, if you disagree don't - simple as that. But in both cases it is vital that you go away and look at the facts for yourself.It is too easy to either castigate us or applaud us without looking further into this important issue.

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