The BJS data shows that gun-related homicides declined by 39 percent from 1993 to 2011, and the Pew Research Center found that gun-related homicides fell from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2010, a decline of 49 percent, Gottlieb said. The declining percentages go in the same direction. Firearms-related homicides have plummeted dramatically while more Americans bought more guns, including millions of semi-automatic modern sporting rifles. More people are licensed to carry in more states, and crime is down.

It is time for the gun control crowd to acknowledge they have been consistently and undeniably wrong, Gottlieb concluded, and admit that their agenda has never been about crime, but about public disarmament. They don't want to prevent gun crime, they want to prevent gun ownership.

Alan Gottlieb - CCKRB - May 8/13

Good analogy Archer. Case in point: Rape Victim now a Second Amendment activist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ypoExvQfc&feature=player_embedded

Exactly right Mike...the American (and Canadian, English, Aus., NZ) people have not been threatened into giving up their freedoms...they've been stupified into it by "public education" and what passes for Liberalism these days....

This sort of advice could easily come from any victim of any oppressive regime and should never be taken lightly. I've heard the same thing from Hungarians and Poles.

This addresses an aspect of social engineering in which the the government of a free people has no business.

Sound logic.

Hi again Hanson. (Editor this is off topic and at your discretion)
My mistake it's Bill C-36

http://preventdisease.com/news/10/121510_Canada_passes_bill_c-36.shtml

A sample of the unconstitutional restrictions included in bill C-36 include:

- abolishing protection from trespass, a court-ordered warrant, and the need for court-supervised search and seizure;

- on ONLY suspicion, health inspectors with the aid of police can invade any location in the country, seize and confiscate goods deemed unsafe (i.e. health supplements) and violate all constitutional rights of all parties involved

- it bypasses existing laws on privacy and confidentiality and explicitly exempts the Minister of Health and government inspectors from any kind of third-party oversight and accountability;

- the need to publish regulations governing the activities of the inspectors is abolished, too;

- accused individuals have their access to the courts seriously limited, even the assumption of innocence is gone as violators are considered guilty until proven innocent with no recourse to any court of law.

- astronomical fines are to be handed out for crimes committed on the Minister’s assumption of guilt which requires no supporting evidence for independent examination;

- even the corporate shield would disappear, because corporate directors would be legally liable for the actions of their employees -; which actions would be deemed criminal solely on the opinion of the Minister, not by the courts;

- this bill allows foreign governments and institutions, like CODEX and the World Trade Organization, to have the same powers over Canadians in all these matters outlined above, as if they were part of our own government.

Still think everything is ok?

Hanson is operating under the misapprehension that "all will be well" if only we leave it to our government...
She fails to see what is really going on out there.
For example the recently passed Canadian Bill C37 makes the Patriot Act look like child's play....
Hanson...you have no rights...none. Get used to it...

While the reference to self defense is valid, the context of this quote leads me to the fact that laws against criminals are not enforced. And the politicians mind set is "make more laws"...against the law abiding citizens...How the hell does that make any sense? last year 14,000 people that are not supposed to have guns failed a back ground check...think about that. They're not supposed to have guns yet they were attempting to work the system in order to get one. Of those 14,000...14 were prosecuted...FOURTEEN. So in what way will "universal background checks make anyone any safer? The answer is, they won't. It's just a back door end run towards registration and confiscation. Trust the government? LMFAO...yeah, right...

We are instictively instilled with an over powering drive for self-preservation. That is indisputably true and has been since the dawn of time. No man or government can rightfully dictate whether or not we are allowed the tools of self defense. It is a natural right and any intervention by any individual or group is not just immoral...it's criminal.

"That none might be slaves" No unarmed society has ever been a free society. Know guns, know freedom. No guns, no freedom.

Storm, are you suggesting that letting foreign elitist bankers run everything is the way to go? (or was that part of your analogy conveniently left out?) And that being in opposition to this criminal con job is irrational? And there we have the logic of the left...MORE Government and MORE regulations, all so we can keep the Bankers in profits...

Waffler you are hilarious with your bizarre analogies. As if the Democrats are any better. The criminal system is the criminal system; period. And both sides of the aisle subscribe to it. Churchill said something like "Trying to tax your way to prosperity is like standing in a bucket and trying to pull yourself up by the handle". And he was right.

Exactly right Archer. Personal Income Tax represents "profits" to elitist bankers on loans made out of thin air...it's a criminal act by the bankers and a treasonous act by Congress.

Actually Andrews...it IS robbery with a gun. Try not paying the property taxes levied on you...eventually you will be evicted by people who will bring the police. Why do they bring the police? Because the police bring "guns". Robbery at Gunpoint.

That's right Mike, And let's not discount the education system's policy of showing graphics of hetero and homosexual acts (porn?) to the kids...in order to undermine all sense of morality. Sex education is the purvue of the child's parents in the home. Not in a group situation that is compulsory and may well damage a child's psyche for life. The "public" education sytem is very sick indeed....

The majority of "laws" are not based in any kind of "justice", they are in place only to provide a government with powers of control. We could print every law of justice required for a moral society on a single sheet of paper. Here again bastiat demonstrates his brilliance and clarity of thought. I wonder what he would have thought of laws that allow a major city to be locked down under martial law in a matter of minutes....

Mann, are you suggesting that any of these companies became internationally successful under the Hitler regime? If so, I have to say that they most certainly did not. They enjoyed nothing but state control for the benefit of the government in Hitler's time. Only through free markets and capitalism did they grow to be successful on a global scale. The only difference between industry in NAZI Germany and Stalinist Russia was who was in control and how...but in both cases the government was ultimately in control and the companies produced goods for the benefit of the state at little or no profit.

Both are systems of absolute control over the individual. Both are evil.

Ultimately socialism fails on every level, it is a cancer on free people and like cancer, it eventually kills its host. Bastiat is absolutely correct in this and every other observation I've read from him.

Waffler's point seems to be that we should consider government as "our Mom and Dad". How completely repulsive an idea is that?

And Waffler perpetuates the big lie...Taxes do NOT give us anything. They are simply profits given to foreign bankers for lending the government money right out of thin air. Abolish the Fed. and return to real money. Then maybe your tax dollar will go to sustain infrastructure.
Then maybe our government will once again be "our government" and not a bunch of bought and paid for talking heads working for one world government ideology.

Yes the government wants more...and more and more. And it's not about paying off the imaginary debt that was created by borrowing imaginary money. Your tax dollar goes to nothing more than the interest on the imaginary debt and amounts to pure profit for international bankers who care not at all for America or its Constitution. Its about keeping you under control as Franklin alludes...and its also why they're coming after the guns...Libertys Teeth. Control control control...It's not really the land of the free anymore. But that will change.

Waffler...a point of sale tax is all that would be required to sustain infrastructure in a "responsible" nation that minds its own damned business. Like the Constitution says it should.

hermine...that's fantastic! Spread the word brother...spread the word. :)