Guns Kill

From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, powerless to protect themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Gun control didn't make any of the 56 million (that's 56,000,000) people exterminated in the Twentieth Century safer. Gun Control didn't protect the 16,914 Americans murdered in 1998, or the 18,208 murdered in 1997, either. Gun control simply created millions of disarmed, defenseless victims.
             Guns allow saftey. In many States guns are used every day to prevent crime, protect property and deter predators. Guns allow women to walk alone without fear of assault. Guns protect policemen, and help them protect the citizens they watch over. Guns protect political leaders, prominent businessmen, celebrities, cabbies, bank guards and jewelry merchants. Every day, all day and all night, guns make it possible for people to perform risky but necessary work, and to remain alive and safe while so doing. Furthermore Guns protect the lives of women, in a 1985 Second Amendment Foundation ad featured a beaten women, eye blackened and lip swelling, wrapped in a bathrobe. "Last night I was raped.Where were the police?".
             A firearm is clearly the best means of self-defense available. Firearms are easily used by the elderly, the weak a the sick. Unlike driving an automobile, firearms do not require a great deal of skill to be used effectively for self-defense. In fact, millions of people with little or no training use firearms each year to defend themselves, usually just by displaying the weapon. The reality is, proposals to license firearms are usually designed to restrict firearms ownership. In places like New York and Washington, D.C., licensing schemes have even been used as a means of disarming law-abiding citizens. For this reason, licensing laws violate our right of self-defense.
             After the tragic event of September 11th the rate of gun owner ship increased dramaticly, while people where in the state of fear of their own protection.