Official Pro-Gun FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun.
This FAQ about talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun was compiled and written by Ken Barnes (kebarnes@cc.memphis.edu) with numerous contributions by others.
1. Personal issues (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)- The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by ...
- 1.0 "You don't need a gun, the police will protect you."
- Recommended reading: In The Gravest Extreme,by Massad ...
- 1.1 "Guns aren't effective defensive weapons, and are '43 to 1 times' more likely to kill their owners or family members than they are useful to defend against criminal attack."
- See_Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America,by Gary Kleck,...
- 1.1.a "Chemical sprays, stun guns, and other nonlethal methods are effective and easy to use in stopping an attacker."
- see Ayoob,In The Gravest Extreme(see above) p.35-38....
- 1.1.b "2.5 million defensive uses of firearms each year can't be true!"
- See Kleck and Gertz (1995), above....
- 1.1.c "Is there any independent data that supports Kleck and Gertz?"
- See Kleck and Gertz (1995), above....
- 1.2 "It's too easy for your attacker to take your gun away from you and shoot you."
- See Kleck,Point Blank(see above) p.122....
- 1.2.a "Women shouldn't have guns because men will only take them away and use them against them".
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- 1.3 "Guns are too dangerous to keep in the house if you've got children."
- See_Guns, Crime, and Freedom_by Wayne LaPierre, Regnery Books,...
- 2. Constitutional issues in the United States (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and ...
- 2.0 "The Second Amendment is really just an irrelevant anachronism, but if it has any meaning at all today, it just means that the Federal government can't disarm the National Guard."
- See United States Constitution (U.S.C.), Amendment II:...
- 2.0.a "What's the deal with the commas, and the hyphen in 'well-regulated'? You gun nuts seem to be obsessed with them."
- In summary: Archaic punctuation, usage, and peculiar grammar (...
- 2.1 "The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee an individual right."
- A few relevant law review articles [from the list given ...
- 2.2 "If the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear ordinary military weapons, then everybody can have their own tactical nuclear warhead."
- [This is what is known on t.p.g. as the nuclear strawman or Ban guns, ban The Bomb! argument, designed to get everybody off on a tangent about whether or not the U.S. Constitution protects ...
- 2.3 "The Second Amendment doesn't apply to state and local governments, so state gun control laws, or local ordinances like the Morton Grove, IL ban on handguns, are constitutional."
- See U.S.C. Amendment XIV, sec. 1:...
- 3. Other "gun-control" fantasies (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom....
- 3.0 "Registration of all firearms and ammunition will assist police in solving crimes committed with guns."
- See particularly LaPierre,Guns, Crime and ...
- 3.0.a "Guns ought to be licensed and registered like cars."
- See particularly LaPierre,Guns, Crime, and Freedom,...
- 3.0.b "Gun registration reduced homicides in Washington, D.C."
- see_Uniform Crime Reports for the United States, 19xx-1994,...
- 3.0.c "Putting taggants in explosives and gunpowder will put bomb-making terrorists out of business."
- see Taggants in Explosives,Congress of the United States, ...
- 3.1 "Guns increase the lethality of crime."
- see_The Citizen's Guide to Gun Control,by Franklin E. Zimring and ...
- 3.2 "A waiting period saves lives, and it might even have stopped John Hinckley, Jr. from wounding Jim Brady (for whom the Brady national waiting-period law was named)."
- See particularly LaPierre,Guns, Crime, and Freedom,...
- 3.2.a "The Brady Act stopped thousands of violent felons from getting guns since its enactment in 1993."
- see_Uniform Crime Reports for the United States, 1992,(see above)...
- 3.3 "No one needs an assault weapon, they have no sporting purpose, they're only intended to kill people."
- See particularly LaPierre,Guns, Crime, and Freedom,...
- 3.4 "There's certainly no reason to allow the sale of cop-killer ammunition which can penetrate bulletproof vests."
- see_Uniform Crime Reports: Law Enforcement Officers ...
- 3.5 "Cheap handguns, a.k.a. 'Saturday Nite Specials,' are the weapons of choice for violent criminals."
- See_Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America,...
- 3.6 "Plastic guns, which can slip through metal detectors..."
- see Kleck,Point Blank_p....
- 3.6.a "But how could you detect plastic guns?"
- Harris, David A., Superman's X-Ray Vision and the Fourth Amendment:...
- 3.7 "Gun buy-backs are an effective way to get guns off the street."
- See LaPierre,Guns, Crime and Freedom,where he devotes an ...
- 3.8 "Permitting people to carry concealed weapons will lead to increased violent crime, and people killing each other at the slightest provocation."
- See LaPierre,Guns, Crime and Freedom,where he devotes an ...
- 3.8.a "Yeah, but what about the University of Maryland study that showed that murders increased after concealed-carry permits were issued in Florida?
- McDowall, David; Wiersema, Brian; and Loftin, Colin; Easing ...
- 3.8.b - "The Lott/Mustard study is just gun industry propaganda! How can anybody believe that concealed carry reduces violent crime?"
- See Lott, John R., and Mustard, David B., Crime, Deterrence,...
- 4.0 "Ordinary people can't fight a modern army with just pistols,rifles and shotguns! What chance does a_militia_have against tanks,planes, helicopters, and nuclear weapons?"
- See_War in the Shadows: Guerillas Past and Present,2nd. ed....
- 99. APPENDIX I - The Biggest Myths of "Gun Control": A Look At U.S. Federal Legislation (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- The Biggest Myths of Gun Control: A Look At U.S. Federal ...
- 99. APPENDIX II - Concealed Carry Reality vs. "Gunshine State" Fantasy (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- Murder rates in Florida Cities included in U. Maryland CCW 'study'...
- 99. APPENDIX III - "Gun control": international comparisons (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- See_The Samurai, The Mountie, And The Cowboy,by David Kopel,...
- 99. APPENDIX IV - Washington, D.C.: a "gun control" paradise (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- Absolute numbers of murders and homicides in the District of Columbia,...
- 99. APPENDIX V - The U.S. Supreme Court and the Second Amendment (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- The U.S. Supreme Court, for most of its history, has had no ...
- 99. APPENDIX VI - "Pious Frauds: Or, If It Sounds Too Good To Be True..." (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- In the Middle Ages, it seems that every church had a ...
- 99. Index and glossary (talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ)
- Adams, John (U.S. President, Vice-President to President Washington)...
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