Excellent point! But of no use when reason, facts and history are required. Everyone but gun-grabbers intuitively concedes that all predator-humans hope their targets are unarmed, whether the predator is a Lanza, a Stalin or a Hitler.
Liberals and democrats will always religiously cling to their dogmatic faith that “more guns leads to more crime” no matter the amount of evidence in their face. -9/27/01 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/156671... "Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept"; “In addition to the government-provided arms, there are few restrictions on buying weapons. -1/15/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/26568... BBC: "If guns are outlawed," an American bumper sticker warns, "only outlaws will have guns"; “With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.
-9/25/10 Financial Times http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/5c1b6a72-... "In 1982, the Kennesaw Georgia City Council unanimously passed an ordinance requiring households to own at least one firearm with ammunition. The law states that its purpose is to “protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants”. The result?
3/28/01 http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/27/223955.shtml: "But Kennesaw's crime rate plummeted"; in figures the city provided to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, Kennesaw had 54 burglaries in 1981 – the year before the gun ordinance – with a population of 5,242. In 1999, with a population of 19,000, only 36 burglaries were reported. -7/25/12 http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-25/news/32853144_1_gun-control-jeanne-assam-gunman-intent: Since 1950 all but one mass-murders in the U.
S. Where more than three people died were committed in gun-free zones. -11/23/12 http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/central-virginia/gun-related-violent-crimes-drop-as-gun-sales-soar-in/article_54cca13a-35ee-11e2-83f0-0019bb30f31a.html: Between 2006-2011 gun purchases in Virginia increased 73%.
During the same period gun-related crimes fell 24%. -12/17/12 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html: Britain's violent crime rate per 100,000 people is 2,034; in the U. S.
It's 466. The UK bans almost all guns -12/17/12 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-111162/Now-mugging-worse-London-Harlem.html: Now mugging is worse in London than in Harlem”; “The chances of being mugged in Britain' s capital are 25 per cent higher than in the once notorious area of New York.” The UK bans almost all guns --------------------------- -Thomas Jefferson, "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776: ‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... 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." --------------------------- -Even pacifists believed human beings should have a right to defend themse "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." An Autobiography, pg 446.
Regressive fits the current government better.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.