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This is an article against gun control.
It is necessary to illuminate that
changes in social paradigms, not human beings, bring about a faster and more
efficient change. This article operates under the preconceived notion
that the reader fundamentally understands people as a whole change very slowly.
It is also necessary to state that archaic methodologies employed by groups
such as the Roman Catholic Church, however slow to conform to an ever-changing
society, make smaller errors on a larger social scale. With this faith, and the
Knowledge an ideal world is unobtainable with humans, the question becomes how
to save as many lives, as quickly as possible. This persuasive article, firmly
against gun control, clearly states the effects imposed gun control has, and
can have, on any given population. Furthermore, empirical evidence will be
given on the institutional, social, and statistical effects of gun control. Gun
control legislation has an absolutely negative effect on society.
AmericaÕs ever-accelerating erosion of
freedoms has led its population into the precursors of a dependent state.
Current gun control laws have unprecedented parallels to the legislation set
forth in Germany for the sole purpose of disrupting and scouring Jews from
German territory. These laws were set forth quite simply because Germany knew
of a historical fact, an unarmed society is at the whims of their government,
or any other armed institution for that matter. The German gun control laws
were set into effect in 1928; the regulations against the Jews began in 1938.
In effect, twenty million Jewish people died because they had no leverage to
defend themselves. In 1970, the government of Uganda imposed a weapons ban on
its people and in 1971 a massacre began that left three hundred thousand people
dead (Zelman http://www.jpfo.org).
When the will of the common people can be opposed, people die. Humans are young
to the earth and have not yet grown out of their infancy. Because of this, it
is crucial to maintain the personal power required to harness freedom and keep
tyranny at bay. A contrasting example would be Afghanistan during the cold war.
The entire country raided by all the tanks, jets, bombs, and men the iron
curtain could muster, Afghanistan fended off Russian occupation with nothing
more than small, privately owned firearms. Just the right to bare arms is not
enough for Switzerland. In Switzerland, any able bodied male must legally own a
rifle. This simple truth saved Switzerland from invasion during World War II,
no matter how many countries around Swiss territory had been occupied (Ross
188).
On a social scale, Switzerland, awash
with guns, has a substantially lower homicide rate than England with their
strict gun bans (Halbrook theblessingsofliberty.com/articles/ article11.html).
This is an illusive effect of gun control. Heroin is illegal in America, yet
criminals still have it. In comparison, when guns become illegal only the
criminals will have them. The only effect gun control has, in this instance, is
disarming the law-abiding citizens. Government mandates cannot stop the
importation or manufacture of firearms or the illegal modification of an
automobile. Illegal or not, right or wrong, this is just how people are. The
nature of people cannot, and does not need to be changed. Our paradigm of the
social syntax that binds our society together, however, does. Gun control only
takes away your god-given right to defend yourself and your ideals.
AustraliaÕs imposed gun ban lead to an
influx of a crime labeled Òhome invasionÓ (Wood http://home.overflow.net.au/~nedwood/guns.html).
Criminal gangs, knowing that law-abiding citizens are unarmed, raid homes,
raping and pillaging their target houses. Since the response time for law
enforcement can be anywhere from two minutes to an hour, the citizens now have
no control over their destiny. They now have no power to stop a criminal. They
can only wait for the crime to be committed, and then maybe the criminal will
be caught. In this scenario, a common citizen would have to be armed because
the criminalÕs expectation would be that the citizen is unarmed. American
police are not legally required to protect you; this saves them from being sued
(Boston 80).
An example of the crime increasing effect
of gun bans can be realized at fast food restaurants. Current gun control laws
in America give states the right to provide concealed carry permits for its
citizens, however, typically outside these places there is a sign posted noting
ÒConcealed Weapons ProhibitedÓ. As all peaceful, law-abiding people will most
assuredly leave their firearms in their car, criminals now know they can hold
that place up and are all but guaranteed they will not get shot.
The media skews effects of gun control.
Media coverage on gun control equates to comparing baseball to a man throwing a
banana at a wall; the numbers just do not add up. The true statistical data is
very different. As of 2005 the number of physicians in America was seven
hundred thousand, the accidental deaths caused by these physicians were one
hundred and twenty thousand people for that year. This factors to 0.171 deaths
per physician. There are 80,000,000 gun owners in the United States; the number
of accidental deaths in all age groups for that same year was one thousand five
hundred people. That makes accidental deaths per gun owner 0.000188.
ÒStatistically doctors are 9000 times more likely to kill a person than a gun
owner. Guns donÕt kill people, doctors doÓ (Rense www.rense.com/general62/gns.htm). Should we ban doctors? In 1987
Florida issued over one million concealed carry permits. During a five month
span only one hundred and fifty-seven licenses had been revoked for a crime, or
.01 percent, not exactly a crime wave (Agresti http://www.justfacts.com).
A current illustration of the concept that the right to bare arms can save
lives can be seen in comparing Kennesaw, Georgia to the United Kingdom. In
Kennesaw, you are legally required to own a gun; in the United Kingdom guns are
outlawed. The gun crime rate of Kennesaw is 1 per 30,000 plus guns. In the
United Kingdom, it is 1 per 11,111 guns because only the criminals have them
(Cobb cobb.typepad.com).
Some of the mainstream media seems to miss these important truths. They report
a crime and blame it on the firearm, not the operator.
The overall effect of gun control,
through historical evidence and current events, shows that gun control simply
causes more crime, death, and tyranny. People should have the right to make
decisions concerning their freedom. This equips us with the ability to save
lives rather than wait to be a victim. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ÒInjustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhereÓ (members.aol.com/klove01/marquote.htm).
The new injustice is gun control. The American government and countless other
institutional forces constitute a grave threat to freedom and liberty. This is
a direct result of the injustices of government imposed gun control
legislation. The erosion of gun rights should be taken as a preemptive strike
on the citizenry, conscious or not.
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