Dear everybody:
I am planning to deliver leaflets containing the real facts about guns to the houses in my immediate neighborhood. Is that legal for me to swamp my neighborhood with these leaflets? Would the post office be upset with me if I delivered these leaflets door to door by hand? Should I include my name and address on it? I live in a super liberal district, and don't want to receive some sorts of retributions from the antis. Included below is the general outline of the leaflets' contents (the exact wordings are not yet being composed). The problem is, I really need some help in locating reliable sources that can back up some of the contents of my leaflets. But any way:
(1) The so called "assault weapons" are not assault weapons, they're just semi auto guns using the same mechanical principles as many hunting rifles (provide some examples)
(2) The so called "assault weapons" are no more powerful than hunting rifles, in fact, in most cases, they're less powerful. (give ballistic charts of the most common cartridges in US: .223, .30-30, .308, .30-06, .270, 7.62X39,... anymore suggestion?)
Also tell them the fact that the cartridge used in AR-15 are the same cartridge used by varmint hunters and 7.62X39 cartridge used in AKs have less power than the 120(?) years old 30-30Win.
(3) The numbers pointing to the fact that the so called "assault weapons" involve in less than 1% of the murders even before they were banned (I need a reliable source that I can cite: I obtained the less than 1% figure from various radio shows and gun magazines, but I do not have a solid, hard copy source that I can cite).
(4) More children died due to drowning in the swimming pool than by gunshots. I also heard that more children died in a year by drowning in 5 gallons buckets than by gunshot, and Dennis informed me that he heard more people got seriously hurt (died?) from falls than from gunshot (again, I don't have a source to cite, so if you can kind of help me out here....)
(5) The states with the strictest gun laws also have the highest crime rates, including murders, rapes, assaults, etc, etc...(sources?)
(6) There are already 20,000 gun laws in the book, including those outlawing criminals, children, and the mentally insane from purchasing firearms.
(7) The number of people dying or getting injured from accidental gun discharges had dropped since the sixties (source?)
(8) Most cops favor law abiding citizens to be armed in order to protect themseleves. Cops can't be everywhere everytime. (also include California court ruling that cops are not legally obligated to protect you from the criminals, their duties are to collect evidence and solve crimes - I need some articles about this rulling with names of the judge, who Vs. who, date of the ruling, etc). I also plan to include a poll that I have from a gun magazine asking gun control questions to California cops and most of them are against gun control
(9) Most lawful self defense use of guns do not involve the actual firing of the guns and deaths to the assailants, that's why you have the impression that guns do not help in protecting people when assaulted / mugged / burglared, etc, etc,....(Possible source?)
(10) Include the fact that liberals doctored gun poll numbers, such as that in the case of Newsweek and Time polls.
I know that I need to get a lots of sources to back up the above facts (#3, #4, #5, #7, first half of #8, and #9) and if you can suggest documentations, web sites, (anything) that would contain pro-gun numbers, I would really appreciate it.
I am trying to make this a short leaflet (2 pages back to back). What do you think?
Sorry about the long post, I know you're all busy and hard working people. I am just trying to get your opinion and help in finding sources for my leaflets' contents.
Thank you.
Johannes
I am planning to deliver leaflets containing the real facts about guns to the houses in my immediate neighborhood. Is that legal for me to swamp my neighborhood with these leaflets? Would the post office be upset with me if I delivered these leaflets door to door by hand? Should I include my name and address on it? I live in a super liberal district, and don't want to receive some sorts of retributions from the antis. Included below is the general outline of the leaflets' contents (the exact wordings are not yet being composed). The problem is, I really need some help in locating reliable sources that can back up some of the contents of my leaflets. But any way:
(1) The so called "assault weapons" are not assault weapons, they're just semi auto guns using the same mechanical principles as many hunting rifles (provide some examples)
(2) The so called "assault weapons" are no more powerful than hunting rifles, in fact, in most cases, they're less powerful. (give ballistic charts of the most common cartridges in US: .223, .30-30, .308, .30-06, .270, 7.62X39,... anymore suggestion?)
Also tell them the fact that the cartridge used in AR-15 are the same cartridge used by varmint hunters and 7.62X39 cartridge used in AKs have less power than the 120(?) years old 30-30Win.
(3) The numbers pointing to the fact that the so called "assault weapons" involve in less than 1% of the murders even before they were banned (I need a reliable source that I can cite: I obtained the less than 1% figure from various radio shows and gun magazines, but I do not have a solid, hard copy source that I can cite).
(4) More children died due to drowning in the swimming pool than by gunshots. I also heard that more children died in a year by drowning in 5 gallons buckets than by gunshot, and Dennis informed me that he heard more people got seriously hurt (died?) from falls than from gunshot (again, I don't have a source to cite, so if you can kind of help me out here....)
(5) The states with the strictest gun laws also have the highest crime rates, including murders, rapes, assaults, etc, etc...(sources?)
(6) There are already 20,000 gun laws in the book, including those outlawing criminals, children, and the mentally insane from purchasing firearms.
(7) The number of people dying or getting injured from accidental gun discharges had dropped since the sixties (source?)
(8) Most cops favor law abiding citizens to be armed in order to protect themseleves. Cops can't be everywhere everytime. (also include California court ruling that cops are not legally obligated to protect you from the criminals, their duties are to collect evidence and solve crimes - I need some articles about this rulling with names of the judge, who Vs. who, date of the ruling, etc). I also plan to include a poll that I have from a gun magazine asking gun control questions to California cops and most of them are against gun control
(9) Most lawful self defense use of guns do not involve the actual firing of the guns and deaths to the assailants, that's why you have the impression that guns do not help in protecting people when assaulted / mugged / burglared, etc, etc,....(Possible source?)
(10) Include the fact that liberals doctored gun poll numbers, such as that in the case of Newsweek and Time polls.
I know that I need to get a lots of sources to back up the above facts (#3, #4, #5, #7, first half of #8, and #9) and if you can suggest documentations, web sites, (anything) that would contain pro-gun numbers, I would really appreciate it.
I am trying to make this a short leaflet (2 pages back to back). What do you think?
Sorry about the long post, I know you're all busy and hard working people. I am just trying to get your opinion and help in finding sources for my leaflets' contents.
Thank you.
Johannes