Someone from TFL or at least someone who reads here has gotten a letter in the BEE along with a couple of others..... First time I've seen only good letters to the editor in the BEE...
Gun rights
Re "Majority favor gun control, survey finds," July 12: So, 75 percent of Californians are in favor of gun registration. I have a .38-caliber pistol, serial number 782317. Now, if some bureaucrat puts that information on a piece of paper and puts it in a filing cabinet, exactly what crime can be prevented?
I am also licensed by the state to carry that gun concealed anywhere (except a school or a bar), but when I buy another gun, I still have to wait the 10 days, provide proof of firearms knowledge and have a background check. What more "control" do we need?
A felon cannot register his gun since he possesses it illegally. What use is the registration then? Or is it just a request for some more fees?
What are these people thinking? Or are they just listening to crazy rhetoric and fear-mongering among the power elite who would be happier if there were no private guns to offer resistance to further intrusions into our supposedly "inalienable" rights?
Keep felons in jail. Register stupidity, not guns.
--Larry Kinser, Antelope
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When my grandmother was growing up on a farm with six other siblings in Mississippi during the 1920s and 1930s, her parents possessed ashotgun, which was kept near the kitchen door. Her parents forbade the children to touch the shotgun. None of them ever did.
In 2000, our society supposedly has more gun violence, and the solution that people want is more laws restricting guns. As a result, they trade in the first of many freedoms for a false sense of security.
Parents today should begin seriously disciplining their children when it comes to guns -- not trigger locks. The ignorant majority who want more laws do not own guns and therefore have no idea what they are doing by giving more power to their "free" and "democratic" government. The first step toward the government having absolute power is to confiscate the guns from its citizenry.
--Mark Brown, Sacramento
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Gun self-defense has proven effective: Rural and small-town America has higher gun ownership than cities, and lower violent crime. Switzerland has mandatory assault weapon ownership of every undeferred male of military age, and their violent crime is much lower than Britain, where gun control is so strict that the Olympics shooting team has to practice offshore.
Fear of armed citizens affects criminal behavior: Australia had violent crime decreasing each year until the restrictive gun control law of 1997, after which violent crime increased substantially before resuming it's downward trend from a higher level. The 31 U.S. states that grant permits to carry concealed guns to all law-abiding citizens have had greater decreases in crime than states that greatly limit such permits. Social scientists doing prison interviews consistently find criminals are more afraid of armed citizens than they are of police.
Women's rights and safety are enhanced by guns: The scientific research of Harvard professor John R. Lott Jr. has shown that women who resist rape, assault and murder with a gun are twice as likely to remain unharmed as women who don't resist, or resist by other methods. And yet it is California's women who most demand more gun control. I have trouble understanding women who want to create a world where stronger men can do anything they want with weaker women until the law eventually catches up to them.
--H. Gordon Ainsleigh, Meadow Vista
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
Gun rights
Re "Majority favor gun control, survey finds," July 12: So, 75 percent of Californians are in favor of gun registration. I have a .38-caliber pistol, serial number 782317. Now, if some bureaucrat puts that information on a piece of paper and puts it in a filing cabinet, exactly what crime can be prevented?
I am also licensed by the state to carry that gun concealed anywhere (except a school or a bar), but when I buy another gun, I still have to wait the 10 days, provide proof of firearms knowledge and have a background check. What more "control" do we need?
A felon cannot register his gun since he possesses it illegally. What use is the registration then? Or is it just a request for some more fees?
What are these people thinking? Or are they just listening to crazy rhetoric and fear-mongering among the power elite who would be happier if there were no private guns to offer resistance to further intrusions into our supposedly "inalienable" rights?
Keep felons in jail. Register stupidity, not guns.
--Larry Kinser, Antelope
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When my grandmother was growing up on a farm with six other siblings in Mississippi during the 1920s and 1930s, her parents possessed ashotgun, which was kept near the kitchen door. Her parents forbade the children to touch the shotgun. None of them ever did.
In 2000, our society supposedly has more gun violence, and the solution that people want is more laws restricting guns. As a result, they trade in the first of many freedoms for a false sense of security.
Parents today should begin seriously disciplining their children when it comes to guns -- not trigger locks. The ignorant majority who want more laws do not own guns and therefore have no idea what they are doing by giving more power to their "free" and "democratic" government. The first step toward the government having absolute power is to confiscate the guns from its citizenry.
--Mark Brown, Sacramento
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Gun self-defense has proven effective: Rural and small-town America has higher gun ownership than cities, and lower violent crime. Switzerland has mandatory assault weapon ownership of every undeferred male of military age, and their violent crime is much lower than Britain, where gun control is so strict that the Olympics shooting team has to practice offshore.
Fear of armed citizens affects criminal behavior: Australia had violent crime decreasing each year until the restrictive gun control law of 1997, after which violent crime increased substantially before resuming it's downward trend from a higher level. The 31 U.S. states that grant permits to carry concealed guns to all law-abiding citizens have had greater decreases in crime than states that greatly limit such permits. Social scientists doing prison interviews consistently find criminals are more afraid of armed citizens than they are of police.
Women's rights and safety are enhanced by guns: The scientific research of Harvard professor John R. Lott Jr. has shown that women who resist rape, assault and murder with a gun are twice as likely to remain unharmed as women who don't resist, or resist by other methods. And yet it is California's women who most demand more gun control. I have trouble understanding women who want to create a world where stronger men can do anything they want with weaker women until the law eventually catches up to them.
--H. Gordon Ainsleigh, Meadow Vista
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!