You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, lifeless fingers.
Ever since the dawn of Human civilization, man has created, carried, and used weapons for self-defense. The cave men had rudimentary clubs and rocks; the Egyptians had stone and bronze knives, swords and bows; the Romans had shields, spears and swords; the modern world has, thanks to the advent of black powder, guns. Personal weapons have earned their weight in gold by serving their defensive purpose for millenniums. Our founding fathers brought along with them, wherever they went, a small fire arm as a defensive measure; why can’t we?
It is written in the Bill Of Rights, Second Amendment, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” That passage is a very powerful one that explicitly states that our right, as American citizens, to carry weapons shall not be infringed upon. Think about that for a second, and let it marinate for a few moments in your brain housing group. Even back in 1776, when we were a fresh and young country, still teetering on our newly founded legs, our fathers of the free world found it so important to have the right to carry weapons, if we so chose, that they placed it just after the right to free speech.
Activists against our own liberties to freely carry concealed weapons for personal defense use a variety of excuses to why we shouldn’t be afforded the opportunity to express and practice such rights. One common propagandist notion is that more guns equal more violent crime. This idea is completely absurd for the fact that criminals are already using guns to commit crimes. The guns that they use aren’t legally owned or licensed, and that is not going to change. What this law allows is for permits to be issued to residents, following a course on proper gun control and handling, to conceal a legally licensed and owned firearm in public. Criminals aren’t going to go through the hassle of registering their firearms that they purchased from the truck of their drug-dealing buddy’s car to commit their crimes.
There is no empirical evidence anywhere, showing that the issuing of conceal-carry permits affects the crime rate in the state in any negative fashion. In fact, just the opposite happens! Statewide murder/non-negligent manslaughter rates for Florida have dropped from 11.4 per 100,000 residents in 1987 (when they passed their conceal-carry law) to 7.3 per 100,000 residents. Nationwide, the rate of murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent after passing such laws. Clearly these proponents of propaganda want to twist the facts and generate fear of weapons throughout to get their ideas passed.
Another confounded argument against our God-given rights is that guns are not useful tools for self-defense. This is a completely and utterly preposterous view because criminals are both aware, and fearful of facing an armed opponent. There are documented studies showing that criminals tend to attack the weak. If they perceive a life-threating encounter with a potential prey, they are more likely not to attack. Without knowing who is armed, and who isn’t, potentially everybody is a threat to them, and in so, inherently reduces the risk of the attack in the first place. This alone is a passive self-defensive measure that is shared not only with our criminals, but with all animals on the planet. A lion singles out the weaker water buffalo from the herd because it poses less a threat than the healthy, full grown bulls. The non-venomous Scarlet King snake shares similar color markings as the poisonous Coral snake to fool predators into thinking it’s a dangerous meal. The little 80 year old grandma a criminal is about to car-jack might be packing a .44 magnum in her purse. This split second pause in guaranteeing their assurance in safely pulling of a crime puts the criminal at the disadvantage. There are countless other arguments for the right to bear arms that would fill a novel, but these two are the most notorious. Having a practical, well governed system to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons not only reduces crime rate, it puts the criminals at a disadvantage.
There are countless other arguments for the right to bear arms that would fill a novel, but these two are the most notorious. Having a practical, well governed system to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons not only reduces crime rate, it puts the criminals at a disadvantage.
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