Do you actually believe that democrats and liberals will think, "Hey, that asker makes a good point"? Well, give up on trying to reason with them.
Everyone but liberals and democrats intuitively understands that ALL predator-humans hope their targets are unarmed, whether the predator is a Lanza, Stalin or Hitler:
-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 like Mahatma Gandhi "got it," saying: "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.
But liberals and democrats always religiously cling to their dogmatic faith that “more guns leads to more crime” no matter how much evidence you shove in their face, including:
-9/27/01 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/156671… 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 only outlaws will have guns’" may prove prophetic. Gun crime in the UK is soaring even though it has the strictest gun control laws of any democracy.”
Nine years later: 12/17/12 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-… UK’s violent crime rate per 100,000 people is 2,034; US’s is 466.
2/2/11 Daily Telegraph:
-“As of this month, some 40 ships are in their hands and more than 800 crew held captive in these seas south of the Gulf of Aden.
-“The safest ships of all are flying the Russian flag: armed guards aboard them simply blow pirate boats out of the water and leave any survivors to drown. Attacks on Russian vessels have abruptly ceased.”
(Do you think there’s a message there? Not one liberals or democrats are capable of comprehending)
-7/25/12 http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-… 1950 all but one mass-murders in the U. S. where more than three people died were committed in gun-free zones. The Gun-Free Schools Zone Act was passed in 1990.
9/25/12 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5c1b6a72-c5eb-…
”But almost 30 years after the law [which mandates that all households own at least one firearm for self-protection] was passed, it is still in place and still popular, not least because Kennesaw’s crime rate has remained disproportionately low, even as the town’s population swelled from 5,000 in 1982 to almost 35,000 now. According to the latest FBI statistics, Kennesaw recorded 31 violent crimes – mainly robberies and aggravated assaults – during 2008. In other similar-sized local towns the figures were much higher – 127 in Dalton and 188 in Hinesville. For property crimes – largely burglaries and thefts – Kennesaw recorded 555 while Dalton had 1,124 and Hinesville 1,802.”
-11/23/12 http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/… 2006-2011 gun purchases in Virginia increased 73%. During the same period gun-related crimes fell 24%.
-1/6/13 http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/20… to Bureau of Justice Statistics, the firearm crime rate dropped from 6 victims per 1,000 residents in 1994 to 1.4 victims per 1,000 residents in 2009. This has occurred as more and more citizens have armed themselves under right-to-carry State laws. While major crimes show continuing decline in those States, this phenomenon parallels a major crime rise in heavily gun-controlled cities.
-U. S. Department of Justice http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf…3.7 million household burglaries occurred each year on average from 2003 to 2007; a household member was present in roughly 1 million burglaries and became victims of violent crimes in 266,560 burglaries. [meaning the police didn’t show up in time]
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
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Copy these statistics. Shove them in the face of close-minded liberals and democrats, not to convince them about anything -- that is impossible -- but to illustrate to non-liberals and non-democrats how sensless it is to try to reason with "them."