Don't Be Fooled
As a gun owner I am well aware of all the recent attacks on our right to bear arms. Many people I meet as well as politicians that support these restrictions usually give me similar responses. "It will reduce crime", "You don't need an assault rifle to hunt", " Look at countries with no guns", "These mass shootings are happening to often". The thing is that when you are told this you are being mislead.
First terms such as "weapons of war" and "Assault weapons" in an attempt to scare people. The AR-15 used by law abiding citizens such as myself are much different from the AR-15 used by law enforcement or the M-16 used by the military. They are semi-automatic, meaning that you have to pull the trigger repeatedly to fire it;as opposed to an assault rifle used by military and law enforcement which you can hold down the trigger to fire it. In simple terms the AR-15 used by civilians are not full auto machine guns and are not designed for war. Something else to consider is that these guns that gun control supporters call assault weapons are deemed more powerful and deadly than other firearms. This is not the case however. A firearm's power is determined by it's caliber or gauge. What this means is that the stopping power of any firearm is determined by the size of it's ammunition and barrel . For example an AR-15 fires 5.56x45 mm bullets, also referred to as .223 meaning that the bullet is that many inches in diameter. Compare that to my dads hunting rifle which fires .257 bullets. You can see that my fathers Hunting rifle(.257) is more powerful than his AR-15(.223). I would not want to hunt with an AR-15 because it is just not powerful enough. Meaning that guns used for hunting are much more powerful than the weapons that gun control advocates call "assault weapons".
As well as not being powerful enough to hunt big game; the guns that gun control advocates want to ban are used almost never used in any crime and banning them will do nothing. Police reports and surveys of felons have found that "assault weapons are used in 1-2% of violent crimes and there are more homicides with hammers or knives than all rifles combined, including what politicians call "assault weapons". Examples of this are that in the following five years after banning "Assault weapons" in 1989 California had an increase in homicides for five years straight. California banned even more guns in 2000 and the homicide rate is still 12% higher than the national average. The AFT has even said that it "Can in no way vouch for the validity" of the claims made by the Brady campaign to prevent gun violence and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) that the federal "Assault Weapons ban" reduced crime ( The law expired in 2004). The FBI does not consider gun control as a crime factor, and California does not give credit to their gun laws as a reason for the recent statewide crime reduction.
Something else to think of is have you heard the phrase "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them"? It has a lot of truth to it. Criminals do not obey the law. So why would they obey new gun laws? You also have to think that if you are disarmed, How would you protect your family? Someone breaks into your house and all you have is the police on the way, but they may not get there in time. Don't get me wrong I love our police officers, but would you rather risk your life and your family's life waiting for them to show up? Or would you rather protect yourself. People also say that you don't need fifteen to thirty bullets to defend yourself. This is a direct quote from an article I read and it directly states what I was going to. "While a police officer can carry extra magazines on his duty belt, and have a rifle or shotgun in his patrol car, and call for back-up, a private citizen attacked in a parking lot, or at home in the middle of the night, will probably have only the magazine within the firearm. No one should be arbitrarily limited in the number of rounds he or she can have for self-defense." (http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&currPage=&dviSelectedPage=&scanId=&query=&source=&prodId=OVIC&search_within_results=&p=OVIC%3AGIC&mode=view&catId=&u=colu91149&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010015270&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=)
So enacting more gun control will do nothing to criminals and would only hurt law abiding citizens.
Feel free to comment and you can look at that website where I got the quote because I have a lot of information on here that is also in that article. I hope you consider all of this before you vote for an anti-gun candidate
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