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It’s Time For Some Gun Facts

Because anti-gun propaganda should be shot down

By: kowalski (Diary)  |  July 21st, 2008 at 07:51 PM  | 

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Factoid: I derive no benefit, directly or otherwise, from anyone reading this e-book or contributing to the author. I simply think it’s a good thing to do.

When I was a Teenage Moonbat™ in college — after having been a state champion marksman in high school — I was one of the people who fell for his own baloney, and I told a lot of lies about gun ownership in America to gullible people who had no idea what they were listening to. They were things I knew weren’t true, and they’re things I’m ashamed of ever having said. I said them nevertheless, because I was young and very, very callow. I can’t take those words back now (as much as I wish I could), but I can do something positive about them 15 years later.

It’s time for people in America, especially the fence-sitters, to have a little ammunition of their own when it comes to defending their 2nd Amendment rights against the argumentative broadsides of the gun-grabbers in this country.

The best way to get started is to download this compendium. At 94 pages long, it’s not something you’ll read at a glance, but it is meticulously researched and footnoted, and it will give anyone who supports the 2nd Amendment (and even those critical of it as guaranteeing an individual right) a lot to think about. It’s provided as a free electronic book in a variety of sizes and formats. It’s something that I wish I had been confronted with all those years ago:

INTRODUCTION: Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.

You can visit the Gunfacts website by clicking here.

And here are the PDF versions of the document:

Screen Version (0.7 MB) | Printer Version (0.8 MB) | Press Version (2.7 MB)


Debating the right to own firearms as vouchsafed by our Constitution in an anti-gun media world is pointless without the facts to back up your opinions. And even if you’ve never considered owning a firearm, the fact that it is your right to do so as an American citizen is the most important reason you should read this e-book. The spinners spin, the incrementalists will try to incrementalize, and the gun-grabbers will never be satisfied until they’ve taken everyone’s rights away from them. Don’t let them take that from you on the basis of misinformation: you owe it to yourself to be well-armed.

And as always, I’d like to reiterate:

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  • koertli

    This is the most comprehensive fact sheet on Guns I have ever seen. I mostly enjoyed the ‘Origins of the Second Amendment’ section. The State Constitution wordings were ‘Very’ Specific.

    I will keep in a safe place.

  • kowalski

    Just before that section is a brief and grim reminder of what has occurred repeatedly throughout modern history when tyrannical governments have confiscated people’s weapons. That action by tyrannical leaders has almost universally been a prelude to genocide:

    In 1911, Turkey established gun control. Subsequently, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, deprived of the means to defend themselves, were rounded up and killed.

    In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. Then, from 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 millon dissidents were rounded up and killed.

    In 1938 Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945 over 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, union leaders, Catholics and others, unable to fire a shot in protest,
    were rounded up and killed.

    In 1935, China established gun control. Subsequently, between 1948 and 1952, over 20 million dissidents were rounded up and killed.

    In 1956, Cambodia enshrined gun control. In just two years (1975-1977) over one million “educated” people were rounded up and killed.

    In 1964, Guatemala locked in gun control. From 1964 to 1981, over 100,000 Mayan Indians were rounded up and killed as a result of their inability to defend themselves.

    In 1970, Uganda got gun control. Over the next nine years over 300,000 Christians were rounded up and killed.

    Over 56 million people have died because of gun control in the last century …

  • kowalski

    I live in an area of Massachusetts where a lot of the people exercise their right to keep and bear arms: it’s not uncommon during hunting season to meet my neighbors in the early morning and then again in the evening as they walk across my property on their way to their hunting stands, armed with their rifles and pistols.

    They’re about the nicest people you’d ever want to meet, from a exceptionally wide range of personal backgrounds, many of whom have settled here after living in practically every other area of the country. I have much less worry about them doing something rash, irresponsible and stupid than I do about some of the politicians in the State Legislature, who can’t seem to help themselves.

    The Framers were correct.

    I also have a very good working relationship with my local police department, the Chief of Police and his officers. I had no misgivings whatsoever about submitting my Massachusetts License To Carry application with him, and I was utterly transparent and followed the law to the last letter. In that connection, it’s important to understand that in Massachusetts the local Chief of Police is the ultimate final arbiter of whether an applicant recieves a Class A, Class B, or no license to carry at all: it is almost completely their decision after the applicant has passed the state and federal background checks.