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If Just One Capable Adult Had Access to a Gun ...
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If Just One Capable Adult Had Access to a Gun ...
Neal Boortz
Monday, April 29, 2002
Click here for the Social Democratic Party's SECRET PLAN for America after the elections!
By now most of you know about that shooting at a high school in Germany. Thirteen students and adults, including one police officer, were killed by one 19-year-old "gunman."
This event has given the hysteria-based anti-gun crowd a good reason to ratchet up the rhetoric. In fact, even as the shooting was under way, the German Parliament was considering even stronger gun control laws.
Europe is seen by some as some sort of a gun-control utopia. Most of the nations over there have rather strong laws that prevent the private ownership of handguns ... and strict controls on hunting and sport-shooting rifles.
A few years ago British myrmidons handed over about 160,000 handguns to their great government protectors after the British Parliament instituted a virtual ban on private handgun ownership.
So ... just what has happened since Britain instituted the great gun confiscation program? If you are part of the hysterical anti-gun ownership left, you probably think that the gun confiscation made England a safer place in which to live. Well, you would be wrong.
Here are the statistics - statistics I'm sure many of you will just want to totally reject. In the year that followed the great British gun confiscation, homicides committed with firearms rose by almost 90 percent. Armed street robberies went up by over 50 percent.
You do understand why homicide and robbery went up in Britain, don't you? It's because the predators with the illegal guns knew that their victims were less likely to be armed!
I could fill 16 pages here with documentation and information that would illustrate the eagerness with which armed predators descend on populations that have been disarmed, and flee populations where access to guns has become easier.
Take Florida, for instance. When Florida made it easier for private citizens to carry concealed weapons, violent crime rates went down . almost immediately. Murder, armed robbery, muggings . all down.
Predators understood that there was an increased chance that their victims would be armed . so they found another way to obtain money. Some might even have gone to work!
An interesting side note to the Florida situation: Soon after the concealed weapons laws were liberalized in Florida the predators figured out just where they needed to go to find unarmed victims. They started staking out airports!
They would follow tourists recently arrived at Miami International. When they left the airport grounds, the predators would bump their cars, causing them to stop, and then rob them at gunpoint. The predators knew that people traveling by air probably didn't have guns.
Now . that brings us to schools, and the incident in Germany. If you want to take a gun and kill a lot of people, common sense would dictate that you try to pick a place where you will be the only person with a gun!
If you sit down and try to pick one place where you aren't likely to find someone with a gun, you would have to work very hard to come up with a better place than a school! In the U.S. they kick kids out of schools for key chains!
And so it was in that high school in Germany. The shooter knew that nobody in that school would have a gun. Nobody would be in a position to defend themselves. Children and adults were hiding in classrooms, broom closets and offices . just waiting for this kid to come in and shoot them. They had no way to defend themselves.
What if just one adult in that school had had access to a gun? Is it possible that this adult could have taken some action, and lives would have been saved? Impossible, you say? Are you aware that civilians with guns have stopped at least three school shootings in the United States in the past few years? Civilians, not law enforcement officers. How many times a week do you hear me relate stories about private individuals protecting themselves with guns? It happens thousands of times a year.
Let me just leave you with this one question. If, God forbid, you were to hear that an armed student was in your child's school and was shooting people, which scenario would you wish for?
(a) A scenario in which not one adult school staffer had a gun that could be used to protect students; or
(b) A scenario in which one or two adults did have guns and they were using those guns to protect your child's classroom from the shooter.
That's a no-brainer for me. Let teachers and school administrators volunteer for special training and then give them the chance to have access to firearms in schools. To do anything else is to simply invite more tragedy.
Bush Works for Democrats in New Mexico Today
Dubya will be in Albuquerque, N.M., today to introduce his plan for the mandatory inclusion of mental disorders in health care coverage. This is a long-time goal of the Democratic Party.
Democrats know that mandatory mental health coverage will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket. As insurance becomes more expensive, more and more employers will drop coverage - ditto for individuals. With more individuals going without health insurance, the demand for government intervention will increase.
Just what the Democrats want - another excuse to push socialized medicine.
Terrorist Cells in Canada?
Did you happen to catch "60 Minutes" last night? Are you comforted by the report from David Harris, the former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, that there are no fewer than 50 terrorist organizations operating on Canadian soil? Are some of them al-Qaeda? You bet!
It's the Western welfare state gone nuts. Canada will grant resident status to almost anyone who lands in their country and calls themselves a "refugee." No identification? No problem! Just make one up and you're in!
Oh . and you're immediately available for Canada's fancy European-style welfare system.
The border between Canada and the U.S. is over 5,000 miles long . and unguarded.
Now . tell me that Osama bin Laden and his crowd would have a hard time sneaking weapons of mass destruction into this country.
When Do We Stand Up to These Frauds?
I caught a bit on "Face the Nation" yesterday. George Stephanopolous was interviewing some Saudi official about oil, terrorism and bad goatees. At one point George S. asked him about the money that Saudi Arabia was paying to the families of suicide bombers.
The Saudi mouthpiece replied that this could not be considered to be supporting terrorism. It was merely humanitarian assistance to people in need.
That's why they wear those headdresses. They can hide their smirks when they make such asinine statements.
Then we have this from USA Today. It seems that Crown Prince Abdullah wanted to exert some degree of control over American airspace and the FAA while he was flying around the country. It seems that the HTHWIC doesn't want women flight controllers controlling the prince's jet . and no women on the airport tarmac when he arrives.
These Saudis are sure getting tiring.
Neal Boortz is the hugely popular nationally syndicated radio host.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/29/160327.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Neal Boortz
Monday, April 29, 2002
Click here for the Social Democratic Party's SECRET PLAN for America after the elections!
By now most of you know about that shooting at a high school in Germany. Thirteen students and adults, including one police officer, were killed by one 19-year-old "gunman."
This event has given the hysteria-based anti-gun crowd a good reason to ratchet up the rhetoric. In fact, even as the shooting was under way, the German Parliament was considering even stronger gun control laws.
Europe is seen by some as some sort of a gun-control utopia. Most of the nations over there have rather strong laws that prevent the private ownership of handguns ... and strict controls on hunting and sport-shooting rifles.
A few years ago British myrmidons handed over about 160,000 handguns to their great government protectors after the British Parliament instituted a virtual ban on private handgun ownership.
So ... just what has happened since Britain instituted the great gun confiscation program? If you are part of the hysterical anti-gun ownership left, you probably think that the gun confiscation made England a safer place in which to live. Well, you would be wrong.
Here are the statistics - statistics I'm sure many of you will just want to totally reject. In the year that followed the great British gun confiscation, homicides committed with firearms rose by almost 90 percent. Armed street robberies went up by over 50 percent.
You do understand why homicide and robbery went up in Britain, don't you? It's because the predators with the illegal guns knew that their victims were less likely to be armed!
I could fill 16 pages here with documentation and information that would illustrate the eagerness with which armed predators descend on populations that have been disarmed, and flee populations where access to guns has become easier.
Take Florida, for instance. When Florida made it easier for private citizens to carry concealed weapons, violent crime rates went down . almost immediately. Murder, armed robbery, muggings . all down.
Predators understood that there was an increased chance that their victims would be armed . so they found another way to obtain money. Some might even have gone to work!
An interesting side note to the Florida situation: Soon after the concealed weapons laws were liberalized in Florida the predators figured out just where they needed to go to find unarmed victims. They started staking out airports!
They would follow tourists recently arrived at Miami International. When they left the airport grounds, the predators would bump their cars, causing them to stop, and then rob them at gunpoint. The predators knew that people traveling by air probably didn't have guns.
Now . that brings us to schools, and the incident in Germany. If you want to take a gun and kill a lot of people, common sense would dictate that you try to pick a place where you will be the only person with a gun!
If you sit down and try to pick one place where you aren't likely to find someone with a gun, you would have to work very hard to come up with a better place than a school! In the U.S. they kick kids out of schools for key chains!
And so it was in that high school in Germany. The shooter knew that nobody in that school would have a gun. Nobody would be in a position to defend themselves. Children and adults were hiding in classrooms, broom closets and offices . just waiting for this kid to come in and shoot them. They had no way to defend themselves.
What if just one adult in that school had had access to a gun? Is it possible that this adult could have taken some action, and lives would have been saved? Impossible, you say? Are you aware that civilians with guns have stopped at least three school shootings in the United States in the past few years? Civilians, not law enforcement officers. How many times a week do you hear me relate stories about private individuals protecting themselves with guns? It happens thousands of times a year.
Let me just leave you with this one question. If, God forbid, you were to hear that an armed student was in your child's school and was shooting people, which scenario would you wish for?
(a) A scenario in which not one adult school staffer had a gun that could be used to protect students; or
(b) A scenario in which one or two adults did have guns and they were using those guns to protect your child's classroom from the shooter.
That's a no-brainer for me. Let teachers and school administrators volunteer for special training and then give them the chance to have access to firearms in schools. To do anything else is to simply invite more tragedy.
Bush Works for Democrats in New Mexico Today
Dubya will be in Albuquerque, N.M., today to introduce his plan for the mandatory inclusion of mental disorders in health care coverage. This is a long-time goal of the Democratic Party.
Democrats know that mandatory mental health coverage will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket. As insurance becomes more expensive, more and more employers will drop coverage - ditto for individuals. With more individuals going without health insurance, the demand for government intervention will increase.
Just what the Democrats want - another excuse to push socialized medicine.
Terrorist Cells in Canada?
Did you happen to catch "60 Minutes" last night? Are you comforted by the report from David Harris, the former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, that there are no fewer than 50 terrorist organizations operating on Canadian soil? Are some of them al-Qaeda? You bet!
It's the Western welfare state gone nuts. Canada will grant resident status to almost anyone who lands in their country and calls themselves a "refugee." No identification? No problem! Just make one up and you're in!
Oh . and you're immediately available for Canada's fancy European-style welfare system.
The border between Canada and the U.S. is over 5,000 miles long . and unguarded.
Now . tell me that Osama bin Laden and his crowd would have a hard time sneaking weapons of mass destruction into this country.
When Do We Stand Up to These Frauds?
I caught a bit on "Face the Nation" yesterday. George Stephanopolous was interviewing some Saudi official about oil, terrorism and bad goatees. At one point George S. asked him about the money that Saudi Arabia was paying to the families of suicide bombers.
The Saudi mouthpiece replied that this could not be considered to be supporting terrorism. It was merely humanitarian assistance to people in need.
That's why they wear those headdresses. They can hide their smirks when they make such asinine statements.
Then we have this from USA Today. It seems that Crown Prince Abdullah wanted to exert some degree of control over American airspace and the FAA while he was flying around the country. It seems that the HTHWIC doesn't want women flight controllers controlling the prince's jet . and no women on the airport tarmac when he arrives.
These Saudis are sure getting tiring.
Neal Boortz is the hugely popular nationally syndicated radio host.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/29/160327.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878