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The numbers that the NRA has put out on the use of guns in self defense may be useful. This is it, 1.5 to 2.5 million gun owners lives are saved each year with guns. from rape, robbery and murder, or a combinition of those horrible crimes. This is with NO police assistance. Without guns, or after a ban Those lives would be made forfiet because new prospecting gun owners couldnt own a firearm. And police are of little use in a quickly escalating life or death situations. You have to be able to defend yourself and deserve an edge that a firearm gives.
So if your oposition start talking about the killings in inner cities you have evidence that guns save the lives of over fifty times the amount of Americans they kill due to crime. And without them gangs would kill even more innocent people and spread from the places where only they have guns.
Also the dynamics and mathmatics of violent crime needs to be brought to bear, Like the ammount that can be related to Drugs, crimes of passion, and insanity.. Perhaps pointing out how these things are failings of our government resolve and our civilization's morality rather then inanimate objects.
Maybe even going so far as to draw an emotional response by saying these are the true problems that we as the new and next great generation face and only we can fix them, rather then manicly mimmicking policiticians and news vendors with agendas of there own and dumbly blaming a tool that saves more innocent lives then they take. These are social and economic issues and nothing else, and our government neglects to see that.
Sorry I'm late to the party. I just recently found this forum.
One tactic I use when arguing this issue with leftist loons, is this:
"Ok, hypothetically, I agree to give up my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Now I want you to pick a different Amendment that you are willing to give up."
As someone esle stated earlier, understanding the logic that the Founding Fathers used when creating the Bill of Rights, and particularly the Second Amendment, is key. Reading and understanding multiple sources; The Federalist Papers, Poor Richards Almanac, for examples.
Understanding that the Second is there in order not just to allow people to defend themselves from criminal intruders, but also to defend themselves against a government gone bad.
Without the Second to keep government in its place, the rest of the BoR is meaningless.
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." - James Madison
Guns, Crime and Freedom is a book written by Wayne LaPierre that has a lot of neat facts in it for you.
This is from my sophmore paper:
....However, certain people think gun laws can prevent crimes like this January 1989 incident where a drifter with and AK-47 assualt weapon stood outside a schoolyard fence in Stockton, California and began firing at the children playing inside. Before he was finished, five children died and twenty nine others had been wounded. In response, Congress in 1990 enacted the Gun-Free School Zones Act that made it a federal offense for an individual person to possess a firearm within the boundaries of a school zone.
The man who commited this crime did not care that the gun was illegal, and he did not care that the it is wrong to murder, so why would he now care that it is illegal to bring a weapon inside a school zone? The law was passed in 1990 yet between 1990 and 1992 there were 34 school shootings.
HMMMM HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED? THE LAW SAYS IT ILLEGAL TO BRING A GUN IN A GUN FREE ZONE...
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So if your oposition start talking about the killings in inner cities you have evidence that guns save the lives of over fifty times the amount of Americans they kill due to crime. And without them gangs would kill even more innocent people and spread from the places where only they have guns.
Also the dynamics and mathmatics of violent crime needs to be brought to bear, Like the ammount that can be related to Drugs, crimes of passion, and insanity.. Perhaps pointing out how these things are failings of our government resolve and our civilization's morality rather then inanimate objects.
Maybe even going so far as to draw an emotional response by saying these are the true problems that we as the new and next great generation face and only we can fix them, rather then manicly mimmicking policiticians and news vendors with agendas of there own and dumbly blaming a tool that saves more innocent lives then they take. These are social and economic issues and nothing else, and our government neglects to see that.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/
and they have more than enough "research" and stories to give you ideas to write about. He wants to see if you can see both sides.
Good luck.
quote:I do really appreciate all the help I have received on this site. I have learned more about this issue then I ever learned sitting in a library.
No better teacher than experience and there is a lot of it in this "room".
One tactic I use when arguing this issue with leftist loons, is this:
"Ok, hypothetically, I agree to give up my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Now I want you to pick a different Amendment that you are willing to give up."
As someone esle stated earlier, understanding the logic that the Founding Fathers used when creating the Bill of Rights, and particularly the Second Amendment, is key. Reading and understanding multiple sources; The Federalist Papers, Poor Richards Almanac, for examples.
Understanding that the Second is there in order not just to allow people to defend themselves from criminal intruders, but also to defend themselves against a government gone bad.
Without the Second to keep government in its place, the rest of the BoR is meaningless.
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." - James Madison
This is from my sophmore paper:
....However, certain people think gun laws can prevent crimes like this January 1989 incident where a drifter with and AK-47 assualt weapon stood outside a schoolyard fence in Stockton, California and began firing at the children playing inside. Before he was finished, five children died and twenty nine others had been wounded. In response, Congress in 1990 enacted the Gun-Free School Zones Act that made it a federal offense for an individual person to possess a firearm within the boundaries of a school zone.
The man who commited this crime did not care that the gun was illegal, and he did not care that the it is wrong to murder, so why would he now care that it is illegal to bring a weapon inside a school zone? The law was passed in 1990 yet between 1990 and 1992 there were 34 school shootings.
HMMMM HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED? THE LAW SAYS IT ILLEGAL TO BRING A GUN IN A GUN FREE ZONE...
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