Gun Control
Gun Control: the Real Issues “Misuse or theft prohibited by law”. ... On this thought I would like to turn your attention to the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and the directly related and very relevant subject, that of gun control. ... Well, it goes like this: if everybody is toting around a gun on their belt then more people are going to be killed, right? ... Somebody got the bright idea that, since we can’t abolish guns (though that is what many want to do), they would just control the guns. ... Haynes further argued that for a convicted felon to register a gun, especially a short-barreled shotgun, was effectively an announcement to the government that he was breaking the law. ... Since this time, many control/registration laws have been sanitized. Even if you have 101 convictions of theft, rape and murder, you can walk into the police department (if you had a good lawyer and got out of prison in six weeks) and register your short barreled shot gun and they can’t use it against you! ... Even if you could get by all of the legal junk and come up with a marvelously effective method of gun control , you would still be missing the real point. ... There is much data that seems to support gun control, such as the fact that in England there are less guns, and also less killings and robberies with guns. ... Another fragment of fact that is well known is that a massive crime wave of the 1960s coincided with a massive increase in gun sales. ... Fellow American, we should not only stop trying to control the guns, and we should stop controlling and indoctrinating the people. ... “The Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, and Gun Registration” Scott Ostrader:scotto@cica.