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<\/a><\/p>\nThe majority of gun control advocates that I have spoken with as well as their written arguments usually boil down to fear; they are afraid and they want to feel safe.\u00a0 Fear is not a good motivator for any decision, it usually leads to an emotional response which is devoid of logic or reason.\u00a0 I always like to ask this question, why?\u00a0 I continue asking why and eventually you often get an honest answer.\u00a0 Then I always like to ask, one guns are controlled, what is next?\u00a0 Believe me and History, there is always a next…(see the above list)…<\/p>\n
Rules do not make the world safe.\u00a0 Rules set a standard for all of us, I am not against rules.\u00a0 However, rules do nothing to keep us safe; look at all the mass shootings, all of them have occurred in “Gun Free Zones”.\u00a0 You don’t read about the shootings in other places because typically someone with a gun stopped the shooter.\u00a0 My point is if you depend on the rules, the law, to keep you safe you will be greatly and perhaps fatally disappointed.\u00a0 The Police cannot be everywhere, nor do I think we want them everywhere, that is however what the men in the second row of the image want, total control.<\/p>\n
In Ancient China and Japan it was against the law for citizens (the working class) to possess or learn to use weapons.\u00a0 Over the course of centuries the people taught themselves how to defend against the government oppressors, but at great human cost.\u00a0 Thankfully today because of their efforts we have the Martial Arts, Karate, Kung Fu, etc.\u00a0 Their techniques were appropriate and while disadvantaged effective given the weapons of the time.\u00a0 Guns changed all that.\u00a0 Any Martial Artist or Self-Defense expert will tell you, if you face a gun, comply unless you feel that regardless the outcome will be fatal; even then you have to be within arms length to have a prayer of survival.\u00a0 That only applies against a single gunman.\u00a0 What can the masses do against a dozen without massive human sacrifice and still no assurance of victory. \u00a0 Given the weapons of today our only protection in some situations and always against a government are guns, even then with the advanced weapons available that is questionable.\u00a0 But better to have a chance then stand as sheep before the slaughter.\u00a0 Self-Defense is a choice; it is a Right, a Natural Right.\u00a0 If you want to give up your right, to place your well being in the hands of another, please do so, but do not try to regulate the rights of others, to do so is to side with Evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some will take issue with the following graphic, to bad.\u00a0 Self-Defense is to important an issue to tip-toe around, if you want to be a victim then by all means I will not stand in your way, however you should not require other to be victims against their will!\u00a0 History speaks for itself, this graphic