Keep Calm and Carry

Originally published by AmmoLand.com.

USA – The growth in both types and numbers of gun owners, and the coincident drop in violent crime have not induced gun prohibitionists to reconsider their position.

A rational person might look on these big-picture truths as evidence that her thinking could be wrong.  But if gun prohibitionists were rational people, civil rights activists wouldn’t be working day in and day out to defend that precious right secured by the Second Amendment.

On the contrary, as more women, African-Americans, and others become proud gun owners, gun-hating activists have become more strident, even abusive, in their campaign against gun owners.

• Mandate a national ban on the child’s fantasy known as “gun-free zones”. Any rational adult can comprehend the reality that the great majority of mass shootings have occurred in these legally-established safe hunting grounds for homicidal maniacs. And any rational adult can logically conclude that only good people who follow rules will actually refrain from bringing guns into a “gun-free zone”. Let’s stop the insanity and start doing what is logical. Let’s start saving lives.
• Make nationwide constitutional carry of self-defense firearms the law of the land. Let no one be harassed, persecuted, or jailed for daring to take the natural right of self-defense seriously.
• Defund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) and abolish it. This scandal-ridden agency now serves only to persecute good gun owners and gun dealers.
• Repeal the NFA restrictions on firearm suppressors and all state laws banning them. Public health demands their use in shooting applications such as hunting and target shooting, where they can prevent the disability of irreversible hearing loss in millions of Americans.  Anyone who cares about public health must support the legalization of suppressors.
• Repeal any and all import restrictions designed to prevent new overseas firearm technology and products from reaching American shores.

These measures would restore some sanity to our firearm policy and remove some of the traps for good American gun owners deliberately built into our laws by gun rights-hating politicians.  They would restore some of our freedoms at a time when politicians seem to compete for how many of our freedoms they can take from us. And, to use a favorite tag line of the gun grabbers, if it saves one life, it’s worth it.

Reprinted with permission from AmmoLand.com.

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