By: Anthony Martin
Despite the fact that numerous published studies show that strict gun control laws and gun bans do not correlate to a drop in violence, invariably the mainstream media and liberal politicians rush to politicize high profile tragedies such as the Newtown, Conn. massacre in an attempt to ram through more firearms control legislation. But gun rights activists warned Sunday of the dire consequences of any move by politicians to enact more restrictive gun control or to ban so-called assault weapons.
Nationally known gun rights activist and citizen investigative journalist Mike Vanderboegh, for example, stated Sunday that new firearms laws and gun bans will result in massive civil disobedience on the part of most of the estimated 100 million gun owners in the United States.
"We have no intention of disarming," said Vanderboegh.
Vanderboegh further asserted that citizen gunsmiths would kick into overtime building and producing the very firearms that the government would ban, creating a massive underground black market.
Already citizens have been making their own ammunition in anticipation of the possibility that the federal government could at some point control or ban certain types of ammo.
These assertions highlight the fact that gun rights enthusiasts are tired of being blamed for what a tiny minority of citizens do. Numerous studies have shown that a minuscule percentage of those who possess guns use them to commit violent crimes. In 2007, for example, 12,632 homicides were committed in the United States. Thus, over 99.9 million out of the 100 million who have guns never use their firearms to commit any act of violence. Blaming 99.9 million law-abiding gun owners for what roughly 12,632 criminals do is not only unfair, say gun rights enthusiasts, but flies in the face of logic and sound reasoning.
Vanderboegh maintains that such a blame game is entirely politically motivated, that liberal politicians and the mainstream media "dance in the blood of the innocents," even before their bodies have been identified, in order to push a gun control agenda.
Those who are prone to engage in such behavior are well-known. President Obama has always used senseless shootings by deranged kooks to make a case for gun control. So have U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and many others.
And the NBC television network is notorious for pushing the gun control agenda, although to some degree all three major networks do so.
Vanderboegh, who has had significant contact with scores of gun rights activists across the country for many years, says that the federal government is simply asking for it if it intends to use the senseless, tragic deaths of innocent children at the hands of a deranged killer to punish 100 million law-abiding gun owners in America. The ultimate consequence, says Vanderboegh, is civil war. In no way will law-abiding gun owners stand for any more encroachments on their liberties in order to satisfy the progressive agenda to use any and all violent crime to justify their ultimate desire to disarm the entirety of the American population.
Despite the fact that numerous published studies show that strict gun control laws and gun bans do not correlate to a drop in violence, invariably the mainstream media and liberal politicians rush to politicize high profile tragedies such as the Newtown, Conn. massacre in an attempt to ram through more firearms control legislation. But gun rights activists warned Sunday of the dire consequences of any move by politicians to enact more restrictive gun control or to ban so-called assault weapons.
Nationally known gun rights activist and citizen investigative journalist Mike Vanderboegh, for example, stated Sunday that new firearms laws and gun bans will result in massive civil disobedience on the part of most of the estimated 100 million gun owners in the United States.
"We have no intention of disarming," said Vanderboegh.
Vanderboegh further asserted that citizen gunsmiths would kick into overtime building and producing the very firearms that the government would ban, creating a massive underground black market.
Already citizens have been making their own ammunition in anticipation of the possibility that the federal government could at some point control or ban certain types of ammo.
These assertions highlight the fact that gun rights enthusiasts are tired of being blamed for what a tiny minority of citizens do. Numerous studies have shown that a minuscule percentage of those who possess guns use them to commit violent crimes. In 2007, for example, 12,632 homicides were committed in the United States. Thus, over 99.9 million out of the 100 million who have guns never use their firearms to commit any act of violence. Blaming 99.9 million law-abiding gun owners for what roughly 12,632 criminals do is not only unfair, say gun rights enthusiasts, but flies in the face of logic and sound reasoning.
Vanderboegh maintains that such a blame game is entirely politically motivated, that liberal politicians and the mainstream media "dance in the blood of the innocents," even before their bodies have been identified, in order to push a gun control agenda.
Those who are prone to engage in such behavior are well-known. President Obama has always used senseless shootings by deranged kooks to make a case for gun control. So have U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and many others.
And the NBC television network is notorious for pushing the gun control agenda, although to some degree all three major networks do so.
Vanderboegh, who has had significant contact with scores of gun rights activists across the country for many years, says that the federal government is simply asking for it if it intends to use the senseless, tragic deaths of innocent children at the hands of a deranged killer to punish 100 million law-abiding gun owners in America. The ultimate consequence, says Vanderboegh, is civil war. In no way will law-abiding gun owners stand for any more encroachments on their liberties in order to satisfy the progressive agenda to use any and all violent crime to justify their ultimate desire to disarm the entirety of the American population.
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