ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Gun Rights
- Some frequently overlooked facts in gun policy discussions
Source: Independence Institute
Country: United States
- A helpful source of information about the benefits of gun ownership and the risks involved in trying to disarm people. (9/17/00)
- John Lott debates Robert Ehrlich on gun control
Source: Reason
Country: United States
- Do "right to carry" laws lead to a reduction in violent crime as Yale research scholar, John R. Lott, argued in his 1998 book, "More Guns, Less Crime?" Robert Ehrlich, a professor of physics at George Mason University and author of "Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few May Even Be True," disagrees with Lott's interpretation of the data. (05/01)
- Kids and guns: what the media won't tell you
Source: KeepAndBearArms.com
Author: Robert A. Waters
Country: United States
- "Give a kid a gun and he suddenly becomes a monster, shooting up schools and blowing away anyone whom he perceives has wronged him. Right?" Wrong. Here are just a few stories of kids who were properly trained in gun use and helped protect their families. (12/00)
- What cops should know about the gun issue
Source: Second Amendment Police Department
Author: Leroy Pyle
Country: United States
E-mail: lpyle@2ampd.net
- Gun control is not a police officer's friend. Beat cops should get active and disabuse the public's notion that police chiefs speak for them. (1992)
- It never was about 'hunting' ...
Source: Second Amendment Police Department
Author: Sgt. William L. Liddell
Country: United States
- Orginal intent should be our guide to interpreting the Constitution, and it never occurred to the Founders that the Second Amendment was limited to protecting hunters. (1998)
- More guns, fewer incidents
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Even as the ATF reports that the number of firearms in circulation increased nearly 10 percent, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) says gun-related deaths and woundings dropped 33 percent in the United States from 1993 to 1997. (12/11/00)
- Brady act did not reduce gun homicides
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act has had little effect on U.S. homicide and suicide rates, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (01/02/01)
- No guns in the New World Order
Source: Sierra Times
Author: Charlene Sanders
Country: United States
- "Continuing to cruise the net, I soon discovered why my grandfather told us kids the United Nations was such a threat to our being able to keep guns: they didn't like guns and didn't want Americans to have any! In fact, they don't want ANYBODY to have any guns. Oh, except a few of them, that is." (06/08/02)
- A spirit of Liberty: town hall democracy
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: John McClaughry
Country: United States
- "The land-owning citizen warrior of a Swiss canton wearing a ceremonial sword to his local government assembly illustrates perfectly the vision our own Founding Fathers held for America. It is a vision that, however subconsciously, also motivates the free American today. Every time the right to bear arms is eroded, that vision begins to fade."
- Cars vs. guns: the gun grabbers are right
Source: KeepAndBearArms.com
Author: Scott Bitterman
Country: United States
E-mail: Bitterman@highpines.net
- "The latest rhetoric we hear from the anti-gun people is we should treat guns like cars. I think its time to seriously look at this idea -- and support it." Table analyzes how cars and guns are regulated or restricted.
- Should felons have guns?
Source: Armed Females of Texas
Author: Kathryn Graham
Country: United States
- "Let me duck down behind some cover here. Yes! I think that felons should be allowed to purchase -- and carry -- firearms." (04/02)
- Raging against self defense
Source: Liberty Journal
Author: Sarah Thompson, M.D.
Country: United States
- Written almost 11 months prior to the WTC tragedy, this article examines the anti-gun mentality. Dr. Thompson explains how people can become convinced to not defend themselves by being taught to depend on others to protect them. Worth another read in light of subsequent events.(10/25/2000)
- A blueprint for ending gun control
Source: Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Author: L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman
Country: United States
- Step One: Remember history. Step Two: Adjust your attitude... (08/01)
- A short study of firearms
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Jason Smith
Country: United States
E-mail: mrcarefree@hotmail.com
- "Perhaps the humor and the jokes of how inept and incompetent our government is will fade when OHS turns it eyes towards the home grown 'terrorists'. It will happen. The next Oklahoma City bombing will be all the excuse it needs to clamp down on the few rabble-rousers left in this country. With our thoughts on such pleasant matters I turn to the subject of selecting a good firearm." (10/11/01)
- Guns: a wrong or our right?
Source: Liberty Round Table
Author: Amanda Embree
Country: United States
- "The fiercest criminal from whom individual citizens need protection is a government which becomes overbearing. We are free in America today because the colonists fought against King George's tyranny using the guns that the king tried to take from them." 1st place winner in LRT annual essay contest for 2002, age 0-13 category.
- Gun control and the federal government
Source: Lost Horizons
Author: Peter E. Hendrickson
Country: United States
- "Despite the general misunderstanding of the U.S. Constitution which has obtained since the surrender of the Supreme Court to the Progressivist movement under FDR's court-packing threat, a simple and honest analysis of the facts and existing case law will reveal that the Federal government has no legal authority on the issue of gun control."
- Bellesiles' failings have impact today
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Author: Thomas Shapley
Country: United States
- "Not only are Bellesiles' alleged transgressions less broadly reported than the others. They are, if confirmed, more relevant because his historical thesis has become part of the contemporary public policy debate on the Second Amendment." (03/14/02)
- Baa baa American sheep
Source: Armed Females of Texas
Author: Kathryn Graham
Country: United States
- "This article is about handguns, but it is about something a lot more basic and important than firearms, too. It’s about courage, and without it, your weapon is useless." (2001)
- Uprooting the 'Weapons Effect' propaganda
Source: JPFO
Author: Liberty Crew
Country: United States
- "The federal government has assumed the power to shoot down any civilian aircraft that seems to pose a threat to public safety -- and thus to kill perhaps hundreds of civilians on a suspicion of terrorism," notes JPFO. An overview of arguments used to justify this, and a series of resources to help refute them. (04/20/02)
- A simple guide for buying and carrying a self-defense handgun
Source: KeepAndBearArms.Com
Author: Brian Puckett
Country: United States
- Citizens of America President Puckett offers a primer for gun owners: "This article is for novices ... and for long-time gun-owners. You might be a woman looking for your first self-defense handgun. Or you might be a lifelong 'gun person' that people come to for advice about guns. Either way this article is for you." (02/26/02)
- Arming society
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Brian Jennings
Country: United States
- "Arming yourself is perhaps the single best thing you can do as a freedom-lover. It's something the State doesn't want you to do. It allows you to take back a little control of your life, liberty, and property." (03/29/02)
- Handguns - a moral imperative
Source: Armed Females of Texas
Author: Kathryn Graham
Country: United States
- "You’ve been lied to, friends and neighbors. You’ve been lied to by some of the slickest and most dangerous conmen you will ever encounter...You’ve been told that folks are killing each other all over the world, and they will certainly stop if we can just control this terrible flood of weapons and keep them in the hands of the officials who should properly have them."
- Difficult choices
Source: Armed Females of Texas
Author: Kathryn Graham
Country: United States
- "The only answer I can live with is no compromise! The Bill of Rights means precisely what it says -- every word --and every law that has been passed contrary to the Bill of Rights is null and void under the highest law of this land. Every individual who has voted for or attempted to enforce such a law is himself (or herself) a criminal. Cut and dried." (2001)
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