Once again the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence is proven wrong by the facts. They predicted that citizens with guns would fire on the police, creating a wash of blood in the streets. DUH. That, of course, did not happen. Why in the world that they would think that law abiding citizens would give up their life philosophy and turn criminal just because they carry a gun on their hip is way beyond me.
The , “Shall Issue,” concealed pistol licensee laws in the various
states are common sense laws that protect ordinary citizens from
criminals. The Brady Campaign has been proven wrong time after time.
Why do they insist that it is vital to take away our guns? The answer
to that is, of course, their paychecks.
This is from an email from: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
BELLEVUE, WA – Another bogus argument of gun control
extremists – that sensible concealed carry laws create an
increased threat to police officers – has been refuted by
statistics from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
and published by USA Today.
The number of officer fatalities due to gunfire is the lowest in
50 years, noted Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for
the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. A report out Monday said that this
year, 41 officers have died from gunshot wounds, down 40 percent from the 68 who died by gunfire in 2007. Yet the number of concealed carry permits issued by the states has risen, dramatically in some areas, in the past 12 months.
“Better training and equipment have contributed to this
decline,” Gottlieb stated, “but it must be noted for the
record that growing numbers of legally-armed citizens have not
resulted in more police slayings. That has been one of the many lame
arguments offered by gun control fanatics over the past few years
when they fought against expanded concealed carry rights.
“The death of one police officer is a tragedy,” he
continued, “but common sense right-to-carry statutes have no
relation to the criminal slayings of police officers, and anti-gun
rights extremists know it.”
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports that
more officers have died in traffic-related incidents than in
shootings, same as last year, Gottlieb noted.
“There are, today, more legally-armed citizens than ever
before,” he commented, “and more privately-owned firearms than ten or even five years ago. More Americans own semiautomatic sport-utility rifles, growing numbers of women own guns for personal protection and more citizens are involved in shooting sports.
“None of these law-abiding citizens pose any threat to public safety, and especially to the safety of our local police,”
Gottlieb concluded. “We expect the new Congress, and state
legislatures around the country, to keep this in perspective as the
gun ban lobby mounts new attacks on firearm civil rights in
2009.”
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