Fifteen Reasons You

violent criminals to the streets to do Fifteen Reasons You their crimes again. Eleven Excuses for Should Own A Gun NOT Owning A Gun 9. Guns in the home are safe, when 1. Your right to keep and bear arms is gun owners keep guns responsibly. 1. I'm too busy to take the time to guaranteed in the Constitution and More children die every year in learn how to handle a gun safely. Bill of Rights of the United States of swimming pool accidents than in gun America. "Use it or lose it." accidents. 2. I believe that all guns are evil, even in the hands of the police and 2. George Washington said: 10. It is a fact that armed American soldiers. "Firearms stand next in importance to men and women prevent two million the Constitution itself. They are the crimes every year with their guns. 3. I would rather let a criminal kill me American people's liberty teeth and or my family than try to stop him with keystone under independence..." 11. Self-defense is more honorable a gun. and better for society than being a 3. Bearing arms is the Christian thing victim. It is up to YOU to act 4. I believe it was wrong for to do. Jesus said: "If you don't have responsibly for your own safety, and America's founding fathers to use a sword, sell your cloak and buy the safety of your family. guns to overthrow the rule of the one..." (Luke 22:36 NIV) British. We should have stayed a 12. It is a fact that cities which colony. 4. Enjoying guns is not a strange impose strict gun control create the weird thing, as some anti-gun people highest assault and murder rates in 5. I believe it was wrong for American insist. People have been hunting with America. soldiers to use guns to rescue long guns for centuries. Shooting is innocent men and women from the an internationally recognized 13. It is a fact that most gun crimes in Nazi death camps. Olympic sport. America involve gangsters shooting other gangsters. The average gun 6. I believe that I will never need a 5. People without guns are assaulted owner never uses his or her gun to gun to defend myself or my family, or murdered daily by criminals who commit a crime. because the police will be constantly have guns. Having a gun makes you watching over me to make sure that I better able to defend your family. 14. Most states issue permits to carry will never be in danger. concealed handguns. Men and 6. If gun ownership is made illegal, women who get permits take gun 7. I trust our courts to keep violent criminals won't turn in their guns. safety classes, and have extensive criminals off the streets. It's not Gun control makes easy prey out of criminal background checks. These possible that I will ever be attacked by law-abiding citizens. people make everyone a little safer, a criminal. wherever they may be. 7. We are grateful for the police 8. If our government decides to make officers of our communities. 15. The "War on Terror" is likely to be all gun owners register every gun However, the police can't come to a long war. People who own guns, they have, and then decides to help you until AFTER a crime has and who are trained to use guns confiscate all privately owned guns, I been committed. Having a gun may responsibly, are better able to serve still don't think we have anything to enable you to stay alive long enough their country than people who are worry about. I know other countries to call for help from the police. ignorant about guns. have become dictatorships, but that could never happen in America. 8. American courts regularly return 9. I don't know much about the that the President, or Congress, in a Constitution and the Bill of Rights, well-meaning attempt to prevent and I don't have any desire to learn another "9-11," would take steps that more. I've heard that the 2nd would nullify the Bill of Rights almost Amendment guarantees the right of overnight. Americans to keep and bear arms, but I really don't care. In the interests of "national Responsible safety," many Americans would 10. Quite a few criminals have used unthinkingly accept the curtailment of Gun guns, therefore the government their civil liberties. This might mark should take guns away from all the the end of the free America we have good people who don't commit known for over 200 years. It has Ownership crimes. happened in other countries. It would be naive and short-sighted to believe 11. I don't care if my children will that "it could never happen here." grow up in a free America. Things are Your right, your responsibility, and pretty good for ME right now, and We have also seen the your duty as an American citizen to that's all I care about. disturbing sight of well-meaning keep and bear arms public officials actually confiscating the firearms of law-abiding citizens in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, THINK ABOUT THIS... with gangs roaming the streets… exactly the time when the citizens Owning a gun for self-defense need their self-defense weapons the is like having fire insurance or health most! These officials are well- insurance. You don't really think your meaning, but foolish, dangerous, and house will burn down, but it might. in violation of the Constitution and You don't really think you will have a Bill of Rights. catastrophic car accident, and huge hospital bills, but you might. You The only way to retain our hope you will never need your Constitutional rights is to USE them. insurance, but you have it just in By owning guns, American men and case. The same goes for having a women are taking concrete action in gun for self-defense. It is better to support of their rights and freedoms, have it and not need it, than to need it, and preserving those rights and and not have it. freedoms for future generations.

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