Common Arguments and their responses
Gun Facts
http://www.gunfacts.info
THE LONG LIST OF “GUN-CONTROL” MYTHS
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/talk-politics-guns/pro-gun-faq/part1
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/talk-politics-guns/pro-gun-faq/part2
mirrored at:
http://www.rkba.org/research/rkba.faq
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/talk-politics-guns
Guncite:
http://www.guncite.com/
Switzerland:
David Kopel:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ae771eb4adb.htm
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland (caution lots of edit wars)
Guncite:
http://www.guncite.com/swissgun-kopel.html
Journal
http://www.ssn.ethz.ch/info_dienst/medien/nzz/documents/2004/07/20040718Zivilewaffen.pdf
Swiss law
http://www.guncite.com/swiss_gun_law.html
http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c514_54.html
Swiss shooting range
http://www.swissrifles.com/shooting/
Dry statistics:
Nationmaster
World Suicide rate:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_sui_rat_mal-health-suicide-rate-males
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_sui_rat_fem-health-suicide-rate-females
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) WISQARS
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html
FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/september06/crimeintheus091806.htm
Statistics Canada
http://statcan.ca/
School Shootings:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html
Articles:
CONSERVATIVE CORNER: Some perspective on call for gun control
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01-07/01-04-07/02opinion.htm
NRA
70 Million More Guns…38% Less Violent Crime
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2445
A few surprising stats:
A swimming pool is 100 times more deadly than a gun
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/swimming-pool-is-100-times-more-deadly-than-guns/
Buckets more dangerous to children than guns
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/buckets-more-dangerous-to-children-than-guns/
Boots vs Weapons
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/boots-more-harmful-than-weapons-in-street-violence-study-shows-time-to-ban-boots/
Books:
The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies by David B. Kopel (Hardcover – Jul 1992)
Video:
Dr. Susan Hupp’s Congressional Testimony
Officer Leroy Pyle
Katey’s Firearm Facts
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kateysfirearmsfacts
In Search of the Second Amendment
http://www.secondamendmentdocumentary.com/
Give Them Back
http://www.givethemback.com/
Firearm related blogs (Pro):
http://armsandthelaw.com
http://wacki.wordpress.com/tag/gunsfacts/
http://republicanmichigander.blogspot.com/
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2006/09/can-gun-control-reduce-violence.html
Pro-Gun Groups:
JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
http://www.jpfo.org/
Pink Pistols
http://www.pinkpistols.org/
Society For American Foresters
http://www.safnet.org/
Surprising facts about guns:
“Boots More Harmful Than Weapons In Street Violence, Study Shows”: Time to ban boots?
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/boots-more-harmful-than-weapons-in-street-violence-study-shows-time-to-ban-boots/
A swimming pool is 100 times more deadly than a gun
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/swimming-pool-is-100-times-more-deadly-than-guns/
Buckets more dangerous to children than guns
http://wacki.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/buckets-more-dangerous-to-children-than-guns/
Gun quotes:
“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it away.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Jesus Christ, Luke 11:21
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his palace, his possessions are safe.”
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
Walter Mondale
“Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.”
George Mason, Virginia’s U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was Governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually.”. . . I ask, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”
Thomas Jefferson
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Samuel Adams
“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds…”
Ghandi
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
And many more here:
http://www.rmgo.org/quotes.shtml
http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ.html
Assessment reports
CDC, October 3, 2003 / 52(RR14);11-20, First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws, Findings from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
National Academy of Sciences, Firearms and Violence
History
1982 United States Senate Report, “To Keep and Bear Arms”
http://www.guncite.com/journals/senrpt/
