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Why I am a newly-minted member of NRA
By Wayne Allyn Root
Published January 15, 2013
FoxNews.com
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/15/why-am-newly-minted-member-nra/#ixzz2I3nnBm9B
Over 100,000 Americans have joined the NRA since the Sandy Hook tragedy in D
ecember. I am one of them.
Why did all these folks decide to sign up?
Well probably for the same reasons I did. At first glance, I’m not your typ
ical NRA member. I’m Jewish, Ivy League educated (Columbia University, Clas
s of ’83, President Obama’s classmate in fact), and have even been a membe
r of the mainstream media (I started my career as an anchorman and host for
CNBC, then called the Financial News Network).
I'm not the world's biggest gun guy. I'm not a collector. Being around guns
is not second nature for me.
But I want them to be legal. I want the right to own them. I want the right
to protect myself and my family.
I want to protect the Second Amendment.
And I don't want government telling me what to do. And if any of those right
s are going to be threatened, then I realized it's time for me to stand up f
or the NRA.
Here are more common sense reasons why I decided to join the NRA:
First, I believe it’s clear that our politicians have come to all the wrong
conclusions. Why would we rush to ban guns, when almost all of our worst ma
ss murders and most of our violent crimes occur in places with the strictest
gun control? Why rush to create more “Gun Free Zones” when the Sandy Hook
tragedy occurred in a “Gun Free Zone?” This response makes absolutely no
sense.
The worst violent crime and murder rates in America occur in places with the
strictest gun control already in place: Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Wa
shington, D.C.
Strict gun control clearly does not work. It only disarms the honest, law-ab
iding citizens, who are left helpless and defenseless. Criminals never have
a problem acquiring guns. Therefore gun laws are not only useless, they are
dangerous.
But don’t just look at big cities in America. Let’s look across the Atlant
ic Ocean for the best example. Our friend and ally England has a complete ba
n on guns. No citizen of the UK can carry a gun. Period. Not a one.
Result? The violent crime rate in the UK is three and a third times higher t
han it is in America. The FBI reports 386 violent crimes per 100,000 in the
USA. The UK Home Office reports 1,361 violent crimes per 100,000 in England.
Gun control may be a failure, but the UK experience proves that outright gun
bans are an unmitigated disaster.
But this is nothing new. Leftist, big government, Nanny State politicians al
ways come to the wrong conclusion about most issues.
Groucho Marx said it best:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnos
ing it incorrectly and applying all the wrong remedies.”
Former White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel put
it differently, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Our leftist big governm
ent politicians are trying to turn a terrible tragedy into a gun crisis. The
ir solution is to try to demonize and ban guns. But the Newtown tragedy wasn
’t a gun problem, it was a mental illness problem.
Thank goodness the American public has more common sense than the politician
s and media big shots. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that while 27% think st
ricter gun control laws are the solution, a dominant 48% believe the answer
is more action to treat mental health issues.
It is obvious that many Americans agree that guns do much more than kill (in
the wrong hands). More often than not, they save lives and prevent violence
.
Here are a few proven facts that are too often missing from the gun debate (
Thanks to Gun Owners of America and ZeroHedge.com for these statistics):
Based on a 2000 study, Americans use guns to defend themselves from crime an
d violence 989,883 times annually. Banning guns would leave about 1,000,000
Americans defenseless from criminals who have no problem acquiring guns ille
gally.
A nationwide survey reported over a five-year period 3.5% of households had
a member who used a gun to protect themselves, their family, or their proper
ty. This also adds up to about the same 1,000,000 incidents annually.
Each year about 200,000 women use a gun to defend themselves from a sexual c
rime or abuse.
The Carter Justice Department found that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes
, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knif
e, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful. More recent stud
ies all point towards a figure of 2.5 million -- that’s the new expert gues
stimate of how many times Americans defend themselves from violent criminals
each year.
Bottom line: guns save lives.
Now that we’ve polled the citizens, how about we see what the felons have t
o say:
- A survey of male felons in 11 state prisons across the USA found that 34%
had been scared off, wounded or captured by an armed victim of their crime.
- 69% of felons knew other fellow criminals who had been scared off or captu
red by an armed victim.
- 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting
an armed victim than they are about running into the police."
These facts (and many more too voluminous to show here) prove that guns -- i
n the right hands -- defend citizens, families and children.
Again, guns save lives.
But for me, it’s always been a personal and emotional argument, even more t
han a factual one. I’m a proud Jewish American. Over six million of my fell
ow Jews were enslaved, starved, tortured, and then slaughtered by Adolph Hit
ler. Before it could happen, in 1938, Hitler banned gun ownership for Jews.
The reality is that throughout history, the first thing all tyrants do is di
sarm the citizens. Then the mass killings begin.
In the end we all have to remember our Second Amendment was not put in place
to protect us from criminals and random crime. It was put in place to prote
ct the citizens from government.
Thomas Jefferson put it best: "When governments fear the people, there is li
berty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
I’ll be glad to give up my guns when the elites in Washington and Hollywood
agree to disarm their bodyguards. And when President Obama stops sending hi
s daughters to the exclusive Sidwell Friends School, which has a 9-person ar
med security force.
For all of these reasons, that's why now more than ever, we need to protect
the second amendment. That's why now more than ever, we need the NRA.
Wayne Allyn Root is capitalist evangelist, entrepreneur, and Libertarian-con
servative Republican. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee.
Wayne's latest book will be published on April 15: "The Ultimate Obama Survi
val Guide: Secrets to Protecting Your Family, Your Finances, and Your Freedo
m." He is also the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian:
Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." For more
, visit his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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发帖数: 4211 | 2 墙裂严重支持！一定要搞个NRA LIFE membership。
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【在 k**********i 的大作中提到】
: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/15/why-am-newly-minted-m
: Why I am a newly-minted member of NRA
: By Wayne Allyn Root
: Published January 15, 2013
: FoxNews.com
: Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/15/why-am-newly-minted-member-nra/#ixzz2I3nnBm9B
: Over 100,000 Americans have joined the NRA since the Sandy Hook tragedy in D
: ecember. I am one of them.
: Why did all these folks decide to sign up?
: Well probably for the same reasons I did. At first glance, I’m not your typ
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发帖数: 844 | | d*******s
发帖数: 15155 | | k**o
发帖数: 15334 | 5 可是犹太人作为一个族群，是liberal并支持禁枪的。
【在 d*******s 的大作中提到】
: Jews的先辈应该是对收缴枪支体会最深的
| i****o
发帖数: 465 | 6 逼上梁山。左棍把很多中间派都逼向了NRA，包括我自己。 | R*****e
发帖数: 216 | 7 写得太好了。
【在 i****o 的大作中提到】
: 逼上梁山。左棍把很多中间派都逼向了NRA，包括我自己。
| c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 8 你这不是扯淡嘛。
【在 k**o 的大作中提到】
: 可是犹太人作为一个族群，是liberal并支持禁枪的。
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