Subject: Paul Harvey on guns.
Sorry if you have seen this already.
> >
> >
> >Paul Harvey on Guns
> > Are you considering backing gun control laws? Do you think
> > that because you may not own a gun, the rights guaranteed by
> > the Second Amendment don't matter? CONSIDER;
> >
> > In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929
> > to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to
> > defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> >
> > In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5
> > million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
> > up and exterminated.
> >
> > Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to
> > 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally
> > ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were
> > rounded up and exterminated.
> >
> > China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20
> > million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves,
> > were rounded up and exterminated.
> >
> > Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to
> > 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves,
> > were rounded up and exterminated.
> >
> > Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979,
> > 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
> > up and exterminated.
> >
> > Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977,
> > one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves,
> > were rounded up and exterminated.
> >
> > That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun
> > control at approximately 56 million in the last century.
> > Since we should learn from the mistakes of history, the
> > next time someone talks in favor of gun control, find out
> > which group of citizens they wish to have exterminated.
> >
> > It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were
> > forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be
> > destroyed, a program costing the government more than $500
> > million dollars. The results Australia-wide; Homicides are
> > up 3.2% Assaults are up 8 % Armed robberies are up 44% In
> > that countries' state of Victoria, homicides with firearms
> > are up 300%. Over the previous 25 years, figures show a
> > steady increase in armed robberies and Australian politicians
> > are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement
> > in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort
> > and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of
> > guns." It's time to state it plainly; Guns in the hands of
> > honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control
> > laws only affect the law-abiding citizens. Take action
> > before it's too late, write or call your delegation.
> >
> > OPINION: Paul Harvey on Guns
> >
> > Paul Harvey's comment on Columbine High shootings: How can we
> > blame it all on guns?
> >
> > For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone
> > wrong in Littleton, CO. If only the parents had kept their
> > children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a
>
> > tragedy.
> >
> > Yeah, it must have been the guns. It couldn't have been
> > because half our children are being raised in broken homes.
> > It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an
> > average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their
> > parents each day. After all, we give our children quality
> > time. It couldn't have been because we treat our children as
> > pets and our pets as children.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we place our children in day
> > care centers where they learn their socialization skills
> > among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees
> > who have no vested interest in the children look on and make
> > sure that no blood is spilled.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch,
> > on the average, seven hours of television a day filled with
> > the glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for
> > adult consumption.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter
> > into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill
> > as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way
> > possible.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and
> > contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the
> > children we do have are so spoiled with material things that
> > they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because our children, who historically
> > have been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed
> > as either a mistake created when contraception fails or
> > inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison
> > sentences to teenagers who kill their newborns. It couldn't
> > have been because our school systems teach the children that
> > they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized
> > out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as
> > fact and by handing out condoms as if they were candy.
> >
> > It couldn't have been because we teach our children that
> > there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that
> > everything is relative and that actions don't have
> > consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it.
> >
> > Nah, it must have been the guns.
> >
> > Paul Harvey
>
> |
