Quote of the day—Brady Campaign

Although the exact number of Americans killed by gun violence in the 20th century will never be known, it is now all but certain that it will, by any measure, vastly exceed the number of Americans shot and killed on battlefields since 1900.

Brady Campaign
December 30, 1999
MORE AMERICANS KILLED BY GUNS THAN BY WAR IN THE 20TH CENTURY–1.4 Million Known American Firearms Casualties Since 1933
[What the Brady Campaign either is ignorant of or willfully ignoring is that during that same time frame countries without the right to keep and bear arms murdered about 170 million innocent non-military lives in the 20th Century.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

The trade-off is not between guns being readily available to individual criminals and guns being banned and hence as difficult to obtain as other banned items like recreational drugs. The trade-off is between freedom and tyranny. It’s between losing a million innocent people in century due to criminal acts of individuals and losing 100 million people due to criminal acts of governments.

The founders of the this country understood and placed the security of a free state above the risk from individual misuse of arms:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Firearms in the hands of the people are a plausible threat to would-be tyrants and hence a “safety net” for freedom.

Gun control in this country was implemented to make it easier to suppress slaves, former slaves, and the descendants of slaves. That is a shameful heritage for the advocates of gun control.

The Brady Campaign is a small and small-minded organization that does not represent the people of this nation or it’s values. It’s time they faded away into the dustbin of history like their small-minded ancestral cousins, the KKK.—Joe]

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4 thoughts on “Quote of the day—Brady Campaign

  1. I notice they count suicides (which shouldn’t count, since a drug overdose or hanging is just as deadly as a gun), and they don’t tell how many of those homicides were justified (self defense and police shootings).

  2. Its not like the number of deaths from knifings, beatings, clubbings and such isn’t almost as large a number. The Brady Campaign is about nothing but deception and fabrication.

  3. This is just the Brady Campaign positioning themselves on the side of the wannabe mass murderers. They have no problem with their side being armed vto the teeth,it is your guns they want taken away.

  4. some of the 1.4 million are victims of gun control as well. If they had’t been disarmed by law how may would have defended themselves with firearms. what would the real number been?

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