Name: Anonymous 2007-10-14 10:39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_YTM_eAWnQ
Should the rest of the United States pass RTC (Right to Carry) laws? Most states, as you can see in the link below, have passed right to carry laws - laws that allow citizens to carry concealed firearms for their protection. As it stands, there are only a handful of states in the USA that DO NOT allow their citizens the right to carry. Among these: California, New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, as well as many of the smaller liberal northeastern states. There are even some states that don't even require a person get a license to carry, and indeed, these are some of the safest states of any in the country - Vermont and Alaska.
http://www.nraila.org/images/rtcmaplg.jpg
In a recent Supreme Court case, the court ruled that the police have no duty to protect you as an individual (Warren v. District of Columbia). Since you have no right to police protection, shouldn't you then have the right to the tools necessary to protect yourself? What better tool than a firearm? Isn't it a little sick to deny people the right to police protection, then disarm them with gun control laws so they have no option to protect themselves?
According to the following link (http://www.nraila.org//Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=18): • More RTC, less crime. Violent crime rates in 2004-2005 were lower than anytime since 1976.1 (Crime victim surveys indicate that violent crime is at a 31-year low.2) Since 1991, 23 states have adopted RTC, the number of privately-owned guns has risen by nearly 70 million,3 and violent crime is down 38%. In 2005 RTC states had lower violent crime rates, on average, compared to the rest of the country (total violent crime by 22%; murder, 30%; robbery, 46%; and aggravated assault, 12%) and included the seven states with the lowest total violent crime rates, and 11 of the 12 states with the lowest murder rates.4
• RTC and crime trends. Studying crime trends in every county in the U.S., John Lott and David Mustard found, “allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have Right to Carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly....[W]hen state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent.”5
So the Right to Carry (RTC) is an essential crime-fighting tool, and it also is a basic human right. Citizens in the few states that infringe upon the right to carry should write their representatives and demand that their Second Amendment rights be upheld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNUqtkXTQ8
Fortunately, there are groups out there that actively work toward the expansion and protection of these rights through lobbying and e-mail writing campaigns.
http://www.gunowners.org/
http://www.gunownersca.com/
http://www.nra.org/
http://www.calnra.com/
Should the rest of the United States pass RTC (Right to Carry) laws? Most states, as you can see in the link below, have passed right to carry laws - laws that allow citizens to carry concealed firearms for their protection. As it stands, there are only a handful of states in the USA that DO NOT allow their citizens the right to carry. Among these: California, New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, as well as many of the smaller liberal northeastern states. There are even some states that don't even require a person get a license to carry, and indeed, these are some of the safest states of any in the country - Vermont and Alaska.
http://www.nraila.org/images/rtcmaplg.jpg
In a recent Supreme Court case, the court ruled that the police have no duty to protect you as an individual (Warren v. District of Columbia). Since you have no right to police protection, shouldn't you then have the right to the tools necessary to protect yourself? What better tool than a firearm? Isn't it a little sick to deny people the right to police protection, then disarm them with gun control laws so they have no option to protect themselves?
According to the following link (http://www.nraila.org//Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=18): • More RTC, less crime. Violent crime rates in 2004-2005 were lower than anytime since 1976.1 (Crime victim surveys indicate that violent crime is at a 31-year low.2) Since 1991, 23 states have adopted RTC, the number of privately-owned guns has risen by nearly 70 million,3 and violent crime is down 38%. In 2005 RTC states had lower violent crime rates, on average, compared to the rest of the country (total violent crime by 22%; murder, 30%; robbery, 46%; and aggravated assault, 12%) and included the seven states with the lowest total violent crime rates, and 11 of the 12 states with the lowest murder rates.4
• RTC and crime trends. Studying crime trends in every county in the U.S., John Lott and David Mustard found, “allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have Right to Carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly....[W]hen state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent.”5
So the Right to Carry (RTC) is an essential crime-fighting tool, and it also is a basic human right. Citizens in the few states that infringe upon the right to carry should write their representatives and demand that their Second Amendment rights be upheld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNUqtkXTQ8
Fortunately, there are groups out there that actively work toward the expansion and protection of these rights through lobbying and e-mail writing campaigns.
http://www.gunowners.org/
http://www.gunownersca.com/
http://www.nra.org/
http://www.calnra.com/