Paul Harvey on Gun Control
From: "DocMelson.com" <docmelson@docmelson.com>Monday,
November 06, 2000
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Are you considering
backing gun control laws? Do
you
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think that because you may
not own a gun, the rights guar-
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anteed by the Second Amendment don't matter?
CONSIDER:
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In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control.
From
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1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to
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defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey
established gun control. From
1915-
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1917, 1.5 million
Armenians, unable to defend
themselves,
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were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun
control in 1938 and from 1939
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to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally
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ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves,
were
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rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun
control in 1935. From
1948 to
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1952, 20
million political dissidents, unable
to defend
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themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Guatemala established gun
control in 1964. From
1964
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to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves,
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were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun
control in 1970. From 1971
to
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1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves,
were
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rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956.
From 1975 to
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1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend
them-
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selves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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That places total victims who lost their lives
because
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of gun
control at approximately
56 million in
the last
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century. Since we
should learn from the mistakes of
his-
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tory, the next time
someone talks in favor of gun control,
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find out which group of citizens they wish to have
extermi-
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nated.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia
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were forced
to surrender 640,381 personal firearms
to be
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destroyed, a program
costing the government more than $500
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million dollars.
The results Australia-wide; 7
Homicides
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are up 3.2% 7 Assaults are
up 8 % 7 Armed robberies are up
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44% 7 In that countries'
state of Victoria, homicides with
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firearms are up 300%.
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7 Over
the previous 25 years, figures show
a steady
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decrease in armed
robberies and Australian politicians are
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on the spot and at a loss
to explain how no improvement in
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"safety" has been observed after such monumental effort
and
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expense was
successfully expended in "ridding
society of
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guns."
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It's time
to state it plainly; Guns in the hands
of
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honest citizens save lives
and property and, yes, gun-con-
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trol laws only affect the law-abiding citizens.
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Take action before it's
too late, write or call
your
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delegation.
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OPINION: Paul Harvey on
Guns Paul Harvey's comment on
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Columbine High shootings:
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How
can we blame it all on guns?
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For the life of me, I can't understand what could
have
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gone wrong in Littleton,
CO. If only the parents had
kept
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their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such
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a tragedy.
Yeah, it must have been the guns.
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It couldn't
have been because half our children
are
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being raised in broken homes.
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It couldn't have been because our children get to spend
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an average
of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation
with
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their parents each day.
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After all, we give our children quality time.
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It couldn't have been because we treat our children
as
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pets and our pets as children.
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It couldn't have been because we place our children
in
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day care centers where they learn their socialization skills
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among their
peers under the law of the jungle
while em-
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ployees who have no vested interest in the children look
on
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and make sure that no blood is spilled.
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It couldn't have been because we allow our children
to
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watch, on
the average, seven hours
of television
a day
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filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn't
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fit for adult consumption.
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It couldn't have been because we allow our children
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enter into
virtual worlds in which, to win the
game, one
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must kill as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic
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way possible.
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It couldn't have been
because we have sterilized
and
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contracepted our families
down to sizes so small that
the
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children we do have are so spoiled with material things that
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they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.
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It couldn't have been because our children, who histor-
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ically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now
being
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viewed as either a mistake created when contraception
fails
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or inconveniences that
parents try to raise in their spare
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time.
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It couldn't have been
because we give two-year prison
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sentences to teenagers who kill their newborns.
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It couldn't have been because our school systems
teach
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the children that they are
nothing but glorified apes
who
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have evolutionized
out of some primordial soup of mud
by
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teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as
if
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they were candy.
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It couldn't
have been because we teach our
children
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that there are no laws of
morality that transcend us, that
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everything is relative and
that actions don't have
conse-
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quences. What
the heck, the president gets away with it.
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Nah, it must have been the guns.
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Paul Harvey
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When
the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.
I. Ching
Bruce
"Doc". Melson