“It is going to continue to be violent. In the mean time, at least give me the chance to protect my life.”

“I would not rely on courts to protect the second amendment.”

“…[A]ssault weapons bans are ‘a fraud’ perpetrated ‘to fool the public into accepting a movement… .’”

“There’s a famous quote…[that] goes, ‘God made men, but Sam Colt made [them] equal.’”

Gallup vs. General Social Survey

American gunmakers produced more than 100 million civilian firearms in the past 25 years and the vast majority of those guns came from these three companies.

The shooting sports industry adds $33 billion a year to the U.S. economy and employs twice as many Americans as General Motors, which the Obama Administration considered too big to fail.

“When you see all the numbers, the overall pattern is quite clear”

See what some of the earliest guns looked like!

Do we want to take “a well regulated militia” seriously?

“ … the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”

“Gun control is a blessing to those who wish to do evil and deadly to good people.”

“We refuse to recognize law enforcement exemptions on gun control.”

The desire to just “do something” in the wake of a tragedy like Newtown must be tempered by a realistic assessment of the efficacy and constitutionality of the proposals.

Let’s forego the arbitrary, ambiguous, fear-mongering terms and get real specific about what we actually mean by gun control.

We all know that, according to a phrase popularized by Mark Twain, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. 

“Because we have guns, we were able to have the U.S.”