The Science of Gun Control

It is very revealing to me that none of the gun zealots posting here answer any of the author's very salient points regaring the lower proportion of homicides and suicides in areas with local gun checks. I say we need those local checks everywhere.

The people who wrote the constitution knew the right to bear arms by the common land owners was essential in protecting our freedom.If people read history books not political reviews.It clearly states property owners defined as legal citizens/land owner and regulated militia.The supreme court reviewed the second amendment very throughly and found no legal constitutional way to ban private ownership of firearms.
I realize there is frightened people afraid of guns.The fact is more people is killed in car accidents and fires than pistols,rifles, and shotguns every year.Do we ban all cars because of someone dies in a car accident.It is stupidity in the worst form to make rash decisions based on human ignorance.

Boy...the discriminaton campaign against firearms owners now applies to the supreme court "crazies!"
Gun control has been FUELED by a discrimination campaign for decades! THOSE PEOPLE are a threat...are nuts...crazys!
Spray death, high powered, loophole, waiting period, semi-automatic, cop killer ...THOSE PEOPLE! THOSE PEOPLES rights are such a THREAT! They told me so on my TV!
Now that THOES PEOPLE are such a threat it is REASONABLE, to you, to take thier rights away! Because you are so INTELEGENT! So...enlightened!
Thats a discrimination campaign and you are The Bozo the people who crafted it intended to fool all along!
Most Americans are positivly appauled by discrimiation campaigns directed against fellow Americans, when they understand that discrimination campaigninng is being used!
Except for THOSE PEOPLE who drive cars, I supose! But then, i like them too, as my fellow Americans. I don't need to talk stupidly about them.
Please drive safely! Don't take the discrimination campaign so to heart you justify running over gun owners! They're your nieghbors!

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government . . . The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms..."

- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #28.

"The opinion of the Federalist has always been considered as of great authority. It is a complete commentary on our Constitution; and is appealed to by all parties in the questions to which that instrument has given birth. Its intrinsic merit entitles it to this high rank; and the part two of its authors performed in framing the constitution, put it very much in their power to explain the views with which it was framed..."

- Chief Justice John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, Cohens v. Virginia (1821).

"Also, the conditions and circumstances of the period require a finding that while the stated purpose of the right to arms was to secure a well-regulated militia, the right to self-defense was assumed by the Framers."

- Chief Justice John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court. [As quoted in Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. 243, 251 (1846); State v. Dawson, 272 N.C. 535, 159 S.E.2d 1, 9 (1968).]

"Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. . . . [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

- Tenche Coxe, using the pseudonym "a Pennsylvanian", Feb. 20, 1788, Pennsylvania Gazette.

"Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."

- Tenche Coxe, 'Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution' using the Pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1.

Mr. Coxe was a prominent Philadelphian and political economist who was named assistant secretary of the treasury in 1790, commissioner of revenue in 1792, and purveyor of public supplies in 1803. Whose series of newspaper articles were very much approved by both Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Madison.

"From among the rights retained by our policy, we have selected those of self defence or bearing arms, of conscience, and of free inquiry, for two purposes; one, to shew the vast superiority of our policy, in being able to keep natural rights necessary for liberty and happiness, out of the hands of governments; the other, to shew that this ability is the effect of its principles, and beyond the reach of Mr. Adams???s system, or of any other, unable to reserve to the people, and to withhold from governments, a variety of rights."

- John Taylor, Revolutionary Soldier and U.S. Senator, (1792 ??? 94, 1803, 1822 ??? 24). [An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States: Section the Sixth; THE GOOD MORAL PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, (1814).]

The problem with gun control is that it attracts so much research, better spent on just stopping all violence in a population!
Everything gets focused onto gun stats...but not beyond as this article makes so clear! Knive crime and suicide simply slips away! That is what happens when people who should know better fall int o the trap of the Discrimination Campaign against fire arms ownerswaged by gun control groups who are so discredited they need a fig leaf... such as this article.
We can reduce crime and violence in this country and when we focus on The Criminal, the Criminal, The Criminal!