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January 6, 2016
Title: Obama Really Wants your Guns Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Dave Workman with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org)
Part 1 of 2
Many elected officials trash-talk against gun lobbyists and the NRA. Yet, they are surrounded by armed guards and security officers! Will the call for more restrictions on gun sales really decrease the amount of mass killings? Can we really stop criminals from obtaining guns? Gun violence is a major hot topic in this country right now. Is there a way to stop it – or at least decrease it?
Dave Workman is a nationally recognized firearms journalist. He is currently the Communications Director with the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Dave is here to shed some light on this issue – and maybe offer some hope.
Regarding Obama’s “promise” to place more restrictions on guns, Dave Workman says, “There is no evidence that any kind of gun control measures will have any impact on mass shootings – or even on crime committed in Chicago or Washington, DC. The overwhelming majority of mass shooters cleared background checks because they didn’t have a prior criminal record!”
But what happens when a mass shooter doesn’t obtain guns the “legal way”? How can we stop them? And why do so many attorneys for these mass shooters use the insanity please for their clients? Listen in as Dave Workman answers these and other questions, using the high number of murders in Chicago as a prime example. The biggest problem, he believes, is the lack of enforcement in current guns laws, not the lack of laws. Listen to the next segment as he expands on this thought.
Title: Part 2 of 2 - Obama Really Wants your Guns Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Dave Workman with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org)
Dave Workman continues to discuss why it is vital to keep the
current gun laws in effect; we don’t need to add to or take away from them. We simply need to enforce them! He encourages all states to adopt the
“three strikes and you’re out” and “hard time for armed crime” that was gained
attention nearly twenty years. He believes those two laws really aided in the
reduction of crimes, especially murders and violent crimes. Even Bill Clinton
endorsed the “three strikes and you’re out” law when he was President!
But, of course, the liberals cried and begged and whined for the life of the
criminal. It just wasn’t fair! And that is where we are today. Mass shooters
aren’t the problem; the gun shop owners are.
Title: It’s a Heart Problem, Not a Gun Problem Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Larry Pratt with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)
Part 1 of 2
Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young
children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to
understand.
Since 1950, only two mass shootings were not in gun-free zones. Maybe it’s time
we rid the nation of gun-free zones! Let’s take a look at other countries around
the world. Australia confiscated all the semi-automatic weapons from its
citizens. During the following year, they experienced a dramatic rise in armed
robbery crimes. How does this happen if the criminals don’t have guns? They do!
It’s the average citizen trying to protect their home and family that doesn’t
have a weapon!
Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, also
discusses a mass shooting in Norway where “one dirt bag murdered over 90
people. No good guy had a gun to help!” The same situation occurred on
Thursday, October 1, 2015, because the college campus in Oregon was a gun-free
zone! A lone, brave ex-serviceman charged the shooter and was shot five times.
But how many people could have been saved if he had been allowed to carry a
weapon on campus? We will never know.
There was another shooter in Oregon a few years ago who tried to commit mass
murder. Thankfully, a man actually committed a crime in order to stop
him! Listen in as Larry describes this situation and how lives were saved –
by a criminal!
Title: Part 2 of 2 - It’s a Heart Problem, Not a Gun Problem Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Larry Pratt with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)
Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young
children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to
understand.
Every community where citizens are allowed to openly carry a weapon experiences
a much lower crime rate. It’s a proven fact. Larry also reveals that, as the
number of honest gun owners increases, the murder rate decreases. However, in
cities like Chicago and New York City, which do not allow its citizens to own
legal handguns (much less openly carry them), the murder rate increases! Most of
the crime in our country actually comes from these cities (and Washington, DC).
Removing guns from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop criminals from
obtaining them. Larry Pratt says, “The whole country would start to resemble
Chicago.” So why do so many Americans believe the lies about the crime
rates in gun-free cities? Listen in as Larry discusses the low-information
voter.
Now, more than ever, it is so important for Christians to bow down and worship
our Heavenly Father. Yes, even over gun control. Most people don’t buy a gun
with the intent of purposefully killing someone. As mothers and fathers,
however, we must protect our families. We cannot do that when the very right is
literally taken from us. There will always be bad people in this world. We must
take a proactive approach to this issue instead of throwing it under the bus.
Larry Pratt has one solution: make the punishment fit the crime. When a criminal
commits a crime with a gun, why do we send them to jail to enjoy three meals a
day, work-out equipment, and a roof over their head for 5, 10, or 30 years? He
says, “Use the Biblical notion: Justice delayed is justice denied. If
someone is convicted of murder… walk them down the hall and pull the switch.”
Title: NO Epidemic of Mass Public Shootings Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Larry Pratt with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)
Part 1 of 2
Larry Pratt has been
Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 30 years. GOA is a
national membership organization of 300,000 Americans, dedicated to promoting
their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
CONGRESSIONAL STUDY SHOWS NO MASS PUBLIC SHOOTING ‘EPIDEMIC’.
A Congressional Research Services (CRS) study released on July 30 is devoid of
evidence to back gun control groups’ claims of an “epidemic” of “mass
public shootings.”
Title: Part 2 of 2 - NO Epidemic of Mass Public Shootings Topic: Mass Killings and Shootings in America
Discussed by Larry Pratt with Gun Owners of America (www.GunOwners.org)
What is a common
denominator in mass shootings and mass public shootings? The
overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these
incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking
powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past
before they committed their crimes.
Multiple credible scientific studies going back more than a decade, as well as
internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the
information show that SSRI drugs (Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors )
have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to
suicide and other violent behavior.
In fact, counter to claims of “207 mass shootings” in the first 207
days of 2015–a claim CNN’s Fareed Zakaria suggested is “almost literally
true“–the CRS study shows an average of “21 mass shootings”
annually in the US during the time period of 1999-2013.
