US handgun ban shot down.

Americans sit around wondering why they have the highest per-capita murder rate in what we euphemistically call the "First World" and this gives rise to the question: "Just what is the average intelligence of a person living in the good ol' U.S. of A.?"

Why? I'll tell ya why!

First the situation and then some facts.

A powerful pro-gun lobby group in the United States has filed legal challenges to handgun bans in San Francisco and Chicago.

The lawsuits come a day after the US Supreme Court ruled that a ban on the private possession of handguns in Washington DC was unconstitutional.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) says it wants similar bans in other states and cities overturned as well.


SELECTED WORST CITIES FOR MURDER (LATE-1990s)
(Developed World)

(1) Washington, D.C., USA 69.3
(2) Philadelphia, USA 27.4
(3) Dallas, USA 24.8
(4) Los Angeles, USA 22.8
(5) Chicago, USA 20.5
(6) Phoenix, USA 19.1
(7) Moscow, Russia 18.1
(8) Houston, USA 18.0
(9) New York City, USA 16.8
(10) San Diego, USA 12.5

Now, feast your eyes on this bunky! Nobody in Europe! Nobody in Japan! Nobody in Canada or Australia! Except for Moscow, it's all The States and the reason is HAND GUNS!

(Maybe if Charlton Heston had been gunned down instead of John Lennon the N.R.A. would have a different attitude!)

San Francisco's mayor says he plans to fight the NRA challenge.

The NRA lawsuit in San Francisco challenges the city's handgun ban in public housing; while in Chicago it challenges a ruling that makes it illegal to possess or sell handguns in the city.

"In Washington DC, or in any state, whether you live in the housing projects or a high end suburb, you have the right to defend yourself and your family at home," said Chris Cox, from the NRA.

"These laws all deny that right."

The NRA is joined in the San Francisco suit by a gay man living in a government-owned housing development who says he needs a gun to protect himself from potential hate crimes.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said the city would "vigorously fight the NRA" and said the ban was good for public safety.

"Is there anyone out there who really believes that we need more guns in public housing? I can't for the life of me sit back and roll over on this. We will absolutely defend the rights of the housing authority," Mr Newsom said.

The Supreme Court's ruling says that the constitution "protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defence within the home".

Now this is where I have to jump in with a bit of editorialising.

Even though I am against sport hunting I am willing to give a hunter the right to go out and slaughter animals for their pleasure because after all, this is a democracy.

But! The only purpose for a handgun is to hunt people, and if no one had one, then we wouldn't have this problem now would we?!

Don't forget boys and girls, there will come a day in the not too distant future where government world-wide will ban the manufacture and possession of handguns because the only reason for them IS to kill other humans.

And please, you assholes, don't give me that crap about how banning handguns is the first step in a government plan to control the population. They don't need to ban handguns to do that. They do that quite nicely already!

Your "bang, bang, your dead" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !

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