To answer Porfi rio Gutierrez’s (May 19) letter, type in “is there a national listing of gun ownership’ in Yahoo? As a retired police off cer, I know states regulate gun purchases and registration and each state has slightly difterent laws concerning the regulation of guns.
The United Nations, our current president and progressives in Congress want a national registry.
They want to pass a law demanding states share their gun registration to a national database likened to the National Crime Information Center. In addition they want to solicit doctors, hospitals, bureaucrats at all levels of government, neighbors, etc.
to identify people who own guns. It’s sinister.
The number of stolen gunsis innumerable.
The Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Totalitarian governments don’t like the words “militia,” “free-state” and “infringed,” They know what they mean.
Our Founding Fathers through their treasured guidance from Almighty God knew what they meant.
Weapons in the hands of private citizens created our great nation. Many gave their all. Excerpts published by the “Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms”: “Newly-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) proves that more guns in private hands do not lead to more murders, and a PewResearch study showing widespread ignorance of this fact suggests that the public has been misled.
“The BJS data shows that gun-related homicides declined by 39 percent from 1993 to 2011, and the Pew Research Center found that gun-related homicides fell from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2010, a decline of 49 percent. The declining percentages go in the same direction. Firearmsrelated homicides have plummeted dramatically while more Americans bought more guns, including millions of semi-automatic modern sporting rifl es. More people are licensed to carry in more states, and crime is down.
“It is time for the gun control crowd to acknowledge they have been consistently and undeniablywrong, and admit that their agenda has never been about crime, but about public disarmament. They don’t want to prevent gun crime;
they want to prevent gun ownership.”
I hope you don’t believe the old cliche “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” God forbid. Are you aware of the recent eavesdropping on Americans and the misuse of IRS records? Has our government shown it can’t be trusted?
Blunt objects, body weapons (hands, feet, fi sts and head) and knives are the top causes of murder in America. States with the most strict gun control laws like Illinois and New York have the worst gun crimes.
HIRAM B. COOPER JR.
Bella Vista
Opinion, Pages 5 on 06/21/2013