Universal Background Checks Must Be Required Regardless of the Mode of Acquisition -- It's Time to Say "Enough" and to End the Carnage.

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Universal Background Checks Must Be Required Regardless of the Mode of Acquisition -- It's Time to Say "Enough" and to End the Carnage.·

By Jim Wrenn, Editor, PoliSat.Com , PoliticalXray.Com .
March 8, 2013--

It's time to say "Enough." End this Carnage. Universal Background Checks must be required regardless of the mode of acquisition-- No exceptions, no loopholes and regardless of whether acquisition is by purchase from a retail store, dealer, or distributor or from a wholesaler or private club or organization or by gift from a relative, friend, father, mother, daughter, son, neighbor, domestic partner or spouse. The statistics are grim -- year-in and year out. Watch the video. Pay attention to the statistics. Go to http://PoliSat.Com/Universal-Background-Check.htm. (March 15, 2013 Update: New Harvard study -- click here.)

Statistics from NHTSA	Statistics from NHTSA
Deaths from Drunk-Driving (DUI) in 2009: 10,750*	Non-Fatal Injuries from Drunk-Driving (DUI) in 2009: 707,330*

Deaths by Firearms
CDC Report re 2009

Non-Fatal Injuries by Firearms
CDC Report re 2009

Accidental Deaths By Firearms	554
Homicides By Firearms	11,493
Total Accidental/Homicide Deaths By Firearms	12,048

Accidental Non-Fatal Firearm Injuries	18,610
Violent Non-Fatal Firearm Injuries	48,158
Total Accidental/Violent Non-Fatal Firearm Injuries	66,768

Defensive or Life-Saving Use of Firearms -- 2009: 240,000**

**A Federal NIH study concluded that firearms were lawfully used in 497,646 instances by homeowners to deter crime in 1994. Those totals reflected only such defensive/preventive use of firearms at home and did not include such lawful uses elsewhere by citizens. A number of subsequent, college-research studies placed the number far higher and included not only lawful uses at home by the firearm owner but also lawful uses elsewhere to either deter, prevent, or stop violent crimes in progress or save lives or both. Desiring to understate, rather than to risk overstating, the annual number of such lawful, defensive/life-saving uses of firearms, not only did I avoid using the probably-more-accurate, much higher numbers found in the post-1994 studies, but I went even further by using 240,000, which is less than half the number reported by the government in 1994 as an annual figure.

Is It More or Less Dangerous to Women for Them to Be Armed With a Gun?

Here are two arguments often made by opponents of private ownership of firearms:

"For every 1 woman using a gun for self-defense, 101 were killed with a gun."

and

"For every 1 woman using an gun against an intimate acquaintance in
self-defense, 89 are killed with an gun by an intimate acquaintance."

At the risk of insulting the intelligence of the reader, I offer this observation of the patently
specious nature of both those arguments, which those advocates perceive as being good
arguments for why women should be unarmed: In fact, both those statements unwittingly
make the case that fewer than 101 women would have been killed in the first example and
fewer than 89 would have been killed in the second example if ALL of them had been
armed with firearms. Thus, the anti-second-amendment advocates' argument actually
proves the opposite of the position for which they spout it.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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Surveys Show Good Citizens Want, and Will Dutifully Obey, Universal Background-Check for Gun Ownership; Home-Invaders Remain Opposed.·

By Jim Wrenn, Editor, PoliSat.Com , PoliticalXray.Com .
February 15, 2013--

. As President Obama made clear in his "I Am The State Address" (formerly known as the now-archaic term "State of the Union Address"), surveys have shown that virtually "all good citizens want, and will dutifully obey, laws requiring a Universal Background-Check by anyone acquiring a gun by any means regardless of whether by purchase in a soon-to-be-taxed-out-of-existence gun shop or at soon-to-be-banned "gun shows" or by gift or purchase from a friend, ~~spouse~~ domestic partner, parent, sibling, or any other relative." Obama stressed, "I've always supported the right to bear arms by all citizens who have proven to the soon-to-be-established Federal Department of Mental Health that they are mentally suited to 'bear arms.'" He added, "This is especially important for young women who, everyone knows, are more vulnerable to seductive arguments by belligerent males that such vulnerable women 'need' a 'right' to 'arm' themselves so they can behave as do belligerent males. We want vulnerable females to be belligerent only when they're serving in combat. Good citizens will always follow the Love-Thy-Enemies Commandment of Jesus: 'Whenever a responsible citizen's home is invaded by a person who has violated the Universal Background-Check Law by acquiring and bearing a gun during such home invasion, the responsible citizen must first dial 911 and then prepare to turn the other cheek (or perhaps use scissors in self-defense if the home-invader gets really aggressive) until law-enforcement quick-responders can arrive.'"

Finally, Obama again quoted Jesus in describing the most compelling reason for good citizens to comply with Universal Background-Check Laws: "You are your Big Brother's Keeper."

And, of course, Obama reminded us that in addition to Jesus' Commandments that we be our "Brother's" keeper and that we love our enemies, he also Commanded that we always remember to include our neighbors in our circles of love:

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