Gun In The House - What Every Head Of Household Should Know

The Supreme Court is about Custom Brass Cases decide whether to hear the case 6.8SPC Ammo D.C. v. Heller, a case about a Brass cases for 5.56 ban in Washington D.C. and an officer challenging the ban of his application for a weapon. This could have far-reaching effects on gun control policy nationwide.

For thirty-one years, the District of Columbia has banned handguns, but the nation's Capitol has still become the Murder Capital of the Country. What went wrong? Do gun bans work? Criminals still get guns while citizens can't.

Every head of household wants the best for loved ones, and sometimes the best information can help come to the smartest decisions. Where gun bans might come under question for a head of a household where the decision has been taken out of his/her hands, perhaps it's time to re-examine the question to take the situation in hand. Here is what the head of every household must know and weigh.

1. Police have no duty to protect individuals. Since the inception of an organized police force in the middle 1800's, protection of individuals has not been a duty of American Police. Constantly thrown out, dismissed or found against the plaintiff, courts have ruled as the Supreme Court did in 2005 in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: no constitutional right to police protection. [See keyword: no constitutional right to police protection.] Most legislators do not know this, but attorneys, judges, police and gun owners know it.

2. Police understand that in fighting crime, the target is the first line of defense. For 6.8SPC Ammo personal aggression and crime to widespread disaster, you're on your own. Most violent crime is over in moments, and when seconds count, police are moments away. rifle ammunition and brass cases hours away. Individual citizens already have the legal authority to use up to lethal force when in the reasonable apprehension of grave danger, but are politically discouraged from acting. Gun bans obfuscate this authority to act, and boost the statistics of injured, murdered or abducted persons for political gain in gun ban states.

3. FBI sources [www.FBI.gov] show that in the United States for 2006, 10,177 persons were shot to death. But the same FBI source shows that armed citizens de-escalate violent crime more than 2.5 million times every year, each respective figure according to reports turned in to the FBI from law enforcement around the country. Compared to the 10,177 criminal shootings average every year, there are 2.5 million non-criminal defenses against which were never completed, thanks to an armed citizen, often without firing their personal weapon.

4. Gun ban states are in the minority. Forty states affirm concealed carry of handguns, and don't have the crime problems the major cities seem to see. There are more than 2 million concealed carry permits around, and 6.8SPC Ammo states do not require a permit to carry a concealed handgun within their borders.

5. Handgun training is conducted by Military, local police officers, NRA Licensed Instructors and FBI. Courses are readily available to the average citizen and at reasonable cost. Law enforcement and gun owners are not foes, but allies. The FBI reports about 1.23 million total criminal offenses nationwide. At more than 200 million guns in the hands of some 80 million adults, citizen gun owners are not the people committing the violent crimes in America. 2.5 million times every year, armed citizens are the people stopping the crimes from completion, often their own murder, rape or abduction.

Americans have the right and authority to self-defense, and the legal authority to come to the aid of another in the absence of first responders.

Gun bans hide citizen authority and frustrate self-defense when facing grave danger. This is in no way in the public interest.

John Longenecker is author of The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns. His website is at http://www.GoodForTheCountry.com He is also Founder of the Good For The Country Foundation, a patriotic think tank identifying issues adverse to the public interest. See http://www.GoodForTheCountry.org