Greg Newton
08-13-2011, 09:18 AM
The late John McSweeney was an interesting guy. Business executive, officer in the Army Reserve, Korean War Vet, salesman, private detective, Border Patrol agent, and kenpo karate instructor. He did a lot and saw a lot. McSweeney taught firearms training as part of self-defense training. This is his common sense approach to gun control.
So who uses the handgun today as a combat weapon? Three main groups: 1) the police, 2) criminals, 3) the honest citizen for self-defense. It is important that 1 and 3 learn the correct method of combat shooting (point shooting) to defend themselves from 2...
There are powerful forces at work today, whose aim is to take handguns away from law abiding citizens. The hype is that the gun itself is the cause of homicide and other crimes, and by outlawing gun ownership, crime will drop. This isn't true for the simple reason that criminals don't obey gun laws.
In fact, criminals appear to flourish whenever gun laws are restrictive. Take Washington D.C. for example. In spite of a law that makes mere ownership of a handgun a crime, the rate of homicide by handgun there is the highest in the nation! Conversely, the rate is very low in Washington State, where ownership is not only allowed, but permits to carry concealed are easily obtained by the ordinary citizen...
The right of self-defense is the foundation on which all other rights are built, and when the ultimate weapon of self-defense, the gun, is outlawed, Americans surrender a fundamental freedom.
Visit New York City to see what I mean. It's law abiding citizens are harassed, not only by armed criminals, but also by authority, an authority which forbids the citizen to defend himself, and is more concerned with the rights of criminals than with their victims. The infamous "Sullivan Law," which makes mere ownership of a handgun a felony, is New York City's way of guaranteeing criminals their victims will always be defenseless.
So who uses the handgun today as a combat weapon? Three main groups: 1) the police, 2) criminals, 3) the honest citizen for self-defense. It is important that 1 and 3 learn the correct method of combat shooting (point shooting) to defend themselves from 2...
There are powerful forces at work today, whose aim is to take handguns away from law abiding citizens. The hype is that the gun itself is the cause of homicide and other crimes, and by outlawing gun ownership, crime will drop. This isn't true for the simple reason that criminals don't obey gun laws.
In fact, criminals appear to flourish whenever gun laws are restrictive. Take Washington D.C. for example. In spite of a law that makes mere ownership of a handgun a crime, the rate of homicide by handgun there is the highest in the nation! Conversely, the rate is very low in Washington State, where ownership is not only allowed, but permits to carry concealed are easily obtained by the ordinary citizen...
The right of self-defense is the foundation on which all other rights are built, and when the ultimate weapon of self-defense, the gun, is outlawed, Americans surrender a fundamental freedom.
Visit New York City to see what I mean. It's law abiding citizens are harassed, not only by armed criminals, but also by authority, an authority which forbids the citizen to defend himself, and is more concerned with the rights of criminals than with their victims. The infamous "Sullivan Law," which makes mere ownership of a handgun a felony, is New York City's way of guaranteeing criminals their victims will always be defenseless.