1. Introduction to Gun Ownership 101

Naturally, firearms remain optional even when discouraging criminals by arming responsible citizens is encouraged. Nothing overrides local requirements for acquiring a license and receiving gun safety training, whatever your community requires for its citizens to have a firearm is still required.

2. The Police know How to Reduce Fatalities

Yet some cities as well as some police chiefs distrust even their law-abiding citizens to be armed - and still don't realize why so many of their citizens distrust the police in return...

3. The AME church was a gun free zone

Murdered Senator Pinckney voted to ensure his AME church was a gun-free zone and tragically suffered the consequences - along with eight fellow parishioners. If the slain Democratic Senator had survived, would the attack have changed his mind like Ohio Democrat Representative Michael Debose?

Gun-control groups and demagogues are busy exploiting this tragedy, while many see their rhetoric as the cause of so many deaths at the church. They pretend not to realize that gun control laws simply ensure law-abiding citizens are defenseless against a racist murderer.

Martin Luther King applied for a concealed-carry permit in 1956 and his home was always guarded by armed men. Daisy Bates carried a .32-caliber handgun in her purse. "Time and again, guns have proven pivotal to the African American quest for freedom." Gun rights protected many blacks during the civil rights movement - and if they had not been illegal in Senator Pinckney's church would have protected innocent black Americans today...

4. With more guns, there are fewer defenseless citizens

Back in the Wild West the murder rate was around four times lower than today. Once gun control laws became more common, the murder rate climbed steeply, exacerbated by alcohol prohibition. When the turf wars between criminal gangs benefitting from illegal alcohol stopped, the murder rate dropped.

Some high profile assassinations then initiated further gun control laws and the murder rate again climbed steeply. The war on drugs, just like alcohol prohibition, has created both turf wars and gang murders.

Once the states started moving to "shall issue" gun permits (if you qualify, you get a permit) as opposed to "may issue" permits (where a permit can be denied even if you qualify) the murder rate dropped again. The FBI crime totals show the murder rate continues to fall as guns proliferate.

If something happens, such as civil riots or responsible citizens turn to revolution again because politicians have passed laws which directly contradict the Constitution, you and your citizens will need to decide whether to obey their ever-changing laws or be ready and able to obey the Constitution and protect your family.

5. So Politicians are busy Rescinding Gun Control Laws?

Politicians all realize that to decrease violent crime and murder, they have to do what works! So they're all busy rescinding all the gun control laws, right?

Hardly! Many Republicans do support your constitutional right to defend yourself. But Republican President Bush signed Democrat Joe Biden's Gun Free School Zone Act in 1990 although there had been no - ZERO - school massacres before it was passed.

Democratically-controlled Chicago has some of the toughest gun control laws in the union, and one of the highest crime and murder rates. So its people are fleeing in large numbers - Chicago has lost nearly a million citizens in the last fifty years . Meanwhile, Houston with very lax gun laws has gained over a million.

CityRating use FBI data supplied by Chicago police to compare crime across America. In 2012 Chicago's violent crime rate was 250.5% of the National Average . Property crime was almost fifty percent higher. Simply put, as a means of controlling crime and protecting responsible citizens, gun control is a dismal failure. 

In Detroit, which also has high crime, abiding citizens have also had enough. In a survey commissioned by Detroit News, 40% of respondents replied they were planning to leave within the next five years . Crime, rather than unemployment or education, was the major reason. More than half of Detroit's residents said they'd leave today if they could.

6. Guns in Law-Abiding Hands Discourage Criminals

The following links all introduce some aspect explaining how and why more law-abiding guns in responsible hands will benefit your citizens as well as your city: • find the facts about

• guns and their effectiveness in reducing crime here
• why Safe Storage laws actually kill kids rather than save their lives
  
  
• guns protect women from assault, rape more or less disappears
• see why the criticisms of Kennesaw's impressive results with widespread gun ownership are biased and deceitful
  
  
• explore the improvements in economic development from reducing violent crime
• hundreds of thousands of people use a gun defensively - a Defensive Gun Use - every year , more reliable surveys estimate over a million DGUs a year
  
  
• since less crimes are committed, meeting the highest CALEA industry standards needs fewer police. Fewer crimes also means savings in victims costs as well as court and jail costs
• learn the murderous yet largely ignored impact gun bans have
  
  
• See how you can reduce racial tensions by encouraging all your responsible people - black and white - to be armed
• Each victim of rape or assault needs to recover from their psychological or physical injuries . Save your people victim costs which run at tens of thousands of dollars every time.

7. The Benefits for Your City and Your Citizens

The benefits for your city and your citizens - apart from saving money from much lower violent crime as well as rape - include less obvious ones such as: •

• decreased racial tensions
• fewer violent crime victims and hence lower victim costs
• improvements in police morale and performance and
• improved economic development .