Common Sense Control, Not Gun Control

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the room. The time has come, you raise from the
side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire just as the
intruder is raising his weapon. He flies back against the wall and slumps into
a lifeless pile. You then proceed to call 911.
Now, that is not an uncommon scenario in the present state of society.
Now what I ask you to picture is that same scenario, but this time only the
intruder has a weapon because all guns have been outlawed and the criminal is
the only person who can get their hands on them. It's a rather scary thought,
isn't it. But that is exactly what some people want. They want a ban on all
firearms. But that is not the solution, the solution is the education of every
person that purchases a firearm and required trigger locks, and stricter
compliance by judges to the sentences mandated for crimes involving firearms.
The "most recent attempt at federal gun legislation was the Gun Control
Act of 1968" (Goldwater 183) and has done little if ...

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crimes could be
made through education. This exact point is made by Barry Goldwater:
Gun education, in fact, can actually reduce lawlessness in a
community, as was demonstrated in an experiment conducted in Highland Park
Michigan. City police launched a program to instruct merchants in the use of
handguns. The idea was to help them protect themselves and their businesses
from robbers, and it was given wide publicity. The store-robbery rate dropped
from an average of 1.5 a day to none in four months. (186)
There is one other way of dropping the crime rate involving firearms,
this is through stricter laws in respect to crimes that involve a firearm. "A
study . . . revealed ...

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