From CBS-DC.com:

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Annual FBI crime statistics show that more people are killed with clubs and hammers each year than by rifles or shotguns.

In 2011, there were 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs. There were 356 murders in which a shotgun was the deadly weapon of choice.

Statistics.  Compiled by the FBI.

And that, in the face of your federal government attempting to take away as many firearms from you — the private citizen — as possible.

There is no other conclusion that one can draw:

The current American government fears the individual armed citizen because it — the government — cannot quite YET enact limiting legislation whilst there are armed citizens in every state.

First: American citizens must be disarmed.  Only then can the government enact laws and regulations that will further restrict rights and freedoms — at the behest of the “good of the children” or the “good of the people.”

The “firearm bad” meme is simply false.

BZ

P.S.

Enabled, of course, by the DEM/AMM:

STORY 1: New York murder rate at lowest in 50 years.
Yet Mayor Bloomberg wants to confiscate guns outright.

STORY 2:  California gun sales jump; gun injuries, deaths fall.
Yet Fornicalia Senator Diane Feinstein wants to severely restrict and/or confiscate weapons herself.

Let me be quite blunt on the gun issue and the recent shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

Yes, it’s an incredible tragedy when 20 small children and 6 adults are killed at the hand of a mentally defective genetic mutant — who decided to kill himself when he knew he would be confronted by trained police professionals carrying (imagine this) guns themselves.

With said mutant, his mother assumes a huge bite of responsibility for attempting to “socialize” and “norm” him by taking him shooting at a local range.

You cannot tell me that his mother did not know he was a genetic mutant.  Yet, despite this, she provided him with a disjointed view of reality by allowing him to play violent video games and, further, dragged him into the actual reality of firearms.  She taught him to shoot real weapons.

That’s like fitting an Eastern Diamondback rattler with updated, larger dentures with fangs, to include a bigger venom reservoir and a DVD on how to make it all work more effectively.  Then not expecting it to use the tools and training provided.

She paid for this mistake with her life.  Up front.  And I submit: yes, there is a price to literally be paid for stupidity.  There is yin with yang and deservedly so.

Yes, granted, parents have a tough time.  That I can determine, however, she enabled her lizard to grow into a full-fledged dragon.  As so many of today’s parents do with their children.

That said, allow me to be even more blunt:

I am not even remotely willing to suspend the Second Amendment for an event or a series of events like this.

Statistics, as clearly revealed above, indicate this event is an overall aberration.

Further, GunFacts 6.1 is here for all to see.  Logic, common sense, statistics.  I suggest you consult this site frequently.

Let me re-state: I am NOT willing to suspend my US Constitution or its Bill of Rights for any singular or series of shootings — and particularly not when figures indicate that violent crime and shootings are trending down instead of up, nationally.

Not for adults.  Not for children.  Not for you.  Not for me.  Not for my wife.  Not for anyone.

I don’t think I can represent myself in any more plain a fashion than that.

BZ

Correct.  Over 200 schools are closed today, Friday, because of the so-called Mayan Apocalypse.

No.  Not because they wished to start the Christmas holidays early.  But specifically due to the “end of the world.”

33 schools closed in Michigan alone.

Yes.  Progressives and parents really are that stupid.

BZ