{"id":1293,"date":"2013-01-25T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2013-04-13T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:26:19","slug":"to-save-a-single-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/25\/to-save-a-single-life\/","title":{"rendered":"To Save A Single Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vice-President Joe Biden has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aNjxzFgKcHY\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> that the abridgment of our 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment civil liberties is worth it if &#8220;it saves a single life.&#8221;\u00a0 This was echoed by Pres. Obama when he unveiled his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.com\/forum\/county\/hickman-tn\/T30TJMTDG90MDQCSJ\" target=\"_blank\">23-skidoo<\/a> declarations against the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The sheer and utter idiocy of declaring that it is worth it to abridge fundamental human rights in order to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/01\/09\/if-it-only-saves-one-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">save a single life<\/a>&#8221; is obnoxious and idiotic.\u00a0 There are plenty of things that could be banned whereof the ban would at least &#8220;save a single life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the attack on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment is quite unlike those other examples, for unlike banning pools or toys, it would not only assault a fundamental civil liberty, but would actually cost people their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While the use of firearms to commit crimes is widely reported, it is far more likely that a firearm will <em>protect<\/em> a <a title=\"Support Gun Rights \u2013 It\u2019s For The Children\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/17\/support-gun-rights-its-for-the-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">child&#8217;s<\/a> life than endanger it.\u00a0 Indeed, here are a list of examples that your humble author came across without actually needing to search them out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/01\/09\/Man-Uses-Gun-To-Protect-2-Month-Old-Son-Against-Armed-Robber\" target=\"_blank\">Man Uses Gun to Protect Two-Month Old Son from Armed Robber<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/01\/05\/my-wife-is-a-hero-georgia-mother-shoots-home-intruder-five-times-after-being-cornered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Mother Shoots Home Intruder Five Times After Being Cornered in Attic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story\/20568878\/shawnee-woman-thwarts-home-invasion\" target=\"_blank\">Shawnee Woman Thwarts Home Invasion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightscoop.com\/15-year-old-defends-home-against-burglars-shoots-one-of-them-with-fathers-ar-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">15-year-old defends home against burglars, shoots one of them with father\u2019s AR-15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=402271#.UQIJIjWWY1_\" target=\"_blank\">11-year-old boy was defends mother with .22 cal. rifle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kten.com\/story\/19848350\/12-year-old-shoots-home-intruder\" target=\"_blank\">12 Year Old Shoots Home Intruder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2013\/01\/grandma-with-gun-halts-store-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grandma With Gun Halts Store Robbery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/charlotte.cbslocal.com\/2012\/03\/26\/sheriff-concealed-weapon-saves-church-from-man-armed-with-shotgun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff: Concealed Weapon Saves Church From Man Armed With Shotgun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition to these examples, are the many instances when a firearm was used to <strong>stop<\/strong> a <a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/The-School-Shooting-You-Haven-t-Heard-About\" target=\"_blank\">school rampage<\/a>, and thus actually save lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It ought to be of note, that in many of the above example, guns were used by children and women to defend themselves.\u00a0 While an aggressors, particularly a strong and large one, can use any number of weapons as a force multiplier against a victem, many people who are weak, such as children, only have <em>one<\/em> tool that can be effective against such aggressors: A firearm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, guns <em>prevent<\/em> violence by giving the week the only tool that they can use to defend themselves against stronger and larger attackers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfp.org\/tfp-home\/news-commentary\/what-about-gun-violence-in-brazil.html\" target=\"_blank\">Less guns lead to more crime<\/a>, as can be seen by comparing America to Brazil: America has 18 times more guns than Brazil, yet proportionally, Brazil has 6 times more deaths by guns than America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Protect our 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment civil liberties!\u00a0 It&#8217;s for the children!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u039c\u039f\u039b\u03a9\u039d \u039b\u0391\u0392\u0395 <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vice-President Joe Biden has declared that the abridgment of our 2nd Amendment civil liberties is worth it if &#8220;it saves a single life.&#8221;\u00a0 This was echoed by Pres. Obama when he unveiled his 23-skidoo declarations against the Right to Keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/25\/to-save-a-single-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,17,1],"tags":[41,3,30,51],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-rights","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-obama","tag-scoamf","tag-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}