Knotthead, I wrote him an email and I asked him the same thing. Here is the email I sent him.
After reading the home page of your website on the “Petition To Ban All Guns in the United States”, I can`t help but shake my head in disbelief. Your facts are far from the truth, but you are entitled to your opinion and that is what they are, opinions only.
“We the people, are tired of having our schools invaded by psychotic youngsters.”
Well, if the Gun Free Zone law on schools were not in place, then the psycho`s would not have targeted the schools. The criminal knows no one on the school grounds will be armed, thanks to the law, so he knows no one will be able to stop him. In states without “right to carry” laws, there have been 15 school shootings. In states that allow citizens to carry guns, there has been only one.
“We the people, are tired of being robbed of our political leaders by some psychotic with a gun or rifle.”
You did not research this opinion very well. You state this as if it were an epidemic. I can not think of any political leaders that were killed in this century. I remember a few presidents that were shot at, but we were not “robbed” of them. By the way, you do know that a rifle is a gun, right?
“We the people, are tired of passing through metal detectors on our way to our courts and our government buildings.”
That just shows how much our government trusts the law abiding citizens. The criminals are the ones that will try to carry a weapon in the courts.
“We the people, are tired of being victimized by gun carrying criminals.”
This is a no brainer! Start carrying a concealed weapon. If every state in the U.S. would have a “shall issue” law on concealed carry permits, then there would be less crime.
• 74% of felons agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is
that they fear being shot during the crime.”
• 57% of felons polled agreed, "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim
than they are about running into the police.”
• Every year, people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals
an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. Of
these instances, 15.6% of the people using a firearm defensively stated that they "almost
certainly" saved their lives by doing so.
Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives
“We, the people, are faced with only two choices. One is to place guards, metal detectors, and other devices designed to invade the personal liberties of the citizens at every single place where the public gathers.”
I thought you just said the people are tired of passing through metal detectors in our courts and government buildings. You must mean that only yourself should be exempt from walking through them.
The fact is, that the more armed citizens there are in public gatherings, the less likely a criminal would try to rob, beat, or rape someone. Guards or the police in public gathering is not enough. They are not our personal bodyguards.
“The other alternative is to eliminate all guns and firearms from the United States of America. Given that we must choose from one of these two choices, we, the people, choose to eliminate all privately held guns and firearms from the United States of America.”
So, you already made the choice for the people? If that were to happen, you would see the worse crimes of rape, murder, and robbery in the U.S. than you could imagine. Only the criminals would have guns now. Do you think they are going to give up their guns? Think about the crime rates in Britain, Australia, and Japan. They have banned guns or severely limited them to private citizens. Wrong choice.
“Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.”
What good will this do to on stopping criminals? It only infringes upon the rights of law abiding citizens. Besides, criminals don`t use “antique”guns in crimes. I thought you just said you wanted to ban all guns? Now you want to place more useless restrictions.
“Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.”
Do you realize how much that would cost the U.S. taxpayers? There are an estimated 100 million legal firearms in the U.S.
Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, whether new or used.
• Seize and destroy any gun or firearm found after the termination of the purchase period without compensation.
• Prohibit and criminalize the domestic possession of a gun or firearm after the termination of the one year purchase period.
• Provide exemptions for governmental law enforcement agencies, the armed services, and bona fide museums.
Now you`re really not making sense. And you went to law school?
You want to make us into criminals a year later after a perfectly legal purchase of a firearm?
You should go back to law school and learn the Bill of Rights and study the Patriot Letters.
Sincerely,
Henry Roesemann