by Joseph Veca

Created on: July 05, 2008

The politics of gun control break down very easily into two distinct groups. The RKBA (Right to Keep and Bear Arms) advocacy groups, such as the NRA (National Rifle Association), JPFP (Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership), Pink Pistols (Gay RKBA), Second Amendment Foundation, et al. And on the other side of the fence are the victim disarmament advocates, such as the Join Together, International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), Violence Policy Center, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, et all

The primary arguments between both sides was over the meaning of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and the political battle between the two opposing sides was both heated and bitter. With passions on both sides running extremely high. Then leading members and organizations of victim disarmament advocacy started finding themselves under siege for hypocrisy and if not out right lying and then resorting to guttersnipe propaganda tactics.

For example, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D - CA), one of the most vocal victim disarmament advocates in the US Congress, owns or did own a firearm for "her protection". Even if she doesn't own one today, she still has armed guards protecting her.

Rosie O'Donnell, who stated on her TV program "that anyone who owns a handgun should go to jail", while she doesn't have a firearm herself, she does have "Armed Security" (as is armed with a firearm).

Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but what these two women are really saying is the rest of us are not important enough to defend ourselves with firearms but they are.

In May of 2000 for example the Million Mom Marchers made the claim that 10 kids are murdered every day in the US, citing the 1999 FBI UCR (Uniform Crime Report). However, according to but according to the FBI's UCR Table 2.11 for 1999 there were 748 murder victims under the age of 18 (Does not include unknown ages), which works out to 2 per day. Now to get even close to the MMM numbers you had to add the totals of the following age groups: Infant (under 1), 1 to 4, 5 to 8, 9 to 12, 13 to 16, 17 to 19, 20 to 24 and Unknown Age to get a total of 3,559 to get a Per day Ratio of 10. Admittedly, a ratio of 2 children per day, murdered is bad, but it is nowhere near the 10 per day claimed.

Do you see the problem that I see, the inclusion of Unknown Ages (some jurisdictions do not allow for the reporting of age of homicide victims) the fact that I had to include ages 21 to 24 (legal adults) and the fact

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