The truth is, gun control COSTS lives, as evidenced by cities which enforce near total bans on firearms ownership. That’s because criminals don’t obey gun control or any other kind of laws. This means that citizens who do are effectively rendered defenseless.

Answer the following questions: How would a 5-day waiting period help a stalking victim?

How would banning affordable firearms protect the poor from neighborhood criminals? Would prohibiting your mother from carrying a gun help her to escape a rapist, or help your son repel an attacker? Would keeping your gun unloaded and locked up save you from a home invader? Would keeping you from owning semiautomatic firearms stop a criminal from getting any gun he wants? What about limiting how many guns you can buy in a month?

How would this nation have been founded and its liberties secured had gun control been in force? How did gun control save the lives of blacks before, during and after the Civil War? Which gun control laws helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust?

If an attacker were advancing on you right NOW, which of the over 20,000 gun control laws currently on the books in this country would you rely on to save your life?