BELLEVUE, WA – Following a weekend of tragedies both here and abroad, which included a terrorist attack in Australia, a deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, and the reported stabbing deaths of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said guns aren’t the problem and restrictions aren’t the solution.
“If anything,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “this trio of tragedies underscores the fact that it is the evil in some people, not the instrument they use, which is ultimately to blame.
Look at the facts. Rhode Island has very strong gun control laws already on the books, and murder has always been against the law, but that didn’t prevent Saturday’s violence. And let’s not overlook the fact that Brown University is a gun-free zone.
“Australia adopted some of the strictest gun control laws in the world following the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting,” he continued, “but that did not prevent the father-son terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Yet the first thing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants to do is add further restrictions, including a limit on the number of firearms Australian citizens may own. Sadly, Australia does not allow its citizens to carry firearms for personal protection, and we saw the result of that foolishness on the Sunday evening news.
“And no California gun control law prevented what happened to Mr. Reiner and his wife,” Gottlieb observed, “because they were stabbed to death.
“The only common denominator in all three of these horrendous crimes is the evil intent of the perpetrators,” he said, “and that is not something which can be prevented by passing another law that only affects honest citizens. To suggest otherwise defies common sense, and only illustrates the flawed single-mindedness of the gun prohibition lobby.
“Those who advocate for more restrictions on personal freedom in response to criminal violence are admitting they don’t have any real solutions,” Gottlieb concluded. “They refuse to acknowledge their policies have accomplished nothing, while creating scapegoats to hide their own failures.
“With this wave of terrible crimes,” he said, “it is no surprise that so many more people are buying and carrying firearms for their own protection, and that of their loved ones.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
This is what happens when the government takes guns away from its citizens and then let’s terrorists into the country and trusts them with guns over the rights of their own citizens . Australia is being run by a bunch of Idiots it appears
Regarding the Bondi Beach attack, there is a point that so far may have escaped both sides of the anti-gun debate. I saw a video on a local news station that showed the “…hero of Bondi Beach…” tackling one of the shooters and disarming him. Here’s the interesting part…. That same gun, once in the hands of the hero, did not shoot anyone else – not even the original shooter who seemed to have just walked away. One side of the debate will never bring that point to light because it proves the other side’s argument. It’s not the guns,… Read more »
Over 6,000 years of history proves that evil exists. They do not send notifications about where and when they are going to strike. They do not say how many will be in their party. And yes, it is a party for them. Our responsibility is to find an acceptable method to educate the ignorant people of the danger that is ever present. Women have the right to say NO and for it to be of EQUAL value. Enter some form of equalizer. Physical training is everybody’s responsibility. Any level of physical improvement is good. Learning to spot a threat before… Read more »
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