On Target! (Civilian owned Assault Rifle article) from Access to Energy Newsletter

SUBMAN1 · 07-25-06, 05:13 PM

Reading through the Access to Energy news letter, and though slightly off topic from energy, comes up this article which I found interesting that is based on Assault Rifles in civilian possesion.

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http://ate.sitewave.entrewave.com/vi...e/s76a2011.htm

ON TARGET

Surgeon and wound ballistics expert (and AtE subscriber) Martin L. Fackler, M.D., President of the International Wound Ballistics Association, has written numerous research articles that are especially relevant to current politically correct myths about firearms. See, for examples, M. L. Fackler, J. A. Malinowski, S. W. Hoxie, and A. Ja-son, Amer. J. Forensic Medicine and Pathology11 pp 185-189 (1990); M. Fackler, J. American Medical Association259 pp 2730-2736 (1988); and M. L. Fackler, Testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on April 28, 1994 available from M. L. Fackler, RR 4 Box 264, Hawthorne, FL 32640.

One thing is certainly not debatable about the current "gun control'' craze in Congress. Legislation abridging the right to keep and bear arms is unconstitutional and will continue to be so unless an appropriate constitutional amendment is passed. The wisdom of gun control itself is debatable, but the facts are against the gun controllers. There is overwhelming evidence that violent crime diminishes when guns are easily available to citizens. Moreover, there is an inalienable human right and obligation of self-defense.

Dr. Fackler points out that 1) Assault rifle bullets are designed to wound rather than kill as restricted by the Hague Convention of 1899. 2) Assault rifle bullets actually do less tissue damage and are less lethal than those from most other firearms. This is verified in recent civilian incidents where the death rate for people actually shot has been 21%. 3) In 1992 only 3% of all American homicides with firearms involved rifles, and assault rifles were a small fraction of that 3%. Why then is the firearms witch hunt starting with assault rifles? The Founding Fathers protected the right to keep and bear arms specifically as a final check on government power, which they feared.

Most of America's assault rifles are in the attics, basements, and closets of patriotic Americans who never fire them and to whom war against their own government would be an unthinkable nightmare.

The problem is that millions of such weapons are now being stored in the homes of ordinary Americans, especially in the Western United States. Assault rifles have a military appearance and contribute in a subtle, psychological way to growing resistance to government oppression. Most farmers, ranchers, and loggers who see their lives and families entirely destroyed by Babbitt and retainers will never fire a shot. The existence of these weapons, however, makes resistance, even legal resistance, more thinkable to these victims.

The bureaucrats and politicians do not fear armed criminals or even armed political zealots so much as they fear peaceful Americans who will probably never use their assault rifles - but whose mental toughness may be enhanced by possession of military weapons.

The gun controllers are not deterred by the facts about guns and crime, because their primary fear is not criminals. They fear ordinary Americans whose lives and freedom their policies are destroying. In this fear and in their world, they are on target.

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SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	On Target! (Civilian owned Assault Rifle article) from Access to Energy Newsletter Reading through the Access to Energy news letter, and though slightly off topic from energy, comes up this article which I found interesting that is based on Assault Rifles in civilian possesion. -S http://ate.sitewave.entrewave.com/vi...e/s76a2011.htm ON TARGET Surgeon and wound ballistics expert (and AtE subscriber) Martin L. Fackler, M.D., President of the International Wound Ballistics Association, has written numerous research articles that are especially relevant to current politically correct myths about firearms. See, for examples, M. L. Fackler, J. A. Malinowski, S. W. Hoxie, and A. Ja-son, Amer. J. Forensic Medicine and Pathology11 pp 185-189 (1990); M. Fackler, J. American Medical Association259 pp 2730-2736 (1988); and M. L. Fackler, Testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on April 28, 1994 available from M. L. Fackler, RR 4 Box 264, Hawthorne, FL 32640. One thing is certainly not debatable about the current "gun control'' craze in Congress. Legislation abridging the right to keep and bear arms is unconstitutional and will continue to be so unless an appropriate constitutional amendment is passed. The wisdom of gun control itself is debatable, but the facts are against the gun controllers. There is overwhelming evidence that violent crime diminishes when guns are easily available to citizens. Moreover, there is an inalienable human right and obligation of self-defense. Dr. Fackler points out that 1) Assault rifle bullets are designed to wound rather than kill as restricted by the Hague Convention of 1899. 2) Assault rifle bullets actually do less tissue damage and are less lethal than those from most other firearms. This is verified in recent civilian incidents where the death rate for people actually shot has been 21%. 3) In 1992 only 3% of all American homicides with firearms involved rifles, and assault rifles were a small fraction of that 3%. Why then is the firearms witch hunt starting with assault rifles? The Founding Fathers protected the right to keep and bear arms specifically as a final check on government power, which they feared. Most of America's assault rifles are in the attics, basements, and closets of patriotic Americans who never fire them and to whom war against their own government would be an unthinkable nightmare. The problem is that millions of such weapons are now being stored in the homes of ordinary Americans, especially in the Western United States. Assault rifles have a military appearance and contribute in a subtle, psychological way to growing resistance to government oppression. Most farmers, ranchers, and loggers who see their lives and families entirely destroyed by Babbitt and retainers will never fire a shot. The existence of these weapons, however, makes resistance, even legal resistance, more thinkable to these victims. The bureaucrats and politicians do not fear armed criminals or even armed political zealots so much as they fear peaceful Americans who will probably never use their assault rifles - but whose mental toughness may be enhanced by possession of military weapons. The gun controllers are not deterred by the facts about guns and crime, because their primary fear is not criminals. They fear ordinary Americans whose lives and freedom their policies are destroying. In this fear and in their world, they are on target. __________________