THE RIGHT TO BEAR MUSKETS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

1- 55% of Americans favor MAJOR restrictions on gun ownership, including 15% who favor banning guns completely, according to a CNN poll just completed.

2- Top mouth piece for the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, has a take home pay of more than $1 million.

The NRA is not an organization for sportsmen.  It's a lobbying group for gun manufacturers.

3- In China, a maniac attacked 22 school children … ALL the kids survived because the maniac used a knife. Guns are virtually impossible to get your hands on … in China … and in most other countries too.

4- In 1996 an Australian maniac killed 35 people with an automatic weapon.  The Australian Prime Minister at the time said "We do not want the American disease imported into Australia", referring to the American obsession with lethal weaponry intended for use in wars.  Assault weapons were banned, licensing was tightened and buy-back programs took guns off the street. Since then there have been NO further massacres in Australia.

5- In the U.S. children are 13 -- THIRTEEN -- TIMES more likely to be killed by guns than in any other developed nation.  That includes YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRAND CHILDREN, it's not always SOMEBODY ELSE.

6- The higher the gun ownership in a state, the higher YOUR chances of being killed by a gun.

7- The News Herald, Politics with Pete blogger writes that before he goes to bed at night he loads his .357 and then sleeps like a baby.  I hope his and his wife's life insurance premiums are up to date because a Harvard study found that guns in the home DECREASE security,  guns in the home increase intimidation and killing of women and  there's no evidence that guns in the home reduces break ins.

8- Here's Amendment II to the United States Constitution:  A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. 

What if Amendment II to the United States Constitution read thus:  A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear muskets, shall not be infringed.

Cumbersome to load, single shot muskets and pistols were the only guns available when the Constitution was amended.