"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns." - U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH), 1994.

Wow! These are bold statements! I think it is important to take a good look at the consequences of gun control and then decide if that is what we want for our nation. Here is an excerpt from 'Where Does Gun Control Lead?' by Hal Lindsay. I have shared this here before but I think it deserves repeating.

The Turkish Ottoman Empire established gun control in 1911. It then proceeded to exterminate 1 and a half million Armenians from 1914 to 1917. 

The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. Subsequently, from 1928 to 1953, 60 million dissidents were imprisoned and then exterminated. 

 China enacted gun control laws in 1935. After the communist takeover, from 1948 to
1952,  20 million Chinese, unable to defend themselves, were murdered.

Nazi Germany fully established gun control in 1938. That helped the government to round up 13 million defenseless Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill and impaired human beings.  Many were imprisoned in concentration camps, then destroyed.

 Guatemala passed gun control laws in 1964. Then, from 1964 to 1981, 100,000 defenseless Mayan Indians were exterminated.

 Uganda established gun control measures in 1970. Predictably, from 1971 to 1979, 300,000  defenseless Christians met a similar fate.

 Cambodia established gun control measures in 1956. Subsequently, from 1957 to 1977, 1  million Cambodians met their deaths.

 Our Founding Fathers had good reason to include in the Constitution "the right for each citizen to bear arms." They came to this country with vivid memories of what an all-powerful government could do to its defenseless citizens.
 In America, the following evidence clearly demonstrates the impact upon criminals that armed citizens have. Vermont has a genuine right-to-carry law. That means no permit is required. Yet Vermont boasts the lowest crime rate in the nation. Nationwide in the USA, concealed-carry laws have resulted in a drop in crime rates. A comprehensive national study in 1996 determined that violent crime fell after states
made it legal to carry concealed firearms. The results of the study showed that states, which passed concealed-carry laws, reduced their murder rate by 8.5 percent, rapes by 5 percent, aggravated assaults by 7 percent and robbery by 3 percent. By extrapolation, if the states that do not have concealed-carry laws had adopted such laws in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies would have been avoided yearly.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -George Santayana