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Authors: Glenn Beck

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THE NRA IS SO CRAZY THAT THEY ACTUALLY WANT TO ARM OUR KIDS!

“ ‘
We don’t want to live there
’ ” Alan Dershowitz, “Guns in America,”
Piers Morgan Tonight
, CNN, January 7, 2013,
http://bit.ly/10jLcfY
. • “ ‘
they can be deployed right now
’ ” Wayne LaPierre, “The NRA Breaks Silence on Newtown Shooting,”
CNN Newsroom
, CNN, December 21, 2012,
http://bit.ly/10jN0FP
. • “
federally funded by the Clinton administration
” Ashley Fantz, “NRA Clarifies Its Stance on Arming Schools,”
cnn.com
, December 27, 2012,
http://bit.ly/10jN4oY
.

COLUMBINE PROVES THAT PUTTING ARMED GUARDS IN SCHOOLS JUST DOESN’T WORK.

“ ‘
were able to prevent the 15 deaths
’ ” “Michael Moore: Columbine’s Armed Guards Were No Help,”
twitchy.com
, December 21, 2012,
http://bit.ly/10jNb4a
. • “ ‘
[Columbine] had armed guards and it didn’t stop the tragedy
’ ” Ashley Fantz, “NRA Clarifies Its Stance on Arming Schools,”
cnn.com
, December 27, 2012,
http://bit.ly/10jN4oY
. • “
according to the Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff’s Office
” “Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff: Deputies on Scene,”
cnn.com
, accessed March 9, 2013,
http://bit.ly/10jNgEW
.

COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE TOO IRRESPONSIBLE TO CARRY GUNS.

“ ‘
We just don’t need guns every place
’ ” Michael Bloomberg,
Meet the Press
, NBC, December 16, 2012,
http://nbcnews.to/10jNkEE
. • “
the right to carry concealed handguns on university campuses
” “Guns on Campus: Overview,”
ncsl.org
, August 2012,
http://bit.ly/11h8YrS
. • “
most liberal universities have views similar to Mayor Bloomberg’s
” Kate Murphy, “Most Professors Against Guns on College Campuses,”
kentwired.com
, February 4, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11h8JgG
. • “
Florida issued permits to 2.4 million people
” “Concealed Weapon or Firearm License Summary Report, October 1, 1987–June 30, 2013,” (report, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Licensing, Tallahassee, FL, 2003),
http://bit.ly/11h8QZx
. • “
the average person maintaining that permit for more than a decade
” John Lott, “Should Bans Against Carrying Concealed Weapons Be Lifted on College Campuses?”
foxnews.com
, March 9, 2011,
http://fxn.ws/10jOWOL
. • “
carrying a concealed handgun into a gun-free zone, such as a school or an airport
” Concealed Weapon or Firearm License Summary Report, October 1, 1987–June 30, 2013,” (report, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Licensing, Tallahassee, FL, 2012),
http://bit.ly/11h8QZx
. • “
there were 519,000 active license holders
” “Gun Control: States’ Laws and Requirements for Concealed Carry Permits Vary across the Nation,” (report, United States Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C., July 2012),
http://1.usa.gov/MPNBF6
. • “
a rate of 0.023 percent—and only a few of those crimes involved a gun
” “Conviction Rates for Concealed Handgun License Holders, Reporting Period: 01/01/2011–12/31/2011” (report, Texas Department of Public Safety, Regulatory Services Division, Austin, TX, July 20, 2012),
http://bit.ly/11h8G4y
. • “ ‘
pop a round at somebody
’ ” Bill Hallowell, “Campus Rape Victim Says Gun-Free Zones Empower Criminals, Defend Concealed Carry,”
theblaze.com
, February 21, 2013,
http://bit.ly/10jPi7O
. • “ ‘
I was in a safe zone and my attacker didn’t care
’ ” Bill Hallowell, “Campus Rape Victim Says Gun-Free Zones Empower Criminals, Defend Concealed Carry,”
theblaze.com
, February 21, 2013,
http://bit.ly/10jPi7O
.

THE POLICE SUPPORT MORE GUN CONTROL LAWS—YOU SHOULD, TOO.

“ ‘
we’re going to go on strike [until more gun control is adopted]
’ ” Michael Bloomberg, “Why Don’t Police Stand Up,”
Piers Morgan Tonight
, CNN, July 23, 2012,
http://bit.ly/11gWqRw
. • “ ‘
[should] be able to purchase a firearm for sport or self-defense
’ ” National Association of Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs in the United States, “22nd Annual National Survey Questions,”
nacoponline.org
, 2010,
http://bit.ly/z84sm0
. • “ ‘
crime-fighting potential of the professional law enforcement community
’ ” National Association of Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs in the United States, “22nd Annual National Survey Questions,”
nacoponline.org
, 2010,
http://bit.ly/z84sm0
. • “ ‘
law would only be obeyed by law-abiding citizens
’ ” David Griffith, “Shooting Straight: The Majority of Cops Believe Responsible Citizens Should Have the Right to Own Handguns,”
Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine
, March 1, 2007,
http://bit.ly/11gWMYr
. • “
letting law-abiding private citizens carry concealed handguns
” San Diego Police Officers Association “Assault Weapons Survey Results,”
Informant
newsletter, May 1997,
http://bit.ly/11hOKOI
. • “
especially if attacked by multiple assailants
” Kurtis Lee, “County Sheriffs of Colorado releases memo in opposition of new gun law,”
Denver Post
, January 29, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11gX15L
.

WE SHOULD RESTRICT MAGAZIES TO A MAXIMUM OF TEN ROUNDS.

“ ‘
Why can’t we ban assault weapons
’ ” EJ Dionne,
Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, January 13, 2011,
http://nbcnews.to/11gXgh8
. • “ ‘
only used for killing a large number of humans or trying to
’ ” Rachel Maddow,
Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, January 10, 2011,
http://nbcnews.to/11gXkNO
. • “ ‘
at least restricting the size of the magazines to 10
’ ” Rep. Jim Morgan,
Ed Show
, MSNBC, January 13, 2011,
http://nbcnews.to/11gXpBg
. • “
Or should it be seven bullets, as New York has decided
” David Ariosto, “N.Y. Governor Signs Nation’s First Gun-Control Bill Since Newtown,”
cnn.com
, January 28, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11h8Atv
. • “
three rounds
” Dianne Feinstein,
Congressional Record
, (July 29, 1993), Page: S9778, accessed March 18, 2013,
http://1.usa.gov/ZydQJ7
. • “
they looked at involved magazines holding more than ten bullets
” Mark Follman and Gavin Aronsen, “ ‘A Killing Machine’: Half of All Mass Shooters Used High-Capacity Magazines,”
Mother Jones
, January 30, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11h8vGg
. • “
forcing the others to flee
” “Family Fights Back When 3 Gunmen Storm Their Home; One Intruder Shot,”
khou.com
, February 22, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11gXzbA
.

DON’T BELIEVE THE GUN NUTS: HITLER DIDN’T TAKE ANYONE’S FIREARMS AWAY.


Hitler in fact relaxed gun control laws
” Backell, “Beware of Tyrants in Sheep’s Clothing,”
dailykos.com
, January 20, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11gXHrB
. • “
disarming opponents in order to prevent resistance
” Daniel D. Polsby and Don B. Kates Jr., “Of Holocausts and Gun Control,”
Washington University Law Review
75, no. 3 (1997), 1236–75,
http://bit.ly/11gXMLU
. • “ ‘
licenses to obtain or to carry firearms shall only be issued to persons whose reliability is not in doubt
’ ” Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman,
Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny
(Milwaukee, WI: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc., 1992), 14, 52. • “
authorized the German states to register all firearms
” Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman,
Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny
(Milwaukee, WI: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc., 1992), 40. • “ ‘
emergency decree
’ ” Stephen P. Halbrook, “ ‘Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety’: Nazism, Firearm Registration,
and the Night of the Broken Glass,”
St. Thomas Law Review
21 (2009), 109, 123,
http://bit.ly/11gXTqX
. • “ ‘
fall into the hands of radical elements
’ ” Stephen P. Halbrook, “ ‘Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety’: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass,”
St. Thomas Law Review
21 (2009), 124,
http://bit.ly/11gXTqX
. • “ ‘
was consolidated by massive searches and seizures of firearms from political opponents
’ ” Stephen P. Halbrook, “Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews,”
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
17, no. 3 (2000), 483–84,
http://bit.ly/11h8kuH
. • “ ‘
Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State’ emergency measure
” Otis C. Mitchell,
Hitler Over Germany: The Establishment of the Nazi Dictatorship (1918–1934)
(Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983). • “
Nazi police began to search homes and offices for subversive literature and firearms
” “Red Terror Plans Alleged by Reich,”
New York Times
, March 1, 1933. • “
searched ‘for hidden arms, but found only a revolver
’ ” “Nazis Raid Home of President Ebert’s Widow,”
New York Times
, March 15, 1933. • “ ‘
but the nearest thing to arms they found was a bread knife
’ ” “Nazis Hunt Arms in Einstein Home,”
New York Times
, March 21, 1933. • “ ‘
Nazi auxiliaries raided a Jewish quarter in Eastern Berlin
’ ” “Raid on Jewish Quarter,”
New York Times
, April 5, 1933. • “
Communist literature, arms, and munitions were seized in Berlin
” “Seize Literature and Arms,”
New York Times
, April 13, 1933. • “ ‘
permits to carry arms will not in the future be issued to any member thereof
’ ” “Permission to Possess Arms Withdrawn from Breslau Jews,”
New York Times
, April 23, 1933. • “
as the state determined that you were not a threat
” Stephen P. Halbrook, “Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews,”
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
17, no. 3 (2000), 513–14,
http://bit.ly/11h8kuH
. • “
relying on those helpful Weimar firearm registration lists
” Stephen P. Halbrook, “ ‘Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety’: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass,”
St. Thomas Law Review
21 (2009), 115–22,
http://bit.ly/11gXTqX
. • “
shops were ransacked and synagogues were burned
” “Nazis Smash, Loot, and Burn Jewish Shops and Temples Until Goebbels Calls Halt,”
New York Times
, November 11, 1938. • “ ‘
are threatened with the severest punishment
’ ” “Nazis Ask Reprisal in Attack on Envoy,”
New York Times
, November 9, 1938. • “ ‘
penalty of twenty years confinement in a concentration camp
’ ” “Possession of Weapons Barred,”
New York Times
, November 11, 1938. • “ ‘
to retain possession of firearms—all these things are prohibited
’ ” “Topics of the Times: Their Common Fate,”
New York Times
, July 2, 1940. • “
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms
” Adolf Hitler,
Hitler’s Secret Conversations, 1941–1944
, trans. Norman Cameron and RH Stevens (New York: Farrar Straus and Young, 1961), 403.

PART TWO: WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS


before taking a stolen handgun out of his backpack and opening fire
” Daniel Pederson, “Tragedy in a Small Place,”
Newsweek
, December 14, 1997,
http://thebea.st/11gYuZQ
. • “ ‘
And then I woke up
’ ” Rick Bragg, “Forgiveness, After 3 Die in Shootings in Kentucky,”
New York Times
, December 3, 1997,
http://nyti.ms/11gYn09
. • “ ‘
Kill me, please
’ ” Julie Grace and West Paducah, “When Silence Fell,”
Time
, June 24, 2001,
http://ti.me/11h8emA
. • “
register a hit with only 20 percent of their shots from seven yards
” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano,
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1999), 4. • “
this ninth-grade boy had never fired a real pistol before
” Daniel Pederson, “Tragedy in a Small Place,”
Newsweek
, December 14, 1997,
http://thebea.st/11gYuZQ
. • “
modeled after a similar scene in the movie
Basketball Diaries
” Donald P. Baker, “As Kentucky Town Mourns, Movie Suggested as Basis for Boy’s Attack,”
Washington Post
, December 6,1997,
http://wapo.st/11h826W
. • “
The book?
Rage
,
by Stephen King
” Stephen King,
Guns
(New York: Kindle Singles, 2013), Kindle edition.
• “
fewer than 10 percent of lifelong smokers will ever get lung cancer
” Christopher Wanjek, “Smoking’s Many Myths Examined,”
livescience.com
, November 18, 2008,
http://bit.ly/11h88M3
. • “
move up the ranks of a criminal organization
” Rockstar Games,
Information
, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 2008,
http://bit.ly/11gYLvM
. • “ ‘
may lead to increased aggressive behavior in certain subgroups of children
’ ” Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior,
Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence: Report to the Surgeon General
, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. • “ ‘
motivated by violent video games
’ ” “Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza Blacked Out Game Room, Bedroom,”
CBS News
, February 19, 2013,
http://cbsn.ws/11gYPLP
. • “ ‘
was him and that TV screen with his tactical shooting game
’ ” “Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza Blacked Out Game Room, Bedroom,”
cbsnews.com
, February 19, 2013,
http://cbsn.ws/11gYPLP
. • “
Or something you learn playing kill games
” Mike Lupica, “Lupica: Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed gunman Adam Lanza plotted Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook massacre for years,”
New York Daily News
, March 17, 2013,
http://nydn.us/YsqXcr
. • “ ‘
rack up the most kills—and played it every afternoon
’ ” “Anatomy of a Massacre,”
Newsweek
, May 2, 1999,
http://thebea.st/11gYRU8
. • “ ‘
hey it’s just a game,’ I say ‘I don’t care
.
’ ” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, “Columbine Documents: JC-001–025923 Through JC-001–026859,” (report, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Golden, CO, January 8, 2003), 272,
http://bit.ly/11gYXer
. • “
spent most of his time playing video games
” Larry Bell, “Irrational Gun Rights Won’t Prevent Senseless Violence,”
Forbes
, December 23, 2012,
http://onforb.es/11gYZ60
. • “ ‘
i know how to cut a body open and eat you for more then a week. ;-)
’ ” Alexandra Berzon, John R. Emshwiller, and Robert A. Guth, “Postings of a Troubled Mind: Accused Shooter Wrote on Gaming Site of His Job Woes, Rejection by Women,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 12, 2001,
http://on.wsj.com/11gZ89G
. • “
he liked to play Quake and Doom—two violent video games
” John Cloud/Springfield, “Of Arms and the Boy,”
Time
, June 24, 2001,
http://ti.me/11gZbSU
. • “ ‘
Everybody’s got to die sometime
’ ” Rebecca Leung, “Can a Video Game Lead to Murder?”
CBS News
, February 11, 2009,
http://cbsn.ws/11h7VYZ
. • “
he appeared to have reenacted a scene from the game
” Rebecca Leung, “Can a Video Game Lead to Murder?”
CBS News
, February 11, 2009,
http://cbsn.ws/11h7VYZ
. • “
killing one person and seriously wounding another
” “Grand Theft Auto Comes Under Fire,”
BBC News
, May 4, 2004,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3680481.stm
. • “ ‘
re-create scenes from the cult game [
Grand Theft Auto
]
’ ” Martyn Leek, “The Murder Rampage Game for Kids,”
Sunday Mercury
, January 4, 2004,
http://bit.ly/11gZhKb
. • “
the boy was stopped before anyone was hurt
” Jack Thompson, “More Columbines,”
Washington Times
, July 1, 2004,
http://bit.ly/11gZnBw
. • “ ‘
He played them too much, I am embarrassed to say
’ ” Jack Thompson, “More Columbines,”
Washington Times
, July 1, 2004,
http://bit.ly/11gZnBw
.

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