NRA Arguments
NRA Arguments
NRA Origins
· Civil War Union Soldiers concerned with marshalship
· Articles written about how a association needed for training - backed by General Wingate (1871)
· NRA formed 1978
· First shooting range -got idea from Britain(wimbledon) and Germany
· USA won competition against British for shooting
· Youth programs started (1900) - became a sport
· NRA had provided basic marksmanship skills to people who were scouted or of age to become soldiers.
· After WW11 NRA doubled in size
·General operations largest part of NRA
1999 - NRA promises Philadelphia police forces that armed felons won't " be back on the streets by the time the arresting officer got home for dinner."
- "Compact handguns, popular throughout American history, are useful for selfdefense" - A law against compact handguns would be discriminatory, by having a disproportionate impact on poor people. It would disproportionately affection citizens by reducing the availability of defensive handguns to low income Americans. - "A right to carry" states recognise the right to carry compact handguns. - 60% of handgun owners and half the USA population live in RTC states. States with RTC laws have seen a crime decrease (24% lower total violent crime rate/19% lower homicide rate/39% lower robbery rate/ 19% lower aggravated assault rate)- homicide rates are lower than anytime before 1960 - Court approval of common law rule that a person 'may repel force by force' in selfdefense and concluded that when attacked a person 's as entitled to stand his ground and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon, in such a way and with such force' as needed to prevent 'great bodily injury or death's'.
2009 -- Boy scouts of America granted their special use permit - Illinois supreme court dismissed lawsuit aimed at putting firearms manufacturers out of business. - With Gil Kerlikowske President Obama continues the trend of appointing rabid gun haters to important
NRA Origins
· Civil War Union Soldiers concerned with marshalship
· Articles written about how a association needed for training - backed by General Wingate (1871)
· NRA formed 1978
· First shooting range -got idea from Britain(wimbledon) and Germany
· USA won competition against British for shooting
· Youth programs started (1900) - became a sport
· NRA had provided basic marksmanship skills to people who were scouted or of age to become soldiers.
· After WW11 NRA doubled in size
·General operations largest part of NRA
1999 - NRA promises Philadelphia police forces that armed felons won't " be back on the streets by the time the arresting officer got home for dinner."
- "Compact handguns, popular throughout American history, are useful for selfdefense" - A law against compact handguns would be discriminatory, by having a disproportionate impact on poor people. It would disproportionately affection citizens by reducing the availability of defensive handguns to low income Americans. - "A right to carry" states recognise the right to carry compact handguns. - 60% of handgun owners and half the USA population live in RTC states. States with RTC laws have seen a crime decrease (24% lower total violent crime rate/19% lower homicide rate/39% lower robbery rate/ 19% lower aggravated assault rate)- homicide rates are lower than anytime before 1960 - Court approval of common law rule that a person 'may repel force by force' in selfdefense and concluded that when attacked a person 's as entitled to stand his ground and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon, in such a way and with such force' as needed to prevent 'great bodily injury or death's'.
2009 -- Boy scouts of America granted their special use permit - Illinois supreme court dismissed lawsuit aimed at putting firearms manufacturers out of business. - With Gil Kerlikowske President Obama continues the trend of appointing rabid gun haters to important