Arm+The+Homeless

THE FIRST CONTENTION IS RAPE

1. POOR PEOPLE ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE RAPED, AND 50% OF ALL RAPE VICTIMS BECOME IMPOVERISHED

MICHIGAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT BOARD | legislatively-enacted and Governor-appointed body charged with implementing efforts to eliminate domestic and sexual violence | "The Intersection of Poverty and Sexual Violence" | February 28, 2008 | http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:5gK6H0Dy3R8J:www.michigan.gov/documents/poverty/DHS-Poverty_DomViolence-Report_239087_7.pdf+poverty+sexual+assault&hl=en&gl=us

There is a clear and substantial body of research indicating the fragile relationship between poverty and sexual assault. . . for those living on the edge of poverty, these costs can push them over the line.

2. RAPE IS UNIQUELY VIOLENT – IT CAUSES IRREPARABLE DAMAGE

Yale GLAZER | Bronx County Assistant District Attorney, Hofstra Law School Professor | “Child rapists beware! The death penalty and Louisiana's amended aggravated rape statute" | American Journal of Criminal Law | October 1, 1997 | http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-35973764.html

Rape is one of the fastest growing violent crimes reported in the United States. . . Rape has been called a "fate worse than death." 32

3. RAPE IS THE MOST BRUTAL ACT – IT’S MORE VICIOUS THAN MURDER

Melissa MEISTER | writer | "MURDERING INNOCENCE: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF CAPITAL CHILD RAPE STATUTES" | Arizona Law Review v. 45 no. 1 p. 208 | 2003

Rape has been called a “fate worse than death”. . . childhood sexual abuse is “grossly intrusive in the lives of children and is harmful to their normal psychological, emotional, and sexual development in ways which no just or humane society can tolerate.”102

4. TOLERATING RAPE NECESSITATES ALL VIOLENCE, INCLUDING NUCLEAR WAR

NEW YORK TIMES | “A Feminist Campaign for the Presidency” p. C7 | December 29, 1983

She argues, for example, that violence against women is a fundamental political issue. . . We ought to have some of our best intelligences concentrating upon how to change that violent habit of mind.''

5. NUCLEAR WAR KILLS 500 TRILLION PEOPLE

Carl SAGAN | Professor of Astronomy, Peabody Award winner, Pulitzer Prize winner | “Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications” | Foreign Affairs | Winter 1983/1984 | http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19831201faessay8351/carl-sagan/nuclear-war-and-climatic-catastrophe-some-policy-implications.html

If we are required to calibrate extinction in numerical terms, I would be sure to include the number of people in future generations who would not be born. . . Extinction is the undoing of the human enterprise.

6. RAPE IS THE MOST EVIL FORM OF DEHUMANIZATION

COASTER | Your community newspaper serving the Coast of Bays | "Rape not a crime in Nain?" | NO DATE | http://rencontreeast.com/coasterbelleoram.html]

There is no crime more evil than rape. . . we should punish those who have such little respect for a human being that they would throw them down and violently violate them just to prove they have power.

7. DEHUMANIZATION MAKES EVERY IMPACT INEVITABLE

David BERUBE | PhD in Communications | “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side” | Nanotechnology Magazine p. 1-6 | June/July 1997 | http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm

This means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matsou’s treatise on the dehumanization of humanity. . . dehumanization is evil’s most powerful weapon.

8. HISTORICALLY, DEHUMANIZATION CAUSES GENOCIDE

MAIESE | University of Colorado | Boulder and is a part of the research staff at the Conflict Research Consortium | “Dehumanization” | July 2003

Once certain groups are stigmatized as morally inferior, and not fully human, the persecution of those groups becomes more psychologically acceptable. . . Similar atrocities have occurred in Rwanda, Cambodia, and the former Yugoslavia.

9. GENOCIDE LEADS TO EXTINCTION

THE HINDU | Las Officer | Commissioner for Disciplinary Proceedings | “When Man exterminates Mankind” | September 16, 2001

Throughout human history, tyrants of various hues have gotten away with mass murder. . . weapons of mass destruction now threaten our continuance as a species.

THE SECOND CONTENTION IS FREEDOM

1. POOR PEOPLE ARE DENIED THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

David HOLTHOUSE | Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report senior editor | "Give Peace a Chance" | Phoenix New Times | Spring 1999 | http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-04-01/news/give-piece-a-chance/2

Hawk brandished a sheet of crime statistics indicating that people who live on the streets are 10 times as likely to become victims of violent crime as people who don't. . . when it comes to guns, this country discriminates against its so-called 'second-class citizens.'"

2. RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CAUSE NUCLEAR WAR, WHICH LEADS TO EXTINCTION

HUMAN RIGHTS WEB | “An Introduction to the Human Rights Movement” | 1997 | http://www.hrweb.org/intro.html

Many also realized that advances in technology and changes in social structures had rendered war a threat to the continued existence of the human race. . . basic human rights must be protected, not only for the sake of the individuals and countries involved, but to preserve the human race.

3. ATTEMPTS TO LIMIT FREEDOM CAUSE THE MOST PROBABLE EXTINCTION SCENARIO

Ayn RAND | philosophizer | "The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism" p. 145 | July 1989

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment, a society that sets up a conflict between it’s ethics and the requirements of man’s nature – is not, strictly speaking, a society. . . Life on desert island is safer than and incomparably preferable than existence in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.

4. YOU HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO REJECT EVERY INVASION OF FREEDOM

Sylvester PETRO | Wake Forest University law professor | Toledo Law Review p. 480 | Spring 1974

However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway – “I believe in only one thing: liberty.”. . . every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.

5. THE FEDS ARE KEY TO RIGHTS, WHICH TRUMP ALL OTHER POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Andrew FAGAN | "Human Rights" | The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | 2005 | http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hum-rts.htm

National and international institutions bear the primary responsibility of securing human rights. . . this should not detract from the force of human rights as taking priority over alternative social and political considerations.

THE THIRD CONTENTION IS INHERENCY

GUN CONTROL DENIES POOR PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS - FEDERAL STUDY PROVES

David B. KOPEL | Cato Institute Associate Policy Analyst, Research Director of Independence Institute | "Selective Disarmament: No Guns For The Poor" | American Guardian | August 1997 | http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=16

When wolves hunt, they pick out the easiest targets at the fringe of the herd. . . the cheapest gun on the market costs more than they can afford to pay."

THUS THE TEXT: THROUGH ALL NECESSARY MEANS, THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, SPECIFICALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, SHOULD DISTRIBUTE GUNS AND AMMUNITION TO PERSONS LIVING IN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES. FUNDING AND ENFORCEMENT THROUGH NORMAL MEANS. WE CAN CLARIFY.

THE FOURTH CONTENTION IS SOLVENCY

1. GUN CONTROL INCREASES CRIME WHILE ARMED CITIZENS REDUCE CRIME – FEDERAL STUDY PROVES

DEFENSE MECHANISM | blog | "Gun Control Research-Wright and Rossi-armed citizens deter criminals" | January 29, 2009 | http://defmech.blogivists.com/2009/01/29/gun-control-research-wright-and-rossi-armed-citizens-deter-criminals/)

Professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts conducted a study in 1982 and 1983 paid for by the U.S. Department of Justice. . . armed citizens do have a deterrent effect on crime.

2. GUNS ARE THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT RAPE – FEDERAL STUDIES PROVES

Dr. Robert J. WOOLLEY | Boynton Health Service staff physician | "Guns Effective Defense Against Rape" | Minnesota Daily | February 20, 2001 | http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/drwoolley.htm)

I wish to single out one particular subtype of physical resistance. . . a woman's best option is to resist with a gun in her hands.

3. A 44 SLUG IN THE BRAIN STOPS RAPE IN AN INSTANT

Penn JILLETTE | libertarian, Cato Institute Research Fellow | "Gun Control" | Bullshit! Season 3 Episode 8 | June 27, 2005 | http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/60509/detail/

"You see drops in violent crime when more people are allowed to carry concealed handguns . . . Who's going to rob or rape when there's a 50% chance that Janie's got a gun?

4. ALL FREEDOMS ARE CONTINGENT UPON GUN RIGHTS

Penn JILLETTE | libertarian, Cato Institute Research Fellow | "Gun Control" | Bullshit! Season 3 Episode 8 | June 27, 2005 | http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/60509/detail/

For a historical perspective on guns, let's ask one of the founding fathers. . . We have to trust, well, the Americans all around us.