Maybe we should just ban youth football too!!

Interesting little factoid. Maybe tucked into the Assault Weapons Ban II bill will be a provision to ban HS football or Pop Warner. Since it's a bout the kids and all.

I don't want to see either level of football banned any more than I want to see the Constitution trampled as much as it has over the past decade. We don't have much more to give up in terms of our rights. These idiot politicians, and you can start at the top, need to focus more on doing their jobs correctly and less on political theatre and grand-standing. Too many political divas. Roll up your sleeves and get to work.

It helps if you take an honest look at the facts that are out there and put things in their proper perspective instead of whip-sawing from one manufactured crisis to another.

JOHNSON FIREARMS, Inc - Gun Facts:

* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than are murdered by guns. That’s right. Despite what media coverage might seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school football than guns.

In a recent three year period, twice as many football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45), as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during that same time period. (6)

SOURCES:

1. Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense With a Gun," 86 The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law, 1 (Fall 1995):164.

6. For football deaths, see Frederick O. Mueller, Annual Survey of Football Injury Research: 1931-2001, National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (February 2002) athttp://www.unc.edu/depts/nccsi/SurveyofFootballInjuries.htm

22. Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime," at 173, 185.

45. Warren v. District of Columbia, D.C. App., 444 A. 2d 1 (1981). See also Richard W. Stevens, Dial 911 and Die (1999) which gives the laws and cases in all 50 states to support the statement that government (police) owes no duty to protect individual citizens from criminal attack.

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