Geez King, that simplistic, outdated, and erroneous data on Lead Ammunition is easily refuted, and most of it has already been refuted within this thread. This is as agenda driven and as false as your very recent and dishonest assertion that Thomas Jefferson did not make known his feelings about the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms. In fact, it appears that Jim (formerly Italiansxs) provided all of this to you in the "Is King Brown An Anti-Gunner?" thread:
Published by the NRA:
Thomas Jefferson on The Right to Bear Arms
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that . . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
-- Letter to John Cartwright, 1824. (The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition (ME), Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, 16:45.
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
-- Letter to George Washington, 1796. ME 9:341
"I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm house."
-- Letter to Jacob J. Brown, 1808. ME 11:432
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."
-- Draft Virginia Constitution , 1776. Papers 1:353
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
-- Letter to -----, 1803. ME 10:365
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks."
-- Letter to Peter Carr, 1785. ME 5:85, Papers 8:407
The above were gathered en masse from the website Thomas Jefferson On Politics & Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, compiled and edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. of Metairie, Jefferson Parish, La.
The site contains more than 2,700 excerpts from Jefferson`s writings, chosen, Coates says, "not for their historical significance, but as an expression of Jefferson`s PRINCIPLES of government that have relevance for us today."
"The principles of Jefferson are the axioms of a free society."
--Abraham Lincoln
This is not for the purposes of political debate. This is to illustrate your inherent and compulsive dishonesty. You had been told of Jefferson's original intent on the RKBA numerous times and still posted bald-faced lies about it. Why would anyone trust you now?
I am not at all refuting the very real dangers posed by heavy metals poisoning. But I am saying that it has been proven that ingestion of lead shot or bullet fragments is very low on the totem pole of being the cause of lethal blood lead levels. But no amount of proof is likely to reverse your repetition of anti-lead ammunition falsehoods
If Canada had indeed banned lead shot on the basis of this information you posted, then Canadian hunters got railroaded... just as they did with much of Canada's anti-gun legislation. I particularly liked the very last sentence of your post. It appears the author uses the same "craft of journalism" as you. Again, it is no surprise to see you Trolling anti-lead junk science in the same manner as you Troll anti-2nd Amendment bullshit. No need to impute motives. Your anti-gun and anti-lead agendas are quite evident to all. An absolute slam-dunk in my opinion.
