Posted: 12/6/2002 8:54:51 AM EDT
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[url]http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2666[/url] Gun Control Websites vs. Gun Rights Websites by Angel Shamaya [email protected] December 6, 2002 While the anti-gun forces would have you believe they are monumentally significant, a look at the internet traffic to the major websites on each side of the gun cause tells a different story. And there is a unique add-on feature for web browsers -- free, no less, and quick to install -- that allows you to see this fact for yourself, in real numbers. The Alexa Toolbar rates websites on the internet based on the traffic they receive. Downloading and installing the toolbar takes about a minute on a 56k modem. Once installed, every website you visit will give you its rank, by number, as compared against every other website on the internet. It also provides quick links to the other websites visited by people who frequent whatever website you're on at the time. Installing this fascinating, unobtrusive toolbar -- it interfaces with 5.0 browsers and above -- and going to the major gun rights and gun control websites quickly shows you which side garners more web traffic. You can see for yourself by installing the free Alexa Toolbar by clicking over to their website and downloading it here: http://download.alexa.com/alexa65/startpage.html?p=Dest_W_t_40_B2. The toolbar plug-in is also a really quick way to know how much traffic a news site is getting. Here are some examples of the ratings various gun rights and gun control websites have as of December 6, 2002. As you read the rankings, understand that the lower the number, the more traffic the site gets. For example, yahoo.com is ranked as 1, because they get the most traffic of any website online. The gun prohibitionists' websites are in bold, below, so you can quickly see where they stand. Gun Rights/Control Website Ranking KeepAndBearArms.com 71,565 NRAHQ.org 71,840 NRAILA.org 79,885 MyNRA.com 98,433 Guns And Ammo Magazine 120,508 Gun Owners of America 136,840 Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership 158,435 Second Amendment Foundation 161,199 Violence Policy Center 229,063 Brady Campaign 340,347 Guntruths.com 380,748 NealKnox.com 510,731 Women Against Gun Control 533,962 National Shooting Sports Foundation 537,598 Americans For Gun Safety 618,138 Second Amendment Sisters 664,085 Coalition to Stop Handgun Violence 746,604 Center to Prevent Handgun Violence 998,931 Million Mom March 3,536,494 Maybe we should rename the MMM Klan the Three and a Half Million Ranked Losers. By the way, kudos are deserved for the good people running TheFiringLine.com and Packing.org -- they are ranked 41,531 and 46,221, respectively. We recommend each of their sites heartily and hope you'll bookmark each site and use them. |