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Training, Yes – Mandatory, No
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"At the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference in Saint Louis, Missouri I had the privilege of introducing a couple of resolutions that were adopted by the assembly. The first dealt with the recent attempt by Customs and Border Protection to classify certain 'easy open' pocket knives as 'switchblades,' ... My resolution suggested that since the problem of switchblades and switchblade crime was primarily a figment of Hollywood ... and since regulating tools is never a reasonable response to bad behavior, that the rights community should support the outright repeal of the Federal Switchblade Act and any other such laws which are intended to modify behavior by restricting tools. This resolution passed resoundingly with no real discussion." ... |
Poll-Majority of Americans Against Stricter Gun Control
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"New Rasmussen and Gallup reports reveal that more Americans oppose stricter gun control laws."
"'Just 39 percent of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control,' according to Rasmussen Reports ... Rasmussen reported that '50 percent are opposed to stricter gun control laws, and 11% are not sure.'"
"Last March, 43 percent favored stricter gun control laws, according to Rasmussen."
"The report comes in advance of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the McDonald v. Chicago case that will determine if the Second Amendment trumps state and local anti-gun laws. The case is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Illinois State Rifle Association on behalf of several Chicago residents." ... |
Safer Streets 101: violence prevention centers
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"Do I mention the UCLA stabbing or save it for last? I’ll save it for last."
"I wrote previously that you can have safer streets if you want them. All you need do is accept certain realities. It is my surmise that violence prevention dwells on all sorts of avoidance and does little to address what happens when avoidance fails."
"Virginia Tech has conducted various meetings on violence prevention. Unasked, I contacted Virginia Tech's Center for Peace and Violence Prevention and was answered by a polite e-mail and invitation to attend an October seminar. It was a nice response. I asked for a small tele-conference. In lieu of that, I can post here." ... |
Poll: Support for stricter gun laws is dwindling
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"It's a good day for the NRA and gun rights activists. Two recent polls from Rasmussen and Gallup indicate that Americans increasingly oppose stricter gun laws."
"Rasmussen Reports in a survey conducted earlier this week shows that 39% of Americans want stricter gun laws against 50% who are opposed to such a measure. Previous surveys suggested that citizens were narrowly divided on the topic making the new margin of eleven-percentage points noteworthy. Women continue to be evenly divided on the topic but men oppose stricter laws by 23%. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats (65%) are in favor of tighter restrictions but 69% of Republicans and 62% of those unaffiliated feel differently." ... |
ObamaCare Could be Used to Ban Guns in Home Self-Defense
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"Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has something to say to gun owners: 'Own a gun; lose your coverage!'"
"Baucus' socialized health care bill comes up for a Finance Committee vote on Tuesday. We have waited and waited and waited for the shifty Baucus to release legislative language. But he has refused to release anything but a summary ... Even the summary was kept secret for a long time." ...
"It is nearly certain that coverage prescribed by the administration will, to control costs, exclude coverage for what it regards as excessively dangerous activities. And, given Sebelius' well-established antipathy to the Second Amendment ... we presume she will define these dangerous activities to include hunting and self-defense using a firearm. ..." ... |
Poster boy for the Brady bunch
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"Well, it has finally happened. A legally armed citizen in Randolph, MA lost his temper and shot his next door neighbor during a dispute about yard leaves. According to the logic of the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence it is part and parcel of their argument that guns in the hands of ordinary folks lead to bloodshed. I cannot argue that this didn't happen. It even appears that he was a concealed carry permit holder. Does this provide credence to the position that guns should be outlawed, or locked up separate from ammunition at all times? I think not."
"This item was newsworthy precisely because it was unique. ..." ... |
Are local gun bans unconstitutional?
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"The United States Supreme Court returned from summer recess on Oct. 5 with a docket full of controversial cases. Among the most controversial is McDonald v. City of Chicago, which raises the question of whether an individual's right to own guns for self-defense covers states and cities with gun-control laws."
"... at issue is whether the Second Amendment applies to the states under the doctrine of 'incorporation,' in which the Supreme Court has used the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to extend the Bill of Rights' guarantees to the states."
"Is it time for the Supreme Court to affirm the individual right to own guns? Or should cities have the power to ban guns in order to fight crime? ..." ... |
Man Fired For Looking At Gun Web Sites
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... "When Jackson was searching the Web for a replacement shotgun stock, supervisor Christie Vazquez -- who admitted in a subsequent deposition to being 'very anti-gun' and had quarreled with him before about politics -- noticed what he was doing. Vazquez said she was scared because it was only a few weeks after the Virginia Tech massacre (see CBS News video), so she promptly reported her colleague's Web browsing to Planco's human resources department. Vazquez also informed the HR department that Jackson owned guns and was a member of the National Rifle Association." ...
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What Supreme Court 'victories' really mean for gun rights
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"I have written in the past about the possibility of incorporation of the Second Amendment ... Most analysts seem to expect that SCOTUS will indeed rule that the Second Amendment is incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, and will thus apply to state and local governments ..."
"That certainly sounds good for gun rights, but is it, really? The most recent, and arguably most relevant, Supreme Court jurisprudence on the Second Amendment is, of course, the Heller decision from last June. I have mentioned before that Heller is far from the unmixed blessing that some of the more optimistic of gun owners perceive it to be, but I don't think I have really explained the reasoning that brings me to that conclusion." ... |
NJ: Carole Stiller honored by Brady Center
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"Local gun violence activist Carole Stiller received the Advocate Award from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on Thursday."
"Stiller, president of the New Jersey Million Mom March chapters, received the award for her deligence to prevent gun violence in the New Jersey, New York and Conneticut region. Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer presented Stiller with her award. The Brady Center also honored Newark Mayor Cory Booker and slain New York Police Department Detective Russel Timoshenko."
"'Carole's work to bring sensible gun laws to New Jersey and the nation has been outstanding,' said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. ..." ... |
Hillbilly pol takes shot at mayor
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"A Republican gubernatorial hopeful in Tennessee yesterday slammed Mayor Bloomberg's crusade against illegal guns -- and told him to 'stay the heck out of' his state."
"Zach Wamp, who's running for the seat that will be open because of term limits, took the jab at the Big Apple mayor in a Twitter post."
"The broadside came a day after Bloomberg revealed that 40 private investigators hired by the city bought firearms at gun shows in Tennessee, Nevada and Ohio between May and August -- despite the buyers telling the sellers they couldn't pass mandated background checks." ...
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Sowing America's killing fields
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"'That's good about the background check … because I probably couldn't pass one.' 'I don't care … because I wouldn't pass either, bud.'"
"This is what passes for polite conversation at a gun show in Sharonville, Ohio, caught on videotape by investigators from New York to try and stem the flow of illegal guns to criminals in the Big Apple. Oh, did I mention that this was illegal?"
"... when it comes to protecting Americans from criminal predators and terrorists by requiring all gun shows to perform background checks, forget about it." ...
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Submitter's Note: Because those of us who invest the least effort in research understand that less than 1% of criminals get their guns from these shows! |
Confronting gun violence
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"A new organization has urged President Barack Obama to confront firearms violence, particularly by strengthening [ATF].
"Here's hoping that he doesn't take up the challenge set out by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. ... But here's also hoping the president keeps the pitch floating near the top of his to-do pile ..."
"The appeal to the president from some 450 mayors was reported by the Washington Post. The beauty part of the mayors' approach is that it calls for no new laws. Instead, almost mischievously, the mayors play to the gun lobby's own standard-issue retort to any proposed new firearms control laws or regulations - the argument that there are enough already and all we need to do is enforce them." ...
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Obama's Agenda
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... "Krauthammer's point is simple and unassailable. There is, he argues, an intimate connection between the foreign policy being pursued by the Obama administration and its domestic policy. The work undertaken in the domestic sphere by what I have called 'Obama's wrecking crew' will, he points out, put a stop to the pattern of dynamic economic growth that made it possible for the United States to defeat Japan, contribute decisively to the defeat of Nazi Germany, contain communism, and ultimately defeat and prepare the way for the dismemberment of the Soviet Union."
"It will produce economic stagnation of the sort that the Europeans have suffered from for decades, and it will eventuate in a collapse of the American dollar." ...
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How To Lose Friends
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"Perhaps this column will be an example of how to lose friends–but this is really important. There are times that being right isn't as important as being tactful ..." ...
"Open carry in an urban setting, when you have some realistic alternative available (such as concealed carry), is rather like a homosexual 'kiss-in.' The supporters are convinced that doing so makes Americans more tolerant and open-minded to the subject. ..." ...
"... as a form of political statement, in cities, and especially in proximity to the President–this is just dumb. It makes gun owners look crazy, and drives some people who are indifferent into opposition to gun ownership. Don't be stupid." ... |
Clayton Cramer tries to whistle past the graveyard of history without scaring anybody
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... "'Don't be stupid' yourself, Clayton. As a firearms owner, you haven't got any friends."
"Clayton, I must start by saying I have admired your work over the years. But the fact of the matter is that you are all wet on this, homosexual analogies most especially."
"By what objective standard do you place hope on winning friends and influencing people to the Founders' view of the right to arms? Opinion polls? True, the numbers supporting the individual right to arms has risen recently. But don't you think that's because people who feel uneasy about the future marginally shift toward firearm's freedom simply because they want to ensure their own access to guns if they need them? ..." ... |
CO: Homeowner Opens Fire on Burglar
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"Police are trying to find a man that has broken in twice to the same house, where the homeowner chased and shot at him."
"On Oct. 2, the man tried breaking into Guy Sitzman's home the second time and was caught him on tape."
"Sitzman was watching security tapes from the previous hour in his computer room, when toward the end of the tape the system went back to 'live' mode, and Sitzman noticed a man walking around the side of his house."
"That's when he saw the man leaving through his back door carrying a rifle and a pistol."
"Despite his initial fear, Sitzman said he grabbed another gun and ran after him. 'I ran out back and fired two shots off at him.'"
"The man dropped the items ... and took off." ... |
GA: Bank Manager Pulls Gun on Armed Robber, Gets Fired
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"A former bank manager said Thursday that a life or death decision got him fired. The manager said he pulled a gun on a bank robber ... Police credited the manager's actions to the arrest of the suspect William Hunt."
"Wesley Hallman said it was common knowledge that he carried a pistol. The former manger said he felt safer with the gun when he opened the bank."
"Hallman said when he saw a would-be robber holding a gun in an employee's face, he challenged the man with his gun." ...
"Hallman said he was called into the bank the next day and fired. Hallman said there is a bank policy that employees can't carry weapons. The former branch manager said he knew violated company policy but he didn't violate the law." |
AZ: Would-be robber shot by victim
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"A man suffered life-threatening wounds when he attempted to rob another man at a midtown car wash and was shot by the victim ..."
"The incident occurred at a self-service car wash on East 22nd Street near South Beverly Avenue just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday."
"Police said a 50-year-old man was at the car wash washing his vehicle when he was approached by an 18-year-old man."
"The younger man pulled out a gun and attempted to rob the older man ..."
"The older man pulled out his own gun and shot the 18 year old."
"The younger man ran away and got into a car that was being driven by another person. A short time later, the 18-year-old man showed up at a hospital with life-threatening wounds, police said." ... |
PA: Bystander Shot During Holdup at NE Phila. Pizza Shop
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A customer at a Northeast Philadelphia pizza shop was shot and critically wounded on Thursday night during a hold-up.
It happened shortly before 9pm in the 2000 block of Cottman Avenue, not far from the intersection of Cottman and Castor Avenues.
The 52-year-old man was shot in the chest. Police aren't sure if he tried to stop the gunman or if he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was taken to Aria Hospital Torresdale Division, where he remained in extremely critical condition.
Police say they've brought several people in for questioning as the investigation into the robbery continues.
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Hutchison campaigns for gun rights
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"Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison went to a shooting range Friday to remind voters of her support for gun rights by pointing out her plans to weigh in on an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case."
"With gunfire popping in the background, Hutchison said she will help lead a bipartisan group from Congress in filing a legal brief urging the court to rule gun ownership is an individual right that applies at the state and local levels, in addition to the federal level."
"Both Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry, who are squaring off in the March Republican primary, say they support gun ownership rights, something dear to Texas GOP primary voters. Representatives of both candidates say they own rifles and handguns and that they are hunters." ... |
All aboard? Legislation could allow guns on Amtrak
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"An amendment currently in conference in the House and Senate could mandate Amtrak permit passengers to bring unloaded and secured guns aboard its trains in checked luggage. ..."
"However, Amtrak says it has neither the security infrastructure, nor the time to comply with the legislation, which would take effect on March 31, 2010. 'Unlike the airline industry, Amtrak has no system in place for a uniform system of screening for weapons or exact regulations regarding firearms,' wrote Thomas Carper, chairman of the board for Amtrak in a letter to the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development." ...
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Gun Rights 101: Public comment goes heavily against Nickels gun ban
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"Public reaction to a proposed ban on firearms at Seattle park facilities was decidedly negative, with 96 percent of the people weighing in on the idea turning thumbs down."
"While Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels appears to have lost sight of the fact that gun owners have rights, including the right to use public property, the citizens have not. ..."
"According to Bob Scales, senior policy analyst for the city’s Office of Policy and Management, in addition to the 1,088 comments submitted via e-mail to the city during a comment period that ended Sunday (Oct. 4), there were also ten telephone calls received by the Customer Service Bureau. Nine of those were against the idea and one supported the proposed ban." ... |
We're the Only Ones Objectively Reasonable Enough
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"Chief Locke thrust his knee between [Diane's] legs, and while Diane was still leaning on the hood of the patrol car, Chief Locke began to paw and stroke her, beginning at Diane’s waist and moving down to her buttocks ..."
"And it's not the first time!"
"A couple of months before Cook, Locke was sued for sexual misconduct involving another woman..."
"So what's proper 'Only One' protocol when Diane's husband objected?"
"Michael took one step toward Chief Locke. Chief Locke told Michael to '[g]et back in the fucking car' and, at the same time, Chief Locke tasered Michael. Michael never saw the taser." ... |
Second Amendment Sisters, Washington DC Police and the Fear of Empty Holsters
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... "Later on, I walked away from the demonstration to meet a friend and fellow Second Amendment Sister a few blocks away. While we were standing on the sidewalk taking, two LEOs approached me, one of them, I think a DHS officer, was bending over sideways to look at my holster. He asked me to come over to where he was so he could 'talk to me' so our whole group moved closer to him."
"He didn't like that much, but he asked me if I had a weapon and I responded that I was aware of the prohibition on guns in DC. I explained that the holster was a 'silent protest' to the gun ban in DC. He then said that he would have to ask me to remove my holster and I got the distinct feeling that he intended to confiscate it. ..." ... |
MO: Gun law should be enforced
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"It's safe to say that guns and alcohol don't mix."
"To that effect, there is a law on the books that specifically prohibits possession of a firearm while intoxicated. Now, the Missouri attorney general's office is asking the state Supreme Court for the power to enforce that law."
"Currently, the law is being challenged -- a Mississippi County judge ruled in 2008 that it was unconstitutional. That ruling tossed out a case against a Southeast Missouri man who was found unconscious in a chair with a loaded gun, after he had threatened to shoot himself." ... |
AK: Anchorage 2nd Amendment Task Force Banquet
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"The Anchorage Second Amendment Task Force members are meeting together on Saturday October 17 for dinner and camaraderie."
"Join us at the Sourdough Mining Company (Anchorage) in the side room at 6:30pm."
"Special speaker will be constitutional scholar and Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik coming all the way from Texas."
"Bring your family and friends and enjoy the company of hunters, shooters and those concerned with the 2nd Amendment." ... |
FL: Broward Republicans head to the gun range
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"Armed with handguns and AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, the members of the Southeast Broward Republican Club abandoned the usual community center for their club meeting this week, and gathered at a gun range where they fired bullets instead of political bombshells."
"The aims, said club president Ed Napolitano, were to have fun, educate club members who were new to shooting — and send a political message."
"'Why are we here? Because we're Republicans and we appreciate the fact that we have the right to bear arms,' Napolitano said. 'Without the Second Amendment, I don't think the other amendments would hold up. I think they would just be suggestions that the government would decide to do whatever they want.'" ... |
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