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Kenn Blanchard’s CCW Diary Pt. 1: “Good and Substantial”
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"I've carried a sidearm since 1983. I did it first as a US Marine embassy guard and then as a federal police officer. I’ve been an executive protection specialist and traveled armed overseas, on planes and in the homes of national figures. I’ve been trained to teach others. I’ve taught students at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. I have an active national security clearance. I am an ordained member of clergy. I live in Maryland where none of this matters. Here, a person has to prove 'good and substantial reason' before being granted a permit to carry a firearm for their own protection . . ." ... |
The Truth About Gun Violence
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"'Gun Violence? What exactly is 'gun violence'? It is obviously a Liberal political term similar to 'assault weapon.' Neither one exists as such, but both induce lots of fear and no real facts. When someone poisons someone else we don’t say 'poison violence', and if a person is killed by a car we don’t say 'car violence'. When doctors kill with their medical mistakes, which by the way kill millions of people every year, far beyond any use of weapons, we don’t say 'medical violence'. We don’t even consider it as murder! I can think of hundreds of death causing items, and yet there is no 'baseball bat violence' or even 'knife violence'. The word usage is not even correct . . ." ... |
Spokane-area residents debate: Should car thieves be shot?
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"A lively discussion about justice, self-defense, property rights and the use of lethal force has erupted in Spokane this week in the wake of a fatal Monday morning shooting in which a recidivist car thief was fatally shot by his latest victim as he drove away in the shooter’s Chevy Suburban."
"The debate is on-going on this morning's Spokane Spokesman-Review's web page below a story that says police may turn over the results of their investigation to prosecutors today." ... |
With gun nuts hoarding bullets, will cops be disarmed?
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"Dayne Pryor is the chief of police in Rollingwood, Texas, a small suburb of Austin. 'I’ve been in law enforcement for 31 years and I’ve been a chief for eight years,' he sighs. 'And it’s just one of those things that I never thought I’d have a problem with, especially being in Texas.'"
"Pryor’s problem, he explains to Salon, is that he’s having trouble finding ammunition and firearms for his officers, thanks to a national shortage. The cause? A run on supply from gun lovers afraid that Congress or state legislatures will impose new gun control laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting." ...
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Submitter's Note: I just went to gunbot.net and found over a dozen dealers with .40 S&W in stock and 3 dozen with .223 available. |
Bloomberg's $12 million 'gun safety' ad campaign is negligent and dangerous
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"St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner rarely uses the term 'gun control,' except in the ironic sense, within quotation marks. This is because the term is dishonest--the real objective of 'gun control' is actually citizen control, and the disarmed are obviously much more easily controlled. That's why St. Louis GRE prefers the much more honest term: 'forcible citizen disarmament.' Now, even the forcible citizen disarmament lobby is trying to distance itself from the term 'gun control,' but, obviously, for very different reasons. From the Washington Post:" ... |
New Yorkers To Call On Congress To End Gun Violence On National Day To Demand Action -- Thursday, March 28
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"Mayors Against Illegal Guns today announced that New Yorkers will join Americans gathering at more than 100 events across the country tomorrow, Thursday, March 28 as part of the National Day to Demand Action to end gun violence. While members of Congress are home during the Easter/Passover recess, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in conjunction with Organizing for Action, Americans for Responsible Solutions and other groups, will organize events and petition drives and generate an unprecedented number of calls into Senate district offices to call for their representatives to support commonsense gun laws like comprehensive and enforceable background checks." ... |
NC: North Carolina homeowner shoots one of three intruders
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"Early Sunday morning, March 24, a homeowner in North Carolina refused to be a victim when three men broke into his home. WECT TV6 reports that the homeowner shot one of the men in the neck, sending him to the hospital."
"Sheriff’s deputies confirmed that a home invasion had occurred in a home located near the rural intersection of FM Watts and Peacock Road in Columbus County, about 150 miles southeast of Charlotte and about 50 miles from the east coast." ... |
The Lesson Passover Teaches Us About Gun Control
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... "The lesson to take away from Passover isn’t that G-d is on the side of the Jews and will bail them out whenever they are in trouble, but instead that we should never forget what happened and strive to keep from getting into that same situation. That a situation where the ruling class has all of the power and the workers have no means to protect themselves inevitably leads to abuse and terror. In today’s world, that means defending the right of the common man to own a firearm." ... |
Annals of Disarmament: War on Women Edition
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... "I currently reside in Southern California due to my husband’s duty station. I have a sticker on my car of a pink revolver. I was loading my trunk after a shopping trip at Target when a large, professionally dressed man approached me. He poked fun at my 'gun sticker and Mississippi license tag' telling me guns are only 'killing machines' and should not be owned by anyone. I proceeded to simply say . . ." ... |
CO: US hunters begin boycott over Colorado gun laws
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"Hunters across the United States are boycotting Colorado because of recent legislation meant to curtail gun violence."
"Michael Bane, a producer for The Outdoor Channel, announced he will no longer film his four shows in Colorado, and hunters are joining the protests." ...
"... Out-of-state hunters accounted for 15 percent of hunting licenses last year, 86,000, compared with 489,000 for residents."
"'There's a united front of sportsmen that are tired of having their freedoms and liberties and fundamental rights taken away from them,' said Jurney, vice president of the Colorado Outfitters Association. 'That kind of unity among sportsmen is going to be big ...'"
"Legislative leaders declined to comment." ... |
Narrative Fail Alert: Oops, ARs Really Are Used for Hunting (video story)
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"Gosh, you know things aren’t going well for the civilian disarmament caucus in the Senate when they flip on their flat screens after a hard day toiling away, enacting more laws trying to keep us all safe, and they’re confronted by Anderson Cooper – yes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper – broadcasting incontrovertible evidence that ARs are, in fact, used for hunting. Noted firearms experts — unquestioned leading lights like Geraldo Rivera and Andrew Cuomo — have already told us in no uncertain terms that no one hunts with an AR. ..." |
Gun control backers struggle to win some Democrats
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"It would seem a lobbyist's dream: rounding up votes for a proposal backed by more than 8 in 10 people in polls. Yet, gun control supporters are struggling to win over moderate Democrats in their drive to push expanded background checks for firearms purchasers through the Senate next month."
"Backed by a $12 million TV advertising campaign financed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, gun control groups scheduled rallies around the country Thursday aimed at pressuring senators to back the effort. President Barack Obama was meeting at the White House with gun violence victims." ... |
Rand Paul plans to block new federal gun legislation
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"U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he plans to block new gun control legislation when the Senate reconvenes in Washington next month."
"But the Kentucky senator stopped short of using the word 'filibuster' while talking to reporters Wednesday at the University of Kentucky. Paul did say new legislation will have 'significant opposition' and the Senate will need 60 votes to push it forward. The Senate requires 60 votes to halt a filibuster." ... |
WASHINGTON: Biden says gun control votes 'only the beginning'
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"Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the expected upcoming Senate votes on gun control are only the beginning of the White House's fight."
"The fate of gun control legislation is unclear. A vote on a Senate bill, including expanded background checks and harsher penalties for gun trafficking, is expected next month." ... |
PA: Smoking gun
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"Like most communities, Quakertown is proud of its parks and strives to make them as attractive as possible. That includes a focus on safety, especially for kids. Toward that end, it’s perfectly logical that the borough prohibits the possession of firearms in all of its parks and on other public properties."
"That’s about to end, however. Scott McElree, borough manager and police chief, said Quakertown’s gun ban runs afoul of state law that says county and local governments do not have the authority to restrict anyone from possessing or transporting firearms. ..." ... |
NY: Suspended police officer resigns
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"A city police officer who was suspended last summer resigned earlier this month in the midst of his disciplinary hearing."
"Police Chief Mark Gifford on Tuesday said former Johnstown police Officer Jason Kohout resigned March 7 during a disciplinary hearing for him in Johnstown."
"He said the officer was represented by Police Benevolent Association attorney John Grant, who couldn't be reached Tuesday or this morning for comment."
"The chief said he can't say publicly the reason for Kohout's resignation or why he was suspended." ... |
NM: Albuquerque police officer charged with vehicular homicide, internal investigation launched
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"An Albuquerque police officer who was involved in a deadly crash was charged Tuesday with counts of vehicular homicide and great bodily injury by vehicle."
"The charges against Sgt. Adam Casaus were outlined in a criminal complaint released by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office."
"Casaus has claimed he was trying to track down a drunken driver before his police cruiser slammed into another vehicle on Feb. 10. ..."
"Records show that no dispatchers told Casaus to look out for a drunken driver before the crash. Dispatch records obtained by various media outlets also showed that Casaus logged off his last call almost four hours before the crash." ... |
FL: Two former officers liable for $7 million in Caravella case, jury decides
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"The jury in the Anthony Caravella civil lawsuit decided two of the four officers are liable for framing the mentally challenged 15-year-old for the 1983 rape and murder of a Miramar woman, condemning him to maximum security prisons for close to 26 years until DNA set him free in 2009."
"Eight jurors unanimously found former Miramar officers George Pierson and William Mantesta liable and awarded Caravella a total of $7 million in damages against them after a five-week trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale."
"Both men acted with malice or reckless indifference to Caravella, violated his constitutional right against malicious prosecution and coerced him into confessing, the jurors decided." ... |
Constitution must be consisten[sic] -- even if the left is not
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"As evidenced by the volume of recent editorials and vents, those on the left are going to extremes to reconcile the simple language and historical context of the Second Amendment with their own big government nanny state political views."
"One such effort is to take isolated phrases out of context. Focusing only on the words 'well regulated,' Paul Simons says that the phrase justifies federal regulation as 'the law of the land.' In her recent vent, Sue Busch compares 'regulation' to that for 'cars and safety!' Both ignore the remainder of the introductory clause ... The objective of the well regulated militia is the security of a free state — not the security of the federal government!" ... |
Money for duck studies, but not for safety?
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... "I’m a proud loving father; my child is the most important person in my life. In a recent letter to the editor, I discussed the need to have police officers or professionally trained armed guards in schools. ... I think the government should pay for school security for our children. But the government says it does not have the funds to put guards in every school. I find that hard to believe, since our federal government spends money on the following: $384,949 to Yale University to study duck private parts, $1.5 million on a menu for people going to Mars, $325,000 to build a robotic squirrel, $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay ... but still our government does not have the money to protect our children?" ... |
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