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Putting the 'gun lobby' in its place
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"Previous articles noted that gun rights groups contribute very little money to federal election campaigns, and that there appears to be a link between law firm contributions and Nancy Pelosi's support for firearms registration. Looking at the entire House of Representatives, pro-rights voting records and law firm contributions negatively correlate, meaning that as law firm money comprises a greater percentage of a candidate's total campaign fund, the more likely they are to vote against the civil right of self-defense."
"All winning 2008 House candidates' campaign contributions ... were correlated with the National Rifle Association's grading system (as an indicator of relative pro-rights voting records). ..." ... |
Equipped to be a Killer
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... "... There is a dramatic difference between having tools and having intent. While this truth should apply to fishing gear or guns in parks, it is also one of the fundamental flaws in the thinking of hoplophobes and their attacks on individual rights – that having tools and using tools is the same thing."
"I recall a story of a hoplophobic politician or reporter who, looking at the firing line at Camp Perry saw hundreds of 'potential assassins' rather than hundreds of dedicated sportsmen, patriots, and potential defenders of the nation. That distorted perception demonstrates a level of fundamental human distrust which is simply astounding. ..." ... |
The future of gun control
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... "First, the Heller decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last June makes it clear that the "right to keep and bear arms" is 'not unlimited.' ..."
"Once the true implications of this decision sink in, politicians should no longer be able to use the 2nd Amendment as an excuse to do nothing about gun violence."
"Second, key officials in the Obama administration have a long history of supporting efforts to reduce gun violence. ..."
"Third, the public is a step ahead of Congress in pushing for action to reduce gun violence, but elected officials will have to catch up soon or risk losing their offices. ..." ... |
Why the changing story on a new federal 'assault weapons' ban?
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"Will there be a concerted push for a federal ban of so-called 'assault weapons,' or won't there? The answer seems to depend on whom you ask, and even when you ask. Attorney General Eric Holder, for example, said back in February:""'As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,' Holder told reporters."
"Holder also said during his confirmation hearings that he believed that such a ban would not run afoul of the Second Amendment, even after the Supreme Court's Heller decision made Constitutional protection of the right of the individual to own guns a settled point of law." ... |
Mexico, Don't Blame Us
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"Border security and gun control? No problem here. Got both. In fact, I have virtually perfected both culture war issues at Ground Nuge to the point of untouchable. You see, even though I am just a guitar player, these are the tip-o-the-spear culture war lies I have railed against for more than forty years. I control my borders, and I control my guns. Wild, huh?"
"Take, for example, the fact that the Nugent property has never been invaded, for we, like all life loving, law abiding Americans we know, have sent out a loud and clear message that even mentally deficient felon wannabes understand without pushing "1" for English: Invade my home, and I will kill you. Case closed. No invasions and no one killed. Perfect." ... |
TX: HPD: Man Dies While Trying To Steal Boat
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One person was killed when a group of men tried to steal a boat while driving down a freeway, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Houston police said three men in a car tried to steal a boat that a man was hauling with his pickup truck on Interstate 45 at about 1 a.m.
Investigators said the men in the car opened fire on the man in the pickup truck. The man in the pickup truck returned fire, officials said.One of the men inside the car was killed. The driver of the car stopped at a gas station on North Shepherd Drive for help.
The driver of the pickup truck lost control and ended up a field. There were fish in the boat because the man was returning from a fishing trip at Lake Conroe. |
FL: Gunfight breaks out during attempted robbery
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"A gunfight broke out in a Palm Coast neighborhood early today during an attempted robbery."
"Gunfire erupted when a man armed with a silver handgun attempted to rob a man who had just returned home ..."
"The resident had just returned from a Walgreens store on Palm Coast Parkway at 1:11 a.m. with his medications. As he was getting out of his car, deputies said the gunman rushed into the garage and demanded the drugs."
"In an attempt to scare off the intruder, the man said he yelled as loud as he could. Instead of fleeing, the intruder took a shot at him, deputies said."
"The resident wasn’t hit but quickly retrieved his own handgun and began shooting back at his assailant." ... |
SC: Intruder killed during shootout in North Charleston home
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North Charleston police said that an armed man who tried to rob a home on Ranger Drive on Thursday was killed during a shootout with the tenant. The coroner says the suspect was 25-year-old Demario Brown from Johns Island.
Police said officers responded to the scene after a call about shots being fired.
Police say Brown, who was armed, forced two women into the home to rob them. Police say a tenant who was already inside the house, had a gun and shot Brown. Brown also fired back hitting Timothy King. King was transported to MUSC. Police say he had non-life threatening injuries. Brown died at the scene. |
WA senator's 'open season on criminals' remark misrepresented, but not 'lead enema'
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"Maverick Washington State Sen. Tim Sheldon, a Mason County Democrat with a long history of common sense and substance over flash, has made headlines all over the country with a remark about looming public safety budget cuts in his rural county."
"Sheldon told reporters that 'It's always open season on criminals in Mason County, and there's no bag limit.'" ...
"Horrified officials with the Mason County Sheriff's Department, along with reporters ... were pretty quick on the draw, suggesting that Sheldon was promoting vigilantism." ...
"But this begs two questions:"
"Why would anyone accuse Sheldon of promoting vigilantism?"
"Why would the sheriff's department associate an act of self-defense as vigilantism?" ... |
Whats the matter with you people, can't you see the sky is falling?
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"Gun control had its heyday in this country. Decades of scare mongering by the anti-gun forces lead to an increasing tide of gun rights restrictions until the mid-eighties. After these civil rights infringements failed to live up to their hype and stop crime, U.S. citizens began demanding that their gun rights be returned. ..."
"With each lessening of gun rights infringements, the gun control movement predicted doom and gloom. While their prognostications proved untrue, that hasn't stopped them from seizing on every gun related tragedy to call for additional rights to be taken away and they can't believe their eyes when they see that the public has heard enough ... and no longer believe the lies." ... |
If I Only Had A Gun to air on ABC tonight: What will I be looking for?
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"America's more than 80 million gun owners have been listening to Media for decades. We have witnessed the decay of Citizens' rights – all of our rights beginning with gun rights, of course – for two generations at least. We know hostility when we see it. How do we know it before we see it? How will I assess tonight's episode of 20/20, 'If I Only Had A Gun'?"
"I'll look for Tone. Smugness drooled from the mouth of Charlie Gibson when interviewing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. ... His doctrinaire attitude betrayed a tragically misguided sense of service to America in doing what we might anticipate in tonight’s 20/20: chasing down issues which are irrelevant to the report as promised and to the point of abuse. ..." ... |
Outlook dim for new gun-control efforts
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"Fatal shootings in Binghamton, N.Y., and Pittsburgh prompted renewed calls for stricter gun control, but those calls haven’t echoed in the halls of Congress or in statehouses across the country."
"'The silence has been deafening,' Dennis Goldford, a Drake University political scientist, said of federal lawmakers' response to new incidents of gun violence across the country." ...
"After a series of tragedies, the political position of opponents of firearms restrictions appears weaker than it's been in decades. On the national and state levels, the prospects for new restrictions on gun ownership are dim." ... |
Think Progress Contradicts Itself On Obama's Gun Control Position
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"In the wake of last Saturday's tragic cop killings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, left-wing new and old media representatives claimed the assailant was incited by supposedly false assertions from conservative talkers that President Obama was going to tighten gun laws."
"One such outlet, the George Soros-funded Clinton front group Think Progress, offered the following hysterical headline hours after the shootings:""'Right-wing's false claims that Obama will take away guns 'has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms.'"
"Yet, five days later, TP expressed concern the President is going back on campaign promises to -- wait for it! -- reinstate the assault weapons ban:" ... |
Dangerous Talk
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"On Saturday I wrote a column called 'Pitchforks and Pistols.' In it I discussed the fact that some of the right’s talking heads are talking about an armed revolt. At the same time, their claim that President Obama wants to take away people's guns is helping to fuel the panic buying of firearms. This is a combustible combination."
"For proof of that, I looked no further than my email inbox over the last few days. So, I have decided to publish excerpts from some of those e-mails. Crazy stuff methinks." ...
"In my column I wrote of this far right group: 'They're apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged.' Confirmed."
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Submitter's Note: So Holder's call for a new AWB was a hoax? Pelosi's promise to 'pick the time and the place, no question about it' to renew the AWB is just hot air? And the White House website was hacked and they don't really mean it when it says "[Obama and Biden] also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent"? And we're apocalyptic?!? |
Carrying a Gun Wouldn't Necessarily Get You Out of a Shooting
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"America is facing an epidemic of gun violence."
"Thirteen people were killed last week in Binghamton, N.Y., when a gunman, identified by authorities as 41-year-old Jiverly Wong, executed a mass shooting at the American Civic Association. The aftermath of that bloodshed has raised many questions, including whether armed, everyday citizens could take down such a gunman and save lives. Could you protect yourself if you only had a gun?"
"There are 250 million guns in the United States ... And with more than 50 deaths resulting from mass shootings in the past month alone, the argument for ordinary citizens arming themselves in schools, workplaces and anywhere else continues to grow." ... |
Exposed: The lie behind Obama's gun ban campaign
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"During the Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama told gun owners we had nothing to fear from him. Most of us did not believe him. Now that he is President, his actions have shown we were right to doubt him."
"Since February, the true intent of the Obama administration has become very clear. ... [Attorney General] Eric Holder, has waged a new war against the Second Amendment."
"Holder has been demanding Congress bring back the Clinton semiautomatic firearms ban, purportedly to stop the drug-related violence in Mexico. The premise behind this demand is a piece of fiction, as a recent story published by FOXNews.com proves." ... |
NYC mayor to release anti-gun ad in Virginia
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New York's mayor and relatives of Virginia Tech massacre victims are releasing a new television ad next week urging the state to close a gun show loophole.
The second anniversary of the shooting is next Thursday.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will join victims' relatives in Arlington on Monday to release the ad.
It calls for Virginia to end a practice allowing what are called 'occasional sellers' at gun shows to sell weapons without conducting background checks.
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KABA Note: Fine. If you aren't going to follow the Constitution and get rid of NICS and FFLs completely, then drop the price of a FFL back to $5, give 'em out to anyone who can pass a NICS check and get rid of the insanely draconian punishments for paperwork errors. That way every seller can perform a check. |
Comrade Pelosi
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"Despite logic and evidence overwhelmingly to the contrary, Überkommissar Nancy Pelosi this week called for universal firearm registration and prohibitions on interstate transport of guns by citizens." ...
"On the assumption that Pelosi will get her way as a 'compromise' in the wake of the current media-driven 'guns are scary' campaign, let's think a little about how an interstate-transport provision would be enforced."
"Can you say roadblocks, labeled as 'gun safety checkpoints'?"
"A bit of reconnaissance, ranging, and topo sketching at major interstate border crossings would seem to be in order, amigos." ... |
CA: California Considers Gun Show Ban and "Animal Rights" Bill
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"Two anti-freedom bills have been scheduled for a hearing in Sacramento."
"Senate Bill 585, introduced by State Senator Mark Leno (D-3), would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace In short, SB585 is a stepping-stone to banning gun shows on an publicly-owned property in California. This bill will be heard in the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, April 14." ... |
TX: Texas concealed-carry law moving forward
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"A proposed law in Texas that would allow residents to carry concealed handguns onto state university campuses is gaining momentum, an activist says."
"Marsha McCartney, North Texas Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president, said the proposed law from state Rep. Joe Driver has the unofficial support of 76 Texas House of Representatives members, the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News said Friday."
"McCartney noted that the House Public Safety Committee has passed the measure, which would make it illegal for public universities to prevent individuals with concealed-handgun licenses from carrying handguns on campus." ... |
NV: Nevada Castle Doctrine In Trouble
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"State after state has adopted some version of the 'Castle Doctrine.'"
"Recently, State of Nevada Assemblyman Mortenson introduced AB288, Nevada's version of the Castle Doctrine. Now, we find that Judiciary Committee Chairman Bernie Anderson is holding up this bill."
"Nevada is one of a handful of states that have traditionally been fairly friendly when it comes to gun owners. One wonders why Bernie Anderson would desire to deprive honest, law-abiding people of this important piece of legislation."
"I urge you to contact your state legislators, members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and Barbara Buckley in support of AB288 and ... urge them to pass this bill."
"Be polite but be firm." ... |
Are you a terrorist?
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"You may be surprised to find that you're on a government watch list as a potential terrorist. The federal government in partnership with state and local government agencies has created 58 'fusion sites' across the United States to monitor groups that may be planning terrorist activity." ...
"Supporters of gun owner's right are additional people to monitor. So all you Second Amendment supporters out there – look out. You may be on a government watch list. Anyone who simply likes to collect guns and ammo is likely on a list. ... This is part of the conditioning process the government in collusion with the mainstream mouthpiece media uses to persuade uneducated citizens to permit the abolishment of the Second Amendment." ... |
My Censored Reply to the Sheriff
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"... I daily read the website The Chattanoogan ... A while back, I saw the following opinion piece by Sheriff Tim Gobble of Bradley County ..." ...
"My Reply" ...
"The tragedy here is that Americans have given young police officers, many of whom are just out of their teens, huge amounts of authority, and many of them simply have become bullies with guns and badges with a license to kill. ..."
"So, when the police stop acting like an occupying army and start serving a community once again (instead of shaking people down, as is the case now), perhaps some of us might be willing to listen to your lectures about incarceration in this country. For now, all I can say is, 'Physician, heal thyself.'" |
Messin' Where We Shouldn't Oughta
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... "In today's complicated world, with the Asian giants rising and seeking raw materials, maybe we should pay more attention. Maybe sending the Marines isn't the answer to every problem. Since World War II, the Pentagon has displayed a nearly solid record of failure in fighting either drugs or peasants with AKs. We do not need to blunder into new and better Afghanistans. We seem to want to, though, and it will bring more leftists to power. In the last election here, a truly nutball leftist ... came within a few chads of being president of Mexico. Hugo Chavez thrives on American hostility. We treat Cuba as an enemy and, sure enough, it acts like one. None of this is in the American national interest, boys and girls. It's just brainless." |
IL: Off-duty cop charged in deadly crash
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"The off-duty Chicago police detective involved in a fiery crash that killed two men this morning was drunk at the time, with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent, sources said."
"Chicago Police Detective Joseph Frugoli, 41, was charged with two counts each of reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death, according to Sally Daly, spokeswoman for Cook County State's Atty. Anita Alvarez." ...
"The Chicago Police Department said it has launched an internal affairs investigation and will relieve the detective of his police powers. Frugoli, an 18-year veteran, worked in the Wentworth Area on the South Side." ... |
WA: Cuts To Mason Co. Sheriff's Office: Criminals 'Expect A Lead Enema'
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"Mason County Commissioner Tim Sheldon said a budget crisis means the sheriff will have cut $382,000 from its budget which the sheriff said could mean up to five deputies yanked off the road."
"The commissioner said he's confident Mason County residents can defend themselves from criminals if necessary."
"'It's always open season on criminals in Mason County, and there is no bag limit,' Sheldon said."
"Sheriff's officials said they believe commissioners need to reconsider the cuts to the sheriff's office and not condone vigilantes." ...
"Sheldon said he's just warning criminals that people in Mason County have guns and know how to use them."
"'You might expect a lead enema. ...' Sheldon said." ... |
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