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Invitation to Important Gun Rights Event
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"As a Second Amendment Foundation supporter, I would like to tell you about a great opportunity."
"The Second Amendment Foundation and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) will be having their second National Self-Defense Conference on Monday, August 8th from Noon to 5 PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. funded by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)."
"This conference is a great opportunity for those who care about their 2nd Amendment Rights to come together and learn from each other." ... |
Today, on The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance Radio
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... "Spread the word on this, OK? Nobody else is doing a daily exclusive gun rights broadcast in a major market during morning drive time, and if this works, it could not only create an opportunity to spread to other markets, but also open doors for efforts by others. We complain our voice is not heard in the media--here we've got a foot in the door at an NBC affiliate station to promote a full-blown no compromise message. Just a few short months ago I certainly would never have predicted I'd see that happen--or that I'd be a part of it." |
NRA's Wayne LaPierre Takes on 'Anti-Gun Elitists' at UN
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"I just delivered a message to those anti-gun elitists at the United Nations, who are meeting to discuss ways to craft an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that could go after your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I want you to see for yourself the message that was delivered on behalf of America's gun owners." ... |
Gay Conservative Group Leader: "Second Amendment Rights Are Gay Rights"
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"GOProud co-founder Jimmy LaSalvia told MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, 'Second Amendment rights are gay rights,' because, as he has been falsely touting all week, hate crime laws don’t work."
"LaSalvia stupidly says of hate crimes, 'there’s clearly not been an end to them since we passed the federal hate crimes laws.'"
"And there's clearly not been an end to murder since we passed murder laws." -------
Submitter's Note: But the primary purpose of murder laws is to punish murderers (although they do have a prophylactic effect) whereas the "hate crime" laws were in fact touted as being primarily preventative (sort of like all those mala prohibita gun laws). |
‘The cop heard round the world’ – Ohio incident puts law in crosshairs
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"Not only is a Canton, Ohio police officer under increasing fire this morning for his profanity-laden outburst at an armed citizen that now has gun rights activists from Toledo to Tacoma furious, the Buckeye State law that requires citizens to notify cops if they are armed is also being partly blamed for what happened during a video encounter that has streaked around the world over the past 24 hours."
"... This 17-minute video has set public relations back about 50 years between Canton police and the firearms community." ...
"The question among angry gun rights activists today: How many more like Harless are still out there, not yet captured on video?" |
Canton Ohio Police Shocking Overreaction to Ohio Concealed Carry Holder
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"We've all wondered what our first armed traffic stop is going to turn into. For me I was driving a 1996 Ford explorer with 4" tall white letters that read: OHIOCCW.ORG across the back of my hatch."
"The officer stepped out of his vehicle and approached my car in a rather large arc so that when he could see into my doorway he was easily twenty feet away from my car."
"We were each other’s first armed traffic stop and as I realized what was taking place I chuckled and said 'So, Obviously you know, Right?'"
"That didn’t happen to a man in Canton, Ohio who had his license for just 30 days on June 8th of this summer. What happened is a problem we’ve heard all too often." ... |
Tim Pawlenty picks up gun appeal in Iowa
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"Tim Pawlenty’s stepping up his appeal to gun owners in Iowa."
"On Saturday, the former Minnesota governor will bring his RV tour to Searsboro to the Iowa Firearms Coalition Second Amendment Rally, making him the only 2012 contender to accept an invitation to an event that’s expected to draw about 1,300 people." ... -------
Submitter's Note: And all the credential burnishing in the world will not change the fact that in 2008 Gov. Pawlenty promised the leadership of MN's Gun Owners' Civil Rights Alliance that he would order the state Department of Public Safety to quit making stuff up and to actually obey the state's Permit to Carry law regarding the recognition of other states' permits. He never kept that promise. |
MD: An Open Letter to a Deluded Mayoral Candidate
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... "The problem of violent crime in Baltimore will obviously need to be addressed by any serious candidate for mayor."
"However, in response to this somber reality, you have now come out with one of the most idiotic 'gun control' schemes just about anyone, anywhere, has ever floated: a bullet tax of $1.00 per bullet, a measure you claim will decrease crime in that it will 'substantially increase the cost of its' [sic] commission.' You claim that a bullet tax will work but that 'Increasing the cost of guns won't work because many criminals don't purchase new guns and they can be borrowed or even rented in some areas.'" ... |
U.S. Senate Stands with NRA in Strongly Opposing U.N Gun Control Efforts
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"For nearly 20 years, the NRA has worked tirelessly to oppose any United Nations effort to undermine the constitutional rights of law-abiding American gun owners."
"The latest attempt by the U.N. and global gun banners to eliminate our Second Amendment freedoms is to include civilian arms in the current Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which will be finalized next year."
"In order for any treaty to take effect, however, it must be ratified by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate. To ensure that any ATT that includes civilian arms is dead on arrival in the Senate, the NRA has been working to get as many U.S. Senators as possible to publicly oppose any ATT that includes restrictions on civilian arms." ... |
NY: Police dog bites man, Mount Vernon pays $90,000
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"The city will pay $90,000 in a legal settlement with a man who was bitten by a police dog."
"Carlos O. Garcia, 31, of North High Street filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city involving a May 31, 2008, incident in which police were searching for two people who had stolen a motorcycle and fled from police. During the search for suspects, Garcia was parking his work van at 38 Edison Ave. when he encountered two Mount Vernon police officers."
"According to Garcia's court papers, the dog bit him twice for at least three minutes after he was on the ground with his hands in the air."
"'They let the dog loose on me by mistake,' Garcia said Tuesday, declining to discuss the matter in detail." ... |
IL: City of Elmhurst to pay Homer Glen woman $25,000 for injury at police station
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"Elmhurst's city council approved a $25,000 settlement agreement with Linda Wotjas Monday night."
"The settlement came as a result of an incident between Wotjas and Elmhurst police officer Arthur Ciszewski on April 29, 2010. Wotjas was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to the Elmhurst Police station ... While Ciszewski was processing Wotjas, an incident occurred between the two that 'resulted in personal injury to Wotjas.'"
"The settlement agreement does not list the nature or extent of the injury or what occurred during the incident." ... |
AZ: 5 Quartzsite police officers suspended
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"Five members of the 14-member Quartzsite police department are on suspension after leveling accusations against the police chief."
"Assistant town manager Al Johnson tells The Arizona Republic several officers had continued to make allegations against Quartzsite Chief of Police Jeff Gilbert even though the officers knew the allegations were false." ... |
PA: Civil Trial Begins For Ex-Cop Convicted Of Having Sex With Girl, 14 (video available)
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"A former Plainfield Township police officer who's already done jail time for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl was back in court Thursday for the start of the civil case."
"Christopher Young was on the witness stand for close to four hours answering questions about his sexual encounters with a 14-year-old girl between 2004 and 2005."
"Young says he didn't do it while he was on the job as a Plainfield Township, Northampton County police officer." ... |
UT: Man refuses to give name, police seek help in identification
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"A man who doesn't want anyone to know who he is has been sitting in the Utah County jail for three weeks. Police say he was arrested on minor charges, but they can't just let him out."
"John Doe, as they have been forced to call him, was arrested for trespassing after he was spotted hanging around the parking garage of the Provo City offices, looking into cars. Police told him to leave three times, but he refused and was arrested July 1."
From that day since, he hasn't told anyone who he is, where he came from, or what he was doing in Provo." -------
KABA Note: Nice to know that exercising your right to remain silent can get you locked up indefinitely/ |
CA: It's only strike one against LAPD, but that was one impressive whiff
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"Nothing goes simply when it involves the Dodgers these days. Not on the field, not with ownership, not in the courtroom and not with the Los Angeles Police Department."
"In the end, all that matters is that the LAPD arrests the two men who savagely beat Giants fan Bryan Stow on opening day at Dodger Stadium and that it leads to a just conviction."
"What doesn’t matter are grandstanding, self-congratulatory news conferences, particularly when you’ve arrested the wrong guy."
"LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has been quiet since the Thursday arrest of two new suspects in the Stow beating and announcement they had determined that the suspect arrested in May was not involved in the attack." ... |
DC: D.C. Police Move Gun Shop Into Their Headquarters, Breaking Law
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... "... D.C. laws prohibit dealers from opening a firearms enterprise within 300 feet of a residence, school, playground, public library, or house of worship — restrictions that have no effect on the use of guns near or around any of these places. But since anyone purchasing a firearm must go to the police station to register it, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier reasoned that, in the interest of efficiency, the MPD could ignore the fact that its headquarters building sits within 300 feet of a church!" ... |
Shooters – Slots Still Open for the IDPA World Championship
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"IDPA World ChampionshipDid you think you missed the chance to be part of the first ever IDPA World Championship? Well then I have good news for you."
"We have a limited number of slots still available."
"These remaining slots will be filled on a first come, first served basis. This is your chance to be a part of a truly extraordinary match that will not come around again for another four years. This is a perfect opportunity to combine a great shooting match with a family vacation." ... |
FL: Gun owners to march through Venice
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"Anyone strolling through Centennial Park in Venice on Saturday morning may suddenly be surrounded by scores of people with handguns openly strapped to their waists."
"At 9 a.m., perhaps as many as 100 gun-toting folks will begin marching for about a mile along West Venice Avenue to the beach, ostensibly to fish. But the larger goal in this first-ever demonstration in Florida is to showcase a loophole in Florida's 'open carry' prohibition, which has banned the unauthorized display of firearms in public since 1987." ... |
WI: Wisconsin Carry Files Second Lawsuit In ‘Madison 5′ Culvers Incident
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... "As these WCI members left the restaurant, they were accosted by eight(8) City of Madison police officers, who demanded that they produce identification, and threatened that if they did not do so, they would be arrested. From the time that these WCI members arrived at the restaurant up to and including the time that the police officers confronted them and demanded that they produce identification or face arrest, none of the WCI members violated any law ..." ...
"This second lawsuit is being filed as the disorderly conduct charges against the Madison 5 were dropped this past spring. In this lawsuit WCI seeks damages on behalf of the Madison 5 for the unlawful detainment/arrest of our members including legal costs ..." ... |
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For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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