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FL: Sarasota FL City Commission Makes Repealing Your Right to Self-Defense a Priority
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Last Thursday, the Sarasota City Commission worked on their legislative priorities for 2014.
In finalizing this list of priorities they decided and voted to support repealing Florida’s “Stand your Ground” statute.
On Wednesday, September 18th 2013, the City Commission will be presenting their 2014 legislative priorities list to the Sarasota County Legislative Delegation. It is crucial that you e-mail the members of the Sarasota County Legislative Delegation and urge them to OPPOSE the city commission’s legislative priority of repealing Florida’s “Stand your Ground” statute. |
Navy Yard shootings delay ‘Stand Your Ground’ hearing
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A Senate hearing featuring testimony from Sybrina Fulton – the mother of Trayvon Martin – that had been scheduled for Tuesday was postponed following the fatal Navy Yard shootings.
Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office made the announcement Monday evening. The hearing from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights would have focused on so-called “Stand Your Ground” statutes – which prompted a national debate about self-defense laws following Martin’s death in early 2012. |
IL: Two Wisconsin Men Detained For Bringing Assault Rifles To Farmers Market
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There’s no accounting for commons sense with open carry gun laws. We have blind people in Iowa being issued permits to carry a firearm in public and now this story out of Appleton, Wisc., where two men with open carry permits are considering a lawsuit after being detained by police earlier this month for walking down College Avenue near that town’s popular farmers market with AR-15 assault rifles strapped to their backs. |
Lethal-Force Laws Seen Fueling Revamp of Concealed-Carry Permits
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The shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, which sparked debate over Stand Your Ground gun laws, is bringing fresh scrutiny to statutes regarding an individual’s right to carry a concealed weapon.
Weak concealed-gun-carry laws in 25 U.S. states add to the dangers from laws that let a person use lethal force in self defense if he or she feels threatened by another individual, according to a report today by the Center for American Progress in Washington, a research group aligned with Democrats. |
CA: Calif. firearms bills would enact strict rules
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Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said the assault weapon ban alone would put California in the forefront on restrictions.
“No question about it. The bill will make half of the rifles in existence ‘assault weapons,’ and make them illegal,” he said.
The definition in the assault weapons bill applies to most semi-automatic hunting rifles.
It also applies to military-style rifles that have been used in mass slayings. It exempts .22-caliber rim fire rifles.
Those who currently possess the types of guns covered by the bill would have to register the weapons and could not transfer them to others. |
IL: Judge reverses herself, charges dropped in gun case after ruling
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A Cook County judge reversed herself Monday and dismissed weapons charges against a Chicago man after a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling that called part of the state's gun law unconstitutional.
Cook County Circuit Judge Ellen Mandeltort last week denied Deafalla Haddad's request to drop the charges.
But the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that part of the state's gun law was unconstitutional and advised prosecutors to drop charges in certain cases. That ruling fell in step with a federal court decision earlier this year declaring that the state's gun laws violated the U.S. Constitution. |
Shooting reignites gun talk, but bills still cold
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A deadly shooting in the heart of the nation's capital has reignited talk about guns, but it's uncertain whether the tragedy will revive a legislative debate that has gone cold in the face of opposition from Second Amendment supporters.
The case for increased gun control has become increasingly difficult, evidenced by the National Rifle Association-backed recall of two Colorado legislators who supported stricter laws and President Barack Obama's powerlessness to pass his legislation. |
CO: Recalling Arrogance in Colorado
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In 2008, when Barack Obama was running for his first term as president, we learned that differing with him on any issue, anytime, anywhere, was evidence of racism.
It still is, but Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz upped the ante in a tirade last week when Colorado voters ousted two prominent Democrats in a recall election for their role in enacting a strict state gun control law. |
KY: Paul: Allow ex-felons to vote, own firearms
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Ex-convicts who avoid future convictions should be allowed to vote and carry firearms, U.S. Senator Rand Paul suggested on Monday at a forum in Louisville.
"I am in favor of letting people get their rights back, the right to vote, the right to.. Second Amendment rights, all your rights to come back," Paul said of non-violent drug offenders following a conversation at the Plymouth Community Renewal Center. |
Firearms and Feminism
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Female gun ownership has surged over the past five years, and it’s easy to understand why. Women who own guns consistently list the self-confidence and the sense of protection that having a firearm gives them, and the way it makes them feel in general: that rush of adrenaline, that inner strength, and perhaps even a little glamor. But nobody becomes a gun person overnight. There are many building blocks that go into making someone a gun enthusiast. For me, it was a combination of empowerment and education on the fronts of both feminism and firearms that eventually led to my passion for the Second Amendment. |
TX: Older Texans Lead The Way On Concealed Carry Permits
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Texans 50 or 60 and older are leading the way in applications for a concealed handgun permit, state data show.
More 57-year-old Texans applied for the concealed carry permit than any other single age. In past years, Texans ages 63, 62, 51 and 60 have headed up the requests, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram said after an exhaustive search of state records. |
NY: AR-15 is the rifle for the 'sport' of hunting humans
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So it takes nine months and two days from Newtown, from 20 dead children and six adults, for someone else to carry the same kind of AR-15 that Adam Lanza carried into Sandy Hook Elementary School into the Washington Navy Yard.
They call semiautomatics like this sport rifles. You bet. Mostly for the sport of killing innocent people, and killing them fast. |
Navy Yard shooting stirs gun control debate
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Monday Morning, a shooting occurred at a naval office in Washington, D.C., At least 13 people, including one gunman, have been reported dead and several injured.
One police officer was taken to surgery after a shootout with the gunman. Three other individuals were taken into surgery due to gunshot wounds.
Law officials have identified the alleged gunman through his finger prints as Aaron Alexis. The 34 year-old was actually enlisted as a full time reservist from May 2007 to January 2011. |
FL: Anti-gun group study: In states with 'stand your ground' laws, justifiable homicide rates soar
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A new study by a coalition of gun-control groups, including Mayors Against Illegal Guns, found that in states that have implemented "stand your ground" laws, the number of justifiable homicides has skyrocketed.
The rate is up 53 percent in 22 states, according to the study. In Florida, the average annual rate is up 200 percent. In states that do not have those laws, the rate has declined marginally.
The study, co-sponsored by the National Urban League and VoteVets.org, also concludes that the number of deaths of black people deemed to be justifiable in states with those laws has doubled. |
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