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Commentaries on City with strictest gun laws has most officers killed by gunfire, Florida school board shooting shows failure of “gun control”, anti-gun Senator shoots intruder, Bill of Rights Day, Thank veterans by protecting their right to self-defense, Gun Owners Year in Review — 2010 and Gun-toting woman accosted in own home, arrested. Self defense stories from Arkansas, California (5) , Florida, Maine, Mississippi, Virginia, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia ….in other news, Firearms seized in Mexican drug wars traced to US, Draft law to ease regulations on gun ownership in Turkey draws ire, The NRA opposes weapons free zones in Iowa Til next week Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/2am | |
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“Bullets flew across Thompson Street on Tuesday after employees of a pawn shop thwarted an armed robbery. Shots fired at the robber zipped from C&S Gun Shop across Thompson and hit the plate glass window of P&N Oriental Market. Witnesses said shots also hit a silver or tan vehicle used as a getaway car.” (12/15/10) Link: http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2010/dec/15/workers-thwart-robbery/ | |
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“Two men walked into AC Liquor Store and Mini Market in the 1100 block of South State College Boulevard about 11 p.m. on Dec. 4, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department. One of them, wearing a light-gray hooded sweatshirt, pulled out a what appeared to be a handgun and demanded cash, while the second man walked to the back of the store to grab two cases of beer. The store clerk pulled out his own gun when the armed robber became distracted with retrieving the money on the counter, Martinez said.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3yo6gsd | |
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“Police said four men used hammers to smash the jewelry cases of one dealer about 3:30 p.m. The robber snatched up jewelry and began to run through the crowd when a vendor emerged and went after him. ‘He pulled a gun and he just shot him,’ she said. ‘I didn’t know he was going to pull the trigger. I ran. I took cover and ran.’ The robber, hit in the back, staggered a few feet and collapsed. The shooter walked up and stood over him. ‘He said, ‘That’s what you get. I hope you don’t die,” Police officers swarmed the scene, arresting the wounded man and an apparent accomplice trying to get away. Hart said the District Attorney’s Office will review the vendor’s action to determine if the shooting was lawful.” (12/14/10) Link: http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_16860485 | |
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“At least five people were being treated for wounds sustained after two men entered the Fly Cuts and Styles shop just after 1 p.m. and started shooting at two men who were getting haircuts, and the two targeted men started shooting back. The battle carried over into the parking lot, where a 30-year-old woman who was putting her child into a vehicle was shot and killed, The Sacramento Bee reported. Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Tim Curran said the woman evidently was an innocent bystander.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dvf85h | |
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“A road rage incident led to a shooting in Seminole County late Tuesday, deputies said. Deputies were called to the side of Marsh Road near County Road 426 about 7:11 p.m. Tuesday. A sheriff’s official said two men had pulled over and later gotten into an altercation. At some point during the altercation, deputies said, one of the men drew a gun and fired, stiking the other. The man shot suffered what deputies described as a ‘very minor’ wound. It did not appear likely that there would be an arrest in the shooting late Tuesday. Deputies said it appeared the shooting was likely in self-defense.” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25utjgm | |
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“A local homeowner told Maine State Police Monday that he shot and killed a man who assaulted him after the resident was lured out of his home by a woman claiming to have been involved in a motor vehicle crash nearby.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dyqukv | |
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“Three young men accused of at least one home invasion are in the Raymond jail after they were shot by the owner of a Jackson home they attempted to rob. … They were identified when they checked into the hospital with gunshot wounds to the leg, Green said. One of them also suffered a wound to the back. … [A]fter the four suspects kicked in the front door and demanded the family lie on the floor, the homeowner was able to locate his gun and began firing shots. He hit three of them.” (12/12/10) Link: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201012120355 | |
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“No other state has produced more guns seized by police in the brutal Mexican drug wars than Texas. In the Lone Star State, no other city has more guns linked to Mexican crime scenes than Houston. And in that Texas oil town, no single independent dealer stands out more for selling guns traced from south of the border than Bill Carter. Carter, 76, has operated four Carter’s Country stores in the Houston metropolitan area over the past half-century. In the past two years, more than 115 guns from his stores have been seized by the police and military in Mexico.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ebeub9 | |
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“The clerk said he was just finishing up a shift at the gas station and was sitting in his car warming it up. He said two men approached him and used a taser to stun him. Because he was wearing a thick coat, the stun gun didn’t do much good. The clerk said he had to act quickly to protect himself. He pulled the gun he was wearing on his waist. He fired two shots and he believes one of the attackers was hit. Both men ran away.”(12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2b8qbt4 | |
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“Possible amendments to gun laws that are intended to ease restrictions on owning and carrying small arms have faced much criticism in Turkey. The bill, currently in subcommittee at Parliament, ensures easier access to guns, allowing people to own as many as five weapons and the right to carry two of them at one time. Some civil society organizations underline that such regulations will lead to more crime and will threaten lives, especially those of women and children, but supporters of the amendments argue that easing procedures to obtain a license for weapons will make it easier to track them.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25a8jsj | |
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“A video game store owner will not face any charges for shooting and killing a teenager who tried to rob him. The attempted robbery happened at Play-N-Trade on Brawley at Clinton in West Central Fresno Saturday night around 11:30. The body of the unidentified suspect was found about a mile away at Sussex Way and Milburn Ave. This video game store was closing up for the night when three armed suspects forced their way inside. After pushing some employees to the ground an owner took out his gun and fired one shot hitting a suspect. Salazar said the owner shot and critically wounded one teen.” (12/12/10) Link: http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=7838981 | |
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“At L.A. Tan, a man entered the business about 6:30 p.m. and announced a robbery and pointed a handgun at a female employee. The man then ordered a female customer using a tanning bed to tie the hands and feet of the female employee with a rope he had brought with him, officials said. A few minutes later, a male customer entered the business and was ordered at gunpoint by the suspect to tie his hands together, according to police. But the customer grabbed the gun. He shot the suspect twice, police said.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ed9tss | |
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“A man reported shooting and killing another man in self defense Friday night. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office received the 911 call at 9:54 p.m. Friday night from the alleged shooter stating the other man had broken into his residence on the 12000 block of Pinewoods Road to attack him with a hammer. He then shot the man in the chest at close range, said Sgt. Stephen Tripp. Neither man’s name has been released.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25q4pdg | |
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“The National Rifle Association is trying to block Iowa cities and counties from establishing ‘weapons free zones’ in parks, city halls, courthouses and other government buildings. The NRA says Iowa residents should be able to use deadly force to defend themselves at home or anywhere they need to.” (12/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29qs7kv | |
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“A man was killed outside a busy grocery store during an attempted robbery on Saturday night, investigators said. … Nathan Taylor said his friend, Ryan Moore, borrowed his car to get some orange juice at the Ingles on Salem Road. Moore had just gotten out of his car to head inside the store when he was approached by the two men, Rockdale County Sheriff Jeff Wigington said. Wigington said they tried to rob him, and one had a knife.” (12/12/10) Link: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/26106852/detail.html | |
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“A Bridgeton man was arrested Friday night when an 82-year-old homeowner fired a shot at the tire on two burglars’ pickup to keep them from fleeing, according to Delaware State Police. No one was hurt. It happened Friday at 10:35 a.m. at a home on Chapman Road in Newark, De. Police said the son of the homeowner saw two men taking a generator and other items from the yard of the home and putting them in the bed of a pickup truck. The son called police and his father. The father went to the pickup truck and fired at it. Police arrived and took two men into custody. Forty-one-year-old William Rafter of Clayton and 30-year-old Mark Sturgill of Bridgeton, N.J. have been charged with theft and conspiracy. The homeowner was not charged.” (12/11/10) Link: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/south_jersey_man_is_arrested_i.html | |
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“The home invasion took place in a rural area near Hickman on Merriam Avenue around 7:30 a.m., said Lt. Charles Grom with the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department. Grom says the targets of the home invasion shot the would-be robbers. Two of the men were later found on Oakdale-Waterford Highway in Waterford. One was fatally shot and the other was taken to a hospital with several gunshot wounds.” (12/10/10) Link: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=111281&catid=2 | |
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“Allegheny County district attorney’s office will determine whether a 20-year-old woman was justified when she fatally shot a teenager in Munhall early Friday with a gun she says she wrestled away from the male during an armed robbery …. According to Mr. Schurman, the woman told detectives she had gone to a convenience store within a few blocks of her home and made a purchase. As she was walking in an alley in the rear of the 800 block of Ravine Street, Mr. Heath approached her, brandished a gun and demanded money. The woman then fought with the man, disarmed him and shot him.” (12/11/10) Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10345/1110017-55.stm | |
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Commentaries on A call to arms, Pushing a right to bear arms: The sharp kind and Armed and female. Self defense stories from Kansas, Florida (2) , Missouri, Ohio, Washington state, Georgia, Connecticut ….in other news Fed report says Virginia Tech violated law in 2007 mass shooting, Tokyo gun stores go on strike, Arkansas Legislator files open carry bill, “Free Brian Aitken” Rally, and Philippines: De Lima wants guns for judges Til next week Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/2am | |
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“Virginia Tech could be fined as much as $55,000 because it broke the law by waiting too long to notify students during a 2007 shooting rampage, according to a federal report issued Thursday. The U.S Department of Education had found in January that the school violated federal law with its response during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but gave Tech a chance to respond to the finding in its preliminary report.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27nfkzm | |
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“An apartment resident who shot and killed an intruder will not face charges. Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor said Wednesday he reviewed the case and determined 46-year old Normon Hammond acted ‘well-within his lawful rights to protect himself and others from immediate harm.’ Topeka Police say Hammond fired shots at 49-year old Edward Bowens early Saturday morning, as Bowens was breaking into Hammond’s apartment. The two lived at the same apartment complex at SW 12th and Polk. With Bowens’ death, Taylor says his office considers the case closed.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24r6qy9 | |
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“Police have identified two men who burst into a St. Petersburg game parlor wielding guns Tuesday night and wound up in a shoot-out. One was killed, the other wounded. … Two masked men had barely walked into the business when at least one customer fired a gun, and a robber fired a few rounds before he was shot and killed.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2d85mbe | |
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“Surveillance video captures an armed confrontation between a Pacific man and two burglary suspects in his garage. The resident and one of the suspects end up pointing guns at each other.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28yv4m7 | |
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Japan: Tokyo gun stores go on strike to protest stricter possession laws
Source: Mainichi Daily News [Japan] “An organization of gun stores in Tokyo went on a two-day strike on Dec. 4 at all of its 18 member stores to protest stricter controls on owning hunting guns that it says have devastated sales. On the morning of Dec. 4, the 18 stores posted notices at their storefronts reading ‘On Strike!’ The organization says that sales are over 50 percent down at all stores. … Under the revised law, people must present the results of a diagnosis by a psychiatrist or other qualified doctor and are also required to take a training course at a shooting range whenever they renew their license, which must be done every three years.” (12/04/10) Link: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101204p2a00m0na003000c.html | |
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“Arkansas has now made it official — House Bill 1051 was pre-filed Tuesday by Representative Denny Altes of Fort Smith. HB1051, appropriately titled the Defensive Carry Restoration Act (DCRA), will restore the rights of citizens to freely carry handguns for self-defense. ‘This legislation (which will not affect the current Concealed Handgun Carry License Law in any way) is designed to allow open carry by the people of Arkansas without requiring an expensive permit. The carrying of a concealed firearm without a permit, however, will still be deemed illegal.’” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23psfao | |
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“Frank Fiamingo of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society just called to let me know that this Sunday’s planned rally to support Brian Aitken has been called off. Just why remains an open question. As you can see from the above video, Aitken wasn’t shy in objecting to the highly questionable decision by an overzealous prosecutor to go after him for having guns for which he had a permit in his car truck.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2f4fje6 | |
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“Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation will travel to New Jersey Dec. 12 to join speakers at a rally in Toms River in support of Brian Aitken. The New Jersey man has been imprisoned for essentially having two legally-owned handguns in his car, parked at his parents’ home, along with other belongings he was moving to a new residence in another city.” (12/06/10) Link: http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=347 | |
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“Odomie A. Wellington, 31, whose address was listed as the Westchester Executive Apartments, 4884 Westchester Drive, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds around 7 p.m. Saturday. He was in the driver’s seat of a white Cadillac parked outside the apartment complex. His passenger, 21-year-old Alekum N. McLendon, of Youngstown, was shot in the lower back and taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Police said Wellington and another man went into a Parkman Road Northwest home and began shooting in what officials said was a robbery of the baby’s father, who also was wounded in the home invasion.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3yjoxfd | |
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City with strictest gun laws has most officers killed by gunfire
Source: Greeley Gazette Author: Mike Bauman “The City of Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Up until a few months ago, it was illegal for a private citizen to own or possess a handgun anywhere within the city, including in one’s own home. For 2010, Chicago also holds another distinction. More Chicago Police Officers were killed by gunfire this year than any other police agency in the nation. The city also boasts one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, with 1 in 89 residents being victims of violent crime last year.” (12/15/10) Link: http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=7101 | |
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Florida school board shooting shows failure of “gun control”
Source: Gun Rights Examiner Author: David Codrea “Superintendent Bill Husfelt, who acted bravely, albeit futilely, had time to say ‘Please don’t’ before assailant Duke opened fire. The rest had to resign themselves to diving for cover in terror. Why? Isn’t Florida one of those states with ’shall issue’ concealed carry and a ’stand your ground’ law …. Yes it is. But that’s trumped — at least in the eyes of the Bay District Schools board — by policy …” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3az9vvl | |
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Did you hear the one about the anti-gun Senator shooting an intruder?
Source: Truth About Guns Author: Brad Kozak “Stop me if you’ve heard this one … a blowhard, anti-gun Senator rags on gun owners, day in and day out. So one night, he’s at home, living his Life O’Reily, when an intruder shows up to burgle/home invade/rob/commit mayhem. What’s a poor Progressive that abhors gun ownership to do? Silly wabbit! If they are a state senator, they do what any other gun owner would do — they pull out their gun and air condition the criminal with a little lead. … Seems die-hard, left-wing, anti-gun crusader and N.C. state senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City , N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24zqykk | |
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“It’s the holiday that got away. Wednesday is the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, a critical turning point in the history of this country and one that transformed this nation forever. Still, you won’t find any Bill of Rights greeting cards in local stores. It’s not that Americans are short on patriotism. In fact, we celebrate Veterans Day, Constitution Day, Flag Day, Memorial Day, Washington’s Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Independence Day.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25zdwj2 | |
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“So let’s go over the details here. A 21-year-old outsider with a fifty pound weight advantage admittedly forced his way into the woman’s home several times. He admits he attacked her. He admits he ‘restrained’ her physically. He admits that he was trying to date the woman’s underage daughter. And when the mother armed herself against this attacker in her own home … the cops arrest the mother?” (12/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ctu7du | |
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Thank veterans by protecting their right to self-defense
Source: St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Author: Kurt Hoffman “St. Louis, as home to the St. Louis VA Medical Center, plays an important role in caring for our wounded warriors, who have sacrificed so much in our nation’s service. Awareness has steadily grown of the fact that not all war wounds are physical in nature. American service members have been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq for most of a decade now, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) afflicts an enormous number of these brave men and women, with the VA treating over 140,000 new PTSD sufferers last year.” (12/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/283gaf5 | |
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“Your attention to and activism with Gun Owners of America has made a world of difference over the past several months. The past couple of years were supposed to be the worst on record, as far as gun rights are concerned. With the election of Barack Hussein Obama, Americans went rushing to gun stores and generated a buying spree that created shortages of firearms and ammunition around the country.” (12/10/10) Link: http://www.ammoland.com/2010/12/10/gun-owners-year-in-review-2010/ | |
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“So here’s a call to arms, quite literally. If you are a gun owner, and can use your weapon safely and responsibly, think seriously about whether you might owe a duty to yourself, your family and your neighbors to carry a sidearm in public. Even if not, hold yourself as though you might well be armed. Ladies can keep a hand inside their purses and look people in the eye as they approach in a parking lot. Gentlemen should keep a hand in a coat pocket and walk confidently and tall. And if that hand clutches a personal defense arm, so much the better. Bad guys won’t like it. That’s a good thing.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/287qeoq | |
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“Arizona used to be a knife carrier’s nightmare, with a patchwork of local laws that forced those inclined to strap Buck knives or other sharp objects to their belts to tread carefully as they moved from Phoenix (no knives except pocketknives) to Tempe (no knives at all) to Tucson (no knives on library grounds). But that changed earlier this year when Arizona made its Legislature the sole arbiter of knife regulations. And because of loose restrictions on weapons here, Arizona is now considered a knife carrier’s dream, a place where everything from a samurai sword to a switchblade can be carried without a quibble.” (12/05/10) Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05knives.html | |
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“I remember one of my first female students. She was in her sixties, an accomplished academician and author with strong roots in what was then called ‘women’s liberation.’ She had considered the gun to be a hideous side effect of testosterone poisoning. Then, she was assaulted by armed criminals and nearly died. ‘It occurred to me,’ she told me later, ‘that I had neglected one element of my empowerment.’” (12/05/10) Link: http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ayoob63.html | |
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“The holidays are upon us and our time is stretched beyond its usual capacities as we strive to meet the demands of the season. Our lives become rushed as we focus on getting places, beating crowds, shopping, etc., and understandably we may be focused on the tasks at hand, thereby reducing our normal levels of alertness. How aware are you of your surroundings at any given time on any given day? Are you prepared to avoid certain unpleasant situations that may befall you simply because you were unaware of what was going on around you?” (11/30/10) Link: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40255 | |
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“Went to the range today. If you’d like to read my in-depth review of the gun I’m carrying for the 30-day project, click on over. I’ll wait. Back? Good. Okay, so I was having a discussion with Fearless Leader the other day, and RF casually mentioned that he and his significant other keep a gat strapped to their person pretty much every waking moment. (There’s a story there, I’m sure, but he’s not sharing — yet — and I’m not prying.) Since I don’t live in downtown Beirut, I’m disinclined to keep a gun on my while I’m at home.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cu4vr9 | |
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Norming guns away
Source: The Libertarian Enterprise Author: Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne Eisen “We American gun-owners need to become more familiar with the process of ‘norming.’ The ‘norm’ of civilian disarmament already surrounds our country and has the potential to nullify our Second Amendment right. When global firearm-prohibitionists speak about ‘norming,’ they are actually discussing the process wherein society becomes increasingly hostile to the possession of arms in the hands of civilians.” (11/29/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle597-20101128-03.html | |
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“They deny us our First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech and Press, while claiming its protection for themselves. They squelch any expression of our religious belief or patriotism, while demanding the freedom to spread THEIR lies. They seek to deny our Second Amendment right to Keep and Bear Arms — our right to self-defense — while they will use violence to impose their will on the rest of us.” (11/28/10) Link: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30482 | |
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“Between the proliferation of AGW (anthropogenic global warming) BS being used to control businesses and manufacturing, the ever increasing reduction in both the size and comfort of cars, and the ever rising prices of gasoline, voluntary travel is being cut more and more every year. So, is the latest round of security bullshit another round in the anti-travel gun?” (11/22/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle596-20101121-06.html | |
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The police are under no legal obligation to protect you
Source: The Price of Liberty Author: Robert Greenslade “Opponents of the private ownership of firearms always claim there is no need for individuals to own a firearm for self-protection because the police are entrusted with that duty. Nothing could be further from the truth. Courts throughout these United States have consistently held that police have no legal duty to provide police protection to any individual citizen.” (11/22/10) Link: http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/2010/11/22/greenslade.html | |
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“This is not a retrospective on the life of Axl Rose, although he may be nearly as old as Moses. This entry is an exploration of the necessity for an armed citizenry. In a perfect world there would be no need for citizens to bear weapons. Today’s world is not perfect, however, and members of our society should be armed for a number of reasons.” (11/19/10) Link: http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7525 | |
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Do mental health study findings demand disarming one in five Americans?
Source: Gun Rights Examiner Author: David Codrea “But if this survey is true, can we as a society afford allowing twenty percent of the population to roam free among us potentially armed?” (11/19/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/33w35hu | |
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“Winning firearms freedom, one lawsuit at a time”
Source: Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Author: Dave Workman “Ten years is a very long time, during which a political landscape can change, and so can the judicial arena. Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that the politically-fashionable handgun bans in Washington, D.C. and Chicago could be struck down on Second Amendment grounds, he might have been laughed out of town. Today, a herd of municipal attorneys for cities and towns large and small are paying a lot closer attention to firearms regulations.” (11/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2alq8km | |
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“My wife is forcing me, against my will, to get a CCW. I don’t acknowledge the right of the state to grant this right, as the 2nd Amendment states ‘The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not be Infringed,’ and being forced to buy a license IS infringing. But she’s tired of my bitching about the license, and thinks I need to carry as the society deteriorates, so we’re gonna get the licenses together.” (11/14/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle595-20101114-04.html | |
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Why did ATF issue — and then rescind — a ruling declaring air guns “firearms?”
Source: Gun Rights Examiner Author: David Codrea “The fact remains — ATF has the testing conclusions to execute this aborted ruling if and when they wish to — in fact, if their analysis about what constitutes a United States Code-defined ‘firearm’ is ‘correct’ — and if they don’t know, who does? — this could be a Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of airgun dealers and owners that could be dropped at any time.” (11/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cebsnj | |
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“The story of a female grad student who aspires to do refugee work with children in war torn countries, who is a daughter, a girlfriend, a friend, and is also a member of the local militia, might sound strange to most. Once you understand the truth about militias, my life doesn’t seem strange at all. Militia members are normal everyday people. We are just like you, and some of us may be your neighbors, your friends, and your family.” (11/09/10) Link: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39780 | |
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“Guns on campus is in the news again. In my ongoing series on Guns On Campus, I answer issues that somehow seem to be guesswork on the part of non-gun owner students and trustees. I say this because anti-liberty reasoning sounds like good faith dealings at first, but when assumptions are corrected and excuses run out, trustees play the one card which vexes adults: No guns on campus. This disturbing final maneuver gives credence to the claims of abuses of power as it continues to avoid the practical solution to violence, and that is recognizing the adult student’s authority over the violent situation.” (11/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2uuhc8a | |
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“What I expect is for someone who took an oath to the Constitution to understand that free citizens have a right to be where they want to be, that their right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. That’s what I expect.” (11/05/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/32nfceg | |
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“Candidates backed by Gun Owners of America scored tremendous wins in Tuesday’s elections. In many cases, GOA was the ONLY national pro-gun organization to actively oppose Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats. Our aggressive opposition to these Representatives — who are mistakenly considered to be somewhat conservative — was well worth the effort as Pelosi has now been reduced to minority status.” (11/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28p7zfa | |
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“Are we safe? Can we relax? Does anyone think the anti-gunners are going to fold up their tent and go away? Does anyone think politicians will now place commitment to principle over self-interest?” (11/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/289r79n | |
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The truth about the Brady Campaign to Prevent “Gun Violence”
Source: Truth About Guns Author: Robert Farago “Ostensibly, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is about, wait for it, preventing gun violence. To that end, they constantly harp on about the need for ‘reasonable’ gun regulations: rules that keep society safe from criminals who use guns, by doing everything possible to block criminal access to firearms. This is the organization’s public position. And just like most of the regulations the Brady Campaign champions, it seems like a reasonable stance. Who wants criminals to have guns? But just like the regulations that the Brady Campaign champions, things are not exactly what they seem.” (10/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23f3kus | |
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Framed: The campaign to portray gun dealers as criminals
Source: St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Author: Kurt Hoffman “The Washington Post has, over the course of this week, run what they’re calling an ‘investigation’ — a multi-part hit piece on gun dealers, blaming them for ‘gun crime.’ The series starts with Sunday’s five-page article about Realco guns, in Forestville, Maryland, which has, according to the article, sold more than 2,500 ‘crime guns’ over the last eighteen years. What the article does not do, however, is present any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the owners/operators of Realco — just the opposite …” (10/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27ycok3 | |
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“There was a double murder on Friday at Park-Ohio in Cleveland. The business has ‘no guns’ signs posted, but as we have seen demonstrated many times, killers do not obey the signs. The victims always obey them, and are dead. Maybe that was part of the killer’s plans. The accused killer was a former employee. He knew company policy and protocol. He likely knew of the ‘no guns’ signs and that neither his victims, nor any of their co-workers would be able to stop him. Police say Graciela Morales was shot and killed in her car in the parking lot. Then the killer used her ID to enter the building where he killed Eduardo Pupo.” (10/25/10) Link: http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7496 | |
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Will a mugging wake a politician up to reality?
Source: Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner Author: Kent McManigal “[State Senator Mary Jane Garcia] has said that as a result of the mugging she is more aware of the [e]ffects of criminal violence, and that she intends to be much more active in promoting ’support for victims.’ She says she wants ‘women to be more aware of what they can do to protect themselves.’ Good. I expect to see her become very active in fighting the repeal of ‘laws’ that make it harder for people to own and to carry weapons with them everywhere they go. If she does anything else, she is a liar and a hypocrite. And a typical statist.” (10/25/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2a4huoe | |
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“Jennifer Willis exhibited all the symptoms of hoplophobia in explaining her return to sanity in her article in Salon magazine, ‘I Was Anti-gun, Until I Got Stalked.’ ‘I’m afraid of guns … I abhor them. I used to date a guy who owned a handgun … I made him move [his] small gun safe … to another room …. ‘The idea of owning a gun made me sick to my stomach … I dreamed that people were pointing double-barreled shotguns at me.’ These are all classic symptoms of hopolophobia, defined by author and firearms instructor Colonel Jeff Cooper as ‘an unreasoning, obsessive neurotic fear of weapons as such, usually accompanied by an irrational feeling that weapons possess a will or consciousness for evil, apart from the will of their user.’” (10/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xs2hbs | |
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“I grew up in a non-gun state where they all had to be registered, both handguns and long guns. We had a rifle and shotgun in the house, to be handed down to me by each of my grandfathers, but they sat in their cases … It was also a nice neighborhood where everybody checked on each other when the power went out or the water pipe broke, a couple neighbors had a housekey to take in the newspapers and mail if we were away. … So what could have possibly taken me from such a life of rainbows, unicorns and warm fuzzy pooties?” [editor’s note: This is a little old, but, important … from a ‘group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don’t think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun’-MLS] (10/05/10) Link: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/5/6267/39794 | |
Events and Movement News
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2010 National 5th Annual New Hampshire State Live Free Or Die Rally
Source: Live free or Die Rally Event Date(s): August 25-August 29 “The LFOD Rally is the only all free true first amendment event in the U.S. ” (08/20/10) Link: http://livefreeordierally.com/ | |
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“The National Rifle Association is suing the Wilmington Housing Authority to try to force the agency to allow public housing residents to carry guns. The NRA says WHA leases have provisions prohibiting tenants from owning guns, which the lobbying group says is a violation of the Constitution’s Second Amendment.The NRA has also sued public housing agencies in San Francisco, Portland, Maine, Washington, DC and Newark, New Jersey to overturn gun bans, and filed suit against the WHA and Executive Director Fred Purnell in Chancery Court in Wilmington Wednesday.” (05/27/10) Link: http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=19900276486 | |
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Alan Gottlieb, founder of The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arm, joins host Kenneth John. 9-10am Central on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin, IL or live on the web. [live radio or stream] (07/27/09) Link: http://freedomrings.net/ | |
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Mike Hammond, a consultant for Gun Owners of America, joins host Kenneth John. 9-10am Central on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin, IL or live on the web. [live radio or stream] (01/26/09) Link: http://www.freedomrings.net/ | |
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Is the Second Amendment an Individual Right?
Source: Independent Institute Event Date(s): June 9,2008 Last year, a federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns. Now the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the case after nearly seventy years of silence on the Second Amendment. Observers expect the Court to finally settle the legal question of whether the constitutional ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms’ is an individual right held by all, or a ‘collective right’ of the state governments to maintain militias. What did the Founders intend when they drafted the Second Amendment? Please join us as constitutional legal scholar and Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook and George Mason University Law School legal historian Joyce Lee Malcolm examine these issues. Wine & Cheese Reception 5:00 pmProgram 6:00-7:00 pmQ & A to follow The Independent Institute,1319 Eighteenth Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. (06/04/08) Link: http://www.independent.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=137 | |
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“A gunman has opened fire with a rifle in a shopping centre in the US state of Nebraska, killing eight people before fatally shooting himself, police say. A further five people were wounded — two critically — in the shooting at the Westroads Mall in Omaha. Police have identified the gunman as Robert Hawkins, 19, from Bellevue, close to Omaha. They said a suicide note had been recovered. Hawkins struck as the centre was crowded with Christmas shoppers. Witnesses spoke of shoppers screaming and scrambling to find safe shelter as the gunman struck.” [editor’s note: Naturally, no witnesses spoke of the armed citizen who put this animal down BEFORE he had time to shoot 13 people and himself. Why? Because there were almost certainly “no guns” signs posted at the entrances to the mall pursuant to the idiotic agenda of declaring such places to be free-fire zones for people who don’t obey such signs - TLK] (12/06/07) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7129906.stm | |
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“In honor of the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic ‘March on Washington’ for civil rights, The Firearms Coalition is joining with other gun rights groups to declare August 28 ‘National Exercise Your Rights Day.’ Reverend Jesse Jackson is calling on citizens to exercise their First Amendment rights by participating in anti-gun/anti-violence protest marches in 25 cities nationwide on that day. The Firearms Coalition echoes that call to supporters of the Second Amendment, encouraging them to exercise their rights by purchasing a firearm or ammunition on August 28.” (08/26/07) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2loz6f | |
