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CCRKBA 'Grassroots Organization of Year' Award Goes to Buckeye Firearms Assn
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"The Buckeye Firearms Association -- a grassroots organization of activist gun owners in Ohio -- has been recognized as the 'Grassroots Organization of the Year' for 2007 by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms."

"The award was presented by CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb during the 21st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, held at the Drawbridge Inn and Convention Center in Ft. Mitchell, KY across the Ohio River from Cincinnati."

"'We give this annual award in recognition of tireless hard work and dedication to the preservation of the individual right to keep and bear arms,' Gottlieb said, 'and the Buckeye Firearms Association has certainly lived up to that standard.'" ...

Banning firearms would not improve our safety
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"Large numbers of people in this country believe that eliminating guns would make things safer. Belief is an amazing thing."

"It lets liberal judges in New York allow lawsuits against gun manufacturers because some thug used their product to kill someone else. Under this belief system, it�s just a matter of time before Toyota gets sued because a drunk driver used one of their trucks to kill someone. The same people also believed there would be blood in the streets each time a state passed concealed carry laws. The reality is, each and every time, murder and crime decreased faster in those states than anywhere else (google John Lott, whose studies have been reluctantly verified by some gun control advocates)." ...

The Enemy Within
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"The now defunct National Association of Stocking Gun Dealers (NASGD) was truly instrumental in the ATF's crusade to shut down Federal Firearms License Dealers. Speaking before Congress to condemn 'kitchen table dealers' on behalf of the BATFE, NASGD President Bill Bridgewater clashed with the NRA and other gun organizations. This group appealed to many gun shops who felt threatened by these individuals who had an FFL. Fees were raised, distributors stopped selling to FFL's that did not have a storefront, City and County permits were then required, Licenses were just not even renewed."

"Now some dealers are shocked that the ATF has now turned their sights on them. ..."
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H/t to David Codrea.

Stand Up and Fight Back; Bloomberg will think you're sick
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"Mikey, Mikey, Mikey; I'm no therapist but it seems like you are an ATF wannabe by bankrupting businesses, setting up sting operations and wasting millions in tax money to prove your point."

"Reading about Jay Wallace with Adventure Outdoors, who is fighting back, is an inspiration that someone isn't just rolling over. You will remember the Virginia Citizens Defense League who had helped dealers fight back. Bloombergs response to those who fight back? 'These are sick people' Mikey, Mikey, Mikey; again I am no therapist but fighting for your rights is not sick, destroying someones life and business for your own political gain...now that is sick." ...
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H/t to David Codrea.

JPFO: The Battle's Begun Over "Goody Guns"
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"When we at JPFO introduced our Goody Guns program ( http://www.goodyguns.com ), we expected controversy ... and we got it. All over the 'net, people are talking about it, with comments all over the board."

"Says Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, 'Gun owners have a wonderful opportunity with Goody Guns to counter the Zero Tolerance nonsense. Whether at school, or any other place, Goody Gun cookies and other snacks should be ostentatiously enjoyed. Yummmmmm!!'"

"As we predicted, the gun-grabbers are screaming, referring to JPFO as an 'extremist' organization. ..." ...

Josh Sugarman "Goody Guns" for Kids! Yum!
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... "What's the price of freedom? Only $9.95! But wait, don't answer yet! The Goody Gun cookie cutter can also be used for grilled cheese sandwiches! Cold cut sandwiches! Even a patriotic centerpiece! And for those who want to strike a blow for freedom while remaining observant, JPFO offers a Kosher sugar cookie recipe."

"To parents and teachers who would argue that teaching schoolchildren to put handguns in their mouths--tasty or otherwise--isn't the best idea, the JPFO has a response that they can only hope will soon be chanted over jump ropes and jungle gyms in schoolyards across our country: 'Put the gun-haters on the run with your Goody Gun!'"

TX: Dallas couple kills robber in their cleaners
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... "A man smelling of alcohol came into his store ... then just left, Mr. Baggett said."

"A few minutes later, he returned, this time barging in holding a gun." ...

"... 'Turn around; we're going to the back,' he said. He grabbed Mr. Baggett by the wrist and held the gun to the back of his head. ..."

"As they were headed for the back of the store, Mr. Baggett's wife emerged from behind them."

"She was holding Mr. Baggett's 9 mm handgun." ...

"Mr. Baggett said he felt the robber's pistol come off the back of his head, so he spun around and grabbed it." ...

"Mr. Baggett's wife handed him the 9 mm, and he fired three times. A bullet hit the robber in the face." ...

CO: Boulder man under fire for killing cougar that attacked puppy
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"Only stars and the glimmer from a 140-pound mountain lion's fierce gaze provided light in the midnight darkness of Boulder County's foothills for Jeremy Kocar to cock and aim his rifle."

"Still, Kocar said his eyes adjusted 'quick enough' when the cougar looked up from the puppy in its clutches."

"'I took the shot, and that was the end of it,' said Kocar, 31, who now finds himself facing possible criminal charges for shooting the adult male lion."

"It's been three days since Kocar said he saved his family's Rottweiler-Labrador mix, Duke � and possibly his own life � by shooting the lion that attacked the 8-month-old puppy. ..." ...

NY: Sister's desperate bid to help Second Ave. slasher
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"The sobbing sister of the mentally ill man who mutilated a 67-year-old woman and slashed a cook in Murray Hill said Sunday that her family was trying to get him help just before the attack."

"'He's going to be devastated when he realizes what he did,' Teresa Gonzalez told the Daily News from her home in Co-op City in the Bronx. ..."

"Her brother, Lee Coleman, 38, went on a bloody rampage after stealing knives from a Second Ave. restaurant Saturday, cops said. Gonzalez said Coleman, a father of three kids who live with their mom in Atlanta, was schizophrenic and bipolar and that he had been 'really stressed' and 'struggling' in recent days." ...

NYC asks judge to toss out gun lawsuit
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"New York City's lawyers have asked a federal judge in Georgia to reconsider a ruling that a gun shop in that state can proceed with a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials."

"The city's motion says public officials' speech about public issues should be immune from lawsuits, said city lawyer Eric Proshansky."

"The lawsuit arose from comments Bloomberg made in May 2006 after he sued gun dealers in several states, including Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Ga. He accused them of allowing the illegal purchase of guns that end up in criminal hands." ...

National Collegiate Student Empty Holster Protest
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"On April 16, 2007, twenty-seven students and five faculty members at Virginia Tech lost their lives to a madman who possessed one distinct advantage over his victims�He was not concerned with following the rules. Undeterred by Virginia Tech's status as a 'gun free zone,' this mentally unstable individual carried two handguns onto the university campus and indiscriminately opened fire."

"During the week of October 22-27, 2007, college students throughout America will attend classes wearing empty holsters, in protest of state laws and campus policies that stack the odds in favor of armed killers by disarming law abiding citizens who are licensed to carry concealed handguns virtually everywhere else." ...

Teachers Begin School Year Armed with Lucky Charms
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"Another school year has started. Kids settle back into a structured routine, bus drivers renew early morning coffee friendships, young athletes take to sports fields and millions of parents once again rely on security arrangements that amount to rubbing a rabbit�s foot. It was an especially surreal experience for me, as I walked into the brand new school building on dedication day, past dozens of brand new 'no guns' stickers, and noted that both my kids� classrooms were right next to exit doors. Sadly, my first thought was to remember to tell my kids that if they hear gunfire, they are to run for the exit door rather than let the teacher lock them down as ready-made hostages." ...

Can guns stop crime?
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"One student believes he knows the best way for students to protect themselves against criminals: a handgun."

"Senior Brint Hahn, the campus leader of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus at the University of Akron, disagrees with legislation that prohibits individuals from carrying concealed weapons on college campuses."

"'I'm not saying everyone should have a gun,' he said, adding, 'just responsible gun owners.'"

"Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) is an organization that seeks to change laws so that students and faculty members can carry weapons on college campuses. It is not affiliated with the National Rifle Association or any political party." ...

OR: A Teacher Wants to Bring a Gun to School
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"An Oregon high school teacher is suing for her rights to bring a gun to school. She purchased the gun primary[sic] to protect herself from her ex-husband. The teacher also tells the reporter that she is exercising the Second Amendment[sic], which is the right to bear arms, as well as to protect her students. Does anyone see something wrong with this picture?"

"It is true that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution allows rights for people to carry weapons. ... If this teacher is allowed to bring guns to school, wouldn't it influent[sic] kids to bear weapons too? ... Yet, a high school teacher might be permitted to have a gun in school. It would be so ironic if this teacher wins the case." ...

Dave Kopel: Ron�s Revolution
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"This weekend, I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation's annual Gun Rights Policy Conference ... What I saw and heard there changed my mind about the viability of Ron Paul's presidential candidacy; Paul is going to far outperform the expectations laid out for him." ...

"Last Saturday night, at the buffet dinner and reception, the speaker was Ron Paul. ... he had volunteers to hand out literature, including ... devastating material on Romney and Thompson. (Included among the materials distributed [was] a copy of Sen. Russ Feingold�s letter to Senator Thompson after the passage of McCain-Feingold, with Feingold�s handwritten thanks, claiming that the bill never could have passed without Thompson�s help.)" ...

HR 2640 continued
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"There certainly is some virulent anti NRA sentiment out there and it appears most of those people are of the same ilk as the conspiracy theorist who believe that the United States planned the 911 attacks. Comments out of context and quotes from seventy years ago� Come on Guys get a life."

"Why would all the top lawyers involved in defending our 2nd Amendment rights agree that this is a good bill and does nothing to further restrict our rights? Why would the VPC be against it? The fact that McCarthy signed on to the bill means nothing ... The only people I see criticising this bill are those who have something to gain by attacking the NRA and those who do not know that the language of the bill has to be read in context with the current law." ...

IL: County board asked to affirm gun owner rights
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"The Coles County Board is being asked to lend its support to an organization backing gun owner rights at the state and federal level."

"At its meeting tonight, the board is scheduled to vote on a resolution to 'oppose the enactment of any legislation that would infringe upon the rights of the people to keep and bear arms.'"

"John Hamilton, a Charleston resident, asked the board to consider the matter and said he�s working with a group called Illinois Pro-Second Amendment Resolution. He said about 45 counties in Illinois have already adopted the resolution."

"'People aren't speaking out enough,' Hamilton said. 'We just want the Second Amendment reaffirmed. It's just common sense.'" ...

Selected Discourses and Speeches By Andrew Fletcher, "The possession of arms is the distinction of a freeman from a slave", 1698
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"...9. That all the fencible men of the nation, betwixt sixty and fifteen, be with all diligence possible armed with bayonets, and firelocks all of a calibre, and continue always provided in such arms with ammunition suitable..."

"...and without which all the rest is of no force: neither can any kingdom be really secured but by arming the people..."

"...The possession of arms is the distinction of a freeman from a slave. . . . but he who thinks he is his own master, and has anything he may call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses, or else he lives precariously and at discretion. . . . Our ancestors by being always armed, and frequently in action, defended themselves..."

Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, "the rush to arms, and to the protection of their country", May 15, 1826
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"...Let our condition, too, at that time be duly considered. Without arms, without money of effect, without a regular soldier in the State, or a regular officer, except Steuben, a militia scattered over the country, and called at a moment�s warning to leave their families and firesides, in the dead of winter . . . Yet had time been given them by the hasty retreat of that enemy, I have no doubt but the rush to arms, and to the protection of their country, would have been as rapid and universal as in the invasion during our late war, when, at the first moment of notice, our citizens rose in mass, from every part of the State, and without waiting to be marshalled by their officers, armed themselves..."

The Art of War - First Book By Niccolo Machiavelli, "they ought to have seen that arms in the hands of their own citizens could not create Tyrants", 1521
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"One which avails itself of foreigners immediately has to fear not only its citizens, but the foreigners that it enlists; and, remembering what I told you a short while ago of Francesco Sforza, (you will see that) that fear ought to exist. One which employs its own arms, has not other fear except of its own Citizens. But of all the reasons which can be given, I want this one to serve me, that no one ever established any Republic or Kingdom who did not think that it should be defended by those who lived there with arms: and if the Venetians had been as wise in this as in their other institutions, they would have created a new world Kingdom; but who so much more merit censure, because they had been the first who were armed by their founders."

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds U.S. Responsible for Protecting Domestic Violence Victims
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"Jessica Gonzales, whose three daughters were kidnapped by her estranged husband and killed, and whose domestic violence protection claims were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, will finally get her day in court. In the first decision of its kind, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ruled on Friday that it will hear her case. ..."

"Gonzales filed a lawsuit against the police, but in June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court found that she had no constitutional right to police enforcement of her restraining order. ..." ...

"'When the home country fails to protect the rights of its own citizens, international tribunals are another means to seek justice.' ..." ...

Mom seeks International ruling that police are responsible for murders
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"A Colorado woman victimized by domestic violence wants a ruling from an international court that will hold police responsible for the murders of her three daughters by her estranged husband."

"The case was brought by Jessica Lenahan to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has agreed to review her complaint against police in Castle Rock." ...

"'Police have to be required to enforce restraining orders or else these orders are meaningless and give a false sense of security. We need to hold the U.S. government accountable.'" ...

"'We rely on the courts and the police for protection against violence. But I learned from my tragedy that the police have no accountability. ... If our government won't protect us, we should know that. ...' ...

VA: Drunk Ex-DEA Agent: Verdict was what victim's brother expected
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"On one side of the courtroom, family, friends and the system circled the wagons in the case of Timothy Workman, the man on trial for shooting Keith Bailey five years ago in a Roanoke parking lot."

"Workman's wife, other relatives and supporters occupied row after row."

"A representative from the U.S. Attorney's Office observed the proceedings, presumably not to take sides but to look out for the federal government's interests. A long-haired, undercover guy from Workman's former employer, the Drug Enforcement Administration, also showed up." ...

"However, even with the victim's advocate joining them, the dead man's loved ones couldn't fill two rows." ...

NY: With amendment, we protect other freedoms
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"Reading Lee Deems' Oct. 3 letter regarding the Second Amendment to our Constitution, there does indeed seem to be a widespread misconception regarding the importance of this amendment to our fundamental freedoms."

"... If Mr. Deems and others would also read the Federalist Papers, they would gain a more fundamental understanding of the wisdom of our founding fathers ..."

"This most basic right guarantees not only that we have a strong organized military structure, but that our general citizenry maintains the right to own and bear arms in the unlikely event the citizens of the United States would be in a position to exercise their solemn right -- indeed, duty -- to use those arms in the face of oppression." ...