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CCRKBA Says Best Way To Stop School Shootings Is Abolish 'Gun Free Zones'
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"While anti-gun organizations are demanding that Congress quickly pass new legislation in response to the Virginia Tech massacre, the [CCRKBA] suggests another approach: Abolish the concept of 'gun free zones.'"
"'Every tragic school shooting, and attacks such as those at Salt Lake City's Trolley Square, Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and the Tacoma Mall had one common denominator,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. 'They all happened in so-called �gun-free zones'.'"
"Last spring's attack at Virginia Tech occurred months after the university proudly lobbied the Virginia Assembly to continue prohibiting legally-licensed students and faculty from carrying defensive handguns on campus. ..." ... |
Senator Coburn Goes On The Offensive; Asks Veteran Affairs to explain why they continue banning vets from owning guns
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"Senator Tom Coburn isn't going to go away quietly. As you know from previous GOA alerts, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma has placed a hold on the noxious legislation that is being pushed by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York."
"... But not content to remain silent, Sen. Coburn sent a pointed letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, asking them to justify their actions."
"Coburn states in his letter that the Veterans Affairs continues to send the names of 'approximately 1,000 additional veterans' to the Department of Justice every month. According to the Congressional Research Service, Coburn says, this has resulted in 'approximately 140,000 Veterans' being added into the NICS background check system." ... |
The Knox Report
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"The 22 annual Gun Rights Policy Conference sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Citizens� Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), was held just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio on October 5 through 7 and I was pleased to once again be invited as one of the presenters. I was further pleased and honored to be named 'Grass Roots Activist of the Year' during the Awards Luncheon on Saturday"
"The Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) is an annual opportunity for gun rights activists to get together and share knowledge and ideas, make connections, and find out what�s going on in other parts of the country or other areas of the fight. ..." ... |
Join the Petition to Recall NRA Board Member Joaquin Jackson
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"The purpose of this petition is to get a recall vote to remove Joaquin Jackson from the NRA Board of Directors."
"Why?"
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Submitter's Note: This recall petition drive, open to all NRA Life members and all Annual members of at least five consecutive years' standing, is aimed at removing Joaquin Jackson from the NRA Board of Directors, based upon his media statements in support of assault weapon and magazine capacity restrictions.
Review the material at the blog, and if you agree that Mr. Jackson should not be representing gun owners in any pro-Second Amendment group, help us by signing and returning the recall petition. Non-eligible folks can help by passing word of this effort and our blog to their shooting friends and associates. |
NRA chief denounces Phila. antigun effort
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"Message from the National Rifle Association to Philadelphia: We're armed. No harm. Get used to it."
"The day after crime victims marched in Philadelphia to demand stronger gun-control laws, the president of the NRA spoke to law students in Wilmington last night and denounced efforts to combat crime by restricting gun ownership."
"'Philadelphia doesn't need any new antigun laws to combat the lawless,' said John C. Sigler, a Delaware lawyer who was appointed president of the firearm-advocacy organization this year. 'They simply need to enforce the laws they already have.'" ... |
Guns are not to blame for tragedy
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"My heart goes out to the families and friends of those who were killed in Crandon, Wisconsin earlier this week. ..."
"However, every time this country is rocked by an event like this, I am amazed to see how quickly the attacks on guns and gun owners begin. ... What do you suppose, dear editor, the Associated Press was trying to accomplish by printing a picture of an AR-15 within the text? Not the AR-15, mind you, but one that was the 'same kind of weapon used by an off-duty sheriff's deputy....', and was available on Monday at 'Mark Koscielski's Minneapolis Guns and Ammo store.' It is not too difficult to see through this strategy. Soon, Congress will once again be attempting to ban this type of rifle. ..." ... |
Guns are bad, the death they wield is worse
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"Oct. 3, 2006. Nickel Mines, Penn. 32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls ranging in age from six to 13-years old, and then himself." ...
"April 16, 2007. Blacksburg, Va. 23-year-old Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui killed two students in a dorm, then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building." ...
"Oct. 10, 2007. Cleveland Ohio, a 14-year-old student at a Cleveland high school shot and injured two students and two teachers before he shot and killed himself."
"... In the void left by such powerlessness, as we sit, twiddle our thumbs and punch our keyboards in frustration, the seeds of fear are planted." ... |
Gun control should be reconsidered
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"A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend told me something that nearly brought me to tears."
"'I bought a gun,' he said."
"All I could think of was, why?!"
"'For protection,' he replied."
"It didn't make sense to me. Why would anyone, who lives in the suburbs of Temecula-a city where its citizens feel safe enough to leave their doors unlocked, find the need to purchase a gun for safety?"
"... To break the tension that instilled our conversation, he joked that he'll need it when he drives down to Long Beach to visit me. So amusing was his joke that I forgot to laugh."
"I have lived in a grim part of Long Beach for the past 15 years of my life, yet I never once thought of turning to a gun for safety." ... |
IL: No charges for man who shot neighbor
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"A Hyde Park resident who shot a neighbor in the chest during an altercation in their apartment building Wednesday night acted in self defense ..."
"The assailant, who was in critical condition, threatened to hit the neighbor with a vodka bottle and kicked in the door of the man's apartment ..."
"The incident began about 7:30 p.m. as the two men were riding together in an elevator ..."
"The 24-year-old assailant, who was drunk and carrying a vodka bottle, followed the man out of the elevator ... As the man entered his apartment, the other man kicked the door and pushed it open, continuing to yell threats ..."
"The apartment's resident retrieved a gun and shot the man once in the chest as he entered the apartment ..." ... |
PA: Recycling Employee Guns Down Would-Be Robber
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"Two employees of a local recycling center shot and killed a would-be robber Thursday morning ..."
"The unidentified workers fatally shot a man in the face as he tried to steal from Geppert Recycling ..."
"The victim, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene."
"According to police, the gunman fired first but he was shooting at two employees who carry guns for protection."
"Those two men fired back, killing the assailant."
"Their boss, David Geppert, said it is a dangerous area, and he's been robbed and shot himself."
"'It's a bad thing the gentleman was killed, but I'm glad none of my employees were injured. And it will send the word out to other robbers not to bother us,' Geppert said." ... |
Defending Your Christmas Castle
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"I've spent most of my life engaging enemies and predators, foreign and domestic, ranging from disciplined troops and clueless conscripts to criminal gangs, crackheads and street-corner scumbags. I've fought in urban, rural, jungle, desert and mountain terrain. But there�s one kind of armed confrontation I've never faced � and some of you have. It is every family man�s and woman�s worst nightmare: The home invasion." ... |
NY: Shot suspect claims cops saved him
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"John Phillip Sayers said he just knew he was a goner."
"The burglary suspect said he had just been hit by a shotgun blast that tore through his right bicep and lodged near his ribs when he heard someone urge the gunman to finish him off."
"Sayers, 21, who was shot by a store owner early Sunday after he allegedly tried to break into an Albany Street business, told the Times Union about his ordeal Wednesday from his bed at Albany Medical Center Hospital." ... |
Do 'Gun-Free' Zones Encourage School Shootings?
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"This time, Cleveland."
"A 14-year-old suspended high school student entered Cleveland's Success Tech Academy, a gun in each hand, and opened fire ..."
"Meanwhile, a high school teacher in Oregon, with a permit to carry a concealed weapon plus training, sought permission to carry her firearm to school. In fear of her ex-husband, against whom she filed and received two restraining orders, she wanted the ability to protect herself in the event he showed up. ..."
"This raises a question. Do shooters consider schools 'gun-free zones'? Do they consider it unlikely that any authority figure ... poses an armed threat? But in some school shooting cases, guns helped to end shooting sprees and minimize loss of life and injury." ... |
CT: Allowing Concealed Weapons Poses Danger To Campus
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"The UConn chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus wishes to hold a protest against the seemingly wise choice of not allowing any weapons on the UConn campus. It comes down to personal safety, they say. You never know when the next massacre may occur, and as such people need to be prepared to defend themselves. These gun nuts seem to believe that allowing more people to carry the instruments most responsible for violence can solve that problem. In other words, the solution to gun-toting lunatics would be more guns (and, presumably, more lunatics to carry them). ... getting rid of guns solves the problem of gun violence." ...
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CA: Schools declared 'gun-free zones'
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"'Gun-free zone' signs soon will go up around Richmond schools, the city's latest effort to curb violence."
"Sign or no, it's already illegal to possess or fire guns within 1,000 feet of a school, and critics say the plan won't stop the shootings ..." ...
"The city will work with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to develop and install the signs on the streets surrounding Richmond's 30 public schools. The campaign is expected to cost about $35,000, City Manager Bill Lindsay said." ...
"'Tell me what sign is going to stop a guy from shooting,' Booze said. 'Why don't you take that money, and why don't you do something progressive?'" ... |
The Curmudgeon Party
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... "Representative Ron Paul of Texas has made similar interventions into the predictable party-line arguments of the Republican Party. ... Representative Paul opposes not only the Iraq war but also U.S. bases overseas, particularly in Europe ... He considers himself a strict constitutionalist; therefore, he deplores the current Republican belief that the executive branch can go to war without consulting the legislature. 'That's against the Constitution!' he reminds his fellow candidates. Ron Paul has a mixed constituency of libertarians, second amendment freaks, anti-abortion zealots, opponents of the war, anti-tax people, and entrepreneurial types. Due to his voting record in Congress, Paul is known as Doctor No." ...
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Bright skies for a dark horse
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"With a remarkably unpopular president, an increasingly hated war and discombobulation within the Republican Party, it appears the Democratic presidential nominee should be a lock to win next November. A token warning, however: it's never over 'til it's over."
"... The one man who will give his nominee a serious run for his money is lurking in the shadows of Republican frontrunners ... Democrats should be hoping and praying that their opponent come November is anybody but Mike Huckabee."
"The former governor of Arkansas and ardent supporter of the Second Amendment (and of the NRA) is armed with a plan to completely dismantle the federal tax code." ... |
IL: Illinois State Rifle Association Gathers to Protect against 'Chicago-Style' Gun Bans
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"On Wednesday, the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) announced that last night Approximately 200 firearm owners packed the Tinley Park American Legion Post so that they could learn what they might do to prevent the spread of 'Chicago-style' gun control to south Cook County, where the Tinley Park village council is considering passing legislation to ban nearly every kind of privately owned firearm from the village."
"'Chicago-style' gun control includes aspects of legislation such as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's plan to establish 100-mile 'gun free' zone around Chicago." ... |
IL: Panel OKs gun group's motion
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"Several Tazewell County Board members voted Wednesday to support gun owners' rights by opposing any legislation that goes against the Second Amendment."
"Tazewell County Board Chairman Jim Unsicker said members of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) requested he put forward the resolution, which asks counties to oppose any state legislation that would infringe on gun owners' rights."
"'I'm putting this to the committee because I was asked to put it to the committee,' he said during the county's executive committee meeting Wednesday. 'Personally, I believe in it.'"
"But several members of the executive committee said supporting the resolution has nothing to do with government at the county level." ... |
OH: Bill To Keep Guns From Those Under 21 Not Likely
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"A proposal aimed at reducing gun crime would ban any person under 21 from having a firearm. But the piece of legislation, which is only in its initial stages, is already causing controversy and drawing fierce opposition."
"When a 12-year-old girl was fatally shot in a Cleveland street last month, the city's mayor vowed to make it a crime for anyone under 21 to posses a gun ..."
"In Ohio it is already against the law to own a handgun if you are under 21, but a new piece of legislation would add the word possession to the books. Opponents argue that changing the vocabulary will ultimately change nothing about the law." ... |
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, By John Millar, Section I, "the inhabitants of a country are in a condition to defend themselves", 1771
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"... Thus, without any trouble or expence, a powerful militia is constantly maintained, which, upon the slightest notice, can always be brought into the field, and employed in the defence of the country..."
"...The business of a soldier becomes a distinct profession, which is appropriated to a separate order of men; while the rest of the inhabitants . . . become wholly unaccustomed to arms; and the preservation of their lives and fortunes is totally devolved upon those whom they are at the charge..."
"...by forming a separate order of men, they are apt to become indifferent about the rights of their fellow-citizens . . . may often be employed to subvert and destroy the liberties of the people..."
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KS: Pleasant Valley police officer charged in sex case
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"A 37-year-old Pleasant Valley police captain resigned after he was confronted with allegations that he raped and sodomized a former teenage babysitter."
"Erik C. Henson ... was arrested Oct. 10 by his boss, Pleasant Valley Police Chief Jim Daum, and turned over to Liberty law enforcement authorities. Henson remained in the Clay County jail after failing to post a $100,000 bond."
"Henson is accused of beginning a sexual relationship with the then-13-year-old Liberty girl in 2000 and continuing it until she was 18 years old. ..." ...
"The Clay County prosecutor's office filed six felony charges against Henson, including three counts of statutory rape, one count each of statutory sodomy, child molestation and forcible rape." ... |
NY: Zero Tolerance nets 56 guns, 330 arrests
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Since the Rochester Police Department ramped up enforcement efforts on Oct. 5, it has confiscated at least 56 guns and arrested more than 330 people.
At a late afternoon press conference, Police Chief David Moore said the city�s Zero Tolerance Initiative has been a success and will continue.
This initiative began after Rochester saw three homicides in less than a week. "I'm telling my officers to step it up and be aggressive," said Moore.
The City has estimated that the Zero Tolerance Initiative is costing about $52,000 a day. Moore said Mayor Robert Duffy has told him, "We'll continue this until we curb the violence." |
NY: A Times Square Pedestrian Is Giving No Ground
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"Millions of people have paused to stand amid the hustle, bustle and neon of Times Square."
"And sure, those who pause � to gawk, talk or eat a gyro � can slow the progress of pedestrians around them."
"But when Matthew Jones of Brooklyn lingered on the corner of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in the early morning of June 12, 2004, gabbing with friends as other pedestrians tried to get by, something unusual happened: He was arrested for it."
"A police officer said Mr. Jones was impeding other pedestrians and charged him with disorderly conduct." ...
"Nancy E. Little, Mr. Jones's lawyer, said that neither the police nor the prosecutors claimed that he was doing anything other than standing on the sidewalk with friends ..." ... |
CA: Police Allegedly Hang Quadriplegic Man
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Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him.
Cornell Greathouse sued the city and four police officers for assault, battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and negligence.
A Superior Court jury decided Wednesday the officers weren't culpable, but they ruled Pasadena must pay $78,939.12 for failing to train officers on how to deal with a quadriplegic.
Officers responding a 2005 disturbance call encountered Greathouse and, according to the suit, they pulled him out of wheelchair and hung him over a 4-foot concrete wall in order to search him. |
UK: Police officer admits town centre assault
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"A POLICE officer who punched a teenager on a night out in Burnley town centre has received a two year conditional discharge."
"Police officer Darren Riley, of Bury, pleaded guilty to assaulting a 17-year-old man on April 6 after leaving Lava nightclub in Burnley while on a night out to celebrate a colleague's retirement."
"CCTV footage of the 25-year-old striking the victim outside JJB sports in the town centre was shown to Burnley Magistrates."
"Riley, who has been with the police for three years, admitted to making a pre-emptive' strike against the victim saying he acted in self-defence after the teenager had barged into him." ... |
Canada: OPP officer charged following drug raid
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"A longtime local OPP officer, now working in northern Ontario, is charged following a drug raid by the provincial police near Thunder Bay."
"Det.-Const. Lynn MacKay ... was charged along with her boyfriend following an Oct. 5 raid on a house that netted $6,000 worth of marijuana."
"'Certainly, cases such as this are dealt with . . . in a very professional way to ensure the integrity of the investigation,' said Sgt. Deb Tully of the OPP's northwest region headquarters."
"'She's been in the (Thunder Bay) region for one year.'"
"Before that, MacKay, a 17-year OPP veteran, spent more than a decade with the provincial police in the London area, working as a firearms expert." ... |
TX: Not a gun issue
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"The National Park Service is an ideal candidate to acquire a pristine, undeveloped site adjacent to Big Bend National Park in West Texas, but Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is foolishly opposing such a move."
"Patterson, a fervent gun rights advocate, opposes selling the park service the 9,269-acre Christmas Mountains site because it would not allow public hunting or possession of firearms on the property."
"Patterson, who appears determined to proceed with a state sale of the property to a private bidder as soon as Nov. 6, believes that the Park Service's policy is 'an unconstitutional ban on the personal possession of firearms,' according to Jim Suydam, a spokesman for the commissioner." ... |
UT: Trolley Square survivor calls need for tighter gun laws 'obvious'
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... "On Feb. 12, Stacy Hanson walked into the Trolley Square mall to buy a Valentine's Day card for his wife. Twenty minutes later, his life was changed forever." ...
"Hanson was a guest speaker Wednesday at the fifth annual Daffodil Day of Remembrance sponsored by the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah ..." ...
"'It's just insane. We're becoming uncivilized,' he said. 'No one can tell me we don't need to change our gun laws. ... It's obvious there needs to be stronger gun laws, not only in this state, but in the country. It's gotta happen today. It's gotta happen now in a strong way.'" ...
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NY: Order of amendments doesn't rank importance
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"In response to Bob Smith's Oct. 9 letter: 'This right to keep and bear arms is so fundamental to our freedom, our founding fathers placed it as the second item in the Bill of Rights, subservient only to the right to free speech.'"
"While I do highly endorse the reading of the Federalist Papers as Smith suggests, history reveals that what became our Second Amendment was in fact fourth in the combined proposal of 12 amendments."
"The first, regarding House representation, has never been ratified nationally; the second, regarding the timing of compensation changes, had taken 202 years before its adoption as our 27th Amendment." ... |
UK: Reserve police called in to halt pupil crime
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"VOLUNTEERS are being drafted in to help police areas around Camden's secondary schools."
"Special constables will be employed to assist school patrols in preventing trouble outside the gates."
"It's hoped the move will help police to reduce robberies of youngsters, which have risen at the start of the school year."
"The problem has re-emerged in hot spots such as Hampstead Heath, which is used regularly as a route home from school."
"Heath Constabulary manager Richard Gentry said: 'We are starting to see an increase now the schools have come back. We do carry out patrols around the schools ..."
"'We are in and around the area so if anyone is up to any naughtiness we will be on top of it.'" ...
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UK: Gun Law Crackdown
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"LEGALLY held firearms will be seized and destroyed by police if licences are not renewed on time, the PSNI in north Antrim has warned."
"There are hundreds of legally held weapons owned by farmers and others in the Ballymoney and Moyle areas and the PSNI are tightening up the situation regarding expired licences."
"Up until now many owners of legally held weapons have relied on police to send out licence renewal reminders but some gun owners have used the excuse that they have not received them."
"Now police are stressing that officers do not have a statutory duty to send out reminders - although they still will - and that it is up to owners to take the initiative themselves." ...
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