tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71879082359938875742024-02-06T18:17:47.055-08:00WhyGunControlThe Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd amendment applies to individual citizens. But how does that affect you? How does it affect the lives of your and your children? Who is packing a pistol? Should you be carrying one too? What you should know before you step out your front door.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-60214209132679924822015-03-03T19:50:00.001-08:002015-03-03T19:50:29.270-08:00**Guns & Grub Charity Shoot Event - Sat March 28th 10 AM at Elm Fork Range**<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Knights of Columbus Council 5052 </div>
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Saturday March 28th at 10:00 AM </div>
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Profits will go to benefit local charities </div>
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through the Knights of Columbus.</div>
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This is a "bring a gun / share a gun" event, and a change to get to know locals. If you do not own a handgun or rifle, other participants will be prepared to share, or you may rent one from the front office for $15-$20 per hour. <br />
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Admittance includes 1 hr on the tactical range which is reserved for the event, with a dedicated Range Safety officer, followed immediately by a catered lunch served by J Macklin's of Coppell. <br />
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We will be holding a raffle for a 12ga shotgun provided by DFW shooting sports. <br />
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Tickets are $60 online at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ld68b65">http://tinyurl.com/ld68b65</a> or $75 at the gate. Bring a friend!<br />
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See attached Flyer</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-24351791578252394942015-01-26T05:49:00.003-08:002015-01-26T05:49:48.607-08:00Apologies<br />
Apologies to my readership for the recent porn spam. I am in the process of deleting it now. Apologies also for the lack of recent content update. I have been working on a new venture that has been taking up my time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-7481010846196156072014-09-08T14:40:00.001-07:002014-09-08T14:40:23.948-07:00Proof Why You Need a Gun to Shop at Kroger<br />
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http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/foghorn/proof-need-gun-shop-kroger/<br />
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Late at night this past Saturday, a large group of angry and violent teenagers descended upon a Kroger in Tennessee intent on inflicting a world of hurt on whoever they found. The group assaulted store employees, and even beat an elderly woman in the parking lot. According to Shannon Watts and the Moms Demand Action crowd (employees of Michael Bloomberg) Kroger is a perfectly safe environment where nothing bad ever happens, and the only people who bring guns to the store are psychopaths — <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/robert-farago/incendiary-image-day-moms-demand-action-gun-sense-americas-new-national-anti-open-carry-kroger-ad-campaign-edition/" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-transition: all 250ms ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0a0a; transition: all 250ms ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;">they have even launched a multi-million dollar campaign to brainwash others into thinking the same thing</a>. However, as this video and the multiple injuries and near fatal assaults definitely show, while Shannon Watts may feel safe at her local grocery store surrounded by her armed guards the average citizen might need a little protection.</div>
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The people who were assaulted in the video above were healthy teenage kids. In a fair fight one-on-one, they might have a chance to fend off their attacker and survive. But in this case, they were attacked by an angry and violent mob. They were overwhelmed, and it was only through sheer luck that they were not beaten to death. From the <a href="http://wreg.com/2014/09/07/witness-reacts-to-violent-attack-at-kroger/" rel="nofollow" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-transition: all 250ms ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0a0a; transition: all 250ms ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">local CBS affiliate</a>:</div>
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The disturbing video shows a high school kid lying still on the ground while others repeatedly kicked and stomped on his head. The teen attacked is an employee of Kroger.</div>
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“They followed hitting him with a pumpkin. He was already unconscious, so all you could see was blood and pumpkins,” said a witness who did not want to be identified. He is a friend of the victims.</div>
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The attackers didn’t care that their victim was already unconscious — they wanted to hurt him. They could very easily have killed him, even if that wasn’t their intention. That man is alive because of sheer luck.</div>
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The victims didn’t just include young and fit teens, though — one elderly lady was viciously attacked in the parking lot. While a young person might have been able to defend themselves, does anyone seriously believe that an elderly lady can fend off even a single attacker?</div>
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“It was maybe about 100 to 125 kids. It was a lot of kids,” said the witness.</div>
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“Is that an exaggeration?” asked WREG’s Elise Preston.</div>
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What was the reason behind this attack, though? Perhaps the people involved somehow instigated the situation, and what we saw was simply the justified result? According to someone who knows the people involved very well, it was a pre-meditated attack on people who had done them no harm, simply because they wanted to beat people.</div>
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“They were playing a game called ‘point them out, knock them out.’ Where they would point someone out and attempt to knock them out or fight them. There was no real reason behind it.</div>
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This is a prime example of a situation where a firearm would have made all the difference. Whether you are an elderly lady fighting off a single attacker or a scared teenager fighting off a wave of people intent on beating the ever loving snot out of you and possibly killing you, the simple appearance of a firearm could have stopped the entire situation dead in its tracks. There have been scores of situations where simply displaying a firearm has been enough incentive to deter an attacker, and this may have been another one of those situations. And if that didn’t work, the bullets would have. Unfortunately we will never know.</div>
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There were no reports of arrests made at the site of the attack. Police were apparently not present, and did not respond in time. The best that the local police department could promise is that they will “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121;">work tirelessly to identify, locate and [hold them] accountable.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121;">Police need help identifying the attackers. If you have any information, you are asked to call crime stoppers at 528-CASH.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-91331664989757078002014-09-08T08:19:00.002-07:002014-09-08T08:19:54.053-07:00Another example: Why you should carry<span style="font-size: large;">Just another example of why citizens should carry a sidearm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even in a 1 on 1 defense situation, you have the right to defend yourself from threat of an assault. But in these flash-riot situations, such a disparity of odds in a violent assault can get you killed or very seriously injured very quickly, despite the age or gender of the attackers</span>.<br />
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – CBS affiliate WREG reported that three people are now recovering after a mob of teenagers ran through a busy shopping plaza, seemingly picking out customers and Kroger employees at random to attack.</div>
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A video of the incident has been shared with local news stations in the area and is quickly going viral. It shows a young adult lying still on the ground as others repeatedly kick him and stomp his head. Other are seen being chased or knocked to the ground.</div>
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WREG said a witness told the cameras that the three people injured were attacked indiscriminately--two victims were African American, and one victim was Caucasian.</div>
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The news station added that the brawl happened at the corner of Poplar Avenue and Highland Street.</div>
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WREG also reported Monday morning a juvenile has been arrested in connection with the attack. Get the full story here: <a href="http://on.kthv.com/1oiYToC" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://on.kthv.com/1oiYToC">http://on.kthv.com/1oiYToC</a></div>
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Get the witness' full testimony by going to the WREG.com website:<a href="http://on.kthv.com/1rXJXRO" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">http://on.kthv.com/1rXJXRO</a></div>
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If you have any details on this crime that may lead to an arrest, please contact Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-73008566898921147332014-08-29T09:00:00.003-07:002014-08-29T09:00:36.378-07:00The Rise of Armed Teachers<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 11.45pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THEY’VE ALREADY EXISTED IN SOME
DISTRICTS FOR YEARS, BUT NOW SOME SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ARE GETTING INTENSIVE,
POLICE-STYLE TRAINING IN HOW TO RESPOND TO A SHOOTING.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">by</span></i> <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/contributor/maurice-chammah"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verlag B', serif; letter-spacing: 0.9pt; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">MAURICE CHAMMAH</span></b></a> <b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WED AUGUST 27, 2014
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Over nine days in July, the
first class of school marshals gathered for training. The group of seven
teachers and administrators, largely male, assembled at eight each morning at
Tarrant County College’s Criminal Justice Training Center, in northwest Fort
Worth, to discuss tragedies like Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook. They
parsed the details and talked about how they would theoretically respond to
such an emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">By the seventh day of training, the group had moved to the
facility’s fifty-yard indoor shooting range. It was there that they were
learning how to use deadly force in the event of a school shooting. Wearing
T-shirts, jeans, and lime-green ear muffs, they stood with their legs apart,
pointing their guns at white paper targets as the thunderous popping sounds of
gunshots bounced off the concrete floor, walls, and ceiling. Seasoned cops
wearing bright-red shirts managed the drills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">After lunch, they practiced shooting on the move, an advanced
skill that few civilians learn but is standard practice for police and
military. Several of the men darted from side to side, their arms outstretched
and their fingers clenched around Glock and Sig Sauer pistols. Some crisscrossed
their feet in the style of a football player, and the instructors encouraged
them to shuffle, to decrease the risk of tripping. Some held their breath in
concentration, and an instructor noticed. “This is not underwater shooting!” he
shouted above the din.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Rafael Perea, the instructor in charge of the training, paced
behind them, offering suggestions only when everyone had stopped shooting and
the noise died down. The students had been mostly calm and collected, and Perea
was impressed with their progress. However, he had been surprised to find some
of expressing anxiety before their first shooting exercise. Though they had all
shot guns at firing ranges before, this was different since more than ten
journalists with big cameras and flashing lights were there to cover the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">“I heard from some of the guys that they were nervous,” Perea said
with a grin, a teacher excited to have challenged his students. “But that’s
good, because if you talk about what they'd go through in real life, there
would be stress.” The feeling of being on camera, he said, is the only kind of
stress I can give to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">That was not exactly the case. The next day, they would be acting
out a shooting scenario at a local school using detergent pellets instead of
bullets. And Perea had found other methods of creating stress under artificial
conditions: instead of the circular targets or vague human outlines you’d see
at many shooting ranges, he had posted up pictures of suspects from recent mass
shootings. The white sheets of paper getting ripped apart by the trainees’
bullets featured human faces, some of who were teenagers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">When asked about these targets, Perea paused. His tone suddenly
shifted from friendly to solemn. His grin disappeared. I don't want someone to
hesitate just because the shooter is a young person, he said. “We're not used
to shooting people, much less a child.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Perea then put on his earmuffs and walked back into the firing
range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; padding: 0in;">In early 2013, the Texas Legislature passed</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB01009F.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #dd4411; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Protection of Texas
Children Act<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a>, which
gives districts the option of arming and training one school employee, known as
a “school marshal,” for every four hundred students. The trainees who assembled
at Tarrant County College more than a year later were the first official school
marshals, sent by districts taking advantage of the new law. They will function
as peace officers, authorized to act only “under circumstances that would
justify the use of deadly force.” Their identities are kept secret from
students and the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">The new law expanded the practice of arming public school
teachers; some districts had already been doing so for years. In 2007 the
Harrold Independent School District—a tiny district of one hundred students
located 175 miles northwest of Dallas—responded to the Virginia Tech shooting
by creating the “Guardian Plan,” which designates certain teachers, or
“guardians,” to carry concealed handguns. David Thweatt, the school’s
superintendent, told reporters that he’d enacted the plan because the district
was 30 miles away from the nearest law enforcement. A handful of rural
districts around Texas called Thweatt for advice and started similar programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">These guardian plans received
little attention until the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In
much of the country, the tragedy of twenty murdered children spurred anti-gun
activists to push for gun control measures, but in Texas and a few other states—like
Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, and Colorado—the response was the opposite. Parents
and teachers reasoned that armed teachers, administrators, and even college
students might help to kill a mass shooter before the police were able to
arrive. Some months after the shooting, a gun store in Austin started<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/texas-gun-store-owner-says-hell-give-discount-to-teachers-in-wake-newtown/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #dd4411; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">offering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>discounts to teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">As the Texas Legislature geared up for their 2013 session, newly
elected state representative Jason Villalba, a Republican from Dallas, began
arguing that the current guardian plans were not enough and that armed school
employees needed police-style training. The bill faced plenty of critics,
including some officers. The police chief of Dallas ISD said he questioned the
wisdom of placing teachers in a situation that would be challenging for even
the most experienced law enforcement. Others worried that a teacher with a gun
might be mistakenly shot by responding officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Still, the bill passed easily (123 to 22 in the House, 27 to 4 in
the Senate) and was signed into law by Governor Rick Perry, making it the
second law in the country to explicitly allow teachers to carry guns (South
Dakota, earlier that year, became the first).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">This past April, after questions surfaced about whether the
Guardian Plan potentially conflicted with the Marshal Plan, Attorney General
Greg Abbott issued an opinion that both programs were allowed, and now
districts can choose between these options. Villalba’s school marshal program
is actually more restrictive than the disparate concealed-carry policies that came
before it, which differ from district to district and, to be legal under the
Texas Education Code, only require some “written regulations” created by that
particular district.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Whereas Harrold ISD’s guardians simply obtain approval from the
school board after proving they have a concealed-carry license, prospective
school marshals must take the same psychological exams given to police
officers. They are asked to confront whether they’d be comfortable shooting an
intruder. They are given police-style instruction in active shooter response
strategies. And if the school marshal is a teacher, as opposed to a principal
or secretary, he or she must keep the gun in a locked safe within “immediate
reach.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">That last requirement has
proved unpopular. Muleshoe ISD, in the Panhandle, decided against implementing
the program, and their superintendent, Gene Sheets,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/rise-armed-teachers/page/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook%20Temp/seems%20to%20defeat%20that%20purpose,%20and%20it%20also%20takes%20away%20the%20anonymity%20of%20a%20plainclothes%20marshal%20if%20students%20were%20to%20see%20it." style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #dd4411; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #dd4411; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>it
was because the locked box requirement would prevent teachers from responding
quickly enough. It remains to be seen whether more districts will choose
Villalba’s school marshal program, with its psychological testing and intensive
training, or Harrold ISD’s guardian plan, which doesn’t mandate a locked safe
and which gives districts more discretion in what they require of armed
teachers. In a letter to Abbott, state representative Joe C. Pickett, who
chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety, noted that
because of these “stringent requirements,” many school districts are expected
to choose the less intensive guardian plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">But whichever program
districts choose, Villalba’s law has undeniably led a wave of districts to more
actively consider the idea of arming employees and has prompted public support.
In Spring, a suburb of Houston, a firearms instructor named Chuck Persinger is
offering free concealed-carry classes to teachers (many of those taking the
class, he noted proudly, are women). In January 2013, when Villalba’s bill had
been announced but had not yet passed, Alan Spence, a retired peace officer and
law enforcement instructor, started the Texas School Marshal Academy, in
Giddings. He offers classes to teachers and school administrators about what to
do in a shooter situation, even if they are not armed, to minimize deaths and
injuries. “We can't wait on a cop to get there,” Spence told me. “These
teachers need to have the opportunity to protect themselves, and knowledge is key
in any tactical situation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.45pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; padding: 0in;">Perea spent more than a decade</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">as a police officer in Abilene and
several years in the Air Force police, but for the past twelve years he has
been a full time gun safety instructor. He displays the cheery solicitousness
you might associate with a teacher more than a cop. Watching the marshals in
Fort Worth fire at targets on the other side of soundproof glass, he explained
how each school shooting has produced lessons for law enforcement. Because the
Columbine shooters in 1999 took the unprecedented step of using explosives, the
marshal curriculum includes steps for how to handle a bomb on school grounds.
The Virginia Tech shooting taught police to be prepared for a shooter who
chains the school doors shut. Since the Sandy Hook shooter gained entry to the
school by shattering the windows, some districts are now purchasing thicker,
stronger glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.45pt; margin: 0in 0in 27.45pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Many of the lessons taken from these mass shootings are less about
how to react in the moment than they are about what criminologists and cops
call “crime prevention through environmental design.” Perea hopes that in
addition to the school marshals’ ability to respond to a crisis situation, they
will provide expertise on how to institute preventative measures as districts
build new campuses and update existing ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.45pt; margin: 0in 0in 27.45pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif;">Still, Perea said it is often impossible to predict the particular
horrors of school shootings that may occur in the future. As an
example he cited Jonesboro, Arkansas, where, in 1998, two middle school
students pulled a fire alarm and then hid in a wooded area near the school
entrance, shooting at kids and teachers as they filed out. Nobody could have
really been ready for that, Perea told me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sentinel SSm B', serif; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/rise-armed-teachers/page/0/1">http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/rise-armed-teachers/page/0/1</a><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-86440616161636865762014-08-26T08:23:00.001-07:002014-08-26T08:23:47.459-07:00That about sums it up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iUW1cRURupA/U_ymVpfL6-I/AAAAAAAABZA/wlRuj0LISL8/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iUW1cRURupA/U_ymVpfL6-I/AAAAAAAABZA/wlRuj0LISL8/s1600/Untitled.jpg" height="331" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><!--[endif]--></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-68775452555499927932014-01-15T20:53:00.000-08:002014-01-15T20:53:09.735-08:00Very illuminating video<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ojyc5eOqwA/UtdlfeqDzCI/AAAAAAAABW4/XBhHcLlGz9U/s1600/NRA+Video+Still.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ojyc5eOqwA/UtdlfeqDzCI/AAAAAAAABW4/XBhHcLlGz9U/s1600/NRA+Video+Still.jpg" height="235" width="320" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8Sbf_piIQQ?feature=player_detailpage">http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8Sbf_piIQQ?feature=player_detailpage</a><br />
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<b>Very illuminating video. Listen to this part at the 6:10 mark.</b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;">"I've been in law Enforcement for 42 years now and I can tell you, I never took a gun off a criminal that was registered to the criminal."</span></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">What does that tell you? </span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">CRIMINALS WILL ALWAYS BE CRIMINALS. </span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Stop punishing the law abiding. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">GUN CONTROL LAWS DONT WORK.</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-92015663657859712812013-12-09T12:15:00.001-08:002013-12-09T12:15:13.599-08:00Mom overcomes fear of guns<span style="background-color: white; color: #292727; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">By Kris Hey, Orlando Sentinel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #292727; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.05pt; margin-bottom: 8.35pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Women take up shooting for many
reasons. For me, it was about getting control of my life and letting go of my
fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Guns
always equaled one thing: death. It started from an early age, when I picked up
on my parents' dislike of guns. As I grew older, I couldn't be in the room with
a gun, look at a gun or even hold an unloaded one</span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #292727; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #292727; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I knew it was an irrational fear: No one in
my life had ever been hurt by a gun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">But the fear festered. After my son was born nearly 11 years
ago, news reports of children getting hurt or killed using their parents'
unsecured guns made my fear almost paralyzing. My job as an online news
producer for more than 15 years, often seeing and working on these stories,
only made things worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It was frustrating for my husband, who grew up with guns and
knows how to use them safely. I knew I had to change — for myself and for my
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 15.05pt; margin: 0in 0in 8.35pt;">
<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">So I picked up a gun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">About 500 trigger pulls in, I realized I loved target shooting.
It relieved my stress; helped me focus on what I could control; boosted my
self-confidence; made me feel strong, powerful and alive. It helped me work on
overcoming other fears, too.</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #292727; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<b>Hitting that target was a symbol of everything I thought I could not do. And with that one shot, I was free of my lifelong fear of guns. A year later, I own a semi-automatic pistol and shoot regularly for sport. </b><b>My transformation from timid to avid shooter is not unique.</b></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It wasn't long before I was going to the range alone and with my
husband on date nights. I decided it would be cheaper and I could practice more
if I bought my own gun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I also joined the Orlando chapter of The Well Armed Woman, a
national organization that helps women learn about guns and hone their skills
in the classroom and on the range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.05pt; margin-bottom: 8.35pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">According to White, a lot of
women shoot because they want to empower themselves, have an equal chance to
defend themselves and increase their ability by stepping out of their comfort
zone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 15.05pt; margin: 0in 0in 8.35pt;">
<span style="color: #292727; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Women are very much into embracing that type of activity
these days," White said. "Probably anywhere between 45 and 55 percent
of the people that come through wanting to learn and to take classes and your
first-timers getting that first firearm are women, and they nail it. They do
everything just right."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; line-height: 15.05pt; margin-bottom: 8.35pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-14/features/os-mom-overcomes-fear-of-guns-20130913_1_target-shooting-own-gun-fear">http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-14/features/os-mom-overcomes-fear-of-guns-20130913_1_target-shooting-own-gun-fear</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-86663122803852635772013-10-14T18:06:00.003-07:002013-10-14T18:06:49.332-07:00Picking the Right Holster - Reason #451<br />
Bet ya' the leather folded in as he was holstering it, entering the trigger well and pressing the trigger back. Just another reason that I always recommend using a <b>NON-COLLAPSING KYDEX HOLSTER.</b><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/10/11/correction-officer-injured-by-own-gun-at-firing-range/">http://nypost.com/2013/10/11/correction-officer-injured-by-own-gun-at-firing-range/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-62367668055731475992013-09-13T10:07:00.000-07:002013-09-13T10:07:00.517-07:00IL Supreme Court strikes down gun ban in 9-0 decisionBy GunsSaveLife.com 9/12/2013<br />
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<br />
Illinois prohibition on carrying firearms outside the home was struck down by the Illinois State Supreme Court in 9-0 decision People v. Aguilar.<br />
<br />
As far as we know, this is the first time a state supreme court in the United States has ruled the right to keep and bear arms applies outside the four corners of a residence.<br />
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<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The constitutional right of armed self-defense is broader than the right to have a gun in one’s home.” </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The need for self-defense is most acute in the home, that doesn't mean it is not acute outside the home." </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The second amendment guarantees not only the right to “keep” arms, but also the right to “bear” arms, and that these rights are not the same: “The right to ‘bear’ as distinct from the right to ‘keep’ arms is unlikely to refer to the home. To speak of ‘bearing’ arms within one’s home would at all times have been an awkward usage. A right to bear arms thus implies a right to carry a loaded gun outside the home."</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The right to have arms was by the time of the founding understood to be an individual right protecting against both public and private violence.”</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=9194&utm_source=feedly">http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=9194&utm_source=feedly</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-89582574889735771672013-09-13T09:59:00.001-07:002013-09-13T09:59:09.682-07:00Houston: Armed Civilian stops carjacking<br />
A driver who pulled up to a McDonald’s in north Houston said he had to use deadly force after he was attacked by two carjackers.<br />
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The incident happened at the McDonald’s in the 7500 block of the North Freeway just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.<br />
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The victim told police he had just rented a couple of movies from the Redbox outside the restaurant when he was forced out of his car and pushed on the ground by two men.<br />
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Police said the men were apparently going after the victim’s car. The carjacking victim pulled out a gun and shot both men. One died at the scene while the other one ran away wounded. Police said a third suspect drove away in the getaway car.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1985316790"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.kens5.com/news/Victim-shoots--kills-suspect-outside-McDonalds-after-attempted-carjacking-in-Texas-223339781.html">http://www.kens5.com/news/Victim-shoots--kills-suspect-outside-McDonalds-after-attempted-carjacking-in-Texas-223339781.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-64625405848651914412013-09-12T08:51:00.005-07:002013-09-12T08:51:53.593-07:00Awesome rebuttal letter from Jerry Patterson TX Land CommissionerTexas CHL - A Letter To The Editor<br />
Jerry Patterson, Texas Land Commissioner<br />
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Statesman Editorial Board staff,<br />
<br />
I don’t know who wrote Sunday’s editorial but it is chock full of bad information and needs to be corrected lest the public again be misinformed by a hoplophobic journalist with a bias.<br />
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The most glaring error is the writers belief that the State Preservation Board has the authority to ban lawfully carried firearms at the capitol. They do not. While they do have the authority to place metal detectors, ONLY the Texas penal code regulates where and how firearms can be carried, and Article 1 Section 23 of the Texas Bill of Rights states that a Texan has the right to “Keep and Bear Arms in the lawful defense of himself or the state” and that “the legislature shall have power by law to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime”. This legislative exclusivity is further backed up by statute which pre empts any government entity or agency from regulating firearms (of course this doesn’t apply to federal regulation on federal property).<br />
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When I passed the CHL law in 1995, certain prohibited locations were enumerated. These locations were fine tuned again in 1997. The capitol was specifically not included as a prohibited location in part because of the hypocrisy of passing a law and then excluding the capitol where those of us who voted for the law spend our time. There can be no other prohibited locations, other than on private property or on federal property.<br />
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The statement that “most courthouses and other government buildings around the state” are gun banned locations is also false. ALL courthouses are prohibited locations because the legislature chose to ban by statute carry at courthouses, and NO state or local government buildings are prohibited locations because the legislature chose not to make them so. It is permissible to ban firearms at a “meeting of a government entity” if “effective notice” is given. What constitutes “effective notice” is specifically spelled out in PC 46.035. What that means is a city council could ban only in the council chambers, and only while the meeting is in progress, or the Senate or House could ban in the chamber or the gallery when actually in session. You cannot ban lawful carry of a firearm at the capitol, or at city hall, or the portion of any other state or local government building (exception: school buildings, prisons etc.) that is open to public access. That doesn’t mean cities or counties haven’t placed signs banning carry, but signs do not make law, and anyone who defies such a sign can suffer no penalty. I routinely ignore these signs.<br />
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The statement “Why anyone needs to carry a concealed gun in the capitol is beyond us,” begs the question: where in the writers opinion does anyone need to carry a concealed gun? We’ve had a crazed shooter at the capitol, could that be a reason maybe? We’ve had two elected officials murdered at the capitol (albeit a very long time ago) might that be a reason? I carry at the capitol, and candidly I don’t think I need to do so. I also have a smoke detector at my house that I don’t think I’m going to need. If one carries a firearm, making decisions based on this venue or that venue as being a “need to carry” or “not need to carry” venue is actually kind of humorous. Can you imagine the thought process of “I think I’m going to be accosted in the mall parking lot tonight so I’ll pack my gun, but I don’t think I’m going to be robbed walking from capitol parking to the capitol tomorrow night so I won’t”? Carrying a gun is like fire insurance, you don’t just have a policy when you believe you’re going to have a fire.<br />
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The Violence Policy Center is just not credible, and candidly has lied on more than one occasion, so their “data” that 166 people have been killed by CHL holders is suspect. How many of those CHL holding shooters were convicted of a crime? Might that be an important bit of information? Could it be that some, if not most of the 166 dead were in the process of committing an assaultive offense against the CHL holder? Has a citizen ever been wrongfully shot and killed by a police officer? Should we take guns away from the police?<br />
To paraphrase the writers closing statement in the editorial:<br />
<br />
“We promise, editorial writer, we won’t think you are any less of a journalist for correcting your errors”<br />
Jerry Patterson<br />
Texas Land Commissioner<br />
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<a href="http://www.texaschl.us/article_letter.htm">http://www.texaschl.us/article_letter.htm</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-80004006180506557202013-09-12T07:39:00.003-07:002013-09-12T07:39:53.233-07:00WIN for Colorado! Colorado state anti-gun senators successfully recalled from office<br />
<b>COLORADANS SAY, ‘NO!’ TO GUN CONTROL</b><br />
<span class="byline-italic" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">By:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/author/tmull/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #006699; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Teresa Mull</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">In an unprecedented move which holds national significance, Colorado voters have successfully recalled two state lawmakers for enacting too-strict gun legislation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Colorado Senate President John Morse (D) of Colorado Springs was defeated on a 51%-49% vote yesterday, and State Senator Angela Giron (D) of Pueblo was defeated by an even larger margin: 56% to 44%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Both lawmakers are responsible for passing legislation imposing stricter gun laws (limiting the size of ammunition magazines and requiring universal background checks), which many voters say violate the Second Amendment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Luke Wagner of the Basic Freedom Defense Foundation, who is leading the effort to depose the senators, said of Sen. Morse: “[He] couldn’t have given us a better gift than to have thrown something in everybody’s face. He decided that rural Coloradans aren’t as important as urban Coloradans. He doesn’t like gun owners.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">“The new gun laws were just the catalyst. A lot of people are very upset about being ignored, so finding vocal moral support hasn’t really been a hard sell.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Two Republicans now take their place.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2013/09/11/coloradans-say-no-to-gun-control/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.humanevents.com/2013/09/11/coloradans-say-no-to-gun-control/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-54475293303053294532013-09-09T12:11:00.003-07:002013-09-09T12:12:05.861-07:00Ohio town's anti-gun law in conflict with Ohio state law. Expect litigation<!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--><br />
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Oberlin, OH, a bastion of liberalism, is bracing itself to deal with a state gun law that many residents and officials oppose. </blockquote>
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City Council is reluctantly mulling a change to its law that prevents firearms in city parks, as it conflicts with an Ohio statute that permits guns in most public places, including parks. If City Council does not rescind the measure, gun owners can take the city to court. Cleveland lost a similar fight over a guns-rights issue in 2010. </blockquote>
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"I'm not in favor of any of this,'' said Council President Ron Rimbert. "No one on Council is. But we need to get this passed. We have a responsibility to our citizens that we don't get caught up in any litigation. In Oberlin, we're protective of our family and friends. But this is a state law.'' </blockquote>
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The move comes weeks after an Ashland County man notified city police that the state law supersedes the city's. Brian Kuzawa told Tom Miller, the city's police chief, in an email Aug. 2 that he and his family would be attending a city park the next day. </blockquote>
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He said he and his wife would be carrying guns, and they did not want to be "accosted by'' Oberlin police. He said Miller called back a few hours after the initial email and said it is legal to carry weapons in the city's park. </blockquote>
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To show support for the state law and to educate others, Kuzawa said, guns-rights advocates went to the Park Street Park about 11 a.m. today to picnic and spend time with their families. About 36 people attended. Some carried firearms in the park where Kuzawa went with his family last month. </blockquote>
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Oberlin Council revisited the local ordinance, passed in 1998, and sought solutions. Council is expected to decide Sept. 16. It has few options: It can rescind the local law so that the city follows the state's, which went into effect in 2006, or it can prepare for a legal fight. </blockquote>
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Doug Deeken, an executive with Ohioans for Concealed Carry, said the issue is simple: "We don't want law-abiding citizens getting arrested in Oberlin for an unenforceable law. That's the crux of the matter.'' </blockquote>
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City officials have learned that others fought similar battles -- and lost. </blockquote>
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In 2007, Cleveland sued Ohio, claiming that the state law involving guns was unconstitutional because it infringed on Cleveland's home-rule authority, or its ability to adopt and enforce its local laws. Three years later, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled against the city, saying the law was constitutional. </blockquote>
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In its decision, the state high court said that law brought uniformity to gun statutes across the state and without it "law-abiding gun owners would face a confusing patchwork of licensing requirements, possession restrictions and criminal penalties as they travel from one jurisdiction to another.'' </blockquote>
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David Noice, a guns-rights advocate from central Ohio, emailed Oberlin officials Aug. 2, the same day Kuzawa sent his notice to the police department. Noice was blunt: "Your city ordinance restricts the possession of firearms in city parks. This is no longer permitted by state law.'' </blockquote>
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"There are numerous public entities that aren't compliant with state law,'' Noice said in an interview. "A lot of them simply don't realize it and are happy when we point it out to them. They move immediately to correct it. Oberlin looks like it will resolve this. But it is complaining every step of the way. It's fine that it has dissenting views, as long as it fixes the problem.'' </blockquote>
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Va. – Twenty-one state attorneys general have co-signed an amicus brief filed
by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange in support of the National Rifle
Association’s challenge against a federal law that restricts the sale of
handguns to young adults aged 18 – 20. The case, National Rifle Association of
America, Inc., et. al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives,
et al., <b>seeks to end the federal prohibition of young adults to purchase
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Young
adults, many of whom have fought and sacrificed life and limb for their
country, should not be prohibited from fully exercising their fundamental Right
to Keep and Bear Arms,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA’s
Institute for Legislative Action. “The Second Amendment should receive no less
respect than our other enumerated constitutional freedoms.”</span><o></o><o:p></o:p></div>
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exercise this aspect of their Second Amendment rights, and “yet Congress has
sought to withdraw this liberty from the same class of people.” The history of
the Founding era makes clear that 18 year olds were considered adults in
regards to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms; for example, the Militia Act of
1792 required 18 year olds to “be enrolled in the militia” and to arm
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Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South
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NRA has been engaged in this ongoing fight for years – in Congress, in state
legislatures, and in the courts – and we will not rest until the Right of every
law-abiding American to Keep and Bear Arms is fully protected by our nation’s
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Established
in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America's oldest civil rights and
sportsmen's group. More than four million members strong, NRA continues to
uphold the Second Amendment and advocates enforcement of existing laws against
violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation's leader
in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement
and the armed services. Be sure to follow the NRA on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation">www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation</a>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-32884163074623396042013-09-05T09:37:00.002-07:002013-09-05T09:37:24.058-07:00NSA starting 'gun registry' - NRA & ACLU are suing<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">NRA joins ACLU lawsuit, claims NSA starting 'gun registry' (video)</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111169; font-size: 12px;">By Brendan Sasso</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Rifle Association joined the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit on Wednesday to end the government's massive phone record collection program. In a brief filed in federal court, the NRA argues that the National Security Agency's database of phone records amounts to a "national gun registry."</span></div>
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">It would be absurd to think that the Congress would adopt and maintain a web of statutes intended to protect against the creation of a national gun registry, while simultaneously authorizing the FBI and the NSA to gather records that could effectively create just such a registry," the group writes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The group claims that Congress could never have meant to authorize such a vast surveillance operation because it has repeatedly rejected proposals to create a national gun registry</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />READ MORE:</span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/320357-nra-claims-nsa-illegally-created-a-gun-database">http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/320357-nra-claims-nsa-illegally-created-a-gun-database</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-64441060222432596102013-08-30T06:55:00.004-07:002013-08-30T06:55:54.064-07:00Yes, it is your Civic Duty to concealed carryBy Jake Southern<br />
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I love trees, the more the better; but I'm a realist not a tree-hugger. Tree-huggers love to talk about our civic duty... to the environment, to our future. <i>And yes, we should be conscious of our actions and not use resources blindly</i>, but global warming is a hoax that has been debunked numerous times, and even disavowed by prior proponents who admit tot he conspiracy behind it.<br />
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So lets get real: You want to talk about <b>real civic duty? </b> What about not wasting <i>other </i>civic resources? Like tax dollars? Like police manpower? You want to know why crime rates go up and the police take 10 minutes to get there when you need them? It's because they are overworked and there aren't enough of them to BABYSIT us when we won't look out for ourselves. There aren't enough of them to make up for our lazy lack of basic civic duty.<br />
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Do you know why homeowners hate it when neighbors leave their garage open all the time? Because it is showing a lack of civic duty. Because it attracts thieves. It is low hanging fruit. Easy pickings for burglars. And like roaches or rats coming for the careless crumbs left on the floor, thieves begin regularly casing the neighborhood. <b>One careless neighbor endangers the rest of the neighborhood.</b><br />
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This is the case with gun-ownership as well. Statistics show that when gun ownership increases, and especially concealed carry increases, crime decreases. Why? Because <b>when we begin taking responsibility for our own lives and for our own safety, crime goes down and dependence on overtaxed police resources goes down</b>. And like roaches or rats, when the easy food disappears, thieves migrate elsewhere.<br />
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One must remember that police forces were not invented or intended to protect us by <b><i>defending </i></b>us. They keep us safe through proactive crime <i>prevention </i>and crime <i>solving</i>. They are peacekeepers and detectives; <b>not security guards</b>. And quite frankly, they don't want to be.<br />
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It is <b>our </b>responsibility to be our own security guards; and the more of us there are who do so, the less crime there will be. <br />
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Yes, it is a constitutionally protected right for individuals to own and bear arms. <b>And yes, it is our Civic duty to do so.</b><br />
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I'm doing my civic duty. Are you?<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">No trees, roaches or rats were harmed in the production of this article.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-36671236619879003682013-08-30T06:30:00.001-07:002013-08-30T06:57:47.059-07:00Houston Look out! More "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" lies and gun-grabbing agenda advancement<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>More "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" lies </b></span></div>
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<b>Gun Owners Nationwide Urge Congress To Support Common-Sense Background Checks</b><br />
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<a class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/gun+owners/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Gun owners</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> will gather at Congressional offices, police stations, and city halls nationwide for events in 11 states this week to call on elected officials to support comprehensive </span><a class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/background+checks/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">background checks</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> that will help guns out of the wrong hands. Polls have found that </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/gun-owners-frank-luntz_n_1699140.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #024a82; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">82 percent of gun owners</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> – including </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/gun-owners-frank-luntz_n_1699140.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #024a82; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">74 percent of NRA members</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> – support this tough-on-crime measure.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">...to support bipartisan legislation that would extend </span><a class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/background+checks/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">background checks</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> to cover private gun sales in commercial settings – including at </span><a class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/gun+shows/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">gun shows</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> and over the Internet.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></blockquote>
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Who the heck are they surveying? <b>No</b>, gun owners nationwide are <b>NOT </b>urging congress to pass this. We are Protesting it! And </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">No, the NRA does not support this measure, and neither do it's members.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The misnamed gun-grabbing group "</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Mayors Against Illegal Guns" is pushing for this, not gun owners. </span></span></div>
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check for every purchase creates a paper trail which <b><u>is tantamount to gun registration - which history
shows nearly 100% of the time, means confiscation!</u></b> </span></span></div>
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is to lend preference to CHLs when selling.
That way we know the buyer is clear, and we don't add yet </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">another</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> record to the big brother database. It also encourages people to get CHLs, and be responsible in their <u><a href="http://whyguncontrol.blogspot.com/2013/08/yes-it-is-your-civic-duty-to-concealed.html">civic duty</a></u> to protect themselves.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-79196368904314876622013-08-27T11:45:00.003-07:002013-08-27T11:45:43.292-07:00If gun control worked, Chicago would be MayberryCommentary by Jake Southern<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"we’re a heck of a lot more capable than our government gives us credit for, aren’t we?"</span></b><br />
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I<b>f gun control worked, Chicago would be Mayberry right now! And Weld County and El Paso County would be Thunderdome! </b>You guys wouldn’t have [Weld County] Sheriff [John] Cooke, you would have Tina Turner and Mel Gibson running around! It would be horrible! <b>But that’s not real life! Real life is gun control not working</b> in Chicago. Real life is gun control failing in Camden, New Jersey and Oakland, California, and a lot of other communities in this country . . . </blockquote>
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We are pushing back with the lawsuits, with the phone calls to our legislators, by electing officials and supporting elected officials who listen to us. But we’re also pushing back by being grownups, and by being okay at it. By having hundreds of people show up at a range and fire thousands of shotgun shells . . . and everybody’s okay! And now we’re enjoying cigars and drinks and we’ll all get home safely tonight, right? </blockquote>
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Because we can control our lives! We can manage our lives! It’s not too difficult. We’re not perfect. We may eat a little too much dessert every now and then. We may not be able to beat that one bad habit, like smoking cigarettes, whatever. <b>But we’re a heck of a lot more capable than our government gives us credit for, aren’t we? </b></blockquote>
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<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/24/video-if-gun-control-worked-chicago-would-be-mayberry/">http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/24/video-if-gun-control-worked-chicago-would-be-mayberry/</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>That's really the key here. Not that "guns cause crime" but that We are more responsible </b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">than our government gives us credit for. The government simply doesn't trust us with guns. In most states, local authorities do, but not Uncle Sam. Why? What's Uncle Sam got to fear from us? Unless they're planning tyranny....</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-13731951430013348332013-08-26T07:50:00.001-07:002013-08-26T07:50:07.363-07:00Why more gun laws won't work<b>DA says tougher gun laws would not have saved murder victim</b><br />
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“These kids are not supposed to have a .22 revolver in the first place... We've got statutes right now that prohibit those three from having a firearm. They're not legally entitled to have a .22-caliber revolver in the first place. You can give me another five, ten, hundred, a thousand laws. It's not going to stop them. They're criminals for a reason. It's because they ... don't follow the laws that are there.”<br />- Stephens County District Attorney Jason Hicks</blockquote>
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Hicks is the DA who is charging and prosecuting the three teens accused in the fatal shooting Aug. 16 of Australian Christopher Lane.<br />
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The crime has renewed debate in the United States over gun control and sparked widespread outrage in Australia, where gun laws are tougher.<br />
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Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday that Jones claimed they decided to kill somebody because they were bored.<br />
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“They shot him in the back. All the evidence that we have suggests that they drove up right next to him, pulled the trigger and took off..."<br />
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Authorities also are trying to determine how the teenagers got the revolver.<br />
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<a href="http://newsok.com/da-says-tougher-gun-laws-would-not-have-saved-murder-victim/article/3875059">http://newsok.com/da-says-tougher-gun-laws-would-not-have-saved-murder-victim/article/3875059</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-60705460436097120612013-08-23T11:23:00.001-07:002013-08-23T11:23:19.680-07:00Do you truly understand Texas Gun Laws?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE - DO YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND TEXAS GUN LAWS?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; text-transform: uppercase;"> BY JEFFREY L. BONEY</span> </blockquote>
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<br /><a href="http://forwardtimesonline.com/2013/index.php/state-local/item/342-ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse-do-you-truly-understand-texas-gun-laws">http://forwardtimesonline.com/2013/index.php/state-local/item/342-ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse-do-you-truly-understand-texas-gun-laws</a></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This article is a good read. However, some of it is not entirely accurate. I guess the author does not "Truly understand Texas gun laws"</span></b><br />
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Per the article:<br />
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"Those places include schools, courtrooms, election polling places, racetracks, and airports, sporting events, establishments where the primary business is the sale of alcohol for on-premises consumption and any establishment posting signs barring guns."</blockquote>
Actually:<br />
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<li>Schools are off limits - <i>only inside the actual buildings and fenced in areas and only unless you have authorization from the school administrator permitting you to carry inside</i>.</li>
<li>Airports are off limits - <i>only in the zone beyond the security checkpoint.</i></li>
<li>And "any establishment" posting signs barring guns - <i>does not count unless that sign meets the very specific legal definition of "effective notice" under the statue</i>.</li>
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Also per the article:<br />
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"Weapons such as machine guns, suppressors and short-barreled firearms are legal in the state of Texas."</blockquote>
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True, <i>but they are still governed by the ATF federal regulations requiring an expensive tax stamp, gun or accessory registration, and a sign off by local Sheriff's department</i> (which is a "may" not a "shall" in the legal language and so the Sheriff can just simply say <i><b>no</b></i>.)</blockquote>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-41874393637360544292013-08-23T07:09:00.000-07:002013-08-23T07:09:07.614-07:00Is Christopher Lane is the White Treyvon Martin?By S. Johnson<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Withe both tragedies have occurred so recently, and racial tensions on both sides in each case, it is easy to see on the surface why many might say that Christopher Lane is the White Treyvon Martin. But if you dig deeper, is that really the case?</span><br />
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Imagine the Left's reaction if the shocking, inter-racial murder of Christopher Lane had occurred when G.W Bush was president and he had stated, "If I had a son, he'd look like Christopher," or "Christopher Lane could've been me 35 years ago." Undoubtedly, the race-peddlers and entire grievance industry would've interpreted his comments as a subtle war declaration against Black America. Yet, when President Obama made these statements about Trayvon Martin, the Lefties claimed that he wasn't being divisive, he was simply "keepin' it real." </blockquote>
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The racial dynamics of both Christopher Lane and Trayvon Martin's scenarios have many people focusing on the similarities. I, on the other hand, see stark contrasts. </blockquote>
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Unlike Trayvon Martin, Christopher Lane doesn't have powerful, race-baiting allies in the Oval Office, Justice Department, media, and entertainment industry. Assuredly, General Holder will not use Chris Lane's senseless murder as a catalyst to pursue his often-requested national race dialogue. Nope. Nor will the Justice Department zealously create a tips hotline (in Zimmerman-like fashion) to build an airtight case against the Chris Lane's shooter for a civil rights violation or hate crime, even though the alleged gunman once tweeted, "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM." </blockquote>
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There will not be nationwide "stop the violence" marches with fed-up participants wearing baseball hats to honor Chris Lane. In fact, this generic tweet from Jesse Jackson, which was likely written by his public relations aides, is all that Chris Lane's parents are likely to receive. It stated, "Praying for the family of Chris Lane. This violence is frowned upon and the justice system must prevail." Apparently, the deepest emotion that this so-called human rights activist was able to muster for Chris Lane was a figurative frown. This guy is such a phony! </blockquote>
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Unlike Trayvon Martin's parents, no mainstream American publication will feature Chris Lane's parents and siblings on its cover with the caption "We Are Chris." Nor will any mainstream publication with a majority White readership use his death to launch a "Save our Sons" campaign, despite the statistical fact that more Whites are killed annually by Blacks than Blacks are killed by Whites. Opportunistic celebrities will not elevate Chris Lane to cultural icon status and the Smithsonian Institution will not consider incorporating any of his jogging apparel from the murder scene into its historic catalogue. Even Oklahoma's Stand Your Ground laws have escaped Florida-like scrutiny because Chris Lane never had a chance to stand his ground. <br />
In summation, Chris Lane is not so analogous to Trayvon Martin. </blockquote>
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Police stated that the juvenile delinquents who killed Chris were arrogant, maintained their bravado, and lacked remorse for their criminality. </blockquote>
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America had better realize that this cavalier behavior isn't an anomaly. These sociopathic tendencies are religiously embraced by a criminal subculture within the Black community whose idea of recreation is to wreck-creation. Sadistic activities such as "Knock-out King," "Polar Bear Hunting," "Apple Picking" etc. are favorite pastimes in urban America. Unfortunately, the destructive tenets of this dysfunctional subculture have now manifested in Duncan, Oklahoma, where Blacks are a mere three-percent of its population. </blockquote>
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If society doesn't deal harshly with this anti-social, Black subculture that's empowered by liberal policies and excused by liberal sympathizers, we will see a significant increase of deaths and/or injuries stemming from "boredom." Advisedly, with Obama at the helm for the next few years, George Bush's sons may want to keep an eye out for Obama sons. </blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/if_gw_bush_had_a_son_hed_look_like_christopher_lane.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/if_gw_bush_had_a_son_hed_look_like_christopher_lane.html</a></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So is Is Christopher Lane is the White Treyvon Martin?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not hardly. No-one wants to hear it, but the truth is Trayvon martin was a thug. I know his type. I grew up with his type. He was not from Sanford Florida, but Miami-Dade, where he was involved in several burglaries and had already been expelled from school. People who didn't even know about Martin's past came out to protest with signs "We are all Treyvon". I hope not. I am not Treyvon. And my son certainly won't be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Black community was angry. The feeling was "we've endured so much disrespect for generations, and now this". It was as if such a crime was <i>expected</i>. Yet another in a long line of White repression of blacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Truth is, respect is privilege earned, not a right. We all have a natural right to life, liberty and the <i>pursuit </i>of happiness. That kind of happiness doesn't happen unless we feel we are treated fairly, and respected. But we have no right to <i>be happy</i> unless we've earned it. Only the right to <i>peruse </i>it; by proving ourselves to the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christopher Lane, on the other hand was a visiting foreign athlete, just out for a jog, when he was SHOT IN THE BACK. And the thugs who did it admit to going out LOOKING for some white person to kill; having posted about it previously on facebook, as well as other racist posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So in both cases, it is actually the White community that has the greater cause for outrage, <i>not </i>the black community. And yet here we are, with self-righteous backs calling for retribution and creating more criminal behavior within the black community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In fact, crime statistics will show that Black on White violent crime is 45 times more prevalent than White on Black violent crime. And Black on Black violent crime is orders of magnitude higher than that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So where is the white rage? Where is the White call for retribution against the black perpetrators? Is the White community "above" all that? Leaving it for the courtroom and allowing justice to prevail without a call for violence? Or more likely - did they all just roll over and take it? Yet another in an infinitely long string of Black on White violence that goes unmentioned and socially unchecked? Like it is <i>expected</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There have been so many recent calls for "dialog" between Blacks and Whites citing a need for cross racial understanding. <b><u>What we really need now is a dialog between Blacks and Blacks.</u></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What we really need now, is a better upbringing for our children. A severe shortage of morals and ethics is being ingrained into generation after generation.</b> How can a child grow up right in a world where even the local preacher rants on about racial divide, throwing out the race card in every sermon?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the broken families, </span><span style="font-size: large;">moral void,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">institutionalized hate, lack of God in our lives, and constant race baiting continues, then it may well degrade into a chaos not seen in the USA in generations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is time for the Black community to put away the race card, stop blaming others for the current predicament, and start asking for help - to heal the families, to heal the broken Black community.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-3366861879895049682013-08-22T12:28:00.003-07:002013-08-22T12:28:48.337-07:00Disarming the Middle Class: Anti-gun Democrat pushes for 50% tax on ammo, 20% excise tax on guns.<b>By Bob Owens</b><br />
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Doesn’t the working man have a right to defend himself?<br />
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Anti-gun Democrat Bill Pascrell don’t think so, and has aimed a punitive tax squarely at you:<br />
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One New Jersey congressman is still fighting for some gun control measures, despite some legislative defeats earlier this year.<br />
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As WCBS 880′s Levon Putney reported, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) has co-sponsored a bill that would increase the taxes on guns and ammunition.<br />
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“The tax on handguns was last increased in 1955,” said Pascrell. “Worse yet, the tax rate on ammunition and other types of firearms has remained the same since 1941. Now we got to make priorities here.”<br />
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Under the Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act, the excise tax on guns would double to 20 percent. For ammunition, Pascrell is pushing for an increase from 11 percent to 50 percent.<br />
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One would be tempted to look even closer at the demographics of who this bill would hit the hardest; good people in bad neighborhoods where crime is highest.<br />
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Is Pascrell trying to raise a negligible amount of taxes (just 0.0036% of US debt), or is he trying to turn the middle class into victims?<br />
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<a href="http://bearingarms.com/disarming-the-middle-class-anti-gun-democrat-pushes-for-50-tax-on-ammunition-20-excise-tax-on-guns/">http://bearingarms.com/disarming-the-middle-class-anti-gun-democrat-pushes-for-50-tax-on-ammunition-20-excise-tax-on-guns/</a><br />
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BEST COMMENTS FROM THE ARTICLE<br />
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"This tax would turn gun ownership into a privilege for the elite, rather than a natural right" - Anonymous</blockquote>
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"And I am for a $5000.00 per household/per year tax on Non-gun owners (called the "First Responders Tax") this tax would go straight to School Security, Police, Fire and EMS programs. Felon and Liberals could pay for their convictions instead me paying for their convictions and ideology." - Sean M.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-48307489981287622222013-08-22T12:02:00.002-07:002013-08-22T12:02:23.290-07:00Protecting Schools from Gun Crime - In a way that actually works.<h1 class="xxlarge" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: BebasNeueRegular, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Arkansas Christian school sign warns potential attackers</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px;">Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio </span><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/teachers-at-this-school-are-packing-heat.html" style="background-color: white; color: #de2f3a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px; text-decoration: none;">reports</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px;"> that a sign outside a Christian school in Bryant, Arkansas, promises to arrange a face-to-face meeting with God for anyone who dares to harm the school’s students.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px;">Wouldn’t it be nice if all schools took the safety of their students this seriously?</span><br />
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<a href="http://bearingarms.com/arkansas-christian-school-sign-warns-potential-attackers/">http://bearingarms.com/arkansas-christian-school-sign-warns-potential-attackers/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187908235993887574.post-51373595178438303702013-08-21T16:22:00.003-07:002013-08-21T16:22:49.788-07:00Colorado’s gun-control recall: Even those at the epicenter of gun violence don't want gun control (Don't tread on us!)<b>Colorado’s gun-control recall</b><br />
<b>Second Amendment restrictions trigger pushback in the Rockies</b><br />
By Jon Caldara<br />
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To someone living on the coasts, the fight in Colorado over gun control — often called by its repackaged name, “gun violence” — might be hard to understand. Restrictions on gun-magazine capacities and background checks for all gun transfers might sound benign. So how could it lead to the first recall elections in the state’s history?<br />
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Colorado has more guns than people. More than 100,000 men and women hold concealed-carry permits, so people here largely know how guns actually work. Consequently, we are less likely to be rattled from the emotional spin of anti-gun hysteria. We know guns that look “mean” aren’t actually military machine guns, that they function like any other semi-automatic gun (pull the trigger once and only one bullet comes out), that the ammunition they use isn’t “high-powered,” and so on.<br />
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We also know the pain of mass shootings better than most communities. We suffered and grieved over the Columbine High School shooting more than a decade ago. That horror put us through the emotional “blame the gun” gambit. However, when the grieving was done, and with the wisdom that comes from perspective, we learned that mental health maladies were at the center of the carnage.<br />
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So when a horrific shooting took place in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., last year, we were sadly familiar with the emotional process and the anti-gun opportunists who would try to exploit our grief. We were not surprised to learn the accused killer had deep mental health issues.<br />
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Reportedly, his problems were so severe that his psychotherapist at the University of Colorado contacted the police to warn them he was a danger to others. That’s where the system broke down. With no criminal record, he passed background checks for gun purchases. This tragedy might have been stopped if we had a system that actually intervenes when experts identify dangerous people like this madman.<br />
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Even our Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper used the national airwaves to say the gun wasn’t the issue — the killer’s mental state was. “This is an act of evil. It is somebody who is, who was an aberration of nature. And, you know, if it wasn’t one weapon, it would have been another. I mean, he was diabolical.”<br />
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So imagine the shock to Coloradans when some months later, that same governor was pushing gun restrictions on the law-abiding<br />
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Led by officials such as Colorado state Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs and state Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo, the chairman of a key committee, sweeping restrictions on gun owners were passed into law.<br />
Mr. Morse and Ms. Giron now face the first recalls in state history, and may be pulled from office in mere weeks via the true grass-roots efforts of their own constituents.<br />
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The new restrictions might not sound like big deal at first blush. They were so poorly written, though, that they could make nearly all magazines, regardless of capacity, illegal. They render gun transfers so onerous that a gun buy-back in Colorado was just canceled because there is no way for the guns turned in to be destroyed.<br />
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So ineffective were these bills that in January, the County Sheriffs of Colorado, speaking unanimously as 62 elected sheriffs, came out to strongly oppose them.<br />
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Regrettably, Mr. Hickenlooper refused to accept a single phone call from these sheriffs to hear their concerns.<br />
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However, as reported by the investigative news site CompleteColorado.com, he had lengthy phone calls with New York’s anti-gun mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, during the debate. Many legislators received calls from Vice President Joe Biden. At the end of the day, only Democrats voted for the bills.<br />
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Mr. Bloomberg’s money and his “consultants” have poured into these recall districts, creating a David versus Goliath battle. Certainly, the recalls in Colorado are about unworkable restrictions on gun owners, but they’re also about who should influence our state government — our own citizens or the rich and powerful from the East.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/20/caldara-colorados-gun-control-recall/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/20/caldara-colorados-gun-control-recall/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0