tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54091293164004909222024-02-19T06:32:16.248-05:00Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765Justice William Smith House, Mercersburg, PA -- Birthplace of the Second Amendment in 1765.JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-23720948153977984592014-11-06T12:32:00.002-05:002014-11-06T12:32:29.770-05:00It’s the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Stupid<div class="article_title" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold 25px/28px Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Over at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Breitbart</em>, Awr Hawkins<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/04/Second-Amendment-Crushes-Gun-Control-Candidates-In-Midterm-Elections" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">suggests</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that “the Second Amendment crushed gun control candidates in Senate and gubernatorial races around the country.” This is evidently true — or, at the very least, it is true that candidates who happened to be pro-gun won overwhelmingly. Whatever dreams the gun-control brigade had in the wake of the abomination at Newtown were dashed, it seems. Why? Well, because support for the right to keep and bear arms is not a political liability in the United States.<br />
Hawkins records that:<br />
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In Texas, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) won. In Maryland, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan (R) won. In Alabama, NRA-endorsed Governor Robert J. Bentley (R) won. In Wisconsin, NRA-endorsed Governor Scott Walker (R) won. In Michigan, NRA-endorsed Governor Rick Snyder (R) won. In Nevada, NRA-endorsed Governor Brian Sandoval (R) won. In Ohio, NRA-endorsed Governor John R. Kasich (R) won. In Oklahoma, NRA-endorsed Governor Mary Fallin (R) won. In Wyoming, NRA-endorsed Governor Matt Mead (R) won. In Idaho, NRA-endorsed Governor Bruce Otter (R) won. In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Governor Sam Brownback (R) won. And in Maine, NRA-endorsed Governor Paul R. LePage (R) won against gun control candidate Michael Michaud (D). (On August 8, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/08/Gabby-Giffords-To-Maine-Raising-Money-For-Gubernatorial-Candidate-Supporting-Gun-Control" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">Breitbart News reported</a> that Michaud was supported by Gabby Giffords.)<br />
In Senate races, gun control Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Cory Gardner (R) and gun control Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Thom Tillis (R). In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Senator Pat Roberts (R) won. In Georgia, NRA-endorsed Senatorial candidate David Perdue (R) won. In Arkansas, NRA-endorsed Tom Cotton (R) won. And in West Virginia, NRA-endorsed Shelley Moore Capito (R) won, marking the first time that state has sent a Republican Senator to Washington DC in over five decades. </blockquote>
It was not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>all</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>good news. An initiative to extend background checks to private sales seems to have passed in Washington State. Per<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/04/washington-state-election-day/18492225/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">NBC</a>:<br />
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Washington voters on Tuesday were passing a measure that would seek universal background checks on all gun sales and transfers. I-594 would also require background checks on private transactions and many loans and gifts.<br />
Voters were against I-591, which would prevent the state from expanding checks beyond the national standard.<br />
At 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, the I-591 count was 55 percent no and 45 percent yes. The I-594 count was 60 percent yes and 40 percent no.</blockquote>
This will presumably be touted as a great victory. But it’s really not. For a start, universal background checks represent the most modest of all the Left’s aims in this area. This was not a ban on “assault” weapons, which remain legal in Washington. It was not a reduction in magazine sizes. It was not a ban on open carry. Instead, it was a law that requires residents of the state to involve a gun dealer when they transfer a weapon to another resident within the state. (Transfers between immediate family members and between spouses or domestic partners are exempt.) I’m against these rules because I think that they are pointless and because they seem invariably to ensnare<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377985/sara-gets-her-gun-charles-c-w-cooke" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">innocent and unaware people</a>. Nevertheless, the significance of Washington’s having adopted the measure should not be overstated. That a blue state such as Washington should have convinced only 6 out of 10 people to support a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=50424" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">billionaire-backed</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>law that does very little in reality is a testament to the strength of support for the right to keep and bear arms even in nominally progressive areas.<br />
In Texas, governor-elect Greg Abbott<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gunssavelives.net/blog/gun-laws/breaking-texas-governor-elect-greg-abbott-will-sign-open-carry-bill/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">announced</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/CBSDFW/status/530053304185655296" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">today</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that, if the state legislature sends him a bill permitting the open carrying of handguns in the state, he would sign it.</div>
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Few of the anti-gun movement’s positions are as self-defeating and mean-spirited as the impulse to “out” others for the choices they make about their Second Amendment rights. Most of them try to justify prying into this private activity under the mismatched rubric of the “public’s right to know,” as if private individuals become public figures merely for the exercise of a fundamental right. In recent years, newspapers have published databases of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070331231318/http:/www.roanoke.com/gunpermits" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">Right-to-Carry</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/nyregion/newspaper-takes-down-map-of-gun-permit-holders.html?_r=0" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">pistol permit holders</a>, feigning interest in “public safety.” Yet their true motivations were more candidly illustrated recently by the comments of D.C. Councilmembers at a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf46n_p-1Kw" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">public hearing on D.C.’s new concealed carrying permitting law</a>. “Who cares about the confidentiality of a gun owner? We don’t want it … ,” Councilwoman Yvette Alexander said, arguing to make permit holder information public. Fellow Council member David Grosso -- who also expressed his preference for “no guns at all” in the District -- concurred: “[A]t least we’ll all know who it is, and we can treat them differently ….”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a name='more'></a>In fact, such tactics are so counterproductive to public safety that even law enforcement officials from anti-gun jurisdictions have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nwitimes.com/uncategorized/state-police-refuse-to-disclose-names-of-firearm-owner-id/article_35079eb5-427d-5a5f-abd0-3a109637abf3.html" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">opposed</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the release of gun owner data, including most recently<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/16/dc-police-chief-opposes-making-names-concealed-car/" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier</a>. Making the anti-gunner’s hypocrisy even more transparent, they claim on the one hand to support stringent storage requirements and “lost or stolen” reporting mandates in order to diminish the effects of firearm theft. Yet at the same time, they call for making firearm ownership or licensing information public, in effect providing criminals with a roadmap of which homes do (and presumably don’t) contain guns, so they can plan their predations accordingly.<br /><br />Now,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/s3586421.shtml" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">according to ABC affiliate KAAL-TV</a>, Kimberly Edson of Savage, Minn., has taken the impulse to “expose” gun owners in her community to a disturbingly personal level. When Edson discovered that Matthew Halleck, a former Parent Teacher Student Association president and father of two, drops his children off at school while lawfully carrying a concealed firearm, she sprang into action.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Edson initially called the police to report that Halleck was carrying a firearm near the school, but was enlightened by law enforcement officials that Halleck was well within his rights. The officious Edson then responded by surreptitiously taking a photo of Halleck walking with his child, blowing it up to poster-size, and crudely pasting it on a yard sign displayed in her front lawn. The photo is accompanied by a caption that states: “This man carries a loaded gun around your children every day.”<br /><br />When interviewed by KAAL, Edson justified her actions by stating, "Since we don't have a way to stop him, we felt it was important to notify the neighborhood and the parents that there is an armed man in their presence.” Displaying a narcissistic disregard for the rights and choices of others in a pluralist society, Edson added, “I have a responsibility to help create the kind of community I want to see.”<br /><br />Edson’s professed concerns are particularly absurd when one considers how unremarkable Halleck’s actions are. According to census data, along with right-to-carry permit statistics from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.madfi.org/permitcount.asp" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">Minnesota Department of Public Safety</a>, on average, nearly one out of every 20 Minnesotans over the age of 21 is licensed to carry a concealed firearm.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Further, the elementary school in question is located in a densely populated residential neighborhood. Polling data suggests, meanwhile, that nearly half of American homes contain firearms, so several of the homes in the neighborhood surrounding the school likely contain firearms as well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165605/personal-safety-top-reason-americans-own-guns-today.aspx" style="color: #0050aa; text-decoration: none;">Additional data</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>showing “Personal safety/Protection” as the number one reason for Americans to own guns suggests that some of those firearms might even be loaded and ready for immediate use.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Edson could, of course, be strikingly ignorant (or willfully in denial) of the prevalence and purpose of lawful gun ownership in America. On the other hand, her actions could also simply lay bare a virulent bigotry towards gun owners devoid of any rational basis or legitimate concern for the safety of children.<br /><br />As for Halleck, he hasn’t let Edson’s bizarre and un-neighborly behavior alter how he protects himself and his children. When interviewed by KAAL, Halleck called Edson’s sign “ludicrous.” Regarding the public debate over the choice to carry a firearm, he stated, “If it heightens the awareness for folks out there that are confident enough, and see the changes in the world to add an extra layer of protection, I encourage people to do it.”<br /></div>
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With elections just around the corner it’s not uncommon to hear politicians say all kinds of outlandish things to voters in an attempt to further cement their chances of winning an election.</div>
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But Mark Udall is making the commander in chief look like a rookie when it comes to the lies he’s telling.</div>
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In case you don’t know, Mark Udall is Colorado’s progressive Senator looking to severely hobble second amendment supporters.</div>
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And to court undecided voters who don’t like Obama, Udall has come up with a fairy tale where he insists that he’s the last person President Obama wants to see coming down the lawn of the White House. You know, because he’s always telling Obama “No.”<br />
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Udall has tried to convince voters that he’s actually working against the President most of the time. However, his voting record really doesn’t support the image he’s trying to portray.</div>
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As<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/10/02/senator-who-supports-wh-99-percent-of-the-time-im-a-thorn-in-obamas-side-n1899958" style="color: #0f5a99; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Town Hall reports</a>, “Colorado’s Mark Udall is the ultimate Obama rubber stamp. He’s represented his purple state in a reflexively partisan, close-minded manner, backing President Obama 99 percent of the time.”</div>
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And unfortunately for gun owners in the Mile High State, Udall’s voting record has severely limited their 2nd Amendment freedoms to where Colorado now has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.</div>
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Udall is very much like the man he claims to aggravate, consistently voting in favor of harsher gun control laws every single time he can. He has voted for anti-gun judges, magazine bans, universal gun owner registration and much more.</div>
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So what’s this about him being a pain in Obama’s side? Is he simply trying to pull the wool over voters’ eyes?</div>
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In short, yes.</div>
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Fact of the matter is, of all the lawmakers in the nation, he is only one of a handful that has been selected to hit the greens with Obama. Apparently, playing golf with Obama counts as “resistance.”</div>
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Gun Owners of America has compiled a list they call “<a href="http://www.gunowners.org/media1082014.htm" style="color: #0f5a99; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Udall’s Dirty Dozen</a>,” which catalogs the many times Udall has restricted conservatives’ right to bear arms.</div>
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Udall might be be getting high on the legal weed out there in Colorado because no one in their right mind can say they’re a pain in Obama’s side when they’re the one who is helping get Obama’s gun control rammed through the legislative process.</div>
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Perhaps that’s why Michael Bloomberg endorsed Udall for Everytown for Gun Safety, Bloomberg’s pet project to get guns out of people’s hands.</div>
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Whatever the case might be, if a politician like Udall or Obama says they’re in favor of the second amendment, you can assume they’re lying about that too.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. ~</em>2nd Amendment to the US Constitution<br />Nothing seems to evoke more passion from either side of the aisle than America’s illustrious 2nd amendment. People on my side of the fence often cite the “shall not be infringed part,” but those who wish to limit or eliminate the citizenry’s right to carry arms often cite the “a well-regulated militia” part.<a name='more'></a><br />
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Their argument seems pretty sound on the face of it. What they’re saying is that our Constitution framers meant for only the militia to be armed. These people then define a militia in today’s society as the police or military. Makes sense, right? Not so fast.</div>
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If we apply logical thought for a minute, it makes no sense whatsoever. The Constitution was drafted, not as a set of laws for the people to abide by, but instead it is a limit to the government’s power over the people.</div>
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“We the people” grant government the right to infringe on our rights in order to serve the greater good of our nation. But fearing that such a government could become as oppressive as our recently defeated European overlords of the time, they drafted the Constitution to protect us from future similar oppression.</div>
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For instance, our first amendment states “<em style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="st" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></em><span class="st" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">versus something like “<em style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You are free to practice any religion of your choosing.”</em></span></div>
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This pattern is consistent in the entirety of the Bill Of Rights, and while most see both those phrases as essentially the same, there’s an incredibly important distinction. As the Constitution’s written, the people have the power and are imposing a limit on the government’s ability to limit their religious freedom. In the following theoretical example, it implies government has the power and is granting religious rights to the people.</div>
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So with that in mind, let’s revisit the “militia” thing. If we assume the term “militia” refers to the military and police, which are government entities; it means what those who wish to limit our gun rights believe our forefathers wrote an amendment that says that government cannot infringe on government’s rights to bear arms. This is not only inconsistent to the rest of the Bill of Rights, but its redundancy is nonsensical. If government cannot infringe on government’s rights to carry guns, then there would be no reason to even mention it in the first place.</div>
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So why do gun control advocates believe this is what the 2nd amendment implies? It’s a simple case of confirmation bias. In the world of psychology and science, confirmation bias is a phenomenon whereby someone attempting to prove something they hope to be true/false, eschew interpretations that conflict with their bias and/or accept suspect data that supports their bias, due to an inner desire to feel they were right all along.</div>
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We are all prone to do this, and with the exception of devout skeptics like myself, we’ll rarely even know we’re doing it, nor act to correct it.</div>
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For instance, imagine a guy that fancies himself a ladies man. He encounters a woman he finds attractive who then politely smiles at him. He decides this means she, like all other women, “wants” him, when in reality, it could simply mean she’s just being nice. He has taken a bit of evidence (her smiling at him), and interpreted it in a way that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">confirms</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>his belief that all women want him. Thus,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">confirm</strong>ation bias.</div>
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In Dale Carnegie’s Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, #5 is “Seek first to understand, then be understood.” It is easy to assume gun control advocates are simply people who hate guns and want to take them away from those of us who don’t.</div>
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While this is often true, many may me be like former US representative Gabby Giffords who was brutally shot in 2011 by a crazed killer on an unhinged political shooting spree, or former Reagan White House Press Secretary James Brady who was shot in a failed presidential assassination attempt. Their lives were forever changed because of gun violence, so it’s quite reasonable to assume they would advocate limiting our right to bear arms.</div>
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But in the scientific community, anecdotal evidence, which is what those instances are, is not real evidence. As I pointed out in a previous post<a href="http://logicallibertarian.com/2013/01/21/what-we-need-is-science-not-knee-jerk-reactions/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #24890d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Click here)</a>, the data (approximately one murderer for every 100,000 gun owners) simply doesn’t support that America has a dangerous gun culture. Such killings are mental health issues, not gun issues.</div>
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The “militia” thing is also misinterpreted because people fail to realize what our country was in the late 1700’s. Between the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the Constitution which followed in 1787 was ratified, we were in essence an anarchist nation. There was neither a military or police. We were just a band of people breaking off of Europe’s rule. While there were cities established, most people and communities outside of those few highly populated areas were largely left to fend for themselves.</div>
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How would they go about doing that? They would form a militia. Our forefathers understood that in these outlying areas especially, the people would be under threat of robbers, murderers, or even people who might decide to set up a local government and impose oppressive laws similar to those we declared independence from.</div>
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But more importantly, it’s fairly well understood that as they wrote the Constitution, they enumerated rights ambiguously on purpose. They knew every instance where rights might be in question could not be thought of and accounted for, so by being ambiguous, they covered them all in an effort to ensure our nation remained one of liberty and freedom.</div>
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For instance, instead of saying the right to criticize the government, criticize the church, or say generally hateful things shall not be infringed, they declared that the right to free speech shall not be infringed—an all encompassing phrase. Such ambiguity ensured that as our nation grew, and new reasons for those rights to be preserved arose, they always would be.</div>
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So apologies to those who wish to limit our rights to bear arms, but if you want to argue against gun rights, using the “militia” argument so many of you are prone to put forth, makes absolutely no sense. If you put forth compelling scientific evidence to limit those rights, make your case and get a constitutional amendment passed, or accept this is the law of the land.</div>
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Those of you on my side of the argument, remember this, and you’ll be armed to take down their nonsensical argument as the ridiculous premise it clearly is.</div>
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The debate over the Second Amendment has been fierce and terrible, with bad arguments on both sides, and bad will all around. It began in the nineteen-sixties, when there was a great deal of violence and much concern about it. It took another turn on Friday, when, at the N.R.A.’s annual meeting, in St. Louis, Newt Gingrich said, “The Second Amendment is an amendment for all mankind.”</div>
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As I <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/23/120423fa_fact_lepore">wrote</a> in this week’s <em>New Yorker</em>, no amendment received less attention in the courts in the two centuries following the adoption of the Bill of Rights than the Second, except the Third (which dealt with billeting soldiers in private homes). It used to be known as the “lost amendment,” because hardly anyone ever wrote about it. The assertion that the Second Amendment protects a person’s right to own and carry a gun for self-defense, rather than the people’s right to form militias for the common defense, first became a feature of American political and legal discourse in the wake of the Gun Control Act of 1968, and only gained prominence in the nineteen-seventies.<br />
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A milestone in its development came when Orrin Hatch, serving on Strom Thurmond’s Senate Judiciary Committee, became chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Hatch commissioned a history of the Second Amendment, resulting in <a href="http://www.constitution.org/mil/rkba1982.htm">a 1982 report</a>, “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” which concluded, “What the Subcommittee on the Constitution uncovered was clear—and long lost—proof that the second amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for protection of himself, his family, and his freedoms.” </div>
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During the nineteen-eighties, this interpretation, which came to be known as the individual-rights argument, gained the attention of several distinguished law-school professors, including, most notably, Sanford Levinson, whose 1989 essay, “The Embarrassing Second Amendment,” was published in the <em>Yale Law Journal</em>. Levinson suggested that legal scholars’ long-standing inattention (“To put it mildly, the Second Amendment is not at the forefront of constitutional discussion,” he remarked), was probably political:</div>
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I cannot help but suspect that the best explanation for the absence of the Second Amendment from the legal consciousness of the elite bar, including that component found in the legal academy, is derived from a mixture of sheer opposition to the idea of private ownership of guns and the perhaps subconscious fear that altogether plausible, perhaps even ‘winning,’ interpretations of the Second Amendment would present real hurdles to those of us supporting prohibitory regulation.</blockquote>
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Levinson also discussed what is called an insurrectionist interpretation, in which the Second Amendment is thought to allow for a militia of armed citizens standing “ready to defend republican liberty against the depredations” of a government become tyrannical. Levinson didn’t endorse either the individual or insurrectionist views, nor did he dismiss them. Instead, he urged scholars to take them seriously. His essay was essentially a plea for reasoned debate: “Is not, after all, the possibility of serious, engaged discussion about political issues at the heart of what is most attractive in both liberal and republican versions of politics?”</div>
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The tragedies at Waco in 1993 and in Oklahoma City in 1995, both of which involved a modern militia movement, brought the insurrectionist interpretation of the Second Amendment to the public’s attention and prompted vigorous critiques. In “<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/sep/21/to-keep-and-bear-arms/" target="_blank">To Keep and Bear Arms</a>,” an essay published in The <em>New York Review of Books</em> five months after Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building, Garry Wills called Levinson’s essay, which had been embraced by the N.R.A., “frivolous,” and reported that he found “a vast outpouring of articles justifying individual gun ownership on the basis of the Second Amendment” to be muddled and tendentious. </div>
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Wills also noted that, in advancing gun-rights arguments, the same people who offered the individual-rights interpretation usually also endorsed the insurrectionist one. “Only madmen, one would think, can suppose that militias have a <em>constitutional</em> right to levy war against the United States, which is treason by constitutional definition,” Wills wrote. “Yet the body of writers who proclaim themselves at the scholarly center of the Second Amendment’s interpretation say that a well-regulated body authorized by the government is intended to train itself for action <em>against</em> the government.” As to whether those who advocate these positions had been ignored, Wills wrote, “Perhaps it is the quality of their arguments that makes them hard to take seriously.”</div>
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, American historians who disagreed with the individual and insurrectionist interpretations of the Second Amendment began to take them more seriously when it became clear that a conservative judiciary was taking them seriously, and that a test case would reach the Supreme Court. An important statement of what is generally referred to as the collective-rights interpretation—the idea that what the Second Amendment protects is the people’s collective right to keep and bear arms to form militias for the common defense—is an <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/07-290_amicus_historians.pdf">amicus curiae submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court</a> in the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, signed by fifteen eminent university professors of early American history, including Pauline Maier, Fred Anderson, and Pulitzer Prizes winners Jack Rakove and Alan Taylor. It concludes, </div>
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Historians are often asked what the Founders would think about various aspects of contemporary life. Such questions can be tricky to answer. But as historians of the Revolutionary era we are confident at least of this: that the authors of the Second Amendment would be flabbergasted to learn that in endorsing the republican principle of a well-regulated militia, they were also precluding restrictions on such potentially dangerous property as firearms, which governments had always regulated when there was “real danger of public injury from individuals.” </blockquote>
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The different weight the Court gave to these different interpretations is suggested by its decision in Heller. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, determined that, “The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia.” </div>
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How Heller will be interpreted is as yet unclear. In “Dead or Alive,” a 2008 essay in the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>, Reva B. Siegel instructively situated the decision within the history of originalism and reflected on the tension between conservatives’ championing of gun rights as a social issue and their condemnation of judicial activism. After Waco and Oklahoma City, the insurrectionist argument faded somewhat. But the individual-rights interpretation, as Siegel observed, prevailed not only in the courts but also in public opinion. A 2008 poll found that nearly three-quarters of American adults believe that the Second Amendment protects the right of an individual to own a gun. </div>
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In his remarks before the N.R.A. last week, Gingrich offered a human-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. “A Gingrich presidency,” he said, “will submit to the United Nations a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right for every person on the planet.”</div>
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The United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world, twice that of the country with the second highest rate, which is Yemen. The United States also has the highest homicide rate of any affluent democracy, nearly four times higher than France or the United Kingdom, six times higher than Germany. In the United States in 2008, guns were involved in two-thirds of all murders. Of interest to many people concerned about these matters, then, is when the debate over the Second Amendment will yield to a debate about violence.</div>
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JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-4558774067463656732014-09-15T08:47:00.003-04:002014-09-15T08:48:50.838-04:002nd Amendment Quote <!--StartFragment --><br />
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."<br />
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<em>By Alan Caruba</em><br /> When we celebrate the Fourth of July, let’s keep in mind that the first Americans won their independence from England with the force of arms. It was, in fact, a British effort in 1775 to confiscate military arms they believed were stored in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts that sparked the war.<br /><br /> The Founding Fathers were so aware of the need for an armed citizenry that, after ensuring freedom of religion, speech, press and the right to peacefully assemble in the First Amendment, the Second guaranteed their right to bear arms. <br /><br /> Wherever authoritarian regimes were established in the last century, they took away this right and then proceeded to kill those deemed enemies of the state.</div>
<a name='more'></a> At this point in American history, the Obama administration constitutes a threat to the Constitution in general and the Second Amendment in particular. <br /><br /> More than 80,000,000 Americans are gun owners. <br /><br /> Two of the organizations that have been fighting to protect these rights are the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), both led by Alan M. Gottlieb. Three quarters of the SAF budget is devoted to defending rights pertaining to the ownership of guns and to carry them for self-defense. <br /><br /> In March, the Huffington Post had an article titled “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/obama-gun-laws-congress_n_836138.html"><span id="goog_210072110"></span><span style="color: #378add;">Obama Looking for Ways Around Congress on Gun Policy”<span id="goog_210072111"></span></span></a> by Sam Stein. “Faced with a Congress hostile to even slight restrictions of Second Amendment rights, the Obama administration is exploring potential changes to gun laws that can be secured strictly through executive action, administration officials, say.”<br /><br />Since then we have learned of a U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms program, Fast and Furious, that actually facilitated the sale and transfer of guns to Mexico. How demented is that? <br /><br /> In May in my home state of New Jersey the SAF won a decision against officials for the deprivation of civil rights under the color of law when they had ruled that an applicant for a concealed carry permit had not demonstrated a “justifiable need” for it. In point of fact, the applicant, Philip Muller, had been kidnapped by members of a motorcycle gang who threatened to kill him. They had, however, grabbed the wrong man. <br /><br /> Despite support by local and state police, action on his application was delayed for six months. Morris County Superior Court Judge David Ironson issued a directive that a permit should be granted. The case is still on-going with other plaintiffs that include a part-time sheriff’s deputy, an applicant who carries large amounts of cash in his private business, and a civilian employee of the FBI with legitimate concerns of an attack from a radical Islamic group. <br /><br /> Currently nearly thirty such cases have either been brought or joined by SAF to stop abuses of this most fundamental right of American citizens ranging from bans on interstate handgun sales, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s imposition of a $340 fee for a permit to keep a handgun in one’s home, and a Chicago ban on gun ranges open to the public. These cases cost between $60,000 and $80,000 each!<br /><br /> The greatest single threat to gun ownership right now is a United Nations “Small Arms Treaty” falsely identified as an “international arms control treaty” allegedly to fight terrorism.”<br /><br /> “In reality,” says Gottlieb, it is “a massive, global gun control scheme. It’s a sham. It’s a fraud.” If the U.S., under the Obama administration and with the consent of the Senate, were to sign on to this treaty, it would <em>nullify</em> the Second Amendment.<br /><br /> Suffice to say that the Obama administration wants to have the power to increase federal fees on guns and ammunition, to ban guns that are imported, to extend the waiting periods for permits, to ban the use of guns on all government property, and even to make it illegal if you own a gun and smoke!<br /><br /> Americans do not have to “justify” gun ownership. It is guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The reality is that enemies of this fundamental rights continue to wage an assault on it.<br /><br /> For information about SAF visit <a href="http://www.saf.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">http://www.saf.org/</span></a> and CCRKBA at <a href="http://www.ccrkba.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">http://www.ccrkba.org/</span></a>.<br /><br />© Alan Caruba, 2011 <br />
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<em>By </em><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/archive/theodore-bromund"><em> Theodore Bromund</em></a><em> - Fox News - 9/10/ 2014</em><br /><br />The United Nations turns 70 in 2015. Fox News is asking a selection of distinguished contributors occasionally to contribute their thoughts on what it has become, and how to shape its future.<br /><br />As the United Nations starts to celebrate its 70th anniversary, it’s showing Americans the kind of openness it really believes in.<br /><br />The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a controversial effort that is highly sensitive in the U.S. due to Second Amendment concerns and worries about its impact on U.S. foreign policy, is nearing the fifty ratifications it needs to come into force, and all critics have been kicked out of the room.<a name='more'></a>The ATT is ostensibly intended to keep conventional weapons ranging from pistols to battle tanks out of the hands of drug lords, terrorists and human-rights abusing dictators, but is unlikely to be effective. . It was voted into existence in April 2013, and the Obama administration signed on—among 118 nations that did so—promising vociferously that American Second Amendment rights would be respected.<br />Here's how the U.N. defines democracy: rule in secret, with oversight by those who agree with it. Then, when the body calls for input, what it gets is applause.<br /><br />By the end of September, the ATT is likely to get the last five national ratifications it needs to get to the magic threshold. The next step is to hold a conference of the nations that are party to the treaty, which could take place by May 2015. <br /><br />The government of Mexico has taken the lead in organizing that conference, where activists will kick off their campaigns to put the treaty into effect And that’s where the trouble starts.<br /><br />While the ATT was negotiated at the U.N., it was pushed along by anti-gun groups. But the negotiations were also watched by U.S. and international organizations that were <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-should-not-sign-the-un-arms-trade-treaty">critical</a> of the treaty, including the World Forum on Shooting Activities (WFSA) and my own employer, The Heritage Foundation. The U.N. generically calls these and other groups, regardless of their views on the treaty, “civil society.”<br /><br />But that is not how the U.N. wants to work. It pretends to support open and transparent processes, and to value input from everyone. But what it really wants is to pick groups who agree with it and define them alone as“civil society.”<br /><br />But now, in the run-up to the Mexico conference, the skeptics have been shown the door. Thomas Mason, the U.S. Executive Secretary of the WFSA, reports that when they tried to register to attend conference preparatory meetings, they were told that “attendance is constrained to . . . [organizations] that have been supporting and promoting the ATT.”<br /><br />The argument that the Mexico conference is only for the treaty’s friends is ridiculous. This is a U.N. treaty. The critics, all of them U.N.-accredited organizations, have as much right to attend as the cheerleaders. They are not nations that have the power to sign the treaty; they are observers who speak only for themselves.<br /><br />Mexico has long wanted all firearms sales – including those inside the U.S. – to be controlled by the treaty. It’s outsourced the role of door-keeper to its conference to the anti-gun groups. And none of those people have any interest in allowing critics in the room. They want to work in secret.<br /><br />As Mason puts it, “The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is not yet in effect and yet it is already being abused. If this continues, the ATT will be nothing more than a vehicle for international gun control schemes.”<br /><br />This kind of back-room bureaucratic control is typical of the way that the U.N. operates, and why Americans don’t trust it. Yet according to the Obama Administration, if the U.S. didn’t negotiate the ATT through the U.N., the anti-gun groups would make an even worse treaty outside it.<br /><br />But now, predictably, we have the worst of both worlds: a U.N. treaty dominated by collaboration with the anti-gun groups.<br /><br />This U.N.-sanctioned discrimination has not gone unchallenged. Continuing his outstanding leadership on the issue, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) has written to President Obama, pointing out the U.N.’s hypocrisy and urging him to protest the way the preparatory meetings are being conducted.<br /><br />As Rep. Kelly puts it, “If a U.N. activity is open to one civil society organization, it must be open to all such organizations that are properly accredited with the relevant U.N. body.”<br /><br />But that is not how the U.N. wants to work. It pretends to support open and transparent processes, and to value input from everyone. But what it really wants is to pick groups who agree with it and define them as “civil society.”<br /><br />That’s the way the U.N. (and other transnational organizations, like the European Union) define democracy: rule in secret, with oversight by those who agree with it. Then, when the body calls for input, what it gets is applause.<br /><br />As the U.N. stands on the threshold of its anniversary year, it’s never looked less civil, less open, or less democratic. This must change — starting with action by an administration that defended working through the U.N. as the best way to ensure that American rights and concerns were respected.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/b/theodore-bromund"><em>Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D</em></a><em>. is a Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations at the </em><a href="http://www.heritage.org/"><em>Heritage Foundation</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em>Why Some Jews Have Lox With a Side of Glocks<br /><br />By </em><a href="http://forward.com/authors/paul-berger/"><em>Paul Berger</em></a><em> - 9/8/2014</em><br />Is the person next to you in shul packing heat?<br /><br />If you live in a state with permissive gun laws, the answer might be yes.<br /><br />Rabbi Anthony Fratello, of Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach, Florida, said the only armed congregants he knows of work in law enforcement. But he would not be surprised if others carry a concealed weapon, too.<br /><br />“Maybe I wouldn’t be so happy to know Chaim Yankel in the back row had got a gun,” Fratello said. “But I can’t do anything about that. I don’t frisk people when they come in the door.”<br /><br />The High Holy Days are a time of heightened security. But this year, some American communities feel particularly vulnerable amid reports of rising anti-Semitism in Europe and heightened tension worldwide, including at home, following the war between Israel and Hamas.<a name='more'></a>Recent reports of anti-Semitic incidents in New York and in Los Angeles, as well as a racial supremacist’s killing of three people in shootings five months ago at Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas, have only increased that sense of insecurity.<br /><br />Although most synagogues hire additional security for the High Holy Days, for some congregants, bringing a gun to synagogue is a sensible option. Indeed, congregants with concealed carry permits say it is not that unusual — carrying a weapon is part of their daily routine.<br /><br />“I usually carry a gun everywhere,” said Bill Osofsky, a 65-year-old who lives in Ogden, Utah.<br /><br />Osofsky said he did not know if his synagogue, Congregation Brith Sholem, prohibits weapons. “They certainly discourage it, but I wasn’t concerned about that,” said Osofsky, who is about to move out of state. “There are higher priorities to me. My safety goes beyond synagogue policy.”<br /><br />Osofsky first applied for a concealed carry permit in 1993, when he lived on Long Island in New York. He wanted a gun for self-defense after six people were killed and 19 injured in a shooting spree on the Long Island Railroad. But Osofsky found it too difficult to get a permit in New York. When he moved to Utah 17 years ago, the process was much simpler.<br /><br />It is easier to get a concealed carry permit in the 39 states known as “shall issue” states, where authorities must issue a concealed carry license unless there is a demonstrable reason not to do so. Such states include Florida, Texas and Illinois. In “may issue” states, such as California and New York, concealed carry licenses are much harder to obtain because they are issued at the discretion of local authorities.<br /><br />Some rabbis approve of congregants coming armed to synagogue, though they are a minority.<br /><br />Rabbi Stuart Federow, who leads Shaar Hashalom, a Conservative congregation in Houston, said that because synagogues are a prime terrorist target, he is thankful for congregants who arm themselves. He said that dozens of people of all ages show up to an informal Jewish group called Glocks & Bagels, which meets infrequently at a local firing range.<br /><br />“I know there are members of my congregation who do, in fact, carry a gun when they are at my synagogue. I have no problem with them doing that,” Federow said.<br />Congregation Shearith Israel, in Atlanta, has no official policy allowing guns, which makes the carrying of a firearm inside the building illegal. But apart from the “philosophical” problem of violating the law, the congregation’s rabbi, Hillel Norry, said he does not mind if a congregant brings a concealed weapon to services. “We have an armed security guard… every Shabbat,” Norry said. “But he’s just one guy.”<br /><br />Rabbi Akiva Males, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said that he, too, has no problem with the few congregants he knows of who have a concealed carry permit and who bring a weapon to services.<br /><br />Males cited the experience of one congregant, Josh First, who was walking to synagogue with his 9-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son in 2008 when they were attacked by two pit bulls. First shot one of the dogs at point blank range as it chased his son. The shots fatally injured the dog and scared away the other.<br /><br />“Had I not had a license to carry firearms and a concealed 9 mm pistol, without a doubt my 4-year-old son would have died and my 9-year-old daughter would have been badly mauled and possibly killed,” First explained in a letter to the congregation after the incident.<br /><br />Still, most rabbis the Forward spoke to oppose congregants bringing a weapon to synagogue. “Let’s say somebody gets in [to the synagogue] who shouldn’t and has a gun and starts shooting,” said Rabbi Peter Berg, of Atlanta. “What happens? Does every congregant who has a gun start shooting randomly and it’s a free-for-all?”<br /><br />Berg is part of a coalition of clergy in Georgia that earlier this year opposed Gov. Nathan Deal’s bill to expand the places people could legally carry a weapon to include bars, schools and places of worship.<br /><br />Berg knows firsthand the perils of people bringing a concealed weapon into a synagogue. In 2007, when Berg was a rabbi in Dallas, an 81-year-old congregant accidentally dropped his gun during a service, shooting the congregant’s daughter in the foot. “He was a police officer, so he is trained to use a gun,” Berg said.<br /><br />The wording of Georgia’s gun bill was amended so that concealed weapons were permitted in places of worship only if the institution had a specific policy allowing people to do so.<br /><br />The bill prompted many Georgia synagogues to post signs prohibiting weapons and to email congregants to remind them that the synagogue is a no-gun zone. The board of Agudath Achim, a Conservative congregation in Savannah, emailed congregants in June, reminding them that “it has been, and remains, illegal for anyone other than a police officer or security guard engaged by the synagogue to carry a concealed weapon into the synagogue building.”<br /><br />Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, a gun control activist based in Mahwah, New Jersey, said synagogue protection should be left to private security firms, and to the police. Mosbacher’s father, Lester Mosbacher, was shot and killed during a robbery in Chicago in 1999.<br /><br />Mosbacher said that far from making synagogues safer, congregants carrying weapons only make it more dangerous because of the risk of accidents.<br /><br />“The culture of gun love in this country is what is astounding to me,” Mosbacher said. “And that’s true everywhere, and no less in certain parts of the Jewish community.”<br /><br />Following the shootings in Overland Park, this past April, several rabbis in Kansas City said that congregants have asked about security for the High Holy Days. All three of the victims, none of whom was Jewish, were shot outside the Overland Park JCC and the Village Shalom senior center.<br /><br />Since the attack, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and local police have worked with Jewish institutions to assess and tighten security.<br /><br />Jacob Schreiber, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, said that the JCC will soon hire a community director of security who will advise all Jewish facilities on how to make buildings safer. “Our awareness of security is heightened, and we are actively doing things about it, so people don’t necessarily feel the need to take it into their own hands,” Schreiber said.<br /><br />Even so, Schreiber added: “I think some synagogues have people that quietly carry guns in their tallis bags. Are people talking about it more? Yeah, I’m sure they are.”JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-74641762650006629142014-09-08T22:11:00.005-04:002014-09-08T22:11:47.812-04:00Doctors Can Be Wrong <span class="article_title"> <br /><br /> <em>The American Academy of Pediatrics doesn’t have the facts about children and gun safety. <br /><br />By </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/author/1282081"><em>Robert B. Young</em></a><em> - 9/5/2014</em> <br /> <br />There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth among physicians and medical societies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), over the Florida law that forbids questioning patients about gun ownership. In late July, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/us-usa-florida-guns-idUSKBN0FU2BH20140725">ruled</a> that this was “legitimate regulation” of physicians’ conduct, intended to protect “patient privacy and curtail abuses of the physician-patient relationship.” Physicians who can see past the perceived insult to their autonomy would understand that this <a href="http://thegunwriter.blogs.heraldtribune.com/17525/a-pro-gun-doc-on-docs-v-glocks/">changes nothing</a> about good care.</span><a name='more'></a>A Florida pediatrician, Kristie Rivers, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristie-rivers-md-faap/the-questions-i-cant-ask-_b_5698055.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics">writes</a> in the Huffington Post about her reaction to this restriction on her practice, in the context of her five-year-old son’s new fascination with gun play. In “The Questions I Can’t Ask about Guns,” she seems to equate her parental responsibility to teach her son about guns with her medical responsibility to teach patients about them. She gets individual gun safety right when teaching her son but follows the AAP’s misrepresentation of gun control as societal “gun safety.” Like a number of such associations, the AAP exaggerates the risk children face from guns, and do not respect the role of parents and gun owners in keeping children safe around firearms. “Gun safety” happens when guns are used properly, not avoided.<br /><br />“Naïvely,” she had “never thought [she] had a need” to talk to her child about guns. The family had no guns or toy guns and didn’t play violent movies or video games. She had “thought he would not be interested in guns or would just KNOW they are dangerous and not to be touched.” To her credit, despite her “shock,” she responded appropriately. She explained their danger and discussed what to do if he saw one.<br /><br />Naïveté doesn’t work. All children are exposed to guns — somehow, somewhere in our culture, in the media or as someone’s toys, and ultimately, for better or worse, to the real things. Children have their own ideas, whether we’ve inquired or not (so inquire!). Fortunately, Dr. River’s son already knew not to touch a gun, and especially not to pull the trigger. He is developing the “healthy respect for guns” that she wants for him, and that all of us should want for our children.<br /><br />Dr. Rivers acknowledges that she does “not even pretend to understand the intricacies of the laws regarding gun control.” That’s clear, because she references the AAP. For example, she writes that “in the United States, approximately 500 children die each year from accidental gunshot wounds, with another 7,500 children hospitalized for non-fatal wounds, according to the [AAP].” But, as I <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386698/child-and-uzi-robert-b-young">explained</a> recently on NRO, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html">show</a> that in 2011 only 74 accidental firearm deaths occurred among children up to age 14. And there were 6,220 unintentional and intentional firearm injuries in this age group (hospitalized or not). That’s just 0.01 percent of all reported injuries among children 14 and younger. (CDC firearms statistics even include BB- and pellet-gun shootings!)<br /><br />The AAP also <a href="http://www.bundoo.com/articles/gun-safety-and-toddlers/">claims</a> that “the absence of guns from children’s homes and communities is the most reliable and effective measure to prevent firearm-related injuries in children and adolescents” (my emphasis). This is a call for gun confiscation. It’s like saying that eliminating cars would prevent against car crashes. Cars and guns are important tools to too many people. And as so many do, the AAP ignores the protection from harm that <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent">guns confer</a> a half-million to 3 million times a year.<br /><br />Why are the AAP’s figures so discrepant from the best current data? They may be old, as overall deaths and injuries from gunshots have steadily decreased for many years. Many reports have exaggerated youth mortality from firearms, mostly through deceptive definitions of “children” as those up to age 18 or 21 or even 24, depending on which studies you read. Most of us think “children” are those up to approximately twelve years of age, and “youth” up to 18 to 21, and neither as old as 24. By including older teenagers and even adults in their early 20s, some reports incorporate in “pediatric” firearms deaths and injuries the major uptick reflecting urban gang and drug violence carried out by and targeting those “youth.” And since these findings only associate nearby guns, whoever owns them, with gunshot wounds incurred, there is no demonstrable cause-and-effect relationship regarding legally owned guns within households. According to the CDC, total firearms deaths in 2011 through age 14 were 383 (74 accidental). By comparison, there were 2,255 (66 accidental) from ages 15 to 19, and 3,865 (64 accidental) from ages 20 to 24.<br /><br />Violent deaths at any age are unacceptable, but this is not nearly the epidemic some would have us believe. For younger children, preventing injury from gun violence means adults acting responsibly in teaching about and controlling access to their firearms. For older youth, the same applies, with allowance made for the growth of their own good judgment. For all of us, it can also mean using firearms to defend children against others who would harm them. For doctors, it means not acting paternalistic toward responsible adults who seek their medical expertise.<br /><br />So what are we to conclude? I recommend questioning authority. This includes medical societies and physicians giving advice about “gun safety” while disparaging responsible gun ownership. Gun safety is assured by individuals doing their duty to use and store weapons safely. Guns are not a health issue until they are misused. When they are, people, not the guns, are to blame.<br /><br /><em>— Robert B. Young, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pittsford, N.Y., and a clinical associate professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center.</em><span class="bioline"></span><br />JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-84278613690200378302014-09-03T10:09:00.006-04:002014-09-03T10:09:55.157-04:00Concealed weapons permits nearly double in Orange County, California <div class="trb_article_title_text" itemprop="headline">
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In the six months since Orange County began issuing concealed weapons permits under a relaxed standard, the number of people licensed to carry guns is close to doubling, and thousands more are awaiting approval.<a name='more'></a><br />
More than 700 new permits have been issued since a federal court ruling in February led the sheriff to grant permits to those who simply state a desire to carry weapons for personal safety rather than requiring a documented justification, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of county records.<br />
The upswing means there are now more than 1,640 people licensed to carry concealed weapons in Orange County, according to the analysis. Before the ruling there were about 900, a county spokesman said.<br />
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</aside>That number will continue to rise as county officials process the stack of pending applications, which had grown to more than 2,800 by the end of August. Thousands more have requested appointments to apply for permits, officials said. In all, more than 7,000 people have filled out applications or requested appointments, sheriff's officials said.<br />
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Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens is one of the only sheriffs in California to relax the standards after the ruling, even as a final decision remains pending before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.<br />
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If the ruling is upheld, counties throughout California could soon be following her lead and dealing with similar demand.<br />
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Those with a permit can take loaded guns to the mall, their workplace and other public places as long as the firearms are not visible and are not prohibited by private property rules. They are restricted from carrying in bars, airports and some schools and government buildings.<br />
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</aside>Hutchens' decision to loosen the rules came as a welcome surprise to some residents who were infuriated when she cracked down on concealed weapons after being appointed in 2008. The previous sheriff, Michael Carona, was indicted in a scandal that included allegations he handed out permits to associates and as political favors.<br />
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At the time, Hutchens asked hundreds of permit holders to prove a need for a weapon. Some simply allowed them to expire.<br />
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One of them was Mike Wells, 49, an assembly technician from Mission Viejo, who was rejected when he resubmitted his explanation for needing to carry a gun. Wells allowed his permit to expire and sold off his gun.<br />
<a class="trb_embed_media_link" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0321-concealed-weapons-20140321-story.html"> </a>When Hutchens' decision was announced in February, Wells quickly requested an appointment to apply. His application, filed July 11, listed three guns: a Kimber, a Springfield Armory and a Colt. His permit was approved in August.<br />
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"I didn't expect to be carrying again, and I was very surprised by how quickly she stepped up once the decision came through," he said.<br />
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Like Wells, many permit holders have multiple weapons. According to The Times analysis, there are now more than 3,830 handguns licensed to be carried in public in Orange County, double the number before the ruling.<br />
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To keep up with demand, the sheriff allocated $1.5 million and beefed up staffing to 16 from one to process applications. At one point, some employees worked nights and met with applicants on the weekends to catch up, said sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jeff Hallock.<br />
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The department also took steps to streamline the process, including waiving an in-person gun inspection requirement, though the county still runs serial numbers to verify ownership.<br />
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</aside>Despite the progress, the gap between the number of incoming applications and permits granted continues to widen, according to The Times analysis.<strong> </strong>As of late August, about 75% of the applications submitted since the ruling were still pending.<br />
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The Times analyzed data obtained from the Sheriff's Department under a public records request that covered more than 5,000 applications submitted since March 2008.<br />
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According to the analysis, permits are spread throughout the county, but certain cities — including Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Yorba Linda — have a higher concentration of licensees. Others, including Santa Ana and Garden Grove, have had much fewer approved permits.<br />
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</aside>Chuck Michel, an attorney for the California Rifle and Pistol Assn., which filed the federal case, said gun owners have felt demonized by the state Legislature for years. Now many of them are rushing to get permits because they want to make people understand they have the right and there's nothing to be afraid of.<br />
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"It's like a gun pride parade," he said.<br />
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Charlie Blek, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence's Orange County chapter, said the sheriff was putting residents in danger.<br />
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"The bottom line is that we are putting more people at greater risk with this policy including her own officers," he said.<br />
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In Ventura County, where the sheriff also relaxed standards after the ruling, the department was likewise flooded with applicants and had to increase staffing and streamline operations, Capt. Don Aguilar said.<br />
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The county has approved 1,058 permits since the February ruling, compared with 408 all of last year.<br />
Several counties, including San Diego and Los Angeles, have not relaxed their standards, pending a final decision in the case. Currently San Diego County has 1,171 active concealed weapon permits. The numbers for Los Angeles County were not available.<br />
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The decision in Peruta vs. San Diego<strong> </strong>was handed down on a 2-1 vote of a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, the original defendant, said he would not appeal. But state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris has asked for a full court review of the decision, saying it challenges the state's ability to regulate firearms. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has also asked for a review.<br />
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Some legal experts say it could end up in the hands of the Supreme Court as judges grapple with whether there is a constitutional right to carry weapons in public.<br />
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The Orange County Sheriff's Department has told people they can continue applying under the higher cause standard to ensure their permits remain valid if the decision is reversed. Those who offer only self-defense as a reason have been unofficially referred to as "Peruta permits,"' said Hallock, the sheriff's spokesman.<br />
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During her tenure as sheriff, she said, the county has not had any problems with those who hold concealed weapons permits. But she remains unconvinced that having more permitted weapons on the streets makes the county safer.<br />
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"I know there's arguments on both sides of that equation. There's some that will tell you a jurisdiction is safer the more good citizens that have weapons out there. There are others that will tell you it's not," she said. "My personal opinion is there's so many things that impact the crime rate that you can't point to one thing."<br />
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</section>JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-55153684458623277662014-09-02T21:10:00.001-04:002014-09-02T21:10:54.965-04:00Geraldo Rivera: Second Amendment is 'Blind and Stupid'<br />
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In covering the <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2014/08/27/awful-nine-yearold-arizona-girl-accidentally-kills-range-instructor-n1884188">tragic story</a> of a young girl accidentally killing her range instructor with an Uzi, my colleague Matt Vespa predicted that the anti-gun lobby would exploit this story to promote their agenda. It appears his prediction has been proven true. This past Thursday, Geraldo Rivera, a noted <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/01/06/poor-geraldo-whines-about-receiving-criticism-for-gun-control-stance/">proponent</a> of gun control, posted the following anti-Second Amendment message on his <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">website</a> and Facebook page: <em>(emphasis added)</em> <br />
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Like I always say, the 2nd Amendment, the provision that gives every American the right to keep and bear arms, is <strong>blind and stupid</strong>. In its relentless pimping for the gun industry, the NRA has unleashed an avalanche of deadly weapons on this <strong>gun-crazy country</strong>. Just as protects access to weapons for cops and hunters, it also protects access to weapons for domestic abusers, mental patients, jerk-offs on the no-fly list, <strong>all-around dim bulbs</strong>, and now little children.<a name='more'></a><br /></blockquote>
As the father of a sweet, smart nine year old daughter myself, the latest example of gross excess is the image of that pony-tailed New Jersey girl accidentally killing her gun range instructor. It is obscene and uncivilized to let a third grader shoot a fully automatic Uzi machine gun. What was she training for, revolution? Invasion? Service in the coming post-apocalyptic social disorder? Stupid, but just another of countless examples of how far into <strong>insanity we have let the gun nuts push us.</strong><br />
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As Matt noted in his article, there's a general consensus that the shooting range behaved negligently in allowing a young child to shoot a fully automatic weapon.<br />
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I actually agree with most of Rivera's second paragraph: it was absolutely irresponsible for a young child to be shooting an Uzi. I disagree, however, with the assertion that it is the "gun nuts" fault that the girl was on the range. It's not uncommon at all for a child to learn to shoot at a young age, whether it be for hunting or sporting purposes. Giving an Uzi to a child, on the other hand, was absolutely ridiculous and this tragedy easily could have been avoided.<br />
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While it's not exactly a shock that someone against guns thinks that the Second Amendment is "stupid," it is somewhat troubling that in Rivera's eyes the amendment being "blind" is also a negative quality. The U.S. Constitution applies to every citizen regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sex and intelligence level. It would be thoroughly anti-American to have a set of Constitutional rights only for people who meet certain intelligence (or other arbitrary) qualifications.<br />
This incident was a preventable tragedy, no doubt. But it's not an appropriate tool for outrage against the Second Amendment. </div>
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JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-43937177435404314832014-08-30T21:35:00.005-04:002014-08-30T21:35:57.434-04:00No Guns for you. . .Just guns for me!<br /><em>Posted by NRA - 8/29/2014</em><br />In recent years, American gun owners have come under unprecedented attacks from a few billionaires willing to spend some of their vast personal fortunes to deprive others of their firearm rights. The most recent example of this is in the battle over <a href="http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2013-14/Pdf/Initiatives/Initiatives/INITIATIVE%20594.pdf">Initiative 594</a> in Washington State. This initiative would expand the state’s handgun registration scheme, increase the current waiting period from 5 to 10 days, presumptively outlaw the private transfer of firearms, and divert scarce law enforcement resources that could be better spent combating violent crime.<br /><br /> Joining the chief funder of anti-gun efforts, Michael Bloomberg, tech billionaires Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen, as well as entrepreneur Nick Hanauer have thrown their resources behind I-594. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on August 25th that the Gates family has donated over $1 million in support of I-594. Earlier in the month, the Post-Intelligencer reported that the total contributions from the Ballmer family were $600,000. In addition, Allen donated $500,000. According to the article, with the help of these and other wealthy donors, the anti-gun activists have raised $6 million. (For an in-depth view of how the ultra-wealthy are bankrolling I-594 we encourage you to visit the website of <a href="http://www.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/CommitteeData/contributions?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ====&year=2014&type=initiative">Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission</a>).<br /><br />However, just because this handful of billionaires wants to make it harder for regular citizens to acquire the means of self-defense doesn’t mean they neglect to provide for their own security. A report from Seattle’s <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/police-say-woman-got-inside-bill-gates-mansion/nc5nM/">KIRO-TV</a> regarding a 2014 break-in at the Gates’ mansion (often referred to as Xanadu 2.0) characterized the estate as, “[o]ne of the most secure private homes in the world.” An accompanying article stated, “The home has cameras, guards and sensors everywhere.” In 1998, the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Big-Name-Execs-Have-Their-Guard-Up-Bill-Gates-3011737.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported that Gates “usually travels with a phalanx of bodyguards.”<br /><br />Paul Allen also has an extensive and sophisticated security service. In a <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seahawks-owner-Paul-Allen-sister-settle-as-4978500.php">2013 article</a> detailing problems he, his sister and their company, Vulcan, Inc., were having with their personal security personnel, the Post-Intelligencer revealed details about the scale of the protective force. It notes, “At least 15 former members of the Allens’ personal security detail have brought civil claims against Vulcan and its leaders.” The article also states that some of the force were “veterans of elite military units or longtime security specialists.”<br /><br />Hypocrisy aside, another reason Gates’ attempt to manipulate Washington politics is noteworthy is that it departs from his previous philanthropic ventures to fight disease or poverty or to promote education. Obviously, spending money to curtail your fellow citizens’ right to self-defense isn’t really philanthropic, but his donations to I-594 supporters are different in another way. The Microsoft founder claims to be a proponent of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/Bill-Gates-interview-I-have-no-use-for-money.-This-is-Gods-work.html">maximizing the impact</a> of giving. This supposedly involves directing money where it can do the most good and encouraging philanthropic organizations to behave <a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/01/31/bill-gates-says-fame-is-not-his-goal-in-aid-work">more like the business world</a>. This is a noble approach to noble goals when applied to fighting polio or malaria, but Gates abandons logic when it comes to his anti-gun giving.<br /><br />First, I-594 doesn’t pass a simple cost-benefit analysis. So-called "universal” background check proposals can never actually be universal, as criminals intent on violence will not subject themselves to government scrutiny. Instead, violent criminals will continue to acquire firearms in the ways they always have: <a href="http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2013/private-sales-restrictions-and-gun-registration.aspx">theft, straw purchasers, and illegal street sales</a>. <a href="http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2013/8/do-universal-background-checks-reduce-murder-rates.aspx">No effect on the murder rate</a> can be expected.<br /><br />Moreover, recent history proves that the anti-gun activists these billionaires have funded are grossly overestimating the extent to which people engage in private firearm transfers, and therefore the impact of legislation targeting these transfers. Their website is littered with the <a href="http://www.nraila.org/about-nra-ila/directors-archive/gun-control-lobby-continues-to-ignore-the-facts-about-background-checks.aspx?s=Pinocchios&st=&ps=">indefensible</a> claim that private transfers account for 40 percent of all firearm transfers.<br /><br />In the time period surrounding the enactment of a private transfer ban in Colorado, a branch of the state legislature released a report which anticipated that law enforcement personnel would need to conduct 420,000 additional background checks in the law’s first two years. The legislature reached this conclusion by relying on the bogus 40 percent statistic. As an <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_26213797/impact-colorado-law-expanding-gun-background-checks-vastly">Associated Press</a> report noted, however, in the law’s first year there were only “13,600 checks between private sellers,” a figure that only comprised “4 percent of the state total” for firearms transfers.<br /><br />In short, I-594 would impose costs on law-abiding Washingtonians without providing the purported benefit of keeping firearms out of the hands of those intent on violence.<br /><br />These individuals can buy almost anything, and it’s clear they believe that includes the rights of gun owners in the Evergreen State. It is imperative that freedom-loving Washingtonians work to protect their rights by getting involved in the NRA’s grassroots organization, informing their friends and family of this attempt to curb gun rights and the hypocrisy behind it, and most of all, by voting against I-594 on November 4th.JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-61256291681754111372014-08-29T16:09:00.002-04:002014-08-29T16:09:24.302-04:00You’ve Ever Wanted An “Evil Black Rifle,” Now Is The Time To Buy<div class="title">
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In recent years, the demand for the AR-15 modern sporting rifle has been at an all-time high, and manufacturers struggled to add multiple shifts and new equipment to meet that demand. It was a seller’s market.<a name='more'></a><br />
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About the time President Barack Obama took office, buyers flocked to the store in suburban Lilburn to stock up because of concern that federal lawmakers would tighten gun laws, a worry that only grew after the 2012 Connecticut school massacre. Now, with the political impetus waning for new restrictions, the rush for firearms is ebbing, too.</blockquote>
“Assault-rifle sales stopped in their tracks,” Jim Hornsby, owner of the suburban Atlanta store, said as muffled gunfire popped off from the attached shooting range. He estimated sales of the long guns are off 70 percent from last year. “It’s hard to give an AR away.”<br />
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Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, in an order issued Monday (Aug. 25), struck down the city ordinance that was successfully challenged by a plaintiff who was arrested in 2012 after Baton Rouge Police Department officers pulled him over, searched his car and arrested him for violating the ordinance.<br />
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The plaintiff, Ernest Taylor, says that around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 13, 2012, he was pulled over for a traffic stop after exiting Romeo's Lounge parking lot. After telling the officer he had two rifles in his car along with the proper permits, the officer forcibly retrained him on the hood a car before arresting him.<a name='more'></a><br />
"When (Taylor) explained to (the officers) his understanding that he was allowed to carry the guns inside of his vehicle, the officers responded that there was a 'new law' that made it illegal for anyone to possess a firearm in the parking lot of an establishment that sold alcohol," the judge's order says, citing the lawsuit.<br />
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The judge ordered the city to return Taylor's firearms to him and to pay him monetary damages, which will later be decided in a court hearing. Jackson also permanently barred the city, police chief, city attorneys and arresting officers from enforcing the ordinance in the future.<br />
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Jackson heard oral arguments of the case from both sides June 18 at the federal courthouse in downtown Baton Rouge.<br />
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In his ruling, the judge mentions the failure of defendants, including embattled Baton Rouge City attorney Mary Roper, to submit responses by deadline. As first reported by The Advocate, the <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/06/baton_rouge_city-parish_attorn.html">Baton Rouge Metro Council cited Roper's handling of the case as a reason for her demotion</a>, which is now the subject of a separate lawsuit she <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/08/east_baton_rouge_parish_attorn_2.html">filed against the city</a>.<br />
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Taylor's attorney Terrence "Joe" Donahue Jr. said the judge's ruling does not affect state law prohibiting Louisiana residents from carrying a concealed weapon into bars or restaurants that serve alcohol. Nor, he said, will the ruling affect a newer city ordinance that basically mirrors the state statute.<br />
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Those laws, he said, are tailored more narrowly and do not include parking lots or establishments like liquor stores, gas stations and groceries that sell but do not serve alcohol. Taylor's lawsuit did not challenge either the state law or newer city ordinance.</div>
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JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-35967212613672542702014-08-25T14:51:00.002-04:002014-08-25T14:51:16.551-04:00Rejecting The Rule Of Law Means Inviting The Rule Of Guns<br />
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What is the alternative to the rule of law? We may be on the verge of re-learning that ancient lesson the hard way. Of course, those of us who is served in places where there was no law, where leftists and other aspiring totalitarians ignored the rules and norms of civil society, already know.<br />
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The alternative to the rule of law is the rule of power. And the rule of power is always the rule of men with guns.<br />
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The disgraceful indictment of Rick Perry in Texas is just the latest example of this trend, albeit one that carries the seeds of hope. The judicial lynching under way in Ferguson offers less reason for optimism – our disgrace of an Attorney General and that clown masquerading as Missouri’s governor are practically salivating at the idea of sacrificing the police officer on the altar of indignation, facts and law be damned.<a name='more'></a> <br />
Liberals are committed to destroying the rule of law because law, by treating all equally and recognizing their inalienable rights, frustrates their fascist impulses. This isn’t just another annoying manifestation of the left’s utter failure as functioning ideology. It’s a trend that should terrify everyone concerned with the state of our union.<br />
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History shows us where this leads. We now have a President, an alleged constitutional law professor, who believes that if the people’s elected representatives in Congress refuse to bend to his will he can just do what he likes anyway. At least when Caesar finally destroyed the Republic, ancient Rome ended up with a dictator who knew how to win wars.<br />
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This guy golfs while the world burns.<br />
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We have government agencies like the IRS and EPA simply ignoring laws, like the ones that that require them to maintain records so they can be held accountable to the people they purport to serve. Where are the consequences for their conscious failure to do so? The problem is that those sworn to uphold the law are the very ones undermining it. Can’t Eric Holder take a break from telegraphing to his progressive pals that his lackeys won’t be deterred from crucifying the Ferguson officer by obstacles like facts, evidence and law, and do his job?<br />
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He never will. Today, there are no consequences for those whose law-breaking aids the establishment. <br />
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And when not actively ignoring the law, the liberal establishment seeks to change the foundations of our law to strip the civil rights from those who oppose it. It is mind-boggling: We now have one of our two major political parties that, as a key policy position, believes that the First Amendment allows too much freedom of speech. The Democrats literally wish to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/30/constitutional-amendment-_n_5240418.html"><span style="color: black;">amend the Constitution to restrict our right of free expression</span></a><u><span style="color: #0066cc;">.</span></u><br />
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Yeah, that’s America’s problem – too much free speech by people critical of the government. That and gender specific bathrooms. And global warming, which science teaches comes from unicorn flatulence.<br />
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This isn't a surprise. In the name of “campaign finance reform” – that is, the protection of largely Democrat incumbents – the Obama Administration actually sent an attorney representing the United States of America into the Supreme Court to argue that the government has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/washington/25scotus.html?_r=0"><span style="color: black;">the right to ban a book critical of a politician</span></a><u><span style="color: #0066cc;">.</span></u><br />
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The clowns are to your right to read and think what you wish as John Lithgow was to dancing in <em>Footloose</em><em>. Which makes conservatives Kevin Bacon.</em><br />
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So what happens when the government is not restrained by law? What happens first is that the government does what it wants, as it wants, without accountability. That provides those left unprotected by the law two ugly choices. On one hand, they can submit, and allow themselves to be oppressed, existing at the pleasure, and subject to the whims, of their masters. <br />
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The alternative is to fight. Look at the Declaration of Independence. It’s largely a chronicle of English lawlessness, though the members of this administration no doubt consider that document unworthy of study because the Founding Fathers were cisgender, phallocentric racists or something.<br />
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Chairman Mao, who is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes/"><span style="color: black;">a big favorite of the half-wits in the White House</span></a><u><span style="color: #0066cc;">, said it best: “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” If there is no law, there is no moral reason </span></u><em>not</em><em> to pick up a rifle and take what you want. The moral imperative of the law is that you will obey and respect it even if you disagree with it because it was justly imposed and will be fairly enforced. But if the law is neither justly imposed nor fairly enforced, that moral obligation disappears.</em><br />
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I walked through the burnt-out villages of Kosovo after the moral imperative of the law there had disappeared. The baffling concept that half of America will simply shrug their shoulders and submit to the dictatorship of the other half is as dangerous as it is misguided and foolish. When you toss out the law, bad things happen. This is a major theme of my new book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Insurgency-Kurt-Schlichter/dp/1618689770/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395108098&sr=1-5"><span style="color: black;">Conservative Insurgency</span></a></em><em><u><span style="color: #0066cc;">, a speculative future history of the struggle to restore our country, and the consequences of short-sighted attacks on the rule of law for short-term political gain are not pleasant.</span></u></em><br />
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But there is hope. When that drunken Democrat convict of a district attorney indicted Rick Perry for doing his job – and that is exactly what she indicted him for – even some liberals swallowed hard and shook their heads. Perhaps this was the bridge too far that finally made a few liberals re-think their comrades’ chosen path downward into chaos. <br />
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The reaction of a few liberals to this charade is a sign of hope, but sadly many other leftists are clapping their soft, pudgy hands like trained seals, eagerly welcoming this latest step towards their liberal fascist Utopia. Somehow they got the impression that the American people will accept whatever they do, whatever injustice they impose, whatever whims they choose to enforce. That is an unbelievably dangerous notion. <br />
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John Crawford III, 22, was fatally shot by law enforcement inside a Beavercreek, Ohio Walmart on Aug. 5 within minutes of a 911 call from a fellow Walmart shopper. The caller told a 911 operator, who was relaying the information to the <a href="http://beavercreekohio.gov/">Beavercreek Police Department</a> that a man meeting Crawford’s description was walking around with a gun in the store – pointing it at people.<br />
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“How does John Crawford a Walmart customer get shot and killed holding a BB gun in a store that sells BB guns?” asked Dayton attorney Michael L. Wright, a partner at <a href="http://yourlegalhelp.com/">Wright & Schulte LLC</a>, who is representing the Crawford family at a press conference.<br />
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Wright said the shooting death of an innocent father of two raises serious public safety concerns. “This could be any one of your children in Walmart holding a BB gun that was mistaken for a real gun.”<br />
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At the request of Beavercreek’s police chief, Ohio’s <a href="http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Law-Enforcement/Bureau-of-Criminal-Investigation">Bureau of Criminal Investigation</a> said it will conduct a special investigation into the incident and turn over its finding to Montgomery County prosecutors, said a spokesperson for the bureau in a statement.<br />
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Angela Williams, 37, of Fairborn, who was shopping at Walmart that <span data-term="goog_71229825">Tuesday</span>, collapsed and also died reportedly from a medical condition while running away from the scene.<br />
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Richard J. Feldman, president of New Hampshire-based <a href="http://www.independentfirearmowners.org/">Independent Firearm Owners Association</a> said there is a dual problem in this case: a young male person who is a black person and compare that to an older white woman in the socially-forbidden aisle – the public is not so concerned.<br />
“It depends on the situation. The more rural the community the less unusual someone with a gun appears to others,” he said.<br />
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The U.S.A. is in dire need of true reform, said the author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ricochet-Confessions-Lobbyist-Edition-published/dp/B00E6TMYAU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401674879&sr=8-2&keywords=Ricochet%3A+Confessions+of+a+gun+lobbyist">Ricochet: Confessions of a gun lobbyist</a>” and a former staffer in the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan">Reagan White House</a>. “The police in America have become too aggressive and ‘on-edge’. We have more problems coming at us than we can handle.”<br />
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Sean Maloney, a legislative and region leader at Ohio-based <a href="http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/">Buckeye Firearms Association</a>, said while it is impossible to know with 100 percent surety what happened that day, particularly before a complete investigation, the Crossman MK-177, which was the rifle that Crawford was holding is a BB gun with a prominent similarity to any sports rifle on the market.<br />
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Buckeye is a grassroots political action committee dedicated to defending and advancing the right of Ohio citizens to own and use firearms.<br />
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Maloney, an attorney who assists those in need of Second Amendment protections, said air soft guns are different than BB guns because they do not actually fire a projectile pellet. The air soft firearms shoot little plastic pellets that sting but are non-lethal, he added. “Air soft guns are designed to be fired at each-other.”<br />
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The legal threshold is fear of serious bodily injury or immediate death whether it is a real gun, an air gun or a BB gun, he said. The instant case makes for a difficult situation for police officers who are being given real-time information and are immediately confronted with a threat of serious bodily harm or an imminent deadly threat because of a real looking firearm, he said. “The 911 call coupled with the realistic firearm used makes for a very volatile situation.”<br />
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<em> <br /> A doctor defended himself and others from a violent patient, but he had to break a no-gun policy to do so. </em><br />
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"More might have died if doctor had not shot gunman” — so read the <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140726_Hospital_shooter_had_history_of_mental_illness__arrests__records_show.html">headline</a> in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 27. On the previous Thursday, a patient, Richard Plotts, entered the office of his psychiatrist, Lee Silverman, M.D., with his caseworker, Theresa Hunt. Plotts then became very upset and killed Hunt with two shots to her head. While this was happening, Dr. Silverman tried to take cover, drew his handgun, and shot the attacker three times. The doctor suffered slight wounds from bullets that grazed his head and hit his thumb. Staffers then succeeded in subduing the wounded Plotts. He was hospitalized in critical condition and now faces murder charges.<a name='more'></a><br />
District attorney Jack Whelan said: “If Dr. Silverman did not have the firearm and did not utilize the firearm, he’d be dead today. And other people would be dead.” In fact, the doctor had breached the facility’s “no firearms” policy by carrying a weapon with him to work. The facility released a statement saying that it looked forward to his “return to serving patients at our hospital.”<br />
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Plotts had a previous record of violence, including suicide attempts, and he has been involuntarily committed twice to psychiatric care, most recently last year. He was a convicted felon, with two gun-related convictions, and he had served time in prison for bank robbery. His violent behavior had led a local homeless shelter to ban him, and he had caused previous trouble at the hospital. In <a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/hospital-shooter-Richard-plotts-abusive-crazy268540712.html">another article</a>, Plotts’s ex-wife described him as abusive and violent, and she also has said that she remains afraid of him 15 years after their divorce. What was he doing with a firearm? Oh, of course: <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140727_D_A___Gunman_was_offended_by_hospital_s__gun-free__policy.html">It was illegal</a>. Convicted felons are prohibited by law from owning a weapon.<br />
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Theresa Hunt, by all accounts, was a dedicated, caring woman who made it her life’s mission to help those in need of mental-health care and social services. She recognized the risk she faced from unstable patients. She probably died instantly.<br />
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In deciding to carry a loaded handgun at his workplace, Dr. Silverman judged that he would be wise to ignore the hospital’s no-guns policy. No one should fault him for this. Perhaps he recognized that it was more important to protect lives than to trust in the false promises of safety offered by “gun-free zones.” Every year mental-health professionals are assaulted by clients, and some are killed.<br />
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Psychiatrists are the physicians most likely to encounter unpredictably dangerous patients. With the exception of threats and one knock-down, I have been spared so far. But I do know a colleague whose patient shot himself dead in the psychiatrist’s office, and a patient of mine slashed her throat in the waiting room of my clinic. Contrast Dr. Silverman’s experience with that of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/nyregion/david-tarloff-is-given-life-sentence-for-08-killing-of-psychologist.html">Kathryn Faughey and Kent Shinbach</a>, two doctors who were unarmed when attacked by a delusional schizophrenic patient in 2008. In that assault, Dr. Faughey was killed and Dr. Shinbech was injured.<br />
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The hospital’s announcement that it will welcome Dr. Silverman back once he recovers is amazing compared with the usual treatment of employees who choose self-defense over death and end up being fired for breaching no-gun rules. Dr. Silverman and the staffers exercised a good dose of ordinary, self-preserving common sense — and in doing so they became extraordinary heroes.<br />
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Another element of this tragedy, one to which all physicians can relate, is that doctors are taught, first and foremost, the golden rule of medicine: “Do no harm.” It would be a particular grief for a physician to have to harm or kill a patient intentionally. We hope never to have to respond to any patient with anything but care and compassion. But that may not be possible, or right, when a patient is the cause of harm.<br />
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Responsible people do right by themselves and, especially, others. Is it possible that we are finally coming to understand that doing right can include using guns, too?<br />
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<em>Robert B. Young, M.D., is a private psychiatrist in Pittsford, N.Y., and a clinical associate professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.</em> JWRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09696742493686908061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409129316400490922.post-83979216161164159172014-08-19T22:17:00.002-04:002014-08-19T22:17:59.146-04:00Detroit police chief: "No question in my mind" legal gun ownership deters crime<!--StartFragment --><em>By </em><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/jessica-chasmar/"><em>Jessica Chasmar</em></a><em> - The Washington Times - 7/16/2014 </em><br />
Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies than it did last year, and Police Chief <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/james-craig/">James Craig</a> is crediting armed citizens for the drop.<br /><br />
"Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon," said Chief Craig, who has been an open advocate for private gun ownership, the Detroit News <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140716/METRO01/307160034#ixzz37eoGtxdl">reported</a>. "I don't want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.<a name='more'></a>
"I can't say what specific percentage is caused by this, but there's no question in my mind it has had an effect," he added.<br /><br />
In addition to the drop in robberies, Detroit has seen 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes and 30 percent fewer carjackings in 2014 than during the same period last year, the Detroit News reported.<br /><br />
"They automatically assume another criminal is carrying," he said. "I'm talking about criminals who are thinking of robbing a citizen; they're less likely to do so if they think they might be armed."<br /><br />
Detroit News reports that resident Al Woods, a self-described former criminal who is now an anti-violence activist, said he agrees that criminals are thinking twice about targeting innocents.<br /><br />
"If I was out there now robbing people these days, knowing there are a lot more people with guns, I know I'd have to rethink my game plan," the 60-year-old told the paper.<br />
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Josh Horwitz, director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in Washington, D.C., disagreed, arguing that "more guns equals more crime."<br /><br />
"These are complicated issues, but the empirical evidence shows the states with the lowest gun ownership and the tightest restrictions have the fewest instances of gun violence," he told the Detroit News.
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Nobody looted the gun shop and tattoo parlor that share a storefront in a strip mall less than 10 minutes from Ferguson, Mo., where riots followed the police shooting of Michael Brown.<br />
According to the local Riverfront Times, the owners of County Guns and Tattoo Studio arrived with friends to protect their businesses. One owner carried a rifle and pistol and wore a vest, while the other had his own rifle.<a name='more'></a><br />
Their defensive use of firearms as rioters burned and looted other stores in the strip mall couldn't have occurred in Maryland. There, AR-15-style weapons are banned, more because of the rifles' "scary" appearance than their lethality. Maryland's Firearm Safety Act of 2013 makes their possession and open carry illegal.<br />
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As the Ferguson riots raged, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, appointed by President Clinton, issued a ruling that upheld the Maryland law, saying, "the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly possessed for lawful purposes . .. and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual."<br />
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Now the Second Amendment, written in the era of muskets, does not mention what arms we have the right to keep and bear. But we have an idea, based on how they were used: to protect their owners' homes, businesses, farms and families, and to fight the tyranny of the British crown. It's been said that the Second Amendment was put in the Bill of Rights to protect the other nine.<br />
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Gun control advocates say, with some snarkiness, that the Second Amendment doesn't allow one to own nuclear weapons or tanks, so it's merely a question of where we draw the line. They would draw the line at the AR-15 and its counterparts — which, despite the judge's claim, are commonly used for legal, defensive purposes.<br />
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The AR-15 is among the guns that must be registered. They've made up 50%-60% of U.S. rifle sales in recent years, federal figures show. The New York Times recently called the AR-15 "The Most Wanted Gun In America." Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has been pushing a bill to reintroduce the ineffective assault weapons 1994 ban that expired in 2004 with no impact on the crime rate.</div>
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With her cropped silver hair, white orthopedic slip-on shoes and a silver cross and a Virgin Mary pendant around her neck, you'd never suspect that Pat Bagley is packing heat. </div>
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But nestled in a zippered pocket of her black leather purse, Bagley's matte-black Ruger .38 pistol goes with her almost everywhere. It's loaded with a five-cartridge clip of hollow-point bullets, the ones capable of tearing huge chunks out of whatever they hit, especially flesh. </div>
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"If I need more than that, I figure I'm already dead. But those things will tear you up," says Bagley, almost 70 years old, a retired nurse, grandmother of four and known to nearly everyone as "Miss Pat."<a name='more'></a> <br />
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Walking out of her house, she unzips her bag and keeps her hand on the butt of the gun, ready to draw. She has to remind herself to leave it behind when she goes into places where guns are prohibited -- federal buildings like the post office and the Tivoli Theatre, where she volunteers as an usher. </div>
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"I even take it into church," she says. "My pastor knows, and he says it's fine."</div>
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American men are still three times more likely than women to own guns, according to the Pew Research Center. But the scale is slowly tilting, at least in Tennessee. In 2010, 24,450 women were issued carry permits, according to the Tennessee Department of Safety. By 2013, 58,833 got them. For both men and women in Tennessee, the average age for getting a carry permit hovers between 46 and 60.
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Overall, the number of women shooting for sport has jumped in the last decade. From 2001 to 2011, 51.8 percent more women reported participating in target shooting and 41.8 percent more for hunting, according to the National Sporting Goods Association. </div>
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For Bagley, getting a gun was a matter of safety, a reason echoed by other female gun owners. She'd never touched a gun until four years ago, when someone broke into her car in a Cracker Barrel parking lot as she ate lunch inside. Now she holds a carry permit and visits a shooting range regularly for target practice.</div>
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"I can tell when I haven't gone to a range in a while, my shots are all off," she says. "Just because you get a gun doesn't mean you're suddenly Annie Oakley."</div>
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In a pocket of her rocking chair recliner that sits in view of the TV in her den -- filled with pictures and shrines of the Virgin Mary, porcelain dolls and framed pictures of her family -- Bagley has tucked another gun, a tiny antique revolver, which is easier on her arthritis than semi-automatics, which require a slide reload.</div>
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"It's just a little thing. It can't do much damage," she says. "But if someone hears that 'click' [when I pull the safety off], they'll know I'm not going down without a fight."</div>
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None of Bagley's friends carry guns, so for camaraderie, she goes to monthly meetings of the Locked and Loaded Ladies gun club. Held at Carter Shooting Supply in Harrison and led by store owner Kristi Manning, the all-female group started in September 2013 and is 64 members strong. </div>
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It's a chapter of the national Well-Armed Woman, whose tagline is "Where the feminine and firearms meet." The group gets together for monthly gun cleaning parties, to hear speakers on gun safety and politics, to gab about their guns and -- most importantly -- to shoot on the shooting range.</div>
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"I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried out by six," says another woman. </div>
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"You know what gun control is? Being able to hit your target," another two women say almost in unison.</div>
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The Facebook page for Chattanooga Gun Girls, another local women's gun group, is filled with pro-gun memes centered around women. </div>
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Female gun ownership isn't an entirely new thing, since gun companies began courting women buyers in the '80s. Smith & Wesson introduced its LadySmith line of revolvers in 1989. But the current growth is distinct in its appeal to women. Female gun culture is playful and irreverent, feminine and tough. </div>
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A recent cover of Personal & Home Defense magazine shows a 30-ish woman, nicely coiffed, with a black leather handbag on her shoulder. A mall scene is in the background. With one arm she holds a little girl protectively; in the other, she confidently points a gun at an unseen attacker.</div>
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Gunmakers are offering handguns in pink and purple, with flower decals and snakeskin handles. Companies like Sweet Shot -- a women's shooting accessory company whose motto is "Look cute while you shoot!" -- sell leopard-print gloves and ear muffs, as well as jewelry made from bullets.</div>
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The Thunderwear holster lets ladies stash guns in their undergarment areas. There are sticky holsters that heat up and meld to skin so they'll rest comfortably in a waistband. Belly bands and garter bands conceal a gun and are adorned with brightly colored, corset-style lace. The Flashband holster nestles on the underwire of a bra, and there is an array of purses with specially designed pouches for carrying a concealed weapon.</div>
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Gregory started Chattanooga Gun Girls in June and already has 70 people signed up and a full roster of speakers scheduled for coming months. Like Locked and Loaded Ladies, the group aims to educate, equip and provide support for women with guns. </div>
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Even Gregory, who grew up shooting guns, says she used to feel uncomfortable going into gun stores with an all-male staff because they made her feel like she didn't know anything. </div>
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"A lot of women are waiting longer to get married, so they're living alone," she explains. "We have college girls who live out of the dorms and want to feel protected. The crime rate is not going down, and it's empowering to be able to protect your family yourself, rather than wait for a man."</div>
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Women also tend to score better than men in the classes that must be taken to earn a carry permit, she says, because they listen more closely to the instructor than the guys and naturally have good hand-eye coordination.</div>
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Gregory says she also sees more and more women over 60 showing up at the store to get a permit. Widowed, divorced or single by choice, they're suddenly seeing themselves as targets for crime and want to protect themselves.</div>
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"You would be shocked to know the number of little old, white-gloved ladies sitting in the front row at church who are packing .357's," she says. "I had an 85-year-old lady come in last week looking for a pistol for each of her nightstands. And she said she was a good shot, too."</div>
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Trevor Haines has taught martial arts-based self-defense to women since 1986 and owns Dojo Chattanooga on the North Shore. He's not against guns -- he has a carry permit and shoots at a range once a week -- but he cautions women not to rely on their weapon alone. Instead, he advises women to use bodily self-defense practices and add a gun to the mix if they want.</div>
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During a lecture he gave in California, a woman in the crowd touted her mace spray as her sole form of self-defense. He told her to get the spray out of her purse and, in the meantime, he climbed over a table, snatched her purse and threw it on the floor -- all while she was fumbling to grab the spray bottle. That situation is not unlike one in which the victim has relied too heavily on their gun to save them, he says.</div>
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Marilyn Spickard, a sixth-grade teacher at Soddy-Daisy Middle School, got involved as a fun activity to do with her sister. As she's gotten older, she's started to feel more like a target for crime. Entering her 23rd year of teaching, she also wanted to be prepared to carry in case she was asked to be armed in the classroom.</div>
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Miranda Young, one of the younger members of the group at 34, joined in the midst of dealing with a stalker. That situation has been resolved, but Young still carries. Now she has memorized the gun laws of Tennessee as well as most every other state -- a necessity since she has made cross-country road trips on her motorcycle and carries her gun nearly everywhere. She also designed the logo for Locked and Loaded T-shirts, which feature feminine silhouettes holding guns on the front and a pockmarked target on the back, under which it says: "Group therapy."</div>
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When Traci Whitcraft's husband got a gun, she was terrified at first. Now she's taught all five of her daughters, whose ages range from 10 to 18, how to shoot.</div>
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Four years ago, Chris Cheng's Chinese-Japanese-Cuban-American Google employee' started watching <i>Top Shot</i>, a History Channel reality show where contestants shoot their way through a series of complex competitions. Cheng, who as a kid had sometimes gone shooting with his Navy veteran father, started getting into the show.<br />
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One day, while watching season two with some of his Google coworkers, Cheng told them: "Hey, everyone, this is gonna sound crazy, but I think I'm going to apply for <i>Top Shot</i>." He remembers his colleagues thinking he was nuts. "They looked at me like, 'You barely shoot, you don't have any accolades or trophies or awards or anything in the shooting world. What makes you think you'd even stand a chance with some of these lifelong, seasoned professional marksmen?' "<br />
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But Cheng had a sense of what he could do. He'd been going to the range and hitting his marks; the best way to put his skills to the test, he figured, was to sign up and try out. He got in. Then he beat out veterans, police officers, and an Olympic shooter en route to winning that season's competition. The first thing he did after his victory was take some of the $100,000 prize money and upgrade his National Rifle Association membership to lifetime status.<a name='more'></a><br />
Then, last year, Cheng took to his blog to announce he was gay. This wasn't a surprise to his friends and family: Cheng and his boyfriend had been together for four and a half years. But he wanted people to see that gun owners were a diverse set of people' and who better than a gay, racially diverse, tech-geek-turned-champion-marksman to deliver the message?<br />
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In April, Cheng officially signed on as a news commentator for the NRA. This past month, the group released its first video starring Cheng, in which he offers an explainer on the fighting in Ukraine before launching into a case for protecting gun owners from government intrusion. "I think that this is an opportunity for the NRA and our community to accurately portray the diversity that already exists in the community," Cheng told me, of his new gig. "We've allowed some prevailing stereotypes to take hold, and we're not challenging them."<br />
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Cheng might be the most prominent gay marksman at the moment, but he's not alone. Websites and communities tailored to gay gun enthusiasts include the Pink Pistols, <i>Big Gay Al's Big Gay (Gun) Blog</i>, and <i>GaysWithGuns.net</i>, which features a sexy, stubbled man brandishing a semiautomatic. The website used to pose the provocative question of what would have happened to Matthew Shepard had he been trained to use a gun though that was removed after too many people objected, and it was replaced with a quote from the Dalai Lama: "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." Self-defense was one of the reasons Marc Whittemore, a Los Angeles-based designer, started the website, but it was also partly to show that "it's not just Christian, redneck, Bible-thumping old white men that are pro-gun."<br />
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The Pink Pistols are probably the most prominent group of gay gun enthusiasts. The organization began 14 years ago, when Jonathan Rauch (a contributing editor at <i>National Journal</i>) <a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/03/14/pistol/">wrote an article for </a><a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/03/14/pistol/"><i>Salon </i></a>arguing that gay people should receive firearms training and arm themselves so they could defend against hate crimes. Not only would they be protecting themselves from violence, he wrote, but they could change the way both straight and gay people viewed them: Guns, Rauch argued, could "emancipate them from their image often internalized of cringing weakness. Pink pistols, I'll warrant, would do far more for the self-esteem of the next generation of gay men and women than any number of hate-crime laws or anti-discrimination statutes."<br />
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One libertarian activist in Boston, Doug Krick, took inspiration from Rauch's piece. Soon he and his friends were forming a group to go to the shooting range together. Their organization the Pink Pistols got a lot of media coverage, and before long, others from around the country were calling to start chapters in their states.<br />
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"We teach the public that we know how to do this, and you don't know what gay person out there might be a Pink Pistol and might be able to defend themselves," says Gwen Patton, who speaks for the national organization. "Rather than saying, 'We're here, we're queer, we're in your face,' our thing is, 'We're queer, yeah, that's fine, look at the ways we're similar rather than that one way we're different. But if you absolutely can't bring yourself to do that, we're going to ask you very forcefully not to try to harm us.' "<br />
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Over time, Patton says the group became something more than just a self-defense organization: It was a way for like-minded friends to feel comfortable at the shooting range. "It's great, wacky fun," says Rauch of the movement he inspired. "My hope would be they're important out of proportion to their numbers because they say something and are uniquely qualified to say something, which is the minority case for self-defense."<br />
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A 20-year-old Dartmouth student says she may have to give up her Ivy League dream and drop out of school because the prestigious college won't allow her to carry a gun -- to protect herself against a predator.<br />
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Taylor Woolrich, a junior, says Dartmouth administrators told her they won’t let her carry a gun on campus, even though she lives in fear of a man who has been stalking her since she was a high school student in San Diego.<br />
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Woolrich was 16 years old and working in a San Diego café when she says a man came in to buy coffee and then kept returning throughout the day, staring at her for long periods of time and trying to flirt with her. The man, 67-year-old Richard Bennett, kept this up for days, she says, even sitting outside the store for an entire day and then following her home, demanding that she talk to him and saying he was “trying to protect her.”<br />
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She filed a restraining order, but it did little to keep Bennett away. Woolrich says he constantly harassed her during her first two years at Dartmouth, stalking her on social media and sending messages in which he “promised” to fly across the country to see her at college.<br />
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“I thought they were empty threats, but when I came home from school last summer, he was at my front door within eight hours of my plane landing,” she said. “That’s when I realized how serious it was.”<br />
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Woolrich and her family called the police, and Bennett was arrested. A search of his car uncovered a slip noose, a knife, gloves and other items.<br />
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Bennett is currently in jail in San Diego County, accused of violating the restraining order and felony stalking, as well as other charges. His next court date is Aug. 20. If convicted, his maximum sentence would be four years.<br />
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Woolrich says she inquired about obtaining a permit to carry a concealed weapon in California and learned that the minimum age to get one is 21, though exceptions can be made under special circumstances. She says the Sheriff’s Licensing Division told her she could qualify, and she learned the same exception can be granted in New Hampshire, where Dartmouth is located.<br />
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But Dartmouth administrators told her she was “absolutely not” allowed to carry a weapon on campus. She says she tried to plead her case and was told to speak with several campus officials, all of whom provided little to no help.<br />
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“There’s no option. There’s no one to go to. They don’t want to hear my case,” she said.<br />
Many colleges across the country have banned guns on campus to prevent mass shootings and accidental shootings by irresponsible or inebriated students. But the pro-gun rights Crime Prevention Research Center, in a <a href="http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Concealed-Carry-Revocation-rates-by-age.pdf">study </a>published on Monday, said there have been no reported problems or issues with college-age permit holders on campuses in the nine states – Colorado, Florida,Wisconsin, Utah, Pennsylvania,Oregon, Mississippi, Kansas and Idaho – whose laws mandate that students and others be permitted to carry concealed handguns on public college grounds.<br />
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“There’s this fear about the possibility of students causing problems, but people talk about these things without actual examples,” the center’s president, John Lott, told <a href="http://foxnews.com/">FoxNews.com</a>. “By far, the safest course of action is to carry a gun for protection, especially for female victims.”<br />
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“[Woolrich] has legitimate concern,” he added. “There’s only so much a restraining order can do.”<br />
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Woolrich says Dartmouth’s Department of Safety and Security told her that instead of carrying a gun, she should call campus security and arrange for an escort if she felt unsafe after dark. But she says she was often asked to justify her requests when she called, and security officers gave her a hard time for calling often.<br />
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“What they don’t understand is that it’s not enough,” she says. “Stalkers just don’t only show up after dark. Unless they have an armed guard in front of my dorm room, I'm not sure how safe I will be. I don’t think there’s much an unarmed guard can do.”<br />
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Dartmouth officials declined to comment on Woolrich’s situation, but they said their strict weapons policy is necessary.<br />
“It’s strictly prohibited and we are not in the habit of making exceptions,” spokesman Justin Anderson told <a href="http://foxnews.com/">FoxNews.com</a>. “But we certainly do everything we possibly can to make all our students feel safe.”<br />
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Some experts say the solution isn’t to put guns in the hands of potential victims, but to keep them out of the hands of stalkers.<br />
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“Many people don't know that current federal law allows criminals convicted of misdemeanor stalking crimes to legally buy and possess guns,” said Erika Soto Lamb, a spokeswoman for Everytown For Gun Safety. “This is a real problem. A study of incidents in 10 major U.S. cities found that nearly nine in 10 attempted murders of women involved at least one incident of stalking in the year before the attempted murder.”<br />
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Lamb said the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act, which was recently brought before the Senate, would close loopholes that allow stalkers to obtain guns.<br />
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Others say they support Dartmouth’s no-guns policy.<br />
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“What we don’t want to see is a convicted stalker have the ability to arm themselves like Rambo,” said Ladd Everett, director of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.<br />
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“On one hand, I understand her fears, but I don’t believe that any student should have a gun. Data shows that those who own a gun for protection, that they [the guns] are more likely to be used on themselves or a loved one.<br />
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“These [schools] are not places where you want everyone armed to the teeth.”<br />
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For now, Bennett sits in jail on $300,000 bail, and Woolrich is not in danger. But she says she still lives in fear and feels she might have to take drastic measures if he manages to post bond and becomes a threat again.<br />
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“Every morning I check the inmate lookup online to see if he has made bail,” she said. “I feel safe for now, but the day he gets out is the day I will have to leave Dartmouth.”</div>
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<tr><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=40">36 M New</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=8&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=45"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td class="increase">2.90% </td><td><img alt="up" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-up.gif" /></td><td class="black week">2.89% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=40" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=39">48 M New</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=8&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=23"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td class="increase">3.16% </td><td><img alt="up" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-up.gif" /></td><td class="black week">3.15% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=39" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=41">60 M New</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=8&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=234"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td>3.16% </td><td> -- </td><td class="black week">3.16% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/auto/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=41" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=14&local=true">6 month</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=7&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=156"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td class="decrease">0.34% </td><td><img alt="dw" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-down.gif" /></td><td class="black week">0.35% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=14&local=true" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
<tr class="grey"><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=15&local=true">1 yr</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=7&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=50"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td class="decrease">0.65% </td><td><img alt="dw" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-down.gif" /></td><td class="black week">0.67% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=15&local=true" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="first"><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=19&local=true">5 yr</a></td><td><a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/?pid=p:foxbz&cat=7&state=zz&d=1825&t=Line&ids=138"><img alt="Graph" src="http://www.fbnstatic.com/static/v/fb2/img/icon-2.gif" /></a></td><td>1.38% </td><td> -- </td><td class="black week">1.38% <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/?pid=p:foxbz&prods=19&local=true" target="_blank"> </a></td></tr>
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<span class="dateline"><time datetime="2014-08-05" itemprop="datePublished"><em>By <span class="author"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/author/jason-howerton/" itemprop="author" rel="author">Jason Howerton</a></span> - 8/5/2014</em></time></span> </div>
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Responding to an explosion in violent crime in Harnett County, North Carolina, Sheriff Larry Rollins told about 130 residents at a community meeting on Monday that they need to “be able to take care of business” until police arrive.</div>
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To put it bluntly, Rollins wants his residents to be <a href="http://www.wral.com/harnett-co-shootings-chase-result-in-fear-prayers/13866638/" target="_blank">armed and ready</a> to protect themselves and their families.</div>
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“I do not go anywhere without a gun,” the sheriff told residents at Spring Hill Methodist Church in Lillington, North Carolina, on Monday.<a name='more'></a><br />
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“I want my deputies to be at your house just as fast as they possibly can when you have a problem,” he added. “But you better be able to take care of business before we get there if you need to protect your family.”</div>
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As <a href="http://www.wral.com/harnett-co-shootings-chase-result-in-fear-prayers/13866638/" target="_blank">WRAL-TV reports</a>, a number of alarming violent crimes were addressed at the meeting:</div>
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• Raquan Shynell Hooker, 18, Maurice Shaquan Williams, 23, and Maurice Kollis Cox, 27, were shot outside a Kangaroo gas station on N.C. Highway 87 in Cameron Friday afternoon. No arrests were announced as of Monday.</div>
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• Hours later, Jeffrey George, 21, was seriously injured after crashing while fleeing from police. George led authorities on the vehicle pursuit after selling drugs to an undercover officer, officials said. He crashed on U.S. Highway 421 near Marners Road.</div>
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• The body of Eric Kentrall Staten, 18, was found behind dumpsters on Saturday at a business at 6761 Ray Road in Spring Lake. No arrests were announced as of Monday.<div class="postContent" itemprop="articleBody">
The spike in violent crime has left the community fearing for their safety, concerns that their sheriff is clearly taking seriously.</div>
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