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Thanks to member Charles Young and EM Brandy Polanowski to compiling this update. Older items are toward the end as we continue to catch up.
1. HELP! Virginia Beach gun show booth needs volunteers!
2. Violence Policy Center claims Gun Deaths in VA surpass motor vehicle deaths
3. The VCDL Defender newsletter has gone out
4. VCDL voting record guide coming after April 15th
5. Double Standard: McAuliff wants NO criminal history checks for state employees, but MORE background checks for gun owners
6. Brady Campaign loses another lawsuit - this one against online ammunition sellers
7. VA's 'panic buy' of firearms appears to be over
8. A bill to repeal the "Gun Free School Zones Act" introduced in Congress!
9. A U.S. Supreme Court case to watch
10. Bloomberg's anti-gun group attempts to attack Jeff Foxworthy, Alan Jackson [VIDEO]
11. [DC] Shootings, slashings in the land the 2nd amendment forgot
12. [NY] Gun confiscation ordered after veteran sought treatment for insomnia
13. [MO] One St. Louis criminal sees instant justice
14.[KS] Numerous robbers storm female gun shop, get shot
15. [IA] I carry a gun every day
16. [ID] Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns
17. Eugene Robinson: France attacks would be deadlier in U.S. due to guns
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1. HELP! Virginia Beach gun show booth needs volunteers!
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We are in need of some volunteers for the gun show the weekend of April 18-19, 2015 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. (We had to cancel our booth at the last Richmond gun show for lack of volunteers, and that's not good.)
Volunteers are needed for all shifts.
If you can volunteer, please contact Gary Moeller at:
gunshows.vb@vcdl.org
Please provide two choices for what shift you want to work. Shifts are 0900-1300 and 1300-1700 Saturday, and 1000-1300 and 1300-1600 Sunday. You will be contacted before the show to give you further info.
Working the VCDL booth at gun shows is a great way to help the cause. Plus you get into the show for free and working the table is fun and educational, as the VCDL table is the "go to" place at gun shows for information on gun rights and gun laws.
Experience isn't necessary, as you will be paired with a veteran. In no time, you'll be flying on your own.
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2. Violence Policy Center claims Gun Deaths in VA surpass motor vehicle deaths
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My trust in anything coming out of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) is in the negative column. However, for the sake of argument, let's say that, by pure accident, VPC published some valid statistics.
In this case, VPC is claiming that "gun deaths" exceed "motor vehicle deaths" in 17 states, including here in Virginia. (That came as a double-shock to me as I didn't realize that guns and motor vehicles died!)
The question is: what does that comparison really mean?
It means that VPC is comparing apples to oranges to seed confusion, which is standard operating procedure for the antis.
With pretty rare exceptions, automobile deaths are either accidental or caused by negligence (drunk driving, speeding, etc.).
With pretty rare exceptions, deaths attributed to firearms are NOT accidental, but are intentional - suicide and murder are are at the top of the list.
But VPC loves the confusion, as they are trying to make the case that the Government needs to regulate guns to make them "safer," much as they regulate some other consumer items.
No amount of safety features on a gun is going to prevent a determined individual from either committing suicide or murdering someone. Neither murder nor suicide are a safety issue, plain and simple. Both are intentional misuse of the firearm in an unsafe manner.
The report says, "Guns, according to the analysis, are the only consumer product the federal government does not regulate for health and safety."
Oh, heavens, no - guns are not regulated! If they were regulated, there would be a government agency, probably with a name something like "The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives," and it would be breathing the down the necks of all gun manufacturers, gun importers, and gun dealers. And manufacturers would have to provide a complete audit trail of each gun they produce, from a lump of steel to a final product. Each dealer and importer would have to provide an audit trail of each gun they purchase and sell, including who they purchased the gun from and who they sold it to. Can you imagine a ridiculously regulated system like that? Luck for us, guns are not regulated!
Thanks to member Chris Sellers for the link:
http://www.wsls.com/story/28741678/gun- ... ding-tn-va
or
http://tinyurl.com/lbcct2n
Gun deaths surpass motor vehicle deaths in 17 states including TN, VA
By Margaret Grigsby, Digital Content Producer
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSLS 10) - With the National Rifle Association annual meeting opening in Nashville on Friday, a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) finds that gun deaths surpassed motor vehicle deaths in Tennessee, Virginia and 15 other states, along with the District of Columbia.
The VPC analysis refers to gun deaths and motor vehicle deaths in 2013, the most recent year for which comprehensive state-level data is available. Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
The analysis found that in 2013, there were 17 states where there were more gun deaths than motor vehicle deaths: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming, along with the District of Columbia. Actual numbers appear below.
The analysis also shows more than 90 percent of American households own a car while fewer than a third of American households have a gun. [PVC: I'm amazed that so many gun owners admitted to VPC that they have guns. I would have expected that number to be less. There's no doubt that, in reality, VPC's number is a tiny fraction of the real value.]
Nationwide, there were 33,636 gun deaths and 35,612 motor vehicle deaths in 2013.
The VPC analysis also shows motor vehicle deaths are on a long-term decline nationwide. Guns, according to the analysis, are the only consumer product the federal government does not regulate for health and safety.
This is the fourth year the VPC has issued its annual report comparing gun deaths to motor vehicle deaths by state. Gun deaths include gun suicides, homicides, and fatal unintentional shootings; motor vehicle deaths include both occupants and pedestrians.
Below are the complete figures for the states where gun deaths surpassed motor vehicle deaths in 2013. The full report can be viewed at: http://www.vpc.org/studies/gunsvscars15.pdf
Alaska: 144 gun deaths, 66 motor vehicle deaths
Arizona: 941 gun deaths, 863 motor vehicle deaths
Colorado: 619 gun deaths, 514 motor vehicle deaths
District of Columbia: 71 gun deaths, 30 motor vehicle deaths
Indiana: 857 gun deaths, 840 motor vehicle deaths
Louisiana: 886 gun deaths, 767 motor vehicle deaths
Maryland: 578 gun deaths, 531 motor vehicle deaths
Michigan: 1,190 gun deaths, 1,063 motor vehicle deaths
Missouri: 880 gun deaths, 781 motor vehicle deaths
Nevada: 395 gun deaths, 281 motor vehicle deaths
Ohio: 1,289 gun deaths, 1,144 motor vehicle deaths
Oregon: 462 gun deaths, 363 motor vehicle deaths
Pennsylvania: 1,451 gun deaths, 1,340 motor vehicle deaths
Tennessee: 1,030 gun deaths, 1,027 motor vehicle deaths
Utah: 339 gun deaths, 234 motor vehicle deaths
Virginia: 864 gun deaths, 780 motor vehicle deaths
Washington: 632 gun deaths, 540 motor vehicle deaths
Wyoming: 102 gun deaths, 92 motor vehicle deaths
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3. The VCDL Defender newsletter has gone out
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VCDL has started sending out our Defender Newsletter (edited by EM Tess Ailshire) again. Plans are to make it a quarterly publication. The newsletter has many things not covered on VA-ALERT, along with photos.
Besides being something useful to our members, the newsletter is also a good item to handout at gun shows and meetings to highlight some of what VCDL does.
If you would like to write an article for inclusion in an upcoming Defender, contact me at: president@vcdl.org
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4. VCDL voting record guide coming after April 15th
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Being a programmer by occupation, I decided the best way to compile voting records for legislators would be to write a program to automate much of the work (it is extremely tedious to do by hand and prone to errors). It took a little more than a day to write, but I now have that program tested and ready to go. For each vote taken on a gun bill, I can feed the program a list of legislators and provide a weight for their vote based on how important the bill was considered. I will also have a method for holding the Speaker and committee chairman responsible for any "pocket vetoes" of bills.
On April 15th the General Assembly will vote to override the Governor's vetoes and their votes will be part of their voting record for this year.
Once the voting record is compiled, it will be placed on the VCDL web site and notification sent out to everyone. The information will be very useful with elections coming up in November.
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5. Double Standard: McAuliff wants NO criminal history checks for state employees, but MORE background checks for gun owners
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VCDL does not take a position on whether or not the Commonwealth should ask its employment applicants if they have a criminal history, BUT I bring it up to show that Governor McAuliffe has a double standard when it comes to gun owners.
From the article:
"In a new Virginia economy, people who make mistakes and pay the price should be welcomed back into society and given the opportunity to succeed," McAuliffe said in a statement.
"This executive order will remove unnecessary obstacles to economic success for Virginians who deserve a second chance," the Democratic governor said.
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But, when it comes to gun rights, McAuliffe is trying to make that same "second chance" harder for Virginians. McAuliffe made a change to a bill which would require that a person can't even ask for their gun rights to be restored for a full five years from the date of their conviction.
Also, while future state employees are being allowed by McAuliffe to skip a background check, McAuliffe pushed a series of bills this year to require more background checks for gun purchases.
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6. Brady Campaign loses another lawsuit - this one against online ammunition sellers
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While I absolutely feel sorry for Jessica Ghawi's parents due to her murder in an Aurora, Colorado "gun-free" movie theater, their lawsuit was frivolous and deserved to be dismissed. The Brady Campaign did Jessica's parents a disservice by not explaining that to them and, instead, helped them to file a doomed-to-fail lawsuit.
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/news/blo ... o-sellers/
or
http://tinyurl.com/pdlaxju
Brady Center Loses Lawsuit Targeting Online Ammo Sellers
Posted on March 28, 2015 in FPC Blog
In an order released yesterday, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch ruled against the plaintiffs in the case of Sandy Phillips, et al., v. Lucky Gunner, LLC., et al.
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips are the parents of Jessica Ghawi, one of the victims of the Aurora movie theater shooting. The lawsuit was backed by the anti-gun Brady Center.
According to a September 2014 report by ABC 7 News in Denver, the lawsuit accused “the four online suppliers of ammunition and military-grade equipment of failing to screen the gunman and making it too easy for him to buy ammunition, tear gas and body armor.”
“We’re putting them on notice, we’re coming after you,” Lonnie Phillips was reported as saying.
Apparently, the law had something else to say about that.
The case was dismissed for failure to overcome the industry protections in the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (15 U.S.C. § 7901 et seq.), also known as PLCAA, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2005. The plaintiffs’ arguments were also found to collapse under a similar state law that protects the firearms community from frivolous and harassing tort claims.
Adding to the sting of losing the case, the Court also held that “defendants Lucky Gunner and the Sportsman’s Guide are entitled to an award of reasonable attorney fees and costs.”
Notably, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened in support of the constitutionality of the PLCAA:
The United States of America intervenes in this case for the limited purpose of defending the constitutionality of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 7901- 7903 (the “Protection Act” or “Act”), which plaintiffs challenge in their Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (“Pl. Opp.”) (ECF No. 27). The Protection Act stands on firm constitutional footing. Virtually identical arguments to those advanced by plaintiffs here have already been rejected by courts in previous Protection Act litigation. See, e.g., Ileto v. Glock, 565 F.3d 1126, 1138-42 (9th Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 130 S. Ct. 3320 (2010); City of New York v. Beretta, 524 F.3d 384, 392-98 (2d Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 1579 (2009); Estate of Charlot v. Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., 628 F. Supp. 2d 174, 182-86 (D.D.C. 2009); Estate of Kim v. Coxe, 295 P.3d 380, 388-92 (Alaska 2013); Adames v. Sheahan, 909 N.E.2d 742, 764-65 (Ill.), cert. denied, 130 S. Ct. 1014 (2009); District of Columbia v. Beretta, 940 A.2d 163, 172-82 (D.C. 2008), cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 1579 (2009).
We wonder if the “Brady Bunch” will be paying the defendants’ legal fees or of they’re just going to cut and run, leaving the individual plaintiffs holding the proverbial bag…
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7. VA's 'panic buy' of firearms appears to be over
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From www.newsadvance.com: http://tinyurl.com/lphdqfh
http://www.newsadvance.com/work_it_lync ... f8128.html
Virginia's 'panic buy' of firearms appears to be over
by Mark Bowes, Richmond Times-Dispatch
January 6, 2015
Virginia’s three-year-long gun buying frenzy is over.
After consecutive years of steep growth statewide and fueled in part by “panic buying,” sales of firearms in Virginia fell an estimated 15 percent last year from the state’s record-setting year in 2013, according to Virginia State Police figures of mandatory criminal background checks of gun buyers.
Gun transactions fell every month but one last year and dropped significantly during the first half of 2014. Cumulatively, the numbers fell from 479,253 transactions in 2013 to 405,838 last year.
“It’s not surprising,” said criminologist Thomas Baker, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs who specializes in criminology theory and has an interest in gun-related issues.
“There have been no highly sensationalized public events of firearm violence and no knee-jerk reactionary calls for increased gun control as a response. The drop in sales should be considered in that context.”
Baker noted that 2013’s huge spike in sales occurred mostly in the first half of that year and followed the tragedy of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and subsequent calls by politicians for increased gun control.
Baker pointed out that firearm transactions from January through June 2014 fell by more than 25 percent from the same period in 2013. However, sales during the second half of both years were more even, declining only 3 percent in 2014.
“So it seems that after the rush on guns following fears over [gun] control died down, gun sales normalized,” Baker said.
Last year’s drop is the first since 2010, when sales dipped 3.7 percent before climbing in the double digits over the next three years — 16 percent in 2011, 35 percent in 2012 and 11 percent in 2013.
Virginia gun dealers have previously cited President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012 and the fears of increased gun restrictions after Sandy Hook as the driving forces behind the 2011 to 2013 leap in gun sales.
“It’s hard to use 2013 as a barometer for gun sales, because it was an extreme [year] — it was off the grid,” said Mark Tosh, president of Town Gun Shop Inc., with stores in Collinsville and Chesterfield County. “Everybody could have sold more if they had more. The sky was the limit.”
Tosh said his stores saw a 16 percent sales decrease in 2014, but the numbers were still above 2012.
Tosh said “people ran out of money” after panic-buying multiple firearms in 2013 due to fears of increased government restrictions after Sandy Hook.
“When it’s panic buying, you don’t buy for one year. You buy for three years, you buy for four years,” he said. “I’ve been in the industry for 33 years, and I will say the Sandy Hook run was by far the biggest” panic-buying period he’s ever seen. “It was incredible.”
Steve Satterwhite, chief executive officer of Colonial Shooting Academy in Henrico County and Virginia Beach, echoed Tosh’s assessment.
“It’s definitely a case of having future demand accelerated,” he said. “In 2013, what people normally would have bought in future years, they bought in 2013.”
Satterwhite said that while 2014 firearm sales at his stores declined in line with the state average, the academy’s shooting range business continued to grow last year.
“That activity — people wanting to shoot on the range — has been very good for our business,” he said.
Exact sales of firearms in Virginia are neither reported nor recorded, but the background check records provide a rough estimate of the number of firearms sold. There is not a one-to-one correlation between background checks and the number of guns sold because some customers buy multiple firearms.
Also, about 1 percent of the background checks in Virginia typically result in people being denied permission to buy a weapon. The background check figures also do not reflect activity between private parties, such as family members or collectors at gun shows.
Although Baker said that Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s recent gun control proposals could “stir up” another rush on guns, the measures may be coming at an opportune time.
“His proposal is not following a high profile event of firearm violence and so the proposal may be seen as less reactionary — and be perceived as less likely to make it through the General Assembly by the gun-rights advocates, resulting in little or no rush to purchase firearms,” he said.
It’s also worth noting, Baker added, that none of the governor’s proposals seeks to ban particular firearms or limit magazine sizes that could spark a buying frenzy among people who fear those items would be outlawed if such legislation passed.
“Instead, his proposals seek to control private sales, keep guns out of the hands of offenders and re-introduce the one-handgun-per-month-law,” Baker said. “Of those, I think only the last one is likely to cause an actual immediate increase in firearms sales.”
However, if McAuliffe manages to get legislation enacted that limits the private sale of firearms, “we will see a jump in the number of background checks because many more firearm transactions would require such a check,” Baker said.
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8. A bill to repeal the "Gun Free School Zones Act" introduced in Congress!
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Board Member Bruce Jackson emailed me this:
From www.unitedliberty.org: http://tinyurl.com/ooonsjo
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/1 ... hool-zones
Thomas Massie sets sights on inaptly-named "Gun Free School Zones"
by Andrew Loposser
January 8, 2015
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has decided to take aim one of America’s biggest public policy failures: the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) of 1990.
The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was introduced by then-Senator Joe Biden and signed into law by George H.W. Bush – hardly a conservative hero. The intent of the Act was to prevent individuals from possessing a firearm in a school zone. It was, as many of these bills are, sold to Congress as way to make our schools a safer place for our children.
If the intent of this Act really was to create a safe environment for America’s children, then it has failed, and failed miserably.
Individuals, not guns, are responsible for committing acts of violence. However, since the anti-gun crowd believes that bills like the GFSZA actually reduce violence, it is worth noting how much of a failure this policy has been over the past few years. The Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety has put together a convenient list showing just how ineffective the GFSZA has been.
According to Everytown chart, there have been at least 96 school shootings since Sandyhook.
This is unacceptable. America’s children should not be subject to dangerous environments in order to appease the anti-gun crowd. Thankfully, Congressman Massie wants to make sure our children are no longer subjected to these target-rich environments.
Earlier this week, Congressman Massie introduced H.R. 86, the Safe Students Act, a bill that would repeal the GFSZA. Originally introduced by former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) in 2007, this Act would restore much needed sanity to our nation’s gun laws by striking down this ineffective ban that has done nothing to reduce “gun violence.”
From Congressman Massie’s press release:
“Gun-free school zones are ineffective. They make people less safe by inviting criminals into target-rich, no-risk environments,” said Massie. “Gun-free zones prevent law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves, and create vulnerable populations that are targeted by criminals.”
Representative Massie concluded: “A bigger federal government can’t solve this problem. Weapons bans and gun-free zones are unconstitutional. They do not and cannot prevent criminals or the mentally ill from committing acts of violence. But they often prevent victims of such violence from protecting themselves.”
Since coming to Congress in 2013, Congressman Massie has been a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. He originally introduced the bill to repeal GFSZA in 2013. Then, in 2014, he introdruced an amendment that would have blocked the District of Columbia from using taxpayer dollars to enforce some of their gun laws. He is also Chair of the Second Amendment Caucus.
Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, the Safe Students Act should have no problem making its way to the President’s desk. While the President is likely to veto any such bill, we should at least give him the opportunity to reject a bill that would create a safe environment for children.
In this upcoming Congressional session, more Republicans should follow Congressman Massie’s lead and take a more proactive approach to passing bills that restore our Second Amendment rights.
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9. A U.S. Supreme Court case to watch
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EM Dave Hicks emailed me this:
From www.washingtonpost.com: http://tinyurl.com/ldap7qx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volo ... minal-act/
Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of the Armed Career Criminal Act
by Will Baude
January 9, 2015
Johnson v. United States is the latest in a long string of Supreme Court cases about how to interpret the Armed Career Criminal Act, which defines a violent felony as, inter alia, “any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year … that … is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.” It was argued last fall and didn’t seem like it would be much more unusual than most cases about the ACCA.
Today after its first conference of 2015, the Supreme Court ordered the parties in Johnson to brief and reargue the following question: “Whether the residual clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, 18 U. S. C. §924(e)(2)(B)(ii), is unconstitutionally vague.” Here’s Lyle Denniston’s analysis.
Justice Scalia has been arguing with increasing force that the Act is vague, and the reargument order suggests that there’s a good chance he may finally have convinced his colleagues that he’s right.
For a taste of the arguments that are likely to come, here is Justice Scalia’s 2011 dissent in Sykes v. United States, where he made the void for vagueness argument:
When I dissented from the Court’s judgment in James, I said that the residual clause’s “shoddy draftsmanship” put courts to a difficult choice:
“They can (1) apply the ACCA enhancement to virtually all predicate offenses, … ; (2) apply it case by case in its pristine abstraction, finding it applicable whenever the particular sentencing judge (or the particular reviewing panel) believes there is a ‘serious potential risk of physical injury to another’ (whatever that means); (3) try to figure out a coherent way of interpreting the statute so that it applies in a relatively predictable and administrable fashion to a smaller subset of crimes; or (4) recognize the statute for the drafting failure it is and hold it void for vagueness … .” 550 U. S., at 229–230.
My dissent “tried to implement,” id. , at 230, the third option; and the Court, I believed, had chosen the second. “Today’s opinion,” I wrote, “permits an unintelligible criminal statute to survive uncorrected, unguided, and unexplained.” Id., at 230–231. My assessment has not been changed by the Court’s later decisions in the ACCA “series.” Today’s opinion, which adds to the “closest analog” test (James) the “purposeful, violent, and aggressive” test (Begay) , and even the risky-as-the-least-risky test that I had proposed as the exclusive criterion, has not made the statute’s application clear and predictable. And all of them together—or even the risky-as-the-least-risky test alone, I am now convinced—never will. The residual-clause series will be endless, and we will be doing ad hoc application of ACCA to the vast variety of state criminal offenses until the cows come home.
That does not violate the Constitution. What does violate the Constitution is approving the enforcement of a sentencing statute that does not “give a person of ordinarily intelligence fair notice” of its reach, United States v. Batchelder , 442 U. S. 114, 123 (1979) (internal quotation marks omitted), and that permits, indeed invites, arbitrary enforcement, see Kolender , 461 U. S., at 357. The Court’s ever-evolving interpretation of the residual clause will keep defendants and judges guessing for years to come. The reality is that the phrase “otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another” does not clearly define the crimes that will subject defendants to the greatly increased ACCA penalties. It is not the job of this Court to impose a clarity which the text itself does not honestly contain. And even if that were our job, the further reality is that we have by now demonstrated our inability to accomplish the task.
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We face a Congress that puts forth an ever-increasing volume of laws in general, and of criminal laws in particular. It should be no surprise that as the volume increases, so do the number of imprecise laws. And no surprise that our indulgence of imprecisions that violate the Constitution encourages imprecisions that violate the Constitution. Fuzzy, leave-the-details-to-be-sorted-out-by-the-courts legislation is attractive to the Congressman who wants credit for addressing a national problem but does not have the time (or perhaps the votes) to grapple with the nitty-gritty. In the field of criminal law, at least, it is time to call a halt. I do not think it would be a radical step—indeed, I think it would be highly responsible—to limit ACCA to the named violent crimes. Congress can quickly add what it wishes. Because the majority prefers to let vagueness reign, I respectfully dissent.
Jeff Wall, a Supreme Court litigator (formerly in the Solicitor General’s office) adds on Twitter: “Prosecutors may be sad to lose the residual clause, but the SG’s Office won’t. It has been a constant source of struggle.”
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10. Bloomberg's anti-gun group attempts to attack Jeff Foxworthy, Alan Jackson [VIDEO]
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Another misfire by the Angry Demanding Moms.
Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From townhall.com: http://tinyurl.com/qcjluz8
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavli ... a-n1937933#!
Laughable: Bloomberg's Anti-gun group attempts to attack Jeff Foxworthy, Alan Jackson for supporting NRA
by Katie Pavlich
January 2, 2015
After successfully pressuring comedian Jay Leno into cancelling his long-held appearance at this month's SHOT Show in Las Vegas, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun Moms Demand Action is at it again. This time, they're going after comedian Jeff Foxworthy (famous for "you might be a redneck if...") and country legend Alan Jackson for upcoming appearances at the 2014 NRA annual meetings in Nashville. From the Mom's Demand Action Facebook page:
Alan Jackson and Jeff Foxworthy agreed to open this year's NRA convention after the NRA pushed to arm convicted criminals, blocked federal gun violence research, and board members promoted armed insurrection.
Let's educate these celebrities on the dangerous and irresponsible policies the gun lobby supports. Take action HERE: every.tw/1sQvcxP
Mom's Demand may have been successful in bullying Leno into pulling away from the gun industry with lies and distortions, but they'll have no luck doing the same to Foxworthy and Jackson. In fact, Foxworthy will probably make fun of them during his appearance for even trying. Foxworthy and Jackson's fan base is largely made up of members of the National Rifle Association and avid Second Amendment supporters. In their lack of self-awareness, Moms Demand once again is going after the wrong constituency with false accusations.
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11. [DC] Shootings, slashings in the land the 2nd amendment forgot
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Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/ppd3whj
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... nt-forgot/
A D.C. holiday: Shooting spree, slashing rampage in the land the 2nd amendment forgot
by Charles Hurt
December 31, 2014
It is that special time of year when people all over America sing with cheer, exchange gifts with loved ones, and count their many blessings.
But here in the federal city — this little cradle of liberty called Washington, D.C. — we celebrate a little differently. We go on a mad little gun spree shooting one another.
Over the past week, D.C. has seen 15 people shot in at least a dozen different incidents. More than half of them were killed.
All of this is actually really odd, considering that guns are outlawed here. The only way to legally obtain a gun is to take courses that are not offered and submit to background checks that are not made. Then you can purchase a gun from a licensed D.C. gun dealer that does not exist.
Then you have to go down to the police station to be fingerprinted like some kind of criminal. And then pray that in all the bureaucratic genius worthy of a police department that can’t get the right name of a man it fatally shot (really!), the city government doesn’t misfile your prints into the file of some kind of serial child rapist.
So, like I said, guns are banned here. Which really makes you wonder how 15 people got shot since Christmas Eve. Perhaps it was all stray gunfire from over in Virginia, those scary, gun-toting rednecks!
But that seems highly unlikely. I just got back from several days in Southern Virginia where absolutely everybody has guns. They are leaning behind the front door, hanging over the mantle, under the bed, and in the glove box. Yet the whole time I was there, no one got shot! Guess it’s just not part of the Christmas tradition down there.
Here in D.C., we don’t just celebrate with gun play, either. We also like to bring out the knives for the holidays.
Over the weekend, a crazed knife nut in a trenchcoat dashed into a popular bar near George Washington University and slashed five people before escaping unidentified. Police closed down the bar, so the knife nut will have to find some other place to carry out his carnage next time.
Incoming Mayor Muriel Bowser is on the case. Over the weekend, she toured several neighborhoods that have seen so much gunfire, despite the city’s ban on guns. Apparently she was not asked how it is possible so many people have been shot and killed by guns here when they are clearly banned.
But she reportedly did say this: “I’ve been working in government for a long time and sometimes spikes in violence are just that — unexplained spikes.”
Well, gee, let the kiddies go out and play. I feel so much better now.
“What’s also important,” she continued, “is identifying whether they’re young people are older people.”
What? I don’t even know what that means or what she thought it might mean. But I am pretty sure it means that voters here in this bastion of democracy and self-governance have once again elected a crazy mayor.
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12. [NY] Gun confiscation ordered after veteran sought treatment for insomnia
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Member Lindsay Trittipoe emailed me this:
Interesting article on how a patient's medical records were shared with police, who then confiscated his weapons. Is this happening in VA?
From www.thedailysheeple.com: http://tinyurl.com/qxu4t85
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/it-is-ha ... nia_012015
It IS Happening Here: “Permanent Gun Confiscation” Ordered After Veteran Sought ‘Voluntary’ Treatment for Insomnia
by Mac Slavo
January 3, 2015
For those who have always believed that it can’t happen here, think again, because it IS happening, and things are only going to get worse as data surveillance becomes a way of life.
Gun confiscation at the hands of medical records sharing is now officially a reality, with serious consequences for the individuals involved.
Now, under ObamaCare, the United States is on pace to swiftly become a snitch society that would make East Germany and Soviet Russia blush.
One former Navy man and 30-year police force veteran is suing the relevant authorities in New York after four of his legally registered firearms were confiscated as a result of his seeking voluntary treatment for insomnia.
Despite the fact that he has no criminal record, was diagnosed with only “mild depression” and his record explicitly noted that there was no concern for violence, the man was listed as a “mental defective.” And thanks to New York’s “SAFE Act” for Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013, his weapons were seized by the local sheriff’s office after his records were shared and New York State Police made repeated requests for confiscation, as American Thinker reported:
According to the suit, the hospital diagnosed the plaintiff as “mildly depressed,” and his clinical evaluation stated, “Patient has no thoughts of hurting himself. Patient has no thoughts of hurting others. Patient is not having suicidal thoughts. Patient is not having homicidal thoughts…” and “there is no evidence of any psychotic processes, mania, or OCD symptoms. Insight, judgment, and impulse control are good.” The suit further alleges that a psychiatrist told the plaintiff, “I don’t know why you were referred here. You don’t belong here.”
Nonetheless, the suit contends that five days after being discharged from the hospital, the local sheriff’s department showed up at Montgomery’s door and seized his four registered handguns, including his former duty sidearm, after the sheriff had been subjected to “repeated pressure” by the New York State Police, who claimed that Montgomery had been declared mentally defective and had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
Montgomery alleges that the hospital violated his privacy by transmitting his medical information to the State Police without his consent or knowledge. Montgomery subsequently requested a hearing to have his handgun ownership permit reinstated, but the sheriff’s department allegedly terminated his permit without a hearing.
The plaintiff, Donald Montgomery, filed a lawsuit against numerous parties connected to the incident, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Vincent DeMarco, Sheriff of Suffolk County, and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, alleging violations of several of his Constitutional amendments, including violations of the safeguards for the right to bear arms, for privacy, against unwarranted search and seizure, for due process and for equal protection under the law.
“This lawsuit alleges the creation, implementation, marketing, and use of a reporting system for medical professionals to transmit personal health information to the State pursuant to NY Mental Hygiene Law § 9.46, enacted January 15, 2013 as part of the “New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act” violates the civil liberties of the Plaintiff and all other persons similarly situated, including his/their rights under the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The State has amassed the confidential, personal health information of tens of thousands of people into a database shared by various State agencies… [which] includes, but is not limited to, any mental health diagnosis of a patient… “
At the heart of this issue here is not only how “mental health” designations are now being used to restrict gun rights, but how the medical profession is now breaking the doctor-patient privilege to become an informant against the patient, and reporting them to an expansive government and law enforcement database. This is taking place without the knowledge of the patient, or even the right to find out what is written in the record, and, further, it is happening without any criminal act or wrongdoing taking place or even being suspected.
The lawsuit alleges that prior to New York’s SAFE Act, which was passed under rushed “emergency” legislation rules:
“the statutory standard for a break in the confidential doctor-patient relationship leading to a report to a law enforcement officer was ‘a likelihood of serious harm to self or others,’ meaning ‘a substantial risk of physical har[m] to self as manifested by threats of or attempts at suicide or serious bodily harm or other conduct demonstrating that he is dangerous to himself or a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons…”
None of this had been alleged against Montgomery, yet he and tens of thousands of others in a similar designation were reported to law enforcement and government databases, constituting a major breach of the doctor-patient relationship and a drastic change in policy both in the state of New York, and more broadly throughout the United States.
And the trend is continuing under the guise of gun safety and ‘common sense’ background checks.
Numerous passages in President Obama’s 23 executive orders concerning mental health and gun control issued in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting sound eerily similar to what happened to Montgomery in New York State, with the White House effectively tapping doctors to amass data on gun owners during patient visits:
• “Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.”
• “Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.”
• “Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun”
• “Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.”
• “Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.”
• “Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.”
• “Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.”
It was recently reported that a ‘National Database Warehouse’ is underway to store and manage the massive quantities of information being collected under ObamaCare:
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for vendors to run its “National Data Warehouse,” a database for “capturing, aggregating, and analyzing information” related to beneficiary and customer experiences with Medicare and the federal Obamacare marketplaces.
Despite what may be the best intentions on the part of the government, these policies are being misused through the use of massive databases that contain sweeping information, and amount to a pre-crime Stasi culture that encourages secret reporting and an atmosphere based upon suspicion rather than evidence, at the expense of one’s rights without even committing a crime.
And there have already been other abuses.
Police confiscated firearms from a man named David Lewis, before later admitting they had taken them from the wrong man:
“Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York’s SAFE Act,” the release begins.
“When you write a piece of legislation in a vacuum, without having hearings, without talking to people about how it’s going to implemented in the real world — without jeopardizing people’s rights, and putting an individual like this through a nightmarish experience, and infringe on their rights, you have to go back to the drawing board,” he said. “And I encourage the legislative leadership here and mostly our governor to take a step back and say ‘we didn’t get it right’ and let’s change this.”
Ultimately, it will discourage people with legitimate needs from seeking medical treatment due to fears that their records will result in a police visit or an official classification that irreparably misrepresents their status or intentions.
As the American Thinker noted:
In the old Soviet and East German police states of the Cold War, police kept secret files on scores of common people. Information was fed to the police by thousands of clandestine sources – and a seemingly banal or routine interaction with nearly anyone could lead to a surprise “knock on the door” by authorities. During the late Soviet era, communist leadership moved away from the executions and purges of the Stalin years and began to increasingly rely upon medical professionals to diagnose “enemies of the state” as insane – thus, a routine trip to your doctor could lead to a visit from police.
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13. [MO] One St. Louis criminal sees instant justice
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Member Rafael Pabon emailed me this:
From www.gopusa.com: http://tinyurl.com/ksmms3b
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/01/08/o ... bscriber=1
One St. Louis criminal sees instant justice
by United Press International
January 8, 2015
ST. LOUIS -- A would-be robber was shot in the chest inside a Walgreens early Wednesday morning by the owner of a different store he had tried to rob moments earlier, police say.
The man who was shot is expected to survive.
St. Louis Police Lt. Ed Harper said the would-be robber had tried to rob Kaiser Grand Mart, a gas station at 5008 South Grand Boulevard, before 8 a.m. Wednesday. The robber, 32, handed a note to a clerk demanding money but he did not show or imply having a weapon.
The robber ran out of the store when the clerk alerted managers to the robbery attempt, Harper said. Someone at the store called police, telling dispatchers that Kaiser's owner followed the man out of his store and several blocks to the Walgreens at 5550 South Grand Boulevard.
Kaiser's owner followed the man into the Walgreens, saw that the man was trying to rob it and pulled his own gun, Harper said.
That's when the robber pointed his gun toward the gas station owner, Harper said. The gas station owner then fired his gun twice, hitting the robber once in the upper chest.
The robber was in critical but stable condition, police say. No one else was hurt.
The gun the would-be robber carried turned out to be a toy handgun, Harper said.
The owner of Kaiser's is in his mid-40s. Police said they are not likely to pursue charges against him.
Police suspect the man who was shot may have been involved in several other recent holdups including a robbery Tuesday at a Family Dollar store nearby the Walgreens.
Police say there is surveillance video footage of the incidents at Kaiser's and inside the Walgreens. Charges are expected against the would-robber soon.
Staff at the gas station weren't commenting. No one from the Walgreens would talk to a reporter either, referring questions to a corporate media relations office in the Chicago area.
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14. [MO] Numerous robbers storm female gun shop, get shot
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The only gun fight you are guaranteed of winning is the one you never get into. In this case, THREE robbers were shot (and maybe all four). Unfortunately one of the store's owners was also shot and killed while defending his wife.
While it is terribly sad that the owner was shot, he died nobly, protecting his wife. No other innocents were hurt thanks to the owner's sacrifice.
Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From www.breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/ofbkgmq
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... -get-shot/
Numerous robbers storm female gun store, get shot
by AWR Hawkins
January 9, 2015
On the afternoon of January 9, numerous robbers allegedly stormed a Shawnee, Kansas’ “She’s A Pistol” gun store; three were shot and left in critical condition.
According to Kansas City’s KCTV 5, the incident took place 2:30 p.m. local time. The male co-owner of the business, his wife, and the other co-owner were all in the business when the robbers came in.
The male co-owner was shot and three of the robbers were shot. Of the four total, three were listed in critical condition.
Fox News 4 reports that a fifth person–a minor–may have been wounded as well, but the extent of the minor’s injuries were unknown.
UPDATE: The Kansas City Star reports that four robbers entered “She’s A Pistol” gun store on January 9, while owner John Bieker and his wife Becky were there. When one of the four robbers slapped Becky in the face, Bieker opened fire, wounding three of the four robbers while also receiving a fatal wound.
Bieker and two of the robbers were taken to the hospital, where Bieker died. One of suspects is still in critical condition.
Two robbers who fled the scene were found hiding in a screened-in porch down the road.
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15. [IA] I carry a gun every day
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Member Bill Huckleberry emailed me this:
From thegazette.com: http://tinyurl.com/k6ca8mo
http://thegazette.com/subject/opinion/g ... y-20150104
I carry a gun everyday
by Ernie Traugh, guest columnist
January 4, 2015
Every day I get up and put on a gun. It’s part of my daily routine. No different from making coffee or feeding the dogs before I leave for work.
There is so much misinformation about who that makes me. I’m a “gun nut.” I’m one of “those right-wing Second Amendment people.” I’m the scourge of the earth to some.
Funny how that works.
They don’t even know me but they are worried that I’m what’s wrong with this country, this state and this city I call home. I walk among them and they don’t even know it. I’m the guy in the jeans and Under Armour shirt, the guy in the $200 sport coat and $125 shoes, the guy in Nike pants and a hoodie, and some days I’m the guy with dirty hands from working in the yard, but most of all I’m the guy they never see.
Oh, they acknowledge me sometimes. When I hold the door for them because my parents raised me that way. When I let them go ahead of me in line at the gas station because they seem to be in a hurry. When I pick up their baby’s pacifier in the aisle at the grocery store and hand it back to them because it fell out and they didn’t notice. But they don’t see me. I’m just another guy in the store with things in my hand. But only my left hand. I don’t carry things in my right hand. Not at the store. Not in public.
Why? Because I’m “that guy.” I know that bad things happen. Every day. Everywhere. So I try to be aware. I try to study my surroundings. I expect to not see it coming every time. I expect that evil may show up while I’m shopping or walking through the mall or eating at a restaurant. It doesn’t make me crazy. It doesn’t make me paranoid. It simply makes me aware. Unlike a lot of people that walk by me every day. Looking at their phones, their notes, their purses, or any of the other distractions that plague us. I get it.
I also get that there are wolves. Hungry. Lean. Skilled at their trade. Studying you. Studying me. They like you. They don’t like me. I see them at the mall. I see them at the gas station. I see them right here in this town. Do they know I’m armed? No, they don’t. They know that I’m aware. I look at them. Kill them with kindness. It’s a like a mutual agreement. I see you; you see me. Let’s not kid each other.
It’s weird in a way. The man and his friend in the store that looked all around and even glanced at the camera above us — those guys see me. I’m aware that the door is over there. I’m aware that the coffee pot is within reach and full. He urges me to go first to the counter. “Oh no, you go please. I have all day,” I reply. Now he has to make a purchase. Now he knows I’m polite …. I’m polite and I do not want them behind me in line.
The lady with her kid? She doesn’t notice me, but I’m there. I have a phone. I have a flashlight. I have two knives. I have a firearm. And I have a plan. If this doesn’t go well I want to get her and that little one out of here. Chances are nothing is going to happen until they’re gone anyway. I’d like to leave too.
One man asks the other a question. He hands the guy a few extra bucks to make the purchase of an item at the counter. They leave. I make my purchase. I call the employee by name and tell him to have a good night. I walk to the door and hold it open for the woman approaching. She says, “Thanks.” I say, “Yes ma’am.” Then, poof. I’m gone.
Just another uneventful trip to the store. The best kind ever. It’s funny those men truly saw me but other customers didn’t. Why? Maybe too busy. Maybe too much on their minds. Maybe because they didn’t worry for one second about those two men or me.
When I get home I don’t tell my wife about the two men who lingered. The two men who entered together but stood so far apart. The two men that seemed to have no sense of purpose or item they were in search of. No need to talk of them because nothing happened. This happens daily. Sometimes once. Sometimes multiple times. I like uneventful days.
Most people don’t know me. But man, they sure do judge me. If I use a gun to defend myself they will read about it. They will hear about it. They will weigh in on what should have happened.
I have seen bad people do bad things. I have seen good people dumbfounded and in shock because they couldn’t comprehend what was happening in front of them or, worse yet, to them. It’s not fun or pretty to think about, so most people don’t. They don’t stay awake late at night watching videos from self-defense experts. They don’t read the articles. They don’t look at unedited news on the Internet. They don’t search out the videos of people fighting for their lives and losing.
A man stabbed outside a bar. A couple hijacked and killed in front of the store. A store clerk shot even after complying with a robber’s demands. A video from inside the grocery store of a mad man with a gun shooting people while looking for his ex. Dashboard cameras of an officer involved in a shooting. It’s an ugly world so they choose not to see it.
I don’t train for the warm fuzzy days where everyone gets along. I train for the other days. I try to round out my skill sets. I look at what others have done to succeed. I watch videos of those who haven’t. Some refer to it as making something good out of something bad. Like watching videos of officers being killed as every person that’s gone through any type of law enforcement academy has had to do. Learn from others’ experiences.
People from all walks of life legally carry guns. Some are men and some are women. Some are old and some are young. The ones I know train. The ones I know are aware: Aware of their surroundings. And aware of all of the armchair quarterbacking that will be done if they ever have to use that tool of last resort on their belt. So why do it anyway? Because they value their life and the lives of others. Simple.
My so-called “gun nut” friends and customers are some of the most congenial, trustworthy people I know. I only wish everyone had such friends. [PVC: AGREED!] I wish everyone understood like I do.
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16. [ID] Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns
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Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From crimepreventionresearchcenter.org: http://tinyurl.com/nuyx9sb
http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.or ... -in-idaho/
Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns, CPRC gets extensive news coverage over number of concealed handgun permits in Idaho
by John R. Lott
January 3, 2015
The horrible tragic death of Veronica J. Rutledge in Idaho obtained massive national news coverage. The 29-year-old mother was accidentally shot to death when her two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired her handgun.
The news coverage generally provided little context for the story. The main context was provided by data that had been put together by the Crime Prevention Research Center. In the Associated Press article that was carried in news outlets throughout the country it was noted (in the US including the Washington Post, ABC News, Newsday, Yahoo News, US News & World Report and in publications around the world such as Australia and Japan) :
About 7 percent of adults in Idaho had concealed weapons permits at the end of 2012, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. That ranked Idaho among the top third of states. . . .
Terrence McCoy in the Washington Post also covered the CPRC’s work on the number of concealed handgun permits and provided a link to our study (it also appeared in the USA Today).
About 7% of adults in Idaho — more than 85,500 people — had concealed-weapons permits at the end of 2012, according to data from the Crime Prevention Research Center, a Swarthmore, Pa.-based gun-advocacy group. That ranks Idaho in the top third among states. . . .
But you get an idea of how rare these incidents are by looking at the number of permit holders nationwide, not just those in Idaho. There are now about 12 million concealed handgun permit holders and if these stories of children shooting adults happened at more than a virtually non-existent rate, we would surely be hearing about children killing their parents regularly.
To put it differently, the day before there were at least a couple of news reports around the country about permit holders using concealed handguns to protect people, but neither of those stories got national news coverage.
1) In Fargo, North Dakota, four people were robbing and assaulting a 36-year-old man. They knocked the man unconscious, but fortunately a permit holder was there to stop the attack. Police reported: “passer-by, who has a license to carry a concealed weapon, brandished his gun to end the robbery.”
2) In Kissimmee, Florida, a pastor with a concealed handgun permit protected himself from an employee who he had just had to fire.
. . . . The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Living Water Fellowship Church Pastor Terry Howell had been meeting with maintenance worker Benjamin Parangan Tuesday to terminate Parangan’s employment with the Kissimmee church.
Witnesses say Parangan pulled out a handgun and fired multiple shots at Howell. He wasn’t hurt but returned fire with his own weapon and hit Parangan. . . .
CPRC’s Lott was also interviewed by The Independent in the UK, though the numbers that were provided on how rare these types of events are was not included in the story. It would also have been useful to have noted that the
. . . Yet John Lott, a gun rights campaigner who heads the Crime Prevention Research Centre and who is a contributor to Fox News, said public support for gun rights, including the right to carry a concealed weapon, was growing.
He pointed to the results of a survey released in December 2014 by the Pew Research Centre which showed for the first time in at least two decades, there was “more support for gun rights than gun control”. The research suggested 52 per cent of people said it was more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46 per cent said it was more important to control gun ownership.
He claimed public support for guns was growing because of several factors, including the publication of a number of studies he said showed gun ownership prevented crimes.
Mr Lott, who said his organisation received no support from gun manufacturers, said the media was also slowly reporting instances where someone carrying a licensed concealed weapon had been able to prevent a crime. As a result, people were becoming more aware of the benefit of being armed.
“There was an incident in Fargo, North Dakota, when someone was being attacked by four people, and someone with a concealed weapon was able to step in and stop it,” he said, referring to an incident on Monday afternoon in Fargo’s NP Avenue. A report by the WDAZ television station said four men had tried to lure a 36-year-old man behind a building. . . .
UPDATE: A newspaper in Louisiana has also cited the CPRC for data on the number of concealed carry permits in Louisiana.
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17. Eugene Robinson: France attacks would be deadlier in U.S. due to guns
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Do you laugh or cry? Mr. Robinson carries a disconnect with reality to a whole new level.
First, the police officer that was executed would NOT have been unarmed in the U.S. and would have been able to defend himself. Second, except in New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and a few other communist controlled areas, there is a good chance that there would have been some armed citizens in the area, including the guard protecting the building.
Might some innocents die? Sure. But if the killers are not in a gun-free zone, the outcome would probably be nothing like what happened in France.
Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From www.breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/p27xr9x
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/01/ ... e-to-guns/
Eugene Robinson: France attacks would be deadlier in U.S. due to guns.
by Ian Hanchett
January 9, 2015
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson argued that if attacks like the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France happened in the US “we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage” because “weapons are universally available” on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC.
“Just to keep it in perspective, I don’t think we should imagine that the conditions and the threat are exactly the same in the United States as they are in France, they are different. In fact, one thing that’s different here is weapons are universally available and so it is actually a very good thing that the tensions are not exactly the same because we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage here.”
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