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1. Reminder: VCDL membership meeting in Annandale tomorrow, Thursday, June 19
2. Reminder: Sussex Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow, Thursday, June 19
3. VCDL President to speak at Carrollton Civic League on Monday, July 7
4. The face of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) makes an admission that gun controllers are NOT going to like
5. Fauquier Country Board of Supervisor meeting date on noise ordinance
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1. Reminder: VCDL membership meeting in Annandale tomorrow, Thursday, June 19
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VCDL will have its monthly membership meeting at the Mason Government Center in Annandale, Thursday, June 19th. The meeting will be called to order at 8 PM, but fellowship starts at 7:30 PM. The meeting will adjourn to a local restaurant for continued fellowship at 9:30 PM.
We will be discussing recent events, including recent primaries, affecting gun rights in Virginia.
Board member Bruce Jackson will be at the meeting. If you need any supplies such as cards or brochures or desire shirts or mouse pads etc just drop him a line and let him know. His address is bruce@vcdl.org
As with all VCDL membership meetings, it is open to the public, so bring friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors!
For directions, click here:
http://www.vcdl.org/meetings.html
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2. Reminder: Sussex Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow, Thursday, June 19
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Under pressure from you, Sussex County had an emergency repeal of part of its noise ordinance at their last meeting that dealt with hunting and shooting. At this Thursday’s meeting they will consider making that change permanent. If you live in the area and can attend to show support for making the protections for hunting and shooting permanent, please do so, as this is going to be a public hearing.
The Board of Supervisors meeting will be in a courthouse, so you’ll have to leave any firearms or other prohibited items in your vehicle for the convenience of criminals.
The meeting starts at 7 PM and is located at:
15098 Courthouse Road
Sussex, VA 23884
Map is found here:
http://www.sussexcountyva.gov/events/index/view/id/111
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3. VCDL President to speak at Carrollton Civic League on Monday, July 7
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I’ve been invited to speak to the Carrollton Civic League (CCL). Their meeting is being held at 7 PM on Monday, July 7, at:
Conference Room
Sentara St. Luke's Medical Center
20209 Sentara Way (just off Brewers Neck Blvd.)
Carrollton, Va. 23314
The meeting is open to the public.
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4. The face of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) makes an admission that gun controllers are NOT going to like
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Well, well, well. The face of MAIG, Mark Glaze, is leaving the organization and is now admitting that MAIG’s gun control agenda wouldn’t have stopped any of the recent mass shootings.
Boy, no joke, Mark!
But Mark blames MAIG’s failure to pass gun control on Obamacare, Snowden, Congressional gridlock, and the Tooth Fairy. (Well, okay, maybe not the Tooth Fairy.) MAIG’s failures couldn’t possibly be that MAIG’s agenda is junk, could it?
Mr. Glaze also says that "Mr. Bloomberg’s organization now has more money and Americans for Responsible Solutions, or ARS – launched by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) – has more star power.”
Notice what he left out: MEMBERS. No one is standing behind all this gun-control baloney. They have money and star-power, but they don’t have dues-paying, voting, true-believer MEMBERS like YOU.
YOU are why we are winning this battle. Your phone calls and emails to elected officials, your funding of groups like VCDL, your letters to the editor, and talking to co-workers around the water cooler are all working. You are a powerful force that money can’t buy and star-power can’t overcome.
I wish Mark well in his new endeavors. Hopefully now he can do something constructive.
From http://blogs.wsj.com: http://tinyurl.com/qznwnss
Gun-Control Advocate: Snowden, Obamacare Hurt Our Cause
Since the Newtown massacre, Mark Glaze has been the face of the gun-control movement. The executive director of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mr. Glaze led the futile 2013 fight for expanded background checks and has been regular on cable news after each successive mass shooting.
Now Mr. Glaze, 43 years old, has stepped away from the fight. Friday marked his last day working for Mr. Bloomberg’s organization, now called Everytown for Gun Safety, after three and a half years as executive director.
In an interview at his organization’s Washington office earlier this month, Mr. Glaze expounded on how President Barack Obama’s unrelated political problems – health care, Edward Snowden, congressional gridlock – damaged the gun-control cause.
And Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn’t solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn’t have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes.
The Obama administration bungling its rollout of the Affordable Care Act website made any effort to enact gun control in the future even less likely.
“There’s an almost perfect overlap, I think, between the people who are the most active and radicalized gun voters and people who just don’t like and trust the government very much. When you take on the gun issue, you’re forced to take on by proxy a much bigger issue in this country, which is a deeply ingrained distrust of government that gets worse every time the government can’t get a healthcare website off the ground or can’t get it’s act together to pass a farm bill.”
Surveillance activities exposed by Mr. Snowden are also not helpful.
“The fact that people have learned that the government has taken for itself the right to listen in on our most private conversations has done nothing to inspire faith in government restraint. It’s that lack of faith in government restraint that makes it difficult to do things like ask everybody to take a background check.”
The most attention on gun control comes after mass shootings – just look at the post-Newtown push and the brief attention paid to the issue after the Memorial Day weekend shootings in Isla Vista, Calif. Yet virtually none of the solutions gun-control groups are pushing would have prevented any of the massacres that capture public attention.
“Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think. … Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure it’s a challenge in this issue.”
Before Newtown, the pre-eminent gun control player in Washington was the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But Mr. Bloomberg’s organization now has more money and Americans for Responsible Solutions, or ARS – launched by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) – has more star power. It still hasn’t been enough to beat back the National Rifle Association.
“The NRA has a much vaunted, if overhyped political operation. But again, when we came to this the only support that members of congress got when they took a tough vote was a note of thanks from the Brady Campaign, and that’s really not enough. I think [Mr. Bloomberg] with his super PAC, ARS with their political operation and lots of voters who we think are starting to pay attention to this more than they have in the past.”
After the post-Newtown urgency, the timeline for reform is now much longer. Mr. Glaze spoke in terms of multiple election cycles before it would be realistic to think Congress would act.
“The federal picture will change when legislators come to understand that we are here to stay. … I think it will take an election cycle or two to understand that there are new players in town and they are free to do what they know in their hearts are the right thing and what 80 to 90% of their constituents want. You can’t defy political gravity forever.”
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5. Fauquier Country Board of Supervisor meeting date on noise ordinance
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They will be taking public comments during the next Fauquier Board of Supervisors meeting (3 minutes per person) on July 10th. The meeting will be held at:
Board Meeting Room,
Warren Green Building
10 Hotel Street
Warrenton, Virginia
The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM.
If you live in the area or hunt or shooting in Fauquier County, be sure to attend this meeting and let the Board know that you want hunting and lawful shooting to continue to be exempted from the ordinance.
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