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1. McAuliffe and Herring attacking Cuccinelli and Obenshain on guns
2. Donation jar at VCDL booth in Richmond this weekend
3. Orange County not following the law on issuing permits
4. Visit Starbucks tomorrow (Saturday)
5. Washington County gun show location and date changes!
6. VCDL to have table at Trapper Dan Trading store in Vinton on Sept. 28
7. Member shares thoughts on feds funding VA police
8. Poem for Ed Scott
9. Actually citizens stop mass murders more than the police!
10. FBI crime statistics contradict Morgan's claim of VA crime rate
11. More 'Fast and Furious' weapons appear at Mexico crime scenes
12. Homeland Security building "domestic army"
13. Gun-free D.C. residents mourn loss of 4 to gun violence
14. 18 little-known gun facts that prove that guns make us safer
15. Navy SEAL explains how guns keep people safe [VIDEO]
16. Newtown guns sales surge since shooting
17. Armed Texas woman fires on 6 armed robbers
18. First person defender series playlist [VIDEO]
19. Dramatic story of political 'gun violence' ignored by media
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1. McAuliffe and Herring attacking Cuccinelli and Obenshain on guns
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Two Democrats, Terry McAuliffe, who is running for Governor, and Senator Mark Herring, who is running for Attorney General, are both attacking their Republican opponents, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Senator Mark Obenshain, for being pro-gun.
The sheer shrillness of McAuliffe's ad makes me wonder if he lost a couple of key parts of his male anatomy. The ad shows an anti-aircraft missile with this caption on a fake airport sign: "Passengers are now permitted to carry missiles in Virginia airport terminals. Your safety is our priority - Gov. Ken Cuccinelli."
The ad references bill SB 660 passed in 2004, which created the current ban on firearms in the non-secure areas of airport terminals (unless unloaded and properly stored for transport via an airplane). VCDL opposed that bill and will continue to work to repeal it. Ken Cuccinelli voted CORRECTLY by opposing the bill.
The term "missile" in the bill is a term used in Virginia law to describe a projectile fired from a firearm (or a slingshot). It does NOT refer to anti-aircraft missiles or any other kind of rocket.
McAuliffe knows that and is purposely lying to confuse the public. He is also making it clear that he'd happily sign into law any and all crazy anti-gun bills that might cross his desk as Governor.
And Herring isn't any better. Here is another set of twisted statements, claiming that Senator Obenshain wants:
* "People who sexually abuse children to be allowed to own a gun." [PVC: Obenshain's opposition to the gun restrictions this bill attempted to establish was correctly based on overly broad definitions that would have disarmed parents for something like corporal punishment, as well as disarm them for life for a MISDEMEANOR. Herring seems to be supporting taking away gun rights permanently for mere misdemeanors.]
* "People with emergency protection orders issued against them to be allowed to carry a firearm into the home of their alleged victim." [PVC: Obenshain correctly opposed this because a person with an **emergency** protection order wouldn't even know there was such an order! Plus, getting an emergency protection order does not require proof of a threat nor does it allow the accused to offer any defense (ex-parte). Clearly Herring is happy to entrap unknowing gun owners, quite possibly on a totally bogus emergency protection order.]
* "It to be easier to carry a loaded gun in a public place while under the influence of drugs or alcohol." [PVC: Anti-gun Senator McEachin had a bill in 2011 (SB 1395) that would have made it a crime for a citizen to be under the influence while carrying a gun openly or concealed, BUT PERFECTLY LEGAL for an on-duty police officer to be totally drunk! Obenshain correctly opposed that bill. Herring seems to be comfortable with police officers being intoxicated while on duty.]
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2. Donation jar at VCDL booth in Richmond this weekend
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If you are at the C&E gun show this weekend at the Richmond International Raceway, be sure to drop by the VCDL booth to say, "hi" and thank the members working the booth!
We will also have a donation jar to help Graham "Scouser" Corry with his legal fund so he can appeal an unjust conviction in Henrico for "brandishing." Graham was moving a gun from one place to another in his car when a bus driver saw him. Days later the bus driver called the police and had Graham charged with brandishing.
The whole thing was totally ridiculous since brandishing requires an element of intent to intimidate or threaten someone. (If the bus driver was really threatened or intimidated by Graham, why was the driver in no hurry to file charges?)
But the lack of intimidation or intent didn't stop a judge from finding Graham guilty. (Graham's trial only had a judge and no jury of his peers.)
To make things even worse, Graham lost his job over the incident.
Drop by and help Graham fight this injustice.
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3. Orange County not following the law on issuing permits
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I am still unable to get the Circuit Court Clerk of Orange County to return my call. In my message I told her she was in violation of state law, regardless of what a local judge is telling her. If it turns out she is still violating the law by not issuing CHPs within the required 45-day limit, we will move forward with a Writ of Mandamus.
If you live in Orange County and are getting a new CHP or renewing an existing one, be aware that the Circuit Court Clerk, Teresa Carroll, told a CHP applicant that the 45-day time limit on CHP issuance doesn't start until the judge signs the CHP!
She's claiming that a judge told her that. It's alarming in and of itself if a judge can't read the law.
My voicemail to Ms. Carroll said that the judge has no say in issuing a temporary permit on the 45th day and his alleged interpretation of when the 45-day clock starts ticking is totally wrong. I said that SHE will be held accountable for her actions, not the judge.
Let me know if you or anyone you know has any such problem with Orange County issuing CHPs in a timely manner as soon as it happens, so we can move on the Writ. We will need the aggrieved citizen to be the plaintiff (free of charge).
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4. Visit Starbucks tomorrow (Saturday)
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Even though Starbucks just wants to sell coffee and to be left out of the Second Amendment debate, the antis just can leave things alone. They simply don't respect anything and do not limit their disrespect to just gun owners.
Now they are boycotting Starbucks tomorrow, Saturday, because Starbucks lets gun owners carry in the establishments if state law allows it.
So, to counter their efforts (minuscule as they are), all we have to do is drop into Starbucks, buy something and thank the company for its pro-liberty policy.
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5. Washington County gun show location and date changes!
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The Washington County Gun Show in Abingdon that was scheduled for September 28-29, has been changed to October 5-6 and is now at the Holiday Inn at Exit 7 in
Bristol, VA.
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6. VCDL to have table at Trapper Dan Trading store in Vinton on Sept. 28
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Trapper Dan Trading --a gun store-- is having a special one day event on Saturday, September 28.
They are located at:
15780A Stewartsville Road
Vinton, VA 24179
PHONE: 540-492-2568
VCDL will have a table at this event. The COWBOY FAST DRAW folks will also be putting on their show for all. Others will be invited to set up also. More details shortly.
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7. Member shares thoughts on feds funding VA police
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Member Matt Hanson emailed me this:
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In regards to previous alert from August 15, 2013 item #1
Mr. Van Cleave, I have some thoughts on item one: I think you're right, but I would take it a step farther. I'd like to see VA turn down federal funding of state and local police regardless of Del. Marshal's bill. In other words, losing that federal funding should not be seen as an unfortunate consequence of standing on principle, but rather a desirable outcome by itself.
It's been disturbing to see the militarization of local police across the country, with departments acquiring MRAPs and similar vehicles and the use of SWAT teams all too routinely serving no-knock warrants even for relatively petty, non-violent offences. Police forces at various levels seem to be headed in the direction of becoming a de facto standing army. The federal government not only provides funding for this trend, but holds the purse strings on an ongoing basis. Del Scott illustrates that pretty well I think. With funding comes loyalty. Even worse, the federal government is buying that local influence with our own money. Who do we want our police (and perhaps more importantly, our legislators) loyal to? The citizens of the state, counties, cities and towns they serve, or the federal government?
[PVC: Another member asked why Delegate Scott was so obsequious to the federal government. Matt provides the clean answer, above, "WIth funding comes loyalty."]
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8. Poem for Ed Scott
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You know you screwed up when someone writes a poem about it. ;-)
This is about Ed Scott's bad vote to kill a bill that would have prevented state and local government from aiding the feds in enforcing gun control passed after 2012. Delegate Scott said he voted against the bill because it might have meant less **federal** money for Virginia police.
EM Doug Peterson emailed me this:
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My apologies to limerick writers everywhere.
Ed Scott can be bought
We just don't know his price.
That his vote's for sale
Is beyond the pale
So in November just think twice!
On issue Ed Scott can vote either way
He's firm and hardball he doth play.
But for his principled stand
He needs funds in his hand;
In November vote go, not stay.
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9. Actually citizens stop mass murders more than the police!
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I received this note from John Savage:
As a firearm trainer, I sometimes get firearm statistics that are surprising, and when I saw your comments in the second item of your email update of yesterday, it brought one to light that I thought I would share.
In your update, you stated "Bad guys with guns are stopped by good guys with guns - usually the police do the stopping, but citizens stop bad guys, too". This is true, but here are some statistics that might surprise you and your members. During the 2011 International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association Conclave, Ron Borsch of the Southeast Area Law Enforcement Academy presented some surprising findings. In his study of nationwide multiple murder (mass murder) situations, 68% were stopped by members of the general public, and 32% by police. Of the incidents stopped by the general public, fully 82% of those were stopped single-handed. 73% of the incidents stopped by police were done so single-handed.
So according to the statistics in this study, your statement would be more accurate if it were worded "During mass shootings, bad guys with guns are stopped by good guys with guns - usually the general public does the stopping, but police sometimes stop the bad guys too".
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10. FBI crime statistics contradict Morgan's claim of VA crime rate
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Piers Morgan looked straight into the camera and told a lie to bolster his case that more guns means more crime. That lie involved Virginia and he got caught red handed.
Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
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From breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/owtfjls
FBI CRIME STATISTICS CONTRADICT MORGAN'S CLAIM OF VIRGINIA CRIME RATE
by AWR Hawskins
August 14, 2013
While I was a guest on Piers Morgan Live on August 13, Morgan took aim at that claim that more guns led to less crime in Virginia. He claimed Virginia had "the highest murder rate in the country" according to 2009 FBI crime stats.
However, Newsbusters has done a yeoman's work to show that Morgan was wrong.
The 2009 FBI crime stats actually ranked Virginia "behind 23 other states plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico" in instances of "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter per 100,000 inhabitants."
What's interesting to note is the "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Virginia was 4.4. This figure is not even close to the kinds of numbers you see in Washington D.C., where gun control often trumps the 2nd Amendment.
In the nation's capital, the "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" rate per 100,000 inhabitants was 24, which is more than five times as high as the rate in Virginia.
The bottom line--Virginia was nowhere close to having "the highest murder rate in the country" in 2009.
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11. More 'Fast and Furious' weapons appear at Mexico crime scenes
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If a citizen had done the same thing the feds did (smuggling guns to the Mexican drug cartels), they would be getting charged with yet more murders. But it's OK. It was the government and they were trying to help.
Bill Hine emailed me this:
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From foxnews.com: http://tinyurl.com/krrod4l
More 'Fast and Furious' weapons appear at Mexico crime scenes
August 15, 2013
Three more weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious have been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, Fox News confirms.
CBS News first reported earlier this week that the guns had been tracked down. According to Justice Department documents, all three are described as WASR-10 .762-caliber Romanian rifles and all three were traced to a gun shop in Glendale, Arizona. The exact locations where the guns were recovered, and what crimes the guns may have been used in, was not immediately clear.
The documents further state that two of the three guns were purchased by Uriel Patino, who is believed to have purchased 700 weapons with encouragement from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The third was bought by Sean Steward, who was convicted on gun charges in 2012.
An ATF official, in response to the reports, told Fox News: "ATF has accepted responsibility for the mistakes made in the Fast and Furious investigation and at the Attorney General's direction we have taken appropriate and decisive action to ensure that these errors will not be repeated. And we acknowledge that, regrettably, firearms related to the Fast and Furious investigation will likely continue to be recovered at future crime scenes."
The Justice Department has acknowledged encouraging gun stores in the U.S. to sell weapons to purchasers who trafficked them to Mexican drug cartels. The Department said that the goal was to capture a major cartel leader.
In December 2010, two Fast and Furious rifles were recovered from the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder. Terry had been shot by illegal immigrants who were smuggling drugs into the United States. The program was shut down in January 2011 when the details of Terry's death became public.
The Justice Department has refused to provide a full account of the weapons involved in Fast and Furious to Congress. Refusal to turn over certain documents related to Fast and Furious led to a bipartisan vote in June 2012 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The House Oversight Committee is suing for release of the material.
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12. Homeland Security building "domestic army"
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Member Ruslan Ketenchiev emailed me this:
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From infowars.com: http://tinyurl.com/lk7v75d
Marine Corps Colonel: Homeland Security Building "Domestic Army"
Fallujah veteran says government is afraid of its own citizens
by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com
August 15, 2013
A former Marine Corps Colonel who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers warns that the Department of Homeland Security is working with law enforcement to build a "domestic army," because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens.
The comments by the Colonel Peter Martino were made during public testimony at a Concord City Council meeting on Tuesday. The meeting concerned a decision on whether to accept a $260,000 Homeland Security grant on behalf of the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit to purchase a BearCat armored vehicle.
The purchase of the vehicle has been surrounded by controversy after the city's Police Chief wrote in an application filing to the DHS that the vehicle was needed to deal with the "threat" posed by libertarians, sovereign citizen adherents, and Occupy activists in the region.
Referencing signs in the crowd which read "More Mayberry, Less Fallujah," the Colonel spoke of how he didn't even have armored vehicles when he was stationed in Fallujah.
Martino's role as a Ministry of Defense coordinator was to command, train and equip the Iraqi Army, noting that he helped do everything he could "to make it as strong as possible," but that "Homeland Security would kick their butts in a week."
Stressing that it was unlawful and unconstitutional to use US troops on American soil, the Colonel warned, "What's happening here is we're building a domestic military," adding that police are now "wearing the exact same combat gear that we had in Iraq, only it was a different color."
Martino warned that the DHS was following military tactics by, "pre-staging gear and equipment" in order to build a "domestic army" while shrinking the US military "because the government is afraid of its own citizens."
The Colonel slammed the idea of law enforcement purchasing militarized vehicles for domestic security, noting, "The last time more than ten terrorists were in one place at the same time was September 11th and all these vehicles in the world wouldn't have prevented it nor would it have helped anybody."
"I don't know where we're going to use this many vehicles or this many troops," he continued, "Concord is just one cog in the wheel – we're building an army over here and I can't believe that people aren't seeing it – is everybody blind?"
In his initial application to the DHS for the grant to purchase the armored vehicle, Police Chief John Duval wrote, "The State of New Hampshire's experience with terrorism slants primarily towards the domestic type. We are fortunate that our State has not been victimized from a mass casualty event from an international terrorism strike however on the domestic front, the threat is real and here. Groups such as the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire are active and present daily challenges."
Duval's characterization of activists from across the political spectrum as terrorists prompted outrage but he refused to apologize, merely clarifying that his application may not have been worded correctly. Following the removal of the terms Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire from the application, the DHS made it clear that the grant would be approved.
As the Concord Monitor reports, Tuesday's public testimony also included a warning from Irena Goddard, who grew up in Czechoslovakia.
"I do not want this deadly intimidation force of a military vehicle to suppress free speech, much like what was done with communist military tanks in Czechoslovakia," she said.
Resident Jesse Mertz remarked that the militarization of law enforcement signaled that, "The military industrial complex has infiltrated every part of our society to the point where it's now happening in our hometowns, and we're seeing stuff occur that people said would never happen in our own country."
The Concord Council delayed the decision to purchase the vehicle and the matter will be taken up once again at next month's meeting.
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13. Gun-free D.C. residents mourn loss of 4 to gun violence
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Member Clark Welsh emailed me this:
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But guns are easier to try to control than a violent, selfish, amoral culture.
From wamu.org: http://tinyurl.com/kw27che
D.C. Residents Mourn Loss Of Four To Gun Violence, Call For Action
by Patrick Madden
July 23, 2013
After a series of shootings in Ward 7 left four people dead over the past week, more than a hundred people gathered last night for a vigil to remember the victims and to call for action.
On a grassy hill just off of Ridge Road in Southeast D.C., residents young and old gathered to mourn the lives of four people cut short by gun violence. Some brought candles, others wore t-shirts featuring pictures of the victims. Their names: Anthony Chase, Eric Leeper, and siblings Jamal and Jamie Jenkins.
"My daughter and my son is gone," said Jamal Jenkins, father of Jamal and Jamie. "They ain't here no more, they ain't here no more."
Jenkins' grief quickly turned to anger. "It's the guns, we need to control it. It's not just gonna be my daughter and son gonna be missing, it's gonna be some other stuff going on too. It ain't gonna stop."
Several city leaders attended the vigil, including Mayor Vincent Gray, who echoed Jenkins' sentiment, and called out Congress and states with lax gun laws for fueling the violence in D.C.
"We got a Congress down here man, that needs to step up and give us the gun control laws that we need. We got good gun control laws passed in this city. These guns are coming from somewhere else: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina—and all those places, man," he said.
Gray urged the crowd to come forward with information to help police solve the shootings.
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And here's Clark's response in the comments section:
Naturally, we all feel terribly sorry for these losses of life, and decent people want things like these not to happen, now or in the future; but when you start blaming guns, you're missing the point. You're not looking the truth squarely in the face. But it's much easier to try and control, regulate, or ban inanimate objects than it is to try to cure a violent, selfish amoral culture; so we look for the path of least resistance, and make a terrible mistake in the process. We allow the violence to go on, because blaming guns and trying to choke off the supply of guns does nothing to treat the real root cause of the problem: people with hard hearts who care about nothing but themselves, and will do whatever they feel like doing including hurting and killing to get what they want, like money, or drugs, or being feared, which they wrongly think of as status or "respect". Theodore Roosevelt said, "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society". Truer words were never spoken. Guns are not really even a symptom of this sickness, because good people with guns save lives and lawfully defend themselves and others from criminal attack every day. The gun is only a tool. Guns don't create violence any more than women create rape; sick hearts and minds do that; and we have to cure the ones we can, and lock up the ones we can't, and keep them locked up.
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14. 18 little-known gun facts that prove that guns make us safer
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Member Mark Colleluori emailed me this:
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From rightsidenews.com: http://tinyurl.com/lrxn8wp
18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer
by Michael Snyder
August 12, 2013
The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have.
In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime. This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense. You see, the reality is that criminals really, really, really don't want to get shot. When you pass strict gun control laws, you take the fear of getting shot away and criminals tend to flourish. Just look at what is going on in America today.
The places with the highest crime rates are the major cities where strict gun control laws have been passed. In some of those cities the police are so overwhelmed that they have announced that they simply won't even bother responding to certain kinds of crime anymore. The truth is that the government cannot protect us adequately, and that is one reason why millions of preppers are arming themselves and gun sales have been setting new records year after year.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media and many of our politicians seem absolutely obsessed with trying to restrict our constitutional right to own guns. They are waging a relentless campaign to try to convince the American people that guns are bad. But is that actually the case? Of course not. The following are 18 little-known gun facts that prove that guns make us safer…
#1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and "other crimes with firearms" are down 69 percent.
#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.
#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.
#4 Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws…
With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had three of the worst six school shootings.
#5 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.
#6 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.
#7 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.
#8 Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.
#9 The number of unintentional fatalities due to firearms declined by 58 percent between 1991 and 2011.
#10 Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. Do we really want to be more like the UK?
#11 The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#12 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#13 The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.
#14 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
#15 Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted.
#16 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? Of course not. As I wrote about recently, the murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be "the deadliest global city". If you can believe it, there were about as many murders in Chicago during 2012 as there was in the entire nation of Japan.
#17 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89% decline in burglaries.
#18 According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century. The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered.
Sadly, you rarely hear any facts like these on the mainstream news networks. Instead, they give countless amounts of air time to the radicals that are obsessed with gun control.
And did you know that there is now an official propaganda manual that has been put out for gun control advocates? This manual actually encourages gun control advocates to emotionally exploit major shooting incidents to advance the cause of gun control…
Democratic strategists have drafted a how-to manual on manipulating the public's emotions toward gun control in the aftermath of a major shooting.
"A high-profile gun-violence incident temporarily draws more people into the conversation about gun violence," asserts the guide. "We should rely on emotionally powerful language, feelings and images to bring home the terrible impact of gun violence."
The 80-page document titled "Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging," also urges gun-control advocates use images of frightening-looking guns and shooting scenes to make their point.
"The most powerful time to communicate is when concern and emotions are running at their peak," the guide insists. "The debate over gun violence in America is periodically punctuated by high-profile gun violence incidents including Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, the Trayvon Martin killing, Aurora and Oak Creek. When an incident such as these attracts sustained media attention, it creates a unique climate for our communications efforts."
You can read the rest of that manual right here.
So will those pushing gun control win, or will the American people be able to see through the propaganda and insist on keeping their constitutional right to bear arms?
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15. Navy SEAL explains how guns keep people safe [VIDEO]
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Member James Durso emailed me this:
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From guns.com: http://tinyurl.com/ldgabbm
Navy SEAL explains how guns keep people safe, every day, whether they know it or not (VIDEO)
by Brent McCluskey
August 12, 2013
In this recently released video from nranews.com, titled "Deterrence," former U.S. Navy SEAL, Dom Raso, explains how guns can keep people safe without ever being fired.
"Every day there is a weapon somewhere that is protecting you, whether you know it or not… there are AR-15's, shotguns and pistols all around you that deter crime and violence every day – in squad cars, in police officers hands and concealed on armed citizens."
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16. Newtown guns sales surge since shooting
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CNN is surprised. I am not.
Member Bill Albritton emailed me this:
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From bizpacreview.com: http://tinyurl.com/pbgapyg
Gun-grabbers big backfire: Newtown gun sales surge since shooting
by Tom Tillison
August 14, 2013
A CNN report shows that Newtown, Connecticut, site of the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, is set to issue double the amount of pistol permits this year as it did in 2012.
Through July 24, more than 200 people in Newtown have received new local pistol permits, surpassing the 171 new permits issued for all of last year, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
CNN's Poppy Harlow traveled to the the town of 28,000 this week and spoke to one Newtown grandmother named Nancy Ellis, who was about to purchase her first gun, as reported by Mediaite.
"Our rights are being slowly infringed upon," Ellis told CNN. "In other words, there may come a time when I may never be able to get a firearm."
In the aftermath of the shooting, Connecticut, which has the toughest gun laws in the nation, expanded its ban on guns that it defines as assault weapons by adding more than 100 models to the list, including the AR-15 rifle, the model used in the attack, according to the Journal report.
On the other side, some think gun ownership is getting "out of hand," as the CNN report details.
Others say it will not solve the problem. Gilles Rousseau, whose daughter was killed in the attack said of the increase in gun sales, "It makes me sad to think that people will–they feel that they're protecting themselves, but they're just adding to the problem."
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17. Armed Texas woman fires on 6 armed robbers
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She definitely needed a gun that would fire more than 5 shots. At two shots per assailant, that would be 12 shots. A good reason to have a rifle with a 30-round magazine at home.
Member Sue Ward emailed me this:
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From freedomoutpost.com: http://tinyurl.com/kwdkjvy
Armed Texas Woman Fires On 6 Armed Robbers – Saves Countless Lives
by Dean Garrison
August 16, 2013
If this is not a case for the 2nd amendment, and carry laws, then I don't know what is. A Texas woman had to make a bathroom stop while at a local Denny's. Upon returning she witnessed six armed men harassing her husband. Wrong answer.
This woman was armed.
Click2Houston.com interviewed her brother-in-law:
His brother's wife was in the restroom at the time, but when she exited the restroom she saw the group of suspected robbers. Police said that's when she pulled out her gun and shot at them.
"She said she came out of the restroom and saw my brother on the floor. That's when she started doing what she gotta do. She got a license and she'll do anything to protect her kids and my brother," he said.
Police said there was a shootout, but it is not known how many shots were fired at the time. However, police said the gunshots did hit cars in the parking lot.
No bystanders or customers were injured.
The group of suspects fled the scene.
The married couple said they are still shook up, but their family said they're glad they made it out alive.
"Self-defense saved my brother's life," he said.
Something tells me that the armed thugs might still be a little shaken as well. The brother-in-law accurately states that she, at least potentially, saved her husband's life. But how many other lives might she have saved?
Were the assailants going to stop with her husband or were they going to bother other patrons as well?
What about the thugs? We don't know anything about them but if they are like most thugs they were young and stupid. There is something about being shot at that makes one consider a career change in a hurry. Even if they do not get caught, and only 1 or 2 re-evaluate their future, this woman could have effected, and potentially saved, more lives than she will ever know.
Thank God she was carrying.
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18. First person defender series playlist [VIDEO]
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I'm a fan of Tom Gresham and his Gun Talk radio show.
Member David Neal emailed me this:
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From youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/nyqawko
From Tom Gresham's Gun Talk comes a free series of videos for those interested in self defense.
I think there are currently 11 videos posted, with more to come. They seem to run about 15 minutes each, and cover a variety of topics such as knife attacks, carjacking, home invasion, etc.
No doubt the videos / training is based on real life incidents, and can be a great learning tool.
Here's the link of their YouTube Channel - you might want to subscribe to the channel? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLscB-49EdZcuKOrDogPOGkeTde5OqGTT3
For those of you with TVs, Blu-ray players, etc with YouTube capability, you may enjoy watching these with your family on your TV instead of your computer.
It seems I'm watching more and more stuff on YouTube then on the TV these days!
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19. Dramatic story of political 'gun violence' ignored by media
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Member Bill Watkins emailed me this:
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From americanthinker.com: http://tinyurl.com/llozz9p
Dramatic story of political 'gun violence' is ignored by the gun-grabber media
by Thomas Lifson
August 10, 2013
The extent of the transformation of our mass media into a mere propaganda apparatus can be gauged by the black hole treatment given to a story that pushes all of the buttons needed for wall-to-wall treatment, save one: the villain is a member of victim group acting on behalf of left wing causes. The shooting at the Family Research Council last year has been consigned to obscurity by the MSM.
One favorite meta-narratives of the propaganda media is that crazy right-wingers all over the country are hording guns in order to use them on innocent victims. This framework can be imposed on incidents of crazy people shooting others almost indiscriminately. The archetype is Jared Loughner's attack on a Gabrielle Giffords event, where the media rushed to blame Sarah Palin because a map she had distributed used a target logo on the Giffords' district. Immediately presuming that Loughner had even seen the map (he hadn't) and that the mere sight of such a visual metaphor could incite a murderous rampage, the propaganda media followed their customary methodology for damaging their conservative target's brand with more voluble figures charging Palin directly, and then establishment types putting out headlines like the Washington Post's "Palin caught in crosshairs map controversy after Tucson shootings."
But when a young gay activist named Floyd Lee Corkins bought a bagful of Chik-fil-A sandwiches and brought them to the Family Research Council headquarters intending to "smother Chick-fil-A sandwiches in [the] faces" of his victims after he shot them, he found his target on a map provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left wing outfit that has prospered mightily by raising the specter of victimization by racists (and more recently, gay-haters) and fundraising on the promise to stop them.
Mark Hemingway of the Weekly Standard lays out in detail the dramatic story of heroic security guard Leo Johnson, whose recovery from his grievous wounds offers inspiration, and the multi-dimensional hypocrisy of the SPLC's role in inciting the very sort of violence it and other parts of the progressive apparat claim to be interested in preventing.
As recently as last week, SPLC cofounder Morris Dees defended the Family Research Council's inclusion on the "hate map." "Well, first of all, having a group on our hate map doesn't cause anybody to attack them any more than they attacked us for one thing or another," Dees told CNSNews.com on August 6. It takes quite a bit of hubris for Dees to defensively equate rhetorical attacks on his own organization with actual gun violence against an organization whose politics he dislikes. It also seems more than a little convenient that Dees now denies a connection between rhetoric and violence. In 2011, an SPLC blog post, "Expert: Political Rhetoric Likely a Factor in Arizona Shooting," concluded that Sarah Palin's rhetoric "could have provided a facilitating context" for the Giffords shooting, though, again, there is no evidence Loughner was exposed to it.
By the loose standard of "facilitating context," the unjust inclusion of the Family Research Council headquarters on a "hate map" otherwise filled with violent white nationalist organizations is a much more serious transgression-particularly when Corkins admits he used the map to learn about his target. And while Leo Johnson's defining characteristics are his courage and character, as long as we're talking about context, it's worth pondering why the founder of a celebrated civil rights organization is obdurately unreflective about the role his SPLC played in the shooting of a black man.
Dees's callous remarks only underscore the point that, unlike many of the more publicized incidents in recent years, the Family Research Council shooting actually warrants a discussion. If anyone is sincerely interested in frankly exploring politics and violence, Leo Johnson still works at the Family Research Council and walks past the bullet holes in the lobby every day. It might be worth asking him what he thinks. "I've worked here for 14 years. I know these people, I've worked closely with them, and I know what people they are," he says. "So to label them a hate group is absurd. It's absurd."
August 15 marks the first anniversary of the attack on the FRC. We must do everything we can to call attention to it. The SPLC's lavish headquarters (the "poverty palace") in Montgomery, Alabama should be the site of a demonstration. Of course, the left has huge foundations bankrolling "activists" who roll out campaigns that include demonstrations, social media, advertising, and other propaganda tools, and they have the support of the MSM. But we have the facts. The left is serially putting out the notion that the mere ideas of the right are equivalent to violence, and therefore merit retaliation with violence. This is a precursor to political violence and must be called out.
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