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Gun Owners of America: Dick Lugar Brags About Voting For Assault Weapon Ban Monday
In this 1996 ad, Sen. Dick Lugar boasts about his vote for the Clinton gun ban.
Lugar, the most anti-gun Republican in the Senate, is facing Richard Mourdock (www.richardmourdock.com) in a May 2012 primary.
Help educate gin voters on Lugar’s record of infringing on the Second Amendment, like this video and help spread this link around.
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AngolaPress Reports: “Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control”
The international media has noted something that the mainstream media in the United States either fails to grasp OR wants to conceal from the American public. The gun lobby’s power is voters. Consider this bit from this weekend’s AngolaPress story focusing on Mayor Bloomberg’s recent push with his Mayors Against Illegal Guns ad that was scheduled to run during the Super Bowl:
Candidates for local and national office in the U.S. have faced sharp backlashes for advocating restraints on gun ownership, such as assault weapons or guns on campus. Such pushes draw fire from the well-funded National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies. For many defenders of the Constitution’s Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – guns are the single issue on which they vote.
Read that final sentence. Doesn’t this clearly explain that the power of the NRA is convincing voters? “Guns are the single issue on which they vote.” Now the anti-gun crowd might not like this fact, and the media may even try to hide this truth, but this is the actual power of the NRA – that it speaks to those who are single issue voters.
The article adds:
Democrats, who are more likely than Republicans to favor some restrictions on gun ownership, made a conscious decision to stay away from the gun issue in the 2010 midterm congressional elections. The aim: protect the so-called Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who didn’t toe the party line on gun control. Most were defeated anyway.
If the Democratic Party hoped to keep the gun issue off center stage in the 2012 presidential race, MAIG’s campaign makes that unlikely. So does the fact that the NRA and the gun industry’s trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), have announced they will have a combined war chest of $225 million.
Now let’s take another view, if the Democrats have stayed away from this issue isn’t it because they are scared of losing the election? The anti-crowd cries foul and tries to point that the NRA has two much power, forgetting that it is really the single issue voters who are speaking their mind.
How is this different from other issues? It is in that the anti-gun crowd doesn’t want this to be a fair fight.
AP and WaPo See End of “One-Gun-A-Month” as Opening Haven for Gun Runners
Review the Second Amendment of the Constitution and it says nothing along the lines of “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Buy Just One Gun A Month,” and yet that law has been on the books in Virginia for a while. Now that it is on the verge of being repealed, The Associated Press via The Washington Post noted this week:
A law Virginia passed a generation ago to end the states’ reputation as a haven for gun runners is on the verge of being repealed.
The story later offered this passage:
The bills to abolish the one-handgun-per-month law would end one of the legacy laws of former Gov. Doug Wilder. The Democratic governor pushed for it after Virginia became a prime supplier of guns used in crimes in major East Coast cities.
What isn’t noted is whether this was ever actually proven to be true, or did the story note that gun crime had not fallen as a result of the one-gun-per-month restriction, which only seemed to effect law-abiding citizens in Virginia –but of course those are facts that get in the way of anti-gun bias in reporting.
New Jersey Second Amendment Society Supports Starbucks on February 14th
Manahawkin, NJ – The New Jersey Second Amendment Society announced it will be joining many national freedom and rights groups in supporting Starbucks on February 14th.
“While some organizations have chosen to boycott Starbucks for their policies,” says Frank Jack Fiamingo, President of the NJ2AS, “we choose to support those businesses that support freedom and individual choice rather than yielding to the desires of the few who would strip law abiding citizens of rights under the guise of safety.”
Fiamingo continues, “Unlike a number of large restaurant entities Starbucks has chosen to defer to local laws regarding the right to keep and bear arms on their premises. This support of the rights of the law abiding people patronizing Starbucks is to be commended. We are pleased to see Starbucks take this common sense approach rather than cowering to the whims of the many anti freedom groups that choose to focus on the Second Amendment as their avenue for more intrusive and nanny state government and corporate policies.”
The New Jersey Second Amendment Society (http://www.NJ2AS.com) is a no compromise defender of the right to keep and bear arms formed to promote those rights protected under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States within the legislature and the community.
San Antonio Columnist: The Second Amendment’s Faustian bargain
There have been calls for “reasonable gun control,” and this week O. Richardo Pimentel, writing for The San Antonio Express-News offered an interesting twist in a column titled, “The Second Amendment’s Faustian bargain.”
He tells the story of how guns can be used to save as well as take lives. He makes a compelling argument, writing:
Everyone should be pleased by innocent lives saved as a side effect of gun ownership for the right people. But we can still recognize that the same laws that allow that also create a climate of too many guns in the wrong hands — and innocent lives taken.
This is true, and while we respect his opinion, the issue we have is that “reasonable gun control” would limit what the law-abiding can buy, while criminals would simply ignore the law.
As we long have tried to argue, the problem with this view is that the Second Amendment isn’t what gives criminals access to guns. There is no Amendment that makes murder legal, yet it still happens. There is no Amendment that grants the right for drug addiction, yet we still have drug addicts. So why would new gun laws stop criminals?
So no, we don’t think this is a Faustian bargain. Selling our souls for safety in the guise of gun control would be the real Faustian bargain.
New Civil Rights Movement Offers Shameful Headline; Misleading Facts
This week The New Civil Rights Movement ran a story titled, “GOP Now Pushing For Guns in Kindergarten Classes.” That sounds ominous, sinister and really scary. But is it factual?
Not by a long shot – pun intended. The story doesn’t even do actual reporting, but turns to left-leaning Think Progress, which reported:
Conservatives have twisted school massacres at Columbine and Virginia Tech to argue that there need to be more guns in schools to fight back against armed attacks. Last year more than a dozenstate legislatures took up bills that would allow guns on college campuses — and some even considered lifting their gun bans at K-12 public schools. Florida suspended discussion of their controversial bill after the emotional testimony of a father whose daughter was killed at Florida State University when another student accidentally discharged a rifle.
In other words, no this is misleading, twisting and actually the worst example of “journalism” that we’ve seen in a while.
The author also makes a bold statement:
Almost 10,000 people are killed by someone with a gun every year in America. Given the loosening of gun laws by the GOP, these numbers will escalate.
First, that number is actually a tad high. Likewise, the statement by the author that “these numbers will escalate,” is based on opinion not fact. There is no source to this, and the truth is that gun ownership is on the rise and the murder rates – along with crime overall – have fallen. The opposite is happening, but this doesn’t seem to mater.
And this story, which offers the guise of news, ends with a truly disgusting closing statement:
Oh, and a word to journalists: CAn [sic] we please stop calling it “gun rights”? Guns don’t have rights, people do. Let’s just be honest and call it “attempts to expand deadly weapons usage.”
Sorry, but we are journalists and we find this sort of statement to be obnoxious, inaccurate and distasteful. People do have rights, and according to the Second Amendment that includes the Right to Bear Arms!
Business Week: Gun Control: A Movement Without Followers
Last week Business Week offered a headline we agree with: “Gun Control: A Movement Without Followers,” and it noted:
More Americans favor Second Amendment rights, and lower murder rates in big cities convince some that tough laws are unnecessary
The article is timely, but it is essentially adapted from Paul M. Barrett’s book “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun.”
An open letter to New York Mayor Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns
From: Second Amendment Foundation
Dear Mayor Bloomberg:
Recent news accounts have once again revealed an ugly truth about New York City: Through the adoption and enforcement of Draconian firearms regulations, the Big Apple is rotten to its core for treating a fundamental, constitutionally-protected civil right as a felony.
These laws have recently entrapped a Marine Corps veteran, a female medical student, and the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots organization. Their crime – at least in your jurisdiction – is that they traveled with firearms that are perfectly legal to possess anywhere else in the United States.
Mayor Bloomberg, when you created Mayors Against Illegal Guns, you made it clear that New York style gun laws should apply across the nation. You also claimed your intent was not to infringe on Second Amendment rights, and that your proposals were “moderate.” Read more
Misguided Editorial Skews Truth
This week Barbara Kelly offered an editorial for Savannah Now, titled “Time to look at gun control again?” She starts off saying she is “no fan of guns,” but tries to suggest, “I have no problem with those who use guns for self protection in the home, or for hunting.”
Right there she loses us and quickly. What about sport shooters, collectors and others? But then she takes the usual line of trying to interrupt the Second Amendment and offers this thought:
When that was written, the weapons of choice were the flintlock rifle, musket, and pistol. Once in awhile the saber. Read more
