Gun owner rights and health insurance reform come together with Senator Harry Reid

Much of the buzz on the insurance reform debate in the US Senate has been about details like public options and Medicare-at-55. However a small and persistent drumbeat against any reform at all has come from a niche group of Second Amendment rights organizations.

It is too easy for cynics label anti-reform efforts by the Second Amendment Foundation, the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, and Gun Owners of America as right wing fringe fear-mongering. While it often seems such organizations are more invested in fights and fund raising than solutions, it’s wrong to doubt the sincerity of their members and wrong to discount the legislative analysis of their lobbyists.

One version of the Bill referred to Healthy People 2020 that has goals to make unspecified changes relating to entirely legal behaviors including lifestyle choices such as owning firearms and operating motorcycles.

via Examiner.com Gun owner rights and health insurance reform come together with Senator Harry Reid.

Federal Judge Rules Concealed Carry is Probable Cause of Criminal Activity

Concealed justifies detention and disarmament, as does carrying a firearm on MARTA.

Attorney for gun carrier opines that opinion may reach into Georgia’s restaurants and state parks as well.

Northern District of Georgia federal judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. ruled today that carrying a firearm on MARTA justifies forcible detention by the police, in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed over the half hour long detention and disarmament of GeorgiaCarry.Org member Christopher Raissi.

Christopher Raissi holds a Georgia firearms license and frequently carries a handgun concealed. On October 14, 2008, he was carrying concealed on MARTA. He did not know that a MARTA police officer observing the parking lot had seen him holstering and concealing his firearm while still at his car. Therefore, he was surprised when he was surrounded by police officers who yelled “Police!” and ordered him to stop. The officers then seized his firearm from his holster and began questioning him, asking, according to the court’s written opinion,

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Gun-banning Illinois Town Issues Whistles to Citizens

While the Illinois State Police have promised a “comprehensive review” of their website, including its advice that women protect themselves from sexual assault by avoiding gun ownership and vomiting on their assailants, last week brought more news of non-serious, symbolic approaches to self-defense in Illinois as the Chicago Tribune reported that Chicago suburb Oak Park had begun issuing whistles to its citizens.

In a move that promises to deter the town’s notorious armed robbers as thoroughly as loud car alarms deter car thieves, Oak Park police officers waited for returning commuters on train platforms and gave out small whistles engraved with the name of the program’s corporate sponsor. Oak Park officials say the whistles will help residents deal with the increasing incidence of armed robbery and street crime in the handgun-free town by allowing them to summon help, if not actually do anything in their own defense. Certainly a simple canister of pepper spray, a knife, or even a humble flashlight could prove much more useful for self-defense than any whistle even under Illinois and Oak Park law, and the Chicago Gun Rights Examiner heartily recommends any of the three for those of us denied the right to carry a defensive firearm by Illinois law. But the whistles are unlikely to make a bad situation worse, so why are gun owners reacting with derision to Oak Park’s newfound dedication to its citizens’ safety? To understand, we need to recall the lengths Oak Park has gone to keep its citizens as disarmed as possible for as long as possible.

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Marta Crime Rate Falls In Wake of Gun Law

Today the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner brings you a story you are not going to see anywhere else.

The Georgia General Assembly passed HB 89 in 2008, which made criminal prohibitions on carrying firearms on public transportation, in restaurants that serve alcohol, in state parks, and in wildlife management areas inapplicable to Georgians possessing a firearms license. HB 89 took effect on July 1, 2008, and many predicted mass bloodshed as a result. Nowhere was the controversy so acute as the city of Atlanta and its public transportation system.

Read the rest of the story at: Examiner.com Marta crime rate falls in wake of gun law.

How Easily Wisconsinites Forget Their Basic Rights

It has become apparent over the last 20 years that the people of this state have forgotten their very rights of which this country was founded.

In this coming year, the gun rights advocates in this state are uniting in a movement that will campaign against any state representative, senator or legislator who does not support an individual’s God-given right to keep and bear arms or their God-given right to self-defense.

That’s right, a campaign against incumbents and candidates who do not support these rights.

Wisconsin has long been a state that is always the last to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to such issues. Now it would seem that through some corrupt movement of the city government of Milwaukee, just maybe there will be some legislation for a firearms carry bill in Wisconsin.

Well, let’s not jump for joy just yet. Let’s look at the means of infringement that will follow.

Read the rest of the story at: LakelandTimes.com How easily Wisconsinites forget their basic rights.

Safer Streets 101: Gun control as the first sign the electorate is not in control

Gun control in this country is a conclusive sign that the people here are not in control. In our nation of self-rule, we deal with officials who quarrel with our authority. They back their quarrel with force.

The world has only a few free peoples. Many nations are socialized, even tyrannized and brutalized. They do not have a constitution like the one we have, where we are the sovereign. Other nations are unable to say what we had said generations ago, that we are the ultimate lawmakers in our country, that we are the sovereign, and that our government is our servant. The second amendment is the lethal force which backs our sovereignty and we hand out or delegate authority to our servants to do the jobs we hire them to do. We do this without ever giving up any of our own sovereign authority. The quarrel is that we are not the sovereign.

Half of the problem of educating the electorate is in overcoming the idea that 2A is for individual self-defense, which explains why the anti-gun idiots try to rub our noses in crime such as ambushes or shootouts with the Army. It is why anti-gun activists cite police and national guard and other claims of which they really have no knowledge. As long as you think the second amendment ends with personal self-defense, you are missing out on how you as a gun owner or as a non-gun owner head of household really run this country.

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Anti-Gunners Ratchet Up the Politics of Fear

I won’t say that in gun rights, the only thing to fear is fear itself, but fear is among the most effective weapons in the forcible citzen disarmament advocates’ arsenal. Those who support more and more oppressive regulation of guns always couch their message as an appeal for urgent action that must be taken quickly, in order to prevent an armageddon of “gun violence.”

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State Senator Calls For Moose Hunting Season

Deer hunting season is over — so how about a moose hunt?

Senator Jason Allen of Traverse City is proposing a plan that would establish Michigan’s first moose hunting season in more than 100 years.Officials at the DNR estimate there are about 500 to 600 moose in Michigan today, all in the Upper Peninsula.A DNR spokeswoman tells the Detroit Free Press that they would support the creation of the advisory council to study the possibility.

According to the DNR, moose were once common in the Northern Lower and Upper Peninsulas. By 1900, moose were extirpated in the Lower Peninsula and if not in the Upper Peninsula, at the very least, the population was substantially reduced.

via WWJ Newsradio 950 – Report: State Senator Calls For Moose Hunting Season.

Safer Streets 101: Gun rights have always been more than self-defense

You’ve read my words that the second amendment wasn’t written for us. This is because not only do our fundamental human rights predate the Constitution, but it is also not we who need to be reminded of our rights: we know them. It is government who needs to be reminded. 2A was not written for the citizen, it was written for government. The words of art shall not have legal meaning and are clear enough. They . . . ought to be, that is.

Most gun owners will say that gun control interferes with our rights to self-defense, and that gun bans leave people defenseless. Yes, they do. Gun owners talk about the civil right of the second amendment, and how we fight tyranny, but how exactly? Will it be with shoot-outs with our own troops?

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Permission Required to Hunt Private Land

With upland game, archery deer, and waterfowl seasons in full swing, and firearm deer season opening Dec. 2, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks KDWP reminds all hunters that it is illegal to hunt on private land without the owner's permission, posted or not. Whether someone actually enters private land without permission or shoots onto it from the road or another landowner's property without permission, it is illegal.

Geese pouring into corn stubble or deer standing in an open field can be temptations to break the law, especially when hunters are driving country roads. Such temptations should be resisted; not only is trespassing illegal, but hunting from public roads and railroads requires permission of landowners on both sides of the road or railway. Railroad rights-of-way also require permission from the railroad. In addition, written permission is required to enter land posted with hunting and/or trapping “By Written Permission Only” signs or bordered by trees or fence posts painted purple. In any situation, shooting from a vehicle is illegal unless legally hunting with a disability permit on land where permission has been granted. Shooting from a road is also extremely dangerous, threatening landowners, other hunters, livestock, and equipment.

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