Gun advocates in Florida didn’t take a break over the holiday weekend. Florida Open Carry Inc. began rallying its troops New Year’s Eve with a mass email in support of “the most important pro-Second Amendment rights bill of the 2017 legislative session.”
SB 140 repeals laws forbidding guns on college campuses, in airports terminals, and at government meetings. Sen. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, will introduce the measure to the Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Florida Open Carry Inc. urged its members to call lawmakers and tell them to line up behind Steube’s proposal.
Campus carry and open carry measures have died in the committee the past two years when the chair failed to schedule it for a vote. Advocates believe 2017 will be different because Steube is the committee’s new chair. He served the past six years in the Florida House where he was one of the Legislature’s fiercest opponents to gun-free zones.
“If you want to kill as many people as possible before the cops arrive then you are likely to go to a place where law-abiding citizens can’t carry,” Steube explained when he filed the bill last month. “That’s what we’ve seen, time and time again and why I think we shouldn’t have them.”
After the ouster of Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, over this very issue, it ought to be clear that gun owners are serious. Also, I admire how they know this is going to be a fight and are gearing up for the battle. If they don’t succeed this time, I advocate ousting the committee chair who doesn’t allow it to come up for vote, and try again next time. Never give up.
Say, what’s going on with South Carolina open carry? I don’t even see a proposed bill on that. How sad. It’s sort of like gun owners in South Carolina have given up, satisfied with being second class citizens if they want to be comfortable in their carry options or quicker with their weapon presentation in a crisis.
Kay Dickinson kept her gun in the bedroom of her Wilmington, North Carolina, apartment — right on top of a Bible on her headboard, WWAY-TV reported.
But the StarNews reported that over the course of the year that she’d owned her gun, she’d never fired it.
What happened to Dickinson Monday night changed all of that.
She came home around 11 p.m. after work, turned the key to her door and then a man she’d passed turned around, grabbed her from behind and forced her inside her apartment, the StarNews reported. And he had a gun, Dickinson said.
“We had a tussle, and he choked me and gagged me, and I dropped everything right there in the kitchen,” she told the StarNews. “He knew my name, he knew my boyfriend’s name, and he was like, ‘Give me the money.’”
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In the bedroom, he tied Dickinson’s hands behind her back with a belt and wrapped a cellphone charger cord around her mouth, the StarNews said. But while the intruder searched her apartment, the paper said Dickinson managed to wriggle her hands free.
“I got loose from the belt,” she told WWAY. “And I had a gun sitting on a Bible on my headboard. I jumped up on the bed, grabbed the gun, turned around and just pulled the trigger.”
Dickinson fired one shot, and it hit the intruder in the chest, the StarNews said. He headed down the hall but fell down in her doorway where he soon died.
She had never fired the gun, and it was sitting atop a Bible. Pardon me while I smile and chuckle, but that is absolutely rich.
So much for the notion that people who haven’t been trained in all of those super secret stress management ninja warrior techniques can’t use weapons to defend themselves and that only LEOs are capable of self defense. We know that’s not right.
To be sure, I don’t recommend that you purchase a gun and never use it. You need to be at the range and practiced with it to the extent you can afford, but that’s my personal counsel, and it shouldn’t be legally mandated.
If we’ve not learned anything else from these and other examples, we know that people who are defending their lives use what’s at their disposal and are oftentimes very successful.
… the text of the bill, available as a pdf file on Rep. Hudson’s official House website, will codify that a person “carrying a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State and which permits the person to carry a concealed firearm or is entitled to carry a concealed firearm in the State in which the person resides, may possess or carry a concealed handgun … in any State that …. has a statute under which residents of the State may apply for a license or permit to carry a concealed firearm; or … does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms by residents of the State for lawful purposes.
Read the full text of the bill here. The first time I read the bill it seemed weak to me. It took me twice through to recognize its strength.
The operative phrase is “has a statute under which residents of the State may apply for a license or permit to carry a concealed firearm.”
I would like legal minds to weigh in on this, but to me that means that I can carry virtually anywhere except Hawaii (which has no permitting system at all). Every other state to the best of my knowledge has a permitting system, whether it’s a shall issue system or may issue system (where only the rich and politically connected are allowed to carry).
Now I see that the comments already forming on the issue of constitutional carry. No, this law would require a permit from your state, and likely your CLEO. It’s not perfect. Remember folks. I’m not a pragmatist, but I recognize the value of incrementalism in our battle. The progs use it to their advantage. We must learn to use it to ours.
What Trump can do is urge Congress to get the ball rolling, and be a constant voice not to let them drag their feet and drop it. And it can’t just be a halt to prosecutions or repeal of the Gun Free Schools Act, because states have edicts of their own. Withholding federal funds could also come into play (and where fedgov has legitimate authority to disburse such funds in the first place is another matter).
There are certain actions he can take, but honestly, I would recommend the following for him. He should turn to his strong suit, his strength, his best attribute. The power of persuasion.
He should return to the people. Take trips, talk to the people, continue tweeting and avoiding going through the dead MSM and letting them craft their version of your story, make speeches, and above all else, convince the people themselves to take action.
It will take time and effort to unwind decades of bad policy. Trump isn’t perfect. Set your sights on the achievable, and remember, we go at this thing little by little, bite by bite.
The rifle club noted its members often like to camp at Trap Pond State Park or rent a cottage at Seashore State Park during nearby shooting competitions yet they are unable to do so because of the ban. Plaintiffs also argued a need exists to carry firearms for protection.
“A deprivation of constitutional rights can constitute irreparable harm,” the civil complaint stated.
Superior Court Judge T. Henley Graves said in his Dec. 23 ruling the regulations do not run “afoul” of the Delaware Constitution, nor did they contradict state law passed by the General Assembly.
“As for plaintiffs’ concerns for self-defense, the Court observes the need to respond to a threat with a firearm is diminished when firearms are prohibited in the area,” Graves said in the ruling.
The rules in question state it is “unlawful to display, possess or discharge firearms of any description, air rifles, B.B. guns, sling shots, or archery equipment upon lands or waters administered by the Division, except with prior written approval of the Director.”
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DNREC Secretary David Small told the Associated Press he was pleased with the ruling.
“We do not believe that the unrestricted ability to carry weapons is consistent with our mission to provide every visitor with safe, enjoyable recreational experiences,” Small said in a prepared statement.
As Thomas Sowell recently observed, “The fatal fallacy of gun-control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims.”
People are always peaceful, criminals check the laws before putting that weapon in the car, and laws actually control the decisions people make. And judges always write decisions that come right out of the land of fairy tales. Good Lord. What do these eggheads learn in their “schools?” I seriously wonder if this guy has ever been more than 100 yards from a coffee and pastry shop.
Here is what I recommend that Judge T. Henley Graves do about this issue. Get yourself a tent, backpack and some camping gear and go hiking and camping in the state parks in the area. You know, overnight. Multiple nights. With no weapon, and no protection from anyone or anything. No cabin walls, no cell phone. And take your wife and children with you too.
Report back to me on whether you trust the laws to keep bears, Coyotes and criminals away from you overnight. If not, you’re a liar and hypocrite.
Things proceed apace in the #Pizzagate investigation. Below I’ve linked both David Seaman and George Webb. I’m glad to see George tying all of this together in his videos. It’s a tangled web and it takes quite a while to comprehend the wickedness and scope of the project. Before we get to the videos, let’s discuss some details of DynCorp’s involvement with The Clinton Foundation and the so-called seven country plan (where TCF and private armies were to topple seven countries in five years as a part of a play for weapons, children and oil). Actually, I won’t describe the seven-country plan, you need to watch George Webb’s videos for that. But it’s clear that DynCorp has played a significant role with TCF. In fact, the plan is moving forward as we speak. You understand, right? There is a shadow government at work that is different than the transient government. The things you are watching in history are a function of the shadow government.
There is no question that there are Senators involved in this plan, and without further information you may suspect those Senators who press the hardest on “Russian hacking the election” to be involved the deepest in global chaos. There is also no question that it is being led by The Clinton Foundation, with involvement by the CIA and State Department, and along with an army of Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS fighters.
But the military side of things (aside from the more formal bombing campaign of the coast of North Africa which was led by a NATO general who was recently killed under very suspicious circumstances) must be managed by someone with a military background. That someone appears more and more to be DynCorp.
According to my reporting, the week of April 13th, the DynCorp regional commander from Konduz, Flint Chambers, allowed his men to hire a 15-year-old boy dancer to do tribal dances at a DynCorp party on the training site. Some 15 or so DynCorp employees in attendance pulled out a single chair and had the boy do mock lap dances. This was captured on video. The video shows DynCorp employees putting dollar bills in the boy’s waistband, just as they would a stripper’s garter. The revelry lasted about 45 minutes. The video was leaked by Mike Gonzalez to another DynCorp employee who emailed the video to Martin. Flint Chambers retaliated against Mike by spitting in his face, pushing him to the ground in front of the DynCorp security building in Kabul.
One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren’t really “whistleblowing,” because they’re not really revealing anything. However, it seems like each day there’s another big revelation of rather horrible things being done (and covered up) by the US government. The latest, pointed out by Boing Boing, involves a report from a cable that US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying drugs and young boys for a sort of sex party.
With every dot that is connected by a researcher, every hack attempt by a military contractor, every deleted #Pizzagate post at Voat, every de-monitized YouTube video, and every frozen PayPal account (see David Seaman’s Video below), the nefarious actors convince us more and more that we’re on the right track. And DynCorp is a major player.
Nick Bryant, author of The Franklin Scandal, says to “proceed with caution” to the researchers of The Clinton Foundation, #Pizzagate and the seven-country plan. Very well. I carry a tactical knife and two guns at a time now. But I won’t be dissuaded. You see I’m a Calvinist, and I believe that I won’t live one second longer than my appointed time on earth. The corollary is that I will live every second of my appointed life, much to the chagrin of my haters. DynCorp and The Clinton Foundation are not in control of my future. DynCorp doesn’t make me one bit nervous. If DynCorp wants to follow me around, very well. Remember Herschel’s Dictum.
Attempts to dissuade David Seaman don’t seem to impress him either. So there is no turning back from this citizen investigation. But it’s worth a good education, yes?
Ask yourself this question, patriots and gun owners. If a military contractor who is comprised in the main of former U.S. SpecOps and Special Forces is willing to traffic humans and kill in the name of weapons, money and oil, what makes you think that collecting guns door to door will be any different? What makes you think that anyone in such an organization has any respect for God given rights such as bearing arms? And what makes you think that you or your children won’t be subject to such mercenary armies in the future?
I think you know the answer to those questions. Trump has given us time. The swamp is a function of fallen human nature, and cannot be completely drained. I think you understand that.
Just 22 percent of current gun owners who acquired a firearm within the past two years did so without a background check, according to a new national survey by public health researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities shared in advance with The Trace and The Guardian.
For years, politicians and researchers have estimated that as many as 40 percent of gun sales are conducted without a background check — a statistic based on an extrapolation from a 1994 survey. The new survey, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that the current proportion of gun sales conducted without a background check is about half of the oft-cited figure.
It’s amazing, yes, that the Annals of Internal Medicine can waste time on things like this when there are heart attacks, strokes, internal bleeding problems with anti-coagulants, cancer, and so on. Good Lord. There are real medical problems to be solved. You’d think that aspiring doctors would be at least moderately interesting in practicing medicine rather than being political shills.
Okay, we’ve discussed The Trace before. They are professional purveyors of fake news, and Google loves them and puts them near the top of their Google news search. I’m sure you’re as surprised about that as I am.
Note to The Trace. Your data is worthless. Those who have purchased a gun without going through a background check – which is perfectly legal in most states – will not tell you they have done so. I know. I’m a gun owner, and I know they we think.
The second problem is that criminals have never gone through a background check to purchase weapons, and they never will. The Trace misses two huge categories of people who constitute a large enough fraction of gun purchases that it casts doubt on the study. The Trace doesn’t even know how to estimate the size of those two categories because gun owners will never … never … be honest with pollsters.
By the way, not that there would be anything wrong with purchasing guns from an FFL and going through the necessary Form 4473. So I don’t think it would prove anything one way or the other even if accidentally The Trace is correct.
And I said I was a gun owner above. I lied. I lost all of my guns in a boating accident to the bottom of lake Keowee. I cried a river of tears over that incident.
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