Election Is Key for Gun Owners: ... While the economy is dominating the
news right now, it's critical that voters never lose sight of matters of
long-term importance. Elections are about the future, and the future of
many issues will be decided by who we elect as our next president... Gun
rights are on entirely new footing in light of the Supreme Court's
recent decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. In the Heller case,
the Court found that the Second Amendment protects a individual right to
keep and bear arms for private citizens, striking down the D.C. city law
that banned all handguns and other readily-usable firearms. But the
Heller decision was a 5-4 decision. Four justices voted that the Second
Amendment includes no right whatsoever for private citizens, and
therefore that the government can totally ban firearms at will. This
would effectively erase the Second Amendment. So the next few years will
be critical for gun rights, as the Court decides to expand the Heller
decision by fleshing out what the Second Amendment means. The next
president will likely appoint at least three Supreme Court justices. And
two of the five justices who voted to uphold the Second Amendment in
Heller are age 70 or older. So the Heller majority is a fragile one, and
the next president may well create a Court that could overturn Heller...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/02/froman-election-key-gun-owners/
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Stark Contrast on RKBA: On the Second Amendment, the presidential
election presents a stark choice. John McCain has a very good, although
not perfect, record on the Second Amendment. Barack Obama has a nearly
perfect anti-gun record, and he is, appropriately, endorsed by the Brady
Campaign. Yet the Obama campaign has the audacity to hope that it can
deceive voters about Obama's record...
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_10882332
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First My Tobacco, Next My Guns: Sen. Barack Obama said that he would be
willing to impose a nationwide ban on smoking in public. Taken with
other recent statements, this paints a picture of Mr. Obama believing in
an extraordinarily powerful federal government, regulating even the
minor details of your life. The American people should reject this
radical big-government philosophy at the polls...This radical
big-government philosophy eventually leads to taking away something you
care about deeply. Maybe you don't smoke. For you it might be your home,
your religion, your guns or your child's education. A federal government
that can micromanage your life to say you cannot smoke can also tell you
what you can and can't do on all those issues. First it's my tobacco,
next it's my guns...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/03/first-my-tobacco-next-my-guns/
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Tangentially Related: Americans can expect to see major changes "in
issue after issue" in the Senate next year, said Sen. Charles Schumer
(D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, at a
meeting with reporters near the Capitol on Oct. 29...
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38590
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More Gun Sales, Permits in Florida: Consumers may be cutting back on
going out to eat and buying new clothes, but at the Delray Shooting
Center off Linton Boulevard, guns remain good as gold. "Business has
gone up dramatically in the past year - the last couple months
especially," owner Mike Caruso said. "I'm selling 15 guns a day. ...
Let's just say business has been rocking." Although Florida does not
keep records of gun sales, federal data show background checks needed to
purchase a firearm are up sharply in the first nine months of this year.
In Florida, concealed weapon permit applications in September jumped 52
percent compared with September 2007. And it's not just any gun.
Handguns and semiautomatic weapons, not hunting rifles, appear to be
leading the way. The reasons: a sour economy that some fear will
increase crime, and worries about gun regulations if Sen. Barack Obama
wins the White House...
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/business/epaper/2008/11/01/a1a_gun_sales_1102.html?imw=Y
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Oops, Wrong Rape Victim: An intended rape victim shot and killed her
attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to
rape her a second time, police said. The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie
W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun
when he broke through her locked basement door. The woman told police he
was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not
intend to seek charges against her...
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/9C58494B45470714862574F3006D0CA6?OpenDocument
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Oops, Wrong House: An armed man who allegedly forced his way into the
home of a married couple is dead after he was fatally shot in what
officials are saying was self defense, police said Sunday. Modesto
police officials said they think the suspect who was fatally shot had a
previous relationship with the remarried woman who lived at the home,
which was located in the 1500 block of Victor Way...
http://www.kcra.com/news/17869255/detail.html
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Oops, Wrong Shed: Taking the law into your own hands. That's what a
local homeowner did when he caught a thief breaking into his storage
shed. Armed with his shotgun, one shot was all it took and the burglary
came to an abrupt end. "I woke up and heard the alarm and came out at
3:30 in the morning," Ivan Hurt said. Hurt lives alone in rural northern
Gallia County. He has a shed full of equipment he values and fiercely
protects it. That's why when two men broke into the building early
Friday morning, Ivan was ready. "I saw him come, and he turned like this
and he had a flashlight in one hand and something else in the other, so
I shot," Hurt said... (When seconds count, the police are minutes away,
or longer in a rural area.)
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/33637599.html
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Bringing a Boxing Stance to a Knife Fight: When Ramon Acevedo , a
custodian at the University of Minnesota had finished his shift early
Thursday morning, two teenagers approached him near Smith Hall.
According to Acevedo, he was walking toward his moped, and the teenagers
asked if it was his. When Acevedo said yes, one of the would-be thieves
pulled out a knife and said, "This scooter's mine now." Although the
police report stated Acevedo only took a fighting stance, the former
golden glove boxer said he fought back. "I threw a couple punches,"
Acevedo said. "I was ready to dance a little bit." The teenagers then
took off running, the 52-year-old Acevedo said. "I'm a little old, but I
never forgot my stuff," he said...
http://www.mndaily.com/2008/11/01/university-custodian-fights-robbers
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
