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...the Right of Te Peopleto Keep andBear Arms Shall Notbe Inringed.

Bill o Rights, sECoND AMENDMENtthE CoNstitutioN o thE uNitED stAtEs

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to thesecurity o a ree State, the right o the people tokeep and bear Arms, shall not be inringed.

Full disclosure right up ront: Im a proudlie member o the National Rile Association.I am on the NRAs board o directors and serveas chairman o the organizations Military andVeterans Aairs Committee. I have owned andused irearms most o my lie, and I can read.Unlike some in Washington, I dont believe thatthe 27 words above - the Second Amendment oour Constitution - have anything to do with gunrights. Guns dont have rights. I do. So do you.

Fity-two years ago, like tens o millions o peo-ple beore and since, I raised my right hand andtook an oath o enlistment in our armed orces,pledging to support and deend the Constitutiono the United States against all enemies, oreignand domestic. I promised I would bear true aithand allegiance to the same. Notably, the wordspromise loyalty not to a political party or a par-ticular individual but to the Constitution, whichenshrines our liberties and the limits and responsi-bilities o those who govern us like no other oun-dational document on earth.

Unortunately, in the atermath o recent car-nage in a Colorado movie theater and a rampageat an elementary school in Connecticut, some nowinsist that We the People must accept some alter-ations in how we interpret the archaic language

contained in our Constitution. On Jan. 9, ater ameeting with gun saety advocates and victimsgroups, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., heado the White House task orce on gun violence,said the Obama administration is determinedto take action and then added: he president isgoing to act. here are executive orders, executiveaction that can be taken. We havent decided whatthat is yet.

hose words, executive orders, executiveaction, used in conjunction with constitutionally

protected rights and liberties, ought to alarm usall. hey used to righten Barack Obama. On Oct.2, 2007, then-Sen. Obama railed against what hecalled the abuse o executive powers purportedlyperpetrated by President George W. Bush in his

administrations eorts to protect the Americanpeople rom acts o terror by radical Islamists.Apparently, the current occupant o the OvalOice has overcome his early concerns about chieexecutives exceeding their authority.

When the Biden task orce was announcedthree weeks ago, the president claimed that nopolicy proposals would be prejudged. Yet aterthe Jan. 10 White House meeting with irearmsmanuacturers, irearms retailers, sportsmen anda representative o the NRA, neither Mr. Biden nor

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. even men-tioned the NRAs call or increased prosecutiono violent criminals and those who break existingederal irearms laws.

While the meeting was under way in the

Cabinet Room, a teenager carrying a 12-gaugeshotgun walked into a high-school classroom inat, Cali., and opened ire, wounding a classmate.Remarkably, neither the vice president nor anymember o his task orce mentioned the NRAscall or placing armed police oicers in Americaspublic schools.

Instead, Mr. Biden talked about growing publicsupport or new gun control measures. As yet,they havent publicly addressed steps the O-eammay take to cut irearms imports through onerous

United Nations treaties and conventions. We aretold by administration deenders, pundits, com-mentators o the let and gun control advocates

that the American people want new restrictions onirearm design, limits on ammunition capacity andtypes, and universal background checks to regulatepossession.

Hard evidence o public support or newrestrictions on irearms ownership by law-abidingcitizens is hard to ind. A recent poll shows that 62percent o the American people support the NRAsmeasure to have police protect schools. he cityo Los Angeles isnt waiting or executive actionor new legislation. Starting this week, at least onearmed police oicer will visit every public elemen-tary school in the city.

More broadly, talk o new government restric-tions has created a record-setting spike in gun salesacross the country. Nearly every state has reportedtraic jams in background check systems as tenso thousands o Americans line up to purchaseirearms at gun stores.

he constitutional controversy created by theObama administration also has backired or thosewho sought to demonize the NRA as an extremist,ringe organization. Since the Biden task orce wasormed, more than 100,000 o our ellow citizenshave joined the NRA, bringing membership tomore than 4.2 million.

hats a good sign. he NRA is our nations

leader in irearms education, training and sae-ty. Its also an eective, ervent advocate or ourcivil liberties. When the Biden task orce deliversits recommendations Jan. 15, you can counton NRA members to deend our ConstitutionsSecond Amendment. I you havent joined usalready, now is the time.

over Nr War sre n e xNew Canne and ar e new nve herePrved (tred Edn, 2012).

Janary 14, 2013

Preserving the Second Amendment

obama deermned ac n n rercnBy Oliver North SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

Americas gun owners are under siege on vir-tually all ronts. Congress is aer us, and so aregovernors such as New Yorks Andrew Cuomoand Marylands Martin OMalley. Tey must thinkthat when they run or the Democratic presiden-tial nomination, a strong anti-gun stance will helpthem with le-wing primary voters.

It doesnt stop there, however, as the media, lib-eral legislators and both ederal and state regula-tors are looking or new and oen unique ways toplease their liberal bosses by harassing gun own-ers, dealers and manuacturers.

One major national rearms retailer, or ex-ample, has been under re or more than twoyears rom the Obama administrations EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission. It seemsthe company wont hire convicted elons, whichthe commission claims amounts to illegal racialdiscrimination. Te ederal government thesedays argues that policies that have what govern-ment lawyers call a disparate impact on racialminorities amount to impermissible discrimina-tion - even when the policies themselves werenot put in place or discriminatory reasons. Tus,the government argues that a higher percentage

o minorities within the elony population thanin the population at large means that any policythat discriminates against elons as a class is dis-

criminatory because its impact alls disparately onminorities.

Company ocials pointed out to commission

investigators threatening to charge the companywith discrimination that they couldnt hire el-ons even i they wanted to, because ederal lawprohibits ederal rearms licensees rom hiringelons. Te investigators response was, accordingto a company ocial I talked to: Tats your prob-lem, not ours. Tese are investigators and regula-tors who can read between the lines, know theirbosses are anti-gun and will do anything they canto please them.

Perhaps an even more creative bureaucratcame up with the idea that resulted in the visito two Homeland Security agents to the Fred-

ericksburg, Va., home o Kristopher Gasior onMarch 8. Mr. Gasior is a gun collector, authorand expert on Polish-made rearms. Mr. Gasior

owns a collection that includes a rare military riemade by the Polish government in 1938, was cap-tured by invading German orces the next year,

and brought to the United States by a GI who tookit rom a German in the nal days o the war.

Te agents who came to his door didnt have awarrant, but Mr. Gasiors wie invited them in, andwhen her husband came into the room, they askedi he had the rie. When he said yes and showed itto them, they seized it and gave him a receipt aerinorming him that they were taking it on behalo the Polish government. Tey claimed it was aone-o-a-kind rie that had been looted rom thePolish government during the war.

Mr. Gasior, who is, aer all, one o the worldsexperts on just this kind o rearm, argued that it

was rare, but certainly not a one-o-a-kind rie. Itwas, he said, a limited-production model that wasnever in a museum, but was issued to Poles and

surrendered to the Germans along with similar ri-es during the German invasion o Poland in 1939and subsequently, captured by a GI and broughthome as a souvenir. Te agent replied that as aras the U.S. government is concerned, anythingbrought over the border at any time was withinDepartment o Homeland Security jurisdictionand could be seized.

Collectors and veterans in this country are wor-ried that owners o war trophies could be treated asMr. Gasior was, and in the days since the incident,the National Rie Association museum has received

numerous calls rom collectors worried that theDepartment o Homeland Security might use thisnewly declared power to go aer rearms in theircollections.

Misusing governmental power in this waymight not upset you i youre not a gun owner orcollector, but it should. It is indicative o the way inwhich the Obama administration is redening thejurisdiction and powers o various agencies in itswar on gun owners. Tat war is likely to continueeven i Congress reuses to pass much o the anti-gun legislation President Obama says he wants.

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Te secnd Amendmen n e cr arBy David A. Keene SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

GuardinG Freedom Selections from Te Washington imes Commentary Section

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In the wake o the December school shoot-ing in Newtown, Conn., politicians and jour-nalists who hate to see guns in the hands oordinary citizens turned into a raving mob whosensed that victory over their enemies was near.

Reality is now starting to set in. here areseveral reasons why we probably wont see anynew laws and certainly no laws that will pre-vent school attacks. he irst reason is that the

American people are now seeing the hypocrisyand dishonesty o the anti-gun lobby.

For years, we have been promised thatPresident Obama and his party would nevermove against lawul gun owners. Now that heis not acing any more elections, the promiseis orgotten. Who doubts that this was the planall along?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Caliornia Democrat,is about to introduce the most restrictive weap-ons ban in American history. Gov. AndrewCuomo o New York has said that conisca-tion may be an option. New York City Mayor

Michael R. Bloomberg is apoplectic at thethought o revolting peasants out there he cantcontrol. All o these politicians are protected byarmed guards who can use any guns they wish,but they dont think the public merits the sameprivileges.

In NBCs Washington studio, Meet thePress moderator David Gregory, while criti-

cizing the National Rile Association proposalto put armed guards in schools, displayed a30-round magazine that is prohibited in theDistrict o Columbia. As a member o themedia elite, he will never spend a day in jail. Itwas also revealed that he sends his children to aschool that is protected by armed guards. Gunsor me, but not or thee.

People are starting to remember that the his-tory o gun control laws is one o utter ailure.Ask Mayor Rahm Emanuel o Chicago howhis super-strict gun laws are working or him:506 murders last year, and he is still demanding

tougher gun laws.he ederal law that made schools gun-ree

zones was a proud accomplishment o the anti-gun lobby. Did they know that this would makeschools magnets or homicidal lunatics? It seemedlike harmless, eel-good legislation at the time, but

ater seeing how rantically they exploit the deathso schoolchildren to support their agenda, con-

spiracy theorists are wondering i it was part o acynical plan to justiy more laws. More likely theywere just blinded by aith in their agenda.

Lets imagine that a law banning semi-auto-matic irearms is enacted. he Supreme Courthas said that the Second Amendment protectsan individual right to arms. However, the strangeand twisted history o gun control eorts alsocreated another Supreme Court decision calledUnited States v. Miller in 1938. his was seenas a victory or gun control at the time, becauseit allowed the strict regulation o shotguns andriles with barrels less than 16 inches long under

the theory that they were not suitable or militiaservice. Guns that were suitable or militia servicewere ine. odays so-called assault weapons, orwhat some call reedom riles, are perect exam-ples o guns that are well suited or militia service.

What will happen i new laws are passed and

withstand judicial review? he long history oAmerican gun laws gives us a pretty good idea.You can be absolutely certain that none o the newlaws would have stopped the Connecticut schoolattack. In act, gun law proponents requently saythat this law would not have stopped the tragedy,but it is a step in the right direction. Why thenare they using that particular attack to promotetheir law?

We also know gun laws are always written bypeople who hate guns. Ironically, they are the oneswho know the least about guns, so there will bemany ways around the laws. Only law-abidingcitizens will be inconvenienced or have their livesruined by inadvertent technical violations.

Many gun control laws have been tried inmany places over the last ew centuries. Asiderom those that were obviously intended to dis-arm minorities prior to a campaign o genocide,none have ever had the desired eect.

he American people are not stupid. Even aurious campaign o emotional ireworks will not

persuade the majority to support utile and coun-terproductive new laws.

Dr. Mcae s. Brwn, a rad, a member Dcr r Repnbe gn ownerp.

Janary 10, 2013

Americans are too smart or gun controlhry rercn ne er are

By Michael S. Brown SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

I you have listened to President Obamaand Vice President Joseph R. Biden talk aboutguns in the past month, you have heard themexpress a decided commitment to use the pow-ers o the ederal government to maintain saetyin the United States. You also have heard con-gressional voices rom politicians in both par-ties condemning violence and promising to dosomething about it. Tis sounds very caring andinside the wheelhouse o what we hire and paythe ederal government to do.

Yet it is clearly unconstitutional.When the Founders created the American

republic, they did so by inducing constitutionalconventions in each o the original 13 states toratiy the new Constitution. Te idea they pre-sented, and the thesis accepted by those ratiying

conventions, was that the states are sovereign;they derive their powers rom the people who livethere. Te purpose o the Constitution was to cre-ate a ederal government o limited powers - pow-ers that had been delegated to it by the states. Teopening line o the Constitution contains a seri-ous typographical error: We the People shouldread We the States. As President Ronald Reaganreminded us in his rst inaugural address, thestates created the ederal government, and notthe other way around.

Notwithstanding the Constitutions typo, thestates delegated only 16 unique, discrete powers

to the new ederal government, and all o thosepowers concern nationhood. Te Constitutionauthorizes the eds to regulate in areas o nationaldeense, oreign aairs, keeping interstate com-merce regular, establishing a post oce, protect-ing patents and artistic creations, and keeping thenation ree. Te areas o health, saety, welareand morality were not delegated to the eds andwere retained by the states.

How do we know that? We know it rom thelanguage in the Constitution itsel and romthe records o the debates in the state ratiyingconventions. Te small- government types, who

warned at these conventions that the Constitu-tion was creating a behemoth central govern-ment not unlike the one in Great Britain rom

which they had all just seceded, were assuredthat the unique separation o powers betweenthe states and the new, limited ederal govern-ment would guarantee that power could not be-come concentrated in the central government.

It was articulated even by the big-governmenttypes in the late 18th century - such as GeorgeWashington and Alexander Hamilton - as wellas by the small-government types - such asTomas Jeerson and James Madison - that the

new government was limited to the powers del-egated to it by the states, and the states retainedthe governmental powers that they did not del-egate away. At Jeersons insistence, the Bill oRights was added to the Constitution to keep the

new government rom interering with naturalrights such as speech, worship, sel-deense, pri-vacy and property rights, and the 10th Amend-

ment was included to assure that the Constitu-tion itsel would proclaim armatively that thepowers not delegated to the eds were retainedby the states or the people.

Te Supreme Court has ruled consistentlyand countless times that the police power, thatis, the power to regulate or health, saety, wel-are and morality, continues to be reposed in thestates, and that there is no ederal police power.All o this is consistent with the philosophical

principle o subsidiarity, amously articulatedby St. Tomas Aquinas. Aquinas argued that theproblems that are closest to the people needinggovernment intervention should be addressedby the government closest to those people. Its

corollary is that all governmental interventionshould be the minimum needed.Now, back to Mr. Obama, Mr. Biden and their

colleagues in the government. I the eds haveno legitimate role in maintaining saety, why arethey getting involved in the current debate overguns? We know that they dont trust individualsto address their own needs, rom ood to healthto saety, and they think - the Constitution tothe contrary notwithstanding - that they knowbetter than we do how to take care o us. Mr.Obama and Mr. Biden and many o their col-leagues in government are the same olks whogave us Obamacare, with its mandates, inva-sions o privacy, increased costs and ederalregulation o health care. Tey call themselvesprogressives, as they believe that the ederal gov-ernment possesses unlimited powers and can dowhatever those who run it want it to do, exceptthat which is expressly prohibited.

Tis brings us back to guns. Te Constitu-tion expressly prohibits all governments rominringing upon the right o the people to keepand bear arms. Tis permits us to deend our-selves when the police cant or wont, and it per-mits a residue o repower in the hands o thepeople with which to stop any tyrant who mighttry to inringe upon our natural rights - and itwill give second thoughts to anyone thinkingabout tyranny.

Te country is ablaze with passionate debateabout guns, and the government is determinedto do something about it. Debate over public

policy is good or reedom, but the progressiveswant to use the debate to justiy the coercivepower o the government to inringe upon therights o law-abiding olks because o what somecrazies among us have done. We must not per-mit this to happen.

Te whole purpose o the Constitution isto insulate personal reedom rom the lust orpower o those in government and rom the pas-sions o the people who sent them there.

Andrew P. Napan, a rmer jde esperr Cr New Jerey and enr jdcaanay a x New Canne, a wren even

bk n e u.s. Cnn. Janary 17, 2013

Shooting up the Constitutioned ave n emae re n rean rearm

By Andrew P. Napolitano SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

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President Obama is abusing his power andusurping congressional authority. He is replac-ing the rule o law with arbitrary rule, ignoringthe constitutional limits upon his power. Tis isthe real meaning o his assault on the SecondAmendment.

On Wednesday, Mr. Obama released his pro-posals to curb gun violence in the wake o theSandy Hook massacre. Surrounded by school-children, the president announced the mostsweeping gun-control package in decades. Hisreorms have three policy objectives: implementuniversal background checks on gun owners,ban so-called assault weapons, and place stronglimits on high-capacity ammunition magazines.In short, his goal is to roll back gun rights.

Moreover, the president is issuing 23 execu-tive orders to combat gun violence. Teir prima-ry purpose is to bolster the ederal governmentssystem or background checks. Te ordersexpand the nanny state, urther undermining

individual liberties. All gun owners will be reg-istered in a national computer database. Hence,Big Brother will know which U.S. citizens ownguns and how many. We are one step closer toachieving what liberals truly crave: the consca-tion o all rearms. I the government can iden-tiy all gun owners and how many weapons theyhave, then an all-out gun grab becomes possible.

Mr. Obamas proposals would have donenothing - absolutely nothing - to prevent theshootings in Newtown, Conn. Tey are simplysmoke and mirrors to advance the radical le-ist gun control agenda. Shooter Adam Lanzas

mother passed a comprehensive backgroundcheck. Te shooter killed his mother beore tak-ing her AR-15 rie and several handguns to un-leash his diabolical rage.

Te sad truth is that the Newtown massa-cre occurred or one reason: An evil, mentallyill man snapped and slaughtered 20 childrenand six adults. Lanza should have been receiv-ing serious psychiatric treatment. He wasnt.His mother should have properly secured andstored her weapons, and not had him practiceregularly at the ring range. She didnt. Tat wasthe lethal cocktail that sparked the tragedy. Te

government cannot abolish bad parenting or se-vere mental illness - at least not in a ree society.Tere is only one policy prescription that

can help prevent school shootings: placingarmed guards in every school. School districts

should hire trained proessionals, especially or-mer military personnel, who will patrol school

grounds and exercise deadly orce i an armedintruder threatens students. Tis would serve asa massive deterrent, substantially reducing thelikelihood o Sandy Hook-style massacres hap-pening again.

Instead, Mr. Obama and his media allies areexploiting the dead children o Newtown toeviscerate the Second Amendment. Liberalshostility toward gun rights is based upon theirhatred o limited government and individualreedom. Te Constitution clashes with theirdream o utopian collectivism. Hence, a dis-armed citizenry is undamental to their driveto erect a powerul, centralized socialist state.Stripping away the Second Amendment wouldremove another major obstacle to the rise obig-government progressivism. By monopoliz-ing orce, the state would have nearly completecontrol over citizens. Tis is why our Found-ing Fathers championed gun ownership as thelinchpin o a sel -governing republic.

Moreover, it is why Mr. Obama is politicizingthe Sandy Hook shooting. He realizes that com-prehensive gun control will take America one gi-ant step closer to a European-style social democ-racy. He wants to do this even i it means tramplingupon the Constitution and usurping power.

His executive orders are illegal and uncon-stitutional. Te president has no authority - nota scintilla - to unilaterally regulate or limit gunownership or violate the Second Amendment.Such acts are strictly the purview o Congressand the courts. Moreover, his order usingObamacare as a vehicle to essentially deputize

doctors, enabling them to ask patients whetherthey have rearms, is a blatant abuse o execu-tive power. He is turning doctors into agents othe ederal government.

ea Party Republicans are nally waking upto Mr. Obamas game. Rep. Steve Stockman oexas has warned that he may le articles oimpeachment. Sen. Rand Paul o Kentucky isrightly comparing the president to a king ormonarch. Mr. Obama is acting as though he isabove the law. He isnt.

Jerey t. Kner a rad cmmenar nBn.

Janary 18, 2013

Nixing the rule o law or rule by ObamaNew rearm re are ncnna

By Jerey . Kuhner SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

he directives on gun violence PresidentObama signed Wednesday were meant to seemharmless. A closer look at the presidents irstmemorandum reveals it to be a sneaky assaulton congressional authority in order to undgun-control propaganda.

Getting this done has been on the WhiteHouse to do list or some time. In his 2013budget submission, Mr. Obama deleted the

prohibition that has been in eect since 1995on the use o ederal unds to advocate or pro-mote gun control.

Mr. Obama is trying to steamroll theDemocratic and Republican majorities thatkept the ban intact by labeling the advoca-cy as research. While year ater year, thosewho oppose even modest gun-saety measureshave threatened to deund scientiic or medicalresearch into the causes o gun violence, I willdirect the Centers or Disease Control (CDC)to go ahead and study the best ways to reduceit, said Mr. Obama. Under the terms o the

memo, CDC may sponsor another entity toconduct the research, which is a handy way o

unneling taxpayer cash to sympathetic gun-control groups.

Earlier this week, anti-gun activists,including New York City Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg, spent a lot o time at the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School o Public Healthin Baltimore discussing how the government-spending prohibition was hampering theirplans. Daniel Webster, director o the Centeror Gun Policy and Research at the school,backed the presidents plan. I agree that theCDC should be ree to und high-qualityresearch into the causes and solutions to gun

violence, one o the leading causes o prematuremortality in the U.S. that aects not only deaths

and injuries, but mental health as well, he toldhe Washington imes.

Congress clamped down on the spendingater President Clinton used the CDC andNational Institutes o Health to create materialadvancing his theme o treating gun ownershipas a public health issue, rather than a consti-tutional right. Millions in taxpayer unds wereblown on junk science, such as $2.6 millionused to determine i teenagers who are shot aremore likely to have been drinking and carryinga gun. An additional $2 million went to igureout whether moving bars and liquor stores

would prevent gun violence in communities.By calling gun violence a public health cri-

sis on Wednesday, Mr. Obama echoed Mr.Clintons model. Its a move that could costlives, as shiting unding away rom ightingdisease creates severely misplaced priorities. In2010, 780,213 Americans died rom cardiovas-cular disease and 574,743 rom cancer, com-pared with 11,078 irearm homicides. Underthe Bush administration, the CDC already con-ducted a two-year independent study o the

laws, including bans on speciied irearms orammunition; gun registration; concealed-weap-on carry; and zero-tolerance or irearms inschools. he scientists concluded in 2003 thatthere was insuicient evidence to determinethe eectiveness o any o the irearms lawsreviewed or preventing violence.

Congress must reassert itsel and overridethis executive action so that more tax dollarsarent wasted. I Mr. Bloomberg wants morepropaganda, he can pay or it out o his owndeep pockets.

Janary 18, 2013

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an-secnd Amendmen prpaandaBy Emily Miller, Senior Editor or Opinion, HE WASHINGON IMES

Stripping away theSecond Amendment

would remove anothermajor obstacle to therise o big-government

progressivism. Bymonopolizing orce,the state would have

nearly complete

control over citizens.Tis is why our

Founding Fatherschampioned gunownership as thelinchpin o a sel-

governing republic.

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Even in the aermath o unspeakable tragedylike the shootings in Newtown, Conn., gun con-trol zealots advocate mindless and misogynisticpolicies.

We have to take action, Vice President JosephR. Biden Jr. urged in response to the Newtownhorror. Te president is absolutely committed tokeeping his promise that we will act.

In other words, to quote a rat boy rom the

movie Animal House: I think that this situa-tion absolutely requires a really utile and stupidgesture be done on somebodys part.

Mr. Bidens statement may sound high-mindedin theory, but new gun control eorts will proveineective and sel-deeating. Te Obama ad-ministrations proposals will ail to make Ameri-cans saer and, worse still, harm women the most.

In reality, guns make women saer. In a violentconrontation, guns reverse the balance o power.Armed with a gun, a woman may even have theadvantage over a violent attacker. More than 90percent o violent crimes occur without a rearm,

according to ederal statistics. When a violentcriminal threatens or attacks a woman, he rarelyuses a gun. Attackers use their size and physicalstrength, preying on women who are at a severedisadvantage.

How do guns give women the advantage? Anarmed woman does not need superior strengthor the proximity o a hand-to-hand struggle. Shecan protect her children, elderly relatives, herselor others who are vulnerable to an assailant.

Using a magazine that holds more than 10rounds o ammunition, she has a ghting chanceeven against multiple attackers. Tat is, she can

protect hersel unless she lives in a jurisdictionlike the District o Columbia, which criminalizespossession o even an empty magazine that canhold more than 10 rounds.

Recently, NBCs David Gregory inadvertentlyexposed the absurdity o the Districts gun laws

when he displayed a 30-round magazine on na-tional television, embroiling himsel in a police

investigation. Last week, the D.C. attorney gen-eral decided not to charge Mr. Gregory. Despitethe clarity o the viola-tion o this importantlaw, he concluded,a prosecution wouldnot promote publicsaety. When DavidGregorys magazinesare outlawed, only Da-vid Gregory will havemagazines. Why is itpermissible to possess

magazines to persuadepeople that guns aredangerous, but not ora woman to possessone to deend herselagainst gang rape?

Armed women benet even those who choosenot to carry. In jurisdictions with concealed-carrylaws, women are less likely to be raped, maimedor murdered than they are in states with strictergun ownership laws.

All women in these states reap the benetso concealed-carry laws, which dramatically in-

crease the risk that a would-be assailant aces.In response to horric incidents like those inNewtown and Aurora, Colo., politicians advocatemore restrictions on gun rights. Hollywood ce-lebrities somberly urge Americans to demand aplan to reduce gun violence.

Many o these politicians and celebrities al-ready have a plan: Tey rely on guns to saeguard

their own personal saety. Some critics advocatelimiting violence in movies and television, but

Hollywood stars ap-parently do not concur,considering that mosto them participate ingraphic depictions olethal violence on thescreen.

President Obamasaid in his rst inau-gural address, Tequestion we ask today

is not whether our gov-ernment is too big ortoo small, but whetherit works. Instead oineective and sel-deeating gestures, we

should ask the same question about proposedgun regulations.

Armed security works. Tats why snipersstand guard on the White House roo. Tatswhy Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Caliornia Demo-crat and a gun-control advocate, admits to hav-ing a gun permit.

Armed guards serve in the employ o thevery actors who publicly advocate limiting gunrights. For instance, armed guards protected asuburban newspaper in New York aer it pub-lished the names and residential addresses ogun permit holders. In act, the newspapers

own reporter uses a gun or his protection. A-ter publishing the story, the papers editors dis-closed that the reporter owns a Smith & Wes-son 686 .357 Magnum and has a residencepermit in New York City.

While armed security works, gun bans do not.Anti-gun legislation keeps guns away rom thesane and the law-abiding - but it does not keepguns out o the hands o criminals, as the Na-

tional Rie Associations Wayne LaPierre has ob-served. Nearly all mass shootings have occurredin gun-ree zones. Law-abiding citizens do notbring their guns to gun-ree zones, so murderouswackos know they can inict more harm in theseunprotected environments. Te sane and the law-abiding become easy targets.

Politicians congratulate themselves or man-dating gun-ree zones, touting increased saetywhile actually making us more vulnerable to thenext horrible monster in search o so targets.

I we could simply legislate gun-ree zones,why cant our politicians with the stroke o a pen

remove all guns rom banks, airports, rock con-certs and government buildings?

We already have more than 20,000 under-enorced or selectively enorced gun laws on thebooks. Gun regulation aects only the guns o thelaw-abiding. Criminals will not be bound by suchgestures, especially as we continually ail to pros-ecute serious gun violations or provide meaning-ul and consistent penalties or violent eloniesusing rearms.

In lieu o empty gestures, we should addressgun violence by doing what works. By saeguard-ing our Second Amendment rights, we preserve

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By Gayle rotter SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

In light o the tragic shooting in Newtown,Conn., partisan voices are only getting louder onthe issue o gun control. Recently, WashingtonPost columnist Matt Miller argued that every-one knows we need to reduce gun violence andthat we still need to boost the economy.

Mr. Miller proposed a massive, $100 billiongun buyback program, using the ballyhooedAustralian buyback program as his template.According to Mr. Miller, this included banningsemi-automatic and automatic riles and shot-guns, and conducting a compulsory buybackprogram. Unortunately, the reasons underlyingMr. Millers support or the Australian methodo gun control collapse upon close scrutiny.

First, Mr. Miller says we need gun violenceto go down. Yet according to the Organizationor Economic Co-operation and Development,

homicides have gone down since 2003 inAmerica (albeit by a smaller margin than theaverage), and a Just Facts chart shows thehomicide rate in America has gone down byapproximately 50 percent in the past 20 years.Moreover, Reasons Nick Gillespie points out aew important statistics, including that the rateo student victimization dropped severaloldrom 1993 to 2010, and school murders wentdown by almost 50 percent. Serious violentcrimes dropped by hal.

So it is clear that pervasive gun ownership inAmerica has not prevented violence as a whole

rom decreasing. he Guardian has noted FBIstatistics that show irearms are the weapono choice or homicides in the United States.

hose statistics, however, alsoshow the use o irearms ormurder has declined in thepast ew years.

It is also importantto distinguish betweengood and bad violence.Good violence savesthe lives o innocentcitizens threatened

by others. Just Factsnotes guns are usedar more oten insel-deense thanin committingcrimes, accord-ing to a num-ber o govern-ment and private-sector studies.

R e g a r d i n gAustralias lack o gunviolen ce, the aoremen -

tioned Just Facts graph also shows Australiashomicide rate has dropped. While Americasrate has gone down by 3.9 percent, Australias

rate has only dropped by0.4 percent. his means

that while Americas gunlaws became somewhat loos-

er with the elimination o theassault weapons ban, and

Australias became stricter,America s homic ide

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A u s t r a l i aimplementedgun control.

While many o those U.S. deaths can

be attributed to guns, theycan also just as arguably be attrib-

uted to actors such as gang violence and thewar on drugs.

Mr. Millers economic argument is urther

lawed insoar as he is arguing that an inusiono cash into the American economy will helpeconomic growth. Unortunately, Mr. Miller isnearly paralleling the Broken Window Fallacy.Essentially, he argues that spending money ina way that is economically unnecessary is agood thing - much as economist Paul Krugmanhas argued that government spending moneyto prepare or an alien invasion would have apositive economic impact. Never mind the totaland complete economic ineiciency o Mr.Millers proposal - especially since he is propos-ing to overpay or guns at $500 per weapon.

Perhaps most importantly with regard toMr. Millers economic argument, we simplycant aord more debt. Putting $100 billioninto the economy through government spend-ing is going to have the same eect as Cash or

Clunkers. It will provide a cash inlux that willlast or a short time, then leave things the waythey were, all the while adding the spendingplus interest payments to uture budgets.

he Australian example o gun control hasbeen widely discussed and praised. While itmay have merit, the acts are clearly being letout, which is a dangerous thing when it comesto public policy.

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By Kavon W. Nikrad SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

More than 90 percent o violentcrimes occur without a frearm,according to ederal statistics.

When a violent criminalthreatens or attacks a

woman, he rarely uses a gun.Attackers use their size and

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CLARK COUNY, Nev. | Oicial Washingtonhas the collective attention span o a ruit ly. hiscondition is exacerbated by the Obama admin-istrations proclivity or declaring selective eventsand issues to be crises that require immediateaction. he problem is aggravated because theloyal opposition is in nearly total disarray, and ewin the so-called mainstream media have any idea

what they are talking about.hats the summary assessment o many attend-ing the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor radeShow here in Harry Reids Nevada. he SHOShow isnt a gun show. Nobody here can buy orsell a single irearm. here are guns here - andtents, boats, clothing, boots, camping gear, all-terrain vehicles, SUVs, bows, arrows, ishing tackleand all manner o police equipment - even high-tech wheelchairs or outdoor activities. he SHOShow isnt open to the public - only to representa-tives o the industries above, proessional outitters,law enorcement oicials and military suppliersand contractors.

My irst SHO Show, in 1992, was as the manu-acturer o specialty armor and ballistic protectiveequipment or law enorcement and our military.his year, I came to represent the Military andVeterans Aairs Committee o the National RileAssociation (NRA). Freedom Alliance sent ouroutreach coordinator to explore additional out-door activities to help Americas military heroesrecover rom the wounds o war.

rade shows are really nothing more than anopportunity or members o an ainity group tomeet and exchange ideas on new products andservices, challenges acing their industry, and what

works and what doesnt to stay in business. hereare more than 90,000 trade and proessional asso-

ciations in the United States, and nearly all o themhave gatherings with ample opportunities or ruit-

ul conversations among like-minded people seek-ing solutions to common challenges. he nearly36,000 people attending this years SHO Show areno dierent.

What was dierent this year was what was hap-pening in Washington and, to a lesser extent, in

Albany, N.Y., where Gov. Andrew Cuomo signednew gun control legislation into law Jan. 15.Nearly everyone I spoke with understood thatNew Yorks Secure Ammunition and FirearmsEnorcement Act and the 23 directives issued theollowing day by President Obama were going toaect their business. he common rerain was:How is this going to stop bad people rom doingbad things? hese are not cynical questions.

hey are serious inquiries rom serious peoplewho see their businesses - and the employment o

hundreds o thousands o our countrymen - jeop-ardized by hasty, ill-conceived regulations that will

not achieve the goal o a saer society.hats not to say there is universal oppositionto what the White House announced on Jan. 16.In two days here at the SHO Show, Ive had hun-dreds o conversations with participants. A ewobservations:

here is widespread support or the NRAs pro-posal to put police oicers in schools. All hereendorse the idea o keeping irearms out o thehands o criminals and mentally unstable indi-viduals who pose a danger to others.

he ideas o pursuing and prosecuting strawpurchasers o irearms and giving longer sentenc-es to those convicted o violent crimes have wideappeal. here were, o course, some who suggested

that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. mighthave to prosecute himsel or straw purchases i it

turns out he authorized the ill-conceived Fast andFurious gunrunning scheme.

he NY SAFE Act requires law-abiding citizensto pass a background check beore being able topurchase ammunition o any kind. One retailerpoints out: here is no mechanism or makingsuch a check - no orm we can ill out, no way ocomplying. My lawyers have told us to stop illing

catalog and Internet orders rom New York ZipCodes until this is clariied. he people who drat-ed this law spent more time concocting a cute acro-nym than thinking about how this could put meout o business. Maybe thats their real objective.

At 3-Gun Nations Rumble on the Range -where competitors are scored on speed and accu-racy in iring a shotgun, a handgun and a rile- one o the competitors, a U.S. Marine, observed:his sport cannot happen with small-capacitymagazines. oo bad Cuomo and Reid arent hereto explain why this is a bad thing. Citizens o theEmpire State must now go elsewhere to practiceand participate in three-gun competitions.

Finally, there were numerous complaints thatnobody in politics or the media knows whatan assault weapon really is. Perhaps. But thereis an organization that does: the National RileAssociation. I the numbers are accurate, morethan 100 million Americans own irearms. Yetonly 4.5 million o us are members o the NRA.his would be a good time or law-abiding gunowners to join the organization that will ight orthe right to keep them.

over Nr War sre n ex New Canne and ar e new nvehere Prved (tred Edn, 2012).

Janary 21, 2013

Gun talk rom the expertsN advce needed rm e r y

By Oliver North SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

his condition is exacerbated by the Obamaadministrations proclivity or declaring selective events

and issues to be crises that require immediate action. heproblem is aggravated because the loyal opposition is in

nearly total disarray, and ew in the so-called mainstreammedia have any idea what they are talking about.

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When unspeakable tragedies happen such asthe shooting in Newtown, Conn., people reactby calling or the government to do somethingto prevent it rom happening again. Tis reexis usually well-intentioned. We all want our chil-dren to be sae at school. We all want to go to amovie or to the mall without ear o a derangedgunman opening re. Te danger lies in creatinga lose-lose policy that makes the vulnerable less

sae while inringing upon the constitutionalrights o law-abiding citizens.

Te 23 executive orders on gun policy PresidentObama signed recently are designed to make itmore dicult to legally possess a gun in hopes odeterring those bent on mass murder rom obtain-ing a weapon. Tese policies have one major, glar-ing aw: Killers dont play by the rules. A madmanwith murder in his heart is not concerned with thelaws surrounding a gun purchase when he is aboutto commit a heinous crime.

Te truth is that gun control laws dont work asintended, and they are raught with unintended

consequences. A study by the ederal governmentsNational Academy o Sciences concluded that the10-year-long assault weapons ban did not revealany clear impact on gun violence. Waiting peri-ods, background checks, or gun-ree zones donot deter gun crime.

Cities such as Chicago, which has some o thestrictest gun laws in the nation, have inordinatelyhigh rates o gun violence. Washington, D.C.,where it takes an act o Congress to legally carry agun, is known or its violent crime. It certainly isntsurprising much o this crime is committed withan illegally possessed gun. Why? Because crimi-

nals, by the very denition, do not obey laws.Its alarming that law-abiding citizens who chooseto exercise their Second Amendment rights are be-ing targeted by Democratic politicians and pundits.Its wrong that the rare and random actions o a ewseverely mentally ill individuals are being politicizedas proo that we need to disarm a ree people. Beorewe violate their rights with a slew o new, overreach-ing and ill-conceived policies, we need to take intoconsideration whether these laws truly work.

A quick search o the most recent mass-shoot-ing locations shows that almost all have occurredin a gun-ree zone. Te reason why should be ob-vious. Gun-ree zones do little more than createtargets o opportunity. I someone desires to kill asmany people as possible in a short period o time,

then it makes sense to choose a place where no oneis likely to shoot back and end the spree. A gun-ree zone sign means absolutely nothing to some-one who is about to commit multiple murders.

However, there is evidence that conceal-carrypermits reduce the death rate in situations likeSandy Hook. A quick search o less-publicized

recent shootings shows that shooters have beenstopped in their tracks when conronted by braveindividuals with weapons.

Examples include the recent shooting at a mallin Portland, Ore., a shooting at a hospital in Bir-mingham, Ala., and another at a movie theater inSan Antonio.

Its evident that restrictions on gun ownershipdo not reduce crime. Yet I believe there are solu-tions to consider i the goal is to protect our childrenand decrease the number o people who are killedin these rare instances o mass murder. ramplingon the rights o peaceul gun owners is simply notnecessary.

Hollywood - an industry that both ostersand prots rom the culture o gun violence, and

through campaign contributions now boasts oits cozy relationship with the White House - gota pass rom President Obama. Teir First Amend-ment rights are just as protected as our SecondAmendment rights, and they are unlikely to stopproducing such relentlessly violent are. Tatmeans it is up to parents to protect their childrenrom such entertainment. Many industries haveclear labels on their products, making it easier totell at a glance i it contains objectionable material,but, ultimately, the duty is ours and cannot be leto another.

o urther protect our children, perhaps its time

to do what Mr. Obama and countless other politi-cal and celebrity parents do: send our children toschools protected by responsible, armed person-nel. Despite the hypocrisy, the very people decry-ing the idea o having trained law enorcement atschools wouldnt dream o sending their own chil-dren to a school without it.

Its also time to have a serious conversation inour country about the crimes committed by thementally deranged. Violent behavior and severemental illness have been denitively linked. Weare ignoring this obvious contribution to the prob-lem, and children have died needlessly because o

our unwillingness to conront it. Tat needs to endnow.Weve tried many things in our history that sim-

ply did not work to curb gun violence. Most o thepresidents proposals are continuations o ineec-tive policies.

I ail to see how disarming and violating therights o law-abiding citizens will protect us rompeople who dont obey laws to begin with. We needto admit that in a ree society, it is impossible toprevent all bad things rom happening. We can domore, but such a utopia does not exist. It never has,and it never will.

Rep. Kevn Brady, a texa Repbcan, car-man e Jn Ecnmc Cmmee.

Janary 31, 2013

Te Washington Metropolitan Police Depart-ment (MPD) inquiry into whether NBCs DavidGregory possession on national V o an illegal30-round high-capacity magazine has beenongoing or three weeks. Meanwhile, U.S. Armyveteran James Brinkley is still grappling withthe allout rom his arrest last year on the samecharge. Mr. Brinkleys story is just one exampleo at least 105 individuals who, unlike Mr. Greg-

ory, were arrested in 2012 or having a magazinethat can hold more than 10 rounds.

On Sept. 8, Mr. Brinkley says he intended todrop his wie and young children at the WhiteHouse or a tour and then head to a shootingrange to practice or the U.S. Marshals Servicetest. Just like Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley calledMPD in advance or guidance on how he coulddo this legally. Mr. Brinkley was told that thegun had to be unloaded and locked in the trunk,and he couldnt park the car and walk around.Unlike Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley ollowed thepolice orders by placing his Glock 22 in a box

with a big padlock in the trunk o his Dodge

Charger. Te two ordinary, 15-round magazineswere not in the gun, and he did not have anyammunition with him.

As he was dropping o his amily at 11 a.m.on the corner o Pennsylvania Avenue, Mr.Brinkley stopped to ask a Secret Service ocerwhether his wie could take the babys car seatinto the White House. Te ocer saw Mr. Brin-kley had an empty holster, which kicked o atrac stop that ended in a search o the Char-gers trunk. Mr. Brinkley was booked on twocounts o high capacity magazine possession(these are ordinary magazines nearly every-

where else in the country) and one count o pos-

sessing an unregistered gun.Despite the evidence Mr. Brinkley had been

legally transporting the gun, his attorney Rich-ard Gardiner said the D.C. Oce o the AttorneyGeneral wouldnt drop it. Tis is the same o-ce now showing apparent reluctance to chargeMr. Gregory. Mr. Brinkley reused to take a pleabargain and admit guilt, so the matter went totrial Dec. 4. Te judge sided with Mr. Brinkley,saying he had met the burden o proo thathe was legally transporting. Mr. Brinkley wasound not guilty on all rearms-related charges,including or the high-capacity magazines,

and he was le with a $50 trac ticket.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovantold Te Washington imes, We eel it was avalid arrest, and the appropriate charges werebrought. Moments later, a spokesman or theD.C. attorney generals oce, ed Gest, calledand provided the exact same quote. Mr. Gestadded that, despite Mr. Brinkleys acquittal, theruling doesnt mean the judge is right, and werewrong.

Mr. Brinkley believes the Meet the Pressanchor is receiving special treatment because ohis high-prole job. Im an average person, Mr.Brinkley said in an exclusive interview with TeWashington imes. Tere seems to be a law orus and a law or the upper echelon. Mr. Brin-kley was publicly humiliated, thrown in jail andorced to spend money to deend himsel orviolating a law that millions o viewers watchedthe NBC anchor violate. I D.C. is going to havethis pointless law, it should at least be enorcedairly.

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-capacy maazneBy Emily Miller, Senior Editor or Opinion, HE WASHINGON IMES

Using children as props toabolish Second Amendmentgvn p r r wn prec e

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Gun grabbers arent subtle. Flanked by uni-ormed police ocers and a wall o black ries,Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tursday unleashedthe most restrictive ever national assault weap-on ban in the Senate. Te Caliornia Democratand the assembled anti-gun ocials directly

reerenced last months horric shooting ochildren at Sandy Hook Elementary School noewer than 45 times. Tey will let no tragedy goto waste.

Te proposal would ban the manuacture,sale or transer o 158 specic makes and modelso guns, along with any semiautomatic rearm(rie, shotgun or handgun) that has a detach-able magazine and one cosmetic eature such asa pistol grip or olding stock. Te bill also pro-hibits a magazine that can accept more than 10rounds. No item alling into a banned categorycould be imported, and i a gun owner wantedto sell or transer one o these, he would have toundergo a government background check. Wehave done our best to cra a responsible bill to

ban these assault weapons - guns designed ormilitary use, bought all over this country and o-ten used or mass murder, said Mrs. Feinstein oher ambitious proposal.

President Obama and his allies, such as Mrs.Feinstein, deliberately misuse the term assaultweapon to conuse the public. Assault weaponsare machine guns, automatic ries that continueto re until the trigger is released. Tese gunshave been highly regulated since 1934 and arenever used in crimes. Te guns that this con-gressional bill targets are simply the standardsemi-automatic weapons that re one bulletwith each trigger pull.

Te best illustration o this deception is Mrs.Feinsteins placing o the Armalite M15 22LRCarbine on her list o items that she claims havethe sole purpose to hold at the hip i possible, tospray re to be able to kill large numbers. Tisparticular weapon res a .22 long rie cartridge,which has one-tenth the power o the standardmilitary round and is generally suited or plink-ing tin cans or hunting small varmints. It simplylooks like a military rie, which ts Mrs. Fein-steins eort to eliminate items that look scaryto her.

During the marathon news conerence, poli-ticians played on emotions rather than acts. We

know the new assault weapons ban would beuseless because crime didnt decrease during the10 years that the 1994 ban was in eect. In theeight years Americans have been ree to buy anysemi-automatic ries, gun ownership has goneup while crime has steadily declined.

According to a survey conducted in 2010or the National Shooting Sports Foundation,90 percent o the owners o modern sportingries use them or target shooting, 80 percentor home deense and 60 percent or hunting.About 44 percent o owners are ormer militaryor law enorcement, who enjoy using a amiliarrie. Te typical owner is over 35 years old, mar-ried and has some college education. Tese goodAmericans are the ones who will be aected by aban, not the criminals who will continue to usewhatever they want.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shouldbring this measure to a oor vote soon so it canquickly be shot down.

Janary 25, 2013

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p n-rabbn aendaBy Emily Miller, Senior Editor or Opinion, HE WASHINGON IMES

he week beore his second inauguration,President Obama again exercised the one talenthe has that will carve his name in inamy. Hesigned 23 executive orders violating our con-stitutional rights and putting the lives o moreAmerican citizens under his thumb. his time,the Second Amendment was at center stage.

During the signing, he was surrounded byour children, a clear play or our emotional

response to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn.Unortunately, his call or bans on guns wil l notactually solve the problem. I anything, it willmake the problem worse.

he city o Chicago is amous or itsattempt to keep citizens rom owning guns.When asked about the citys high violence rate,Chicago Police Commissioner Garry McCarthyremarked, We have a prolieration o illegalirearms. Mr. Obamas $500 million gun vio-lence package will do nothing to prevent theprolieration o illegal irearms.

What happened at Sandy Hook Elementary

School was truly a tragedy, but Mr. Obamasresponse oversteps the bounds o his oice. Notragedy can justiy limiting our reedoms, espe-cially when lives are on the line.

As National Rile Association Executive VicePresident Wayne LaPierre says, he only thingthat stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy witha gun. With more than 23 years o experienceteaching basic and advanced techniques in sav-ing lives, I am amazed at how heroically even themost timid person will behave when a human lieis at stake. he only limiting actor is whether ornot the potential liesaver is adequately prepared.

No one thinks twice about applying thepads o an automatic external deibrillator to astrangers chest and pushing a button on com-mand to deliver an electrical shock to savea human lie. Likewise, people recognize theneed or the Heimlich maneuver when some-one in a restaurant is choking.

So why do people have a problem decidingwhat to do when it comes to saving the lives oour children in the classroom, saving the liveso church congregations or saving the liveso theater patrons when someone threatensthem with a gun? Do they not deserve the sameconsideration? Does it really take 23 executiveorders or an act o Congress? Does it have tocost the taxpayers $500 million?

he idea o arming teachers has received

mixed reactions. Many teachers do not eel saeowning or using a irearm. Others want access toa gun in the classroom to protect their charges.

It is known that 350,000 people die rom car-diac arrest every year, more than 33,000 die romauto accidents, and more than hal a million dierom cancer. Yet our government overlooks all

these deaths, and has suddenly taken on a questto stop deaths rom gun violence. Mr. Obama didnot take steps to mandate CPR certiication oreveryone, to ban automobiles or demand a cureor cancer. he ocus on guns ignores statisticsshowing that increasing gun ownership actuallylowers crime.

Our schools, churches, theaters, stadiums andother venues where people gather should con-sider including another emergency item nextto the deibrillator: a loaded irearm. A con-tainment device can be installed in the wall,completely enclosed with a metal door and ahand-activated combination like other gun saes.It should be accessible rom a central locationand, in larger acilities, additional ones could be

placed in oices o principals or managers.Only designated employees would have access

to them. Selected personnel should be trained inirearm saety and the laws regarding the properuse o the weapon in the unortunate event itwould ever be needed. his can all be done orless than $500 million.

It is highly improbable that any armed crimi-nal would dare enter a school or theater knowingthat someone had the capability o deendingthe people inside. Burglars rarely enter a homewith an alarm system. In times o emergency,the American people will deend themselves. A

properly armed acility can halt a deadly attackor, at least, minimize casualties beore irstresponders arrive at the scene.

he media have sensationalized the SandyHook, Aurora and Sikh emple shootings, oer-ing the president and members o Congress anopportunity to shine. hese misguided leaders arenow wasting time toying with the deinition o anassault rile and creating more ways to encroachupon our privacy. Capitol Hill sees an opportunityto legislate, to regulate, to control, and this esotericodder does nothing but expose the next school ortheater targeted or some warped minds 15 min-

utes o ame.Mr. Obama and Congress should spendtheir time perorming the duties as describedin the Constitution and stop messing with ourSecond Amendment. Meanwhile, the publicshould install secured emergency irearms inpublic areas and develop training programs. AsAmericans, we will deend ourselves. We willprotect our children. It is our moral obligation,and it is our right - at least, or now.

Dr. Cnance urbe a enera ren andar te hea Care Prvder gde acn e Mapracce Depn (CRC Pre,1999).

Janary 25, 2013

Emergency response to gun violencesd a aded n be paced nex e debrar?

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Fiteen-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was anhonor student, volleyball player and majorettewho one week earlier was perorming withher high school band at President Obamasinauguration ceremony. On Saturday, irstlady Michelle Obama lew to Chicago to visitHadiya - paying respects at her uneral.

he King College Prep student was one o 42homicide victims in Chicago during the montho January. Pendletons story is an all-too-com-mon tale in the Windy City. You wouldnt knowit, though, due to the media and political eorts

to control the conversation - using this deadlyepidemic or the national cause o gun con-trol instead o actually making lie saer back inChicago.

Last year, more than 500 individuals weremurdered in Chicago. he public perception isthat the violence is always gang related - crimi-nal killing criminal. Gun control advocates usethis point o view to combat critics who claimthat Chicago, which has the toughest gun lawsin the country, is an example that gun controldoesnt work. What Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn andChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel dont want to

discuss is that gang related or not, innocentchildren are being buried in their own backyard.Fity-six children - under the age o 18 - met

viole nt ends last year in Chicago, while 133individuals - nearly one-third o all the mur-dered victims - never saw their 21st birthdays.Still, the city and the state dont want to talkabout the nightmare that Chicagos Arican-American and Hispanic neighborhoods havebecome. Nobody is asking how the disastrouseconomy o Illinois is contributing to violenceon the streets o Chicago.

Illinois has an ununded pension deicit o$200 billion. It now lays claim to the worstcredit rating in the nation. Single-party rule -controlled by public-employee unions - has cre-

ated a business climate that is beneiting neigh-boring states. he black unemployment rateaverage in 2012, according to the U.S. Bureauo Labor Statistics, was 24.2 percent. hat is nota typo - the unemployment rate in Chicagosblack community is almost 1 in 4. he over-whelming majority o the murders take placein minority neighborhoods, which implies thisis not a gun control issue - its the economy,stupid.

In Illinois, nobody is talking about the kickthe can down the road mentality that is kill-

ing our children - literally. Elected oicialsor over a decade have seen their policies ailtime ater time. hey continue down the samepath, knowing ull well their policies do moreeconomic harm than good. hey are more con-cerned with power than people. he results arehigher taxes, leeing businesses and no jobs.Minority communities get hit the hardest.

Guns dont kill people - politicians do.With the start o the new year, Illinois oi-

cials, who take their cue rom the Cook CountyDemocratic Party machine, have ignored the

inancial woes o the state. Drivers licensesor illegal immigrants and homosexual mar-riage have dominated the agenda this year.Regardless o your opinion on these issues, jobsand the economy must take priority.

Unemployment in minority communitiesis appalling. hat story line in Chicago is thesame rom Detroit to Baltimore and Oaklandto St. Louis. he most dangerous cities in thenation have minority communities that see nohope because they have little opportunity. heresults have been the same throughout human

history - poverty leads to violence and hope-lessness equals suering.

Mr. Emanuel is undoubtedly a man o hisword. He is living up to his most inamousquote: Never let a serious crisis go to waste.Ever since the horriic Sandy Hook schoolshooting in December, Mr. Emanuel has leda crusade or more gun control, targeting gunmanuacturers and Second Amendment advo-cates at every turn.

What about the mayors hometown? Chicagoalready has the strictest gun control laws in thenation, yet somehow, the city is the deadliest in

the nation. We should be asking why. Maybe itsnot just about irearms.Like most issues in the national spotlight,

common sense and decency take a back seat topolitical posturing and agenda-driven partisan-ship. I dont pretend to have all the answersabout how to prevent gun violence. I do knowthat politicians whose actions prevent pros-perity and opportunity rom reaching theseimpoverished neighborhoods in order to pro-tect their own power might as well be drivingthe getaway car.

Pa Mer a prncpa Paerp llC,a Cca-area new meda and pca cn-n rm.

ebrary 11, 2013

Michael Bloomberg obviously knows a lotabout making money, even about the politicso Manhattan, where his money speaks in theloud and unctuous voice liberals love. But hedoesnt know diddly about lie where the resto us live it.

He threw a tantrum ater Barack Obamasgun-control bill crashed and burned inCongress, stamping his polished wingtips on

his Persian carpets, nursing a pout and behav-ing like a 3-year-old with a broken toy. his wasexcusable in a 3-year-old, but its not the behav-ior you expect o the nanny.

When the wah-wah and the bitter tears sub-sided, the mayor o New York set out to ixeverything with his billions. His money ixedthe election laws in New York, so why couldnthis billions similarly manipulate a ew electionsin lyover country?

His honor, the ourth (or ith) richest manin the world (not that theres anything wrongwith that), is nevertheless a man o the peo-

ple who rides the subway to work, althoughaccording to he New York imes two policedepartment SUVs take him to a station somedistance rom his manse on East 79th Streetso he can take the express train downtown.Doesnt everyone commute that way? He hasother houses, in London, Bermuda and Vail,one or two closer to the streetcar line. Doesnteveryone?

His Honor just doesnt like guns. Guns, likea 16-ounce bottle o soda pop, righten him.

hats why he has a police detail to shadow himeverywhere he goes, lest a wild Slurpee lunge athim rom the shadows. Doesnt everyone?

he nanny, like the shadow, knows the evilthat lurks in the hearts o men, so he set out topunish several congressmen who he thinks par-ticularly deserve a good spanking. One o themis Mark Pryor, the Democratic senator rom

Arkansas who is threatened by the Republicanwave that has transormed the politics o thelast state o what was once the Solid South, andonly yesterday the most reliable redoubt o theDemocratic Party.

he mayor put out $350,000 a meretip or the mens room attendant at the HotelCarlisle or the ourth-richest man in the world to produce a television commercial tellingArkansas voters what they already knew: MarkPryor voted against the Obama gun legislation.

Pryor likes guns! Pour it on! With an enemylike Mike Bloomberg, who needs a riend?

he lugubrious Bloomberg commer-cial shamelessly exploits the death o BillGwatney, the popular chairman o the ArkansasDemocratic Party, who was shot and killedin 2008 by a deranged man who walked intohis oice in downtown Little Rock, shook his

hand, pulled out a revolver and shot him threetimes in the chest. He died several hours later.his, the Bloomberg commercial suggests, isjust the grim uture Mark Pryors vote or gunsassures everybody.

his was the unexpected break the senatorwas praying or. Only the terminally timid arerightened by guns in Arkansas, where a boytypically anticipates getting a .22-caliber rileor his 12th birthday (and the stern lecturerom his ather that goes with it). he senator,

who voted or separate legislation to strengthenunding or mental health programs, gave itback harder to the mayor: Mike Bloombergdidnt know Bill Gwatney, he said. I knew BillGwatney. He was my riend and he was killedby someone with severe mental-health issues.he mayors bill would have done nothing toprevent his death because it ails to adequatelyaddress the real issue and common thread in all

these shootings mental health.he man most likely to run against Mark

Pryor is a reshman congressman, om Cotton,who really, really does like guns. Hes rarelyphotographed without one. He looks too goodto be true. He grew up in small-town Arkansas,went to Harvard, gave up the law ater 9/11 tojoin the Army, disdaining a posting as an Armylawyer to lead an inantry company in Iraq andthen Aghanistan, where he received a BronzeStar or heroism in combat. He has run in 11marathons and earlier this year was named theastest man in Congress ater he won a three-

mile congressional minimarathon in under 18minutes. At 36 and 6 oot 5 inches tall, he lookslike a candidate consultants dream o.

Hes a nightmare or Mark Pryor, the son oa senator and trying to survive as a Democratin a newly Republican state. He has a long slogto re-election, but a genius rom New York Cityjust made it a little easier.

May 28, 2013

Chicagos deadly gun control lessonsCdren de depe dracnan aw

By Paul Miller SPECIAL O HE WASHINGON IMES

Mike Bloombergs gun accident

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POLITICS BY WESLEY PRUDEN

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I was very interested in the tragic

death o Trayvon Martin when it oc-curred roughly a year ago and I eltthat George Zimmerman was guilty

o second degree murder. I was quitesurprised that the trial had been delayed

so long ater the killing o Trayvon andto hear that the Prosecution had practi-cally lost the case against Zimmerman.Well, the Prosecution did lose the case

and George Zimmerman was declaredinnocent o second degree murder!

However there are so many people,all across the country, that disagreedwith the verdict, and so many blacks

that elt that Trayvon had lost his lie,being a black 17yr old youth, due to

racial bias against the blacks, that Ithought it might be enlightening toreview my impression o the case topossibly illuminate any events that

had taken place between the time oTrayvons death and the start o theTrial that might help explain events

in the Trial.

Trayvon was killed in a Private

Community on a rainy evening whileon his way to visit his ather who livedin that community. Trayvon lived with

his mother in dierent community. Ini-tially I thought o three ways in whichthe shooting o Trayvon might have

been avoided. The frst was that Zim-merman should not have been carryinga gun. He had been advised not to in

perorming Neighborhood Watch Dutybut he had a permit to carry one so hedid and there was no major objection.

My understanding o Neighborhood

Watch Duty in that community wasthat it was perormed by a resident,

preerably unarmed, who would, uponnoting an (apparent) stranger on astreet in the community, approach

the stranger in a riendly manner andpolitely inorm him that, in eect, thisis a Private Community and it is my

duty to ask you why you are here andwhether I might help you in some way.It was important to be riendly and

polite with a stranger, and defnitely

not to be annoying or antagonistic, ashe might well be there to visit a riendwho was a resident!

Zimmerman was airly well knownby Sanord Police, the local police

orce, as being quite interested in get-ting involved in police or law enorce-ment, sort o like a wannabe cop.

He was perorming NeighborhoodWatch Duty the night when Trayvonwas killed and had reported by radio

to the local police dispatcher that he

had spotted a suspicious character onthe street and thought he might be

black. The police dispatcher told himthat they were dispatching a policecar to Zimmermans area and that

Zimmerman should not ollow thestranger, (who was Trayvon) but towait or the police car to arr ive. Zim-

merman told the police dispatcherhe was not ollowing Trayvon butthen he did not wait or the police to

arrive and started ollowing Tray-

von. Waiting or the police to arrivewas the second way Trayvons deathmight have been avoided!

The third way in which Trayvonsdeath might have been avoided, would

have been or Zimmerman to quicklyapproach Trayvon in a riendly and po-lite manner and to ask him why he was

present in this Private Community. NowTrayvon may not have been amiliarwith the communitys Neighborhood

Watch Program, but he probably would

have readily replied that he was there tovisit his ather.

In closely ollowing Trayvon, Zim-merman was annoying Trayvon and

behaving as an antagonist or troublemaker and not acting in a riendlyand polite manner. Trayvon probably

kept looking back at Zimmerman soZimmerman must have known he wasbeing unriendly. Trayvon was on his

cellphone at the time talking with his

girlriend and he told her o his being

closely ollowed. His girlriend urgedhim to run on ahead to get away romthis annoying person and he did run

and got well ahead o Zimmerman. Butthen Zimmerman caught up with him,

jumped out o his vehicle, and angrilydemanded to know what he was doingthere. However Trayvon, knowing Zim-merman only as an antagonist, did not

wait to even listen to him. He jumpedon him, knocking him down, andcaused him to suer lacerations on his

scalp and a broken nose.

It appears that there was a serious

lack o witnesses to the fght betweenTrayvon and Zimmerman. Apparently

Trayvon only learned that Zimmer-man was armed during the fght andthen he screamed his head o tryingto keep Zimmerman rom shooting

him. During the trial there was seriousconcern and disagreement as to whodid the screaming and which person

was on top (o the two) when Trayvonwas shot. This suggests that the SanordPolice were extremely negligent in not

getting a detailed description o theentire fght rom Zimmerman imme-diately ater the shooting o Trayvon

when Zimmerman knew the detailsand would probably relate them truth-ully to a police questioner. It urther

suggests that a Trial Verdict should belegally questionable i there is new oroverlooked evidence that suggests the

verdict is alse or may be alse.

There is also the question as to

whether Trayvons Civil Rights have

been violated and a new trial maythereore be justifed. Certainly the act

that so many people are upset about theTrial Verdict justifes looking at the CivilRights Issue although racial bias does

not appear to be a signifcant actor. Theact that Trayvons lie was taken out oanger and through no ault o his own

makes his death tragic and unnecessary!Thereore his death together with all thedetails does appear to be a Civil Rights

Issue and another trial justifed!

Zimmermans Guilt in

Trayvon Martins DeathL.R. Halsted

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In all the noise caused by the Obama admin-istrations direct assault on the right o everyperson to keep and bear arms, the essence othe issue has been drowned out. Te presidentand his big-government colleagues want you tobelieve that only the government can keep youree and sae, so to them, the essence o this de-bate is about obedience to law.

o those who have killed innocents among

us, obedience to law is the last o their thoughts.And to those who believe that the Constitutionmeans what it says, the essence o this debateis not about the law - it is about personal lib-erty in a ree society. It is the exercise o thisparticular personal liberty - the reedom todeend yoursel when the police cannot or willnot, and the reedom to use weapons to repeltyrants i they take over the government - thatthe big-government crowd ears the most.

Lets be candid: All government ears liberty. Byits nature, government is the negation o liberty.God has given us reedom, and the government

has taken it away. George Washington recognizedthis when he argued that government is not reasonor eloquence but orce. I the government had itsway, it would have a monopoly on orce.

Government compels, restrains and takes.Tomas Jeerson understood that when he wrotethat our liberties are inalienable and endowed byour Creator, and the only reason we have ormedgovernments is to engage them to protect our lib-erties. We enacted the Constitution as the supremelaw o the land to restrain the government. Yetsomewhere along the way, government got theidea that it can more easily protect the reedom

o us all rom the abuses o a ew by curtailing thereedom o us all. I know that sounds ridiculous,but

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