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The Supreme Court has reaffirmed
that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual the right to possess guns in
the home for self defense. They Justices also stated that this right is “not
unlimited” – elected officials may enact common sense gun laws to protect
communities.
Those laws are needed to protect the safety of Americans. Too many individuals can obtain dangerous weapons far too easily in America. An epidemic of violence results when guns and even assault rifles can be purchased from unlicensed merchants at gun shows without a Brady criminal background check.
Think we don’t need to change that? Think again. In one year, more than 31,000 people die from gun violence and close to 79,000 more are shot but survive gun injuries. That’s more than 100,000 people EACH YEAR who are killed or wounded with a gun in our country.
This is not about banning guns. It’s about responsibility in selling and owning guns – and making our homes, schools and communities safer. And you have a stake in it.
We all do.
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ARMED GOOD SAMARITANS RESCUE MAN AFTER GUNPOINT
ROBBERY: THEY ‘PROTECTED ME WHEN I COULDN’T PROTECT MYSELF’
A Houston man was robbed at
gunpoint as he made his way to his car after leaving a bar on Thursday. But in
addition to the man’s wallet and phone, the robber ended up with bullet wounds
and bite marks from a German Shepherd, thanks to a pair of quick-thinking good
Samaritans.
Police say the armed thug was
canvassing a local neighborhood when he thought he had found an easy mark. The
victim, Kevin Dorsey, told
KHOU that he hadn’t even closed his
car door before a man, dressed in all black and wearing a ski mask, put a gun
to his chest and demanded his wallet, cell phone and car keys.
Dorsey took off on foot after
being robbed, prompting two men in a Mercedes to ask him what had happened. “As
soon as they pass me, they see the guy has a gun to me,” Dorsey told
KPRC. “They
stopped right there. The guys in the gray Mercedes asked me, ‘Did you just get
jacked?’ I said yes.”
The two unidentified vigilantes
went after the suspect and reportedly exchanged fire with the criminal. The
good guys eventually won the gun fight and wounded the thief.
In a twist of irony, the robber
jumped a fence after being shot in an attempt to escape — only to find a German
Shepherd waiting for him on the other side. The dog attacked him and prevented
him from escaping before police arrived. “I don’t own a gun. I’m totally at the
mercy of my saviors. They obviously sent two angels to help me. These people
protected me when I couldn’t protect myself.”
The robbery suspect, later
identified by police as Christopher Hutchins, was being treated at Ben Taub
Hospital for a gunshot to his abdomen. He is expected to recover.
It’s unclear whether the two men
who came to Dorsey’s rescue were concealed carry permit holders, however,
reports do not indicate that police took any action against the men. In Texas,
gun owners can carry
firearms in their car without a concealed carry permit
so long as the weapon is not concealed and the owner is not involved in
criminal activity, a criminal street gang or otherwise prohibited by law from
carrying a weapon.
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HOUSE IDENTIFIED ON NY PAPER’S ‘GUN MAP’
BURGLARIZED — AND THE ROBBERS WENT STRAIGHT FOR THE GUNS
After the Journal News published
interactive maps detailing where gun owners live
in a number of New York counties in late December, people all across the nation
decried the move as an invasion of privacy and a danger to the families.
A number of ex-burglars told
Fox News that
the list would prove invaluable to criminals, telling them which houses to
avoid or rob, depending on what they wanted.
It was revealed on Sunday that
one of the homes identified by the paper was targeted by burglars over the
weekend, though a connection to the Journal News has not been proven.
New York’s Westchester/Rockland
Newsday has
noteworthy details on the break-in (all subsequent
emphasis added):
A White Plains residence
pinpointed on a controversial handgun permit database was burglarized Saturday,
and the burglars’ target
was the homeowner’s gun safe.
At least two burglars broke into
a home on Davis Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Saturday but were unsuccessful in
an attempt to open the safe, which contained legally owned weapons,
according to a law enforcement source. One suspect was taken into custody, the
source said.
The gun owner was not home when
the burglary occurred, the source said. The
victim, who is in his 70s, told Newsday on Sunday that he did not want to
comment while the police investigation continues.
[...]
Neighbor John Mascia said he
thought the gun permit
database should not have been published.
“I could [not] care less
what they have in their home,” Mascia said.
Police
are investigating what role, if any, the database played in the burglars’ decision to
target the home, the law enforcement source said.
Republican State Senator Greg
Ball of New York released a strongly-worded
statement on
the matter Sunday, adding that he plans to introduce legislation to better
protect the identities of gun owners in the future:
“The Journal News has placed the
lives of these folks at risk by creating a
virtual shopping list for criminals and nut jobs. If the connection is
proven, this is further proof
that these maps are not only an invasion of privacy but that they present a
clear and present danger to law-abiding, private citizens. Former convicts have already testified
to the usefulness of the asinine Journal News ‘gun maps’ yet the reckless editors
are evidently willing to roll the dice, gambling with the lives of innocent
local homeowners,” Senator Greg Ball said.
[...]
“The same elitist
eggheads who use their editorial page to coddle terrorists and criminals are
now treating law abiding citizens like level three sexual predators.
These bills are critical to keep folks safe and fundamentally protect their
inherent right to privacy… This is not about the Second Amendment; these bills
are simply about commonsense and personal privacy. Publishing this information on
a website, as we have evidently just witnessed in the recent attempted gun
burglary, provides criminals with a map of where they can steal firearms from
lawful owners for later
use in the commission of crimes. This legislation is critical,” said Senator
Greg Ball.
Ball wasn’t the only one to call
out the Journal News in the wake of the robbery. Senator Ball’s office
adds:
In addition to Senator Ball’s
legislation, the Vice
President of the Affiliated Police Association of Westchester County,
Robert Buckley, said in a letter [that] publishing these maps online is
jeopardizing the safety of residents and is irresponsible.
“The Affiliated Police
Association of Westchester County Inc. is putting
The Journal News on notice that we will hold [them] accountable for any
incident where any of our over 25,000 members are involved with an incident
where a criminal or ex-con presents themselves at the residence of one of our members
as a result of their name being made public by [their] newspaper,” said
Buckley.
Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro ripped
into the Journal News over the weekend, noting that the
“cowards” who publish the paper appear to be fiercely protective of their own
privacy:
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National
Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre on Tuesday offered a sharp critique
of President Obama’s second inaugural address, warning that his agenda
threatened to make a “mockery” of the nation’s constitutional freedoms.
In a speech in Reno, Nev., which
the nation’s most prominent gun-rights lobby billed as a “major response” to
the president’s address, LaPierre pressed his attack on Obama’s push for
stricter gun laws in the aftermath of last month’s deadly Newtown, Conn., mass
shooting.
“In his second inaugural address,
President Barack Obama quoted the Declaration of Independence and he talked
about 'unalienable rights,' " said LaPierre. “I would argue that his words
make a mockery of both.” The NRA leader focused his speech on the president’s
inaugural remark that “we cannot mistake absolutism for principle.” “Obama
wants to turn the idea of ‘absolutism’ into a dirty word, just another word for
‘extremism,’ ” said LaPierre. “He wants you to accept the idea of ‘principles’
as he sees fit to define them. It's a way of redefining words so that common
sense is turned upside-down and nobody knows the difference.” He said gun
owners were faced with a “false ultimatum” in the debate over stemming gun
violence.
“We're told that to stop insane
killers, we must accept less freedom — less than the criminal class and
political class keep for themselves,” said LaPierre. “Obama is saying that the
only ‘principled’ way to make children safe is to make lawful citizens less
safe and violent criminals more safe.” The president is making a forceful push
on gun violence, signing a number of executive actions and proposing
legislative measures, including universal background checks, and bans on the
sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition.
Those measures, though, likely
face a tough fight on Capitol Hill, where many GOP lawmakers have pledged to
oppose efforts to tighten gun-ownership restrictions, calling instead for more
attention on mental health issues and the role of violence in entertainment
culture. LaPierre targeted the call for universal background checks, saying
Obama wanted “to put every private, personal transaction under the thumb of the
federal government, and he wants to keep all those names in a massive federal
registry.”
“There are only two reasons for
that federal list of gun owners — to tax them or take them. And to anyone who
says that’s excessive, Barack Obama says you’re an ‘absolutist,’ ” he added.
The NRA has been at the forefront of the opposition to gun reform, arguing that
more restrictions will do little to prevent future violence.
Last week, the gun lobby released
a video ad criticizing Obama as an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing its call
for armed guards in schools. The ad cited the security detail assigned to
protect the president’s daughters and brought a sharp response from the White
House, which denounced it as “repugnant and “cowardly.” But polls show growing
support for a number of measures proposed by Obama, and the White House has
sought to rally public opinion to push Congress to act quickly. In his
inaugural address, the president made mention of his efforts at reducing gun
crime. “Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the
streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown,
know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm,” said
Obama on Monday.
But Obama can expect the NRA to
wage a tough fight.
“We believe we deserve, and have
every right to, the same level of freedom that our government leaders keep for
themselves, and the same capabilities and same technologies that criminals use
to prey upon us and our families,” said LaPierre. “That means we believe in our
right to defend ourselves and our families with semi-automatic
technology. "We believe that if neither the criminal nor the
political class is limited by magazine capacity, we shouldn't be limited in our
capacity either,” he added.
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Obama to
unveil gun violence reduction proposals Wednesday
By
Daniel Strauss - 01/15/13 12:55 PM ET
President Obama will release his
plans to reduce gun violence on Wednesday, and is expected to propose bans on
assault weapons and high-capacity clips, increased background checks on gun
buyers and a number of related executive actions. Obama will unveil his plans
at an event attended by a number of gun-safety groups and mayors in town for
the U.S. conference of mayors, according to the White House.
The event will take place at
11:45 a.m. at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden will be joined by children and their parents who wrote
sympathy letters in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting.
"He intends to take a
comprehensive approach," White House press secretary Jay Carney said,
adding that the proposals will include an assault weapons ban, high capacity
magazine ban, and universal background checks. The press secretary would not
say what type of additional executive actions Obama could announce at the
event.
Much of Obama's gun reduction
package is based on recommendations of a gun violence task force headed by Vice
President Biden, who passed on his group's recommendations to the president
earlier in the week. Biden's task force was formed in the aftermath of
the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
in December that resulted in 28 deaths.
Obama's proposals are not assured passage. House Republicans are already lining up in opposition to any new limits on buying or owning firearms or their accessories. "I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment," freshman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) warned Monday in reference to Obama's gun-reform push. In addition, several Democratic legislators have expressed skepticism that some of the proposals Obama will likely unveil on Wednesday could make it through Congress.
Obama's proposals are not assured passage. House Republicans are already lining up in opposition to any new limits on buying or owning firearms or their accessories. "I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment," freshman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) warned Monday in reference to Obama's gun-reform push. In addition, several Democratic legislators have expressed skepticism that some of the proposals Obama will likely unveil on Wednesday could make it through Congress.
"I'm banking on Sammy Sosa
will be in the Hall of Fame before we pass meaningful gun legislation,"
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) reportedly said on Monday. Rep. Loretta Sanchez
(D-Calif.) said Tuesday that passing a ban on assault weapons or high-capacity
magazines will be a hard sell with some of her House Democratic colleagues.
“I know that, at least on the
Democratic side, I think there will be some who will vote against passing an
assault-weapons ban, who would probably vote against large magazines of
bullets,” Sanchez, a liberal Democrat, said. “So I think it's going to be very
difficult, much more difficult than most people realize,” she added. Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a long-time opponent of a ban on assault
weapons, suggested recently that he wouldn’t consider such a proposal in the
Senate. But Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said this week that congressional
leaders — including Reid — should "wake up" and enact an assault
weapons ban.
"The latest polls are very,
very shocking and I am thrilled. The American public has had it, whether it was
Newtown or Aurora or Gabby Giffords in Arizona," Lowey, the ranking member
of the House Appropriations Committee, said.
Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), who
was shot in the 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shooting that injured former Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six people, said Tuesday that he believes there
are at least three areas of gun-related legislation that Democrats and
Republicans can agree on: more strict reporting on mental-health issues,
closing the “gun show loophole” by requiring universal background checks and
reducing the size of ammunition clips in guns.
Barber said "the most
serious aspects of this issue are going to be resolved" through
legislation, not executive order. Obama shrugged off the doubts saying,
instead, that his priority with the proposals is to push for what's
necessary. "My starting point is to focus on what makes sense, what
works, what should we be doing to make sure that our children are safe and that
we’re reducing the incidence of gun violence," Obama said at a press conference on
Monday.
Justin Sink contributed to this
report.
POLL
RESULTS: BLAZE READERS ON GUNS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Editor’s
note — Scott Baker, TheBlaze Editor-in-Chief, purchased his first gun this
weekend! He’ll be discussing this story and all the day’s news during our live
BlazeCast from 12-12:30pm ET…including your questions, comments & live
chat:
Last week, TheBlaze invited you
to participate in an online
survey about guns,
gun ownership, and the current debate about limiting or changing what is
allowed by the Second Amendment. Our readers delivered almost 5 million
responses to the 106 questions in the survey.
Before we break down some of the
significant facts from this poll, let’s remind you of the make-up of a typical
Blaze reader (statistics culled from last year’s poll that generated over 3 million responses).
100% believe in the right to bear
arms
85% are at least 35-years
80% are homeowners
78% have children
76% are married
73% served in the U.S. military
or have an immediate family member serving
71% of the respondents are male
66% own dogs (36% have
cats)
63% have more than one gun
54% read more than 12 books a
year
52% have taken a firearms safety
class
If you take all of that data into
account, the typical Blaze reader is a married man, a reader, over 35, who has
a house, kids, dogs, and at least one gun. However, it should be noted
that readership has expanded significantly since last year.
Last week, the typical Blaze
reader (and many others) gave us some clarity on how they feel about the Second
Amendment. We began our survey with 20 questions and then invited you to submit
your own. In the end, we approved an additional 86 questions for a total of
106. Those questions triggered 4,876,394 responses.
The “most-agreed” upon question
generated unanimous consensus. We asked, “Do you believe in the Second
Amendment. Score – 100% YES.
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The overall feeling about why the
Second Amendment was written by the Founding Fathers had a similar response,
generating 99% agreement.
99% Say “NO!”
There were many questions that
generated some very strong responses. Each one of these had 99% “NO” response.
Will an assault rifle ban prevent
violent crime?
Would you surrender your Second
Amendment rights in exchange for a promise from the government to protect you
from all harm?
Should the UN or any other
foreign entity have any say about American gun rights or the Second Amendment?
Should a gun owners address be
published?
Did you vote President Obama?
Before you think that the
majority of those responding are card-carrying NRA members or concealed-carry
permit holders, look at these two questions:
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The polling giant Gallup has been surveying America
on guns and the Second Amendment for decades. You might find it interesting to
know that the majority of Americans agree with TheBlaze readers on the average
citizen’s right to own a firearm.
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The Gallup survey, taken just a
week after the Sandy Hook massacre, showed a 2% drop in those
who would call for a handgun ban. Support for banning gun ownership has
actually decreased by 8% in the past decade.
Looking deeper into TheBlaze gun
poll:
88% own a gun
75% have owned a gun for more
than a decade and they have more than two guns in their home.
74% think that every home in
America should have a gun.
72% of respondents have taken a
firearms safety class. However, only 37% believe that gun buyers should be
required to pass a basic firearms skills test prior to being sold a weapon.
Again, contrasting with the
results from Gallup, at 88%, TheBlaze readers are twice as likely to own a gun
as the rest of America.
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According to Gallup, the last
time America had more than 50% gun ownership was 1993 (it was 51% that year).
TheBlaze readers seem to be
concerned that gun ownership could be at risk or become much more difficult in
the very near future. Eighty-seven percent said they are “going to or (are)
considering” the purchase of a firearm in the near future.
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Among those taking our poll,
there was also an overwhelming sense that some action by the Obama
administration is inevitable.
91% believe that the President
will use an Executive order to enact a gun ban if Congress will not
89% are worried that gun
confiscation will be attempted before years end
98% say they will not willingly
surrender their firearms if confiscation is ordered
64% have purchase ammunition in
the past three months
45% have purchased a firearm in
the past six months
A sizable number of gun-owning voters
in TheBlaze audience are also very clear on how they plan to deal with
politicians who vote to compromise the Second Amendment.
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That’s a 97% “yes” to one of the
“most-answered” questions in our poll. Members of the House and Senate up for
re-election in the 2014 mid-terms would be wise to take note of voter sentiment
in cases like this.
The survey also showed an
overwhelming lack of interest in any form of government monitoring of firearms
and firearm sales.
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94% do not want gun sales
monitored by the government.
96% also said no thanks to
putting a tracking chip in guns
93% think the Feds do not belong
at gun shows
83% oppose mandatory checkups on
gun licenses like there are for driver’s licenses
76% don’t want gun show sales
monitored by local police or governments
Our survey also confirmed what is
probably expected of a group that strongly supports gun ownership:
99% believe that banning assault
rifles will not prevent violent crime (In a separate question only 6% supported
the reinstatement)
99% also believe that disarming
law-abiding citizens will not reduce violent crime
What we found surprising is that
Gallup’s recent survey on the possibility of reinstating a ban on assault
rifles (taken after the Sandy Hook murders) showed no real increase in popular
support for this action. A majority of America is still against such a ban.
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The massive response to our poll
proved what many on our editorial staff strongly suspected: TheBlaze audience
is filled with staunch defenders of the right to “keep and bear arms.” And that
right is also supported by members of our audience who do not own a gun.
On Tuesday of this week, Vice President Joe Biden is expected to meet with
President Obama and present his suggestions for taking action on access to guns
and the rights of gun owners in America. TheBlaze
has reported that NRA President David Keene does not believe legislation that would ban
assault rifles will pass. Keene is concerned (as are Blaze readers) that Mr.
Obama will use the power of Executive Order to do whatever he wants to do on
guns.
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