Category: Gun Control

CCRKBA Blasts Florida Sheriff Over Remarks About Armed Citizens

BELLEVUE, WA – Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri should apologize and walk back his unconscionable remarks about how legally-armed citizens would be “thrown down on the ground with a gun pointed at them” at a crime scene, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

“We are simply astonished at the abrasive attitude reflected by Sheriff Gualtieri’s comments,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “The sheriff has opposed open carry legislation, which the Florida Police Chiefs Association supports, but threatening lawfully-armed private citizens with physical abuse because they might have the misfortune to end up in the middle of an armed robbery or some other felony crime is unconscionable.

“If this guy can’t tell the difference between an armed law-abiding citizen and some criminal,” he added, “maybe he ought to pursue a different career. We know of hundreds of lawmen and women who have encountered armed citizens at crime scenes, and this is the first time we’ve ever heard of a sheriff whose first thought is to throw someone to the ground at gunpoint.”

Sheriff Gualtieri was quoted by the News Service of Florida yesterday, asserting that if an officer arrives at a crime scene and encounters an armed citizen, “At a minimum, they’re going to be thrown down on the ground with a gun pointed at them – or worse.” Read more

Gun Control, Self Defense

California Gov. Brown blasts Arizona, Nevada gun laws

In wake of the San Bernardino massacre which left 14 dead earlier this week, California Gov. Jerry Brown went on the attack Saturday slamming neighboring states’ gun laws.

Brown told the Sacramento Bee that Nevada and Arizona are a “gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk.”

Hold on there, Moonbeam.  Were not the firearms used in the mass murder attack obtained legally in California?  Oh, yes.  And, were the criminals violating the gun-free zone laws, as well?  And, isn’t murder illegal?

Forget it.  Just shift the blame and feed us some more poison.

Firearms, Gun Control

Call Your Senators Now. Tell Them to Vote NO

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has learned that anti-gun U.S. Senators are expected to bring up a vote at ANY MINUTE this afternoon on the previously defeated Manchin-Toomey “universal background check” amendment as well as an amendment expanding the prohibited persons list to anyone unknowingly placed on a secret, error-prone government list, the so called “terrorist watch list.”

Call your senators at 202-224-3121 as soon as you can and urge them to vote NO on both amendments.

Gun Control

Armed Citizens Deter Terrorist Attacks In Detroit, Police Chief Says

By Christy Strawser

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) More guns, fewer problems. That, at least, is Detroit Police Chief’s James Craig’s view of Detroit and fears about a possible terrorist attack.

While cities around the world are on heightened alert following a devastating ISIS attack in Paris, Detroit’s police chief says he believes the fear that armed citizens would return fire serves as a deterrent for a potential terrorist attack in the rust belt city.

More here…

Gun Control

Bowling Green State University Professor Labels NRA “Murderous Terrorist Organization” and “Threat to National Security”

COLUMBUS, OH – A public records request has revealed that Dr. James E. Evans, a professor of geology at the Bowling Green State University (BGSU), considers the National Rifle Association (NRA), which is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, to be “a murderous terrorist organization that is a threat to national security.”

The claim came in an email sent by Evans to Rep. Tim Brown (R-Bowling Green), demanding that Rep. Brown vote against House Bill 48, a bill which seeks to make several critical changes to Ohio firearms laws, including allowing colleges and universities the same right that Ohio’s primary and secondary schools already have – the right to choose whether or not to allow concealed carry on their property.

The bill was passed out of the House last week on a 68-29 vote, and awaits attention in the Senate. Read more

Gun Control

News Flash: Hillary Clinton Locks Up The Gun-Grabber Vote

On Thursday night, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence honored Hillary Clinton with the first ever Cuomo Visionary Award, named after the late New York Governor Mario Cuomo. The Brady Center gave her the award because “she has demonstrated a clear commitment in support of our efforts to ‘finish the job’” for the gun control and, “there is nobody who has done more to lead us there than Hillary Clinton.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/20/hillary-clinton-locks-up-the-gun-grabber-vote/#ixzz3syBuk3cA

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