| Colorado State University Approves Proposal Outlawing Concealed Carry on Campus |
| Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| As we have reported, the Colorado State University (CSU) System Board of Governors drafted a proposal that would prohibit firearms on all CSU campuses with exemptions for law enforcement, military and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
On Tuesday, February 23, the Board of Governors approved the proposal. The final approved weapons policy can be found at http://csusystem.edu/pages/documents/CSUWeaponsPolicyFinalasof021710.pdf. The Board of Governors drafted the policy knowing that it would violate the Colorado state firearm preemption law and the Colorado Uniform Shall-Issue Concealed Carry Law. Current state law strictly regulates the carry or transport of firearms on schools, colleges and universities. Their vote against concealed carry and self-defense is unfortunate and disappointing. Please contact President Tony Frank TODAY by phone at 970-491-6211 or email presofc@colostate.edu and respectfully voice your disapproval with the Board of Governor’s actions. |
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CSU: Above the law…
February 27, 2010Obama Threatening to Pass Anti-gun Health Care by Cheating
February 26, 2010He’s like a playground bully — on steroids!
According to a recent poll, only 23% of the American people want Congress to pass the anti-gun ObamaCare bill.
And the President’s response to this? He believes Americans are just too stupid to understand what geniuses like him, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are trying to do for us.
So what is Obama’s current plan?
Cheat.
ObamaCare is already the product of fraud, secrecy, bribery, and corruption. But Obama is preparing to ratchet up this corruption to a whole new level.
In 1974, Congress created a special process for balancing the budget. Senators could reduce the deficit with a simple 51 votes in the Senate, rather than getting the 60 needed votes to stop a filibuster. Under the rules, this process — called “reconciliation” — can ONLY be used for balancing the budget.
To repeat, it cannot be used for anything other than reducing the deficit. By contrast, ObamaCare would INCREASE the deficit by at least $500 BILLION.
So what does Obama do (with the help of crooked accountants at the Congressional Budget Office)?
He lies.
He fraudulently pretends the anti-gun ObamaCare legislation would reduce the deficit. And he does this by hiding costs and pretending he’s going to make cuts he never intends to fully implement ($465 billion in Medicare cuts).
And he intends to use this fraud scheme to cram ObamaCare down the throats of the American people against their will.
Americans don’t want the increased taxes and gun control that have been injected into the bill. Remember, Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to claim his legislation fixed the problems that Gun Owners of America had with this legislation.
But in reality, the bill still allows the ATF to troll a health/gun database in order to take away firearms from tens of millions of Americans.
ACTION: Please contact your two senators and your representative. Tell them that using the budget-balancing “reconciliation” process to pass ObamaCare is nothing but cheating.
You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center to send a pre-written message to your legislators.
—– Pre-written letter —–
Dear
ObamaCare is already the product of fraud, secrecy, bribery, and corruption. But Obama is preparing to ratchet up this corruption to a whole new level.
In 1974, Congress created a special process for balancing the budget — with a simple 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the 60 needed to stop a filibuster. Under the rules, this process — called “reconciliation” — can ONLY be used for reducing the deficit.
To repeat, it cannot be used for anything other than reducing the deficit. By contrast, ObamaCare would INCREASE the deficit by at least $500 BILLION.
So what does Obama do (with the help of crooked congressional accountants at the Congressional Budget Office)? He lies. He fraudulently pretends ObamaCare would reduce the deficit. And he does this by hiding costs (the $247 billion “doc fix”) and pretending he’s going to make cuts he never intends to fully implement ($465 billion in Medicare cuts).
This “reconciliation” scheme is nothing more than a fraud on the American people, who, according to every recent poll, oppose ObamaCare by overwhelming majorities.
Understand this: I strongly object to this “cheat scheme.”
Majority Leader Harry Reid has tried to claim his legislation fixed the anti-gun problems in ObamaCare. But in reality, it will still allow the ATF to troll a health/gun database in order to take away firearms from tens of millions of Americans.
Please oppose the use of “reconciliation” to pass ObamaCare.
Sincerely,
Chi Town and Thuggery verses The People of America!
February 26, 2010Back when the Heller vs D.C. ruling came down the masses were thrilled. I warned back then that this battle was far from over, as did Gun Owners of America, The N.R.A. and every other reputable group that supports the Bill of Rights.
The anti Liberty and Freedom crowd find themselves in a precarious position as I see it. They are claiming that local rule should prevail. That sounds a lot like a Tenth Amendment argument to me. In other words, they are talking out of both sides of their faces. Incorporation either works for everything or the entire theory falls apart at the seams.
The same people are also using the old, tired, and utterly stupid argument that firearms kill people. They don’t, people kill people.
Should Otis McDonald prevail I submit that while it would be a major step forward in the cause of Liberty and Freedom the battle will still be far from over. The Supreme Court has, after all affirmed that ex post facto law is not un-Constitutional which is beyond comprehension. If, in fact there is a “win.” You can bet that there will be wiggle room left for the purveyors of despotism to impose their agenda upon the unwashed that are the people that they Laird it over.
ANTI-GUN POLICE UNION …
February 24, 2010No, I refuse to drink the Kool Aid, this is not at all about “officer safety” it is about power and control. It is about the taking of Freedoms and Liberty from the American people, not just the people of Wyoming!
When Constitutional Carry Legislation is brought forth like HB-113 the ANTI-GUN POLICE UNION begins to lobby the legislature with the mantra “we just want to keep our officers safe” as if somehow law abiding citizens are the threat. The legislators even treat these lobbyists as an authority, forgetting the duty to represent the people and protect their “Second Amendment Rights” guaranteed to them by the Constitution.
The Venomous Union will stop at nothing, even performing background checks on law abiding gun rights advocates. These tactics don’t belong in Wyoming, it’s time the ANTI-GUN POLICE UNION stops lumping “Law abiding citizens” in with the COP KILLERS!
Here’s the truth about the COP KILLERS – they are Career Criminals!
The following is a summary of “Cop Killer Profiles” from the 2008 FBI Summaries of Officers Feloniously Killed. To see report click here
Of course none were in Alaska, Vermont or Wyoming…the following reveals the profile of the Cop Killers that don’t care what the law is.
Arizona
1. The 25-year-old suspect had a prior criminal record and was known to use drugs.
2. The 42-year-old a known drug dealer, was arrested in Mexico and at the time of this publication, was still in custody there for unrelated smuggling charges and was awaiting extradition to the United States to face trial in this case.
California
1. The man had a prior criminal record including weapons violations and was a known user of narcotics.
2. Call that became a tactical situation…at a beauty shop where an employee’s ex-husband had broken the front window to gain entrance and was making threats and displaying a weapon
3. The man, who was on parole at the time of the incident and who had a prior criminal record that included violent crime, drugs, police assault, and weapons violations…
Florida
1. The man had a prior criminal record that included violent crime, drugs, and weapons violations.
2. The man had suffered some mental problems…His family had attempted twice on the previous day to have him involuntarily placed under psychiatric observation, but he had left the hospital twice on his own. He had proven to be verbally abusive and uncooperative to law enforcement and hospital staff involved in both episodes…the man’s brother was waiting in a pickup truck at the house. He informed the deputies he and his companion could hear his brother moving about in the house and that his brother had a shotgun in his possession.
Georgia
1. A 26-year-old male…Probation Violation, and Marijuana Possession.
Illinois
1. The 44-year-old offender, who was a known drug user with prior mental disorders.
2. The 37-year-old suspect, who had prior convictions for violent crimes, drugs, and weapons violations.
3. The 41-year-old offender, who had a prior criminal record that included violent crime and weapons violations.
Kentucky
1. The 17-year-old assailant, who had a prior criminal record
Louisiana
1. The 41-year-old suspect, who had a long list of prior offenses, including murder.
2. The 44-year-old suspect, who had a prior criminal record including violent crime.
Maryland
1. Vehiclular Homicide – The driver…struck the victim sergeant, and dragged him over 200 feet before fleeing the scene.
Michigan
1. 16-year-old assailant, who had a prior criminal record and was on conditional release at the time of the incident.
Missouri
1. The suspect, who had a prior criminal record that included violent crime.
2. The 41-year-old man, known to the police as a drug dealer and user with prior convictions.
North Carolina
1. The 37-year-old man, who was a known drug user and who had a prior criminal record that included arrests for drugs, police assault, and weapons violations.
2. Domestic dispute between a man and a woman. The woman was still inside the residence with three children, but the man had left the home, possibly armed…Following a 5-day manhunt, the 32-year-old suspect was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Ohio
1. Observed what appeared to be a drug transaction taking place between a man in a vehicle and a man in front of an abandoned house.
2. [Police Officer] was fatally shot while he was attempting to make an arrest…Officers located a 26-year-old suspect, who still had one handcuff on his wrist.
Oregon
1. 32-year-old suspect…The man had a criminal record with prior convictions, probation, and parole. a 57-year-old male was also arrested in connection with the case and charged with six counts of Aggravated Murder, two counts of Attempted Murder, First-Degree Assault, and Possession of Explosive Device.
Pennsylvania
1. The 34-year-old offender, who had a prior criminal record for violent crime.
2. The 27-year-old offender was wanted at the time of the incident for aggravated assault and parole violation, and he had an extensive criminal record of violent crime, police assault, and weapons violations.
3. The 40-year-old woman was arrested and charged with Murder of a Federal Agent, Assault by Use of a Dangerous Weapon, Use of a Firearm in a Crime of Violence, Aiding the Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Drug Conspiracy, Possession with Intent to Deliver More than 50 Grams of Cocaine Base, Possession with Intent to Deliver Cocaine, and Possession of a Firearm While Using Unlawful Controlled Substances. She was known to use, deal, and possess drugs, and she was under the influence of narcotics at the time of the incident.
South Carolina
1. Burglary in progress – The burglars fled the area before additional deputies arrived. In the ensuing investigation, officers arrested two suspects on September 5. The first suspect, a 19-year-old male with a prior criminal history, was charged with Murder, 4 counts of First-Degree Burglary, and 1 count of Second-Degree Burglary. The second suspect, an 18-year-old male who was on probation at the time of the incident, was also charged with Murder, 3 counts of First-Degree Burglary, and Second-Degree Burglary.
2. 41-year-old…had prior convictions for violent crime, was under the influence of narcotics and was on conditional release at the time of the incident.
Tennessee
1. While serving an individual with a warrant for a misdemeanor violation of probation….The suspect was on probation at the time of the incident and had prior convictions for drugs.
Texas
1. While handling a prisoner…The individual was able to open the sliding partition between the front and rear seats and retrieve the corporal’s backup weapon, a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun, from the front seat.
2. The 28-year-old suspect, who had a long criminal history including arrests for police assault, violent crime, and drugs.
3. The 37-year-old suspect had an extensive list of prior convictions and was on parole. He was also known to use and possess drugs and was under the influence of narcotics.
Virginia
1. In the serving of a search warrant at the home of a suspect…28-year-old man who had a prior criminal record involving drugs.
2. Felony traffic stop – a citizen reported that her former companion had been in the stairwell of her apartment building with a gun… An alert was issued and his vehicle was located in a nearby shopping center. When police approached, the man fled in his vehicle and headed directly to the apartment complex where the complainant lived.
3. Undercover narcotics sting – 23-year-old male who was under supervision/conditional release.
Washington
1. 28-year-old assailant, who had a previous criminal history that included violent crime and drug violations.
2. While investigating a suspicious person…The dispatcher advised the officer that the man was a convicted felon, had a temporary protection order and a no contact order placed against him, and that he was on parole…The deputies shot and killed the 36-year-old suspect. Further investigation revealed that the suspect had also killed a second victim, a recently retired correctional officer who was shot to death and whose vehicle was found at the store where deputies had killed the suspect.
Note: One officer killing was not in the original report and this profile summary reflects the killers not the number of officers killed.
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Wyoming 113 passes out of the House
February 24, 2010Yes, someday,I suppose that I will understand the concept of needing some sort of permit or license in order to practice an inalienable right. But, in the meantime this old retired Paramedic simply cannot find the logic embedded in such ideology. This, however, a step in the right direction.
There was a bit of whining by some state legislators about the email strategy employed by WYGO activist (Yes, I am a member, and yes, this blog got a ton of hits when I posted about it.) when, as a point of fact, it is indeed our right, if not our duty, to keep our representatives informed about those issues that we hold dear. Not to mention that it appears,at least so far, to have been a stunning success.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The Wyoming House has advanced a bill that would allow residents to carry concealed guns without a permit provided that they can demonstrate they’re familiar with firearms.
The House voted 42-15 on Monday to send House Bill 113 to the Senate.
The House amended the bill to specify that citizens would have to demonstrate their familiarity with guns by passing a certified firearms safety course or have a background of military or police service.
Thermopolis Republican Rep. Lorraine Quarberg says Wyoming residents have a constitutional right to carry guns without government permission.
It seems that there was at least some oppisition from the fella that represents the area to my immediate north. Talk about political pandering… The same way that residency is established for everything else attention whore…
IMPORTANT UPDATE JUST IN! Hat Tip to Anthony Bouchard
HB-95 has passed the House and is moving to the Senate.
HB-113 is also moving to the Senate – but has taken a turn for the worst, 31 House members “WATERED DOWN” the legislation with vague language to require training. The “Anti-gun Police Union Lobby” has influenced the legislators to add an onslaught of amendments to kill HB-113 and history tells us they will continue to do so in the Senate. Legislators should realize the “Venomous Anti-gun Lobby” has not been elected by the people!!! To see the amendments click here
For the record — A review of recent FBI reports of police officer killings reafirms that, police officers are killed by “FELONS AND REPEAT OFFENDERS”. Also many of the deaths were caused directly by the police officers actions, like one in which the officer left his back-up firearm within the reach of a suspect.
We are on to them and will be watching if Wyoming Legislators continue to fall for the same ridiculous arguments against “law abiding” citizens rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.
This watering down of legislation will be considered as a NO VOTE on pro-gun legislation and will have grave consequences in the upcoming elections.
URGENT – It is imperative that they “CONTINUE TO HEAR YOUR VOICE”.
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Crazed coon, PETA, and yet another example of stupid is as stupid does…
February 20, 2010Well, those folks over at PETA, you know, the ones that kill animals that are in their “protection” wholesale? They have their panties all wadded up because someone actually had the unmitigated gall to defend home and hearth from a potentially deadly critter that was not acting normally in any way.
With all the great advances in medicine Hydrophobia, is still a scourge that even obamacare couldn’t handle on it’s best day.
Among other things, U.S. Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) is a responsible citizen, a family man, a firearm owner, and is staunchly pro-gun. He also has a Twitter account from which he “tweets” fairly regularly.
According to a February 16, blog-post on Sioux City Journal.com, Rep. King recently tweeted the following during a snow storm he was riding out in his rural, western Iowa home: “Mid day, mid blizzard, 15 degrees, Crazy Raccoon chewing and clawing his way into my house. Desert Eagle 1, Crazy Raccoon zero.”
Apparently the home-destroying–and potentially rabid–raccoon had been attempting to enter the King’s home for several days. The blog post noted that King not only feared the raccoon might be rabid, but that King’s granddaughters often played in the area where the attempted “break-in” occurred.
So King did what most reasonable, self-reliant, self-preserving people in his situation would do: he shot the raccoon.
Enter People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the radical and increasingly irrelevant animal “rights” group who, predictably, criticized King for his action.
King should not have dispatched “a small animal seeking warmth in another blizzard,” said PETA spokesman Jaime Zalac.
A normally nocturnal wild animal that is known to be a frequent carrier of rabies, attempting to gain entry into your home in the middle of the day–and destroying your property in the process–is certainly just cause for concern. And the desire and will to protect your family, home, and self by dispatching the wild animal before it can do more harm would certainly be considered reasonable by most.
Unless, of course, you’re PETA. In that case, you place the welfare of a destructive animal that could potentially be carrying a fatal disease and is trying to gnaw its way into a home, above the welfare of the home’s human residents.
Bill O’Reilly a whackjob fake conservative…
February 20, 2010Anyone that has followed the antics of Bill O’Reilly for any appreciable amount of time knows that at best he is a Neo Con, not a true Conservative. I won’t bother going into all the various positions he has held over time that convinces me of that.
What real Conservative would advocate taking away, by government force no less, any persons ability to properly and effectively defend themselves and what is theirs than during times of extreme upheaval?
I’ll give the man kudos for his work on crimes against children, but other than that? He is yet another example of broken clock politics…
As we have often reported, in the wake of the illegal gun confiscations in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, NRA focused its attention on legislation to amend existing emergency-powers statutes to guarantee that local authorities never again attempt the confiscation of lawfully owned firearms during states of emergency.
As you know, following Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans residents legally armed themselves to protect their lives and property from civil disorder. With no way to call for help, and police unable to respond, lawful citizens were able to defend themselves and their neighbors against looters, arsonists and other criminals.
However, just when these people needed their guns for self-protection the most, New Orleans’s Police Superintendent ordered the confiscation of firearms, allegedly under a state emergency-powers law. Fortunately, an NRA lawsuit brought an end to the seizures, and subsequent NRA-backed legislation ensured the gun confiscation travesty would not repeat itself.
Unfortunately, many states have “emergency powers” laws that give the government permission to suspend or limit gun sales, and to prohibit or restrict citizens from transporting or carrying firearms. In some states, authorities are authorized to seize guns outright from citizens who’ve committed no crime, and who would then be defenseless against disorder.
Within the past few weeks, a state of emergency was declared in King, North Carolina following a relatively heavy snowstorm. As a result of the emergency declaration, local residents were banned from carrying firearms in their vehicles.
Entering into the fray this week was Bill O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor, on Fox News.
In a February 18, interview that discussed, in part, the confiscation of legally-owned guns during a declared state of emergency (as was the case in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina), O’Reilly affirmed his support of such confiscations.
When it was explained to O’Reilly that whether or not there’s a state of emergency, it’s still unconstitutional to confiscate lawfully-owned guns from honest citizens wanting to defend themselves, the Fox talking head retorts, “That’s a pretty extreme position.”
Perhaps in your opinion, Bill. But for most law-abiding Americans, the notion that the government can suspend the Constitution and leave citizens without the most effective means of self-defense just because of a snowstorm or hurricane — well, that would qualify as an extreme position.
Of course, no one condones the mindless violence of those who would loot a helpless city, or shoot at rescue workers. But one reason for the citizens to retain a legal right to arms, is precisely because the government has no legal duty to protect them. Legislative bodies can, and should, act to protect the self-defense rights of citizens at the times when those rights are most important.
NRA-ILA was instrumental in passing H.R. 5013–the “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act,”–federal legislation to protect gun owners’ rights during emergencies. And we continue to fight for state legislation to do the same. NRA-ILA has successfully passed Emergency Powers legislation in 28 states since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and we will not rest until we reform all emergency powers laws to prohibit these types of arbitrary attacks on Second Amendment rights.
And yes, regular readers know that I think pretty much the same thing about the NRA…
FAUX POLLS: Bloomberg strikes out against Gun Owners yet again!
February 20, 2010Every since back in college during a Poly Sci class we were shown how to skew polls I have not been a big believer in them. Unless of course, it is something along the lines of obamacare with huge demonstrations by grass root people responding to some action that they are just plain dead set against. Well, the straw sale felon of New York City is getting his comeuppance…
On Dec. 11, 2009, we noted that a poll paid for by anti-gun politician-activist Michael Bloomberg, claiming to show that NRA members support gun control, was conducted by a pollster who has been reprimanded and censured by two professional polling organizations, and who (of course) doesn’t have access to NRA’s confidential member list.
Since then, gun control supporters have cited the poll in numerous newspaper editorials, opinion columns, and letters to editors, all attacking NRA’s opposition to gun control. Recently, however, Bloomberg’s pollster, Frank Luntz, admitted how he gets polls to turn out the way his employers want. In a “Penn and Teller” interview posted on YouTube, Luntz says, “The key in survey research is to ask questions that people care about the answers [sic], and to ask the question in a way that you get the right answer.” He added, “[W]ith just a single change of wording, you’ll get a very different reaction in terms of how they think and how they feel.”
Thanks, Frank, for making it easier for us to write letters to newspapers pointing out why no one should take your “poll of NRA members” seriously.
WYOMING: More on HB 113
February 15, 2010Emails stating an uncompromising support of HB-95 have been flooding in.
The good news…
Representative Keith Gingery (House Judicial Chairman) has contacted me and said he is working out the scheduling and would hear HB-95 as early as Tuesday, as soon as the scheduling conflicts are addressed Representative Gingery will let us know so YOU can be there during committee to voice your support for HB-95.
I am pleased by this Gentleman’s Overture by Representative Gingery. Please be watching your email for an email titled “HB-95 Committee Time”.
Many of you live a considerable distance from the Capitol and may want to consider emailing a “more formal” letter before Tuesday morning to the committee members.
For your convenience we have a NEW form “HB-95 Letter of Support” that will send your letter to all members of the Judiciary Committee and Speaker of the House Colin Simpson.
Cc:”Representative Allen Jaggi”, “Representative David Miller”.
Send a formal letter form click here
HB-95 comparison chart Click here
To see HB-95 or HB-28
In addition to Representative Simpson hearing your voice, we also hope that Representative David Miller will withdraw HB-28 and turn his personal support to HB-95.
Your letter will also be sent to me so I can have them in hand at committee.
Please send your letter Today!
Remember to be polite and to the point, your legislators will appreciate you for it.
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Important Alert — HB-113 Concealed weapon authority – needs amending!!!
Concerns are brewing (back door gun registration – illegal search and seizure) about the following clause in HB-113 and we recommend it’s removal. A similar section in Alaska is being abused daily, it is a Fourth and Fifth Amendment violation.
Watch this video it will alarm you: http://wyominggunowners.org/videos/alaska-carry-legislation-beware/
HB-113 page 3 Click here
W.S. 6-8-104(b)
(b) Whenever a person carrying a concealed deadly
weapon under this section is stopped, detained, questioned
or addressed in person by a peace officer, he shall, upon
request, inform the peace officer that he is carrying a
concealed deadly weapon under this section. The peace
officer may secure the concealed deadly weapon, or direct
that it be secured, during the duration of the contact
between the person and the peace officer if the peace
officer determines that the action is necessary for the
safety of any person present, including the peace officer
Arizona has similar legislation however without this dangerous clause. Wyoming Legislators need to follow the constitution.
In the words of Larry Pratt, “When we politically compromise and allow anti-gun legislation to pass, no matter how insignificant it may appear to be, we have abdicated our responsibilities. Abdication is the work for surrendering our principles legislatively. Honor binds us to resist with all our might.”
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