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The Colorado Legislature is in session.  On Monday, the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee killed SB 25, the senate version of concealed carry without a permit, on a party line vote.  Democrats voted to kill the bill. Republicans voted to enact it.

HB 1088, the bill to allow business owners, managers, employees, and occupants of dwellings to use deadly force against criminal, violent, or potentially violent intruders will be up for hearing the afternoon of February 2nd in the House Judiciary Committee.  (Check the House Calendar for the time and the room number.)  (Legislature Home Page here.)

HB 1064, the bill to limit the state’s authority to strip honest citizens of their Second Amendment rights during a declared emergency, will be up for hearing the afternoon of February 9th in the House Judiciary Committee.

Please contact your state senator and representative in support of these bills.  If you come down to testify, dress in a suit or sport coat and tie.  You will have to pass through a metal detector to get into the “People’s House.”  No cammo.  No firearms.  No multi-tools.  No pocket knives with blades longer than 3 inches.  (That’s a conservative take on Colorado law.)  (Keep in mind, I’m not a lawyer and this isn’t  legal advice.)  Firearms Coalition of Colorado activists will be in the lobby around noon, if you want to communicate before the hearing.

If you testify, be polite.  Double check your facts.  You will have three minutes.  The committee will likely be friendly.  The Republicans control the House.  If you voted Democrat in the last election, slap yourself a couple of times.  These bills will have a much tougher time in the State Senate, which is run by the other major political party.

Get out and campaign for the most electable, most pro-Second Amendment candidate that belongs to a major political party.  “Party trumps person,” as Mike Rosen so aptly put it.  Remember that a third party vote or a protest vote is a wasted vote.  Obama needs just one more appointment to the US Supreme Court to gut the Second Amendment.  If you don’t get out and work to keep your right to own a gun, you will lose it.  Think I’m kidding?  Check the status of handgun ownership in Great Britain.  That’s what the liberals want to do to us.

Def Mech

Just as they did in Vietnam, the Democrats have cut and run in Iraq, betraying a people that this country had pledged to help.  What foreign nationals will, in the future, trust to any promise of aid and support from the United States, knowing that the American Left will probably abandon them to their enemies at the first opportunity?

 The so-called “Arab Spring” threatens to deteriorate into a hard line “Jihadist Renaissance” that will threaten Israel and vital US interests in the Middle East.  With Iranian silkworm and other anti-ship missiles deployed  around the strait of Hormuz and a resurgent Muslim Brotherhood poised to have increased influence over, and perhaps control of, the Suez Canal, the situation looks grave.  Oh, we don’t want to forget the impending emergence of Iran as a nuclear power and a possible nuclear arms race in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

How about the fact that the Chinese and Japanese are going to dump the dollar in their international trade activities and use their own currencies?  Europe totters on the edge of economic collapse and the Democrats want to increase US spending to make this country into the image of the European Socialist Democracies!

From a foreign policy standpoint alone, the current administration is a disaster.   We have a president who stifles domestic oil exploration, but encourages the US to become a customer of Brazil’s offshore oil industry, which we are helping to subsidize.  I couldn’t make this stuff up, if I tried.

Operation Fast and Furious was “supposed” to track US guns smuggled across the Mexican Border, but there was no tracking component to the plan!  Over 2,000 weapons “walked” south into the hands of the drug cartels.

The Mainstream Media continues to shill for the Radical Left.  Many of your neighbors don’t know the Conservative side of any issue, because they have never been exposed to it.  American colleges and universities continue to be bastions of Marxism, turning out left-wing teachers, lawyers, and journalists.

Occupy Wall Street and its pernicious offshoots continue to fester like rotting corpses in cities across America.  They want to destroy Capitalism and replace it with “something else.”  That has worked so well in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and Cambodia.  Speaking of rotting corpses…

Obamacare has reached the Supreme Court.  If the US Government can force you to buy health care insurance, what can they not force you to do?

There may still be time to save this country.  Contribute to, campaign for, and vote for the most electable conservative Republican candidate that you can find at  any level of government.  Avoid third party candidates like the plague.

The economy, if left alone, will heal itself.  Adult supervision of American Foreign Policy may yet bring the planet back to a relatively sane course for the future.

Pay attention to politics this year, because the politicians are going to pay attention to you!  Remember, if Obama is re-elected, he can probably change the ideological orientation of the US Supreme Court for the next two decades.  If that happens, you can bid farewell to your right to armed self-defense.

Def Mech

I believe that the United States will look back with sadness, because President Barack Obama failed to renegotiate the Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq and pulled out US troops.  In effect, we are throwing away what positive effects were purchased by years of blood and treasure, as we did in Vietnam, when the Democrats cut and ran in 1975.  I predict that Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq will fall under theocratic Islamic rule and that we will be fighting jihadists in the streets of America, rather than in the Middle East.  I hope that I am wrong, but the current course of affairs looks like a huge train wreck in the making.

Def Mech

HR 822, the bill to create concealed carry reciprocity among all states that have a CCW permit system is coming up on Tuesday in the US House of Representatives after passing out of the House Judiciary Committee.  This bill is clean, despite what you may have heard from some “ideologically pure” pro rights organizations. 

The bill will have a hard fight in the Senate, because of anti-Second Amendment senators like Schumer and Feinstein, but we need to push for passage of this legislation.  The right to armed self-defense is always either advancing or retreating.  This bill is a step in the right direction.

HR 822 has anti-gun groups like the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center spinning like dervishes.  Please contact your US Representative to support this legislation.

Def Mech

Was Fast and Furious simply “felony stupid,” as one congressman put it?  Who plans to “track” contraband across a border into a foreign country without providing a means to track it?  The most charitable interpretation of what happened to more than 2,000 firearms is that they were allowed to pass into Mexico without a plan.  Maybe the “plan” was that the guns would be found at crime scenes and then traced back to the United States by their serial numbers.  There doesn’t seem to have been any organized attempt to use electronic tracking devices.

But, wasn’t the tracking supposed to go the other way?  Weren’t the trails supposed to lead somehow to the leaders of the Mexican Drug Cartels?  If that was the case, wouldn’t it have made sense for the agencies running Fast and Furious to notify the Mexican Government that the guns were coming?  Oops!  I knew that we forgot something!

The least charitable interpretation of the fiasco is that the Obama Justice Department intended Fast and Furious to be a stalking horse for more US gun control by providing firearms to Mexico that could be readily traced back to American gun stores.  In any case, Fast and Furious was not a good example of how US tax dollars should be spent.   

Fast and Furious denials are streaming out of the Justice Department, but questions remain.  How high does this scandal go in the administration?  Who knew or should have known?  When did high-level officials know about the debacle and what did they do about it?

The whistle-blowers seem to have been field agents, who were appalled at the instructions they were given to let the guns “walk” across the border with no way to track them.  Is the BATFE just a rogue agency, or does this operation reflect a larger plan on the part of the Obama Administration to disarm American citizens? 

So far, it seems that a few mid-level officials have been transferred, but no one has been fired.  It must be nice to have a solid, well-paying, secure job with the Federal Government in this economy.  I see the DOW is down again and unemployment is still over 9 percent..

Just Sayin’

Def Mech

The riots in great Britain “prove” once again how much more sophisticated and urbane our British cousins really are, when compared with us somewhat uncouth Americans.  The rioters in England burned down a police station and did untold damage to businesses and automobiles.  How did the British authorities react.  They threatened to use water cannons and plastic bullets!  Oooh!  Scary!  That will show those nasty rioters that uncivil disobedience is something ”up with which the government will not put! ” (Apologies to Churchill)  See Mark Steyn’s post here on his observations regarding the British mayhem.

You would think that the rioters would be more genteel.  After all it is Great Britain, the model for American Liberal Thought on issues such as gun control.  How dare those hooligans disturb the civil order!  How dare they spit in the face of the nanny state?  Oh!  Right!  Nanny is threatening to cut their benefits, because Nanny is running out of “other peoples’ money.”  (Apologies to Thatcher)  France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, and most famously, Greece are having serious money problems.

You would think that the Obama Administration would pay attention to the economic woes of Europe that were brought on by spending too much of “other peoples’ money.”  However, administration operatives  seem to be more focused on keeping the lid on the Fast and Furious Scandal.  I mean, why worry about government spending when you are facilitating gun smuggling into a neighboring country.

The Mainstream Media has been beating the propaganda drum with “American guns are fueling violence in Mexico.”  Duh!  Fast and Furious went awry, when the BATFE forgot to track the more than 2,000 guns that our government helped smuggle across the boarder.  Oops!

By the way, guns are virtually banned in Mexico by their government.  The drug cartels didn’t seem to get the memo.  Cross boarder smuggling and black markets are predictable results, when well meaning do gooders and bureaucrats take on the burden of deciding how other people should behave.  US Prohibition encouraged criminal activity, created widespread disregard for law and order, and corrupted law enforcement agencies.  Now, the US Government has been ”helping” Mexico with their “gun violence” problem by abetting gun runners.

“Curiouser and curiouser.”  (Apologies to Carroll)  For those of you recently educated in American public schools and universities, the above rant is heavily laced with sarcasm.  You can Google Churchill, Thatcher, and Carroll, since your teachers probably didn’t bother to mention them.

Def Mech

Data from the US Government seems to support the theory that civilian gun ownership has a negative correlation with crime rates.  See the NRA-ILA post here.  Interestingly enough, those places with the most restrictive gun laws did not seem to benefit from the general drop in the crime rate, resulting in more support for the notion that gun control not only doesn’t work, it has a positive correlation with increased crime rates.  Check John Lott’s Website here.

Watch the anti-gun organizations try to spin this statistic like a dimestore top.  (For you younger folks, a dimestore was a place where you could buy stuff for ten cents.)  Keep up the good fight!  The truth shall set you free!

Def Mech

Every so often, I come across quotations that “fit,” that form for me what psychologist Fritz Perls called a “Gestalt.”  The pieces come together and make sense, forming the “figure/ground” idea that results in the “Ah ha!” reaction.  This is often embarrassing, because what just came together for me may have been common knowledge among other people for a long time.

This is one of those cases.  I have known for years that liberals seem to believe that they are superior thinkers.  They (the liberals) really appear to perceive that it is their duty to lead the rest of us poor, dumb schmucks out of the swamp of human misery, before we hurt ourselves, kill everyone around us, and destroy the planet. The French have a term for it, “Noblesse Oblige.”  (“Nobility entails obligations” would be a close translation.)

Liberals tend to admire the French.  They (the French) are so sophisticated, unlike us simple-minded, violent, racist, gun-loving, religion-clinging, xenophobic, red staters, who voted against “The Chosen One.”

As Nancy Pelosi said about health care, “We have to pass the bill so you can see what’s in it…”  This is the quintessential “nanny state” attitude that “mommy knows best.” “Because I’m the mommy, that’s why.” “Just shut up and sit down!”

This certainty of knowing what is right comes out in Noam Chomsky’s statement that “Even to enter into the area of debate on whether the Nazis carried out such atrocities (the Holocaust) is already to lose one’s humanity.”  (I have no doubt that the Holocaust occurred and that it was one of the most horrible acts ever perpetrated by a tyrannical government.  However, I question the morality and practicality of declining to debate the issue, because of a fear of losing my capacity to appreciate or engage in kindness, mercy, or sympathy.) 

In my experience, conservatives are much more willing to debate issues than are liberals.  Conservatives tend to look at the best available facts and try to come to reasonable conclusions.  Many liberals bring strong preconceptions to any discussion and often engage in  knee-jerk ad hominem attacks to open their remarks, as though conservatives are less than human, or less than humane, for daring to hold opposing views. 

According to hard core liberals, Gun control is correct and humane, even when it deprives honest individuals of the ability to protect themselves.  Abortion is fine, even when it takes life from an unborn child that could have survived outside the womb.  Capitalism is abhorrent, even though it has provided more goods and services to more people than any other economic system.  Diversity is wonderful, unless it includes conservative thought or white males.  “Birthers” are stupid, ignorant racists of the worst kind.  How dare they question the Nativity Story of the Chosen One?  Wind energy is wonderful (in spite of the fact that turbine blades chop down thousands of birds every year.)  (Oh, yes. We can’t have turbines off Cape Cod, where the Kennedys might have to look at them.”)

Oil drilling is bad, unless it is off the coast of Brazil and we are paying for it.  Nuclear power is horrific, unless it’s in France.  Then, it is so European!  (Don’t you just love the European socialist democracies?)  Christianity is a stupid religion, but the religions of all pre-industrial societies are somehow intuitively beautiful, natural and spiritual.  Israel must return to pre-1967 borders with unspecified “mutually agreed upon land swaps.”  You get the idea.  Just debating ideas is immoral in the liberal mind, because they “know” what is moral and socially just.

Global warming is real.  Just because scientists who support it have cooked data and left out inconvenient historical periods that don’t fit the theory, there is no reason to doubt their conclusions.  Oh. Wait.  It isn’t “global warming” any more.  It’s “climate change.”  When the “common” people figure out the shell game, the liberals change their aliases and move on down the street.

I talk to a lot of conservatives who are confused by progressive thought processes.  Why do liberals believe the things they believe with a fervor worthy of the most rabid religious fanatics?  One explanation is the educational system, which I believe was co-opted in the mid 20^th Century by the Marxist “Long March through Institutions.”  Left wing teachers and professors took over the schools.  Maybe I’m just a paranoid, right wing, whack job, gun nut, reactionary, bigoted hater.  By the way, what happened to civil discourse that President Obama was going to bring to America with his “hope and change thingy?”

I read an article by Mike Rosen (one of “those” people) in the Denver Post.  The piece, “The opposite of activism,” quotes Thomas Sowell quoting the progressive Harvard Law School Dean, Ezra Pound, on the “living constitution.”  Pound, about a hundred years ago, wanted the law “in the hands of a progressive and enlightened caste whose conceptions are in advance of the public.”  Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wanted a change “from legal justice to social justice.”

The Rosen article caused me to reach back in time to my college days, when I read a book by a psychologist, Abraham Maslow, entitled, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.  Maslow wrote, in a section captioned “The good Specimen as the Chooser for the Whole Species,” the following:

“…the healthiest people (or the most creative, or the strongest, or the wisest, … can be used as… advance scouts, or more sensitive perceivers, to tell us less sensitive ones what it is that we value…  If I get out of the way and do not intrude upon the superior perceivers, I can confidently predict that what they like immediately, I will slowly get to like in perhaps a month or two.  It is as if they were I, only more sensitized… with less doubt, confusion and uncertainty.  I can use them… as my experts…” (1)

Ah ha!  All we have to do is to rely upon our “progressive and enlightened caste” and our “more sensitive perceivers.”  Liberal leaders are the “enlightened ones!”  They are the “philosopher kings” from Plato’s Republic.  They are the “more sensitive perceivers.”  All we have to do is “get out of the way.”  We must not “intrude.”  We have to let them “pass the bill,” so that we can see what a marvelous “progressive” future they have in store for those of us who make up “the great unwashed.”

We don’t need to think about the more than thirty businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s House District that got waivers exempting them from the onerous insurance provisions of Obamacare.  We don’t need to think about Orwell’s warning in Animal Farm that “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”  We just need to learn “to love Big Brother.”  (Read 1984.)

We don’t need to think about Thomas Jefferson’s quotation.  “Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.  Can he then, be trusted with the government of others?  Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?” (2)

Here’s another quote from Jefferson that we don’t need to remember.  “Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: …Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. …  Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests.  In every country these two parties exist; and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.” (3)

The leading Democrats, liberals, progressives, or whatever they are calling themselves this week have declared themselves to be the party of the “enlightened class,” the party of the “more sensitive perceivers.”  For all their prattle about being the party of the working class and protectors of the poor, they really do seem to believe that they, and only they, have the brainpower, sensitivity and compassion to save us from ourselves and to save the planet from grasping, gouging, greedy, American capitalism.

There is, however, that tendency in the liberal mindset to want to be led, to be part of the herd, to have someone else make decisions.  This inner conflict might explain the liberal infatuation with personality cults.  This hero worship protects iconic progressive leaders from most criticism of even their most egregious personal and political failures.  Kennedy’s and Clinton’s sexual affairs were well known and would have crippled a conservative politician.  The two liberals were barely inconvenienced.

Thomas Henry Huxley, a Nineteenth Century liberal, expressed the desire to be led in the following way.  “If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” (4)

Of course, liberals are free to be turned into clocks and wound up.  The problem lies in the fact that they also want to turn others into automatons.  This desire for control, I believe, was the root of the Russian Communists’ drive to create the “New Soviet Man.”  This “new man” would supposedly require no supervision, since he would know what is right, because he had been educated by the centrally managed school system operated by the “progressive and enlightened caste” of the Communist Party.  Of course, the Soviets, the Red Chinese, the Khmer Rouge, and every other Marxist social experiment never got beyond the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”  The “progressive and enlightened caste” gained control and kept it.

Even in what attorney, author and talk show host Mark Levin would call the “soft tyranny” of the European socialist democracies, we see definite class stratification.  The rich and powerful remain at the top.  The lower classes are locked into place by punitive, progressive taxes and forced dependence on the welfare state.

This desire to manage the upbringing, economic status, and thought processes of individuals is probably also the explanation for the liberal desire to keep any semblance of conservative thought out of the educational system.  The “long march through institutions” has had its successes.

In the US, let’s make a clear distinction between the liberal, progressive, and Democrat cognoscenti and many of their rank and file.  The leaders truly embody the “save the world” agenda.  They are the “enlightened caste.”  The rank and file were largely educated in the public school system by mostly liberal teachers who were trained by overwhelmingly liberal college professors.  The rank and file watch the liberal-controlled six o’clock news on NBC, CBS, and CNN, rely on NPR and PBS, and read the liberal papers and magazines that round out “The Mainstream Media,” or MSM.  The writers, commentators, and on-air personalities in the MSM got their education in the public school system and on liberal college campuses.  They are the products of the “Long March” whose job it is to spread the word and keep the faithful in line.

As Arthur Sulzberger said in 1948 in another context, “Obviously, a man’s judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it.  Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right.  But give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.” (5) If not for the emergence of talk radio, the conservative bloggers, and Fox News, we would probably all “love Big Brother” and not know why.

Let me inflict upon you two last quotations from the left.  The liberal icon Mao Tse Tung, who engineered the killings of millions of Chinese and Koreans, famously said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”  He also stated in his Little Red Book that “Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”

Why do liberals promote gun control?  Why does radical gun control advocate former Chicago Mayor Daley demand armed protection, while calling for the disarmament of “common citizens?”  Orwell said it.  ”Some animals are more equal than others.”

In addition, the “more sensitive perceivers” among the liberals know that it would be inconvenient, if they tried to impose their progressive vision upon the ignorant masses, if the ignorant masses told the liberals to go pound sand.  It would be much easier for the progressive movement, if they have “control” of as many guns as possible.  Then, they can tell the masses, “Do it our way, or else!”  Mao knew the formula.

I have a quotation from former liberal David Horowitz, who knows the left as well as anyone, about the progressive mindset.  The following explains a lot of liberal thoughts and actions.

“If you believe in a future that will redeem mankind, what lie will you not tell and what crime will you not commit to make the future happen?” (6)  This is a quotation that we had better not forget, if we are going to preserve this nation as the last, best hope of freedom in the world.  Stay vigilant. Support your right to armed self-defense.

Def Mech

Footnotes

1.  Maslow, A.H., The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Penguin Books, NY, NY, 1977, Pages 8 and 9.

2. Bartlett, John, Familiar Quotations, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1968, Page 472.

3. Bartlett, Page 473.

4. Bartlett, Page 724.

5. Bartlett, Page 1020.

6. Horowitz, David, Left Illusions, Spence Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, 2003, Page 438. 

The State Department continues to block Korean War Era M1 Garands and carbines that are eligible for return to the United States for sale as curios and relics.  Please contact your federal legislators to request support for the return of these firearms.

HR 2099 is a hoax!  The bill was killed in 2,000 and exists only on the Internet.  HR 2099 or S 2099 E-mails claim that you have to report your guns on your taxes.  The E-mails are false.  Tell your friends.

The NRA has issued an official response to President Obama’s op ed in the Arizona Star that framed the debate on gun control as being between gun owner advocates and “gun safety” organizations.  See the NRA-ILA Website.

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that people who are permitted to carry guns in other states can transport them through Illinois without an Illinois license.  This ruling is convenient, since federal law allows transportation from one rational state to another.  Always research state laws before transporting a firearm, because the legal hassles can be intense, if you are caught with access to a firearm in the Peoples’ Republic of New York or a similar repressive location.   (This is not intended as legal advice, since I’m not an attorney.  Please be careful!)

In Colorado, Senate Bill 208, which combines the Division of Wildlife with the Division of State Parks and Recreation, has passed both state houses.  This could cause another foul up with Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Federal Funds.  It could also allow anti-hunting and fishing interests to gain power over game management decisions.  Please call the Governor’s office to comment on this idea.   Total rollout of this bill will take a year.  Watch the news and try to influence the process to protect DOW funding and keep the Division of Parks and Recreation from diverting wildlife funds to state park building projects.

House Bill 1294, bill allowing DOW to manage bear hunting in Colorado was killed at the end of the session.  Two Republican Representatives voted with Democrats on second reading.  The bill would have died, anyway in the Senate.  This bill would only have allowed DOW to authorize a hunt in late summer or early fall, if necessary, to manage Colorado’s rapidly expanding bear population.  Liberals smeared the bill by calling it “The Baby Bear Bill,” wrongly implying that the bill would have allowed spring bear hunts. (Spring hunts might endanger mother bears with dependent cubs.)  It will take a high profile bear-eats-human tragedy for a bill like this to pass.

This NRA link has more information about the session.  A number of good bills were killed by Democrats at the Capitol.

We must be alert for possible anti-Second Amendment administrative rules and executive orders at the state and national level.  Both the Governor and the President have anti-Second Amendment records. The Governor, when Mayor of Denver, belonged to Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).  This group supports bills to kill gun shows and the registration of all firearms’ transfers.  Registration has been used as the basis for confiscation in Nazi Germany, England, New Zealand, New York, and California.  The President’s voting record and his record of appointments to cabinet positions and the Supreme Court speak for themselves.

Quote from the head of the Denver, ATF Office: “The ATF is only interested in those who commit violent acts with crime guns.  People think we are the bogeyman in the corner waiting to come and get your guns.”  He should have stopped there.  His next statement to the Denver Post reporter was, “I don’t have the resources for that.”  Sort of makes you think about what he might want to do, if he had the resources.  But this was probably just a (Freudian?) slip of the tongue.

The Violence Policy Center has released a study indicating that less than 1/3 of US households possess firearms.  I suspect what they should have concluded is less than 1/3 of US households admit to owning firearms.  How many of you would admit on a survey that you own a gun?

 Anti-gun organizations continue to push magazine bans, semi-auto bans, registration of all gun sales and transfers, and regulations to kill gun shows.  They are spreading misinformation about U.S. gun smuggling to Mexico and vastly overstating the effectiveness of the Brady Bill as a deterrent to gun sales to felons.  John Lott has a new blog post out debunking the alleged effectiveness of the Brady Act. According to Lott, the false positive rate of Brady background check denials in 2008 was between 94 and 99%.

The United Nations continues work on an Arms Trade Treaty modeled after the OAS CIFTA Treaty.  The Obama administration has said that they would support the UN treaty if all other countries go along, as they did the last time this dangerous idea was proposed.  If Obama gets re-elected with a Democrat majority in the US Senate, this UN treaty could have a dangerous effect on our right to individual self-defense from crime, corruption, tyranny, and genocide recognized by the Second Amendment.  This negative effect could be greatly magnified, if Obama gets to appoint another liberal justice to the US Supreme Court.

Election of a conservative Tory Government in Canada will mean the end of their long gun registration program, if the Tories keep their campaign promise.  Canadian liberals are mounting a lobbying effort to retain the registry.

A federal appeal’s court has ruled against the gun show promoters in the Nordyke Case, stating that Alameda County in California can ban gun shows from county property.  This case will almost certainly go to the Supreme Court.

Read Left Illusions by David Horowitz to see why he became a Conservative. On line, check out discoverthenetworks.org to explore the Hard Left’s influence on the Democrat Party.

 Steve Schreiner was not elected to the NRA Board. He is on the reserve list. He will try again next year.

Stay vigilant.  The usual suspects are lurking at the federal level with numerous bills designed to strip us of our right to armed self-defense.

Def Mech

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