Volume 6, No. 01 www.foac-pac.org January 6, 2006
Firearms Owners Against Crime
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"[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and
contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the
rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they
have been violent in their deaths." --James Madison, Federalist No.
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E-Newsletter & Meeting
Notice For January 8th, 2006
Meeting Agenda-
Special Guest Speaker–Lynn Swann–Republican Candidate for
Governor
OLD BUSINESS
8.1 VOTE on by-Law Change to Article VII modifying committee appoints to allow for standing committees to assist with candidate grooming and electioneering throughout the state. This change has been read 3 times and the membership notified by either email or postal card. – Dennis Pavlik & Kim Stolfer
8.2 Second reading of Proposed bylaw change to Article XII "bylaw changes," clarifying the means of communicating proposed changes to the membership. Dennis Pavlik
8.3 Discussion of the Re-Organization of the board of directors for FOAC-PAC. Election Protocols discussion by Mary Larcinese
NEW BUSINESS
9.1 Discussion of
Gubernatorial Candidates Questionnaire evaluations and status. – Kim Stolfer
9.2 Discussion of status of HB 544 compelling county
election bureaus to give information on candidates in a timely fashion to
all. – Kim Stolfer
9.3 Spring FOAC Banquet
9.4 2006 Questionnaire Preparations
9.5 U.S. Senate, Congressional and PA State House and
Senate Races Discussions
Special
Report:
Gun
Crime in D.C.? Just BLAME GUNS again!
Gun free in D.C.
Jan 4, 2006
by Cam
Edwards
Washington D.C. City Councilman Marion Barry’s become the latest victim of violent crime. Barry was in his Southeast apartment this week when he was robbed at gunpoint by a group of young men. They entered his apartment, held a gun to his head, and took off with his wallet, credit cards, and cash. Barry had given the teens a few dollars earlier in the evening after they helped bring in some of his groceries. The former mayor describes the incident as “traumatic”. I’d describe it as common.
This is life in “gun free” Washington, D.C. No one is safe. Marion Barry’s a victim of a home invasion. Supreme Court Justice David Souter was assaulted while jogging last year. Teresa Heinz was mugged outside her Georgetown home. Wanda Alston, the head of the mayor’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Affairs was murdered in a home invasion robbery. You are not safe in Washington, D.C. No one is.
It doesn’t have to be this way, of course. Thirty years ago, our nation’s capitol was in the midst of a crime wave. The city council responded by banning handguns and requiring shotguns and rifles to be kept unloaded, dismantled, and locked away. The law abiding residents of Washington, D.C. had been disarmed, and the criminals took notice. Violent crime dipped slightly in the two years following the ban, although the murder rate actually continued to climb. By 1979, however, the violent crime rate was back above 1976 levels, and it has remained so ever since.
In the past two years, the U.S. House has passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would once again allow law abiding citizens to protect themselves with a firearm in their own home. The bill has been vilified by members of the D.C. City Council and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who said the intent of the measure was to “get more children killed”. At least three children died from shootings in “gun free D.C.” in 2005. None died from shootings in nearby Fairfax County, where Virginia’s laws allow not only possession of firearms, but concealed carry as well. I’m not blaming D.C.’s firearms prohibition for the deaths of the three children, but it’s pretty clear that the laws aren’t effective in stopping criminals from arming themselves illegally.
What does stop a criminal? Evidence suggests even more than increased police patrols, the fear of an armed citizenry makes a criminal have second thoughts. A number of studies dating back to the 1980’s indicate a majority of criminals say they will not engage in a criminal act against someone they believe is armed. But who’s armed in Washington, D.C.? Only the criminals and the police. There’s a vast unarmed populace to take advantage of, and no one is safe. Not even the former mayor.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
By
Jeff Knox
(WASHINGTON,
D.C.- August 17)
Do an Internet search on "workplace violence” or “guns in the workplace" and you will find dozens of sites sponsored by corporate lawyers, security firms, social and health researchers, and gun control organizations, explaining how important it is for companies to have a `no guns' policy.
They will almost all present, similar statistics such as you are: five times more likely to be shot, in a business that doesn't ban guns; there were 164 work place -shootings between 1994 and, 2003; the number of workplace, shootings nearly doubled (25 to 45) between 2002 and 2003; and that the number of resulting deaths More than doubled (33 to 69), along with a myriad of other statistics detailing the carnage.
Seeing these same statistics repeated over and over again, I dug a little deeper and found that most of the statistics were taken from , a 2004 "study" conducted Handgun-Free America, a non-profit organization dedicated to the ban of private handgun ownership in the U.S.” (Their Description)
All indications are that this “organization”, founded in 2002 and silent since early 2004, never really was an organization and that it never found the financial support it needed to actually become one.
The “study”, titled “Terror Nine to Five”, consisted of LexisNexis and Google News searches for stories containing phrases such as “workplace shooting” and “disgruntled employee,” the results of which were compiled as statistics.
With such careful and scientific methodology, something as simple as a slight change in the search terms used by the “researchers” or the vernacular of reporters could easily skew the results dramatically.
The truly worrisome aspect of this “research” is that even though it was generated by an admittedly biased source and is clearly seriously flawed in its methodology, it is the single most widely quoted “study” on the subject of workplace shootings and it is being repeated as gospel by attorneys, human resources experts, and security professionals.
The “five times more likely” quote comes from a phone survey of “hundreds of businesses” in North Carolina conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have yet to find the details of this study but what I do know about it suggest that the conclusion is a statement of the author’s bias rather than a meaningful statistical result.
A comparable conclusion would be to state that one is five times more likely to be in a head-on collision when driving a car equipped with airbags than when driving a car without airbags.
The implication being that airbags cause head-on collisions. This is of course ridiculous. The truth is that most cars on the road today are equipped with airbags and therefore most accidents-head-on or otherwise-involve airbag equipped cars.
In the case of workplace shootings in North Carolina, the majority of businesses in the state do not ban guns so of course most shootings are going to occur in businesses that do not have a ban.
Neither of these “studies” touched on the fact that an employee is many, many times more likely to be shot in a robbery at work than by a disgruntled fellow employee.
There is no question that employers need to address issues of workplace violence. But they need to take action based on facts, not flawed and biased research. It is clear that the “experts” currently are using seriously flawed information from which they are drawing erroneous conclusions and recommendations for their employers and clients. While these “experts” can be excused to some extent as there is little quality research available, they must be held to account for the damage they are doing to workers and businesses with their slipshod approach.
Even very reputable and respected organizations like ASIS International, the top industrial security association in the country, have been suckered in by this anti-gun snake-oil and are repeating the conclusions of these biased “studies”.
It is incumbent upon the firearms industry, the gun-lobby, and the pro-gun academia to counter these trumped-up studies with solid well-founded, peer-reviewed research.
It is likewise incumbent upon members of the legal profession and professional associations like ASIS to point out to their peers the folly of accepting and repeating such biased hogwash as Handgun-Free America has put out.
As a self-avowed gun-rights extremist, I am willing to concede the fact that one is more likely to be shot in an environment that includes guns. What I am not willing to concede is that a sign or a policy is going to make an environment gun-free. Since someone inclined to shoot me is not likely to be inclined to pay attention to a sign or a policy barring guns, I’d just as soon take down the sign, keep my gun, and take my chances-just like every security expert I’ve ever met.
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Retired Chicago Cops Get
Hosed By City Leaders
Gun rights activists in Chicago, IL, and elsewhere might be tempted to chant "welcome to the party" as retired Windy City police officers and the Fraternal Order of Police are angry that the city will not certify the retirees to continue packing pistols under the auspices of the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004.
Congress passed the law two years ago as something of a homeland security measure, reasoning that retired cops have training, and they should also have the means to defend themselves against criminals they may have put behind bars during their careers.
While many gun rights activists supported the measure, with the expectation that police would subsequently support measures to expand concealed carry by private citizens nationwide-something that has yet to happen-others were not so eager to allow retired police what they felt was a "perk."
Either way, retired Chicago cops won't be enjoying any benefit from the federal law. According to The Chicago Sun-Times, the city is balking at allowing its retired officers to carry over fears of continued liability. The federal act mandates that retired cops must complete refresher training. This is a legal speed bump that has slowed implementation of the new law in many jurisdictions.
Chicago carries its opposition one step farther, the newspaper said by complaining that there is no national database of retired peace officers who are allowed to go armed. Police Supt. Phil Cline is also hedging that the law does not define how departments should determine a retired officer's "standing," the newspaper reported.
There are reportedly about 9,000 retired Chicago police officers who might qualify to carry a gun, the newspaper estimated.
Ironically, retired officers from other agencies, even other states, apparently will be allowed to carry in Chicago, provided they have been certified by their former departments. Mark Donahue, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police complained, "They have no right to do this." The New GUN WEEK, January 1, 2006
Tackled, Disarmed by Cops In
New Orleans, Woman Sues
by Dave Workman Senior Editor
A New Orleans woman, who wag roughly tackled and disarmed by California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers who were in the Crescent City to help restore order following Hurricane Katrina, has filed a lawsuit against the states of Louisiana and California, and their respective state police agencies.
Patricia
Konie, 58, who had told officers she did not want to evacuate her modest New
Orleans home and who was body slammed by at least two lawmen identified as CHP
troopers as television cameras rolled, suffered injuries that required surgery
in mid-December, according to her attorney, Ashton O'Dwyer.
Konie
told Gun Week that her physician was "certain" this
was an injury that resulted from her visibly rough treatment when officers,
under orders to disarm all citizens and evacuate them, took her down. The
1905-vintage .32-caliber Colt revolver that was taken from Konie has never been
returned, and its whereabouts are not known.
The
Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association joined in a lawsuit
against the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes to bring a halt to
the confiscations. A court issued a temporary restraining order and the gun
groups are still working to achieve a permanent court order. Konie is just one
of several New Orleans residents who were disarmed after the hurricane. Her
attorney was also disarmed.
Konie's
injury was described as a "displaced comminuted fracture of the left
humerus," which is the long bone in the upper arm. Her surgery was done
Dec. 12.
The complaint, filed in
the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, says that the
incident, which' occurred Sept. 8, was a "violation of federal and state
law." She contends that CHP officers, who were accompanied by at least
one Louisiana state trooper, "wrongfully trespassed" on her property
and committed assault and battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction
of emotional distress and confiscated her revolver.
The
incident was caught on film by a news crew from KTVU in San Francisco, which
was accompanying the CHP detachment. The segment clearly shows Konie telling
the officers she does not want them in her home. Moments later, she was tackled,
disarmed and taken from the house, her arm gripped by an officer, and put
aboard a truck for evacuation.
According
to court documents, Konie was evacuated to South Carolina, where she remained
until returning to her home on Oct. 13.
The lawsuit claims that
Konie's constitutional rights under the Second, Fourth and Fourteenth
amendments were violated.
Surprisingly, the lawsuit
does not name the city of New Orleans or Mayor Ray Nagin as defendants. O'Dwyer
told Gun Week this is because no city police were involved in
the raid on Konie's home.
O'Dwyer
said he would send a copy of the KTVU news clip to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
"We went into Iraq
and we didn't confiscate weapons from the Iraqis, who still possess AK47s and
RPGs," O'Dwyer said.
O'Dwyer
is seeking damages on Konie's behalf for criminal trespass on her property,
insisting that the officers had no right to enter her home or confiscate her
firearm. He said the case probably will not come to trial for at least several
months. The New GUN WEEK, January 1, 2006
Dance Contest Slaying
From the "Momma Tried" file comes the truly strange story about a Philadelphia, PA, mother who has been charged in the slaying of a man whose stepson bumped her son during a street dance contest Nov. 15.
According
to Associated Press and The
Philadelphia Daily News, 39-year-old
Patricia Hayward has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Donald
Clyburn, 41, in the city's Kensington neighborhood. Clyburn's stepson,
identified as Alex Ledino, apparently struck Hayward's kid with his elbow
during the contest, but quickly apologized, insisting it was an accident.
That
evidently wasn't enough to prevent Hayward from later showing up at Ledino's
home, where she got into an argument with Clyburn and capped him in front of
his wife, and Ledinds mother, Angela Clyburn. Hayward surrendered to the police
later at the office of her attorney. The New GUN WEEK,
January 1, 2006
Robber Living on FEMA
Another
bizarre example of "your tax money at work" comes out of Stockbridge,
GA, where, according to The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ronnell
Middlebrooks, has ratted himself out for armed robberies committed in Georgia's
Clayton and Henry counties.
Turns
out Middlebrooks had been living at the Best Western motel in Stockbridge, courtesy
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in a room that had been rented to
a New Orleans man through a FEMA housing voucher. You guessed it, that man
apparently had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but the cops say
Middlebrooks was not a hurricane evacuee.
It
gets better. Middlebrooks was apparently an accomplice of two men identified as
Deonte Duvall Gay and Cameron Dyonn McGhee, both of whom were residing in a
nearby apartment complex. They also reportedly confessed to participating in
"multiple armed robberies" of motels and restaurants in the
Stockbridge area in early November.
The
newspaper didn't say where these guys originally came from, but it's a safe bet
that they won't be going back for quite a while. The New GUN WEEK, January 1, 2006
Five WV Deer Commit Suicide
Deer
hunters who claim that there are not as many whitetails as there used to be
might find this story enlightening.
Either they misjudged the
distance or they couldn't take the traffic. For reasons that mystify
authorities, five deer that made their way onto the top of a five-story parking
garage in Ranson, WV, suddenly leaped to their deaths on Dec. 4.
Police
Cpl. Steve Cox found the does' bodies on a service road to the Charles Town
Races & Slots, next to a security van they'd narrowly missed.
"They took the
plunge," he said. "It was just absolutely weird." A woman called
police when she saw the deer falling, and Cox said he found scratches and
animal hair on the fifth floor, indicating that's where they had been.
It's
unclear how the deer got into the garage, but Cox said they may have become
frightened after getting trapped. Cars moving through the garage may have
spooked them, he said.
Or
they could have been fooled by trees that can be seen from the top of the
garage, mistakenly thinking they were close to home. The carcasses were given
to passers-by for butchering. The New GUN WEEK,
January 1, 2006
Cop Shoots Self Upholstering
A
21-year-veteran Newark, NJ, police officer was in fair condition on Dec. 9 at
a New Brunswick hospital, where he was taken after accidentally shooting
himself in the stomach when he tried to remove his gun from its holster at his
Edison apartment, according to The
Star-Ledger of Newark.
Israel
Segarra, 52, told police he was in his apartment around 7:20 p.m. the ,previous
day when he struggled to remove his 9mm duty sidearm that was jammed in his
holster, and the gun discharged.
Segarra
ran to a neighbor's apartment and banged on the door for help, said Edison
police Officer Robert Dudash. The neighbor came to the door and tried to assist
Segarra and called township police.
Police
found Segarra's gun still in the holster in the bedroom of his apartment, and a
shell casing was partially ejected in the weapon, Dudash said.
"Although the
incident appears to be an accident, our Internal Affairs investigators are
thoroughly reviewing the incident to determine exactly what happened and
insure that the officer was in compliance with the department's rules and
regulations," Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose said. The New GUN WEEK, January 1, 2006
Least It Wasn't over Donuts
From
the "Only Cops Should Have Guns" file comes the story about an
argument between two cops, one a male and his female partner, whose debate over
a soft drink went way over the line.
According
to The Detroit Free Press, before it was over, he had zapped her with a Taser
stun gun, and she wasn't smiling. Fired from his job was Patrolman Ronald
Dupuis, 32, who also faces a charge of assault. His partner, Prema Graham,
apparently was not seriously injured.
According
to the published report, Dupuis was in the passenger seat and Graham was at the
wheel when he got thirsty. Dupuis demanded that Graham stop at a convenience
store so he could purchase a soda pop, but she had other plans, and headed back
for the police station. That's when they began struggling over the steering
wheel, and during that physical interchange, Dupuis gave Graham a shot in the
leg with the Taser. The New GUN WEEK, January 1, 2006
Armed Citizen Encounters:
2005/12/24 PGW worker shoots teen robber
A Philadelphia Gas Works field worker shot and wounded one of two teenagers who held him up at gunpoint in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday, police said.
PGW spokesman Doug Oliver said company policy prohibits employees from having "unauthorized weapons" at any PGW work area. While Oliver said it appears the employee violated the policy, officials don't plan to address that issue right away.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/13478925.htm
2005/12/06 Sparks police identify men in fatal shooting
Sparks police have identified the two men involved in a fatal shooting Thursday at a vacant house on Pyramid Way.
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051206/NEWS01/512060368/1004/NEWS
2005/12/05 Apartment tenant
fatally shoots intruder, police say
Police say a Tempe resident shot
and killed a man who broke into his apartment early Monday while he and his
wife were sleeping.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/1205t-crime05-ON.html
2005/12/05 Jewelry store owner
acted in self-defense
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The co-owner of a pawn shop who shot two would-be robbers, killing one, won't be charged with any crime, the Douglas County attorney said Friday. http://www.journalstar.com/latest_reg/?story_id=246466
News Briefs:
2005/12/29 Wyoming Lawmakers Push "No
Retreat"
Wyoming could ease legal restrictions on the use of deadly force and allow more residents to carry concealed firearms under measures some lawmakers are pushing in the coming legislative session. Reps. Stephen Watt, R-Rock Springs, and Mick Powers, R-Lyman, are sponsoring a measure that would put Wyoming in the ranks of "no-retreat" states. http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4348742,00.html
2005/12/29 MTV Documentary To Focus On Gun Owners
MTV, Music Television, has become known more for its "reality" shows and political activism than for playing music videos over the past decade. That trend will continue the evening of December 29 with the airing of "True Life: I'm a Gun Owner." While some firearms enthusiasts are giving MTV the benefit of the doubt, many gun rights advocates are already questioning the objectivity of the program.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200512\NAT20051229a.html
2005/12/29 Gun Control A Waste Of Money
"One of the tactics Paul Martin is employing in attempting to be re-elected as prime minister of this beautiful country is a blatant attempt to buy votes in the largest city in Canada. I am referring to his statement that if he is re-elected, he will ban all handguns," writes Terry McGarvey.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1998&dept_id=460503&newsid=15831976&P
2005/12/29 NRA Lawsuit Delays Ban
San Francisco will delay enforcement of its ban on gun and ammunition sales until March 1 while a judge considers a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging the measure. NRA plans to file suit in Superior Court December 29, arguing that the new city ordinance conflicts with state law.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/29/BAGQLGEAL81.DTL
2005/12/27 Chronic Wasting Disease Not Detected
In Virginia
According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the results from testing 550 deer in a surveillance area that included parts of Shenandoah, Frederick, and Clark counties show no presence of the dreaded Chronic Wasting Disease. The samples were checked at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. http://washingtontimes.com/sports/20051227-115729-8345r.htm
2005/12/27 Checking In With The Second Amendment
"It has been predicted by this corner and various other commentators," writes Brent Wheat, "that the swamps, fields and shooting ranges of our great country will be crowded the next few years with pink-cheeked politicians swinging around brand-new shotguns, chafing in new boots and generally trying to appear as if they know which end of the duck call to blow. We beg concerned hunters and shooters to remember: even if something quacks like a duck, it isn`t necessarily a duck."
http://www.journalreview.com/main.asp?SectionID=5&SubSectionID=64&ArticleID=20633&TM=84038.4
2005/12/27 Gun-loving' politicians need to be straight
shooters
Our first item is an article from the Boston Globe newspaper published on December 17 that says the Democratic Party is “rethinking its approach to the gun debate to improve the chances of its candidates in the western states.” Apparently it has finally dawned on the national Democratic leadership that people who own firearms are not deranged sadistic rednecks but instead, ordinary American citizens who vote religiously.
http://www.reporter.net/sports/local_story_361012450.html?keyword=3Dsecondarystory
2005/12/25 Gun toters
surrender weapons for gifts
COMPTON, California (AP) --
"Big Daddy" Willis came to Compton to turn an illegal homemade pistol
into Christmas dinner.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/25/gun.swap.ap/?section=cnn_latest
2005/12/23 Seven-Year-Old Suspended For Having Toy
Gun
A Suffolk, Va.,
first grader has been suspended after a bus driver took his backpack which had
the toy gun inside. http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4275451
2005/12/23 Gov. In Show Of Force
Following up on the
passage of the "heroes law," New York Gov. Pataki has announced the
state will hire 100 state troopers to crack down on illegal gun trafficking. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60139.htm
2005/12/23 San Francisco Postpones Prop H
Enforcement
The City of San
Francisco has agreed to postpone enforcement of the provision of Prop H that
bans the sale or transfer of any firearm or ammunition until March 1, 2006. In
the interim, the NRA lawsuit challenging the ordinance will be filed in the
Superior Court, since the Court of Appeal declined to exercise jurisdiction
until the Superior Court had heard the matter. http://www.calgunlaws.com/article-446.html
2005/12/23 Hunters Feed Georgia Poor
Georgia hunters
have donated 733 deer this year to a program that provides thousands of pounds
of venison to the Atlanta Community Food Bank for distribution to needy families
throughout the state, game officials say. http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/13466429.htm
2005/12/22 Life Sentences Mandated For Killing
Police Officers In New York
Spurred by the
recent shooting deaths of two New York City police officers and showing an
unusual spirit of compromise, state lawmakers approved legislation on Wednesday
to stiffen penalties for illegal guns and mandate a life sentence for anyone
convicted of murdering a police officer. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22guns.html
2005/12/22 Liberal Gun Ban Fuels Gun Sales
Paul Martin’s plan
to ban handguns may have backfired. As soon as the Liberals unveiled their
promise to ban the weapons earlier this month, Vancouver gun shop owners saw a
jump in handgun sales. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2005/12/21/1362221-sun.html
2005/12/22 Britain Will Be First Country To Monitor
Every Car Journey
Britain is to
become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on
the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the
records for at least two years. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece
2005/12/21 Boston Gun Charge Called `Urban Myth`
The U.S. attorney
for New Hampshire is firing back against charges that lax gun-control laws in
northern New England are partly responsible for an increase in gun crimes in Boston. http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/12192005/news/78780.htm
2005/12/21 Justice Can’t Be Blind To Past Crimes
Here’s a little
known but dismaying fact about the slaying of NYPD Officer Daniel Enchautegui:
The accused triggerman, Steven Armento, should have been sitting in jail
instead of stalking the streets of Pelham Bay. Armento had pleaded guilty to
assault and animal cruelty charges only a few months before, admitting that he
had sicced his pit bull on a Yonkers neighbor’s dog, then punched the neighbor
for trying to pull the dogs apart. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/376328p-319608c.html
2005/12/20 Police surveyed on carrying guns
Every police officer
in England and Wales is to be asked whether they think they should carry guns.
The Police Federation survey of all 140,000 officers follows the shooting of Pc
Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4544188.stm
2005/12/19 Silver's "Controls" Don't
Work
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's call to ban some guns seems undeterred by recent evidence. "When the U.S. assault weapons ban sunset last September, gun controllers predicted that murders would soar. Instead, the monthly murder rate plummeted 14% percent from August through December last year, writes John Lott.
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/NYPostPoliceDeaths121905.html
2005/12/19 Gun-Shy Justice
A thug who is busted for wielding a loaded handgun in New York City has an astonishing 77% chance of ducking jail, a New York Post analysis of state arrest stats revealed. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59038.htm
2005/12/19 Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA
Political Scientist
While The Wall Street Journal editorial page is conservative, it's news pages are even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public TV and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left. These are a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them. http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
2005/12/19 Can Democrats Survive Gun Talk?
Dwight Stansel is that rare Democrat who wins elections among rural, white voters in North Florida. He has simple advice for Democrats who want to do the same: "There's no such thing as sensible gun control in North Florida," says the farmer and state representative from Suwannee County. "If you're on the wrong side of that issue, nothing else matters, really." http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/18/State/Can_Democrats_avoid_g.shtml
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Firearms Owners Against Crime is a registered
political action committee dedicated to representing gun owners and sportsmen
interests throughout Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1994 FOAC is committed to the preservation of our Constitutional
Rights under Article 1, Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution's
"Declaration of Rights" and the Second Amendment of the U. S.
Constitution and effective public policy in the prosecution of criminals. FOAC teams with other pro-gun organizations and
works to preserve the fundamental Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Directions to FOAC
- Follow Rt. 51South to
the 2nd Right past Brownsville Rd.-Boro Park Rd.
- Make this right onto
Boro Park Rd. (you will see Benson-Lincoln Mercury dealership on the
Right)
- The Whitehall Boro
Bldg. is on the right approx. 300 yards from Rt. 51.
- We are in the Community
Room on the Top Floor.
- The meetings are
(except for special events) on the third Sunday and begin at 10:00 AM.
For More Information--phone 412-221-3346.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution -- Article I, Section 21,
Declaration of Rights
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms
in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
U.S. Constitution --
Amendment II
A well-regulated
militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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