Volume 8, No. 5                www.foac-pac.org                   May 3, 2008

 

Firearms Owners Against Crime

 

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." -- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 12 February 1779)

E-Newsletter & FOAC Meeting Notice

May 4, 2008

 

Meeting Agenda Issues:

 

Invited Guest Speaker(s):

Tim Krieger (PA House Candidate-57th District)

9.0  New Business

9.1             Election Outcome

9.2             Candidate support review-Mailings and Door to Door

9.3             Special Election Effort – 39th District PA House of Representatives

9.4             Political Events Review and Summary and Candidate Positions and Statements

9.5             Important State Races (Congress, State Senate, State House—Open Races!!)

9.6             2008 Fall Breakfast Suggestions

9.7             Membership committee developments

9.8             FOAC Meeting Times/Suggestions

 

Events:

**ACSL Monthly Meeting:  May 8th – Collier Sportsmen’s Club

**Harrisburg Legislative Reception:  May 13th NRA Sponsored Event

 

FOAC - 2008 Meeting Schedule

Jan 13, 2nd Sunday, Feb 10, 2nd Sunday, Mar 9, 2nd Sunday, Apr 13, 2nd Sunday, May 4, 1st Sunday, Jun 8, 2nd Sunday, Jul 13, 2nd Sunday, Aug 10, 2nd Sunday, Sep 14, 2nd Sunday, Oct 12, 2nd Sunday, Nov 2, 1st Sunday, Dec 14, 2nd Sunday

**Time of Meeting:  10:00 AM

**Location: Whitehall Borough Bldg (off Rt.51 – ask for directions)

****Coffee and Donuts will be provided

***General Election – Nov. 4

 

 

‘Bloody’ Chicago: Despite handgun prohibition, shootings rampant

by Dave Workman Senior Editor

While the administration of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is nervous about a Supreme Court ruling that could threaten his city’s handgun ban, which prevents law-abiding citizens from legally owning handguns for personal protection, the mayor has been unable to stem a tide of blood spilled in what appear to be a growing number of gang­ related shootings.

Over the course of one April weekend, according to the Associated Press, there were 36 shootings in which nine people were killed.

And the question arises, if all of these criminals can so easily get their hands on guns, why are honest citizens being left defenseless in what may become a crossfire?

Daley convened a "gun summit" at city hall at a press conference just days after the bloody weekend, the outcome of which was almost pre-ordained since he was accompanied by anti-gun Rev. Michael Pfleger-the man who sug­gested "snuffing" suburban gun dealer John Riggio during a demonstration last summer outside of Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale.

That summit brought together members of the clergy, neighborhood activists and public officials, according to WBBM radio, the local CBS affiliate. Noticeably absent were representatives of gun rights organizations.

The Chicago Sun-Times editorialized against the violence, demanding that the city "confront the carnage." Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich analyzed the increase in violence, noting that it is largely related to gang turf warfare. She quoted sociology professor Greg Scott, who insisted that "Police need to appreciate that gang members aren't just villains to the neighborhood."

Pfleger, described by the Associated Press as "an activist on the South Side," predicted that trouble will increase when schools let out in June and the temperatures rise into the 80s and 90s this Summer.

Police have said that at least 14 of the shootings were gang-related, according to published reports, and that one involved the use of a semiauto­matic rifle to shoot up a plumbing supply store.

Ironically, the surge in violence came within days of the publication of a column by Justin Webb, North Ameri­can editor for the BBC in Missouri, exclaiming how American citizens are relatively tranquil even with all of their privately-owned firearms. Webb wrote that "Americans- and foreigners who come here-feel that the place is ... safe."

Webb then noted that parts of London seem far more menacing and dangerous than places in America where owning firearms is common.

Chicago's woes also erupted at the same time that the Violence Policy Center alleged in a report that the most violent parts of the country are those with the most lax gun laws. Chicago's ban on handguns is one of the toughest laws in the country, and Illinois firearms owners must have a Firearms Owner's Identification Card to possess a gun.

Perhaps not coincidentally, syndi­cated columnist Charley Reese wrote in The Florida Sun-Sentinel that much of the violence can be traced to certain ethnic groups.

Noting that "gun violence seems to be more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics than among whites," Reese acknowledged that, "I know that is not a welcomed thing to say, but it happens to be a fact."

In his column, headlined "Let's focus on the people who kill, not the guns," Reese admitted that "I don't know why some groups are more violent than others."

"All I'm saying," he wrote, "is if you want to solve the gun crime problem, that's where you have to go. It won't do a bit of good to prevent some Lutheran kid in Minnesota from buying a gun when the gun violence is concentrated in other areas and among other groups of people." Reese then took the gun control advocates to task because, "I believe most of them know these facts about who's committed a majority of the gun crimes."

"But they don't want to deal with it," Reese lamented. "It's too hot a potato, too politically incorrect. So, as a smoke screen, they rant and rail about guns as if all these tools are possessed by demons that cause the guns to hop off the shelves and force people to use them. That's nonsense. Gun violence is a social problem, not a hardware problem."

But in Chicago, the hardware all seems to be in the wrong hands, and the Daley administration, which has a record of campaigning for increasingly tough restrictions on law-abiding gunowners, appears impotent to change things. The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

Last man standing:

Defiant Georgia gun dealer facing' Bloomberg in court

by Dave Workman Senior Editor

Other firearms dealers targeted by the questionable private gun "sting" opera­.4ion mounted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have folded against the financial pressure, and one has even announced she will close her doors next month.

But Jay Wallace, president of Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, GA, is standing firm against what he insists is a false accusation, combined with a deliberate smearing of his reputation. On May 27, in a New York federal court in front of Judge Jack Weinberg, Wallace will defend his honor against the Goliath that is the anti-gun Big Apple mayor and his legal staff.

Wallace is looking forward to the opportunity to vindicate himself.

"It's time that the industry know what's going on with this case," Wallace said in an interview with Gun Week. "My position is that I've done nothing wrong...I can prove that I've done nothing wrong."

His New York attorney, John Renzuli, could not agree more.

"We're going to try our case," Renzuli said, "and show that the basis for this lawsuit is, in fact, baseless. They (attorneys for the city) should have done their homework before they went out and said some pretty bad things about Jay and his business."

Cost of Defense

Wallace is bolstered by the fact that he has gotten small contributions from people all over the country, and even from some servicemen and women overseas, to help fight this case, but he is particularly fond of the Second Amendment Foundation, which has contributed several thousand dollars to his defense, and is "the number one contributor." The National Rifle Associa­tion has also kicked in $1,000, and he has gotten some help from the industry, but it may be small in comparison to what Bloomberg and the city may have spent to push this case.

Contributions are still being accepted at: Bloombergfightbackfund.com.

The issue that frustrates Wallace the most is that, in his opinion, none of this would have been necessary, had only Bloomberg's so-called "private investiga­tors" approached him up front, explained what they felt were alleged shortcomings with his business practices, and then worked with him.

"I would have asked `what is the problem?' and then I would have had open discussions with them," Wallace stated, "and they would have discovered we do things quite well in our store."

But instead of cooperation, Wallace said, Bloomberg wanted headlines. Renzuli told Gun Week that Bloomberg's office used raw gun trace data obtained from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explo­sives (ATF) to make assumptions that simply are not accurate.

This trace data is retained by ATF for use in criminal investigations, but it does not reflect that every gun being traced was involved in the commission of a crime. Even the ATF has disavowed the use of raw data.

The Department of Justice last year warned Bloomberg's office against trying anything like his "gun stings" in the future. Bloomberg went around law enforcement, hired private investigators (one of whom has since been murdered by her mother's boyfriend) and con­ducted what critics have branded a "vigilante operation." The case so infuriated ATF that the agency investi­gated to determine whether Bloomberg committed a crime, and ATF sources did acknowledge that the Bloomberg operation jeopardized on-going criminal investigations.

Firing back, Bloomberg criticized ATF for being "asleep at the wheel" in terms of enforcement against alleged "rogue" gun dealers from whose shops firearms somehow wind up in New York.

When the smoke cleared, the Justice Department announced that there was insufficient evidence to prove that any of the gun dealers sued by Bloomberg had committed a prosecutable crime. But the department warned Bloomberg that such "stings" might run afoul of federal law.

Weak Case?

According to Renzuli, the case against his client has some pretty weak spots, not the least of which is the absence of a fully-recorded transaction in the store. By some remarkable coincidence, the attorney said, both recordings made during the transaction at Adventure Outdoor were hampered by malfunc­tions. This apparently did not happen at any of the other stores visited by Bloomberg's investigators.

There appears to be ample reason for his suspicions. The attorney told Gun Week that during a 2007 ATF compliance audit, Adventure Outdoors had essen­tially "a clean bill of health." There was a single infraction, apparently having to do with stapling a National Instant Check System denial form to a Federal Form 4473 that had been filled out by the denied customer.

Wallace said that he has a good record of cooperating with ATF, and he believes regulating gun stores is the job of that agency, not the mayor of New York, a jurisdiction more than a thousand miles away in another state.

"We've set up our business to be 100% ATF compliant and then some," he said. There might be a bit of regulation coming at Bloomberg. Wallace has also retained former US Congressman Bob Barr to represent him in a counter-­lawsuit against Bloomberg, a lawsuit that will be tried in Georgia despite Bloomberg's best efforts to get it quashed or moved to New York.

Having watched all of the other defendant gun shops in Bloomberg's e lawsuit ultimately fold, Wallace feels the burden of being the only retailer remain­ing so he is bearing the entire financial burden with the support he's gotten.

"I am 100% committed," he said. "I know how I've run my business. I am proud of the way I run my business." The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

Support Swells For Iowa Pizza Man Fired For Defense Shooting

by Dave Workman Senior Editor

The online advertisement for Pizza Hut delivery drivers explains that "you'll get more: more for your career, your life, your family and your future" by taking a job with the popular pizza chain.

What the ad doesn't say is that if you are robbed, you cannot defend yourself because you are forbidden from being armed, in your own vehicle which is used for deliveries, and if you do fight back, you will be immediately suspended and very likely terminated.

That's the case for a Des Moines, IA, driver identified as James William Spiers III, who shot the thug that tried to rob him Mar. 27 after putting a gun to his head. But instead of having his story disappear into the back pages of a local newspaper, Spiers has gotten support from Iowa state Sen. Brad Zaun, who has issued a public warning to Pizza Hut that there could be a backlash against the chain.

Spiers' story was reported by The Des Moines Register. Almost immediately, messages of support for the single father started flashing across the Internet from gun rights activists all over the country.

Meanwhile, the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Kenneth Jimmerson, was arrested on charges of first-degree robbery. A young woman identified as Melanie Stout, 18, was charged with conspiracy for calling in the pizza order that became a lure to armed robbery.

Des Moines Police Sgt. Vince Valdez told Gun Week that the suspect has an arrest record dating back to when he was a juvenile. Last year, Jimmerson was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Valdez could not comment on where the suspect may have gotten the handgun he allegedly used in the incident involving Spiers, but he was hit at least twice in the side, was treated at a hospital and was then transferred to jail.

Spiers is licensed to carry a concealed handgun in Iowa.

But that reportedly isn't good enough for Pizza Hut, whose vice president for human resources, Vonnie Walbert, told the newspaper that delivery drivers are not allowed to carry guns "because we believe that that is the safest for every­body."

Gun rights activists suggest that Walbert tell that to New Jersey pizza delivery drivers Jeremy Giordany and Giorgio Gallara, murdered in 1998 after they were lured to an abandoned cabin and gunned down. Or maybe, they suggest, Walbert should tell that to the families of murdered pizza drivers Kevin Buttry of Farmington, NM, or Christo­pher Williams of Swissvale, PA, or Karen Hassan of St. Charles, IL, or Bill Flexon of Sumter, SC. All of these drivers were murdered when their pizza deliveries turned into ambushes.

Some activists were calling for a national boycott of Pizza Hut. Others are just furious.

In a Des Moines Register column, Spiers said he was certain he was about to die when the thug aimed a gun at his head.

After shooting the suspect, Spiers grabbed his gun and when police arrived, he turned both his pistol and the gunman's piece over. At age 19, Jimmerson would be too young to legally carry a handgun. The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

NC High School Officials Block Rifle Team's State Competition

by Dave Workman Senior Editor

A high school policy committee in the Wake school district near Raleigh, NC, will reportedly reconsider a revision in "school policy that barred the school's marksmanship team from competing in a state-sponsored tournament in March. That prohibition prevented East Wake High School senior Robert Lumley from participating in the event, and even if the school does revise its policy for next year, this graduating senior is out of luck.

According to The Charlotte News Observer, Lumley and his teammates were barred from participating in the annual North Carolina Wildlife Re­sources Commission competition, an event that has been going on for decades. The decision to keep the East Wake team out of the district tournament was made by school Principal Sebastian Shipp with the support of Area Superin­tendent Danny Barnes. Neither of those officials would return calls from Gun Week, and neither did District Superin­tendent Dr. Adelphos "Del" Burns or Lori Millberg, a school director.

But Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, was not so silent. He publicly called for the firing of both Barnes and Shipp.

The National Rifle Association called the decision an "outrage."

Lumley, 17, reportedly had been practicing for the tournament for months. Shipp reportedly waited until the day before the March 15 tournament to notify Lumley and his teammates that their - participation was barred. The News Observer reported that Shipp used as his reason a school policy that bans firearms and other weapons from school grounds and also prohibits students from having guns along on school-related trips.

The tournament is well-supervised and the marksmanship team is part of a school-approved student chapter of the FFA (Future Farmers of America).

But it may have been what the Charlotte newspaper reported that ignited the fury of gun rights activists across the country. The paper reported that school officials said "Ammo and students don't mix."

"This is an outrageous position," Gottlieb said. "Schools are places of learning, but what lesson have Barnes and Shipp taught with this decision: how to practice social bigotry?"

Mindful that Lumley is a senior and this would have been his only chance to participate in the tournament as a member of his school's team, Gottlieb said the school district should apologize, in writing, to the teen and every other member of the team. That apology, he said, should be signed "especially by Barnes and Shipp."

"The district should find a way to get Robert and his teammates into a tournament of equal standing," Gottlieb said, "and that responsibility should be placed squarely on Barnes and Shipp. Their actions have cheated these students out of a valuable experience, and cheating in school should get these two administrators expelled."

According to WNCN News in Char­lotte, the school policy committee was scheduled to meet May 13 to re-examine the school policy.

Other schools around the state apparently have different policies, as some 2,000 high school and middle school students participate in the annual tournament, The News Observer reported. A statewide competition was held in late April. The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

‘Zero Tolerance’ Victimizes WV School Principal

A West Virginia middle school princi­pal has been fired because he had two rifles in his car, which was parked on school property, according to WSAZ News in Huntington, WV

Principal James D. Hoover was dismissed on a 3-2 vote by the Wirt County school board last month. He was initially charged with possession of deadly weapons on school grounds last October, but those charges were later dismissed by Circuit Judge Robert Waters, the station reported. The judge ruled that Hoover's case fell under an exemption in state law that covers unloaded firearms in locked vehicles.

However, the school board was less flexible than the circuit judge, so Hoover was fired.

The guns apparently weren't even his. The station said Hoover had retrieved the rifles from the scene of a hunting accident involving a friend who had asked him to get the guns. The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

Obama's Opposition To Licensed Concealed Carry Stirs Backlash

by Dave Workman Senior Editor

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama already had some credibility problems with American gunowners, despite his repeated pro­nouncements in support of the Second Amendment, but the Illinois Democrat really kicked a hornet's nest when he declared during a Pennsylvania inter­view that he opposes concealed carry by private citizens.

Almost immediately, chat boards and gun rights forums lit up with furious criticism of the freshman senator and would-be presidential nominee.

Obama told The Pittsburgh Tribune­Review that "I am not in favor of con­cealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."

One of the harshest reactions came from Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He demanded that Obama apologize to the millions of law-abiding citizens who are legally licensed to carry concealed handguns. Statisti­cally, such citizens are far less likely to ever get into trouble with the law.

Gottlieb noted that licensed citizens "go through background checks, and in some states complete required training courses."

"They have stopped crimes," he observed. "They have sometimes aided police officers."

Obama, said Gottlieb, "should not confuse legally-armed, law-abiding Americans with inner-city thugs, gang­ bangers and other criminals who carry guns illegally."

Obama's comments were reported on the day after a story broke about the senator's 1996 legislative questionnaire in Illinois, in which his positions against handgun and sport-utility rifle owner­ship were revealed. Obama had initially distanced himself from that question­naire, claiming that he had not even seen it and that an aide had filled it out.

However, that account was discredited when it was revealed by several sources that Obama's handwriting was found on the pages of the questionnaire.

The document also revealed that Obama opposes capital punishment and criminal prosecution of juveniles as adults if they are charged with serious felonies. He is against mandatory sentencing while he supports "alterna­tive sentencing."

"It's clear," Gottlieb said, "that Obama has the good guys confused with the bad guys.

Gottlieb publicly warned Obama that "gunowners are also voters."

"You have outrageously insulted every one of them," he said. "You owe these good citizens an apology."

The firearms civil rights issue was expected to surface again in a Demo­cratic candidate's debate in Philadelphia scheduled for Apr. 16, less than a week before the Keystone State's presidential primary.

Anti-gun leaders in the Philadelphia area have been pledging to force Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to discuss the gun issue in detail during that debate. The New GUN WEEK, May 1, 2008

 

Judge Stops Philly Enforcement of 5 Local Gun Laws

by Gun Week staff

Faced with a staggering crime prob­lem and skyrocketing murder rate, Philadelphia, PA, Mayor Michael Nutter signed into law in early April five anti­gun measures apparently in defiance of state law and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and gun rights organizations moved swiftly in response.

Nutter defended the action, arguing that he and members of the City Council are essentially walking in the footsteps of Americans who launched the Revolu­tionary War. Veteran Pennsylvania gun rights activists Kim Stolfer with the Firearms Owners Against Crime and Allegheny County Sportsmen's League, called that notion "nonsense."

A day after the mayor signed all five measures, both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Second Amend­ment Foundation (SAF) announced they would be taking legal action against the city to force it to comply with state law. Pennsylvania has had state preemption on gun regulation since 1974, and that authority has been upheld by the state's highest court in a 1996 ruling against Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which had wanted their own gun laws.

On Apr. 17, Common Pleas Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan ordered the city to temporarily halt enforcement of the five gun-control laws passed by City Council a week earlier and signed by Nutter.

The city was ordered to stop writing police rules for enforcing the laws and training officers about them, at least until Apr. 28 or possible May 19, when Greenspan had scheduled a hearing on the NRA's request for a permanent injunction.

District Attorney Lynne Abraham had previously said that the local laws conflict with state laws and she will not enforce them.

The NRA requested a temporary restraining order on behalf of its mem­bers in the city, two firearm groups, two gun shops and four firearm owners.

In a harshly-worded statement, SAF Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb nicknamed the city "Killadelphia" and reminded the mayor that he couldn't willfully violate state law and then expect anyone else to obey it.

"How can Mayor Nutter and the council expect anyone else, especially criminals, to obey the law if they don't live up to the same standard," Gottlieb wondered. "Just because the mayor doesn't like the fact that the state legislature retains sole authority over gun laws does not give him or the city council any right to essentially set up their own fiefdom. What kind of example does that set? What does it accomplish?"

The new measures include a limit on handgun purchases to one per month, a ban on so-called assault weapons, a requirement that citizens report lost or stolen guns to police within 24 hours, and a provision allowing police to confiscate firearms from people who allegedly pose "a risk of imminent personal injury."

A fifth ordinance would prohibit people under protection orders from possessing firearms, but that is already against federal law. The New GUN WEEK, May 15, 2008

 

PA House Rejects Handgun Theft Reporting Bill

The Pennsylvania House recently rejected a measure aimed at curbing illegal handgun trafficking, the first substantive gun restriction considered by the full chamber in more than a decade. By a vote of 128-75, the House defeated an amendment,-attached to a separate gun crime bill-that would have made it manda­tory to report lost and stolen handguns. The amendment won overwhelming support from Philadelphia-area lawmak­ers, where polls show majority support for the reporting requirement. House Speaker Dennis O'Brien, a Republican, was the only representative from Phila­delphia to vote against the measure.

O'Brien said he could not support what he called a "flawed bill" and felt it could have "unintended consequences" for legitimate crime victims, such as felony charges for not reporting multiple missing weapons. "It's a difficult vote to explain why you're not for it, but the deficiencies were glaring."

Gun-control proponents hailed the vote itself as a historic achievement for opening floor debate on gun violence and forcing lawmakers to take a formal position on controversial legislation.

The defeat came despite impassioned pleas from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh­ area lawmakers who argued that the legislation was critically needed to control the flow of illegal firearms and protect the innocent caught in the crossfire.

But the final vote reflected the dominant pro-gun ideology in a state where divisions over gun control run largely along geographic rather than party lines. The New GUN WEEK, May 1, 2008

 

Pennsylvanians Turn Out For Gun Rights At Harrisburg Rally

by Dave Workman, Senior Editor

On the same day the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed on a 200-0 vote a comprehensive gun law package, pro-gun activists and lawmakers gathered in the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg to rally against attacks on their gun rights.

House Bill 1845 makes it a felony to have a firearm with an altered or erased serial number, adds state penalties for providing false information on a gun purchase form, makes it a crime to falsely report a gun stolen and extends the time from two to five years that charges can be filed against a gun buyer if a gun is traced back to a straw purchase.

Kim Stolfer, chairman of Firearms Owners Against Crime, told Gun Week that the package was the result of pro-gun lobbying to defeat a series of anti-gun amendments a week earlier. He supported the measure that was passed.

But Keystone State gunowners say enough is enough, and they promised to hold anti-gun legislators responsible in November if they push restrictive measures.

The Second Amendment Liberty rally saw conservative Alan Keyes deliver the keynote address, and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, telling the crowd of more than 500 the importance of political activism and public scrutiny.

Quoted by The Harrisburg Patriot News, Keyes said the battle for gun rights requires “the courage, and the unwillingness to live in the shadow of fear.”

This was the third year for the capitol rally, and Stolfer said the strategy developed by Pennsylvania gun activists is to divide lawmakers up and send individual groups of constituent gunowners around to visit each representative individually. Gunowners, he said, are identifiable by the badges that they wear during their visits around the capital.

Other speakers included: state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Cranberry Republican, who helped organize the event in partnership with firearms civil rights groups across the Keystone State. Metcalfe stressed the importance of educating his colleagues who had earlier voted in support of anti-gun amendments to HB-1845 that were defeated.

“A truly safe and liberty-advancing society is an armed society,” he observed.

Metcalfe was among some 40 state lawmakers from both parties who turned out for the rally and gathered on the Rotunda steps behind the microphone.

“As citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we do not need the US Supreme Court, the United Nations or even the governor to reaffirm our God-given rights to defend our lives, loved ones and property, Metcalfe said.

Reminding the audience that Pennsylvania is the “birthplace of the Declaration of Independence,” Metcalfe noted that Pennsylvania’s state constitution contains explicit language on the right of private citizens to bear arms.

In addition, the crowd heard remarks from Jon Mirowitz of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, Larry Pratt with Gun Owners of America, Melanie Sellinger, executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs and Jeff Knox with the Firearms Coalition.

Keyes held the limelight, however, noting, “You cannot defend your life if you give up the means of that defense. If it is your right to stand in defense of your family and your home, then you have the right and means to enable yo