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Poll Shows Americans Support Right-to-Carry
| Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| The United States Senate recently voted on an amendment that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry in all other states that also grant carry permits. The amendment, sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and David Vitter (R-La.), won a significant majority of votes, 58 to 39, but failed to reach the 60 votes needed to avoid a Senate filibuster. Anti-gun senators have long argued that the majority of Americans do not support firearm freedoms. They made this erroneous claim once again during the debate on the Thune/Vitter amendment. Now, a new poll has proven them wrong. Conducted by Zogby International and The O’Leary Report, the poll looked at Americans’ opinions on some key issues related to the Second Amendment. One of the questions asked: “Currently, 39 states have laws that allow residents to carry firearms to protect themselves, only if they pass a background check and pay a fee to cover administrative costs. Most of those states also require applicants to have firearms safety training. Do you support or oppose this law?”It will come as a shock to the 39 senators who voted to deny law-abiding Americans their right to self-defense when traveling outside their home states, but the results showed that 83% of Americans support Right-to-Carry laws. The poll also revealed that support for Right-to-Carry crosses party lines, with 86% of independent voters and 80% of Democratic voters supporting Right-to-Carry. This is no surprise to gun owners, however, who have long known that the majority of Americans support the Second Amendment and the right to self-defense.
The anti-gun community is trumpeting its 39-vote procedural “victory” as a major achievement. But just like the vote in the Senate, the overwhelming majority of Americans are on our side. It is our right to support gun rights here in our country. |
Sheriff: Attempted carjacker gets shot
EDINBURG – The clerk warned Alejandro Salinas about the suspicious men who had been hanging out in front of the convenience store for the past hour.
He told Salinas to be careful as he went back out to his Chevrolet Z-71 pickup truck, that he had just filled at the Aziz Convenience Store about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Salinas walked out to his truck and hopped in.
But before he could close the door, 18-year-old Hector Severo Ramos was holding a .25-caliber pistol at Salinas’ neck, said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño.
“He says ‘Get out of the truck. I’m going to take it and I’m going to kill you,” Treviño said of Ramos.
Salinas told the gunman to calm down; they could work things out.
Then he pushed Ramos’ pistol away, pulled out his own pistol and fired two 9 mm bullets into Ramos’ chest.
My AR-15
I had the opportunity to go to the Winchester Gallery Shooting Range in Fort Worth, TX to shoot my AR 15. It was pretty accurate and with a little kick. I shot with the .223 round as well as a 5.56 round. It was my first time shooting this one since i got it so it was a very great experience.
I purchased my AR-15 a week ago piece by piece at the Dallas Gun Show. I purchased the upper for $415 and the lower which is CMMG for $323. Not a bad deal at all considering most are selling for $1500.
Get yours now before your not allowed…I think the new administration will certainly be looking to ban the sale of the AR-15 to the public within the next year.
Man shoots alleged attacker
A Pell City man is in the hospital with a gunshot wound after he allegedly broke into a Hanceville residence and attacked the owner Saturday.
According to Hanceville police reports, the gunshot victim was 32-year-old Charles Kendrick.
“He was shot once in the stomach with a 25-caliber automatic,” said Lt. Jimmy Rodgers of the Hanceville Police Department. “Further investigation has ruled it was a self-defense shooting.”
A rare, armor piercing Belgian-made pistol
Philadelphia police detectives met with the city’s district attorney’s office about a month ago to present their final evidence relating to an April 29 shooting outside a business in North Philadelphia owned by Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison that injured three people, a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN Monday night.
District Attorney Lynne Abraham has scheduled a press conference for Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Philadelphia to announce the results of the investigation.
* A shooting took place on April 29th after a fist fight broke out between Marvin Harrison and Dwight Dixon at a North Philadelphia auto repair shop owned by Harrison.
* Harrison and Dixon squabbled for two weeks before the shooting after they exchanged words in Playmakers, a bar on 28th Street near Cambridge that Harrison owns.
* Ballistics tests proved shell casings found at the shooting scene had been fired from Harrison’s gun, a Belgian-made FN5.7, law-enforcement sources said.
* Detectives found the firearm in Harrison’s garage on Thompson Street.
* Witnesses and Dixon separately identified Harrison as the shooter, the sources said.
Self-defense cases problematic
The silence from Dubuque County Attorney Ralph Potter’s office after the shooting death of a Dyersville, Iowa, man on Nov. 29 might have some justification, according to one university law professor.
But as the county attorney’s office sorts through a controversial death investigation to determine whether force was justified, a recent analysis shows self-defense laws present problems for prosecutors in many parts of the country.
David Herman, 24, was killed after an altercation with 48-year-old Christopher S. Leppert, a locksmith from Dubuque.
Oakland killing ruled self-defense
Oakland
Killing ruled in self-defense: A 27-year-old man wounded in a Dec. 22 exchange of gunfire with a man police said he was trying to rob has died, authorities said Wednesday.
Shot fired at “high caliber” gun show in Fort Worth
There was a shot fired at a gun show in fort worth this past month. The dealer made the mistake of allowing a friend to place a gun on his table for sale without inspecting the weapon. The gun was unfortunately loaded. The weapon was handled and went off with a loud bang. The man who placed the gun on the table ran but was apprehended by Fort Worth PD. The round hit the floor and went through some boxes that were there from another vendor. Luckily no one was injured.
The dealer stated that it was not his gun. He was told by many there that it may not be his gun but it sure was his table and he is responsible for what is on his table.
The dealer was cited and packed up and left immediately. No other details are available at this time.
U.S. agents under greater attack on Mexico border
LAREDO, Texas, March 8 (Reuters) - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
Assaults against Border Patrol officers rose 10 percent to 843 incidents in the year to September 2006 from the same period a year before, officials say. It is also a near three-fold increase from two years previously.
Mexican drug cartels, locked in a turf feud and under pressure from an army crackdown, are lashing out at law enforcement officers in Texas.
