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- utah-firearms-digest Thursday, March 22 2001 Volume 02 : Number 208
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- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:46:33 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: Fw: [UTGOA] URGENT GUN BILL UPDATE
-
- I've just called the Senate, and HB 376 S3 IS CURRENTLY BEING DEBATED.
- Please call at once and ask your message to be hand delived.
-
- ==================================================================
- Charles C. Hardy
- Utah Email Coordinator--Women Against Gun Control
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - --------- Forwarded message ----------
- From: Sarah Thompson <Director@utgoa.org>
- To: utgoa@yahoogroups.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:09:40 -700
-
- URGENT GUN BILL UPDATE!
-
- It turns out that the information give to Utah Gun Owners Alliance
- earlier today about Senate leadership "holding" HB 376-S3 (Concealed
- Carry Recognition) was incorrect, even though it came from bill
- sponsor Glenn Donnelson. The mixup started when the Senate did not
- post a list of new bills to be considered today, which led to the
- incorrect conclusion that they were "holding" the bill.
-
- As you can imagine, there are some very hurt feelings on the part of
- the Senators who have been working hard to support this bill!
-
- The following people have committed to supporting HB 376-S3 with
- friendly amendments.
-
- Senate President Al Mansell
- Senate Majority Leader Steve Poulton
- Senate Rules Chair Mike Waddoups
- Sen. Curt Bramble (who is the Senate sponsor and has been
- enthusiastically supporting the bill all along!)
-
- Also:
- Sen. Ed Mayne
- Sen. Dave Gladwell
- Sen. Chris Buttars
-
- There may be others who have not made their support public.
-
- Please make sure you THANK these people for their support for
- Concealed Carry Recognition! If you sent a rude or threatening email,
- please APOLOGIZE!
-
- You can reach them by calling 801-538-1035.
- You can send email by going to www.utahsenate.org and using the Senate
- email system. Faxes for all except Sen. Mayne can be sent to
- 538-1414, and to Sen. Mayne at 538-1449.
-
- Full contact information is on the Utah Gun Owners Alliance web site
- at www.utgoa.org
-
- Although it was an entirely honest mistake, Utah Gun Owners Alliance
- apologizes for disseminating incorrect information. We appreciate the
- support these Senators are showing for HB 376-S3.
-
- We say this over and over, but some of you are still not listening.
- DO NOT THREATEN LEGISLATORS! That includes political threats such as
- saying you'll remove them from office. All you need to say is that
- you want the legislator to vote YES (or NO) on a given bill or issue.
-
- Please make sure you THANK the Senator listed above. If your Senator
- is not on this list, please POLITELY ask him/her to support HB 376-S3,
- Concealed Carry Recognition.
-
- Thanks!
-
- Sarah Thompson, M.D.
- http://www.utgoa.or
-
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- UTGOA-unsubscribe@egroups.com
-
-
-
- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
-
-
-
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:45:12 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: On a more personal note
-
- I'm pleased, relieved, and also a bit overwhelmed to announce that at
- about 4:20 this Friday morning, my wife Jennifer gave birth to our first
- child, a happy baby girl. Proving that the best laid plans of doctors
- and mothers-to-be are no match for mother nature, Jennifer's water broke
- and she started labor just four days prior to a scheduled inducement.
- Following 10 hours of mostly back labor, Abigail Mae Hardy looks to be
- full term, weighed in at 7 lbs, 15 ozs. and is 20 inches long. Mother
- and baby are tired, but doing fine. Dad is tired and just starting to
- come to some realization that now the really hard part begins. :)
-
-
- - ----------------
- Charles Hardy
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:50:19 -0700
- From: R.Sawyer@epixtech.com
- Subject: Re: On a more personal note
-
- Congrats to you, your wife , and the new little one! The hard part
- begins, but so does one of the finest experiences of your lives.
-
- Rob Sawyer
-
-
-
-
-
- charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Sent by: owner-utah-firearms@lists.xmission.com
- 03/02/2001 02:45 PM
- Please respond to utah-firearms
-
-
- To: utbagpiper@juno.com
- cc:
- Subject: On a more personal note
-
-
- I'm pleased, relieved, and also a bit overwhelmed to announce that at
- about 4:20 this Friday morning, my wife Jennifer gave birth to our first
- child, a happy baby girl. Proving that the best laid plans of doctors
- and mothers-to-be are no match for mother nature, Jennifer's water broke
- and she started labor just four days prior to a scheduled inducement.
- Following 10 hours of mostly back labor, Abigail Mae Hardy looks to be
- full term, weighed in at 7 lbs, 15 ozs. and is 20 inches long. Mother
- and baby are tired, but doing fine. Dad is tired and just starting to
- come to some realization that now the really hard part begins. :)
-
-
- - ----------------
- Charles Hardy
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - -
-
-
-
-
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:24:26 -0700
- From: "David Sagers" <dsagers@ci.west-valley.ut.us>
- Subject: Re: On a more personal note
-
- Congradulations!!
-
- She will forever change your life, but its a good change, and little kids =
- are the greatest.
-
- David Sagers
-
- <<< charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com> 3/ 2 2:54p >>>
- I'm pleased, relieved, and also a bit overwhelmed to announce that at
- about 4:20 this Friday morning, my wife Jennifer gave birth to our first
- child, a happy baby girl. Proving that the best laid plans of doctors
- and mothers-to-be are no match for mother nature, Jennifer's water broke
- and she started labor just four days prior to a scheduled inducement.=20
- Following 10 hours of mostly back labor, Abigail Mae Hardy looks to be
- full term, weighed in at 7 lbs, 15 ozs. and is 20 inches long. Mother
- and baby are tired, but doing fine. Dad is tired and just starting to
- come to some realization that now the really hard part begins. :)
-
-
- - ----------------
- Charles Hardy
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - -
-
-
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:53:14 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: Fw: [UTGOA] Concealed carry recognition
-
- The latest from UTGOA.
-
- - ----------------
- Charles Hardy
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - --------- Forwarded message ----------
-
- The following article is from Monday's Salt Lake Tribune. Utah Gun
- Owners
- Alliance's response follows:
-
- http://www.sltrib.com/03052001/utah/76840.htm
- MEASURE MISFIRES: Gun-Permits Bill is Shot Full of Holes
- Monday, March 5, 2001
-
- BY GREG BURTON
- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
-
- Members of Utah's all-powerful gun lobby -- which took aim this year
-
- at the state's concealed-carry law -- may have fallen victim to
- unintended
- consequences.
- House Bill 376, sponsored by freshman Republican Rep. Glenn
- Donnelson
- of North Ogden, is not what it appears to be, says Nannette Rolfe, chief
- of
- the bureau that administers concealed weapon permitting in Utah.
- Sold by Donnelson and his well-armed friends as an act of
- reciprocity
- among states, HB376 actually does nothing for Utah permit holders. Zero.
- If signed by Gov. Mike Leavitt, who is studying the bill, HB376
- would
- allow permit holders from every state that issues them to move freely in
- Utah for 60 days with their concealed weapons.
- However, Donnelson's bill severely limits what is now an unlimited
- right bestowed on residents from only 16 states. Oops.
- The confusion can be traced to the win-at-all-cost stand of the gun
- lobby, which badgered lawmakers to pass the bill. As conceived, the bill
- abolished virtually all barriers to permit holders from out of state who
- want to pack their guns in Utah.
- Hoping to preserve some sort of standard, lawmakers drafted three
- substitute bills before they passed the final version, which includes the
-
- 60-day provision.
- In its current form, HB376 would allow all sorts of folks to conceal
-
- their guns while in Utah, including Carey McWilliams, a North Dakota man
- with 10 guns who is blind. McWilliams secured a permit in his state when
- regulators helped him "get his bearings" before a shooting test.
- Under existing state law, North Dakota permit holders are prohibited
-
- from carrying in Utah because officials in this state say North Dakota's
- permitting process is lax. Why will the North Dakota guy be able to carry
-
- after the law is passed?
- Still, Donnelson, an amiable facilities manager for Deseret
- Industries, was giddy when his bill finally passed.
- "This is how the process works," he said.
- Or doesn't.
- "We have concerns," Rolfe says.
- For one thing, there is really no way to tell when an out-of-state
- permit holder enters Utah, the triggering event for the 60-day countdown.
- It is also impossible to check whether a permit is valid after
- working
- hours. There is no national database for concealed-carry permits.
- "The officer in the alleyway at midnight isn't going to know whether
-
- the permit is legal or not," Rolfe says.
- Concealed-carry holders from these states currently have unlimited
- access to pack on Utah streets: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky,
- Florida, Connecticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina,
- Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.
- Those agreements, though, can change overnight, Rolfe says. The
- state
- Bureau of Criminal Identification faithfully monitors the laws in each
- state to ensure that permit holders coming to Utah have met or exceeded
- this state's safety requirements, which include fingerprinting and
- criminal
- history checks. (What does this have to do with unexpected consequences
- of
- the bill?)
- There is another quirk. Donnelson's bill really has nothing to do
- with
- two-way recognition or reciprocity. Thirteen states currently endorse gun
-
- permits from Utah. The 37 states that do not are in no way expected to
- suddenly change with HB376.
- The states that recognize Utah permits are: Alaska, Arizona,
- Arkansas,
- Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South
- Carolina, Texas and Wyoming.
- If HB376 becomes law, it will in some ways limit rather than expand
- gun rights, Rolfe says.
-
-
-
- UTAH GUN OWNERS ALLIANCE'S RESPONSE:
-
- To the Editor, Salt Lake Tribune:
-
- Thank you for your article on Rep. Donnelson's HB 376 - Concealed Carry
- Recognition. While Utah Gun Owners Alliance (UTGOA) supported the
- initial
- bill (1st and 3rd substitutes before amendments), we opposed Sen.
- Spencer's
- amendment to limit recognition to 60 days. The original bill said that
- Utah would honor permits issued by any state or county (not country, as
- you've been publishing). Unfortunately, UTGOA was the only gun rights
- organization to oppose Spencer's amendment.
-
- Our concerns are similar to those expressed by Ms. Rolfe.
-
- The bill, as written, is unenforceable unless Utah starts issuing
- passports
- and sets up border checkpoints to monitor how many consecutive days
- people
- spend in the state. Unenforceable laws are unfair to both citizens and
- the
- law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing them.
-
- Utah currently honors permits from 16 states for an indefinite period of
- time. We will no longer do so if this bill becomes law. Utah residents
- who currently carry concealed firearms legally based on possession of one
-
- of these permits will become "overnight criminals", even though they've
- done nothing wrong and may not even know about the new law.
-
- There is also a potential problem because the states that currently honor
-
- Utah permits may change their minds, and decide not to honor our permits
- because of the 60 day rule. Of course it's also possible that states
- that
- do not currently honor Utah permits will do so, once we start recognizing
-
- theirs. At this point, it's all conjecture.
-
- BCI currently has up to 60 days to issue a permit from the time it
- receives
- a completed application. It can therefore take longer than 60 days to
- get
- a permit, since the time needed for a class, fingerprints, letters of
- reference, photos, etc. is not included in the 60 days. As a result, a
- new
- resident may be left defenseless between the time his non-Utah permit
- becomes invalid and the time he receives a Utah permit, even though he is
-
- eligible under both states' criteria.
-
- UTGOA does not, however, share your deep distrust of other states'
- permitting procedures. Concealed carry permittees nationwide have been
- shown to be far more law-abiding than the average citizen, and have a
- stellar reputation for responsible behavior. Utah honors marriages,
- divorces, drivers licenses, and high school diplomas from states whose
- requirements differ significantly from ours. Carry permits should be no
- different.
-
- Utah Gun Owners Alliance hopes that our concerns, and those of BCI, can
- be
- resolved quickly, and that HB 376 will facilitate concealed carry
- recognition as was originally intended.
-
- We commend Rep. Donnelson for sponsoring this important and necessary
- legislation, but are saddened that he chose to accept Sen. Spencer's
- unnecessary and confusing amendment.
-
- Sarah Thompson, M.D.
- Executive Director, Utah Gun Owners Alliance
- PO Box 1185
- Sandy, UT 84091
-
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:03:54 -0700
- From: Scott Bergeson <shbergeson@qwest.net>
- Subject: Reciprocity and NRA
-
- In his message "Thanks for the great effort you all put in at the legislature!"
- on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:37:40 -0700 David A. Hansen <dahansen@qwest.net> gave
- his thoughts on the last day of the Utah 2001 session and addressed HB 367 S3
- - - CONCEALED CARRY RECOGNITION - DONNELSON, which passed. While I post this to
- show the apparent true colors of the NRA, the way to deal with it should it
- affect you is, if at all possible, to do nothing to register Utah residency
- until the day you file the permit application. This requires a definite move
- on in meeting the requirements, as until you do you can't be employed as a
- Utah resident, register to vote, apply for a driver, professional or resident
- hunting license, or possibly even sign up for utilities. Please recall that
- unless it has changed its policy, the NRA also opposes Vermont carry.
- Excerpted.
-
- Scott
-
- - -=-=-=-=-
- On the topic of the CCW reciprocity bill, Terry Spencer pulled another
- fast one on us. This time he worked with Brian Judy of the NRA to craft
- an unenforceable amendment that would require anyone in Utah to acquire
- a Utah CCW permit after being in the state 60 days.
-
- When Judy was told that it took longer than 60 days to get a permit in
- Utah, he still did not back down from his position. One has to wonder
- just how much the NRA fights for your rights. Terry Spencer was quoted
- as saying that this bill has the "holy blessing" of the NRA. Of course,
- USSC, which is closely allied with the NRA, also endorsed this 60-day
- stipulation. I just hope that when a court finds the 60-day provision
- unconstitutional and stikes it down, that it doesn't strike down the
- entire law that allows recognition of out-of-state CCW licenses. Please
- thank the USSC and NRA for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
- Elwood Powell's email address is: mailto:1dpowell@sisna.com.
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:28:40 -0500
- From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" <chad@pengar.com>
- Subject: guns and school violence
-
- Dear Mr. Eric Debarbieux:
-
- In an AP news story that appeared today on YAHOO
- (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010306/wl/france_school_violence_2.html)
- you were quoted as saying:
-
- "
- "It is a problem of the commerce of arms," Debarbieux said. "As long as the
- United States hasn't regulated the sale of arms, we will have this type of
- thing."
- "
-
- You sir, no NOTHING of which you speak. "Commerce of Arms" in the USA IS
- regulated. Much more than it should be. Kids cannot buy guns today. At
- 18 they can buy rifles and shotguns and at 21 they can buy a handgun. And
- adults have a lot of regulataory red tape to go through. Especially in
- California, where this latest event happened. Regulatory burdens are also
- heavy for the gun dealer and other merchants of such items.
-
- And the violence in schools has nothing to do with "availability of arms."
- You obviously no nothing about arms in America, the rules and regulations
- and heavy burdens placed upon them and their commerce, nor have you done
- any research on the availability of arms in the US as related to school
- violence. Firearms were much more prevalent 40 years ago, when any teenage
- kid could go buy one, and they were often taken to school if the owner
- meant to go hunting or shooting before or after school. And they never
- were used for such horrific crimes back then either. Guns have become a
- lot less accessible than they ever were but the crimes keep on happening.
-
- As you should know, in science, when studying something, if there is a
- change in the system, you look for the variable that changed. In the study
- of violence in schools (in the USA), the violence has gone up, but gun
- accessibility has gone down, a lot. So it sure ain't the "gun
- availability" that is spuring this on.
-
- It is very disingenuous of you to go around making comments like the above
- from the AP which are totally unfounded in any sort of way, since you are
- recognized as an expert in this "field" and your comments are believed as
- those of an expert. In reality, your comments have no basis in reality and
- seem to be those of a politically motivated "academic" whose head is stuck
- in the unreality of the academic world where political purity is more
- important than honest, research supported truth.
-
- Shame on you!
-
- Sincerely,
- Chad Leigh
- Merrimack, NH USA
-
- Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC
- Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting
- Chad Leigh
- chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net
-
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:39:40 -0700
- From: Scott Bergeson <shbergeson@qwest.net>
- Subject: McCain Incumbent Protection Bill Threatens Gun Owners
-
- McCain Incumbent Protection Bill Threatens Gun Owners
- -- Bill to keep gun owners in the dark, endanger existence of GOA
-
- Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
- 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
- Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
- http://www.gunowners.org
-
- (Tuesday, March 6, 2001) -- Irked by nettlesome groups such as GOA
- which threaten to expose their anti-gun activities, Arizona Senator
- John McCain (R) and Wisconsin Democrat Senator Russ Feingold (D) are
- pushing legislation which would eliminate the ability of groups like
- GOA to keep gun owners informed on how their legislators are voting.
-
- In the name of reforming campaign finance laws, this Incumbent
- Protection legislation would allow the government to seize the
- membership lists of groups such as ours -- and potentially outlaw
- our organization. The issue is scheduled to come before the Senate
- between March 19th and 26th.
-
- The Incumbent Protection bill, S. 27, would require legislative
- advocacy groups -- including Second Amendment organizations such as
- GOA -- to report to the government if they spend more than $10,000
- preparing for and participating in TV and radio broadcasts which
- mention officeholder-candidates within two months of an election.
- If they wished, government bureaucrats could define virtually all of
- an organization's activities as "preparation" for TV and radio
- interviews.
-
- With GOA employees regularly appearing on TV shows such as Fox News,
- Crossfire, and other programs to discuss gun-related legislation,
- there can be little doubt that S. 27 would apply to this
- organization. If it did, GOA would be required to provide the
- government with its donor list. For the time being, this disclosure
- would be limited to contributors of $1,000 or more, but no one
- should assume this threshold would not be reduced or eliminated once
- the government's foot was in our membership door.
-
- It goes without saying that an activist who sends a check to GOA to
- help protect his Second Amendment rights doesn't want his name being
- registered with the government as a gun owner. And for that reason,
- GOA will fight this bill "tooth and nail." And if this bill were to
- become law, GOA would not comply. We would fight it in court, and
- exhaust every possible resource, because we are not going to turn
- over our members' names to the government.
-
- This underscores why it is SO VERY IMPORTANT that we defeat this
- bill in the Congress! GOA would rather spend its members' dollars
- defending 2nd Amendment freedoms, as opposed to spending hundreds of
- thousands of dollars fighting 1st Amendment battles in court.
-
- Finally, because the Incumbent Protection bill would define
- GOA's battles against anti-gun legislation as "electioneering" if
- they occurred during election season, these legislative activities
- could affect our tax-exempt status -- and ultimately, our existence.
- Urge your Senators to keep their distance from John McCain and Russ
- Feingold, and to respect the free speech rights of all Americans.
-
-
- ACTION:
-
- 1. Please call, fax or email your two Senators and ask them to
- filibuster and vote against the anti-gun McCain-Feingold bill,
- S. 27. You can call the Senate at 202-224-3121, or toll-free at
- 1-877-762-8762. See the GOA Legislative Action Center at
- http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm for complete Senate contact
- information, and to send pre-written messages.
-
- 2. Forward this alert to as many gun owners as possible and ask
- them to contact their Senators in opposition to S. 27.
-
-
- - ----- Pre-written message -----
-
- Dear Senator:
-
- The anti-gun McCain-Feingold bill, S. 27, threatens to open the
- membership lists of Second Amendment organizations -- and even
- threaten their tax-exempt status. I urge you to oppose any bill
- that would limit the ability of outside groups such as Gun Owners of
- America to communicate with their members.
-
- I rely on groups like GOA to keep me informed when my rights are
- being threatened. I would consider a law to muzzle such groups as
- an attempt to avoid the accountability that an informed electorate
- provides.
-
- Please filibuster and vote against this anti-gun and anti-speech
- abomination. Let me know what you intend to do. Thank you.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:13:39 -0700 (MST)
- From: Karl Pearson <karlp@ourldsfamily.com>
- Subject: Patron Saint of Handgun Owners
-
- Vatican urged to name handgun saint
-
- CNN.com
- February 28, 2001
- Web posted at: 1:23 PM EST (1823 GMT)
-
- VATICAN CITY, Vatican City -- CNN -- Admirers of a gun-toting saint are
- campaigning for him to be made the patron saint of handgun owners.
-
- St. Gabriel Possenti was known as a skilled gunman and is said to have once
- used his skills to prevent a woman from being raped.
-
- John Snyder, a former worker for the U.S. National Rifle Association, is
- leading the campaign to give the saint the new title.
-
- He said making Possenti the patron of handgun owners would demonstrate that
- the Vatican was "courageous enough to stick its neck out for the right of
- individuals to defend themselves against evil and tyranny."
-
- Possenti was one of the three people made saints during the early 20th
- century papacy of Benedict XV.
-
- Although the Vatican has approved many saints as patrons of various
- occupations or groups, its press office said naming a patron for gun
- lobbyists was not opportune.
-
- Possenti's reputation as a marksman is based on accounts that he once
- frightened away renegade soldiers, who were about to rape a village woman,
- by shooting a passing lizard.
-
- To publicise his cause, Snyder, head of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society,
- awarded medals, flanked by a handgun and a lizard, to other Possenti
- lobbyists at a hotel near St. Peter's Basilica.
-
- Snyder, who said the Vatican had told him he needed to enlist bishops from
- around the world for his cause, added he would not be discouraged.
-
- "I intend to keep bringing this to the Vatican's attention till they finally
- get the message," Snyder said.
-
- "Things in the Catholic church often take a very, very long time."
-
-
- ((( really. cnn. here's the link. )))
- http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/02/28/Vatican.Possenti/index.html
-
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:57:08 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: Fw: LP RELEASE: Media Bias & Shooting
-
- The following, Libertarian Party Press Release is quite interesting...
-
- ==================================================================
- Charles C. Hardy
- Utah Email Coordinator--Women Against Gun Control
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - --------- Forwarded message ----------
-
- High school shooting and car massacre:
- Ultimate proof of media's anti-gun bias?
-
- WASHINGTON, DC -- The media's anti-gun bias is showing loud and clear
- this
- week as the latest high school shooting (two dead in California) is
- plastered all over every front page in America -- while last week's
- murderous college car rampage (four dead in California) was virtually
- ignored, charge Libertarians.
-
- "A disturbed 15-year-old California high school student kills two
- classmates
- with a gun, and it's front-page news and around-the-clock TV coverage,"
- said
- George Getz, the Libertarian Party's press secretary. "Last week, a
- disturbed 19-year-old California college student kills four classmates
- with
- a car, and it's a minor blurb in newspapers and a 10-second clip on the
- news.
-
- "What's the explanation for this, unless journalists are almost 100%
- opposed
- to the Second Amendment -- and eager to jump on any opportunity to
- demonize
- guns and exploit gun-related tragedies, while ignoring other, equally
- horrific, crimes?"
-
- On Monday, a 15-year-old boy opened fire on his classmates in Santee,
- California, killing two and injuring 13 others at the Santana High
- School.
-
- The suspect, Charles Andrew Williams, was described as a "scrawny" kid
- who
- had been picked on by bullies. Over the previous weekend, he had joked
- about
- shooting up his school.
-
- The story made the front page of almost every major American newspaper,
- was
- the lead item on the nightly network news, and is generating
- around-the-clock discussion on cable TV networks. The crime also prompted
- new demands to restrict or outlaw guns.
-
- Meanwhile, on February 26, a 19-year-old student at the University of
- California at Santa Barbara plowed his car -- traveling at 60 miles an
- hour
- - -- into a crowd of college students in Isla Vista, killing four and
- critically injuring one.
-
- The suspect, David Attias, shouted, "I'm the angel of death!" as he was
- taken away from the scene. He was described by fellow students as
- troubled,
- and was known in his dormitory as "Crazy Dave."
-
- That story was relegated to the inside of most newspapers, and generated
- scant attention on network or cable news shows. The crime prompted no
- demands to restrict or outlaw automobiles.
-
- Why was one a major story in the eyes of journalists -- and the other an
- afterthought? The only plausible explanation is media bias, said Getz.
-
- "Journalists are taught to revere the First Amendment, but most appear to
- scorn the Second Amendment," he said. "So they use their First Amendment
- rights to slant and distort the news to attack the Second Amendment.
-
- "As America rightfully mourns the two dead students in Santee while
- unfairly
- ignoring the four dead students in Isla Vista, that media bias is on
- display
- for everyone to see."
-
- Unfortunately, the Santana High School coverage isn't the only example of
- the hostility the media has towards gun rights, said Getz.
-
- In January, the Media Research Center released the results of a two-year
- study examining how the four major networks covered gun-related news
- stories.
-
- The study, "Outgunned: How the Network News Media are Spinning the Gun
- Control Debate," analyzed 635 stories on gun policy by ABC, CBS, CNN, and
- NBC. It found that stories with an anti-gun perspective outnumbered
- pro-gun
- stories by 357 to 36 -- a 10-to-l ratio. Another 260 stories were
- classified
- as neutral.
-
- Such a pattern is troubling -- not just for the Second Amendment, but for
- the First Amendment, too, said Getz.
-
- "Libertarians are distressed by the media's anti-gun bias, but we
- recognize
- journalists' right to broadcast whatever they want," he said. "However,
- journalists need to understand that when they attack one basic right,
- they
- attack all rights; when they give politicians more power in one area,
- they
- give politicians more power in all areas.
-
- "In the long run, the media's hostility to the Second Amendment -- and
- the
- exploitation of tragedies like the one at Santana High School -- will
- help
- undermine the right they hold most dear: The First Amendment. That's a
- lesson journalists need to learn before it's too late."
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- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:56:48 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: [none]
-
- The following story, from today's DesNews
- <http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,255012503,00.html?> was also
- reported on the TV news last night. Both store owners said, on camera,
- they were convinced that if they had not been armed they would have been
- killed.
-
- Sorry to any who missed the report last night since, unlike criminal acts
- involving guns like school schootings, lawful self-defense such as this
- incident almost never get replayed much. I didn't time it, but estimate
- that coverage of the latest school shooting in CA received twice as much
- air time several days after the fact as this local, self-defense use of
- guns received on the night it took place.
-
-
-
- Pawnshop robbery-gunfight ends without any injury
-
- A robbery-turned-gunfight ended peacefully at a Salt
- Lake pawnshop Tuesday.
- According to the Salt Lake Police Department, two men
- entered Pickles Pawn Shop, 1514 S. State, at 11:15 a.m. and fired some
- warning shots at customers who were ordered to lie the floor.
- Two pawnshop owners heard the gunplay, ducked behind a
- counter at the store's rear and returned fire. The robbers then
- retreated and fired at least one more round toward prone
- customers, police said.
- The robbers fled into an alley, where they entered a
- getaway car occupied by two females. No one was hurt in the incident,
- police
- said.
- ==================================================================
- Charles C. Hardy
- Utah Email Coordinator--Women Against Gun Control
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
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- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:27:45 -0500
- From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" <chad@pengar.com>
- Subject: another old but good article
-
- My brother posted this in 1995. (For Utah folks concerns BYU). Worth
- reading
-
- http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Firearms/Essays/No%20Logic%20in%20Gun%20Control
-
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- - -
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:21:02 -0700
- From: Scott Bergeson <shbergeson@qwest.net>
- Subject: Where it's a crime not to own a gun
-
- Where it's a crime not to own a gun
- - ----------
- In Virgin, Utah, where dislike of the federal government runs deep
- and residents regularly defy federal mandates, the town council
- responded to gun control measures with a symbolic ordinance
- requiring guns in every home. (03/14/01)
- http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/14/fp3s1-csm.shtml
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:58:08 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: Paycheck protection signed into law
-
- According to the legislative web page, Gov. Leavitt signed HB 179,
- Voluntary Contributions Act, aka "Paycheck Proteciont into law yesterday.
- While this is not a big surprise, it is still good news to gun owners
- and other grass roots groups.
-
- I'm sure the NEA and Public Employee Union will file their lawsuit(s)
- shortly to challange the law. Here's hoping it receives a thorough and
- vigorous defense and is quickly found to be constitutional and
- enforcable.
-
- ==================================================================
- Charles C. Hardy
- Utah Email Coordinator--Women Against Gun Control
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
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- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:27:13 -0700
- From: "Scott Bergeson" <shbergeson@qwest.net>
- Subject: To survivor, guns are the answer
-
- http://arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/0318texasguns18.html
-
- To survivor, guns are the answer
-
- Hector Tobar
- Los Angeles Times
- March 18, 2001
-
- AUSTIN - State Rep. Suzanna Hupp doesn't like to advertise the
- fact. But if you press her, she won't deny it - yes, she does
- carry a loaded gun when she's on the floor of the Texas House
- of Representatives. She feels safer.
-
- For similar reasons, she authored a bill - three days before
- the recent school shooting in Santee, Calif. - to allow rural
- high school principals to carry concealed weapons on the job.
-
- "People who commit these crimes are sick, twisted individuals
- who are looking for easy victims," Hupp said Tuesday, which
- was Texas' annual Second Amendment Day, marking the
- constitutional right to bear arms. Even in Texas, however,
- the proposal to arm principals faces an uphill struggle.
-
- But spend 30 minutes in the company of Hupp and you'll
- understand why a dozen more outrages like the ones at
- Columbine and Santana high schools would not be likely to
- produce much support for tougher gun laws in rural America,
- where owning a weapon is considered both a proud tradition
- and sacred right.
-
- Hupp, 41, is a survivor of the 1991 massacre in Killeen,
- Texas, in which 23 people died. She has been elected three
- times to the Texas Legislature on what could be called a
- "guns and more guns" platform. She is the person perhaps
- most responsible for the 1996 law that allows Texans to
- carry concealed weapons.
-
- The armed-principal bill is just one of a dozen gun bills she's
- authored or co-authored for this year's legislative session.
- Together, they would chip away at the remaining restrictions
- on carrying a weapon in Texas - it's still illegal to carry a gun
- in churches, on university campuses and at public schools.
-
- "I try to obey the law," she said in an interview. "But when it
- isn't convenient, or when I feel like I should (have a gun),
- then I carry. I never want to be in that position ever again."
-
- "That position" refers to the events of Oct. 16, 1991, the day
- that scarred Hupp forever and set her off on a public crusade.
-
- She was having lunch with her parents at the Luby's Cafeteria
- in Killeen when a gunman crashed his car through the front
- window and began methodically shooting people. Hupp's gun was
- locked in her car - it was then illegal for her to carry it.
- (At the time, she worked as a chiropractor and feared she
- would lose her license if she broke the law.) So she could do
- nothing while the gunman killed her mother and father. Hupp
- ran out a shattered window, thinking her mother was behind
- her, only to find out later that she had died embracing her
- husband.
-
- Copyright 2001, The Arizona Republic. All rights reserved
- Gannett Co. Inc
-
- - -
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:54:11 -0700
- From: charles hardy <utbagpiper@juno.com>
- Subject: FW: Man Saves Life with Gun
-
- With the leg session over things have really slowed down so I though I'd
- pass along some other info. While I do so, I also want to remind any
- SLCo Republican Precinct Chairs and other officers to be sure to attend
- the County Central Committee meeting this Saturday.
-
- ==================================================================
- Charles C. Hardy
- Utah Email Coordinator--Women Against Gun Control
- <utbagpiper@juno.com>
-
- - --------- Forwarded message ----------
-
- "If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead," he said. "If my pistol had been
- in
- a gun safe, I'd be dead. If the bullets were stored separate, I'd be
- dead.
- They were going to kill me."
- - -------------------------------------------
-
- Man faces suspects accused of attacking him after getting ride
-
- Victim had just fixed meal when he was assaulted and stabbed
-
- By Ellen Miller, News Staff Writer
-
- GRAND JUNCTION -- Chuck Harris, his right hand laced with stitches and
- his
- partially shaved head showing scars, came to court Tuesday to eyeball his
- attackers.
-
- It was the first time he had seen them since March 1, the day he was
- attacked and stabbed repeatedly by young hitchhikers he had befriended.
-
- Harris, a contractor, had picked up three young hitchhikers on his way
- home
- from work, taken them home and fixed them a steak dinner. He was
- preparing
- to offer them work when two of them attacked him, stabbing him repeatedly
- in
- the back, head and hands with knifes they had taken from Harris' kitchen.
-
- The assault stopped when Harris said he would get them money. Instead, he
- grabbed a .44-Magnum pistol he kept in a desk drawer and began shooting.
- He
- shot one in the torso. The two others tried to flee in Harris' car, so he
- shot out two tires.
-
- Police arrested the pair a short distance from Harris' house.
-
- That was more than two weeks ago. Tuesday, Harris was in Mesa County
- Court,
- watching the legal process unfold.
-
- "I plan to be here, every time," said Harris, 48, who came to court
- Tuesday
- with his mother and two of his three daughters. "I want them to get the
- maximum so they don't do this to anybody else."
-
- Tuesday's proceeding set May 25 for a preliminary hearing for the accused
- attackers -- Richard Barbee, 25, and Colleen McLean, 18, both of
- Bakersfield, Calif. The third suspect, Harold Scott, is in fair condition
- at
- St. Mary's Hospital. Charges are pending his release, police say.
-
- Barbee and McLean remain in jail, Barbee on $500,000 bail and McLean on
- $60,000 bail. Barbee faces 17 felony charges, including a first-degree
- kidnapping charge that could result in life in prison without parole.
- McLean
- is facing lesser charges.
-
- Harris, whose right hand remains swollen and bruised, said Tuesday that
- he
- will be off work for at least six weeks because four of his tendons were
- severed in the attack.
-
- "Working again is still a question," he said. "But I walked a mile today.
- I'm feeling stronger."
-
- Harris said the attack took him by surprise and that he was glad his
- pistol
- was easily available.
-
- "If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead," he said. "If my pistol had been
- in
- a gun safe, I'd be dead. If the bullets were stored separate, I'd be
- dead.
- They were going to kill me."
-
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