There is an old saying that figures don't lie, but liars figure and that a lie told often enough becomes the truth to many people. In the Feb 2013 issue of "The Whistle Blower" magazine on page 46, there is an article spelling out the bogus claim from the Obama Administration (often repeated I might add for effect) concerning 40% of gun purchases somehow evade background checks. The comments that follow are excerpts and my own input from the Whistleblower editors.
The article looks at the facts:
Veteran journalist John Fund indicates the off-cited 40% figure (which was actually 36%) come from a SMALL 251 person survey on gun sales back during the Clinton Administration. What's more, the study was done BEFORE THE BRADY ACT instituted mandatory federal background checks in early 1994, which means it severely underestimated the percentage of sales that required checks.
CURRENT federal law REQUIRES "anyone engaged in the business of selling guns" to get a license and ensure that sales go through background checks, whether in a shop or AT A GUN SHOW. ANYONE WITH A FELONY CONVICTION, MISDEMEANOR or a history of mental illness is denied a gun.
The survey also simply asked buyers if they THOUGHT they were buying from a licensed dealer. The survey also included guns transferred as inheritances, or as gifts from family members. Even given that 85% of guns bought, traded, borrowed, rented or issued as a requirement of the job or won through raffles also went through Federal Licenses and would have been subject to background checks.
Bottom line is that perhaps on the high side maybe 10%, (AND NOT 40%) were not subject to background checks.
Could the purpose of quoting over and over again the bogus 40% figure be to drive a wedge between staunch opponents of gun control such as the NRA and the average gun owner because background checks are easily the most popular proposal??????? Seems Like It!
A Pew Research Center poll sows the public closely divided on banning so called "Assault Weapons", however 85% support universal background checks. Repeating false information over and over and over again has the average gun owner asking why are the so called assault weapon guys so against background checks. To me if is "Divide and Conquer" with half truths, outright lies and outdated deceitful information.
Please keep in mind that background checks wound NOT have stopped the killers in Newtown, Conn., or Aurora, CO. Adam Lanza stole his guns from his mother's storage locker after killing her, and Joseph Holmes mental illness was not reported to authorities.
Dan
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Video Of Gun Rights Rally In Albany on 2/28/13
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/video/thousands-attend-gun-rally-in-albany-ny/2195830861001
I was there and it is estimated that there were between 12,000 to 15,000 patriots that attended the rally.
Pray for NYS that we are able to repeal this new legislation as being unconstitutional. There are lawsuits filed by the New York Rifle Pistol Association and the NRA.
Dan
I was there and it is estimated that there were between 12,000 to 15,000 patriots that attended the rally.
Pray for NYS that we are able to repeal this new legislation as being unconstitutional. There are lawsuits filed by the New York Rifle Pistol Association and the NRA.
Dan
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
NYSRPA Rally In Albany, NY Feb 28, 2013 / BE THERE If You Can!
This is a notice that NYSRPA (New York State Rifle & Pistol Association) is hosting a rally in Albany to meet with legislators and protest the recently passed gun legislation in NY.
Dan
If you live in Madison County, contact Ned Lamb at 315-691-5521 for bus departure times and return times.
There are also depending on response a bus or buses leaving from Gander Mountain Parking Lot in Cicero at 6:30AM to go to the rally in Albany. There is a $25 fee for taking the trip and attending with the proceeds used to combat the gun legislation.
Contact Rick McDermott at 315-882-1540 cell phone OR
tughillmcd@yahoo.com OR
Facebook NY Crossbow Coalition
Here is a LINK to NYSRPA website:
http://www.nysrpa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage
EXCERPT:
February 28 Lobby Day
Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:14 | Last Updated on Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:18 | 
Written by Administrator | 
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Dan
If you live in Madison County, contact Ned Lamb at 315-691-5521 for bus departure times and return times.
There are also depending on response a bus or buses leaving from Gander Mountain Parking Lot in Cicero at 6:30AM to go to the rally in Albany. There is a $25 fee for taking the trip and attending with the proceeds used to combat the gun legislation.
Contact Rick McDermott at 315-882-1540 cell phone OR
tughillmcd@yahoo.com OR
Facebook NY Crossbow Coalition
Here is a LINK to NYSRPA website:
http://www.nysrpa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage
EXCERPT:
February 28 Lobby Day
Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:14 | Last Updated on Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:18 | Written by Administrator | | | Wednesday, January 30, 2013
More On 2nd Amendment / Good Article
Seems to be that many of our liberties and right under the Constitution and Bill Of Rights are being trashed lately and that some politicians feel that they can by the stroke of a pen take away freedoms that our Founding Fathers had the WISDOM and inspiration of God to put into the Constitution. In fact the founding Father's would not ratify the constitution without the 2nd Amendment. It is the most important of the 10 in my opinion as without its presence, the other 9 would perish. I received a copy of this article today by email and thought I would post it here.
REMEMBER:
Gerald Ford (14 July 1913 – 26 December 2006) , the 38th President of the United States.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
Ford has also been quoted as having made a similar statement many years earlier, as a representative to the US Congress: "If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
REMEMBER:
Gerald Ford (14 July 1913 – 26 December 2006) , the 38th President of the United States.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
Ford has also been quoted as having made a similar statement many years earlier, as a representative to the US Congress: "If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
WND EXCLUSIVE
Feds
accused of fomenting 'blood in our streets'
'God, Guns and Constitution' leader fears 'civil unrest' coming
Published: 12 hours ago
Taylor Rose is a
Washington, D.C., staff reporter
Rev.
Bill Owens
WASHINGTON – The highest levels of the U.S. government are
fomenting “civil unrest” that soon could leave “blood in our streets,” a key
Christian pastor said Tuesday at a pro-Second Amendment rally in Washington.
Rev. Bill Owens,
president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors and leader of God, Guns & the
Constitution, said America has in
many ways has passed the point of no return and its citizens will have to be
“chastised” before they awaken to the reality of their situation.
His goal now is “strengthening the [righteous] remnant.”
At the foot of the Capitol Tuesday, Owens was joined by other
leaders to pledge to protect the Second Amendment and the Christian principles
of America’s founding.
Owens was joined by Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun
Owners of America; Eric Pratt, the group’s communications director; Day
Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union on Capitol
Hill; and William Cook, founder and executive director of the Black Robe
Regiment.
“From what we see in our mail, hear from our members, we are at
the line in the sand moment,” Larry Pratt told WND after the event.
The leaders said their assembly was “in response to President
Obama’s proposal of 23 executive actions to curb gun violence.”
Larry Pratt said Obama’s moves have “renewed and even awakened …
the determination to get politically involved and resist what is being crammed
down our throat by an illegitimate government.”
“The entire federal government acts as if we have no
Constitution at all, as if there were no limits to anything they could do,” he
said. “It never seems to cross their mind that there are very few things they
are allowed to do. We are dealing with a systemic problem of illegitimacy
across all branches of government.”
Owens said the goal of today’s event was “to raise awareness
that you wouldn’t have a Constitution without guns and you wouldn’t have the
need to protect this land without God.”
“So you have to have God in the midst of every picture that
exists,” he said.
Owens said the problem with violence doesn’t rest with guns but
with people.
He believes America is dealing with an “evil.”
It is not “guns and not ink pens, it is not cars, it is evil,”
he said. “For when we forsake God’s purpose for why this country was formed and
for why it is here, anything can be turned into evil, including an ink pen.”
He said, “Ink pens sign a lot of laws that are evil.”
Owens challenged a common gun-control mantra of needing “common
sense gun control” such as restricting the size of magazines.
“What is common sense? [The anti-gun left] want to take a word
and say, ‘This is what common sense is.’”
He called for a return to the faith of the Founders.
“We have a form of godliness, but we deny the power thereof,” he
said.
He injected a measure of hope, however, saying a “righteous
remnant still exists that is not going to cowtow or subjugate themselves to the
things of men … because they are going to be compelled to stand for the Truth
that they have a relationship with.”
In America, he said, authorities “have put the Bible and prayer
out of schools” and “replaced them with condoms.”
“What is happening now is that our schools are actually being
targeted by those who are deranged, those who are evil and those who are
trouble,” he said.
Cook named abortion as another evil.
“Is there any hope to answer [the problems of society]? The
answer is a resounding no, so long as we tolerate abortion and we view children
as a liability,” he said.
He renounced any notion that simply not partaking in an abortion
or somehow being morally opposed without action negates one’s responsibility.
“Our unwillingness to contend with [abortion] makes us willing
accomplices,” he said.
Asked by WND if America is largely a nominal Christian country,
considering how many people vote for big government and anti-Christian and
non-Christian leaders, Owens said, “That is absolutely correct. I think that is
why we are being judged.”
“Christianity is being brought to the test room, and that is why
[school shootings] are happening,” he said.
Pratt also chimed in on the problem of apathy.
“Apathy has been a real problem, but I think there is a
possibility that that is going away as the government is literally pushing us
more and more … and then the government may realize they have awaken the
sleeping giant,” he said.
Pratt does have hope for a political revival, because he sees “a
resistance that is definitely across the country, but it is noticeable in
certain counties where the people have elected sheriffs that have interposed
themselves between themselves and federal agents.”
He said the government is “not going to restrain itself.”
“Only a sheriff with his armed deputies and perhaps on occasion
a posse that he can summon that can stand against the federal government,” he
said. ‘It is happening already where sheriffs are arresting federal agents.”
Pratt dismissed any notion that the Supremacy Clause of the
Constitution invalidates state or local laws that contradict federal law.
“The Supremacy Clause only affects those areas Article 1 section
8 and when the federal government acts outside of those very limited areas it
is illegitimate,” he said.
Pratt advises Second Amendment activists to focus hard on
“getting involved with their sheriff and get the best sheriff elected.” He
describes local involvement as a “keystone to getting our country back.”
Owens said it’s not that complicated.
“Our object should be to stay true to God,
because our home is not America, but we must stay true to God while we are in
America,” he said.
Owens is not alone in believing America is under judgment.
In the aftermath of
9/11, there were repeated calls by political leaders, businessmen and media
personalities to respond to the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World
Trade Center by building taller and grander – following in the footsteps of
ancient Israel as recorded in Isaiah 9:10, wrote bestselling author Jonathan
Cahn in “The
Harbinger,” which also is being presented in DVD format as “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment.”
Most notably, the very next day, Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle delivered an address to a joint session of Congress in which he
actually cited and quoted Isaiah 9:10, explaining: “That is what we will do. We
will rebuild.”
And on the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Sen. John Edwards, a
candidate for vice president at the time, delivered a speech to the
Congressional Black Caucus, framing his entire address around Isaiah 9:10.
The
message of the bestselling Christian book of 2012 and the bestselling faith
movie is that America is
re-enacting an ancient drama played out thousands of years ago when Israel’s
leaders did not repent and turn back to God after a limited strike on the land.
Instead, their words are recorded in Isaiah 9:10, proclaiming they would simply
rebuild bigger and better. The result was eventually the destruction of the
nation.
Both the book and the documentary present a series of remarkable
parallels between the judgment of ancient Israel and events impacting America
since 9/11.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Defend The 2nd Amendment / Join The NRA TODAY
The single most important thing you can do for our country and the 2nd amendment is to JOIN the NRA today. I am posting a link to an official membership application. The other thing you can do if already a member, is send an additional donation. Your 2nd amendment freedoms and our Bill of Rights are being attacked as never before.
Dan
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OPEN the link above and print an official NRA Membership application. Fill it out, sign it and send in your membership dues today. You can also use a credit card and complete the app and payment of your dues on line.
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Dan
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NYS Gun Law S2230 Approved 43/18 Senate Jan 14, 2013
Right up front, I am 100% against the recently passed gun legislation in NYS. It will do nothing to prevent criminal activity, mass shootings and gun violence. Criminals by their very nature do not obey laws, whether we are talking gun laws, traffic laws, illegal drug trafficking laws, or any other laws. The very name criminal indicates they are OUTSIDE of the law. For some unexplainable reason defying logic, the left wing, liberal politicians seem to believe if they just pass another law the problem is solved.
Webster dictionary definition:
crim·i·nal
(kr
m
-nl)
KEY
ADJECTIVE:
Shameful; disgraceful: a criminal waste of talent.
NOUN:
Here is a summary fact sheet from the office of Senator Jim Seward who by the way voted against the legislation S2230 recently passed. This legislation while doing nothing to prevent further mass shooting tragedies or limit criminal activity does violate our 2nd amendment rights. If you would like to voice your opinion or sign a petition to help overturn and rescind this entire legislation or portions thereof, here is a link to Senator Kathleen Marchione 43rd Senate district NYS.
http://www.nysenate.gov/webform/stand-second-amendment-standing-new-york-state-senator-kathleen-marchione
Summary fact sheet on recently passed NYS gun Legislation:
http://saratogacitydesk.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-gun-legislation-fact-sheet.html
NOW is not the time for any of us to sit by and figure others will write to their respective Representatives. NOW is the time for everyone who owns a firearm and values the 2nd amendment to step up to the plate and let their voice be heard. I respectfully ask you you to write or call or BOTH today.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT:
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.
Dan
Webster dictionary definition:
crim·i·nal
(krm-nl)
KEY ADJECTIVE:
- Of, involving, or having the nature of crime: criminal abuse.
- Relating to the administration of penal law.
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- Guilty of crime.
- Characteristic of a criminal.
- One that has committed or been legally convicted of a crime.
Here is a summary fact sheet from the office of Senator Jim Seward who by the way voted against the legislation S2230 recently passed. This legislation while doing nothing to prevent further mass shooting tragedies or limit criminal activity does violate our 2nd amendment rights. If you would like to voice your opinion or sign a petition to help overturn and rescind this entire legislation or portions thereof, here is a link to Senator Kathleen Marchione 43rd Senate district NYS.
http://www.nysenate.gov/webform/stand-second-amendment-standing-new-york-state-senator-kathleen-marchione
Summary fact sheet on recently passed NYS gun Legislation:
http://saratogacitydesk.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-gun-legislation-fact-sheet.html
NOW is not the time for any of us to sit by and figure others will write to their respective Representatives. NOW is the time for everyone who owns a firearm and values the 2nd amendment to step up to the plate and let their voice be heard. I respectfully ask you you to write or call or BOTH today.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT:
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.
Dan
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