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Senator John Thune (R-SD) and David Vitter (R-LA) are getting a vote today on whether licensed handgun owners carry their weapons into states with similar laws as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill. This will be the fourth vote this year on gun rights and a referendum on whether your constitutionally guaranteed right to “keep and bear arms” will be respected by politicians in Washington, D.C. With all the bad news coming from Congress on health care, cap and tax, the so called Stimulus and the bailouts, there is some good news coming from conservatives in Congress.

The other votes in the Senate this year were the following:

1. February vote on Ensign Amendment restoring the 2nd Amendment rights of the residents of the District of Columbia (Passed 62-36);
2. April vote on Wicker Amendment to allow passengers using Amtrak to securely transport firearms in their checked baggage (Passed 63-35);
3. May vote on Coburn Amendment to restore the gun rights of law abiding Americans to carry firearm in our national parks subject to the laws of the state (Passed 67-29); and,
4. July vote later this morning on Thune/Vitter Amendment to allow individuals with conceal carry privileges to conceal carry in any other states that also allows conceal carry.

The Thune/Vitter Amendment will protect the residents of states like Vermont and Alaska, states with unique conceal carry laws, to conceal carry in other states. Many liberals in Congress have invoked a States Rights argument against the idea, yet the language in the Amendment does not allow a national standard for conceal carry and does not provide a national permitting process for a permit. What it does do is to protect the rights of states that don’t have conceal carry and does not allow a resident of one state to forum shop to find another state to get a conceal carry permit.

This may be the most important 2nd Amendment vote in the Senate this year and it will be interesting to see if the Thune/Vitter Amendment can get the necessary 60 votes to attach this amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill. Let’s not forget the clear words of the Bill of Rights that seem to be hard for Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court to recall — “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Please click here to find your United States Senator. Call now and ask him to support the Thune Concealed Carry Reciprocity Amendment.

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The assignment for Central Connecticut State University student John Walberg and his two classmates was to give an oral presentation on a “relevant issue in the media.” The three chose school violence for their topic.

After the oral presentation was over, professor Paula Anderson of Communication 140, promptly filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against student Wahlberg claiming he made students “scared and uncomfortable.” Professor Anderson deemed Wahlberg a “perceived risk” and felt it was her duty to “protect” her class.

What did the young man say in his oral assignment that was so threatening? Shockingly, Wahlberg had the temerity to discuss concealed carry laws, guns on campus in the hands of law abiding students, and the problems with the concept of a “gun free zone.” He was gauche enough to have posited that if students and/or professors had legal guns on their persons in 2007 the death toll in the Virginia Tech shooting spree could have been much lower.

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MSNBC took the occasion of a triple homicide on Chicago’s south side to push its own anti-”assault rifle” meme on February 27 by including the words “assault rifle” in the headline of its story on the incident. No other media source, however, took this unusual step. So, here we have some old fashioned bias by MSNBC.

MSNBC’s version of the story clumsily screams “Man charged in assault rifle killings of 3 teens” over the top of its AP wire feed. Yet, while every story in the news and certainly every AP story mentions that the killer used an “assault rifle,” only MSNBC put the words in the headline. This befits MSNBC’s anti-gun agenda, presumably.

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Seriously, do the kindly folks at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s editorial board even know what the definition of the word logic is? In theirs headlined, “Hysteria fuels sales of guns and ammo,” the Sun-Sentinel takes Floridians to task for being so stupid as to be afraid of Obama’s gun banning plans, claiming that Obama “didn’t do it.” But, even after telling readers no one wants to ban guns, the piece ends with the Sun-Sentinel editorial board advocating for the banning of guns! So the message is, no one wants a gun ban but we should ban guns? This is the sort of logical disconnect that fuels the very “hysteria” that the paper is claiming to want to dispel.

And this ridiculous about face isn’t the only illogical idea or uninformed claim the piece makes, either. Just about every word in this piece proves that the editorial board of the Sun-Sentinel is wholly uninformed about the Constitution and the technical aspects of firearms, not to mention being uninformed about the various gun banning bills floating about Congress and the several states at this very moment.

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