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Volume 2, No. 31; August 2, 2013
In This Issue
Editorial: Teacers packing heat
Gun control playbook
NYC slow on MAIG docs
Square mobile anti-2A
Pelosi - More gun control
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Editorial

Teachers packing heat

David A. Lombardo

 

 I've taught elementary school and high school, was an administrator at a Chicago community college and an assistant professor at one university, associate professor and department head at a second and academic dean at a third. Never once did anyone walk into any of those institutions and shoot the joint up.

 

Similarly I've never had a house fire, never had a flight student of mine have an accident or a tactical pistol student get hurt, but I've always had insurance to cover the possibility. Allowing teachers to carry a concealed weapon in school is just that: insurance. Why? Because as John Steinbeck wrote: "An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity."

 

There's a lot of anti-gun propaganda floating around these days, and it's all pretty much liberal tripe. The anti-personal-protection cabal, devoid of any factual evidence that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens result in mayhem, simply make up lies then feed them into the propaganda machine we used to call "the press." But what is the truth?

 

The truth is there isn't a shred of credible evidence that substantiates any negative societal effect with regard to the private, lawful ownership of firearms or the right to carry a concealed firearm in public. The truth is concealed carry, at worst, has no measurable effect on violent crime, and, far more commonly, has the positive effect of reducing it.

 

Al Gore is fond of inconvenient truths, so here's an inconvenient truth: barring slipping on a banana peel and breaking his neck, the one thing that stops a bad man with a gun from killing innocent people is a good man with a gun.

 

Here's another inconvenient truth: some areas in the U.S. allow faculty and students to carry concealed firearms in school, and guess what? There hasn't been any blood running in the social studies classroom. The first school to allow concealed carry was the Harrold Independent School District in Texas; in 2008 they gave the okay to teachers with state-issued firearm-carry permits to carry their arms in the classroom. They were required to get special training before being authorized.

 

Just last December about 200 Utah educators attended a free, specially-tailored concealed carry permit session near Salt Lake City. Attendees included school secretaries, substitutes and full-time teachers. In Utah concealed carry permit holders have been allowed to carry in public schools for 12 years, and the University of Utah granted the privilege to students in 2006. Name one occasion where someone walked into a Utah school and shot the place up.

 

Similar provisions are in place in Wisconsin and Mississippi allowing students, faculty and employees with the proper permit to carry a concealed weapon on public university campuses, and there are more states.

 

Other cities and states refuse to allow anyone to protect students and offer instead the advice to lock the classroom door and hide behind a desk if you hear gunshots.

 

Yeah, that's a really good plan considering a desk is about as effective at stopping a bullet as the law is at stopping dead Democrats from voting in Chicago. Cities with truly Draconian anti-gun laws, inevitably under Democratic rule, include New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago. Yeah, the anti-gun laws have been really effective in reducing violent crime, all right.

 

It is the same idiotic mentality that had me sitting against a hallway wall with my head between my knees in the 1950s to protect myself in the event of a Soviet nuclear bomb hitting Chicago.

 

The most common argument I hear against guns in schools is that someone with a gun may miss the bad guy and accidentally hit an innocent child. Well, it's true, that could potentially happen, but does that make Plan B undesirable?

 

Get real: Plan A is some whack-job killing a couple dozen students, unfettered. Typical liberal idiocy: it's better to let some socially-deviant miscreant kill a couple dozen kids in a gun-free zone than to let a law abiding citizen take the dirtbag out with a concealed weapon. You've got to love liberals. They tell us there's no reason to own a firearm while being surrounded by their own armed bodyguards. 

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This week's On Target Radio will be looking at three hot issues that affect your life: Arming teachers: great idea or serious mistake? We'll also take a look at Illinois establishments already hanging out Gun Free Zone placards and what's up with CNN reports that the CIA is threatening its own operatives to keep quiet about their knowledge of Benghazi.

 

Join WIND Radio hosts David Lombardo and Gretchen Fritz who'll be discussing these issues with their guests Kim Gregorec, a high school special education teacher, and Eric Callis, an elementary school district director of technology. Plus we'll get an update on concealed carry and other Illinois legislation from Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson. All that and more, this Sunday evening from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. on AM560 THE ANSWER. 

 

 

Gun control playbook tips

being used in WA initiative effort

 

The August 1st issue of the Second Amendment Foundation's Gunmag.com reported the existence of a "gun control playbook" used to promote a national anti-gun sentiment. In "'Gun Control Playbook' Tips Being Used in Washington Initiative Effort," journalist Dave Workman suggests that advice from the pamphlet is being used by the anti-gun contingent in Washington State to solicit signatures pushing for more gun control. According to Workman the 70+ page "Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging" was originally posted online by Temple Beth-El. The document has since been deleted from that web site but is still available on the Internet. According to Workman the document "offers advice on everything from using effective rhetoric to dividing National Rifle Association members from NRA leadership" and was at least in part written by Al Quinlan, a principle of the Washington, D.C.-based firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which also has offices in London and Buenos Aires. Workman reports that Quinlan was part of "a team of communicators" with "decades of experience advising organizations on message development and strategic communications." Other members of this team were Frank O'Brien, creative director and founder of OMP, another Washington, D.C.-based firm, and Jeff Neffinger and Matthew Kohut at KNP Communications, also headquartered in Washington, D.C.

 

 

NYC dragging feet over MAIG documents

 

 A press release issued by the Second Amendment Foundation reports that the public advocate for the City of New York has told the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) that it will need additional time to comply with a Freedom of Information Law request seeking documents and records related to Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and "communications with gun control advocacy organizations." The files, which initially were to have been provided by July 26, will now, according to a letter from Calvin J. Rodman, records access officer for the city, be provided by Aug. 9. SAF Special Projects Director Philip Watson said this is encouraging news for two reasons. First, he explained, it means the city is responding to the SAF request, and second, it indicates there may be a considerable amount of information about the city's dealings with MAIG. The New York Post and Politico both published reports last month that Mayor Bloomberg sent counselor Christopher Kocher to Nevada, and that in an apparent attempt to conceal who he worked for, Kocher reportedly removed his City Hall e-mail address from the state of Nevada lobbying-registration Web site. 

 

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Square mobile payment company says "No" to firearms

 

The August 2nd issue of The Sportsmen's Daily reports that the popular mobile payment company Square, Inc., has recently changed their terms of use and will no longer allow the use of their product for firearm sales, ammunition, firearm parts or any other associated materials which they say are "designed to cause physical injury." Square, a small credit card swiping device that plugs into iPhones, Android phones and iPads for easy credit or debit card transactions, changed their terms of use in late spring, adding the amendment as #23 to their Prohibited Goods and Service list. A Square spokesman denied the accusation that the change was related to the gun debate sparked by the Sandy Hook shooting. The Sportsmen's Daily is urging all sportsmen and other gun owners to contact Square CEO Jack Dorsey and explain how his company's anti-gun stance is misguided.  Tell him that over 90 million gun owners-many of which are either his customers or potential customers-support the right to keep and bear arms. 

 

 

Pelosi: Congress should uphold

the Constitution by passing gun control

 

The NRA has reported that anti-gun U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently urged members of Congress to uphold their oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution by passing harsher gun control laws. Pelosi is proposing that Congress should support the Constitution by radically violating it. Such is the deconstructionist mindset of modern-day gun-control advocates. As reported by CNS News, Pelosi made the plea on her web site. Said Pelosi: "In Congress, there can be no more fitting memorial to the lives lost in Aurora, in Newtown, and across the country than a concerted effort to enact commonsense gun safety legislation. We must uphold our oath to 'protect and defend' the constitution and all Americans by expanding background checks and keeping dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands." In its press release, the NRA points out that most Americans know the Constitution was conceived and inherently designed to ensure that the government does not attempt to overpower the people with its own agenda or unduly restrict, not only the Second Amendment, but any other of our precious, Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.