Anyway,  the shooting in Arizona has resulted in a hysteria around the country that has elected officials of all levels of government concerned about their safety. At a recent MLK event, a local mayor had a police presence. I won’t go so far to say the uniformed officer was her body guard, but the said officer stood within a few feet of the Mayor for the entire event.

The hysteria in doesn’t end here. A local councilwoman is trying to buck the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act by calling for a ban firearms from City Council meetings  (See the York Daily Record Opinion article here:  http://www.ydr.com/ci_17187426).

Aside from isolated incidents like the Florida school board shooting,  city council, school board and other ‘public’ meetings are peaceful.  These meeting have the same risk of having an crazed gunman as does any public event, but statistically, the threat of a serious incident is next to nothing.

From a legal and financial standpoint, trying to pass such laws are a waste of taxpayer money.  According to the UFA, only the Commonwealth of PA has the right to create gun laws. We’ve seen cities and municipalities all over the state try to overstep this law by introducing “Lost or Stolen” firearms laws in the past few years and all end with a big cost to taxpayers due to court costs and attorney fees. York City even considered trying to implement a similar law but realized that it was fruitless.  And even if they could pass a law banning firearms from City government property, where is the money going to come from for metal detectors, extra personnel to man the detectors, gun lockers for law-abiding citizens to store their weapons? Are we going to take even more law enforcement officers off the streets to “protect” our local officials?

The best solution for this problem would be for elected officials to provide for their own safety and security if they are so inclined. City council can hire security if they feel the need, but it shouldn’t come at a cost to the taxpayers they serve.  Or, they can decide to defend themselves as  at least two local mayors,  several state reps and other law-makers I’ve know through the years who entrust their safety in their own Second Amendment right.

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/

The accuracy of this “report” comes into question right away when you look at the source, what reporter in their right mind would use an anti-gun organization like “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” to base their information? And why does it seem that these ‘reports’ never have a by-line?

The first thing that struck me was that California was one of the states on the ’10′ list. How can a state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country be one of the biggest suppliers of illegal guns?

The other tidbit of info left out is how many of the so-called imported guns were acquired by illegal means. And while all their numbers may look impressive, think about this. 43,000 guns were originally sold in outside states. Of that 21,000 (49%) were sold in one of ten states. That averages out to 2100 per state.

In 2009 almost 500,000 firearms were sold in Pennsylvania, so even if all 2100 guns that were used in crimes in other states came from PA in one year, that is less than 1/2 of 1%. If you consider that a good percentage of these firearms may have been originally sold in PA anytime since the 1938 Federal Firearms Act, that makes this report even more worthless.

All this report proves it that the anti-gun movement, and more importantly the Mayors Against Illegal Guns organization, continue to change or distort the facts to suit their purpose.

CNN Story

He also urged Congress to re-impose the assault weapons ban, asserting that violence in Mexico spiked after the ban was lifted in 2004. Mexican authorities in recent years have seized 45,000 weapons that could be traced to the United States, he said, and there are now roughly 7,000 gun shops along the U.S. border with Mexico where assault weapons can be easily acquired.

More bullshit numbers out of the Mexicans and CNN reporters that don’t bother to check the facts before publishing these stories. These are the same numbers that Obama and Holder were throwing around months ago. And guess what, the numbers are just as misleading as their administration.

Only 6,000 of the 29,000 weapons seized by the Mexican government could be traced by the ATF and only 5114 of those have been traced back to being sold ” at some time” in the US. That doesn’t necessarily mean the weapons were illegally sold, they could just have well been stolen.

Get ready because it is very well possible that Obama and Holder will use Calderon’s plea for an excuse to re-instated the worthless “assault weapon ban” of 1994.

http://www.2arally.com/

From Examiner.com

Two customers displaying holstered pistols deterred an armed robbery in a Kennesaw Wafflehouse recently.
There is some debate raging in Georgia about whether people should conceal their holstered handguns while in public. Some believe that wearing handguns openly will result in a loss of the element of surprise during a criminal attack, such as an armed robbery, while others believe that wearing handguns openly deters criminal attack. For Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell, who carry openly as a routine, the issue is no longer academic.
Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell were dining in the Wafflehouse on Barrett Parkway at I-575 in Kennesaw at 4:45 in the morning recently when a scout for an armed robbery crew entered the restaurant to case it. At the time, Matt and J.P. thought he looked a little suspicious, as he was wandering around the small restaurant like he was looking for someone. Unknown to Matt and J.P., two cars full of armed robbers were parked behind the restaurant waiting for the scout’s report.
The scout saw that two of the customers were wearing holstered 1911 Springfield Mil-Spec .45 pistols, and he immediately turned and left the store.
Meanwhile, conscientious Cobb County Police Officer D. Lowe had noticed suspicious cars sitting behind the restaurant in the dark and decided to investigate. He caught men with masks and rifles who had been preparing to rob the Wafflehouse. The criminals informed the police that they had changed their mind upon discovering armed customers and were waiting for Matt and J.P. to leave. Ironically, the police car was pulling in to the parking lot just as Matt and J.P. were driving away. In other words, had Matt and J.P. not been armed, the robbery probably would have occurred before the police intervened.
Captain Jerry Quan, the Commander for Precinct One, where the Wafflehouse is located, confirmed Matt Brannan’s story as one in which the open display of a pistol deterred a well armed robbery crew.

http://www.examiner.com/x-5619-Atlanta-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m2d18-Open-carry-deters-armed-robbery-in-Kennesaw