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NC Gun Action Alert: House sends bill to conference committee

 

 

As expected, the NC House today voted against concurring with Senate changes to HB 937 ("Amend Various Firearms Laws"). The bill contains provisions for concealed carry in restaurants, assemblies of people for which admission is charged, state-controlled parking lots, educational properties (provided guns are kept in locked vehicles) and much more. If passed largely intact, it will represent the largest advance in gun rights in North Carolina history.

 

At issue is the repeal of North Carolina's Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit law, which is opposed by the NC Sheriffs' Assoc. and Governor Pat McCrory. While GRNC strongly urged that the House concur with Senate strengthening of the bill, leaving the full PP repeal intact, we remain optimistic about resolution of differences because Speaker Thom Tillis' office has said that:

1. Other aspects of the bill will not be weakened in committee and will, in fact, likely be strengthened in at least one respect;
    
2. Although the PP repeal will not stay in entirety, in a radio interview Tillis has promised a compromise which will at least partially satisfy the concerns of all interested parties, including GRNC; and
    
3. The bill will pass THIS YEAR.

Thanks to the stalwarts

 

First, GRNC wishes to thank the 18 stalwart gun rights supporters who voted for concurrence, even in the face of pressure to weaken the bill. They are: Representative(s): Bell, J.; Brawley, R.; Brody; Bumgardner; Catlin; Elmore; Faircloth; Ford; Hastings; Jones; Jordan; Millis; Pittman; Presnell; Shepard; Speciale; Stone; Torbett.

 

Conference committee members

 

We do NOT recommend beating on the following legislators who have been appointed to the conference committee, since they are generally strong Second Amendment supporters with excellent voting records. We are particularly heartened by the fact that the Senate Chair is Sen. Buck Newton, primary architect of the Senate improvements to HB 937. The conferees are:

 

House: Rep. Jacqueline Michelle Schaffer, Chair; Rep. Justin P. Burr; Rep. John Faircloth; Rep. George G. Cleveland.

Senate: Sen. E. S. (Buck) Newton, Chair, Sen. Kathy Harrington, Sen. Andrew C. Brock, Sen. Shirley B. Randleman.

 

Action, Please

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Say No to a U.S.-EU Merger

 
As negotiations continue toward immersing the United States in another sovereignty-compromising trade pact, it’s hardly surprising to know that proper warnings were issued about such an agreement in The New American magazine five years ago. TNA’s May 12, 2008 feature article entitled “Transatlantic Two-Step” reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso met with President George W. Bush in the White House to discuss the ongoing negotiations that would tie our country with the European Union. In his statement at the close of the meeting, Mr. Bush didn’t hesitate to summarize what the three had discussed. He bluntly stated that the goal was “trans-Atlantic integration.”

The TNA article also noted that a group called the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) had been working “carefully, if quietly” toward economic union “since the early 1990s.” The TPN happens to be a non-governmental organization (NGO) provided legitimacy by the United Nations. Its work, according to University of Nevada economics professor Glen Atkinson, will set “the foundation for a political union.” Of course, this is no surprise because economic unions are followed by political unions just as night follows day. The steps that led to the formation of the EU prove this point.

Merger of the U.S. with the EU is the ultimate goal and that would mean an end to our nation’s independence.

As progress toward the “integration” continued, Nebraska Republican Douglas Bereuter (a member of the CFR) led the U.S. House in passage of a resolution stating that the U.S. and the EU had “common interests.” He named environmental protection, poverty reduction, combating international crime, promoting human rights, threats posed by terrorism, terrorist states, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.” The resolution was adopted by the House as far back as 2003.

Among the TPN’s “Congressional Group” formed a full decade ago could be found six senators and 49 House members. These legislators obviously placed little importance on their oath to the U.S. Constitution and the independence of our nation. This “group” included then-Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), also a CFR member, who last year was named by Barack Obama as our nation’s secretary of defense. It's hardly unreasonable to wonder what he intends to defend. Congressional support for this dangerous entanglement remains.

The 2008 TNA article mentioned that support for the merger of the U.S. and the EU could be found among the usual internationalist-minded corporations such as Boeing, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, General Electric, IBM, Walt Disney, Wal-Mart, Nestle, UPS, and more. Think tanks and foundations backing the proposal include the CFR, Atlantic Council, Carnegie Endowment, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the European Roundtable of Industrialists. The TPN’s time schedule calls for the launching of the “transatlantic common Market” by 2015.

With all this backing, why hasn’t the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) been presented to Congress for passage? The answer is that there is resistance to such a pact and both the current and past president know this, as do a sufficient number of members of Congress. 

Congratulations are in order for all who have helped spread word about the dangers of such an agreement that its promoters are cleverly and deceitfully labeling a “partnership.”

Nonetheless the first round of a new series of TTIP negotiations was conducted during the week of July 8-12 in Washington, D.C. According to an article appearing in the July 5 Wall Street Journal, the revelations about electronic spying conducted by our nation’s National Security Agency have upset some Europeans. But it won’t deter work toward hammering out the TTIP. This article did say that some European officials expect “the talks could take a couple of years or longer.” A vote by Congress on a completed TTIP agreement is expected in 2015.

While that comment that we have a couple years before a congressional vote amounts to good news, we recommend that messages be sent to your own senators and representative now denouncing the plan for this huge, new trade agreement. All that’s needed is a firm statement asking that the TTIP negotiations cease. Your message could state something along the lines of “Political union results from economic union. Look what happened to the independence of dozens of nations that were lured into the European Union. Our nation must remain independent.”

Send an email to your senators and representative in opposition to the TTIP agreement.

Thanks.

Your Friends at The John Birch Society

NUGENT: Zimmerman verdict vindicates citizen patrols, self-defense

Via Eric

So this guy’s neighborhood has been burglarized off and on and the residents are very concerned for their safety and well-being. Neighbors agree to upkick their vigilance and overall level of awareness to watch out for each other and keep an eye out for suspicious individuals and behavior. It could be considered by an official designation such as “Neighborhood Watch”, but officially labeled or not, it is the purest form of Americans watching out for each other and being good neighbors.

So far so good.

So George Zimmerman sees what he believes is a suspicious individual in suspicious circumstances, and intelligently and responsibly pays attention and calls 9-1-1 to report what he sees to the officials. This gesture is proof positive he was not looking to do anyone harm or break any laws, but rather perform the fundamental responsibility of a neighbor who cares.

Doing nothing illegal or improper, he follows the individual while answering all the questions from the 9-1-1 operator to the best of his ability, keeping an eye on the individual so the authorities can hopefully intercept and determine exactly what is going on.

For reasons unknown, though I will comment on momentarily, after expressing racism and hostility on the phone to a friend in response to being followed, the suspect now changes course and turns towards George and immediately initiates a hostile verbal confrontation that quickly escalate to a violent physical assault. Within seconds, the suspect has overwhelmed George, has gained the advantage on top, pinning George to the ground, and further escalates the assault to deadly force by smashing George’s face, breaking his nose, and violently slamming his skull onto the concrete with all his youthful athleticism.

George screams frantically for help as Trayvon Martin pummels his face and head furiously, inflicting damaging and potentially life threatening wounds. Fearing for his life and about to lose consciousness at the hands of an enraged, violent attacker, George Zimmerman does what anyone who wishes to live would do, and he reaches for his concealed handgun, firing a single shot to neutralize the deadly force being wreaked upon him.

This represents the purest form of self-defense there is.

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Holder: Stand-your-ground laws defy common sense

Via Billy

 

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Right, dorkhead.  If you are on your back and being beaten, the ground isn't a means of escape, but I guess that escapes your brilliant mind........

Attorney General Eric Holder said the stand-your-ground policies that are law in some states defy common sense, according to the Associated Press.

"It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods," he said while speaking at an NAACP convention in Florida.

Stand-your-ground laws across the country have attracted more scrutiny since the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman faced a charge of second-degree murder after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, but was acquitted Saturday.

"There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if — and the 'if' is important — no safe retreat is available," Holder added Tuesday. "But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely."

1966 Shelby GT350 Race Car Formerly Owned and Raced by Sir Stirling Moss

This ought to go for big, big bucks.

HIGHLIGHTS

 

- Prepared by Chris Liebenberg for and raced by Sir Stirling Moss at 9 different venues in Europe (FIA) and Targa Tasmania (winner) from 1991-1997

- Liebenberg prepared the car to Full R Specifications

- Number 89 of 252 carry over cars from the 1965 original build

- Raced in 2012 Rolex Monterey Historics, in FIA spec, finished in top ten by Dominic Dobson

- Extensive documentation history that includes racing photos from European FIA events and Australia with Stirling Moss and Carroll Shelby along with numerous communications between the two

- Currently has both Colorado title and bill of sale from Stirling Moss

- Race ready condition 

 

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Colluding in their own enslavement

Via avordvet

  

Which, we all know that blacks, by their blind insistence on remaining on the Democrat-Socialist plantation en masse, are already doing plenty of it. But it gets even more ludicrously stupid and self-defeating than that, as this commenter points out:

There is an irony in this travesty. The very prosecutors that withheld evidence, lied to the court, coached witnesses and prosecuted without evidence, also prosecute a number of young black men, some not much older than Martin. And in cheering them on, the black community is condoning this behavior, this same lack of “justice”, that is undoubtedly being applied to their own. And they are too blind to see it.

If this is happening in a high profile trial, it is undoubtedly occurring in the prosecutions of many young black men who don’t have the resources, the quality of counsel, nor the publicity that Zimmerman has. But they cheer the prosecution on, because in this case revenge is more important than justice. If it is happening to Zimmerman, it is happening many times over to themselves.

Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.

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Awesome: Race-baiting Salon article sparks hilarious outbursts of #WhiteRage

Via Last Resistance

 

Public displays of violence following the Zimmerman not-guilty verdict have understandably made some of us doubt in others’ ability to keep cool heads. But according to Salon writer Edward Wyckoff Williams, “our real problem is white rage.”

Rage against the white raaaaaaage!

The veiled threat of an aggressive police response to imaginary civil unrest belies the very logic that led to Trayvon Martin’s death to begin with. For, you see, African-Americans are never protected or served by the law enforcement apparatus — yet they are always subject to its military might.

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The paradox of being implicitly excluded from the guarantee of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness has been reiterated and reinforced by public policy and social malaise for centuries. President Barack Obama is not immune — as he’s become the target of incessant “white rage”: race-baiting attacks, prejudice and bias even prior to his election. The Republican Party and its neo-Confederate Tea Party wing has been committed to invalidating his political and legislative legacy as much as the Zimmerman jury invalidated the civil rights of Trayvon. The disparate precedent set, therefore, becomes all the more insulting when we’re told to simply shut-up and bear it.

Williams’ musings certainly had “neo-Confederates’” hackles up. Check out their rage-filled responses:

  Wake Up Call @Anewhomestar

 

This dipshit, @WyckoffWilliams, is a great example of a race baiting a-hole who will never allow good race relations http://www.salon.com/2013/07/15/our_real_problem_is_white_rage/ …

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