SAS-MD has a new
co-coordinator, Nicole! Nicole is located in the northern half of
Maryland, while Jane is located in the southern half, so we hope to be
able to cover more regional functions! Please join our new forum
to talk to Nicole! We also have a new Baltimore area coordinator
coming on board, Mary! Also, the state Yahoo! list is being reinstated
so we can more easily get news out to our members! Look for an
invitation if we have your email address!
"Instead of gun free zones
deterring criminals, they actually serve as a magnet for them."
--Prof. John Lott,
www.bighollywood.breitbart.com
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An
April 29, 2009 review of
whitehouse.gov
found all references to second amendment infringement, including
the proposed gun ban, end of the Tiahrt Amendment, and end of
the "gun show loophole" (euphemism for ending private sales)
have been scrubbed!
"The so-called victim is
the first responder, always. This brainwashing that our safety
and security is somehow someone else's responsibility has
contributed greatly to the erosion of personal acceptance of
responsibility..."
--Candace Dainty,
SAS Wisconsin State Coordinator
SAS Friends in the News!
*John
Lott on Supreme Court nominee
Sotomayor
*Interview
by David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner, with Kenn Blanchard, author of "Black Man With a Gun"
"The
Centers for Disease Control did an extensive review of various
types of gun control: waiting periods, registration and
licensing, and bans on certain firearms. It found that the idea
that gun control laws have reduced violent crime is simply a
myth." --John Stossel,
ABC News
Dick Heller (wearing a SAS shirt!) with Alan Gura, the
attorney who argued for Heller before the Supreme Court, at
home of George Lyons in Washington, DC.
"Here we go again, letting
more prisoners out so crime rates go up and corrupt
politicians make more guns laws to prevent law abiding
citizens from protecting themselves."
--Angela Briggs, SAS Alaska State
Coordinator
"Arms in the
hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the
defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private
self-defense."--John Adams, 2nd President
of the United States
"Firearms are used more
than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives."
--Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz,
as cited by
Gunowners of America (www.gunowners.org)
"As nightfall does not come
all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight. And it is in such
twilights that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight,
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." --Justice William O. Douglas,
U.S. Supreme Court (1939-75)
In the last four (4)
sessions (including 2009) of the Maryland General Assembly,
civil immunity bills were unanimously supported in the House, and moved on to the Senate,
where they landed in the Judicial Proceedings Committee and died
in Chairman Brian Frosh's desk drawer.
These bills would
protect a law-abiding citizen from frivolous lawsuits brought by
criminals or their families when a homeowner injures or kills a
violent criminal. Senator Frosh would have you believe that,
since these lawsuits have (so far) failed, there is nothing to worry
about. In fact, loss of time from work for meetings with
attorneys and time in court, attorneys' fees, and emotional trauma
are still fallout from such suits and could bankrupt a victim.
SAS strongly supports this legislation, and
considers it important for women, the elderly, and people with
disabilities, who frequently are the targets of violent crime
because they are easy prey.
On
March 20, the Montgomery County Gazette
cited Senator Frosh's statement that this bill is "deeply flawed in
the way it is drafted and deeply flawed in concept." SAS is
disappointed that Senator Frosh has not approached pro-self defense
advocates with ideas on how to craft a bill that would achieve the
desired outcome without such flaws.
ISenator
Frosh has the knowledge to write a bill that would satisfy
self-defense advocates and protect innocent victims. Why does
he continue to desk-drawer veto these bills and thwart the will of
the people of Maryland and their elected officials? Why does
he take the side of criminals over the rights of victims?
Democracy
apparently is dead in Maryland. (Revised 4/24/09)
See
also: (1) MSI President Henry Heymering asks, do actions
taken by key officials in the Maryland General Assembly signal
"the end of democracy?" (Click
here.)
(2)
Discussion on The High Road
here.
"To ignore
all evidence of the meaning and intent of one of those rights
included in the Bill of Rights is to create the most dangerous sort of precedent, one whose consequences could
flow far beyond this one issue and endanger the fabric of
liberty."
--Joyce Lee
Malcolm
Video message
from the citizens of the
UK and AU:
Don't allow "gesture politics" by your legislators to
destroy your rights.
See how
dictatorship silently trumps democracy.
SAS and friends in action:Baltimore Examiner article
here - CNS News "National Exercise Your Rights
Day" rally
video here
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Author Kenn Blanchard
here-Rabid Centristhere- Women hunting in La Plata, MD
here-
Favorite linkshere
- Reason article
here
-
Terrorism Thwartedhere.
National Exercise
Your Rights Day, District Heights, August 28, 2007.
Supreme
Court rules in favor of individual RKBA!
"The
Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess
a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to
use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as
self-defense within the home." --SCOTUS 6-26-08
"The National Academy of Science and
the federal government’s Center for Disease Control have both found that there is no
research that indicates that any gun control law has lowered
crime." Larry Pratt,
Gunowners of America
(www.gunowners.org)
