RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second amendment views (no licensing, no restrictions on small arms) and some of us are more moderate (licensing, restrictions on small arms.) Moderate or extreme, we hold one common belief: more gun control equals lost elections. We don't want a repeat of 1994. We are an inclusive group: if you see the Second Amendment as safeguarding our right to keep and bear arms individually, then come join us in our conversation. If you are against the right to keep and bear arms, come join our conversation. We look forward to seeing you, as long as you engage in a civil discussion. RKBA stands for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
1911s has the defensive firearm uses for the week:
Saying you have a firearm. Revealing your firearm. Firing your firearm. All work, as we can see each and every week. But my favorite stories are the ones where the bad guy's weapon is taken and used defensively. ESPECIALLY when the weapon is a sawed-off shotgun wielded by a 35 year old man attacking a 63 year old woman (Michigan).
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
West Vincent, Pennsylvania
Flint Township, Michigan Bad guy shot with his own shotgun :)
Chicago, Illinois
Walterboro, South Carolina Go Army!
Springfield, Missouri
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
West Covina, California
Creedmore, North Carolina
Shrewsbury, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Palmetto Bay, Florida 3 on 1, they shot first, then ran when John pulled his pistol
Antioch, California
Chicago, Illinois
KV has news on some interesting Michigan legislation:
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Weapons; licensing; requirement for purchase permit with every new pistol purchase; eliminate, and provide procedures for registration of pistols. Amends secs. 1, 2 & 2b of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.421 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5973'10
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Weapons; licensing; requirement for purchase permit with every new pistol purchase; eliminate, and provide procedures for registration of pistols. Amends secs. 5l, 9a, 9b & 9c of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.425l et seq.) & repeals sec. 2a of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.422a). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5972'10
My understanding (and I could be reading this wrong) is that this set of bills would remove the permit requirement when buying a pistol for those who don't have a concealed carry permit. (Those who have a CPL don't need a permit to buy.)
OMwordTHRUdaFOG has this:
From Sat's "Abbreviated Pundit Round-up"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...
GOP to attack Kagan's gun control work for Clinton
Get ready for the next Republican attack line on Elena Kagan: 1990s gun control issues.
Kagan had a hand in multiple gun control measures during her stint in the Clinton administration, according to info from newly released Clinton library documents that was sent my way -- and I'm told Republicans will grab on to the revelations to paint her as hostile to the Second Amendment.
But a high profile member of the Clinton administration, in an interview with me, dismissed the notion that her work on these issues suggests she's hostile to gun rights.
As deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council under Bill Clinton, Kagan supervised work implementing the Brady law, which implemented a background check system, info from the newly released docs show.
Kagan also worked on a 1997 executive order related to the assault weapons ban -- an order that updated an earlier one prohibiting the importation of firearms not usually used for sporting purposes. And she worked on various Clinton-era poroposals to strengthen regulation of child-safety locks and to toughen up restrictions on adults from making guns too readily available to children.
Republicans are going to grab onto these issues to raise questions about her commitment to the Second Amendment, I'm told.
But Bruce Reed, who worked directly on these issues with Kagan, argues in an interview that she's in no way hostile to the Second Amendment.
"In all these cases, Clinton had already settled views on these questions," Reed tells me. "Our job was to make sure the government's policy reflected what he wanted. He'd already made up his mind on most of these contentious issues."
Reed adds that the policies Kagan did help draft had bipartisan support and weren't even particularly controversial. "We were facing a Republican Congress," Reed says. "The debates we had were kind of at the 50 yard line."
Indeed, the Republican plan to revive 1990s-era arguments about gun control seems more about riling up the base and appearing to take a stand against Kagan, and doesn't seem likely to create any real problems for Kagan with the mainstream.
TG's Food for Thought:
I find it interesting that those who falsely claim that someone is trying to stifle their Freedom of Speech are almost always advocating stifling the rights of someone else -- this goes well beyond RKBA issues, even though that is what we see the most often in this particular series.