OK, you want to liken gun rights to Civil rights for gays, blacks, etcetera....

Betty Bowers hits the nail on the head with this one:

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I know it's a bit early for Halloween and even earlier for the 2013 Night of the living Van Vliet Festival, but here it is anyway. via Dangerous Minds

 

PA gun owner on why background checks are necessary

Larry Glick, former executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association, explains why universal background checks will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.



And don't forget that background checks are Constitutional according to the Heller and McDonald decisions!

Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. See, e.g., Sheldon, in 5 Blume 346; Rawle 123; Pomeroy 152–153; Abbott 333. For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues. See, e.g., State v. Chandler, 5 La. Ann., at 489–490; Nunn v. State, 1 Ga., at 251; see generally 2 Kent *340, n. 2; The American Students’ Blackstone 84, n. 11 (G. Chase ed. 1884). Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Heller at 54-5

Which has as a footnote (26):

We identify these presumptively lawful regulatory measures only as examples; our list does not purport to be exhaustive.

Better yet:

But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home. Heller at 64

From McDonald:

It is important to keep in mind that Heller, while striking down a law that prohibited the possession of handguns in the home, recognized that the right to keep and bear arms is not “a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” 554 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 54). We made it clear in Heller that our holding did not cast doubt on such longstanding regulatory measures as “prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill,” “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.” Id., at ___–___ (slip op., at 54–55). We repeat those assurances here. Despite municipal respondents’ doomsday proclamations, incorporation does not imperil every law regulating firearms. McDonald at 39-40

Chief Mark Kessler Fired

Local news reports

Local officials voted 6-1 Thursday night to terminate the police chief of a small Pennsylvania borough who came under fire earlier this year for posting profanity-laced YouTube videos featuring his arsenal of firearms.

The sun will likely soon set on Chief Mark Kessler’s tenure as Gilberton, PA police chief following Thursday’s meeting in which the council governing the borough of barely 800 people moved to terminate its loud mouth local YouTube sensation and the area’s only full-time lawman.

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Pennsylvania Concealed Carry Permit Holder, Jon Gosselin, Fires Warning Shot and Claims It was Justified

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Jon Gosselin reportedly pulled a gun on a photographer trying to get pictures of him in rural Pennsylvania on Friday. The former reality TV star even fired off a warning shot to show he meant business.

Gosselin has found a new life as a waiter at the Black Dog restaurant in Beckersville, Penns., since leaving the spotlight, because his notoriety has made it "impossible" to find work. News of his new life broke earlier this week, and now the paparazzi have been heading to the area to get photos.

According to TMZ.com, a photographer attempted to follow Gosselin home from work on Friday to get pictures of the cabin he's been living in, but he pulled his gun, fired off a warning shot and chased her away in his car.

The photographer reportedly followed him onto private property, when he warned the woman she was trespassing before firing a shot.

Gosselin told TMZ on Saturday that he had every right legally to do what he did.

"I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun, which I withdrew and used to fire a warning shot AWAY from the paparazza" he said. "It is well within my rights under Pennsylvania law when someone is trespassing on private property."

The photographer is filing a police report.

Safe Storage of Firearms - The Cost is Not Prohibitive

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Now what's so difficult about that?  For the cost of a decent gun, you can have a proper gun safe.

One of my "Proper Gun Control Laws" calls for this to be the law of the land. That would put a dent in the half-a-million to one million guns that are stolen EACH YEAR.

One lying, gun control fanatic, suggested that by enacting such a law we would be giving the police permission to enter our homes to enforce it. That's not the case at all. But, when a gun used in crime was traced back to its original lawful owner, something that would be much easier once licensing and registration are passed, that lawful owner had better be able to demonstrate his safe storage practices or face prosecution.

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