ANOTHER "SUCCESS" FOR GUN-CONTROL LAWS

Two terrible tragedies were played out for us last week. On Saturday, March 12, seven people were murdered during a church service. In their rush to be part of the feeding frenzy��there were over 1,400 articles indexed by Google four days after the event��the press did its usual firearms coverage, recounting �22 bullets within a minute� to raise the specter of a proliferation of rapid-fire assault weapons. They also eulogized the shooter as �quiet and devout,� who grew vegetables and �couldn�t kill a chipmunk,� helping to procreate the myth that normal, well-adjusted people become homicidal maniacs when they hold a gun.

Wisconsin is not a shall-issue state, meaning that private citizens are rarely allowed to carry concealed firearms. No articles mentioned this, nor did they mention the resulting fact that the shooter committed a felony in this premeditated murder, by carrying a loaded, concealed handgun. With no other recourse due to state law, church members� only defense was to call out for the shooter to stop.....

States rated �A� by the Brady Campaign, meaning those states with the most gun control and no right-to-carry laws, have an average violent crime rate that is 12.5% higher than shall-issue states. The Brady Campaign neglected to include Washington, D.C. in their report card. Our nation�s capitol, with the most draconian gun control in the country and a Brady �A� candidate, has a violent crime rate over four times that of right-to-carry states.

Contrast this with the shooting in Tyler, Texas, where a legally-armed citizen intervened and stopped a mass murder from occurring. Why did the media not take the Wisconsin government to task for purposefully disarming its citizens and setting the stage for tragedy?

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Pennsylvania: Court overturns courthouse carry ruling: "A state court has overturned a previous ruling that would have allowed people to carry guns into courthouses. The overturned decision, by Warren County Judge Robert Wolfe, said a Jefferson County ordinance allowing metal detectors to be placed in the courthouse doorway to conduct weapons searches conflicted with state law. That's because state law already says 'no county [may] regulate the lawful ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms.' The ruling suggested that guns still could not be carried into the courtroom judge's chambers, and 'adjoining corridors,' but could be legally carried into, say, the tax assessor's office."


Texas: Concerned neighbor defends himself after attack: "The fatal shooting happened on the falls' northside. Wichita Falls police say around 5:30 this morning they went to check out a call on a shooting at the 2700 block of Byrne Place. When they got there, they found 39 year old Robert Polk dead on the street. Investigators say witnesses saw Polk trying to kick down the door of a house on Byrne Place. A neighbor saw the incident and went to check on the person living in the house. Police say Polk confronted the neighbor. He was carrying a silver revolver. Officers say Polk hit the neighbor in the chest with the gun. The neighbor who had a gun himself shot Polk."