Hillary Clinton, Church-Going Gun Owner: After a weekend spent making direct appeals to gun owners and church goers, Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services "is not a relevant question in this debate" over Barack Obama's recent comments on small town Americans. "We can answer that some other time," Clinton said at a press conference held in a working class neighborhood here. "This is about what people feel is being said about them. I went to church on Easter. I mean, so?" (Yes but when did you last fire a gun?) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/13/clinton-not-relevant-last-time-i-went-to-church-fired-gun/ Obama Strikes Back: "She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the second amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley," Obama said, invoking the famed female sharpshooter immortalized in the musical "Annie Get Your Gun." Obama continued, saying "Hillary Clinton is out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton." http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_clinton_guns/2008/04/13/87625.html http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/04/13/5276991-ap.html --- Lethal Disconnect at Virginia Tech: I'm starting to wonder: What exactly are they teaching students at Virginia Tech? This question came to me as I was reading about a protest planned on campus for April 16, the one-year anniversary of the massacre by a crazed gunman of 32 people. What is the protest about? It is to demand stricter gun control...But here's where I grow perplexed about this particular protest. The massacre at Virginia Tech last year occurred on a campus that already maintained a strict ban on guns. In fact, it was part of a state university system that had only recently banned all guns on campuses - even for those with carry permits... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61494 --- Buying Your First Handgun: Okay, so something has finally tipped the scales of your judgment in favor of acquiring your first handgun. Maybe you know someone who was just victimized by a criminal. Maybe you have a new family and feel the urge to make yourself ready to protect them. Whatever the reason, you have decided to buy a handgun. Here's how to do it... (While this is shared mostly for general interest, one of the longest-standing members of the mailing list only acquired a handgun about a year ago. I believe that there's lots of room to debate the recommendations included in this article.) http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/clark-d4.html --- Mental Awareness, First Priority: A member of Evan Marshall's forum has posted an account which demonstrates why mental awareness is the first priority for safety and survival. http://www.stoppingpower.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15086 --- Explaining Charlton Heston in Britain: ...Whatever his motives, whatever underpinned his passion for guns, Charlton Heston, in demanding equal treatment for blacks in the 1950s and later calling for everyone to have the right to bear arms, was a better representative of the spirit of American equality than any of those gun control campaigners who turned him into their favourite redneck whipping boy. You don't have to be a friend of the NRA or a supporter of the senseless shootings in America's poorer communities to oppose gun control. You just have to have some healthy trust in the American people and some healthy distrust of the American state - both qualities that liberals in America and Europe seem to lack today. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/2008/04/defending_freedom.html --- (KeepAndBearArms.com has not posted their news links yet today so this is a short mailing.) -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .