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COEUR d’ALENE - Playing off the momentum of the Idaho State Legislature, Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Steve Adams wants to eliminate a local weapons ordinance.

The ordinance he wants to eliminate bans weapons at parades and festivals within the city limits of Coeur d’Alene.

“It was brought to my attention a while back,” Adams said Monday. “I thought ‘why not continue this momentum to bolster the Second Amendment and eliminate this ordinance?’”

Adams was referring to the Legislature’s recent passage of a law that would allow citizens with enhanced concealed weapons permits to carry guns on Idaho’s college campuses.

On Monday, Adams took the issue to the city’s General Services Committee. That committee is a subset of the city council and screens most issues before they come to the city council for consideration.

Adams, who sits on the committee with council members Amy Evans and Ron Edinger, said he thinks the law is unconstitutional and unnecessary.

“I don’t want some poor guy with a concealed weapon attending a parade to be subject to a misdemeanor,” he said, adding the law has really never been enforced.

Councilman Edi

I hate background checks, but Willie Robertson disagrees:

Willie Robertson wants to get President Obama on his turf for a duck hunt.

“I’d like to get him out there with some camouflage and a gun and we could sit out there and talk,” the “Duck Dynasty” star told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.

“I’d like to talk and debate and find out what’s going on in his brain a little more … I don’t shy away from people I disagree with.”

Obama previously said the clan of Republican Christian pro-gun advocates “seem like a pretty fun bunch.”

The Louisiana native actually ran into Obama in January at the State of the Union address and Robertson, 41, said he has met Obama “a couple of times.”

Though a staunch conservative and proud NRA spokesman, Robertson actually does agree with Obama’s push for background checks on gun purchases.

“I’m okay with a background check. I have a lot of weapons and every time I have to go fill out the paperwork to get the weapon,” he told FOX News in August.

Robertson, the CEO o

It pays to support the 2nd Amendment…

Nearly four months after Illinois residents started applying online for concealed carry licenses, businesses like gun ranges and training classes are feeling a positive impact.

“It’s concealed carry. It’s a whole different ball game,” said Tim Barton, owner of Citizens Tactical Unit Firearms Training Academy in Geneseo, Illinois.

“All the rules are different, the laws are different, the behavior is different,” he said.
It is loud in Barton’s gun range. There are distractions, including flashing red lights and screaming when people shoot their guns.

“If you’re just going through the motions, so you can get a certificate and your concealed carry, you’ll gave to go somewhere else, because you are required to perform here,” he said.

Barton says 100% of his business is from the concealed carry law.
“Right after you called and just before you called, I had two gentleman call and ask ya know, what’s your range class like?” he said.

His concealed carry classes are small, no more than six people. Half the required 16 hours of training are spent in the classroom, the other half is in his training range.

“I do have just range time coming in, but those are guys that have been through the c

The father of a man who suffered severe brain damage after he was punched and fell to the ground on the Gold Coast almost five years ago says one-punch laws should be expanded.Sam Ford suffered the injury after the incident at Coolangatta in 2009.

The Queensland Government is considering a maximum penalty of life in prison for unlawful striking causing death under its new Safe Night Out Strategy.

Mike Ford says attempted murder charges should also be considered in cases where the victim survives.

“I still don’t understand why it’s if you can use a knife or a gun it’s murder or attempted murder but if you use your fists it’s a fight,” he said.

Mr Ford says his son requires intensive care.

“Sam’s been working for nearly five years now on a long road to recovery,” he said.

“He’s got severe brain damage, cannot walk, cannot talk, the punishment for that crime was two years’ jail.

“Does someone have to die to get life and why isn’t it attempted murder?”

Mr Ford says he will consider making a submission to the Government.

Source

The Washington Post published an anti-gun editorial praising Vivek and attacking the NRA. I know, I’m shocked. Here’s my repose:

They say: “Every year guns are used to kill thousands of people, and not always the bad guys. For decades, doctors and other public health experts have argued that preventing gun deaths, particularly from accidents and suicides, should be a priority — like curtailing car fatalities or tobacco use.”
Source: http://www.registercitizen.com/opinion/20140324/editorial-the-nra-is-wrong-and-congress-needs-a-backbone

Fact: “You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That’s because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/038889_doctors_guns_statistics.html#ixzz2wumJn7f5

“For their sense, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and others on the pro-gun side have pilloried them, ruining car

The interview was longer than this excerpt, but this is what’s relevant to us:

Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Ted [Nugent] called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel,” and I believe he has apologized for the comment.

Jesse Ventura: Yeah. If Ted thinks he’s a patriot by making a statement like that, he’s the farthest thing from being a patriot. Our president is our president regardless of whether you agree with him politically. He is still the President of the United States, so if people like Ted claim to be a red, white and blue citizen and patriot, back your president regardless of whether you disagree with him. You don’t call him names. Show some dignity to the office he holds. See the difference between Jesse Ventura and Ted Nugent?
Source: http://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/newsmakers/jesse-ventura-interview-i-simply-dont-believe-in-religion-i-follow-the-teachings-of-george-carlin

Mr. Ventura, in Thailand insulting the King can get you thrown in jail. Even telling a joke about his majesty is enough to get

Disturbing news:

ALBANY (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s rating among New York voters has slipped a bit in the latest Siena Poll, but he still leads Rob Astorino, the only declared Republican candidate for governor, by 35 points.

The survey released today by Siena College shows Cuomo leading the Westchester County executive 61-26 percent, down from 64-22 percent last month.

Voters say Cuomo has been an effective governor by a 64-28 percent margin. A year after the SAFE Act gun-control law was enacted, voters support it by a 2-to-1 margin. Voters support Cuomo’s proposal for state-funded college for prison inmates by a 53-43 percent margin.

A plurality of voters, 47-43 percent, said a Republican can beat Cuomo in this election.

The telephone poll of 813 registered voters conducted March 16-20 has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/associated-press/ap-state-news/siena-poll-finds-new-yorkers-support-safe-act-20140324

I wonder how many people in upstate New York shares those views? I wonder how many of the 813 were registered Democrats?  But then again, this is the place where Bloomberg got elected thrice, and then DeBlasio, and now Cuomo, so perhaps my beef shouldn’t be with th

All ads came from “Special Weapons For Military & Police” magazine.

Newshounds states they “watch Fox so you don’t have to,” here’s what they saw:

Back in 2011, when children accompanied those who were protesting GOP changes to laws governing public employee unions, Fox’s Peter Johnson Jr. said that this was like “something out of Red China” and that he had “never before seen kids used in that fashion.” Later that year, Johnson and his fellow Fox fiends friends were appalled by a MoveOn ad which featured children expressing progressive talking points. Yet, the same folks who were just so concerned about kids being “used” by liberals, have never shown the same concern when it comes to kids promoting right wing memes. Just last week, Fox & Friends presented a segment featuring a 9 year old gun lover who is opposed to New Jersey legislation that wo