There seems little doubt that the next big gun rights battle will be on the global front, thanks to efforts by anti-gun governments to not only disarm their citizens, but also lobby at the United Nations to compel the U.S. government to ratchet down on our gun rights.
Well, good luck with that! There are an estimated 80-90 million gun owners in this country, and they own an estimated 200-250 million firearms. All of these guns that the gun control fanatics don’t want us to have; we’ve already got them.
Events over the past decade have emphasized the need to protect the individual’s rights to defend oneself and one’s family against grave threats, including crime, civil unrest and terrorism. IAPCAR is dedicated to preserving these human rights.
Into this fray has stepped a new organization with strong involvement from two Bellevue-based groups, the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. They are on the ground floor in the formation of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR), with offices soon to be located in Washington, D.C. and Vienna, Austria.
A full report will appear in an upcoming issue of Gun Week, where I am senior editor.
SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, who also chairs the CCRKBA, returned this week from an IAPCAR gathering in Nuremberg, Germany and will be back in Europe next month for another round of meetings. Already on board are firearms organizations and activists from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the United States. Joining soon will be groups from The Philippines, Switzerland, Belgium, Argentina, Finland, India, Israel, Greece, South Africa, and Australia.
While the disarmament agenda is ineffectual at suppressing the black market, it is capable of inflicting tremendous collateral damage on human rights. Perhaps in no nation is the devastation to society caused by restrictive firearm laws more evident than in Jamaica.12 The Jamaica of today is no longer an idyllic island paradise. Instead, it is a hellhole caught in the terminal stage of what some euphemistically call “gun control.” Much of the loss of human rights can be traced directly to the Gun Court Act of 1974, which imposed national gun prohibition."-From: 'Gun Ownership and Human Rights'
Work on this alliance has been quietly progressing for some time. IAPCAR sees its primary task as providing a counter to the established International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), a virulently anti-gun group that has been actively lobbying the United Nations with an extremist gun control agenda. Hardly by coincidence, some of the world's most abusive regimes in terms of human rights are also those that have the strictest gun control agenda.
Gottlieb is visibly delighted to be part of this, especially since this is not merely a sport shooting group, but an organization devoted to self-defense, which IAPCAR notes is “a human right.” In many countries, and even here in the USA, a lot of gun prohibitionists disdain armed self-defense, which brings us around to the next item.
CA jogger jumps off cliff to avoid assault
Authorities were still investigating a case involving a female jogger near Malibu, CA after she jumped off a cliff to escape what apparently was an attempted sexual assault. The Associated Press reported that the unidentified woman was taken to a hospital on Friday after sliding down about 100 feet, sustaining cuts and bruises.
She had reportedly finished a run at Point Dume State Beach and was standing on the edge of the cliff when she was grabbed from behind. A struggle ensued and the unarmed woman was only able to escape by leaping off the cliff.
California has lousy gun laws and a backwards discretionary permit system that allows sheriffs and police chiefs to withhold concealed carry licenses from just about anybody, which many of them do. In the process, they have created an anti-gunner’s Utopia, a place where victims must take virtual death leaps rather than fight back and stop some robber or rapist in his tracks.
Her attacker escaped in the woman’s Toyota Land Cruiser, the Associated Press said. Now, if that woman had only wired up her vehicle like the next guy…
Seward Park case raises questions
By now, just about everyone knows that the man who claimed to have been shot by a robber in Seattle’s Seward Park actually capped himself with what might be defined as a “set gun,” a revolver cocked and wired to discharge if someone tripped the booby trap.
Our hero in this case turns out to be a real model citizen, with five (Count ‘em, FIVE!) felony convictions on his record, two of which involved firearms offenses. This moron is only 24 years old, and one must ask what was he doing in Seward Park when – with a record like that – he should have been locked up in Shelton or Monroe? Oh, that’s right, he was busy shooting himself in the leg with a handgun he could not legally possess, rigged as a “set gun,” which is illegal.
...but then police found a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver in the bushes about 30 yards north of the car, containing one fired and four unfired cartridge casings.
Seattle Police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the car was impounded. The gun was found in the bushes near where the shooting occurred, and the guy’s story went south by the shortcut when police arrived and started asking him about the alleged thug who shot him and ran in a botched robbery attempt. It was bogus, and the guy went to Harborview to get patched up.
Whitcomb didn’t know where the gun came from, and it’s a cinch this five-time loser didn’t buy it at a gun shop.
But, c’mon; five felony convictions and he’s only 24 years old? What’s he have to do to get a long-term rent-free visit to the big house?
Atlanta: Ed Stone | Austin: Howard Nemerov | Boston: Ron Bokleman | Charlotte: Paul Valone | Cheyenne: Anthony Bouchard | Chicago: Don Gwinn | Cleveland: Daniel White | DC: Mike Stollenwerk | Denver: Dan Bidstrup | Fort Smith: Steve D. Jones | Grand Rapids: Skip Coryel | Knoxville: Liston Matthews | | Los Angeles: John Longenecker | Minneapolis: John Pierce | National: David Codrea | Parkersburg: Nicholas Arnold | Phoenix: Douglas Little | Pittsburgh: Dan Campbell | Seattle: Dave Workman | St. Louis: Kurt Hofmann | Tucson: Chris Woodard | Wisconsin: Gene German
For more info: International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. Second Amendment Foundation. Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Comments
Interesting mention of Nuremburg Germany. Love that Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938.
You gotta love that Nuermburg Prosecutor, never went to college, never went to law school, but temporarly left the Court, for that Grand Old Nuremburg Party!
"Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others
simply because their consciences tell them to do so."
-- Justice Robert H. Jackson
The forced disarmament of women by law or economic policies should be the most crucial human rights issue on the planet. Instead, more efforts by the powerful to turn women into victims. And more tender-conscienced people happy to let it happen, because it let's them feel all holy about their hoplophobia.... Good job, SAF and CCRKBA. That's how to honor Rukhsana Kauser!
In RE. the dummy who shot himself. This idiot will eventually kill someone if he hasn't already. Anti-gunners wail and gnash your teeth. More and more the People are seeing the light. And feel just like this--It is more cost effective, safer for ALL other people if people like this joker were to be made dead. Apparantly we will not be able to do this. I mean, that a wolf in a pen or dead will not harm us. I suggest instead, For the first time criminal offender, put him in jail. If he lacks a high school deploma put him through a course that is very stringent. In the meantime or whenever it ss found that he lacks a skill to get a job he will then go through another course in a trade of=r something like that. When he completes this he is then released to a job and a ptemporary place to sleep and such. If he offends again, It is an automatic 20 years serve all. If he offends again, upon conviction, kill him as soon as possible. It will be obvious he will not learn.
We have in this country many people who are very powerful because they have much money. These greedy people love money and power. Not all are that way so don't any of you get your panties in a twist. They look down on others as not even worthy to live except in servitude. These are the people who are trying to make slaves of the rest of us. Why? because they have nothing but contempt for the rest of us. NO! I do not want their money taken fr0om them and distributed amongst the poor! That is wrong. We ned the person with the drive and willingness to earn such wealth.without them we would all live in mud huts and from hand to mouth. But do we really want them ruling our lives? What is worng with following Gods law and disciplining ourselves?????
I regards to the one, two,three Idea previously presented Here is abetter one.:
When dating a certain young lady for the first time her father took me aside & explained the rules. At the end of the lecture he said-" I know that sometimes we all make mistakes so the first time you break one of my rules I figure it was my fault because I did not explain them to you good enough for you to understand them, the second time you break a rule, it is your fault since obviously you don't intend to follow the rules, the third time? Son, there wont be a third time. Very few problems in life that this philosphy wont solve.
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