It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
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• http://ashevilleteaparty.org/?p=5338 You Can’t Ban Evil: Kira Davis • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn7bkncf1 _E&list=UUwGGHSKfd1Wo6yADuaoaYVw&ind ex=4vis
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“If guns kill people then pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk and spoons made Rosie O’Donnell fat.”Anonymous
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Do not shrink away. Stay on message.
Refute with facts. Know history.
Know why we have a 2nd Amendment. Know why our 2nd Amendment is relevant today.
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Why did our Founders enshrine our ‘right to bear arms’ in our Bill of Rights? Who is the ‘militia’? Publius Huldah Shows Federal Gun Control is Unlawful (25 minutes) http://ashevilleteaparty.org/
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The Second Amendment refers to “a well-regulated militia.”The right of the people to form citizen militias was unquestioned by the Founders. A. The Federalist Papers, No. 28: Alexander Hamilton expressed that when a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of selfdefense — to fight the government.[Halbrook, p. 67] B. The Federalist Papers, No. 29: Alexander Hamilton explained that an armed citizenry was the best and only real defense against a standing army becoming large and oppressive. [Halbrook, p. 67]
To our Founders, the ‘militia’ meant the whole body of the people, as noted by Richard Lee in 1787. “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves … and include …all men capable of bearing arms.”
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C. The Federalist Papers, No. 46: James Madison contended that ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms. [Halbrook, p. 67] D. There was no National Guard, and the Founders opposed anything but a very small national military. The phrase “wellregulated” means well-trained and disciplined — not “regulated” as we understand that term in the modern sense of bureaucratic regulation. [This meaning still can be found in the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed. 1989, Vol 13, p. 524, and Vol 20. p. 138.] Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
E. The Federalists promised that state governments and citizen militias would exist to make sure the federal military never became large or oppressive. To say that the National Guard replaces the notion of the militia runs contrary to what the Founders said and wrote.
F. The Third Amendment: Expressly restrains the federal government from building a standing army and infiltrating it among the people ...and at the people’s expense ... in times of peace. The Third Amendment runs against the idea of a permanent standing army or federalized National Guard in principle, if not by its words Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
Gun bans don’t ban crime. They contribute to it.
DC banned guns in 1976. Homicide rate has tripled.
California banned a list of guns in 1989. Homicide rate jumped 44% above the rest of the nation. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
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Since the handgun ban took effect, the number of murders in Chicago committed using handguns has been 40% higher than before the ban, and has spiked even higher in recent years. The gun ban actually served to cause an increase in violent crime.
• According to the demographic and geographic profile of the most violent crimes, the vast majority of perpetrators who murder with guns are associated with gangs and drug cartels which thrive in urban welfare zones. • There were more than 500 murders in Obama’s hometown of Chicago in 2011 – a city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Most were tied to gangs and drugs. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
• Since 1991 when violent crime peaked in the U.S. 24 states adopted ‘shall issue’ laws; other federal state and local gun control laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive • The number of gun owners and firearms in RTC state has risen to an all time high 100 million law abiding citizens who privately own more than 300 million firearms killed no one yesterday.
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• Through 2010, the nation’s murder rate has decreased 52% to a 47 year low • The total violent crime rate has decreased 48 percent to a 37 year low. • The FBI preliminarily reported that violent crimes decreased another 6.4% in the first half of 2011, translating into a 7% decrease in the total violent crime per capita rate.
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Studying crime trends in every county in the U.S., economists John Lott and David Mustard concluded that • “allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes … When state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5%, rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5% and 7%.”
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• FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Report, a summary of all serious crimes committed each year, in 1992 violent crime incidence was 752 per 100.000 people and 9.3 murders per 100,000. • In 2011, violent crime rate dropped to 386 per 100,000 and the murder rate to 4.7 per 100,00 – nearly a 50% decline in both. • This precipitous drop occurred at a time when the # of firearms has increased dramatically, including the sale of more than six million “assault weapons.”
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• Since the Gun Free School Zone Act was enacted in 1990 and updated in 1995, there has been a 370% increase in the rate of school shooting deaths. • Since the GFSZA, the U.S. homicide rate has decreased by 14%. Why is the murder rate decreasing where conceal carry laws are in place, but those murdered on educational property has quadrupled where guns are banned? Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
After the enactment of the GFSZA, Active Killer Events Quadrupled from 1 event to 4 events every decade. Nov 1990, George H.W. Bush Signs the GFSZA. It was included in the Crime Control Act of 1990. Sponsored by then Senator Joe Biden Before GFSZA, average frequency was 0.04 every decade. After GFSZA, average frequency = 2.0 every 5 years! Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
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The National Safety Council notes that guns are used some 2.5 million times a year in self defense against criminals, meaning that firearms are utilized to protect innocent lives in 80 times more cases than they are used to end lives. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
In the UK: virtually impossible for an average citizen to obtain a gun through legal channels, yet the rate of violent crime in the UK is higher per capita than the US and the highest in the world among “rich” countries aside from Australia, which also instituted a draconian gun ban in the 1990′s.
Despite a widespread ban on gun ownership in the United Kingdom, it is the most dangerous place to live in terms of violent crime in the entire western world.
Scotland 1996: all handguns were outlawed following the Dunblane school massacre. Law-abiding people rushed to turn in their firearms. over the next decade gun crime in the UK more than doubled. While law-abiding citizens willingly disarmed themselves, criminals were unfazed by the new laws and continued to use guns illegally. Therefore gun control only disarms innocent people since criminals do not follow the law. The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents
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Aurora Colorado Theater 2012
Columbine 1999 Virginia Tech 2007
Ft. Hood 2012 Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
Video: Mass Murderers Agree: Gun Control Works http://cspoa.org/mass-murderers-agree-guncontrol-works/
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• The Nazi’s inherited gun control from Germany’s freely elected center and left center in the 1920’s: A Firearms and Ammo Act on April 12, 1928. • As a result, almost all firearm owners were registered. They wanted to control gang activity between Nazi’s and the Communists. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
• The Nazi’s did not renew permits for Firearms purchases Ammo permits Hunting Permits • Nazi Weapons Law, March 18, 1938: Passed Handgun Gun Control Law Result: Confiscation of firearms and ammo from people who were ‘not reliable’ Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
• The chief framer of the 1968 U.S. Gun Control Act was U.S Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT) who served as a senior member of the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nurnberg 1945-46. • U.S. Gun Control Act was enacted October 22, 1968, in the United States and signed by President Lyndon Johnson. • Kitty Werthmann , A Witness to Nazi Tyranny, Sends A Message to The World, You Have Been Warned. http://kittywithermann.blogspot.co m/ Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
. During the late 70’s, President Jimmy Carter tried this. Carter wanted to push through comprehensive legislation on gun control. To make the case to Congress, the Carter folks handed out a gun-control research grant to the University of Massachusetts sociology professor James D, Write and colleagues Peter Rossi ad Kathleen Daly. The four year study that wasted much tax payer dollars, produced a three volume work titled, “Under the Gun.” Their findings were that Gun control laws do not reduce crime. They found no scholarly evidence that the 20,000 gun control laws, then on the books, had reduced criminal violence.
Furthermore, the study also found: * The landmark federal Gun Control Act of 1968 that banned interstate gun sales, had no discernible impact on the criminal acquisition of guns from other states * Detroit’s law providing mandatory sentences for felonies committee with a gun had no effect on gun crime patterns * Washington D.C.’s 1977 ban on ownership of handguns (except those already registered in the District) was not linked to any reduction in gun crime * Polls claiming to show that a large majority of the population favored more gun control were debunked. They were the product of biased questions and that most people had no idea how strict gun control laws were (David Kopel, “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment,” Aspen, 2012). U. S. Military Veterans Can Legally Carry A Concealed Pistol In 27 States: http://www.legallyarmed.com/resources/veteran.htm Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
3/12/2013 Divided Senate panel approves bill for near-universal gun background checks The Judiciary Committee was expected to approve all three bills at some point this week, with full Senate consideration next month. "The American people need to speak up and be heard," Leahy said Monday of what it will take for gun measures to clear Congress. http://thehill.com/video/senate/288141panel-approves-assault-weapons-ban-amidcruz-feinstein-fireworks
The committee also approved a measure providing $40 million a year for school safety programs. The committee postponed until Thursday a vote on a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to ban assault weapons. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/12 /senate-dems-ready-to-push-expanded-gunbackground-checks-throughcommittee/?test=latestnews Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
• Legislation up for a vote in the NC General Assembly as of March 16th, 2013
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NC Senate
NC House • HB 17: Gun Permits/Restaurants & Confidentiality(Burr, Hagar, Hollo, Bell) • HB 49: Firearm in Locked Motor Vehicle/Parking Lot (Shepherd)
• SB 17: Concealed Carry Handgun Permits/Validity (Bingham) • SB 27: Public School Protection Firearm Amendments (Bingham) • SB 28: Gun Permit/No Publication (Bingham) • SB 59: Armed Security Guards in K-12 (Rabin) • SB 124: Shoot Gun From Inside/”Any Person” (Intent to Harm or Incite Fear) (Brunstetter) • SB 146: Private Citizens Bill of Rights Enforcement: a last Schools/Firearms resort to combat tyranny and when failure Amendments (Brock, Bingham, Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org is not an option! Hise)
AshevilleTeaParty.org Action Needed ASAP Senator Brunstetter, a Republican, is trying to make it a felony offense in NC to willfully discharge a weapon in any building or vehicle. Including your home, to harm to another or to incite fear. Big government Republicans are just as bad and dangerous as Liberals. With this short bill, Senator Brunstetter is seeking to overturn the Castle Doctrine in NC. The language in the bill “any person” makes a felon of anyone defending themselves in any building, structure, motor vehicle, or other conveyance, erection, or enclosure with the intent to do harm or incite fear. (“Any person” shall be punished as a Class E Felon. ) Call Brunstetter and tell him to rescind SB 124. No elected official, government, bureaucrat or elected representative has the right to trample upon our second amendment rights and make felons of us for protecting ourselves and our loved ones. We have an inalienable right to keep and bear arms. We will actively seek another to run again him in the next election unless this bill is rescinded. Phone: 919 733 7850 Email:
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Grassroots North Carolina: GRNC has petitions that ATP has available at Meetings and gun shows/linked on the website and in the newsletter. Check With GRNC for other state alerts and petitions. www.grnc.org http://grnc.org/stop-the-obama-gun-ban-petition-gpo1203
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• Draft state legislation/Call & email reps http://ashevilleteaparty.org/?page_id=5551
Legislation
• Attend Commish Meetings/Town Halls/Speak Out(“Why aren’t you pro-choice when it comes to self defense of women? “ Cecelia Bigelow 3/12 to Jim Moran (D-VA)
• Support Resolutions: Ex: Henderson Cherokee • /Call Reps to say ‘Thank You!’
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Attend Gun Shows Support Sheriffs
• Defend the gun shows • Join with GRNC/GOA/Display ed. Materials/Petitions • Encourage Sheriff to take oath to stand between us and the feds. http://cspoa.org/sheriffs-gun-rights/
Support TV and Radio
• Be available for TV interviews/Stick to message • Call radio to comment and offer info http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/city-looks-makegun-ownership-mandatory/nWhgr/ Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
Machin e Gun Socials
• Press Releases to Media/Website Presence • Accept Interviews/China Business Network/HuffingtonPost/Social media
Take Advantage of National Events
Gun Raffles Businesses Headlines
• Gun Appreciation Day/AC-T/Japanese National TV/Huffington Post/Social media • Day of Resistance/Open/Conceal Carry • Partner with gun smiths/owners/bring in new business • Put businesses on “Notice” Prohibition against open/conceal carry increases your risk of cirminal activitiy and makes you responsible for my well being.” • Seize national headlines/Create event Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc. edu/?p=4132
By posting of your public business premises against the lawful carrying of concealed handguns by permitted individuals, (GS-14-415.11) your business has assumed responsibility for the safety of those forced by circumstances to visit your facilities. You have, by your actions, increased the risk of criminal activity by advertising to the criminal element that the law-abiding citizen will be disarmed by your actions, leaving the criminals free to prey on those entering into, inside of, or leaving your premises. If your posting includes a prohibition against the open carry of handguns, you may also increase your liability. The state law regarding open carry has not been changed. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
• The most important thing we have done is vet our candidates before the primary using iCaucus tools. t
• Endorse those who commit to our values and principles: Individual rights, fiscal Responsibility, limited government, free markets .
• Campaign hard for them and once elected, hold them accountable! iCaucus is proven and tested nationally. In NC, iC Affiliates managed to get more than 51% of our endorsed candidates elected. www.icaucus.org
We will no longer vote, go home, go back to work and assume our representatives are protecting our rights. Our Founders knew that a Republic endures if the people are educated and engaged in the political process. At the close of the Constitutional Convention, 1787, a lady asked Dr. Franklin, “Well Doctor what have we got - a Republic or a Monarchy?’ “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
iCaucus North Carolina Affiliate Groups: Asheville Tea PAC, Buncombe County The Blue Ridge Tea Party Patriots, Henderson, Polk and Transylvania Counties Cabarrus County Conservatives, Cabarrus County Caldwell County Tea Party, Caldwell County Catawba Tea Party, Catawba CAUTION (Common Americans United To Inspire Our Nation), Charlotte Cherokee 9.12 Project, Cherokee County FTTF (Feet To The Fire), Wake County Haywood 9.12 Project, Haywood County Jackson County Tea Party Patriots, Jackson County Polk 9.12 Project, Polk County Randolph Tea Party, Randolph Rowan Tea Party, Rowan County Shelby 9.12, Shelby County Sons of Liberty, National Organization Stand Up North Carolina, Iredell County Surry 9.12 Tea Party, Surry County Tea Party of Greater Gaston County, Gaston County “Uniting the effort to elect principled candidates to office.” Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
iCaucus Endorsed Candidates through the second primary. More than half elected in November 2012 Mark Meadows, Congress NC 11 Dan Forest, Lieutenant Governor Ed Goodwin, Secretary of State Mike Causey, Insurance Commissioner John Tedesco, Superintendent of Instruction Jim Davis, NC Senate 50 Kent Wilsey, NC House 62 Chris Whitmire, NC House 113 Mike Clampitt, NC House 119 Justice Paul Martin Newby, NC Supreme Court Chris Dillon, NC Court of Appeals Josh Houston, Henderson School Board Robert Youngblood, Randolph School Board Barry Shoemaker, Cabarrus School Board Susan Cox Rowan-Salisbury School Board Sue Smolka, Catawba School Board J.B. Howard, Buncombe Chair Commissioner Christina Kelley-Merrill Buncombe Commissioner Curtis Brown Cherokee County Commissioner C B McKinnon Cherokee County Commissioner Marty Jones, Commissioner Jackson County
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Stepping Up to iCaucus 2012 thus far • Dr. Greg Brannon NC Senate 2014 vs Hagan • Associate Justice Mark D. Martin NC Supreme Court • NC House seats challenged: Chuck McGrady/Commissioner Edney/ • NCGO Chair and Vice Chair
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iCAUCUS Press Release Contact Wendy Gumpert, NC Vetting Phone: (336) 345 0898 OCTOBER 15, 2012
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11:00 A.M.,
Hendersonville, NC, 11:00 A.M: Justice Paul Martin Newby, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice, has received the iCaucus endorsement for 2012 reelection with 100% of the vote. iCaucus is a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to bringing the people back into the election process by their participation to support good men and women who commit to and can demonstrate adherence to Constitutional authority. Through the iCaucus vetting process, Justice Paul Martin Newby, a man of impeccable integrity, has demonstrated that he embraces our principles and can defend them: individual rights, limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets. iCaucus gives their Affiliate Groups the tools to find, vet, endorse, campaign and then elect principled candidates. iCaucus then has the tools to hold them accountable. iCaucus Affiliate Groups across North Carolina proudly endorse Justice Paul Martin Newby for North Carolina Supreme Court. Jane Bilello AshevilleTeaParty.org
It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
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