NAACP Demands ID’s from Voter ID’s Protesters

The gun-hating NAACP is quite the hypocrite when it comes to the voter ID issue:

Some North Carolinian voters are protesting in the “Moral March” against that state’s new racist voter ID law and this event is hosted by the NAACP. However it is interesting to note that the NAACP is requiring marchers to provide ID in order to participate in this event:

North Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday.

The central claim among the protesters is that the  voter-ID laws disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population, particularly minority voters and poor voters.

According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.
Source: http://americaswatchtower.com/2014/02/08/north-carolina-voter-id-protesters-forced-by-the-naacp-to-show-id/#more-34484

 

Gun Control is Political Suicide: Learn from Mike Hope

Actions have consequences, last year RINO Mike Hope voted for “universal background checks,” well, the state House Republican Caucus has removed bad boy Hope from the Judiciary Committee.

Hope, a former Seattle police officer from Lake Stevens, was replaced on the committee by the more conservative Larry Haler, a Hanford contractor from Richland.

The change, which was made at the beginning of this year’s legislative session, likely doomed the prospects of several bills establishing more gun restrictions — including the chances of Initiative 594 being approved in the Legislature instead of going to the November ballot.
Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022868447_committeeswitchxml.html

Aw, poor Democrats in Washington State, looks like they’re not going to get everything they want. LOL. Seriously though, a cop who votes for gun control is worse than any criminal.

 

 

From Victim to Pro-Gun Patriot: A Profile of Anthony Bouchard

Here’s some honest reporting from Trib.com, a Wyoming newspaper.

Years ago in another state, Anthony Bouchard had a gun pointed at his face during an encounter with an angry man, he said. In separate incidents, Bouchard recalled being shot at twice, once in the woods and once during a drive-by shooting in a rough neighborhood where he was working.

He was never injured. But the three incidents cemented in Bouchard’s mind the importance of the right to carry a weapon for self-defense, he said. Bouchard now leads the Wyoming Gun Owners Association, which he describes as the state’s only no-compromise gun rights group.

Bouchard hangs out at the Wyoming Capitol every day. He isn’t cajoling lawmakers.

“I expose politicians who treat the Second Amendment with contempt,” Bouchard said.

He uses Facebook, mail and email to inform Gun Owner Association members, whose number he declines to share, about bills up for consideration and comments lawmakers make about them. Then association members are encouraged to lobby their senators and representatives.Toward the end of last session, lawmakers were fed up with inboxes full of emails or seeing themselves on memes that Bouchard had created, photos overlaid with unflattering political statements.

Bouchard doesn’t care whether he’s popular with lawmakers. He’s more concerned about gun rights.

“It’s really strange to me that in Wyoming, we don’t have more lawmakers of that understanding,” he said. “It seems like they’d be more at home in California or New York.”
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Cuomo tries to bribe us with state grants for gun ranges

Cuomo is like the guy who buys you dinner after he rapes you, read on:

State grants for shooting ranges?

If Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo thinks that will help him mend fences with gun owners, well, that dog don’t hunt.

Just ask Jim Mills of South Buffalo, who was one of the dozens of people at the Clarence Gun Show on Saturday.

“No. It’s not going to work,” Mills said. “I won’t vote for him.”

Mills says gun ranges are important. But bundles of state money to help improve them will not change his attitude about Cuomo as he runs for re-election later this year.

“I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher,” he said.

At the gun show, and virtually anywhere gun owners congregate, opinions about Cuomo follow a well-worn track: He had no business penalizing responsible gun owners by promoting and then signing New York’s SAFE Act.

So some of those same critics figure he’s just trying to repair his own image by having his Department of Environmental Conservation distribute a total $135,000 to 13 nonprofit shooting ranges around the state to improve public access and “promote the responsible use of firearms.”
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/state/grants-to-shooting-ranges-not-likely-to-improve-cuomos-image-with-gun-owners-20140208

I wonder how the gun haters feel about this? I’m not even a fan of public parks and libraries, so I’m to crazy about “nonprofit shooting ranges.” I’d rather pay $10 to shoot in a place that’s nice and comfortable than go to some “public” place that may not be up to par.

From Nassau County on Long Island to Erie and Niagara counties in Western New York, those 13 shooting-range operators will use the money to shore up clubhouses, enhance drainage, drill a water well and heat an outdoor pavilion, among other projects.

The Tonawanda Sportsmen’s Club in Niagara County will spend its $15,000 replacing the safety screen for trap and skeet fields and posting safety signs, according to the DEC. An archery range operated by Hawkeye Bowmen, Inc., in Marilla, a “family-oriented archery club,” will spend $11,366 to better insulate its clubhouse.

Each nonprofit shooting range must cover 25 percent of its project’s cost with its own money.

In a sea of about 150 people, mostly men wearing dark colors, Terry Rose, of Derby, stood out at the gun show. He was the fellow in the blue shirt with the Second Amendment printed brightly across its chest. Rose was manning the table for the Shooters Committee on Political Education, a statewide group urging repeal of the SAFE Act, either in the halls of the State Legislature or the courts.

He said that as word spread from Albany that the DEC was seeking grant applications from shooting ranges, SCOPE suspected the governor’s people were out to repair his standing with gun owners.

“I don’t think that any gun range would want to accept that money because, as I say, the damage has been done,” said Rose, who said he was stating his own views, not those of the organization.

But reject the money?

The cash originates with gun owners themselves as they pay a federal tax on firearms and ammunition to fuel the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration program. The tax is applied to archery equipment as well.

Washington then returns the money to fish and wildlife agencies in each state to distribute for wildlife conservation and management programs. But the Fish and Wildlife Service allows dollars to go for hunter education and for “the development and management of shooting ranges.”

“It’s use it or lose it money,” said Dave Notaro, president of the Tonawanda Sportsmen’s Club. “Obviously we are totally against everything that Cuomo has done with the SAFE Act,” he said. “All the SAFE Act does is hurt the average law-abiding gun-shooter. It has no positive impact on the safety of New York residents. That’s all smoke and mirrors.”

Don’t take anything from Cuomo, the last thing we want is that bastard calling himself pro-gun because he returned some of our confiscated taxes to us.

But he said that with the federal government trying to return money – “money that they are stealing in taxes anyway” – the fact it would be spent by shooting ranges should not be viewed in a negative light.

While no one seemed to recall New York ever using the money specifically to improve shooting ranges, at least in the recent past, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens explained in a statement that “ranges are key outlets to help develop necessary firearms and archery skills … before heading out into the field.”

In Marilla, the officers of Hawkeye Bowmen harbored some reservations about participating in the grant program, said Phil Fleck, the organization’s president.

“We discussed them at length before we even applied,” he said.

Many of the archery club’s members are gun owners opposed to the SAFE Act, he said. And there was a healthy suspicion that Cuomo’s real aim was to cleanse his image. But the grant, Fleck said, will help open the clubhouse to youth education programs and promote interest in archery.

“I am 72 years old, and I have been in archery a long time,” he said. “And archery is not just about hunting. Archery is its own sport, and all you’ve got to do is look at the Olympics to prove that. That’s kind of what we promote.”

New York lawmakers and the governor adopted the SAFE Act – the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act – in January 2013 in a swift response to the prior month’s mass killing of 20 school children and six educators in Newtown, Conn. With the law, New York required widely supported universal background checks, applied stiffer penalties for people who use illegal guns and imposed the nation’s toughest ban on assault weapons.

More than a year later, criticism has not waned. Gun rights advocates say the law’s loose definition of assault weapons, its limit of seven-round magazines and the rule that mental health professionals report patients they deem dangerous create restrictions that are either difficult to enforce or create new problems. They argue the law ultimately infringes on rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

In a federal court challenge heard in Buffalo, U.S. District Judge William Skretny upheld the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines but rejected the seven-round limit, calling it “tenuous, strained and unsupported.” Lawyers on both sides of the matter predicted an appeal.

David Miller, who lives near Lockport, says he will not be voting for Cuomo.

“I don’t care who is running against him,” said Miller, who attended the gun show Saturday. He, too, believes the SAFE Act penalizes gun owners who follow the law while doing nothing in practical terms to make society safer. He said it just continues a constant erosion of personal rights by state and federal governments.

Imagine, he asked, if the government determined that someone could buy no more than one six-pack of beer at a time, because alcohol is at the root of so many social problems and contributes to natural and accidental deaths.

Wouldn’t people protest?

Mills, the gun owner from South Buffalo who had been listening to the conversation, quickly interjected.

“Don’t give Cuomo no ideas.”