The NRA has 14X more friends than the VPC

While the NRA has 305,000 Friends on Facebook, the Violence Policy Center must be feeling lonely, the VPC only has 21,432 Likes as of this moment (2/7/2014 at 5:12AM)

Let’s see what this means, here’s a post from the NRA:

NRA News shared a link.
10 hours ago
Background checks for ammunition sales – required under New York’s Safe Act – won’t start anytime soon, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico told lawmakers today. State police are still developing a system that won’t disrupt sales and still comply with the law.

No system exists to enforce NY Safe Act’s background checks on ammo sales, superintendent says
www.syracuse.com
The new gun laws, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January 2013, require background checks on ammunition sales at point of purchase.
950 people like this.
And here’s a post from the VPC
Violence Policy Center shared a link.
11 hours ago
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden reacts to the high black homicide victimization rate in Louisiana: “Just like you were out there vocal about murders happening during the civil rights movement you must also be as vocal today because people need to hear from you and about your disdain for murder happening in our community.”

Local leaders say homicide rate among blacks going down
www.wafb.com
A new study released by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, DC reveals black men in Louisiana are being murdered at an alarming rate compared to other parts of the country. Using FBI data, the report

9 people like this.

Kevin Dotson I have an idea, why don’t we make killing people illegal!
9 hours ago · Like · 1

9 people like that, and the only one commenting happens to be pro-gun.

Other pro-gun pages have far more friends than the VPC

Second Amendment Foundation- 126k 

National Association for Gun Rights- 3.4 MILLION Likes  

Gun Owners of America-295K

Gun Owners- 241k

I Love My Glock 127k

Even Moms Demand Action, which has not been in business as long as the VPC, only has 140,731 likes, and I’m willing to bet “I Love My Glock” will beat them soon enough, even if they don’t have the mainstream media promoting them like they promote MDA.

With that said, our pro-freedom side cannot afford to rest on their laurels. The NRA has 4.5 million members yet NAGR has more likes? WTF? We need to encourage more of our NRA comrades to participate on Facebook and Like the NRA and the other pro-gun FB pages.

You’re also invited to like the STSA Facebook page. :)

 

 

 

Fake Firearm Bill debated in Maine

California is not the only State where they’re trying to control toy guns…

AUGUSTA (WGME) – Safety and security at your schools is firing up debate at the Maine State House. A new bill would make it a crime for students to have fake guns on school property.

Maine State Senator Dawn Hill (D-District 1) proposed a new law that would prohibit non-firing, replica firearms, in other words, fake guns, from being on or near school property. Students who are caught with them could be sent to jail for six months and fined up to $1,000.

Police across the country say they’re having a harder time telling real guns from knock-offs. California teen Andy Lopez was shot and killed last fall by a deputy while carrying a replica rifle; investigators say it looked like a real AK-47.

“We’re up against these issues, and we need to deal with them. These are different times, and there’s a heightened alert now,” Sen. Hill said.

Just last week a toy gun put the brakes on a school bus in Auburn. The driver called police when he heard students talking about a gun. School officials later told us the student had a toy gun in his backpack.

But Senator Hill’s bill on replica guns is getting push back in Augusta.

“If it’s in somebody’s trunk and it hasn’t been used to scare anyone, it’s as harmless as a shoe,” David Trahan with the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine told us.

The Maine Civil Liberties Union and the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine say the bill isn’t specific enough and the punishment is too severe.

“I’d hate to see a kid put a Lego kit like this together thinking he’s doing nothing wrong and then all of a sudden arrested and convicted of a crime,” Trahan said in an interview with CBS 13.

It’s already a crime to have a real gun on a school campus and most school districts have policies in place that ban anything that looks like a gun. But if this bill becomes law, instead of breaking a school rule, a student with a fake firearm, would be committing a crime.

The Maine Education Association says its main concern is safety but isn’t taking a position on the bill.

“These are complicated issues that need to be thought out carefully. There are school policies and laws that are impacted,” Paul Hamilton with the MEA said.

Our research found federal law requires orange markings on toy guns so police can quickly tell a real from a fake, but they can easily be removed or pop off creating confusion for police. That’s something else lawmakers on the Education Committee will consider and debate as they continue to talk about fake firearms and schools.
Source: http://www.wgme.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/fake-firearm-bill-fires-up-debate-20867.shtml#.UvSKXPk2ymY

While it’s true that the 2nd Amendment is about real guns and not toy guns, the reason I share this is because you and I know that the first step to destroy our freedom is to manipulate our children. As Hitler put it, “In Germany today, the youth lead the way.”

There is nothing wrong with bringing a toy to school for recess fun or “show and tell.” The enemy wants a “Gun-Free Country,” they want to turn our boys into eunuchs, castrated sensitive freaks that instead of holding a replica gun and shouting “bang,” will cry like a girl over some kid teasing him.

I’m not saying bullying is good, but back in my day we fought the bully, we stood up to the bully, we learned to respond with words and if that wasn’t good enough, then fists. Today the anti-gunners want to turn our boys into wussies, poor little victims that instead of fighting back, cry.

God help us if we let them win.

Car Dealer Mass Shooting Stopped by Gun Owner

The FBI considers 4 dead people a mass shooting, here nobody died:

 

During an incident in Taylor County, FL yesterday, at a car dealership, our good guy came in the form of a Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputy who was getting his car serviced at the dealership.

Deputy Robert Lundy was waiting for his vehicle when 51-year-old Earl Edward Clague Jr. drove his vehicle through the front of the dealership, exited the vehicle and opened fire with a semi-auto shotgun (shotguns seem to be the mass murderer’s weapon of choice lately).

Deputy Lundy engaged the shooter and opened fire. Clague was shot and killed by Deputy Lundy during the exchange of gunfire.

Deputy Lundy and two other people, both employees of the dealership, were shot by Clague. All three are expected to recover.

According to Tallahassee.com,

“We know that his actions today saved the lives of many citizens,” [Gretl Plessinger, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement] said.

No clear motive has been established.

“We are investigating. That’s one of the things the investigation will show,” Plessinger said. “We’re conducting interviews and building a timeline and working on the crime scene right now.”

So, there you go. A mass shooting situation that could have gone down very differently if not for the presence of a good guy with a gun.
Source: http://gunssavelives.net/blog/video-good-guy-with-a-gun-stopped-mass-shooting-at-florida-car-dealership/