Dear Lawmakers:If you truly believe that S102 and A2761 (firearms magazine ban) is good public policy, then you need to set an example for the public by mandating that State House police and security themselves be limited to ten-round magazines.Every moment you spend in the State House, you are protected by firearms magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. As a servant of the people, you should be prepared to live under the same rules you set for the people, and not reserve for yourself greater rights than those of the people.If magazines that hold more than 10 rounds are truly evil, as the sponsors of S102 and A2761 claim, then how can they be magically transformed into positive instruments of safety simply because they are being used to protect you?It would be the height of elitism and hypocrisy to exempt yourself from the same perils that this legislation creates for average law-abiding citizens, who don’t have taxpayer funded armed security details and have to rely on themselves for personal protection. Vote NO on S102 or A2761, or amend to add meaningful grandfathering of existing magazines.
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DAILY ALERT FOR
Friday, June 1, 2018
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Everytown spends a
lot of time b*tching and moaning on Twitter but their actual efforts to curb
gun violence are pretty much limited to just that. And of course, demanding
Congress pass a bunch of gun laws that are already on the books or calling
for an assault weapon ban that failed when it was tried during the Clinton
years. You know, the Clinton who could actually win?
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Social justice
busybodies obsessed with how other people live their lives often portray the
success of their causes as a matter of destiny. “The young people will
win,” insists one youthful gun control advocate, falsely portraying
his personal crusade as a generational mandate. Yet recent events have
demonstrated that bedrock American values – including support for the Second
Amendment – tend to outlast moments of high emotion that are increasingly
relied upon by political opportunists to advance their agenda. Given the
chance to collect their thoughts, most Americans instinctively revert to
freedom.
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Last week, Seattle
Mayor Jenny Durkan and Councilmember M. Lorena González proposed legislation
to the City Council to restrict the self-defense rights of Seattle
residents. The proposed ordinance, if passed, would impose a
one-size-fits-all method of storing firearms as well as punish victims of
theft by requiring them to report a lost or stolen firearm within 24 hours or
face increased fines.
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Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Chris King wants to use taxes on weapons and bullets
to pay for gun violence intervention and prevention programs, school safety
measures and studies of gun violence. The funds also would pay for medical
costs for victims of mass shootings “I’m proposing the ‘Every Kid Fund’ for
Gun Violence Prevention because every child deserves to grow up in a state
free from the scourge of gun violence, whether it’s everyday gun violence or
mass shootings,” King said in a statement.
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On Thursday, May 31,
both chambers of the Rhode Island Legislature passed gun bills despite the
objections of Ocean State gun owners.
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On May 31st ,
the Oregon Attorney General certified the ballot title for Initiative
Petition 44. This comes after more than 400 comments were submitted on
the proposed title. As previously reported, NRA submitted comments objecting
to the misleading and inadequate ballot title on behalf of our Oregon
members. IP 44 proponents will begin signature gathering on June 15th
or following the completion of legal challenges brought to the Oregon Supreme
Court.
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Don’t ever underestimate
the British capacity for combining the oppressive with the doltish. This
week, the United Kingdom’s decades-long campaign against all things martial
sunk to a fresh low when one of the Queen’s more domineering subjects floated
a ban on the sale, and possibly the possession, of traditional kitchen
utensils. Not to be outdone, other British busybodies demanded satisfaction
from a professional athlete whose firearm body art they found objectionable.
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States controlled by
the Democratic party have chosen to ignore an individual right protected by
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Rights of millions of law-abiding
Americans in those states have been routinely violated by Byzantine rules and
prohibitions, and courts have turned a blind eye to those abuses. The U.S.
Supreme Court could intervene, but instead it has chosen to leave
unconstitutional laws on the books. Some prominent Democrats have called for
repealing the amendment, and magazine articles have offered elaborate
justifications.
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The percentage of
Texans who support stricter gun laws has dropped, the latest Quinnipiac
University poll shows.
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Six percent of
Americans aged 15 to 34 consider gun control the top issue facing the
country, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs
Research and MTV poll reported on Wednesday. That number is down from a
high of 21 percent who considered it the top issue in March, according to the
poll.
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During the event,
Harris outlined some of her policy wishes, including banning “weapons of war”
and introducing mandatory background checks.
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In the wake of the
two recent high-profile school shootings, the institutional gun control
movement and many in the mainstream media have taken their always alarmist
rhetoric to new heights. Michael Bloomberg anti-gun front group Everytown for
Gun Safety has released misleading and routinely debunked
figures on the prevalence of school shootings in the U.S. A
New York Times columnist, wrote an item following the Houston shooting
titled, “This Is School in America Now,” calling such tragedies an “everyday
nightmare.” A reporter for the Washington Post authored an article with the
salacious and misleading headline “2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren
than service members.” It wasn’t until the fifth paragraph that the Post
bothered to mention that there are 50 million public school students as
compared to 1.3 members of the military; meaning service in our armed forces
is in fact, contrary to the headline, 17 times deadlier. Barack Obama’s
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for a school boycott, while contending
that “the threat of gun violence infects everyday life.”
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Summer Brings Shoots, Golf Outings, Projects and More to WWA
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Don Kirby, Executive Director,
262.224.4949
Hello Roger P,
Wow, with the hot weather
lately, we've gone from a late winter to early summer. I stopped by the Abrams
project earlier this week (see Peter's notes below), to review the mowing
work done by our partners at Pro Plots. This work was
originally intended & scouted in March, for completion in early April,
for possible controlled burning preparation later that month. Unfortunately,
it's surprisingly hard to mow, no matter how big your tractor is, with
30" of fresh snow! Never the less, the work has progressed, albeit later
than planned, and will still pay good benefits for the habitat, and we'll see
about that burn next spring before things green up again.
Speaking of early starts, the Calendar Committee
completed their work, and the data files are at the printer, I expect we'll
see a final proof any day now. We're a couple weeks ahead of last year, so we
should be in very good shape, to be able to start distributing this awesome
raffle (and powerhouse fundraiser) shortly after the Independence Day holiday
week. Meanwhile, you
 don't need to feel left out: there's the Chevy
Heaven: Great Hunting Truck Raffle you can participate in, while the
Calendar is still getting cranked up. The truck will get drawn, at our
farewell to summer celebration: The Hunters' Eve Bash, on
August 30th, the Thursday night before Labor Day weekend. Make your
plans today, it'll be here before you know it.
This month features two great
events you can join in, as well: The Madison Scramble
golf outing, at The Oaks in Cottage Grove on Tuesday the 19th, and the Waukesha
County Sporting Clays Shoot, 3rd of 6 in this year's Series, in Pewaukee
on Sunday the 24th. Check them out, they're great reasons to be outside,
enjoying the weather, while helping support your Association, and maybe hone
your skills a bit!
Finally, don't forget to mark
your calendars for August 10-11-12. That's when we'll move our 2nd WWA Decoy Carving Contest
& Exhibition, which debuted alongside the Federal Duck Stamp
Competition in Stevens Point last summer, down to the Richfield Cabela's,
where it will join our State Duck & Goose Calling Championships. The
combination of these two events should make Richfield the place to be in
Wisconsin for waterfowlers, for that weekend, for sure! We'll be making our
formal "release" soon, but you can say you saw it here, first. Want
to see what the decoy contest is all about? Dan Small & the Outdoors
Wisconsin crew covered it: the episode from February repeats again TOMORROW
on Milwaukee PBS at 9:00 a.m. and on the state public TV network at 10:30
a.m. Or, you can watch it here:
Thanks to all of our
volunteers - they make your Association happen!
See you on the water, Don
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