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INDEX:
1. We are now on our way to 13,000 on VA-ALERT!
2. Survey USA poll: McDonnell and Cuccinelli leading Democrat opponents
3. Sound off on ObamaCare turns into opportunity to promote, discuss 2nd Amendment
4. Virginia Tech announces $10,000 reward for information about killings
5. Suffolk's city council aims at rifles
6. Fairfax Co. police search for mall parking lot attackers
7. Column: How is campus any different?
8. LTE: Competence is a key component in gun ownership
9. LTE: What is the issue with concealed weapons?
10. LTE: Carrying concealed weapons decreases crime rates
11. LTE: Good to know about lax gun laws
12. RTD improperly used "gunman" slur
13. Pro-gun opinion piece in the Washington Post
14. Washington Post reporter becomes a gun owner . . . well, almost
15. Accidental discharge in Danville, VA restaurant
16. Appomattox man charged in Campbell County invasion
17. Fredericksburg home invasion
18. RT LTE: Why does it always have to be about color?
19. Washington Times Editorial: False reports about guns
20. Anti-gun Roanoke Times column about CHP
21. Accidental causes of death in the U.S.A: Firearms are #7
22. Meditations on paper armour
23. What is an illegal gun that 400 mayors are against?
24. A warning from Massachusetts on gun rights
25. Carrying a gun for self-defense could cost you
26. Coburn dinner -- praises GOA, disses NRA
27. Glock 27 at long range (230 yards)
28. Has the 'assault' weapon scam backfired?
29. Gun control disproportionately harms African-Americans
30. New gun show 'study' uses emotion to push anti-gun agenda
31. Open-carry gun backers drop by popular car event
32. Gun owner uses a gun to rescue two from overturned SUV
33. VA-ALERT reader: 'slug article' numbers don't make sense
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1. We are now on our way to 13,000 on VA-ALERT!
The number of subscribers to VA-ALERT has nearly doubled in the last two years! Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to promote VCDL to their friends and family members, and participated in VCDL events over the years.
It is your hard work is what makes VCDL an effective organization and attracts more and more people to join our VA-ALERT list.
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2. Survey USA poll: McDonnell and Cuccinelli leading Democrat opponents
Interesting polling information on the Governor, LT. Governor, and Attorney General races here in Virginia. There is a ton of information about voters and their preferences broken out in the poll.
According to the survey, gun owners prefer the Republican candidates over the Democratic candidates by approximately 62 to 32 percent, respectively.
Non-gun owners prefer the Democratic candidates over the Republican candidates by approximately 52 to 43 percent, respectively.
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3. Sound off on ObamaCare turns into opportunity to promote, discuss 2nd Amendment
"Guns Save Lives" stickers prove popular, spark debate at Mark Warner townhall meeting at Fredericksburg Expo Center.
Bruce Jackson emailed me this report about passing out "Guns Save Lives" stickers at a recent Mark Warner townhall event.
We, myself and the youngest, got there late, about 6:30, and started passing out the paper GSL stickers. We got about 3/4 through the first pass when they started. We finished by just making several passes through. Ended up giving out about 1000. The expo center folks
estimated the crowd to be about 1400. They had set up 2200 chairs.
People asked about the blue GSL stickers I had in my backpack. Sold a few @ $1 ea.
I was approached by one women who stated "My nephew killed himself with a gun that was given to him by the chief of police so I find your
sticker offensive." She then turned and started to walk off. I asked, "Are you going to give me a chance to respond?," but she kept walking. Emotion over logic in action...again.
When it got closer to the end of the event we took a position by the doors and hawked both the blue (old standard) and the orange (new round) bumper stickers.
Sold several of each. One person gave $5 for 1 sticker. Another handed me $20 and walked away. She came back about 10 minutes later and picked up one.
One woman approached me and made an inverse comparison between the size of my gun and a specific body part. Funny thing was, my holster was empty as the event was anti-gun (what is the inverse of zero anyway?). [PVC: Infinity. Nice complement you got there, Bruce ;-)]
One gentleman approached me and asked "How can you say 'guns save lives'?" I explained the study by Dr. Gary Kleck. He said he was on the other side of the issue, but it was something to think about and thanked me.
Several asked what guns had to do with heath care . . . I need a better sound-bite for that one. The explanation that health care bills could easily be used to overrun gun rights was more than many could comprehend. At least one looked at me like I was talking about space aliens and stated, "That could never happen!"
Total income for the VCDL $99.00. Total public relations value based on the hundreds of thumbs up received? Priceless!
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4. Virginia Tech announces $10,000 reward for information about killings
Crime can, and does, happen anywhere and at any time:
Students found shot to death at Caldwell Fields campground.
University administrators and members of the board of visitors donated $10,000 for the reward.
By Tonia Moxley
Friday, September 04, 2009
Virginia Tech is offering a $10,000 reward for information that helps solve the slayings of Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler last week in the Jefferson National Forest.
Childs, 18, of Forest and Metzler, 19, of Lynchburg were found shot to death on Aug. 27 at the Caldwell Fields campground off Craig Creek Road in Montgomery County.
Childs was a biochemistry major and Metzler was studying industrial systems engineering at Tech. Both were sophomores. (Click above link for rest of story)
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5. Suffolk's city council aims at rifles
Suffolk's council votes unanimously to leave rifle laws unchanged. VCDL Board member John Fenter is quoted.
Bruce Jackson emailed me this (above) link:
Suffolk News Herald
City council aims at rifles
New rifle rule: Same as the old one
By Tracy Agnew
Published Wednesday, September 2, 2009
After lobbying for and gaining the right to set its own rules
regarding the use of rifles in the city, Suffolk's city council chose to make no changes to the regulations on Wednesday.
Council voted unanimously to institute the same law the state had in its code last year.
Three people spoke during the public hearing regarding the new ordinance, which prohibits the use of a rifle of any caliber for the hunting of bear and deer in Suffolk, except in the Great Dismal Swamp. (Click above link for rest of story)
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6. Fairfax Co. police search for mall parking lot attackers
Who needs a gun in broad daylight in a mall parking lot? Just ask the man who was knocked unconscious and his arm broken in daylight robbery in Springfield Mall parking lot. :-(
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Board member Bruce Jackson emailed me this:
Fairfax Co. Police Search for Mall Parking Lot Attackers
09/01/09
SPRINGFIELD, Va. - A man who was brutally attacked in the middle of the day at the Springfield Mall has a warning for shoppers.
Surveillance video shows four men on the verge of a violent mugging in the Macy's parking lot garage in the Springfield Mall. The man who survived the vicious mob-style attack wants to protect his identity because the men who beat and robbed him have not been arrested.
"The next thing you know you're surrounded by criminals [lying] unconscious in the parking garage. I could've been killed," the victim said. (Click above link for rest of story)
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7. Column: How is campus any different?
Virginia Tech student decries campus rules barring concealed carry.
Column: How is campus any different?
by Sam Stephens, guest columnist
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
I feel like I lead a good life. I'm a student at an incredible school in one of the top 10 engineering programs in the country. I have an incredible family, any one of which I'd take a bullet for. I have good friends and just recently I've landed the most amazing girl I've ever met. But even with all the good in my life, I still can't answer a question that I deal with everyday. Why do I feel the need to be armed when I
lead a life that seems so amazing?
It's a hard question to answer when nothing tragic has ever happened to me directly. Indirectly, tons of things have affected me, but I've never been in that spot where my life has been on the line.
To a lot of people I come across as knowledgeable about a lot of things. I know a lot about math, science, how things work, and I think I know a good bit about my rights and which ones are being slowly taken from me by this current Congress. (Click above link for rest of story)
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8. LTE: Competence is a key component in gun ownership
The Roanoke Times
Competence is a key component in gun ownership
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Dan Casey must be one of those idiotic people he wrote about in his recent Sunday column ("Getting permit was the easy part," Aug. 30 [http://tinyurl.com/l4m57c], otherwise, he could have easily not wasted his time finding out how a responsible, law-abiding citizen would go about getting a concealed carry permit in the first place.
He didn't need to spend his time complying with the law and waiting to be issued his permit. Instead, he could simply carry his loaded handgun holstered on his hip in plain view. Open carry in the commonwealth of Virginia is not prohibited.
KEN GORSKY, JR.
Retired Chief of Police Former Firearms Instructor
(Click above link for rest of story)
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9. LTE: What is the issue with concealed weapons?
What is the issue with concealed weapons?
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Re: Dan Casey's (Washington Post) column, "Getting permit was the easy part" (Aug. 30):
I do not understand the point of this article. I see no difference between an idiot (as Casey puts it) getting a concealed weapons permit who does not know how to use a handgun and the same idiot buying a handgun and strapping it on his side, out in the open.
I would have to agree with Chris LaCivita that anyone wanting to get a firearm of any type, concealed or not, should use common sense.
I think Casey has issues with anyone having a concealed weapons permit. That's what I get out of the article. I, for one, do not need the government to tell me if I have enough common sense. Maybe Casey does.
OPHUS A. HUTHERSON III
GLADE HILL
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