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July 4Th Week – Teach A Friend To Shoot Week

July 4Th Week - Teach A Friend To Shoot Week

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- Our own Executive member Patricia Webb, who is also the Virginia Coordinator for the Second Amendment Sisters, is starting an annual campaign for every July 4th week to “Teach a friend to shoot” week.

This is an excellent idea and a way to expand the ranks of gun owners significantly. Once exposed to the fun of shooting, your friends will be hooked for life!

BBBWWAAAHAAHAAHAA! (Evil laugh for the benefit of the antis, who are recoiling in horror at the thought of this campaign.)

Here is Pat’s thoughts – let’s turn them into action!

I am proposing a campaign to make July National Firearms Heritage Month and the first week of July “Teach A Friend To Shoot” week.

The concept behind this is that July 4th is Independence Day and the birth of our country would have been impossible if the RKBA did not exist.

This right is still important today to keep us safe as a Nation and to preserve our form of government and the unique liberties we enjoy as a nation of free men and women. Over the years I have found, as many of you have, that the best cure for fear of firearms is a day at the range. In addition, it is highly evident that college students and women in particular are a voting demographic who’s knowledge of guns and the shooting sports is limited to what they see on TV, movies and the evening news. In addition, students are often influenced by teachers and professors who are rabidly against self defense. Not a flattering view at all.

If each of the grassroots RKBA organizations launches a program to promote this idea we could have a positive impact on the general public’s view of gun owners. It would mean a coordinated effort in contacting gun stores, ranges and general memberships. The ranges and gun stores could offer promotions at their discretion and individuals could teach friends to shoot or introduce them to their favorite shooting sport by taking them to a match.

Private ranges could have a “Welcome Day” where they invite the community in to see what shooting sports are all about or offer firearms safety courses, concealed carry courses, etc. It would be up to each range, store, or person exactly how to celebrate, but they should all be encouraged to report back about the events and the responses.

Individuals can and will play an instrumental role in the promotion of this by encouraging their local gun stores and clubs to participate and pointing out that it will mean increased sales and a greater voting base when new firearms laws are proposed. Education is always the key, in so many ways. Safety is paramount and a firearms safety course is the perfect place to start.

Public perception is our biggest friend and also our biggest enemy. This would offer a viable and inexpensive way to positively effect that perception.

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Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

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Fourth Amendment Takes A Hit 9 Out Of 10 Left

2ndamendmentpatriots.org

Indianapolis, IN --(Ammoland.com)- The announcement that the Indiana Supreme Court has taken a major step in crushing one of our sacred Amendments contained in our Bill of Rights came our of nowhere.

Just reading the reports that states people have no right to resist police officers who illegally enter their homes, is a hard hit between the eyes. In the same week the Court also ruled that officers serving warrants can enter a persons house without knocking.

In the past 4 months here in Indiana we worked very hard to remove the infringement of our Second Amendment that has occurred by local governments over the past several decades, and we succeeded. Then in the same week that those two gun bills were signed by the Governor, we turn around and see the Fourth Amendment takes a hit.

While some are in complete disbelief of what’s happened, many citizens I’m sure will continue on with their daily routines with not even a raised eyebrow.

We’re coming up on a anniversary of 220 years since our Bill Of Rights have been adopted. They’ve lasted a long time, but I guess nothing lasts forever. It’s my observation that a great deal of society has no real affection to the Constitution or Bill Of Rights until they find themselves in need of a particular element that could serve them.

I know that those regular readers are people who understand the significance of those documents and truly appreciate them to the point of doing anything in their power to protect them.

Margie and I are very blessed to come to know all of you, even if we have never personally met, we know we are all a kindred spirit.

At this moment I’m not sure exactly what steps can be taken to address this new attack, but I will once again encourage us all to STAY UNITED and I hope that those who have not attended our Patriot meetings for some time might consider to join us for our next meeting. The more compatriots that stand together the easier our victory will be.

I was told months back that the chances of me getting SB 506 and especially SB 292 passed was slim and that I should expect to have to try again next year. I didn’t accept that and we did succeed, but it did not come easy. Let’s not be the generation that surrenders the rights we inherited and deprive those who come after us from their inheritance.

“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society” Richard Henry Lee

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The Second Amendment Patriots are a local group of citizens dedicated to preserving the rights, freedoms, and civil liberties of every American by educating the American public of the founding and history of this country and its founding fathers by explaining the role, functions and purpose of the U.S. Government; and by teaching the need and importance of an armed American public, in order to allow for a more prosperous and respectful country consisting of American citizens with a pledge of allegiance to their country and who will at the same time, voice their demand to take back the present overwhelming power of the U.S. Government and deliver it into the hands of the people to which it belongs.

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