Gun rights group applauds Starbucks for allowing guns

Updated Feb 11, 2010 - 12:23 pm

By STEPHANIE KLEIN
MyNorthwest.com

A national gun control organization wants Starbucks to take a stance on its gun policy, but a pro-gun carrying group argues the coffee company is right to stay out of politics.

In California some groups have started banding together and carrying their guns unconcealed into businesses to flaunt their Second Amendment rights following a controversial Supreme Court ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in June 2008 that bans on handguns is unconstitutional and the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own a gun for self-defense.

Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said they have asked area businesses, including Starbucks, to decide whether to allow gun carrying customers into their stores or refuse them business.

In a written statement, Starbucks told >>>

NRA, onetime ally feud over next big guns case to go before Supreme Court

By Robert Barnes

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 8, 2010

The National Rifle Association was on the outside looking in when the Supreme Court handed gun rights activists a landmark victory in 2008.

After the court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership and that the District's handgun ban was unconstitutional, it was an upstart band of libertarian lawyers that celebrated on the marble steps and received the glory for the breakthrough decision.

The NRA, the nation's premier and most powerful gun rights group, has worked hard not to be in that position again. And because of an unusual intervention recently by the justices, its attorney will be in the mix when the court considers the next big guns case next month.

The case is McDonald v. Chicago, a challenge>>>

Unnecessary display of guns threatens our rights

Alamogordo Daily News
Dee Beck, Alamogordo

Posted: 02/14/2010 12:00:00 AM MST

Letters to the Editor and news interviewees tell us we don't need to fear armed participants at Tea Party demonstrations. I'm sorry, but you can't tell me what frightens me.

I am intimidated, even if that isn't what you intended (one earlier letter called people "cowards" when they left after a "brave citizen" with a gun approached them no intimidation there). I can deal with 350 gun owners who keep their guns in their homes. We are among them, but any large gathering with a call-out to "carry" changes a group of concerned citizens to a potential armed mob.

I'd be just as intimidated by people waving signs and shouting if they were armed with machetes, chain saws, hatchets or baseball bats all that are also legal. Whether intended or not, the message I received was "We're out here and we're armed. Be afraid."

How am I supposed to tell who's dangerous>>>

Gun Rights Advocates Target California Detective Following Facebook Posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010
By Joshua Rhett Miller

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Gun rights advocates have a California police detective in their crosshairs after he apparently posted comments on Facebook advocating that "open carry" supporters should be shot.

East Palo Alto Police Det. Rod Tuason apparently posted the remarks on his Facebook page in response to a friend's status update, which suggested that gun advocates who carry unloaded weapons openly — which is legal in California — should do so in places like "Oakland, Richmond and East Palo Alto" and not just in "hoity toity" cities.

"Haha we had one guy last week try to do it!" Tuason replied. "He got proned out [laid face-down on the ground] and reminded where he was at and that turds will jack him for his gun in a heartbeat!"

Several comments later, the detective suggested shooting the gun rights advocates, some of whom have carried firearms openly in recent weeks in California's Bay Area, particularly at Starbucks locations.

"Sounds like you had someone practicing their>>>

Wasp Spray

Wasp Spray

A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn't attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection... Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

FROM ANOTHER SOURCE

On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.

Val Glinka teaches self-defense to students at

Sylvania Southview High School. For decades, he's suggested putting a can of wasp and hornet spray near your door or bed.

Glinka says, "This is better than anything I can teach them."

Glinka considers it inexpensive, easy to find, and more effective than mace or pepper spray. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet; so if someone tries to break into your home, Glinka says, "spray the culprit in the eyes". It's a tip he's given to students for decades.

It's also one he wants everyone to hear. If you're looking for protection, Glinka says look to the spray.

"That's going to give you a chance to call the police; maybe get out."

Maybe even save a life.

Please share this with all the people in your life.

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