Common Folk Using Common Sense

From GeorgiaCarry.Org: Please use caution on MARTA! Those of you who live in the Atlanta area know that MARTA is the local mass transit agency. It operates both buses and trains. GeorgiaCarry.Org previously informed you in a GCO Update that it was working in conjunction with MARTA (at MARTA’s invitation) to develop an agreed policy [...]

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From 11Alive: The right to hike — it’s the mission friends of slain hiker Meredith Emerson have undertaken. Emerson’s friends have founded a non-profit organization called Right To Hike that will give hikers a device that could mean the difference between life and death. “We want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone [...]

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For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital. The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the country’s high court has addressed [...]

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From a little-read article on USAToday: A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless [...]

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From cbs2chicago: U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday that the Supreme Court ruling in favor of gun ownership showed that the Chicago handgun ban has “infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans.” The presumptive Republican presidential nominee called the ruling a “landmark victory for Second Amendment freedom in the United States.” “For the first time [...]

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According to the 1998 Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test of July 2, 1998, Obama also supports the banning of all semi-automatic weapon sales and transfers. When most people hear “semi-automatic weapon” they picture a machine gun pouring out hundreds of rounds per minute, killing untold thousands of children, elderly, and puppies. But the [...]

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From The Violence Policy Center, one of the most effective anti-gun hysteria brokers in Washington: The [Supreme] Court’s ruling today [on DC v Heller] does not appear to affect the District’s [of Columbia] ban on “machine guns,” which under DC law includes any gun “which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted [...]

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From NJ.com: A New Jersey Court recently pronounced: “There is no rational relationship between restricting the number of guns that a licensed gun dealer and a licensed gun owner can transact per month and the frequency of illegal gun possession and crime.” In so holding, the Court voided a local ordinance that rationed firearms specifically [...]

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From TaxingTennessee: Here’s the question — “Should Congress quit funding for Public Television and NPR, Public Radio?” Richard Guess of Charleston says, “Congress should continue paying for it because if they don’t, the taxpayers will end up paying for it.” Some people in the US are simply too stupid to vote. Richard GuessSpread The Word:

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“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.” The US Supreme Court has (finally) realized that the Framers of our Constitution, and of this country, meant for law-abiding individuals to live [...]

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An excellent analysis in plain English by Crotchety Geek: There’s no difference between “at a gun show” and “not at a gun show”. Go to a dealer at a gun show, do the background check thing. That’s 99.9(probably another 9 or 2) percent of all the gun sales. Just like seeing the same dealer at [...]

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Those of you in Georgia probably realize that on July 1 House Bill 89 takes effect, allowing the legal carry of firearm by a licensed individual on public transportation, including MARTA. You may also remember reading that: Meeting at MARTA headquarters at Lindbergh Station, the board also heard a presentation from MARTA police on how [...]

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From Jeff Cooper’s commentaries: “The society of the late 20th century America is perhaps the first in human history where most grown men do not routinely bear arms on their persons, and boys are not regularly raised from childhood to learn skill in the use of some kind of weapon, either for community or personal [...]

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From the San Jose Mercury News: Investigators struggled Tuesday to explain why a 27-year-old man with no criminal record and no apparent signs of mental illness savagely beat his toddler son to death on a dark country road. Sergio Casian Aguiar, who worked at a supermarket in Turlock, was fatally shot by police Saturday night [...]

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