Penny Dean and Your Rights

<img alt="" src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID2879/images/Gun_culture.jpg" height="293" width="300" align="right"><br>We picked up this story on our feed here at pennydean.org but it deserves special attention. Howard Nemerov, one of the good guys at www.examiner.com took note of the way a particular story was presented in the mainstream media. Was it journalism, or was it editorializing about guns?

<img src="http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Carpntr0401-2.jpg" align="right" height="120">In <a href="http://spectaclemonopolized.blogspot.com/2009/02/helpless-children-stabb... Monopolized: Helpless Children Stabbed To Death With Pitchfork</cite></a>, grandmother Mary Carpenter is quoted in a letter to the North Carolina General Assembly about her experience in California.

<img src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID2782/images/OC_photo.jpg" align="right" height="180">On September 8, 2009, United States District Judge Bruce D. Black of the United States District Court for New Mexico entered summary judgment in a civil case for damages against Alamogordo, NM police officers. The Judge's straight shootin' message to police: Leave open carriers alone unless you have "reason to believe that a crime [is] afoot."

From an article at the local Green Bay <a class="zem_slink" href="http://abc.go.com/" title="American Broadcasting Company" rel="homepage">ABC</a> affiliate, WBAY, we read that local gun owners attended a meeting of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_council" title="City council" rel="wikipedia">City Council</a> to help educate them about the legalities of open carry in town, whether or not it is a "park."

Check out our <a href="http://www.wtplfm.com/">friends at 107.7 FM</a> here in Concord NH. Every week Penny talks with "Bulldog" Brian Tilton about Second Amendment issues. Visit the web page at www.briantilton.com and look for "Audio of Penny Dean on Bulldog Live" and be sure to listen to all their other features on the web and on the air, if you are within listening distance.

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<a href="http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/12987">This article from the Sacramento (Ca.) Press</a> is important for us here in New Hampshire because it deals with how federal laws affect the 50 states.

ANGIER, N.C. – One small town lawyer from Angier, N.C., has won a big victory for second amendment advocates.

For nearly five years, Dan Hardway has been working a case that would restore gun rights to a convicted felon.

"They were trying to punish Barney [Britt] again for a crime that he committed in 1979 that he has fully paid for," says Hardway.

Not surprisingly, here are the results, as told by a site that is anti-gun rights:

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Last summer, 125 Chicago families lost loved ones in combat. But unlike the coffins draped in American flags returning home from Iraq, these contained victims of local gun violence. The city of Chicago had suffered nearly twice as many fatalities as all American soldiers in Iraq over the same period. Their battlefields were the streets of Chicago — the very streets now courting the 2016 Olympics.

Click "Latest News" on the top right of this page, and look for the story about Nikki Groeser, from Armed American Radio (AAR).

http://armedamericanradio.org/2009/08/coming-up-this-week-on-aar/

This might be my favorite quote of the week:

<blockquote><cite>"Trying to reduce gun crime by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing" title="Rationing" rel="wikipedia">rationing</a> guns to law-abiding citizens is as absurd as trying to reduce drunk driving by rationing cars to non-drinkers."</cite></blockquote>