Archive for September, 2009
Author: Under Article IV, Sec. I of the Constitution it reads…….”Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.” Note: This means that you will not, and should never need fifty drivers license’s to cross our United States. That all states will, and do, acknowledge formally a specified factual or legal document issued from any other state. Example; your birth certificates, your marriage license’s, and of course something connected to that danged inconvenient Second Amendment, I’m referring to your legally issued firearm license. It annoys politicians, it does not suit their purposes, makes it more difficult for them to make America a ‘gun free zone’, gee whiz !
Under Art. IV Sec. I, you should never need more than one legally issued firearm permit, from the state in which you live, to be recognized by every other state! They, (each state) are ‘bound’ by the Constitution to honor the issuing states gun license to you. If you have passed the legal requirements, (background checks) etc. and have shown yourself to be a law abiding citizen as recognized by the licensing authority, why should you be treated any differently by any other state? That is a good hardball question to direct at your ‘Representatives’, especially at election time! Watch em squirm!
We are AMERICAN CITIZENS,(emphasis added) our citizenship does not end at the state line wherein we live. Our citizenship is good from coast to coast! All our legal documents are good from coast to coast! Make that crystal clear to your public servants! Our so-called ‘representatives’ could not take the time to read the “stimulus bill” before voting on it and plunging us all into a black hole of debt. In my opinion, based on their actions, they have never bothered to read the Constitution either. I believe, judging by what I see and hear, their arrogance is starting to push the ‘buttons’ of millions of Americans.
If politicians are stupid enough to continue disregarding the document that they swore to uphold, (the Constitution) just to gain public office, then they all need to be swept from office. Watch what they have done and do. NEVER rely on what they say! We can vote for better people. We should all demand that every state respect our gun rights as American citizens! -Mark Shean- www.mafirearmsafety.com written 9-30-2009
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If anyone has been paying any attention to anything other than sports they will know that Governor Patrick (D) has been given the green light from our Bacon Hill ‘representatives’ to appoint an interim Kennedy rump swab, to sit in the vacant Senate seat until a special election in January. That race will be for any candidate who can come closest to convincing the blue hairs of the state that he lives and breaths everything ‘Kennedy’ more than anyone else.
The very same ‘representatives’ took the power to appoint away from Governor Romney while Kerry was running for President, just in case Kerry had won and his seat had become vacant. They were scared to death that Romney would have appointed a, gasp, Republican! And that their stranglehold on corrupt politics would be compromised. Our so called ‘representatives’ claim that they believe the good people of Massachusetts should not have any lapse in representation in Washington and that they are only looking out for the People.
The media does not challenge the politicians at all with facts when they make this claim. If the media did their job they would point out to the politicians that while Kennedy was sick where was the concern that the People were not being represented? The media should have asked why no one had come forth to ask Kennedy to do the right thing and resign in the interest of the People’s right to have continuous representation? While Kerry was running for office where was the concern from the politicians on Bacon Hill that Kerry was neglecting his duty to represent the People for over a year!? Where were those questions from the media? When we now hear from our so called ‘representatives’ claiming they think its only fair for the People to have continuous representation in the aftermath of Kennedy’s death they are being disingenuous in capital letters! “Disingenuous”; {Insincere, a synonym of cynical or calculating, not straightforward, hypocritical}. Id like to cut straight to the quick and say exactly what they are doing, lying.
The real reason that they suddenly pretend to think of the People is because they want that all important Senate vote that will push the health care ‘obamanation’ bill down the whole countries throat! Chicago politicians have nothing over Massachusetts politicians where corruption is concerned. Do you think our bailing out the banks and big corporations has been expensive up to this point in history? It has been, but socialized health care will make everything else look like chicken feed by comparison!
When I hear people say the Government should provide health care for everyone, I know they do not understand in the least that the government does not have one penny to its name. The money the government spreads around with such reckless abandon is OUR money, the tax payers money! We are the government. And it is damned high time we reminded our servants in Washington of that FACT next November, that should be a day of reckoning. The embedded ticks, I mean politicians, can not be bothered to read big expensive bills that bankrupt our country, they just shove them down our throats, tax us ever higher to pay for them and say that they are looking out for us, do you still believe that crap?! -Mark Shean- www.mafirearmsafety.com written 9=23-2009
On TV there is allot of exciting action designed to keep you on the edge of your seat, but most importantly, for the TV executives, to keep their ratings high. TV is fun to watch but it can give the wrong impression more often than not. That can not be more true than when it comes to guns. TV entertainment never seems to go to the next level after a home invasion scenario. I talked about having a plan in my 7-13-09 #11 ‘Gun Sense’ blog concerning home defense among other important aspects.
First of all, I hope that you never have to shoot someone defending your family in your home, sadly the situation can be forced onto you. That said, I will touch on the aftermath of your use of a firearm defending your family and home. Previously, (in #11) I talked about having a plan should someone ever break in while you are home, I hope that you do have a plan. On TV or in the movies the bad guy(s) kick in a door in the middle of the night and start going through the home. The good guy in the story takes his trusty firearm and calmly saunters through the house, he easily takes care of each bad guy in turn. Of course the actor playing the good guy is suppose to win, it is written that way in the script. He is in no danger, it is all make believe and he knows that after the scene he will go home to his mansion complete with body guards, camera surveillance’s and killer dogs to protect him from the public at large. You on the other hand could just as easily be killed if you try to go find the bad guys.
Once you know that someone has broken into your home your “plan” should begin. Stay put, but be ready to act. If the bad guy(s) should come into the room where you and your family are, even after your loud verbal warning that the police are coming and that you are armed, be damned sure and understand that he is NOT the neighborhood welcome wagon delivering flowers and candy, he, or they, are there to rape and/or murder you and your family! At that instance in time you have an obligation and a duty to protect your family with any means at your disposal. Try your very best to hit who you are shooting at, under the stress of the situation you may miss, you may not, people handle stress in different ways. Some people may become very focused and angry, (a female is hardwired to protect the children) at the thought of a home invasion endangering their family, others may become jittery nervous wreaks, but in any case you must do something, so fire away, aim for the largest target, his torso. Even if you miss, the chance is very good that the criminal(s) will not hang around to let you take ‘pot shots’ at them.
Never fire a ‘warning’ shot, that gives away your position and gives the bad guy the first chance to get you. You must survive, your family must survive. After, if the criminal is dead or badly wounded, the police come, you may initially be arrested. The police will need to work out who the bad guy is in relation to you, to make sure there was no bad motive on your part. After they figure out that this was/is a criminal, or there is a history of abuse linked to this person with you, etc., you will be released in short order, probably within hours.
Fast forward; The court date. The person that you killed in defense of your family and home also may have relatives, and the chances are good that you took out their only source of income, they want restitution, to replace that income somehow. They want your home, to garnish your wages, whatever they can do to take away what you have. All because you stood your ground to save your family. They will have a lawyer, his job will be to make you look bad and say things you don’t really mean in front of the jury. And he has the ability to do it, the courtroom is his playground, its how he makes his bread and butter, he is right at home there. You on the other hand are light years away from being accustomed to a courtroom setting like this. You never wanted to be here, it was forced onto you by the actions of a criminal. The lawyer is going to do his very best to finish the job the criminal started and make you a victim. He will say things at you in a forceful way to make you nervous, as he talks at you, that’s right, at you, he is really talking to the jury, everything he says is for their benefit. He may say something forcefully like; So you wanted to shoot Rufus didn’t you! You may nervously say something like; I had to! He had a knife and was coming at my wife and I! He will try to make you sound like your a trigger happy nit wit to the jury; So!, you admit wanting to murder him! I, I, I, didn’t know what else to do! Now the jury is starting to look at you in a different light, the lawyer is planting a subliminal seed in their minds that does not bode well for you, he used the word ‘murder’ for the jurys sake.
People have lost their homes in cases like this because they said things that made them sound guilty when in actuality they were only very nervous and upset. Your lawyer knows what can happen in court and should do what he can to prepare you for the coming onslaught. You should focus on one main thought, that youdid nothing wrong. That you were only trying to stop the threat to your family and yourself. When the lawyer for the plaintiff trys to make you rush your words in his attack, such as; You wanted to shoot Rufus didn’t you! Say no, I only wanted to stop the threat to my family and myself, that the criminal died was not my intention. Don’t use his name, use ‘criminal’, you can plant subliminal seeds in the minds of the the jury also. The lawyer will come at you from all different angles to try to make you change your answer, just stick like glue to the fact that you were only trying to stop the threat to your family, never vary, because it is the truth. The jury will side with the truth. I am not a lawyer, this is meant as a guide, to give you an idea as to what canhappen in court. Seek legal advice in the event that you do have to defend your home from a violent criminal attack, don’t be a victim twice.
Remember, {Firearm Education Will Save Lives, Firearm Ignorance Can Take Lives}. Ignorance of History could cost us our freedoms.
Mark Shean www.mafirearmsafety.com written 9-20-2009
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