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Second Amendment Second to None Rally in Harrisburg
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Gunowners Help Needed To Stop Harrisburg Gun Control Juggernaut
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Throughout the Rendell administration gun owners have been the misdirected focus of efforts to control and stop crime. With the willing help of the Philadelphia legislative Caucus, they've been able to block our legislation and introduce a myriad of bills (35 anti-gun bills in the House and 18 in the Senate) that represent the cream of the crop of gun control as advanced by Sarah Brady, Josh Sugarman and their teams. Up to this point we have been able to stop most of the gun control as represented in the committee of the whole in 2006 and the virtual daily attacks on us that occurred in the Judiciary Committee in 2007. This was achieved by the direct involvement of gun owners working together throughout the state.

Now we ask your help again as it is ONCE AGAIN TIME for gun owners to step up and let your voices be heard in the halls of power in the Harrisburg capital building!

On Monday, April 7, 2008 the Second Amendment-Second to None Rally in Harrisburg starts at 10AM in the rotunda (plan on being there at 9:00am) to celebrate our constitutional right to bear arms and to advance our mutual interests in freedom and legislation we have asked to be introduced that would achieve those goals. We cannot get there without your help! Up until now we've managed to show an increasing interest in the direct involvement of gun owners with each prior rally building upon the last. What we are looking for this time is a dramatic example of the desire of citizens to protect the freedoms that are an inseparable part of our heritage. We would like to see thousands of gun owners devote one day of their time in an election year to coming to Harrisburg and joining with us in making a statement that will be heard nationwide.

This is an opportunity for all of us to be able to say to those in Harrisburg who would limit or take from us the right to bear arms-NO MORE! This is a statement that will be heard not only in the halls of Harrisburg but in every election race for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the Pennsylvania Senate, Congress and indeed even President. It is also an opportunity for you to express through the media and your attendance at this rally to the United States Supreme Court that they should support what the founding fathers have bequeathed all of us and overturn the insane gun control laws in Washington, DC and reaffirm that we have an individual right to bear arms and protection of ourselves and our nation.

In the end it is all up to you as to whether or not you believe this right is important enough to turn off the TV or push away from the keyboard and learn how to really fix politics because at this rally each one of you will have the opportunity to join in the team that goes around and personally makes a political statement to each legislative office in the capital. This is a grassroots rally! It is meant to be your presence that is important and that is why we are going to show you how Pennsylvania gun owners practice politics. While you will obviously see many politicians at this rally as well as, hopefully, representatives from every national gun rights organization, in reality the real focus of this rally is to bring you to Harrisburg so that you can involve yourself in this process and learn what it takes to defend freedom. We will teach you how to wield REAL political power effectively, in Harrisburg to engage the legislators directly, ask questions, and explain why these flawed concepts won’t work. We will be there right with you shoulder to shoulder and we will show you what has made us the most important state in the nation in stopping these attacks on our freedom, but in the end it is all up to you and we hope you make the right choice.

Right now we have a slim majority in the legislature who will act appropriately when gun control is brought before them and the key leaders within this majority have worked tirelessly to set up this rally and to advance and promote legislation that will achieve those goals. This is a pivotal moment in Pennsylvania history and with your help we will make it a defining moment for not only the second amendment but the Pennsylvania constitutional right to bear arms, article 1 section 21 wherein it states "the right of the citizen to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned". It is important to remember that the Constitution is really a piece of paper. What gives it true power is the citizens belief in it and willingness to stand by it at critical moments and this is one of those moments!

Please join with us on April 7 and we look forward to working with all of you!

Here is how the events will unfold on April 7th:
  • 9:00AM Sign up, get your second amendment badges, and organize into groups under team leadership. Getting gun owners organized is a lot like herding cats or stacking marbles on a moving ship in the ocean.
  • 10:00AM Press Conference with legislators and second amendment leaders (lasting approximately about 1 hour).
  • 11:00AM After the press conference everyone will break up into smaller groups under team leadership. Your team leader will take you to specifically assigned state reps so that all 203 of them will hear from gun owners all across the state. Once these assigned legislators are visited then each team will float to other Representatives in the Senate and House including the personal representative of each attendee.

The biggest issue is that ALL 203 Reps and 50 Senators hear from gun owners, especially the anti-gun legislators that introduce these bills intended to strip your rights away. Your team leader will break around lunch time, after lunch meet up with your team leader to finish up. We plan these legislative lobbying events to run between 9am and 3pm.

You can help even further by doing the following:

Download the flier, print lots of copies, take it to your gun clubs and post it, take it your local gun stores have them post it as well, email all of your gun owning friends and relatives, let the word go far and wide across PA -- shout it loudly so that everyone knows the Second Amendment Is Second to None. Also visit the ACSL & PFSC websites and view the list of proposed firearm laws pending in Harrisburg.
(Courtesy of ACSL Legislative Committee)
Also visit the ACSL website and view the list of proposed firearm laws pending in Harrisburg.

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I will be present. For those in the Lehigh Valley or surrounding areas, the Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition has a business property where we can arrange a car pool. The property is on the western edge of Allentown.

If you are interested in sharing a ride to split expenses, please contact me via email.

Go to the LVFC webpage and click on the webmaster link.

http://www.levfc.org/rallies.htm

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I'm going to try and make it. Maybe we should start a thread for planning things like where those who are going the night before are staying, and maybe plan a dinner the night before if theres a good number that will be staying over and we definitely need a gathering after because i'm sure there is going to be alot of hungry folks.
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I'm going to try and make it. Maybe we should start a thread for planning things like where those who are going the night before are staying, and maybe plan a dinner the night before if theres a good number that will be staying over and we definitely need a gathering after because i'm sure there is going to be alot of hungry folks.
Yeah, we could all stay local and do dinner or something the night before.
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I'll try and make it, anyone carpooling from around pittsburgh, or hell I can even cart one person.
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I am not planning on staying overnight. My plans right now are to drive down in the am, and back that afternoon. I am open to the carpool thing. My commuter/beater (91 Sentra) isn't the nicest or fastest wagon in town, but it gets 42 mpg on the highway. I will help pay for gas if someone else drives.
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i'll probably be going up a day or 2 early or staying over monday night into tuesday because i've got a couple of friends in the area I havent seen in awhile so unforunitly i'm no good for carpooling. Of course the guy with room for 8 won't be carpooling hehe
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I've hit some local shops, Gander Mountain, and the military surplus store. I've also got a mailing going out tomorrow (flyer w/ cover letter) to about a dozen Sportsman's Clubs in south-central PA.
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Once again I'm begging for a car pool!
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I'll try and make it, anyone carpooling from around pittsburgh, or hell I can even cart one person.
The Allegheny County Sportsmen's League is renting buses.

Get your butt on one of those buses!
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There are no cat pics, girl/gun pics, OC in W-Mart discussions, talk about rep points, etc, in here...

Sadly, these important threads rarely generate much traffic.
Sad but true, and even though I have participated on the threads you mention here EM, I have also helped WHITEFEATHER out when he asked for people to help sort out a statewide media list he needed to send out pro gun stuff just before the event mentioned here, I was told out of the thousand plus members we have here I was one of only sixteen people that offered to help from this forum.

Unfortunately I am not in a position that I can afford to take off from work for these great causes, (gnbrotz, Damage Control, or the various rallies) but I have helped, by sending a few dollars where I could, getting the word out and helping with that media list in my and portions of a nearby county.

Not everyone can attend EM, but it doesn't mean we are helping in some other way.

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