CeaseFire PA and Gov. Ed Rendell plan Rally at State Capitol

[doug]

Looks like Gov. Ed Rendell's gun control push is back like Dracula..

HARRISBURG (AP) -- Mayors, police officers and Gov. Ed Rendell are expected to participate in a rally in the State Capitol on Monday to push for new legislation on guns.

The rally is being organized by CeaseFire PA, a group that favors enacting new measures to prevent gun violence.

CeaseFire PA policy director Diane Edbril says the rally is designed to show support for better gun regulation and in particular measures to reduce the flow of illegal handguns.

She says "this isn't a Philadelphia issue, it's a Pennsylvania issue."

Source : GoErie.com

[theshadow]

How I wish we could run criminal legislators like Rendell out of town on a rail like the old days, but I'm afraid even brining up the subject these days will land you in trouble for investigation of threatening a privileged class. People like this belong behind bars for violation of civil rights, not in elected positions.

[ChamberedRound]

How I wish we could run criminal legislators like Rendell out of town

Rendell is not a legislator, he's an executor; he's the Chief Executive of the state of PA. And instead of doing his job executing the laws passed by the legislature, he's abusing his position by using it as a bully pulpit to try and make laws!

[Shawn.L]

Somebody please tell me. Who should I be writing, or donating too, or calling now! Is it just me, or are we constantly inder attack?

I should not have to spend the time and resourses that I do defending against losing MY BASIC RIGHTS !!!!!

The plain language of our founding documents and the writing of our founders would let you think these issues where settled long ago and that future generation could live their lives in peace knowing this.

[danp]

Somebody please tell me. Who should I be...

writing or calling

Your legislators and the judiciary committee

donating to

Not sure if they take donations, but the Allegheny County Sportsmen's League or the Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association. Or, while I generally don't solicit donations, you can always donate to the PAFOA.

[RugerNiner]

Maybe we need a "Gun Owners of Pennsylvania" legal team.

[WhiteFeather]

Somebody please tell me. Who should I be writing, or donating too, or calling now! Is it just me, or are we constantly inder attack?

I should not have to spend the time and resourses that I do defending against losing MY BASIC RIGHTS !!!!!

The plain language of our founding documents and the writing of our founders would let you think these issues where settled long ago and that future generation could live their lives in peace knowing this.

The Constitution can't get up and defend itself, that duty falls on all of US If we choose to or not to stand and defend it or just sit back, watch a death of a thousand "reasonable, common sense" laws slice it, shred it to death. I choose to fight it in legislative arena to protect the Constitution intact as originally written by the founding fathers.

Shawn I would like to answer your question about who to support that actually gets something done without comprising our Constitutional rights.

Living in Allegheny County and western PA in general has lots of pro gun groups that can really use people’s direct help. The two that I work directly with for many years is ACSL and FOAC, there goals are very similar to my mine. Kim Stolfer is the legislative chairman of ACSL and chairman of FOAC you may have a read a post or two on PAFOA about Kim or ACSL and FOAC. Both have OPEN meeting, they need and always welcome volunteers gun owners help to fight for all of our rights. Both of these groups have very shallow pockets, yet they mange do lots of things legislatively with the meager financial resources available to them. How can this be? It’s because they have very active volunteers that make the all difference, putting themselves in the front lines to directly protect our freedoms. People who willingly give their time, support and most important, are directly involved in the Pennsylvania political process are much more effective, than someone that is just paid to do “a job” person could ever be. In my opinion and experience people educating themselves with facts and knowing the issues, along with personally getting involved is much better choice than simply giving your money to a big name mercenary force that does what ever they want with your money, and relying on them for the protection of your rights. Worse yet they claim to be your voice in Harrisburg and never ask your view points and are not accountable how your donations are spent. I am just talking state and local not national level but it that not where most of the problems everyone post on PAFOA are running afoul of or it directly effects our firearm ownership comes from? Almost always local or state level.

I make this open invitation to everyone on PAFOA come and attend one of these monthly meeting if you live in the Allegheny county area. Judge for yourself if there mission, objectives and goals are worthy of your support. Come, listen, talk and ask constructive questions on how you can help to preserve your Constitutional rights for your children and grand children to enjoy….
Or do nothing
… and
....……Let the empty shell cases fall where they may in the future.

(ACSL) Allegheny County Sportsmen League…. http://acslpa.org/

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the ACSL will be held at 7:30 PM in the Gold Room, on the 4th floor of the Allegheny County Court House. Everyone is welcome.
Date: December 13, 2007
(always second Thursday in the month)

(FOAC) Firearm Owners Against Crime ……. http://www.foac-pac.org/

The next regularly scheduled meeting of FOAC is 2nd Sunday, December 9, 2007
Meetings are normally held on the 2nd Sunday of each month at the Whitehall Municipal Building. The meeting starts at 10 AM and last approximately 2 hours.
Directions to Meetings
From the Liberty Tunnels take Route 51 South toward Uniontown. After the intersection of Brownsville Road and Route 51 go about 1 mile to the Benson-Lincoln Mercury dealer. At the light turn right, the borough building is at the top of the hill. The meeting is in the Community room located on the top floor next to the

[Shawn.L]

Thanks, you are right of course, the constitution cannot defend itself.

It is all of our resposibility, and I intend to take some of my share of that resposibility.

And I thankyou for the good work that you do.

[theshadow]

Rendell is not a legislator, he's an executor;

Granted, I should have said "Elected Officials" as I wanted to include the vermin Who are trying hard to pass this legislation, as well as Slick Eddie. However, Elected Officials just didn't have the poetic ring I was after.

[Stooperzero]

"this isn't a Philadelphia issue, it's a Pennsylvania issue."

Guns aren't the issue, It's our Gov't not toughening and owning up to the laws on the books that's the fucking issue.