Another One

"A gunman opened fire at a Bay County, Fla., school board meeting Tuesday afternoon, taking aim at the school’s superintendent but injuring no one before fatally shooting himself." See Story Below

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Just another in a long string of public shootings. It can happen any time any where. But if you find it necessary to be in any Loudon County or Lenoir City government offices, you are not allowed to carry a weapon into the buildings. Not even if you hold a valid carry permit.

This goes back to our now two former mayors, Doyle Arp and Matt Brookshire. Both were rabid gun control advocates who pushed for and got the gun bans passed in their respective jurisdictions.

Now that Arp and Brookshire are relics of the past, it may be time for the Loudon County Commission and Lenoir City Council to reconsider their positions on the rights of citizens to legally bear arms.


Gunman Dead After Opening Fire at Florida School Board Meeting

Officials said Clay A. Duke shot himself to death after exchanging gunfire Tuesday with Bay District's security chief. Witnesses say Duke may have been complaining that his wife had lost her job.

By Edmund DeMarche Published December 14, 2010

A gunman opened fire at a Bay County, Fla., school board meeting Tuesday afternoon, taking aim at the school’s superintendent but injuring no one before fatally shooting himself.

Clay A. Duke, 56,  shot himself to death after exchanging gunfire Tuesday with Bay District's security chief, the Associated Press reported.  Witnesses say Duke may have been complaining that his wife had lost her job.

Initial reports had suggested Duke was taken down by a security guard, but police later said the gunman took his own life.

Duke, who has yet to be identified publicly, was barely alive when police reached him, and he died from the gunshot wounds upon arrival at a nearby hospital, said Ruth Corley, a spokeswoman from the Bay County Sheriff Office.

School board spokeswoman Karen Tucker, who was at the meeting, described a harrowing scene.

She noticed Duke before the shooting, and described him as being erratic. He engaged in a verbal argument with another person and then, moments before unleashing gunshots, he spray-painted a red "V" in the center of a circle on a wall, possibly a nod to the movie “V For Vendetta."

One member of the school board, identified in local reports as Ginger Littleton, apparently hit the gunman with her purse and fell to the ground, but she was otherwise unharmed.

“He said he was firing his wife,” Tucker told Fox News. He then fired one errant shot at Superintendent William V. Husfelt, III.

Police responded quickly to the scene and cordoned off witnesses of the shooting to better prepare for an investigation.

The security guard, Mike Jones, who has a history of heart problems, was taken to an area hospital for heart palpitations after the shooting.

Why I Carry A Gun

I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
 
I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
 
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
 
I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
 
I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
 
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
 
I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
 
I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
 
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
 
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
 
I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
  
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take a whoopin

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
 
 
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. >From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: 
 
List of 7 items: 
 
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent. 
 
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent.
 
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! 
 
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns! 
 
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. 
 
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort, and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it. 
 
You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. 
 
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. 
 
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late! 
 
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson. 
 
With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'. 

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED! 

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.
 
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental. 
 
SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN! SWITZERLAND 'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE. SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!! 
 
IT'S A NO BRAINER! DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

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