The conference opened up today with the Pledge of Allegiance (with God included). The Buckeye Union High School Air Force JROTC presented the colors.
Reverend Gregory Curtis of the Largo Christian Center gave the invocation and ended with “in Jesus’ name.” He followed that with an incantation in Hebrew for our Jewish friends. There was no liberal political correctness here!
Alan Gottlieb reminded us of the important choices we will be making this election cycle and our Second Amendment rights could be in jeopardy, depending on the outcome. He charged us to make the Gun Rights movement successful by patterning it after the Civil Rights Movement (after all, the entire Constitution of the United States is a Civil Right) and work from the grassroots up.
Joe Tartaro, editor of Gun Week and President of the Second Amendment Foundation gave an inspiring history of how far we have come in the past 30 years in gun rights (From the Bad Old Days to the Good New Days). Thirty Years ago, only Washington, Indiana, Florida and New Hampshire had shall-issue open and concealed carry laws. Now, 40 states have shall-issue laws!
Morton Grove, a suburb of Chicago passed a law banning all handgun procession. Kennesaw, Georgia retaliated and passed a law requiring all law-abiding citizens to have a gun and ammunition for self defense. Needless to say, crime immediately dropped in Kennesaw, GA. Interestingly enough, crime, including handgun deaths, in Morton Grove, IL went up.
With the Heller decision confirming the Second Amendment as an individual right, we are now starting the Good New Days.
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