{"id":127,"date":"2008-10-31T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-11-07T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:50:33","slug":"nevada-senate-behind-the-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Senate: Behind The Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevada Democrats are continuing to wage an unsavory \u201chit piece\u201d campaign against Nevada state Senators Bob Beers and Joe Heck. The race is subject of a lede editorial in Friday\u2019s Review-Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s \u201cthe rest of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign is marked by a virtual absence of the supposed Democratic challengers — former school district secretary Shirley Breeden and former PurchasePro PR flack Allison Copening — from the traditional \u201ccandidate forums\u201d within the districts. Instead, Dems have targeted the two districts with at least 18 mailers apiece, plus more than a half million dollars in TV ads, in their attempt to take over the already gerrymandered state Senate.<\/p>\n

Why these two districts? Because both show registration edges shifting slightly Democratic. That\u2019s public knowledge. What no one is talking about, though, is the possible role played in that shift by a new philosophy which dictates federal housing moneys should no longer be spent to build \u201cprojects\u201d — instant ghettos — but instead to \u201cmainstream\u201d housing aid recipients into more \u201cnormal\u201d neighborhoods full of people who earn a living, pay their mortgages and tax bills, and maintain their properties.<\/p>\n

Who decides where such people should be \u201cmainstreamed\u201d? What if the bureaucrats in charge of doling out those federal tax dollars had a political agenda?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to be a pretty good case to be made that there is a much larger amount of Section 8 housing in my district than there was four years ago,\u201d Sen. Beers says.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s also bringing to such relatively affluent neighborhoods types of crime once seen only in the \u2019hood — drive-by shootings, stuff like that. Odd to see our cops and firemen teaming up with those responsible for such shenanigans … if individual cops and firemen really ARE represented by the \u201cProfessional Firefighters of Nevada\u201d and the \u201cSouthern Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs,\u201d which funded at least one of the code-numbered Democratic attack mailers against Sen. Beers (the one coded \u201cNV6-9\u201d.)<\/p>\n

The Democratic mailers and TV ads complain, among other things, that senators Heck and Beers want to make it easier for teachers who volunteer to undergo special safety training after earning state concealed-weapon permits to carry firearms in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re distorting both the bills and the votes,\u201d says Sen. Heck. \u201cIt\u2019s already legal to carry guns in the schools if you just have a note from the principal. Bob\u2019s bill actually would have made it safer, because it would have required additional training, in addition to the CCW (state weapons permit.) … It\u2019s specifically stated in statute that right now a teacher or a college professor can carry with a letter of permission of the principal or the college president.\u201d<\/p>\n

More to the point, Israeli children die of schoolhouse shootings at a far lower rate than American children, precisely because teachers and parent chaperones there are almost always armed and able to protect them.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 25 of this year, two Palestinian terrorists, recently released from an Israeli prison, cut a hole through a fence and infiltrated the Mekor Hayim High School Yeshiva, south of Jerusalem.
\n\u201cThey entered a classroom where counselors were holding a meeting, and stabbed two of them,\u201d the Jerusalem Post reports.<\/p>\n

And how many students were massacred?<\/p>\n

Pardon me. Were you not paying attention? This was in Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo of the counselors were armed and managed to overpower and kill the terrorists, without giving them a chance to fire their pistol,\u201d the Israeli newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

They plugged \u2019em.<\/p>\n

No reports yet of any of the students of the Mekor Hayim High School Yeshiva being shot by their teachers for failure to turn in their homework.<\/p>\n

Here in America, \u201cHardly mentioned in the massive news coverage of the school- related shootings during the past year is how they ended,\u201d John R. Lott, Jr., a fellow at University of Chicago School of Law, wrote in the Los Angeles Times in June of 1998. \u201cTwo of the four shootings were stopped by a citizen displaying a gun. In the October 1997 shooting spree at a high school in Pearl, MS, which left two students dead, an assistant principal retrieved a gun from his car and physically immobilized the shooter while waiting for the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMore recently,\u201d Professor Lott continued, \u201cthe school-related shooting in Edinboro, PA, which left one teacher dead, was stopped only after a bystander pointed a shotgun at the shooter when he started to reload his gun. The police did not arrive for another 10 minutes. Who knows how many lives were saved by these prompt responses?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lott\u2019s exhaustive studies of multiple-victim public shootings in the United States from 1977 to 1995 reveal that \u201conly one policy was found to reduce deaths and injuries from these shootings: allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe effect of \u2018shall-issue\u2019 concealed handgun laws, which give adults the right to carry concealed handguns if they do not have a criminal record or a history of significant mental illness, was dramatic. Thirty-one states now have such laws. When states passed them during the 19 years we studied, the number of multiple-victim public shootings declined by 84 percent. Deaths from these shootings plummeted on average by 90 percent, injuries by 82 percent. …\u201d<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t you know about this? Because the mass media purposely fail to mention the number of times that mass shooting are stopped by other, law-abiding Americans WITH GUNS. Don\u2019t believe me? See www.lewrockwell.com\/lott\/lott14.html<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have to realize no matter how fast the police response is, there\u2019s going to be dead children,\u201d Sen. Heck explains. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to make it safer\u201d for teachers to defend their young charges here in Nevada.<\/p>\n

And for this, these upstanding state senators are ridiculed by the Democrats for \u201cwanting to hand out firearms to kindergarten teachers!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gee, and here I thought Democratic standard-bearer Barack Obama insists he \u201crespects the Second Amendment,\u201d that he\u2019s \u201cnot going to take away your guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Careful, my friends. I think a bit of that Democratic hoplophobia is showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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