By Jim Irvine and Chris Chumita

At their Central Committee meeting on Wednesday night, the Cuyahoga County Republican Party acted quickly to remove the words “gun controls” from the proposed party platform.

Before the platform committee report, Chairman Rob Frost stated that he did not know how those words were added. He noted that he received the letter from Buckeye Firearms about it, and heard from many people who were upset about it, and he would make the first motion to amend the platform to remove the words “gun controls” from the platform.

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While this story is about a Republican County party meeting, it could equally apply to a State or a National Party meeting, and is applicable to any party.

As important as it is to learn from mistakes, we should also examine the lessons learned when everything goes your way. It would be wonderful if we never had another such fight, but it would quite naive.

Lesson 1:
Pay attention. If you are going to solve problems, you have to know what they are. You need to be informed. If you don’t have the time to be involved, than make sure you are part of a group that will let you know about the really important stuff. If you do not search for the news daily, make sure you are on a news list. Most groups have weekly email lists.

Lesson 2:

By Tim Inwood

Perhaps I expected too much. I had hoped they would be on their best behavior, but no.

What am I lamenting? The shoddy treatment given to the American gun owner in the last Democrat Presidential debate, that’s what.

I am sadly not surprised by how us gun owners were dealt with as I watched the CNN-hosted YouTube Democrat debate. I will grant that Jered Townsend did not present himself very well, as he held his Bushmaster XM-15 rifle asking about the intent of the Democrats towards his “baby”. But what followed should have been illustrative to any gun owner watching the debate about how they should vote in the primaries and in November next year.

The debate moderator, Anderson Cooper, threw the question first to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. I perked up to hear what this man had to say. I have been listening to the Democrats on some gun boards like “The High Road” tell us how pro-gun the man is. So I was curious to see what the man would utter. “The issue here, I believe, is instant background checks…” “Nobody who has a criminal background or is mentally ill should be able to get a weapon.”

Richardson was then incoherent and rambled about poverty, gun violence and ghettos. Not a word about constitutionally protected rights enshrined by the Second Amendment. The NRA may have rated the man highly in the past, but his performance did not
warrant it. His comments were met with silence. No home run for Bill. Foul ball at best…

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This week's "Friday Flashback" is....

Rudy Giuliani: Gun manufacturers knowingly calculate sales to illegal market

By Chad D. Baus

A video of then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been posted at YouTube with the following caption:

On June 23, 2000 [New York City Mayor] Rudy Giuliani tried to justifiy the gun industry lawsuit to a concerned citizen.

Giuliani claims that gun manufacturers overproduce firearms. Giuliani claims that most police officers are in favor of gun control. Giuliani claims that gun control reduced New York City crime. Giuliani blames the rest of the country for having lax gun laws which let people buy guns elsewhere and bring them into the city.

Compare this to the claims currently being made on Giuliani's presidential campaign website:

Rudy Giuliani is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

The simple fact is that the extremist gun control agenda coming out of New York City did not start with current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and it is up to gun owners everywhere to make sure it does not end up in the White House in 2008.

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