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VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 12/27/12
1. Code Pink to protest at Chantilly gun show on today (Friday, December 28th)
2. VCDL presentation at Second Tuesday Constitution Group in Roanoke on Tuesday, January 8th
3. MILLER: Handgun hypocrisy
4. Response to VA-ALERT: Gun ownership attacked after murder/suicide
5. Bob Costas, NBC attacks Americans' Constitutional right of self-defense
6. Speak Up: Bob Costas' anti-gun comments
7. Bob Costas: Young men can't own guns "without something bad happening"
8. Excellent video response to Bob Costas' gun control misinformation [VIDEO]
9. Fox points out hypocrisy of Costas' anti-gun rant
10. Bill O'Reilly has Bob Costas on to explain his gun control comments [VIDEO]
11. Steeler's linebacker James Harrison says guns are not the problem
12. Charles Barkley tells Costas why he carries a gun
13. Jovan Belcher tragedy: blame the man not the NRA [VIDEO]
14. NFL players: three out of four own guns
15. Gutfeld rips Costas with story about guns saving lives [VIDEO]
16. Police: Boy, 7, shot to death at Pa. gun store
17. Spike in gun sales attributed to 'Zombie Apocalypse'
18. Californians buying guns at record rates
19. Burglar calls 911 to save himself from gun-wielding homeowner
20. Concealed carry permit holder thwarts assault
21. Mass shooting victims and relatives make a living from the tragedy
1. Code Pink to protest at Chantilly gun show on today (Friday, December 28th)
Code Pink, which I have seen described as either Piers Morgan or Michael Moore in a dress, is planning on protesting at the Chantilly gun show today between 3 PM and 5 PM. I'm not sure what they are protesting since the murders in Connecticut had nothing whatsoever to do with gun shows. But logic is never popular with with gun-haters.
Thanks to Kyle Ferguson for the link:
2. VCDL presentation at Second Tuesday Constitution Group in Roanoke on Tuesday, January 8th
VCDL EM and firearms instructor John Wilburn and I are going to be addressing the Second Tuesday Constitution Group in Roanoke on Tuesday, January 8th starting at 6:30 PM.
The meeting is open to the public.
Holiday Inn. Tanglewood
4468 Starkey Rd (Rt. 419 & I 581)
Roanoke, VA 24018
Here's the announcement:
Fellow Patriots......Now Is The Time To Band Together,
To Persevere, To Grow Our Ranks, To Continue Educating
Our Fellow Citizens Of Virginia And To Be Relentless In
Defense Of Our Unalienable Rights; Life, Liberty
And The Pursuit Of Happiness!!
The recent tragic event in Sandy Hook has brought out the gun control
supporters in mass. Supporters of the 2nd Amendment must stand
strong...but certainly not silent!!
Please make plans to join us for our 2013 kickoff meeting on
Tuesday, January 8th, 6:30 pm, Holiday Inn, Tanglewood.
Our speakers will be as follow;
VCDL Executive Member and NRA Certified firearms instructor, John Wilburn,
who will update us on newopportunities to volunteer for VCDL and upcoming
local events in Southwest Virginia for 2013.
John will also have TWO (2) drawings for a FREE registration in his handgun
carry class valued at $75.00 each. The winners may use their registrations
to give them or a friend or family member who needs to satisfy his or her
training requirement for a Concealed Handgun Permit.
Lawyer and firearms enthusiast Keith Finch of the Creekmore Law Firm invites
you to come and learn about how anNFA Gun Trust can help you protect your
privacy, reduce paperwork and protect your family and friends from inadvertently
violating the law should they come into contact with or posession of your
lawfully owned automatic, short barreled, or otherwise restricted firearms or AOWs.
Learn about available options your family would have should you become
incapacitated or pass away and how an NFA Gun Trust can help reduce the
risk of legal charges when allowing others to use restricted arms.
VCDL President Philip Van Cleavewill be speaking about the proposed legislation
that concerns your Gun Rights in the 2013 General Assembly general session. He
will also explain the importance of VCDL's Annual Lobby Day at Capitol Square on
Richmond on January 21st and how you can an do play an integral role in
advancing and protecting our Gun Rights.
In as much as this meeting will focus on our 2nd Amendment rights we are
encouraging attendees to practice"Open Carry". And for those who practice
"Concealed Carry".....maintain your discretion as you are comfortable!
Make Plans Today To Protect Your Tomorrow and join us January 8th!!
3. MILLER: Handgun hypocrisy
From washingtontimes.com: http://tinyurl.com/bvq2cdu
MILLER: Handgun hypocrisy
Well-armed activists want the rest of America defenseless
by Emily Miller
December 7, 2012
The loudest advocates of gun control are well protected. President Obama said he wants more laws restricting firearms ownership because, in his hometown of Chicago, "there's an awful lot of violence, and they're not using AK-47s, they're using cheap handguns." With his own armed Secret Service detail, the president doesn't need to worry about crime.
Illinois State Sen. Donne Trotter takes the hypocrisy up a notch. On Wednesday, Mr. Trotter was arrested on felony charges after attempting to board a plane at O'Hare International Airport with a loaded .25-caliber Beretta.
The South Side Democrat, who has been the leading candidate to fill the congressional seat vacated by scandal-plagued Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., claimed that he forgot to take the gun out of his garment bag after working his security job. Illinois is the only state in the union that denies citizens all rights to bear arms, but Mr. Trotter got himself an exception — a special permit to pack heat to and from his side gig.
Since he was first elected in 1988, Mr. Trotter has voted against legislation that would grant other Illinois citizens the right to concealed carry. He also voted "present" on a bill that would have reduced the penalty on carrying a concealed weapon. In his official biography, he describes himself as "an advocate of gun control" who "ushered in Illinois' first comprehensive law banning assault weapons."
"This is the kind of hypocrisy that fuels the mistrust of politicians by gun owners," Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb told The Washington Times. The organization has been backing legal challenges designed to force Illinois to recognize carry rights for all residents.
"Trotter and many other anti-gun Democrats don't trust people with firearms but flaunt the very laws they want to impose on the rest of us," said Mr. Gottlieb. After a night in jail, Mr. Trotter is out on bond. He says he's still running for Congress.
Meanwhile, NBC Sports' Bob Costas continued his national media tour calling for gun bans with arguments that don't hold up to scrutiny. On Wednesday, he told Fox News, "I don't see any reason why someone should be able to purchase military-style artillery and body armor and automatic weapons."
Though the show's host, Bill O'Reilly, replied that those were "reasonable positions," automatic guns are already highly regulated by the federal government. They aren't used by criminals. A spokesman for NBC Sports did not respond to questions about whether security guards are armed at NBC network broadcast locations.
Mr. Costas expanded on his theme by saying, "Far more often, bad things happen — including unintentional things — than things where the presence of a gun diminishes or averts danger." He's only telling half the story. About 30,000 people are killed by firearms, but guns are are also used to prevent crimes approximately 2 million times a year.
"There have never been more firearms in civilian possession in America than there are today," Lawrence Keane, general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told The Washington Times. "Yet crime is at its lowest level since the early 1960s. Firearm accidents are at their lowest level since recordkeeping began in 1903. Perhaps Mr. Costas should focus on his area of expertise instead of pontificating on subjects of which he is embarrassingly ignorant."
There's a reason for the weak arguments and hypocrisy. These activists aren't actually interested in reducing crime, they want more government control over our lives. That's precisely why the Founding Fathers enshrined our right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution.
4. Responses to VA-ALERT: Gun ownership attacked after murder/suicide
Jack Doyle emailed me this:
Dear Bob Costas,
Tell me again about still being alive if the enraged football player didn't have a gun.
Nicole Brown Simpson
5. Bob Costas, NBC attacks Americans' Constitutional right of self-defense
James Durso emailed me this:
From pjmedia.com: http://tinyurl.com/bt2worx
Bob Costas, NBC Exploit Kansas City Chiefs Tragedy to Attack Americans' Constitutional Right of Self-Defense
by Bryan Preston
December 2, 2012
By now you've probably heard what happened in Kansas City on Saturday. Chiefs player Jovan Belcher committed murder-suicide, ending his own life (on the team's stadium parking lot) and the life of his girlfriend, Kassandra Perkins. The two leave behind a three-month-old daughter.
The Chiefs have handled the tragic events with dignity and grace. NBC and Bob Costas have revealed yet again how evil that network and its on-air personalities have become.
During half-time of the Cowboys-Eagles game tonight, Costas took a moment to acknowledge the tragedy and note that if it takes such an event to "bring sports into perspective" as is always said after a tragedy, then one may never reach the right perspective. Then, Costas offered up his perspective by paraphrasing columnist Jason Whitlock. Whitlock wrote, in reaction to the tragedy:
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.
In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
How was the "gun culture" to blame for the violent actions of a grown man? Was a gun the only means by which a professional athlete might have killed himself and someone else? Of course not.
Costas' remarks constitute exploitation of a tragedy in order to push a political point that Whitlock, Costas, and NBC no doubt already believed, and only used the moment to forward. They all should be ashamed of themselves. But our current media culture is one in which shame does not exist. Neither does the truth.
What Costas and Whitlock and NBC offered is not "perspective." It is a lie. It is also a broadside attack on the rights of responsible citizens to equip ourselves to defend ourselves and our loved ones. Will Bob Costas, NBC, and Jason Whitlock assume personal responsibility for every American who would be alive today if they had possessed the means to defend themselves from violent criminals? Of course not. To them, such victims do not even exist.
As for the game, this lifelong Cowboys fan turned it off after Costas' political assault on my rights. I will not watch another game on NBC as long as Bob Costas has a job on that network.
6. Speak Up: Bob Costas' anti-gun comments
From guntalk.com newsletter:
by Tom Gresham
December 3, 2012
NBC's Bob Costas spoke out against gun ownership on Sunday Night Football.
Tom says:
I was surprised that Bob Costas (hereafter to be known as Clueless Costas) went on an anti-gun rant at halftime during the December 2nd Sunday Night Football broadcast. He usually, I thought, does better research than that. At least, I thought that before now. Since I don't know the facts of the stories he reports, I have always considered him to be a reliable source, but this venture into knee-jerk reaction without a shred of research makes me wonder if I've gotten the straight story from him on other issues.
His editorial took the position that if Jovan Belcher had not had a gun, he would not have been able to commit murder or suicide. This is nonsense on the face of it. Fists, feet, knives (ex. the recent murder-suicide in Wyoming) and other tools can and are used to commit murder. In fact, the FBI categorizes all those as instruments of murder in its Uniform Crime Reports.
To see Clueless Costas blithely skip into the middle of this tragedy with such shallow and demonstrably false assumptions belies his reputation as a heretofore respected reporter.
The mountain of evidence to contradict his anti-gun assertions looms large and would have been easy to find. Take just two points which belie the charge that the gun drives suicides and murders.
First, there is the comparison with Japan. That island-nation prohibits most citizens from owning guns. It would be the perfect Petri dish for showing how suicides can be prevented by banning guns. The reality turns that on its head, since the suicide rate in Japan approaches (sometimes exceeds) twice that of the U.S. No guns in Japan, but twice the rate of suicides of the U.S., which has perhaps 300 million guns.
Second, there is the example in the U.S. of the effect (or lack of effect) on murder rates when people carry loaded guns. Twenty years ago few states had laws permitting citizens to carry loaded firearms for their protection. After Florida passed what is known as "shall-issue" concealed carry (requiring the state to issue a permit to any qualified applicant), almost all states followed. In that 20-year period the number of people with carry permits has grown beyond six million, plus several states which require no permit at all for a person to carry a gun for protection.
Over a nearly identical time span, the murder rate in the United States has fallen dramatically. There are millions more guns, millions more gun owners, and millions more people carrying guns for protection, but the murder rate has fallen by nearly half. Even if one doesn't believe that the concealed carry movement actually caused this drop, it would be difficult for anyone to ignore that -- at a minimum -- adding millions of guns, gun owners, and concealed carry participants did not increase the murder rate, which is what Clueless Costas would have you believe.
Should we really be surprised at this? Probably not. Clueless Costas is from New York, has armed security protecting him, and appears to be convinced in the truth of his own ignorance-based bias. Further, he describes himself as a liberal, as he did in a May 26, 2007 opinion piece declaring President Bush to be unqualified for the office. We never are surprised when the clueless elite call attention to themselves by dancing in the blood of innocents. For some reason, I expected more of Costas, though on reflection, I'm not sure why.
As responsible gun owners, and as members of the Gun Talk Truth Squad where we never just shrug and let lies go unchallenged, what can we do about this widely-broadcast screed? Speak up.
First step would be to send an email with your thoughts to the NBC, which produced this game. Send a message to NBC and the NFL (one to try is email@example.com) as a start. Next, talk about this with your friends. Some of them won't know the facts I've related above, and will react to Costas with "well, that sounds reasonable." The notion that the earth is flat was reasonable until it faced research and scientific fact. The research and the science shows us that more guns in the U.S. equals less crime.
Respond with cogent comments to every online news story about the Costas rant. Well-mannered comments, backed with specific facts, do change opinions.
Speak up at every opportunity. Bring the facts to this discussion and you'll often be met with "I didn't know that." Speaking the truth, with the facts to back it up, is what the Gun Talk Truth Squad is all about.
To stay silent is to agree. To leave this lie unchallenged it to allow it to become the truth.
Speak up.
7. Bob Costas: Young men can't own guns "without something bad happening"
Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From infowars.com: http://tinyurl.com/b8d8uov
Bob Costas: Young Men Can't Own Guns "Without Something Bad Happening"
NBC Sports broadcaster claims there are no examples of athletes using guns to neutralize dangerous situations
by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
December 5, 2012
During an appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Bob Costas attempted to prop up his ludicrous claim that young men can't own guns "without something bad happening," by asserting that athletes have never used a gun in a positive context, a claim which is easily debunked.
NBC Sports broadcaster Costas stoked widespread controversy on Sunday night when he attempted to turn the tragic murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins into an argument for gun control.
Costas told O'Donnell that he was in favor of "more comprehensive gun control legislation" and tried to argue the point by commenting that 65 out of 80 Colts players admitted to owning guns.
"Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can't have 65 guys in their 20′s and 30′s, aggressive young men subject to impulses, without something bad happening," said Costas.
"Give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better – I can't think of a single one – but sadly I can think of dozens where by virtue of having a gun a professional athlete has wound up in a tragic situation," he added.
Costas failed to name any of the "dozens" of such incidents he claimed proved his point, but we were able to dig up examples of athletes using a gun for self-defense or to stop a crime taking place.
Costas couldn't name one, and yet we were able to come up with a couple just from a quick Google search, as well as other examples where athletes would have survived attacks and murders had they been able to defend themselves.
- In 2005, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Fuller used his .38-caliber revolver to fire at and chase away a gunman who had entered his home in an attempted robbery.
- Also in 2005, Houston Astros outfielder Luke Scott prevented a potentially violent situation in Houston involving a man asking him for money by displaying his gun.
- As this Fox News article explains, football players are routinely targeted by criminals and armed thieves, giving them all the more reason to be armed in order to protect their families.
- In 2007, Washington Redskins' Sean Taylor was shot dead trying to protect his family after gunmen burst into his Miami home. "Some wonder if he'd be alive today if he'd had a gun nearby to protect himself that night," reports Vibe.
Statist host Lawrence O'Donnell then attempted to refute a point made by many in the aftermath of Costas' comments – that Jovan Belcher could just as easily have strangled or stabbed his wife to death and that he is to blame and not the gun, which is an inanimate object.
"How many home runs could Babe Ruth hit without a bat," asks O'Donnell, believing that a comparison between a sports game where only a baseball bat is allowed and real life, where any object can be used to kill a person, is somehow applicable or makes sense in any way – when it clearly doesn't.
Far from apologizing for his ludicrous comments, Costas has doubled down, spouting ever more inane nonsense in an attempt to back up his empty argument, such as the claim that athletes have never used a gun in a positive context, which as we document above is completely untrue.
8. Excellent video response to Bob Costas' gun control misinformation [VIDEO]
Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From inforwars.com: http://tinyurl.com/atpkb7n
9. Fox points out hypocrisy of Costas' anti-gun rant
Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/dxsqqze
From AWR Hawkins, Breitbart News: Bob Costas' gun control rant was bad but made worse by one key point -- he lives much of his life with the benefit of armed security. (i.e., men with guns). If you've ever been to an NFL game this point is academic. The number of armed policemen you pass between the gate your seat is incredible. And if you get behind the scenes, in certain corridors, the armed presence can be just as strong (or stronger). Those policeman and security personnel are there to preserve order and to protect their assets, be they football players, football coaches, or the celebrities and news anchors in attendance. In this, Costas is much like other elitists who've recklessly criticized guns in past, all the while living behind a wall of guns for the benefits it brings.
10. Bill O'Reilly has Bob Costas on to explain his gun control comments [VIDEO]
EM John Pierce emailed me this:
From opencarry.org: http://tinyurl.com/alpdy3k
11. Steeler's linebacker James Harrison says guns are not the problem
EM John Pierce emailed me this:
From opencarry.org: http://tinyurl.com/cn5gtrd
Steeler's linebacker James Harrison says guns are not the problem
by John Pierce
December 6, 2012
"[Jovan Belcher] did it. And he alone is responsible for it. It has nothing to do with the guns."
- James Harrison
Harrison, who is a self described avid gun collector, made the comments in an interview with USA Today. He made it clear that the bad actions of Belcher will make no difference in his view of the Second Amendment.
"No. No. No. I have my guns. I'm going to keep my guns. I'm going to use my guns responsibly and go from there."
It is good to see that Bob Costas, Jason Whitlock, and their ilk do not speak for the majority of America's sports heroes.
Read more at USA Today: http://tinyurl.com/bbkz6ah
12. Charles Barkley tells Costas why he carries a gun
EM John Pierce emailed me this:
From opencarry.org: http://tinyurl.com/bafdt4b
Charles Barkley tells Costas why he carries a gun
Posted on December 6, 2012 by John Pierce
"[I've] carried a gun in my car, every day of my life since I was 21 or 22 … never had to use it … it would take extreme circumstances for me to even touch it."
- Charles Barkley
Basketball legend Sir Charles Barkley was on Costas Tonight Thursday night and he told Bob Costas that he feels safer carrying a gun. He said it gave him a "sense of peace."
He went on to note that the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide was not about guns but was about violence against women.
"I hope people don't [overemphasize the gun situation. I'm very sensitive to domestic violence because I have a daughter, and that's just one thing that I cannot accept in any shape or form whatsoever."
Read more of Sir Charles' excellent commentary at Cincinnati.com: http://tinyurl.com/bf2josq
13. Jovan Belcher tragedy: blame the man not the NRA [VIDEO]
Dale Hawley emailed me this:
PJTV covers the Belcher tragedy and some of the history of firearms ownership.
From youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/at4dfj3
PJTV: ZoNation: Jovan Belcher Tragedy: Blame the Man not the NRA
by Pajamasmedia
December 6, 2012
Liberals like Jason Whitlock want you to believe that the NRA killed Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend. Zo tells you why the NRA is not the KKK, and reminds you who is really to blame for this murder-suicide, in addition to other tragedies in black communities.
14. NFL players: three out of four own guns
Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From usatoday.com: http://tinyurl.com/bcgke5f
NFL players: Three out of four own guns
NFL players say they need to own guns for protection, and that hasn't changed despite the Jovan Belcher shootings.
by David Leon Moore
December 7, 2012
Former NFL running back Thomas Jones was always around guns, long before he became a football-carrying member of that unofficial gun club within the National Football League.
As a kid, he and his buddies fired guns in the woods in Big Stone Gap, Va. They'd shoot bottles and go hunting.
His dad had guns.
Jones bought his first gun his senior year at the University of Virginia, and, as a rookie with the Arizona Cardinals a dozen years ago, he learned quickly that guns were an ingrained part of the NFL culture.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Belcher tragedy
"Most guys when they first come into the league is when they first start to realize they need protection," Jones says. "Because money brings a lot of positive things. But most of the time, it brings more negative things. People don't like you for what you have, for who you are. They don't like you for what you represent. And people will go to any length to take what you have or harm you in some way just because they don't have what you have. If you don't have a firearm to protect you from situations and God forbid something happens to you, you wish you would have a firearm."
Jones, who retired last season with the Kansas City Chiefs after 12 years in the league, was a big brother to young linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend, and then himself, last Saturday.
Yet less than a week removed from the tragic shootings in Kansas City, NFL players aren't ready to give any ground on their belief that carrying guns is not only a right but, in their world, a necessity. Indeed, numerous players told USA TODAY Sports that in their estimation, roughly three-quarters of NFL players owned guns, compared with 40% to 45% of households in the general population, according to the National Rifle Association.
Though no statistics on NFL gun ownership exist, and league spokesman Greg Aiello called the percentage estimates "a wild guess," even former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy — widely viewed, even now, as the moral compass of the NFL — says the number of players who armed themselves during his tenure "shocked" him.
When Dungy, now an NBC analyst, was coaching the Colts, he'd always ask at the first team meeting of the year, "How many of you guys have guns?" Then he would tell the players that they needed to register their weapons in Indiana.
"I was always shocked at the number of guys who raised their hand. ... That was kind of eye-opening to me. ... (But) it's just a fact of life. These guys had them. ... I think so many of these young guys have been around guns and have seen guns, and they just feel that's part of the landscape for them growing up."
Like Jones, Belcher owned guns. But Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, the mother of their three-month-old daughter, and then killed himself with a different gun in front of his coach and general manager in the parking lot of Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.
"I'm not ... trying to tell guys in the league they need to purchase firearms," Jones says. "I'm just saying to be realistic about our lifestyle."
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer for the NRA, dismisses any notion that guns are to blame for the tragedy, or that NFL players are in some way different.
"It's not a culture of athletes," he says. "It is particular behavior by particular individuals that is no different from the rest of society. We've got to stop making excuses. A murderer is a murderer."
Jovan Belcher warms up prior to the Oct. 27 game against the Ravens. Ed Zurga, AP Fullscreen
Lessons of Taylor's death
According to numerous players, it's not a secret that the NFL is loaded with firearms. One of the reasons routinely mentioned is protection, and one of the incidents players often cite is the death of Sean Taylor, a Washington Redskins safety who was killed in a home invasion in Miami in 2007. He was 24.
Redskins kick returner Brandon Banks echoes the mantra that it's all about protection. The third-year player, who declined to say whether he owns a gun, says "70% of the NFL players have guns. Guys get them as soon as they start getting some money, when people start knowing where you live."
BENEFITS: Belcher daughter eligible for at least $1 million
Players in other pro sports leagues agree with that sentiment, including in the NBA where former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone, a noted outdoorsman, once put the number of gun owners at "close to 60%."
But just as in the greater society beyond sports, gun ownership isn't only about protection. For many players and millions of Americans, guns are simply the equipment for another popular sport: hunting.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger calls himself "a huge hunter" and says he owns rifles, shotguns and handguns. He estimates the percentage of NFL players who own guns at "over 75%-80%."
Roethlisberger's teammate, James Harrison, is a gun collector and one of the most avid gun advocates in sports. Harrison reacted to the Belcher story with sadness, but the all-pro linebacker is unapologetic about his passion for firearms.
"It has nothing to do with the guns," Harrison says. "Somebody goes out and kills somebody with a knife; you going to blame the knife? It's the person who did it who's responsible."
Redskins wide receiver Josh Morgan no longer owns a gun. But he says he grew up in Washington, D.C., carrying unregistered handguns. He gave up guns "after one of my best friends got killed. That's when I had to stop. When you see so many people get killed and you witness so many deaths and go to so many funerals before you leave high school — and you've got 12, 13, 14 friends die from murder or get stabbed — you get tired of going to funerals. You get tired of crying."
Morgan says he knows a lot of players who own guns for protection, and he defends their right, even as he chooses not to exercise his.
"Some people just have nothing to lose," he says. "When you've got people like that, you've got no choice but to protect yourself and protect your family."
MEMORIAL: Kasandra Perkins remembered for bringing joy
The NFL's Aiello says the league educates players about guns and weapons every year. Each team conducts an annual mandatory preseason meeting with NFL security, club security and local law enforcement at which gun laws are reviewed and explained. At this meeting, NFL employees are urged not to own guns, according to Aiello.
Some players have followed that advice.
"I do not own a gun," says Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen. "It's something my wife and I have discussed. We (the team) are away a lot, so it gives me some peace of mind knowing she could protect herself (if she did have a gun). It also makes me nervous because there are a lot of issues with gun safety."
Paulsen, who puts the league gun ownership number at "70-80%," realizes that he's "definitely in the minority."
But Troy Vincent, the NFL vice president of player engagement who played from 1992-2006, disputes that the league has a gun culture, or that players commonly own and collect guns.
"No. No. I've never. … You'll hear people say, 80%-90%, 20%. How do you know that? We don't ask that question. That's personal information. ... (But) we're not naive by any stretch of the imagination."
While echoing Aiello's comments that the league does all it can to educate players, Vincent shed tears and became emotional when asked about the Belcher tragedy.
"A young lady lost her life, and it didn't have to be that way."
Family and friends said goodbye to Kasandra Perkins, 22, at a funeral Thursday in Blue Ridge, Texas.
Too eager to arm?
Because Belcher was a gun owner, a person in his home would have been three times more likely to be involved in a homicide, and five times more likely to have killed himself, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
If that Saturday in Kansas City were an average day in America, 32 people were slain with guns and another 54 people were killed by guns in suicides or accidents, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. More than 31,000 people in the USA die in gun-related incidents each year. This year, one of those deaths was the stunning suicide of recently retired NFL superstar linebacker Junior Seau, who had acquired a handgun for protection but, according to his friends, hardly knew how to load it.
SEAU'S FINAL DAYS: Plagued by sleepless nights
Whatever the reasons athletes give for gun ownership — or their Second Amendment rights to legally purchase firearms — gun safety advocates continue to be concerned about the link between guns and professional athletes. There's nothing wrong with owning a gun, they say, if the buyer is ready for gun ownership.
"You have young people with a lot of money, and there may be a quickness in a decision to buy a gun," says Dan Gross, president of the Brady Center. "There's a kind of social norm that exists in certain professional sports around ownership of a gun. It's kind of encouraged. And I think there's a tendency among professional athletes not to look into the right equation in terms of risks versus benefits."
Not true, says the NRA's LaPierre, who blames the premise of a gun culture in the NFL on the media and anti-gun groups.
"You've got good Americans who love to play sports, who are disciplined, who are responsible, and they're no different from any other Americans," he says. "Owning guns is a mainstream part of American culture, and it's growing every day."
Gross says he and his organization aren't trying to ban guns. They seek education and awareness, and they urge potential gun owners to pause and consider that — statistically speaking — placing themselves around guns increases their risks.
"What we saw with Belcher and Kasandra Perkins was a very clear manifestation of those risks, as was Junior Seau," Gross says.
LaPierre counters: "The one thing missing in that equation is that woman owning a gun so she could have saved her life from that murderer."
Other sports leagues
Just as with the NFL, other pro sports leagues have had their share of gun controversies.
In December 2009, Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton violated NBA rules when they had unloaded guns in the Washington Wizards' team locker room. Both were suspended for the remainder of the season. But gun ownership — for sport and protection — remains vibrant.
Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, now a commentator on TNT, says, "Most of the guys I played with over the years always had protection. We've had some players get mugged going home late at night, coming off a road trip or leaving nightclubs. But I've never heard of a situation like (the Belcher shootings) where everything went crazy."
Barkley, too, says that a tragic aberration like what happened in Kansas City doesn't diminish his right to own a weapon: Having a gun "is a personal choice. It's my personal choice, and I'm not going to change it. I don't care what anybody says."
NBA veteran and Los Angeles Clippers star Lamar Odom doesn't own a gun, even though he was once held up at gunpoint.
"I understand there are mixed feelings and mixed emotions about it," he says. "I think it's our right to be able to protect our homes, but I just don't feel the need."
Major League Baseball has long been associated with a hunting culture. This week, Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum revealed that former teammate Robin Yount accidentally shot him in the right ear on a recent quail hunt. And San Diego Padres general manager Josh Byrnes spoke out on guns after one of his pitchers, Andrew Cashner, lacerated a tendon in his right thumb with a knife after a deer hunt this offseason.
"As a GM, I am concerned," Byrnes said Thursday, while noting that he supports gun control. "We can control things on the job, but away from it, we hope they make the right decisions."
But Atlanta Braves general manager Frank Wren argues that hunting lends itself to experience with guns.
"What's different is that the hunting culture for the most part are the most gun-savvy and the most careful and cautious of any group of gun owners," says Wren. "And we're also not talking about handguns. That's a whole other class that we don't see."
Wren has plenty of experience on his teams with avid hunters, among them recently retired star Chipper Jones and former Braves first baseman Adam Laroche. Wren recalls them often setting up targets under the stadium where the grounds crew stores sand and practicing with bows and arrows. But he says in his 25 years with several franchises, he's never come across issues with players and guns. He says part of that stems from many players coming from Sun Belt states, where guns are often introduced in childhood.
"The first thing you do as a kid in the South is go take a gun safety course," Wren says.
Saving lives, or taking lives?
But just a day after the Chiefs gathered at Belcher's memorial service, players question whether the murder-suicide will have any lasting impact on the league.
Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress, infamous for accidentally shooting himself in a New York City nightclub in 2008, called the Belcher shootings "very, very unfortunate" but isn't sure the tragedy will be a lasting lesson to a gun-heavy league.
"It will for a little while," says Burress, who served 20 months in prison because he was carrying the gun illegally. "But over time something else will happen and we'll be having the same discussion then. Things like this happen to people every day. It just happened to be Jovan, somebody that we knew."
Steelers safety and player representative Ryan Clark doesn't own a gun in a locker room where his quarterback estimates that most of his teammates do. He has twice seen gun-related tragedies up close. Clark's freshman year at LSU in 1999, a close friend killed himself with a shotgun blast to the face.
"Everybody sat around the next day when we found out, wondering what could we have done different. What could we have said to him? You don't see the signs. We never found out why," Clark says.
He was also a teammate and friend of the Redskins' Taylor, whom he played with from 2004-05 before joining Steelers in 2006. Taylor armed himself with a machete during the home invasion in which he was shot dead.
"If Sean had a gun, he's probably alive today," Clark says. "I choose not to own one. But guys are targets and they have their families and they have guns in their homes, they want to protect themselves and they have the right to. The law gives them the right to."
Clark recognizes the difficult calculus, and societal wrenching, over the issue of gun ownership.
"In that case, Sean Taylor, maybe it saves a life there. But in the next case (Belcher), it takes two lives."
15. Gutfeld rips Costas with story about guns saving lives [VIDEO]
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Greg Gutfeld on Fox News -The Five explains why "Guns Save Lives" Maybe Greg should get A VCDL honorary membership! - Richard Kroh
From realclearpolitics.com: http://tinyurl.com/bjtz4tf
Gutfeld Rips Costas With Story About Guns Saving Lives
by Greg Gutfeld
December 8, 2012
Now this tale not only shows how guns save lives, but it also kills the stereotype, Bob, that libs love to propagate that gun owners are clumsy yokels who collect guns the way sports broadcasters collect toupees.
Not so, the homeowner handled the situation with compassion, keeping the guy from endangering them and others. Any decent gun owner would say that's how it's done. But this is a logic that escapes people like Bob Costas, who glide among secure skyscrapers, never worrying about trivialities like home invasions. Commentators need no guns when the bodyguard is already packing. If only we all could be on TV with our shiny eyes and thoughtful grins, we wouldn't need guns, just opinions about them.
16. Police: Boy, 7, shot to death at Pa. gun store
A tragic reminder of the basic gun safety rules: keep guns ALWAYS pointed in a safe direction and keep your finger off the trigger unless ready to shoot.
Bill Watkins emailed me this:
Philip, as much as my heart breaks for this father's loss, my first two questions of him would be (rhetorically of course):
Why wasn't your firearm properly holstered? When unloading your pistol, did you drop the magazine before racking the slide and visually noting that the chamber was empty? You know, Philip, proper handling of firearms ain't rocket science.
From salon.com: http://tinyurl.com/cvd6phl
Police: Boy, 7, shot to death at Pa. gun store
by Associated Press
December 8, 2012
MERCER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a 7-year-old boy was shot to death when a gun accidentally went off as his father was getting into his truck outside a western Pennsylvania gun store.
The boy was shot Saturday morning at Twigs Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. Store owner Leonard Mohney says it happened in the parking lot.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the boy was shot when his father's handgun went off as the man got into the truck while holding the gun.
Police say 44-year-old Joseph V. Loughrey told them he had emptied the magazine but didn't realize a bullet was still in the chamber. Seven-year-old Craig Allen Loughrey was shot in the chest and died at the scene.
State police are investigating the shooting as an accident.
17. Spike in gun sales attributed to 'Zombie Apocalypse'
Jay Minsky emailed me this:
I heard a lot of reasons for the increased firearms sales, but I did not think that the Zombie-Apocalypse was a significant reason. The VCDL membership should get a go laugh from this video and story.
The web link below is a ABC story on the CDC Zombie-preparedness referenced in the above story. This CDC site was such a hit that in 10 minutes had 30,000 hits and crashed the system. http://tinyurl.com/cl9afz4
Jay Minsky
From komonews.com: http://tinyurl.com/d55dvrv
Spike in gun sales attributed to 'Zombie Apocalypse'
by Tracy Vedder
November 30, 2012
SEATTLE -- Gun sales are booming, and the federal government is warning people to prepare themselves for a "zombie apocalypse."
Yes, you read that right. The living dead who populate B-movies and television shows are spurring gun sales and a tongue-in-cheek website from a group not normally known for having a great sense of humor -- the Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC's new blog, titled "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse," is telling people that if they're ready for zombies, they'll also be prepared for hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters that are more likely to hit.
Business has been brisk at Wade's Gun Shop in Bellevue. In fact, nationwide gun sales on Black Friday -- measured by more than 154,000 background checks -- was record breaking.
"It was the largest number of background checks in a single day," said Dave Workman of the 2nd Amendment Foundation.
The volume of background checks actually shut down the FBI's system twice. Of course, those record sales aren't entirely due to the zombie craze, but Workman said it played a role.
"That's the zombie phenomenon," he said. "It has ignited a whole new generation of shooters out there."
Like gun shops throughout the country, Wade's carries special green-tipped zombie ammunition.
"Well, they have to be shot in the brain. I believe that's why they separated this out," said John Clarke of Wade's Gun Shop.
The shop also sells zombie-specific targets and special zombie guns.
"Put the zombie labeling on it to make it a little more appropriate for shooting zombies," Clarke said.
Zombie training has become so popular that there are even gun clubs that run zombie-shooting matches.
18. Californians buying guns at record rates
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by William Bigelow
December 7, 2012
Gun sales, which have already accelerated rapidly this year across the nation, skyrocketed in California for the month of November.
Normally, Black Friday sees an increase in gun sales, but the figures from this Black Friday compared to last year's are astonishing; there was a 59% increase in gun sales from 2011 to 2012. For the month of November, there was a 49% increase from 2011 to 2012.
The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System ran 981,798 background checks for California gun sales this year by the end of November. This number exceeded the total sales for all of 2011.
On Black Friday, there were 154,873 calls, 20% more than last year. Gun sales are up to record levels since 2008.
John Eastman, professor and former dean of the Chapman University School of Law, believes "a perfect storm" of factors have led to the increased sales, citing: the strategies employed in the recent election; the chaos engendered by Occupy Wall Street; the federal government's efforts to regulate gun ownership; economic uncertainty; and talk among politicians of cutting social benefits, which could exacerbate feelings of hostility.
19. Burglar calls 911 to save himself from gun-wielding homeowner
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From news.yahoo.com: http://tinyurl.com/a7cj59v
Burglar calls 911 to save himself from gun-wielding homeowner
by Dylan Stableford
December 6, 2012
A suspected burglar called 911 after the owner of the home he broke into caught and held him at gunpoint.
The suspect, Christopher Moore, placed the emergency call in Springtown, Texas, during the botched burglary attempt early Tuesday after James Gerow, the homeowner, and Gerow's son pointed guns at him as he sat in his pickup truck parked in the driveway.
"I'm out in the country somewhere," Moore told the 911 operator during the 10-minute call. "Some guy's got a gun on me."
Gerow's wife, Lindy, placed a concurrent call to 911 that confirmed Moore's account.
"You better come quick," she said, "or my husband's going to shoot him."
"If he gets out of the truck, shoot him in the legs," James Gerow told his son, according to the Dallas Morning News Crime Blog. "You ain't gotta kill him—just shoot him in the legs."
When police arrived, both Moore and Lindy Gerow were still talking to 911 dispatchers.
According to CBS' Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate, Moore was arrested and charged with burglary. He's currently being held on a $35,000 bond.
20. Concealed carry permit holder thwarts assault
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From wrn.com: http://tinyurl.com/c7poe29
Concealed carry permit holder thwarts assault
by WRN Contributor
December 6, 2012
Concealed carry paid off in a road rage incident this week. According to Wausau police, An Appleton man was traveling on eastbound Highway 29 heading into Wausau on Tuesday afternoon, when a vehicle he passed accelerated and rammed his vehicle from behind. The driver contacted 911, and the dispatcher advised him to meet the officer at a Menard's parking lot.
The man was followed by his attackers, who got out and attempted to beat him and use their keys as a weapon to injure him. That's when the man pulled his gun, and the attackers backed off. Police said when the officer arrived, the man with the gun was completely cooperative, and will not be charged with a crime. Two Michigan residents, 30-year-old Nicholas Flanigan and 26-year-old Jessica Ratliff, face charges including battery and disorderly conduct. Police don't know what triggered the road rage incident.
21. Mass shooting victims and relatives make a living from the tragedy
Thanks to Paul Henick for the link.
From jovianthunderbolt.blogspot.com: http://tinyurl.com/cscf4rr
by New Jovian Thunderbolt
December 6, 2012
North Central Idaho quotes this Mauser guy with his slip of admitting to the world that his way of thinking is all about Collectivism.
Notice that victims or relatives of victims of mass shootings, you invariably have one of them making a career out of it? This guy from Columbine, that kid from VT [PVC: Collin Goddard is who he is referring to. Collin's father has also made a career from that tragedy], that congress critter from the Long Island Express Train shooting 20 years ago [PVC: Carolyn McCarthy]. Sarah Brady. Being a victim is a racket or something.
Anyway, Mauser pulls a lotta factually challenged boners in that Atlantic article.
For instance, he is proud that because of Columbine he was able to get a gun-show 'loophole' bill passed in Colorado. Because the underage shooters used an adult to buy their guns at a gun show. If only the law had been in place years before the outrage. Because then... the underage shooters could have used the same adult to buy their guns at a gun show...
He laments: "I heard the same kinds of statements from some people after Columbine: 'Well, you know, they had bombs, too.' The fact is that the deaths were from guns." Actually, the deaths were from killers.
Mauser does some amatuer psychology, with the country on the couch being too infantile, next. He wants us to be more like mature Euro countries where the violent crime rate is on the rise (he doesn't note this rise, and I think assumes the opposite. I think he thinks 'there are fewer guns there, it MUST be better in Euro-land...'). Unlike here in America, where the guns are and crime rates are going down. Plus, if we were more Euro-y, he thinks, it would be easier to do the whole confiscation thing. This segues into the collectivism quote.
Then he says that then: "The people themselves would understand that having guns around puts them in more danger." Do you have any evidence at all that this is true? Because there is plenty of evidence that it is not true, and there is correlation that it may be the opposite.
Read the whole thing. It's amazing that apart from the one interview subject that is only a small part of the whole article that the MSM Atlantic actually gets this close to 'our' side on the issue.


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Multiple Personality Disorder
I was reading a book last night about the power of the human mind. The focus of the book was how anyone any time has the ability to actually train themselves (due to the amazing power of the human brain) to do just about anything they want.
One of the examples used in the book to show the actual power (and mystery) of the human mind was the case of people who suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder.
The book says that there have been actual medical studies done where people with this disorder were not only able to change their personality, but their physical state as well. Examples include...
The changing of eye color from one personality to another...
One personality being allergic to orange juice and another not being allergic....
One personality being drunk, and the other being completely sober....
I even read that there were extreme cases where people with this disorder could have one personality with diabetes and another with no sign of the diabetes at all.... another case was where someone would have physical scars or birth marks with one personality and these things would disappear when the other personality took hold of them....
This blew my mind.
I mean, cmon, if the human brain is that powerful, think of the amazing things we are truly capable of.
Have you ever heard of anything like this? Do you know of anyone with multiple personality disorder?
I am still in disbelief...
intriguing, Haven't heard anything of it
humpf-ff ..Don't know anyone ..but I am a firm believer that the mind is a truly powerful organ.
It's been around a long time............it's called demon possession. Jesus Christ can take care of that.
I've heard of even crazier stuff then that, ie. parting the Red Sea, Walking on water. Only thing I know for sure is that an amazingly high % of the human race are gullible. Thinking skills are not our strong suite.
Gods, ghosts, gobblins, vampires, werewolves, witches, vodoo, mulitiple wives.... ok that last one is ok
I've heard of the eye thing and I don't believe it. Even when I've seen actually video of these so called idiot savants, complete ******s except they can play the piano. It does say something about recall ability of the mind as well as compulsiveness but they actually don't play very well.
Most amazing thing I seen was a Buddhist Monk pour gasoline on himself and set himself on fire. He just sat there in flames and after a while fell to the side, briefly catching himself with his arm. That says a lot about the lengths some can go to condition the mind with meditation. But I don't believe in Dr. Jekle and Mr. Hide at least as far as scars and eye colour etc. Personality for sure but nothing physical.
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Having been previously in the medical field, I can say this... I have seen people with severe medical past histories as long as your arm and for all intents should have been dead long ago but were still upbeat and positive.
Conversely, I've been surprised at the number of patients that were so anxious and fearful over what were essentially minor procedures or surgeries that died with no apparent complications.
Then there was the story that we heard in a training session of an New York attorney that was so convinced that he had cancer, that he had spent 3 months in the hospital getting every test done known to man, all with negative results.
He had NO Cancer or any other medical issues or problem. He was found and confirmed repetitively to be perfectly healthy and normal.......
He was so convinced he was going to die that they found him dead in the hospital bed the night before they were going to release him. The autopsy results were "inconclusive". We've all heard of stories of the other spouse dying right after the other etc. Yep, The power of the mind !
You see people who are under hypnosis that can be told many things, such as the penny placed on someones arm. You tell the person that the penny is red-hot and when you remove the penny, there is a noticeable red spot as the person had thought they were getting burned.
I believe it. I also believe that meditation can help ease a lot of things in my life. On top of that, I try to stay as positive as I can about everything, even when life looks grim. As a result, things really do work out in the end.
" Always follow the whims of the great magnet, how stupid I was to defy him" Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Don't get me wrong, I still believe there are a lot of things that are out of our personal control. I'm not going to turn into Dennis Leary (SP?? the father of LSD) and try to cure cancer by dropping acid and meditating all day.
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It starts at a point during abuse where the mind cannot take what they are going through, literrally. So it splits. The other identity's know each other but are completely different from one another. Still the core personality is who the person is and it is hard to integrated them back to the core personality. I've seen some amazing paintings from a woman personality that the original person could not paint a lick. Some of them need glasses, others don't. Weird stuff but such a sad state and caused by trauma.
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You mean Timothy. Dennis is the actor. Albert Hofmann is considered the father of LSD anyway.
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Esh collected $12,200 for his victory in the 30-lap race.
Esh started fourth and took the lead on the ninth lap. Brad Sweet finished second, with Dale Blaney in third. Danny Lasoski and Cap Henry completed the top five. Rounding out the top 10 were Mike Wagner, Lance Dewease, Jac Haudenschild, Steve Buckwalter and Blane Heimbach.
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MONTIETH WINS AT LINCOLN: Brian Montieth scored his second win of the season in Saturday's 25-lap, sprint-car feature at Lincoln.
Montieth's first win since opening day back in February was worth $3,200.
Montieth started ninth and became the event's third different leader on the 17th of 25 laps. York's Adam Wilt finished second, with Fred Rahmer up to third from the 11th starting spot. York's Cory Haas, and Alan Krimes completed the top five.
Rounding out the top 10 were Billy Dietrich, Robbie Kendall, Jim Siegel, Brent Marks and Gerard McIntyre Jr.
Niki Young charged from the 10th starting spot to claim his first win of the season in the 20-lap 358 sprint feature. Ryan Wilson finished second, with Scott Fisher in third. Manchester's Austin Hogue and Dover's Ted Thomas Jr. completed the top five.
Rounding out the top 10 were Dale Hammaker, Tyler Ross, York's Jeff Rohrbaugh, Hanover's Tim Wagaman and Mike Bittinger.
Spring Grove's Blaine Leppo held off numerous challengers over the entire 15 laps to win the Legends feature over Bob Stough. Scott Houdeshell finished third, with York's Rick Miller and York's Bill Diehl in the top five.
KREITZ SHINES AT GROVE: Friday at Williams Grove, Donnie Kreitz Jr. raced to an impressive win in the 30-lap All Star feature. Kreitz charged from the 10th starting spot to claim his 55th career Grove win. The victory was worth $5,000.
Kreitz passed Fred Rahmer for the lead on the 12th lap and went on to score the win over Rahmer. Tim Shaffer was third, with Lance Dewease and Alan Krimes in the top five. Rounding out the top 10 were Tim Kaeding, Chad Layton, Jac Haudenschild, Fairview Township's Pat Cannon and Brent Marks.
Steve Buckwalter charged from the 15th starting spot to win the 20-lap ARDC midget feature. Buckwalter took the lead from Brendon Bright on the 12th lap. Steve Drevicki finished second, followed by Tim Buckwalter, Ryan Greth and Bright.
On Saturday, Dillsburg's Rich Eichelberger scored his first win of the season in the super-sportsman feature. The veteran bested Chris Meleason for the win. Frankie Herr finished third with Kenny Edkin and Gregg Foster in the top five. Rounding out the top 10 were Jay Fannasy, Bobby Hockenberry, Mike Enders, Leroy Martin and Wellsville's Scott Geesey.
Wes Alleman won his second limited-late-model feature of the season over Jake Jones. Scott Richwine, Eric Irvin and Sam Gallagher completed the top five.
Tim Drawbaugh won the street-stock feature over Craig Morgan, Bob Gutshall, Chad Smith and Greg Diehl.
SHULTZ EXCELS AT SELINSGROVE: Jason Shultz raced to his first win of the season in Saturday's 358 sprint-car feature at Selinsgrove.
Shultz's win in the 25-lap feature was worth $1,500.
Shultz had to fend off challenges from both T.J. Stutts and Mark Smith for the victory. Stutts, Smith, Colby Womer and Derek Locke completed the top five. Rounding out the top 10 were York's Josh Beard, Mark Bitner, Ryan Kissinger, Larry Kelleher and Austin Reed.
Dan Stone won the late-model championship event and collected $2,500 by fending off defending track champion Jeff Rine. Dylan Yoder, Jim Yoder and Kenny Trevitz completed the top five.
Kyle Bachman was awarded the pro-stock win when apparent winner Brad Mitch failed post-race tech. John Fowler was the roadrunner winner.
WAGAMAN VICTORI OUS AT TRAILWAY: Hanover's Tim Wagaman got his first win of the season in Friday's 358 sprint-car feature at Trailway.
Wagaman withstood numerous challenges from Manchester's Austin Hogue to score the win. Hogue was second, with Brad McClelland, Mike Duncan Jr. and Robbie Kendall in the top five. Rounding out the top 10 were Hanover's Cris Eash, Dover's Tim Berkheimer, J.B. Cunningham, Mike Bittinger and Scott Fisher.
Brad Weber won the 600cc micro-sprint feature over Larry Thompson. Rounding out the top five were Dwayne Gutshall, Jim Young and Jeremy Glass.
Ryan Smith was the limited-stock winner and Jimmy Combs won the street-stock feature.
ANDERSON LEADS WAY AT HAGERSTOWN: Andy Anderson won the Steel Block Bandits late-model feature at Hagerstown Saturday.
Anderson topped Justin Weaver for the win, with Rick Hulson in third. Dover's Gene Knaub and Tyler Armstrong completed the top five.
Tony Catlett was the pure-stock winner and Gary Proctor was the hobby-stock winner.
STOUDT FIRST AT SUSQUEHANNA: Randy Stoudt won the limited-late-model feature Saturday at Susquehanna Speedway Park.
-- Reach Bryan House holder at sports@yorkdis patch.com.


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Greetings GULPers,
Well it's been a while since we've met but I just wanted to let you know that localization efforts continue to bubble in different realms. It's been heartening to see the localization banner being carried on in so many different circles. If you have other activities you'd like to share with the group, please send me an e-mail: email@example.com
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That little girl did not look happy. And a 3 year old isn't supposed to be missing teeth unless from oral neglect.
Aliayah Lunsford, 3, Missing in West Virginia; Disappeared From Her Home
|Aliayah's grandma says she's too shy to even leave the yard without her mother
"She never leaves the house unless an adult is with her," her grandma Joann Evans told WDTV. "She wouldn't have come out in the yard, or the road for that matter, without her mother."
And that's what makes her disappearance such a mystery. Police have used canine units to search the immediate area. They've also used dive teams to search the nearby West Fork River. But so far they've come up with nothing.
"Right now there are no clues leading us anywhere," says Lewis County Sheriff's Sgt. Michael Posey. "No clues. It's like she's just disappeared."
We'll keep you posted. (Special thanks to reader Silas Wainwright for the tip.)
UPDATE: Aliayah disappeared early Saturday morning.
Aliayah had been sick Friday night, according to her mom. She was last seen in a bedroom at 6 a.m. Saturday morning when her mother Lena and her 9-year-old sister checked on her. Lena says she returned to the room between 9 and 9:30 a.m. to take the girl's temperature. That's when she found her daughter missing.
|Lena Lunsford sued the West Virginia prison system last year, claiming she'd been sexually assaulted while doing time in a workhouse
But so far that's turned up empty. The only real clue the cops have is a police dog discovered her scent at the edge of a nearby river. But all that means is that Aliayah could have been in the area within the last three to seven days.
Police have gone door-to-door, administered polygraphs to people they're not naming, and interviewed every sex offender in the county. All apparently have alibis and weren't in the vicinity of Aliayah's home that morning.
The house would have been easy for a toddler to leave. Detectives say one screen door doesn't have a handle and another door doesn't close very well. Surveillance cameras in the area show Lena searching for her daughter, but there's no sign of Aliayah. She simply disappeared from a busy home that includes four other kids, and Lena is pregnant with two more on the way.
Lena has past dealings with police of her own. In May of last year, she sued the West Virginia Division of Corrections, claiming she was sexually assaulted while serving time in a workhouse. We don't know what she was charged with, but she sued a guard and another unnamed person for anxiety, humiliation and emotional distress over the assault.
See our last story from the Missing Persons file: Steven Powell, Susan Powell's Father-in-Law, Busted for Child Porn.
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i wish the poilce could find this little bright young girl there are some sickos in this world
hope you fnd her):
This whole thing is messed up I understand she looks sad in her photo but without physical proff how can anyone say she being abused and with no proff that the mother had nothing to do with it yet how are they gonna up and take her other kids I mean how would you feel if one of your kids went missing and it wasn't yourfault and they took all your kids away my son has autism and has tried to run off you wouldn't believe how scared I was luckily he was playing in the yard it happens so fast I was using the bathroom and went to check on him and he was gone and my kids sleep intil 10 on the weekends when there's no school not all kids are the same and if she did have anything to with it I hope she gets punished by the judge but innacent intil provin otherwise so don't be so quick to judge its not your place
I think the mother could have something to do with it, since she is the only who saw the child before she went missing. and they said she dosent leave the house without her mother, and we dont know what her mother was charged with it could have been murder. you never know i just hope that little girl is alive and safe :)
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Surprisingly, little Aliyah was mentioned on Nancy Grace last night, but nothing new. No leads, no new information. "It's like she disappeared." Nancy and a couple other attorneys mentioned the bruise and how sad she looks and it was generally concluded (except by the defense attorneys who admonished those who did) that Aliayah was probably abused. No CPS calls to the home, but she's in jail for Welfare fraud and has a "rap sheet longer than my house" according to the sister-in-law. Andhe father has used "bath salts", apparently a meth type drug but "not illegal in WV"???? What???? Anyway, because of the home, the history, and even though CPS has not been called to this home, (big deal-there are a lot of abused children who CPS never hears of) it looks very grim for Aliaya. The sister-in-law, saidshe tried to get Lena to let her take Aliayah when she was 2. A psychologist said it looks like a home where she had children to get welfare to get money for drugs. I don't know if this child will ever be found or mentioned again, but I will not forget that face. She could be a poster child for abused children/neglected children in unfit homes. Her mother is waiting for "Physician's release" to take a lie detector test. We'll see if there are any unanswered questions that are answered then.
has anyone seen the new picture posted by the police? It is within a couple days of when she was missing. She is abused. she has a horrible bruise, but if you discount that bruise as a fall (even thought it's doubtful), there are other marks and bruises on her face. Abused. Where was CPS? Why do they ignore these abused children. People need to open their eyes and pay attention to children and their environment and call if they have doubts about the childs welfare. Stop thinking or letting people believe it's none of your business. It is. The welfare of children are everyone's buisness. This child should have been saved a long time ago. Her mother is in jail for using "bath salts." I don't know what else, but she's a drug addict. The children in these homes are doomed to a miserable life. I can't get Alayah's face out of my mind. the saddest face I've seen.
oh how sad, we shouldnt judge a person before they are found guilty but hell she look's guilty, why would the state take her twins off of her unless they knew something that's not known to the public. i hope to god im wrong but i think the little one's dead, for the sniffer dog's to trace her little scent to the water's edge, why would she go near water if she was that scared of it? did her mum dip her head in the water holding her feet to punish her and the little one choked and drown? two hours looking for her? did she put her daughter in the car then drive around trying to find somewhere to dump her? this world is cruel, no sorry not the world the people in it dont care no more, i was shocked to see a woman in london smack her daughter around the head calling her a div all cause the kid dropped a shopping bag, i know it's not right to address violence with violence but i stopped my car and screamed at this woman saying how cruel she was and if i see her hit her kid again i would do the same to her and see how she like's it!{ in so many word's} i didnt even feel bad. i know it is not my place to say anything but i see that child {who was about 7yrs old} with fear in her face and hand raised over her head trying to fend off this big woman who should have known better, that night i lay in bed and thought Oh no i hope that woman didnt beat that child when she got home because of what i said? i can only hope god has made that woman for a reason that i cant see. god bless the children.
I believe her sad little eyes tell it all. She is the saddest little girl I've seen. Unlike Lisa Irwin, Jhessye, and several other pictures we see, who look happy and normal, this one's little face tells a story of abuse and neglect. I know that it's not uncommon for kids to fall into the creeks and rivers but being the circumstances, I don't believe for a moment that that is the case. I really wish there was more coverage, don't understand why there isn't. Just like Jhessye, I think the police know and are just trying to get the evidence they need but I, not to mention someone in her family, surely is impatient waiting.
this is a sad case, because it's so obscure. It's hard to get any information. I keep looking, just as I look for new information on Lisa Irwin, but rarely can I find anything about Alaiyah. There's a new picture, taken just a couple days before she was reported missing by her mother that drove around the neighborhood until she run out of gas before calling the police. A sad picture. Aliayah has a terrible bruise that completely covers her cheek on one side of her face. Not even considering the bruise, its still sad. Whenever I see a picture of this little girl I think of a child, locally, that was in the early 1900's, but a big story in our area still) that was killed by her step mother after being tortured in the most horrible ways through her life. Her tortured and beaten body was finally given relief when she died from the trauma. There's pictures of that little girl in books and remembered in memorials. A century before Alaiyah, but their faces are very much alike. Alaiyah is mentioned once in a while in our local news, but if you are not in the area, it's not mentioned at all I'm sure. Her mother just gave birth to twins that were removed from her custody as soon as they were born. So sad.
Any update on this missing little girl it is now 1 month?
May god lead you into safe hands sweety x
hi, i dont know if anyone can tell me if this deeply unhappy toddler was found yet? im from london and dont know the facts but when i found this sad true story it struck me she looked so pleading with her little eyes an her face says dread is happening in her little life, what this is i dont know. its a cruel world at time's like this, i can only hope im wrong and that she is found safe alive and untouched in any way at all.
Any update on this missing little girl it is now 1 month?
Poor Aliayah Where Is She :'(((((((((((((((((((((((((
No updates on this missing little girl it will soon be 1 month.
I hope she is still alive. I feel deeply for all her family but the poor child must've been terrified. The bastard who took her better be prepared for the worst D:<
Still no sign of missing child it has been over 3 wks now. Something tells me she is no long alive. I pray she is found safe but each passing day after all she is only 3yrs old. To the family I praying for the safe return of your daughter.
doesn t any one see a connection here with baby lisa in kansas city mo. AND HALEIG CUMMINGS and yes caylee anthony yes and kyron in washington I wish I were working on these cases they have sooooo many things in common its ridiculous ya all cant see it THERE IS OBVIOISLY A KIDNAPPING RING IS OUT THERE AND CASEY LENNARD AND GEORGE WAS SOMEHOW INVOVED IN UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS AND THINGS WENT VERY AWRY WHY WOULD CASEYS BROTHER SAY THAT OF COURSE THE STATE DEPARTMENT WAS AWARE IN A CONVERSATION WITH CASEY IN JAIL GET WITH IT PUBLIC WHO FOLLOW THESE CASES AND LOOK AND LISTEN TO THE MANIPULATINO OF HLN IN ALL OF THESE CASES AND WHAT THEY DO AND DONT COVER
It is VERY common here in West Virginia for a child to wander to a river and drown, when they are not be watched closely. Unfortunately, many young parents are strung out on drugs in this area. I really hope this little angel is okay, but it doesn't look good. Sometimes, the body can get lodged against a bridge, rock, debis, etc. and be overlooked several times. My dad helped look for a person & they searched several days until they found the body, & had overlooked it.
Well it seems Ralph Lunsford has been involved in two missing Women back in 1999. Which by the way have never been found. So Lena the Hyena sleeps with anything that has a Pulse it seems.
Did she think he was good Father material? Or, she thought she was Upgrading from her own Father. Maybe it was her Favorite Uncle?
Whatever is going on here is being kept on the QT. We wouldn't want anyones Rights violated ,would we? The Cops need to make sure they can get a Conviction,so lets just Tip Toe for now. Treat Mommie with Care,the Litter is coming soon. I don't know about the rest of the family, didn't they make a movie about them years ago? I do remember alot of Banjo playing was going on.
So Sweet of that Lawyer to offer Free Service to anyone who will come forth with some Info. The one who has taken on Lena the Hyena as a client. I wonder where the Justice was being served for one Innocent Little Girl. How much she went through and never knew why. Did anyone notice or just turned a Blind eye? We didn't know of her or how her Life was,and its going to come out and it won't be what we want to hear.
I do hope that the other Children will never ever go back to any of that Family. Apples don't fall far from the Tree and this tree is Rotten with them.
I have not heard any updates on this so I assume the child is still missing :(
Another missing baby, I hope they find her and the fucker who kidnapped her is punished to the fullest! (Death penalty)
Very sad it is almost 1 week. that the little girl went missing. I pray she is found safe and sound. but the longer she goes missing the slim chance she is still alive.
Poor kid mommy sounds great! I hope they find that poor kid..
When my husband was a child he developed a high fever and ran through their screen door, across the road, and jumped into a neighbor's swimming pool. His mother was chasing him the whole way. He remembers nothing but waking up in the swimming pool.
Eeeww when I think of Mark Lunsford I think of how that dirty sob had all kinds of child porn on his computer, but since his daughter had been murdered the police decided to let him continue to grow his own personal collection of hard core child porn. Its true go,look it up. Then after that greasy pervert teamed up with john walsh to create Jessicas law which made so any one over the age of 18 who has sex with anyone under 18 is branded a sex offender for life. Do you know how many teenagers lives were ruined forever by that greasy man? But wait , then his own 18 year old son addmitted to having sex with a 14 year old! And guess who wont have to worry about be a sex offender cause his greasy daddy got him off the hook??????
The FBI is now Regrouping and going where they need to Go? OOPS! The house is now roped off and the Family has been moved to a different location. Talk about Backasswards! She should have been Charged with leaving those other Kids as a start. Why not? She is about to drop the Mother Load thats the reason. She has one Lawsuit on going aganist the Jail she was in, she is a Hot Rock!
If the little girl never went out alone,how come the dogs tracked her scent to the river? Kids at 3 fall down alot,if she did wander outside I doubt she would even leave the yard. She would sit in the yard and cry. Was she looking for her Mother? I think the answer is with the older children,but how much can you get out of them? Kids don't see things much in real time,they have parents tell them its time for School,time to go to Bed.
Now this Stepdad what is his deal? He isn't the father of some of the kids. So where is the other father of some of the kids? Maybe there are alot of fathers of all of the kids?
This whole 3 hour time span of when she "could have gone missing" smells of LIE.I'm so sure this one day the child disappears from home and no one knows until much later??Oh how convenient for the abductor. Smh
I have read alot of comments on here. I only hope that the child is found alive and unharmed. Then they can deal with the parents on the other issues. Because we all know if the child is dead she died a tragic death
Reading this I dont have a good feeling at all. Casey Anthony immediately comes to mind. Your talking about an woman, pregnant with twins, exhausted from pregnancy dealing with five children and one is sick. You've got a dad that has to go to work. My gut is telling me this child was overdosed on medication to knock her out so everyone could sleep. They panicked when they found the little girl and hid her body. We see this too much anymore. I pray I'm wrong, but it fits better than some random stranger wandering in the house and making off with a child. It fits better than a child wanding away in the early morning hours.
Look at the precious face on Aliayah, why would anyone called normal want to harm her? Why is it when the innocent do nothing to cause harm to others are they the ones who suffer for others wrongs?
@Collettetaylor not all the time. When my daughter was 18 months old she fell and knocked her front tooth out. We immediately took her to the dentist to make sure she didn't have an injury of the gum or permanent tooth. Since it was a baby tooth the dentist just continue to monitor her.
Mom did it.
I see your point.
I looked it up yesterday...she's still missing...
The Death Penalty within 5 years of sentence. I don't want to Support their Asses for 15 or more years. It could be on Pay Per View and the Money would go to the Victims Family. Life in Prison is still breathing, while the Victims didn't get that Choice.
what? surely not. say it isn't so. I am a true believer that the lives you live show on your face. He looked like he didn't live the life of a saint, but this is more than I want to believe. How could he do that with a daughter at all, but to know his child died at the hands of a child molestor? It's such a sick perverted world.
That's what I wonder. How many fathers, men, are associated with this woman and those children. Have they been accounted for and where's this girls father?
Yup...and supposedly this little girl was sick...why in the fuck would a sick little kid go wander off...it just doesn't add up...
5 kids ages 11 to 9 months and she's pregnant with twins? I'm willing to bet multiple baby daddies. I'm looking harder at the mom than step dad. And am I missing something? did she load up the other four kids in the car to look for the baby or did she go off and leave them all home alone while she wasted time driving around looking for over two hours? Nothing about this is logical.
I don't think the mom's husband is Aliayah's father, but rather a stepdad. I'm betting he got tired of feeding so many kids that weren't his own.
Casey Anthony has changed everything that could go Wrong. The Hate for Her is only second to her Mother Cindy. Its the Zanny the Nanny Syndrome. The Oh well, I can always get a Replacement. In fact how the other Children made it this far really SHOCKS Me. West Virginia runs close second to the Osark Mountains Ya'all.
I was thinking of looking it up, but about to power on down this computer...That is really sad they haven't found this child....I think that less the 6% of Wva is flat....so there are so many mountains, cliffs, and things there...I hope they find her and someone answers for her disappearance....still would like to be surprised and find out she s still alive...But just saw her cute lil face on DD and it reminded me.
Did you get a look at the rest of the Family? I would think DNA tests wouldn't be a bad idea to start with.
Document the route she took. Where the hell did she go? Around in circles???
You are so Right on it. Its what I was thinking myself. Had not read your post,but we were Dead on. I had a dog that had 10 puppies and I was up every couple of hours to check on them during the night. This Woman has 5 kids and she just lets them fend for themselves? If she wasn't about to push two more out would she be in Jail?
Knocked up must be a full time Job for her, of course after she has them the Job is done.