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You are one hundred percent correct!
Mike, you might enjoy the letter written to the news reporter that was there from a Citizen.
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Greetings Melissa,
MelissaBatulis@wfmz.com
You did a fine job on your reporting of the meeting on Tuesday! It is REALLY appreciated by the MANY LAWFUL firearms owner in the Reading area when the new is unbiased. Both sides were left to be heard. McMahon is a slick coward of a politician, an un-American and should be thrown out of his office as should be Tom Caltigerone.
He, McMahon intentionally left the meeting go on until the LAST seven minutes so that the Citizens of Reading had no time to effectively address the issues. Melissa, as a reporter, it is your duty to report the facts! You showed that your character is such that you intend on doing just that. Below I share some facts with you in hopes that you will report it to the Reading community. America is a Constitutional Republic, NOT a Democracy! The passing of UN-Constitutional Draconian Hitler style laws as was being suggested on Tuesday will NOT be tolerated by the informed firearms owning Citizen in Reading or nationwide for that matter. The American people are beginning to wake from there sleep to see these lies coming!
Have you read the
united States of America or even the Pennsylvania Constitution pertaining to the right of the Citizen lately?
http://www.guncite.com/journals/dowdesp.html this is right on target!
As you were informed Open carry (self defense) is lawful in Pennsylvania.
See the following court cases:
Sayres v. Commonwealth, Self-defense right protected, 88 Pa. 291 (1879)
Commonwealth v. Hawkins, 692 A.2d 1068, n.4 (“In all parts of Pennsylvania, persons who are licensed may carry concealed firearms. 18 Pa.C.S. § 6108. Except in Philadelphia, firearms may be carried openly without a license. See Ortiz v. Commonwealth, 545 Pa. 279, 283, 681 A.2d 152, 155 (1996) (only in Philadelphia must a person obtain a license for carrying a firearm whether it is unconcealed or concealed; in other parts of the Commonwealth, unconcealed firearms do not require a license)”).
Ortiz v. Commonwealth, 545 Pa. 279; 681 A.2d 152 (1996) (agreeing with appellant’s citation of the fact that "...in Philadelphia County, the legislature requires that a person must be licensed to carry weapons openly and not concealed from sight, whereas in all other counties of Pennsylvania, weapons may be carried openly without a license [, but holding that appellant’s argument that this fact then exempts Philadelphia from state preemption statute] is
plainly without merit” [emphasis added]”).
When we were discussing the forum, you seemed VERY interested in hearing both perspectives. Hopefully this was not a show.
Melissa, you also seemed interested in learning how to be skilled at arms, so you too can handle a firearm safely. As a reporter, you can go to
http://www.frontsight.com/news.asp and if you get in contact with the founder Ignatius Piazza, they will be glad to have you come to training specifically for those in the media. Your views that may be against firearms will likely change! The crime in Reading, Pennsylvania would DRASTICALLY drop if the Citizens were educated that a firearm in the hands of a trained citizen is good for the community and a BIG help for Law Enforcement. Hopefully you will dig deeper for the facts and see that an armed society is a polite society!
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
-- James Madison
The Federalist No. 51, at 349 (James Madison) (Jacob B. Cook ed., 1961).
Good work finding it Mike, thanks!
