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RIDGWAY An estimated 300 people gathered at the Elk County Courthouse Saturday in support of the Second Amendment.

The Second Amendment Rally was an effort of the Elk County Wilds Tourism Association, in collaboration with other organizations, said Tom Fitch, noting the event was very educational.

The ECWTA served food to guests, and people were registered to vote that day, he said.

About 300 people attended, Fitch said. They heard nine speakers talk about the pending threats on the Second Amendment.

The rally welcomed speakers like Pennsylvania General Assembly candidate of the 75th district Mike Armanini and Pennsylvania Senate candidate of the 25th district Rep. Cris Dush.

Members of law enforcement also showed their support for the Second Amendment the right to keep and bear arms including Elk County Sheriff Todd Caltagarone and other officers.

Each speaker brought something different to the rally, Fitch noted.

Sheriff Caltagarone talked about our rights, according to the constitution, Fitch said. Ralph Dussia talked of the assault on our Second Amendment. Ron Burkett explained the erosion of our society, and our rights. Cris Dush and Mike Armanini spoke on pending legislation, and the limitations that will be put on our rights.

Other speakers included Kim Stoffer, John Hauser, Dr. Val Finnel and Austin Pringle of North Central PA Pheasants Forever Chapter 360, according to a news release.

Kim spoke of the effect attacks on Second Amendment, on your rights to defend yourself and your business, Fitch said.

Finnell, a representative of Gun Owners of America, urged attendees that now is the most important time to exercise their right to vote.

Austin spoke about what it (the Second Amendment) means to him, and other youth in shooting competition and personal development, Fitch said.

Local music teacher Jason Phipps sang the National Anthem.

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Editor: In my 52 years of voting in national and local elections, I have never told anyone who to vote for. I will however tell them who I wont vote for and why. I will never vote for anyone who denies the second amendment right to arms. In my 27 years in the military I got to see how unarmed peoples were treated by their governments.

Apparently Mark Kelley crossed his fingers when he swore to protect and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Like the ACLU he defends the first and third though 24th but not the Second. He even loaned his wifes name to the most anti Second Amendment law firm in the nation, The Giffords Law Center (...to provide assistance to promote gun control and oppose firearm ownership).

If you own a firearm Mark is not your friend nor should he be your choice.

Of course Joe Biden and Harris also said many times we are going to come get them.

If you dont think these people are serious guess again. If Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris win and take the senate they will sign the U.N. Treaty on small arms which will vacate the Constitution as a Treaty is the highest law of the land.

Be careful of what you wish for folks.

Those of you are Trump haters, think carefully especially in Arizona.

Albert Bruns

Lake Havasu City

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Taking on a 9-year-old boy who is about to have an act of the Legislature named in his honor is asking for trouble.

There were no nays when the House last week passed a bill establishing the Ka'Mauri Harrison Act. A university president, the ACLU and the NRA all rushed in to take the lad's side, so it required guts for Jefferson Parish Schools Superintendent James Gray to remain defiant. Hats off to him for that.

This is a fight he can't win, however, and his refusal to strike fourth grader Ka'Mauri's six-day suspension is starting to look not so much gutsy as pigheaded.

Ka'Mauri was originally recommended for expulsion, so maybe school administrators figured they'd get credit for leniency. Instead they find themselves denounced for racism.

Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU in Louisiana, and Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, both weighed in to suggest that a white boy in Ka'Mauri's shoes would have escaped punishment. Odoms cited the deeply rooted racism that she believes fuels the school-to-prison pipeline, while Kimbrough spoke up for Ka'Mauri because he wants his own black son to be viewed through a lens of innocence.

Nobody can say for sure whether administrators had racist motivations, but what we can confidently assert is that they emerge from the brouhaha looking excessively foolish.

Jefferson Parish School Board member Simeon Dickerson endorsed the sentiments of Odoms and Kimbrough, declaring that the penalty was disproportionate to Ka'Mauri's offense. What offense? No lens of innocence is required to view the undisputed facts of the case and fail to discern what the lad did wrong. Gray has refused to revoke the suspension and issue an apology, but the longer he holds out, the greater the embarrassment when he is eventually obliged to fold.

Ka'Mauri would not have gotten into hot water had the coronavirus not forced education online. There he was taking a test at home when the younger brother who shares his room tripped over a BB gun that had been placed on the floor. Ka'Mauri picked it up, stood it by his seat and resumed the test. The teacher spied on her computer screen what she mistook for a full-sized rifle and noted Ka'Mauri would be recommended for expulsion.

A kid would have to be a serious danger to deserve being kicked out of class and having a firearms offense placed on his record. Nobody who regards that as a fair outcome in this case is cut out to take care of children.

The pretext was that, in the age of remote schooling, a student's home is an extension of the campus and the rule forbidding the possession of guns therefore applies. Thus no distinction is drawn between one student who comes to regular class toting a semi-automatic and another who keeps what is not much more than a toy in his private quarters.

State Attorney General Jeff Landry announced an investigation and said this child's Second Amendment rights may have been violated. God help Louisiana if we give children the same gun rights as adults, but no constitutional amendment is as dear to Louisiana legislators as the second.

The House of Representatives therefore rushed to approve the Ka'Mauri Harrison Act, which retroactively gives students the right to appeal an expulsion order in court even if it is reduced to a suspension. The act provides for attorney fees and damages to be awarded and requires every school district to call a meeting of a disciplinary policy review committee before the end of the year to ensure that the privacy rights of students and their families are protected during online instruction.

Disallowing BB guns in cyberspace had to be unthinkable to legislators who always take the position that what Louisiana needs is more deadly weapons in the real world, including schools. Two years ago, they exempted anyone with a concealed carry permit from the law that bans firearms in them.

Teachers and administrators, who may not have relished the prospect of conferences with the armed parents of failed students, objected, but anyone who went to protest at a committee hearing first had to be pass through a metal detector first.

Legislators aren't brave enough to allow guns in the Capitol.

Email James Gill at gill504nola@gmail.com.

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New Mexico Take Action

New Mexico -(AmmoLand.com)-New Mexico has to be very vexing for Second Amendment supporters. In a region of the country where the Second Amendment is largely respected, it constantly elects anti-Second Amendment extremists to the United States Senate. Its frustrating in the extreme. But could this be turned around?

There is a better chance than you might think. After all, Governors Gary Johnston and Susanna Martinez were supporters of our Second Amendment rights, and Martinez was in office until January of last year. Even Bill Richardson, a Democrat, signed concealed-carry legislation. So, it is possible that a Second Amendment supporter could win a statewide race.

But New Mexico hasnt had a pro-Second Amendment U.S. Senator since Pete Domenici declined to run for another six-year term in the Senate in 2008. Jeff Bingaman, Tom Udall, and Martin Heinrich were not exactly strong supporters of our rights. On secondary issues, like judges, they were in line with Charles Schumer.

Udall is retiring this year after serving two terms. Running to replace him is Ben Ray Lujan, who has served since 2009, when he took Tom Udalls seat in the House of Representatives. Like Udall, his record on Second Amendment issues is not good. According to Project Vote Smart, hes backed universal background checks, opposed pro-sportsman legislation, and even was willing to back bureaucratic gun bans.

However, Lujans campaign site doesnt discuss Second Amendment issues. But as a Representative, hes made numerous statements that indicate that he will be another vote for the extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda of Michael Bloomberg, Schumer, and Everytown.

Heres where a term-limited Susanna Martinez could have made this a very easy call for Second Amendment supporters. However, she declined to run. Instead, the hopes to stop Lujan now center on former TV meteorologist Mark Ronchetti.

Now, Ronchetti is a political newcomer, and as such, all Second Amendment supporters have to go on are his statements on the campaign trail and on his campaign web site. This has led to disappointment in the past, such as what has happened with Larry Hogans tenure as governor of Maryland.

That said given the stakes involved, including the refusal of Joe Biden to provide a straight answer about whether hed pack the Supreme Court, Ronchetti is a risk worth taking, especially since his first vote in the 117th Congress would help keep Chuck Schumer from being Senate Majority Leader. Second Amendment supporters need to check out his campaign site, then also donate to the NRAs Political Victory Fund to help elect pro-Second Amendment candidates at all levels of government.

About Harold Hutchison

Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The debate between the candidates for Alaskas sole seat in Congress became contentious Thursday, with challenger Alyse Galvin saying shes tired of U.S. Rep. Don Young misrepresenting her position on issues.

Im so tired of the lies that have been said throughout this entire campaign, Galvin said, saying she doesnt support the so-called Green New Deal, Medicare for all or for culling Second Amendment rights.

Im really upset that this campaign has come to this, she said. Youre better than that, Don Young. Alaskas better than that. We expect more.

Young countered that Galvin, whom he called Alice instead of Alyse at one point, was the one lying. He said if he had lost his clout, as she has claimed, then why did President Donald Trump sign two of his bills?

Young was one of several co-sponsors on two bills signed Wednesday.

Young, 87, the longest ever serving Republican in the U.S. House after being elected in 1973, is seeking his 25th term. He sat in a chair during the hour-long debate hosted by Alaska Public Media and KTUU-TV, while Galvin stood.

This is the second straight election hes faced Galvin, 55, an independent who plans to caucus with Democrats if elected. Young won by seven percentage points in 2018.

Several times Galvin faulted Young for missing 14% of votes in Washington, which she said is much higher than average. He countered hes made over 30,000 votes during his tenure.

Young admitted hes missed some votes, but usually because hes making a 5000-mile (8,047-kilometer) trip back to Alaska.

Both candidates were asked their position on open pit mines, including the proposed Donlin Gold Mine and Pebble Mine, which would be sited near the headwaters of the worlds largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska.

Galvin said she was not in favor of Pebble Mine, but would like to hear more about Donlin and ways it could be configured to not impact salmon runs on the Kuskokwim River.

Young simply said Donlin can be developed, and as for permitting Pebble Mine, he said that should be a state function and the federal government shouldnt be involved.

Young said states and cities should be in control of getting the coronavirus pandemic under control and can do a better job than the federal government.

You cant stay hunkered down and have a great nation. You have to get back to production, he said. Thats what Im hoping to do.

Galvin said its very important to have help for small businesses.

I think its critical that we have that lifeline there so that when we do get past this, we will have an opportunity to come back, she said.

Young noted that Galvin has received campaign funds from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and has repeatedly throughout the campaign tried to pin Galvin to the California Democrat.

Galvin pointed to the $300,000 in campaign funds she said Young has received from the health care industry as to why health care prices are so high in Alaska.

In his closing, Young noted what his experience has done for Alaskans, introducing 52 bills, including six in a committee, this year.

All the freshmen have none, he said. Freshmen cant do anything.

Galvin conceded Young has done a lot of work in his 47 years in office, but its time for change especially when the country is at a crossroads.

Do you want to have somebody in the room as an independent voice standing strongly up for Alaskans, or do you want to have somebody whos in the hallway shouting that youre all socialists? she said.

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