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Retaining gun rights is topic of conference
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Retaining gun rights is topic of conference
Cadonna Peyton
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 29, 2002
When Patricia Saye was a young child, her mother took her outside their Montana ranch and taught her how to shoot a gun.
Now the 53-year-old Las Vegan, who was among the approximate 500 people Saturday at the 2002 Gun Rights Policy Conference, is doing the same for her grandchildren.
"It's our constitutional right," said Saye, who wore a shirt that read, "What part of 'infringed' don't you understand?"
The conference, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, will conclude today at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix.
This year's theme was "Defending Freedom," which was the reason many people said they attended.
"Any right not defended and practiced is a right lost," said Duke Schechter of Tucson. "And I will not give up my rights."
In the hallways of the hotel, several books and bumper stickers with slogans such as "Save a Child, Shoot a Drug Dealer" and "A Lady With a Gun Has More Fun" were available for purchase. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, encouraged listeners to fight for their rights.
"Around the world, free people are being systematically disarmed," he said. "The United States is the last country in the world whose free people are allowed to carry firearms." ]
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0929guns290.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Cadonna Peyton
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 29, 2002
When Patricia Saye was a young child, her mother took her outside their Montana ranch and taught her how to shoot a gun.
Now the 53-year-old Las Vegan, who was among the approximate 500 people Saturday at the 2002 Gun Rights Policy Conference, is doing the same for her grandchildren.
"It's our constitutional right," said Saye, who wore a shirt that read, "What part of 'infringed' don't you understand?"
The conference, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, will conclude today at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix.
This year's theme was "Defending Freedom," which was the reason many people said they attended.
"Any right not defended and practiced is a right lost," said Duke Schechter of Tucson. "And I will not give up my rights."
In the hallways of the hotel, several books and bumper stickers with slogans such as "Save a Child, Shoot a Drug Dealer" and "A Lady With a Gun Has More Fun" were available for purchase. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, encouraged listeners to fight for their rights.
"Around the world, free people are being systematically disarmed," he said. "The United States is the last country in the world whose free people are allowed to carry firearms." ]
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0929guns290.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878