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Kansas Educator/Minister and an Interpreter Call for Repeal of KS Right to Carry and Gun sales laws.

nti-Gun Protest in Wichita, KS

The Metcalf Gun Show has had its difficulties of late. In the midst of a Gun Show Competition war with RK, anti-gun protesters converged at the February Gun and Knife show with signs, jeers, and anti-Second Amendment agenda.

While a hand full of protestors waived signs calling for increased gun control, Protest Organizer Michael Poage told media, "We're not trying to take anybody's guns away, but we are trying to make the community safer.”

Another protestor called for stricter gun laws in Kansas and in the United States. Ignoring recent Kansas votes, the protesters are calling for the repeal of the concealed carry law in Kansas, and restricting the sale of extended ammunition magazines. Identified as Janie Cook, she works as a sign-language interpreter. Cook was reported to have said the gun and knife show is a “loop hole” in the law that must be closed.

Poage described the United States as a “wide open OK corral shoot out,” according to media reports.

I feel so sorry for you, Ms. Palin. You must have a terrible time sleeping at night now that the results of your campaign of hatred has come to fruition. I agree that you should stop talking, stop writing, and stop your actions which have resulted in the tragic shooting. Janie Cook, Facebook, since deleted.

In an editorial earlier this year, Poage wrote, “Through silence or outrageous actions, we all perpetuate the violence bleeding our democracy to death. Quoting Drew Westen, psychologist and neuroscientist at Emory University: "Since the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy in that terrible summer of 1968, over a million Americans have died at the wrong end of a firearm. In most countries, we would call that genocide." MICHAEL POAGE (The sentence the professor writes appears to be a sentence fragment!)
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/01/12/1670464/letters-to-the-editor-on-arizona.html#ixzz1DIlWvfwj

Poage is advancing the notion that all of the deaths since 1968 are by weapons purchased by lawful U.S. Citizens. He ignores the fact that illegal aliens are killing over 2,100 U.S. citizens each month with illegal guns. He ignores the fact that Kennedy was not killed by a protestant Christian. Firearms are the weapon of choice by the gangs, cartels, and those intent on limiting the Constitution.

Michael Poage,1655 Farimount, Wichita, KS 67208, came to Kansas by way of the Montana University creative writing department. Poage left Montana to study at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, where he received a divinity degree, and he has held positions in Congregational churches in Council Grove, Lawrence, and Wichita. (from http://www.washburn.edu/reference/bridge24/poage.html)

Poage is the pastor of Fairmount United Church of Christ, Wichita, KS

and an adjunct professor at Wichita State University and Friends University in

Arts and Humanities, teaching Creative Writing, American Poetry, Comparative

Literature, Minority and Urban Studies. (http://www.seeds-bih.org/index.php?pr=Board_of_Directors)

News Notes:

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee said in January it was "imperative" for the committee's Republican leaders to examine gun-safety laws following the Arizona shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., The Hill reported. Yet, when Democrats controlled the panel's schedule two years ago, gun reform never got an official hearing.

House Democrats have made a 180-degree turn on U.S. gun safety, going from no hearings when they ran the House to calling on Republicans to examine gun laws.

The Arizona shooting changed the political landscape and ramped up the Democrats' desire to re-examine the nation's gun laws, The Hill said. In a Jan. 27 letter, the 16 Judiciary Committee Democrats urged Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, to schedule gun-safety hearings in response to the Tucson incident.

Congress banned the manufacture of magazines with more than 10 rounds in 1994, but the prohibition expired in 2004. A New York congresswoman is leading the effort to renew the ban on manufacturing and also make selling existing high capacity magazines illegal.

White House budget officials rejected an emergency request for a rule meant to help catch gunrunners to Mexico. This keeps the door open for illegal guns to enter and leave the country. Officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had hoped the reporting requirement would help them track potential gunrunners - people such as accused trafficker Sean Christopher Steward, a 28-year-old Phoenix man who purchased more than 100 AK-47s in a single month.

Steward is one of 34 people charged last week with trafficking about 700 firearms to Mexico. Over two days in early December 2009, Steward purchased 50 assault weapons at two stores. Then, on Christmas Eve, he purchased another 40 at a store in Glendale, Ariz. ATF investigators believe the weapons were meant to arm the Sinoloa drug cartel.

ATF officials requested the rule on an emergency basis after more than 30,000 people have been killed and more than 65,000 guns from the United States have been seized during the Mexican government's war with the drug cartels.

This week, Mexico's National Security Council secretary, Alejandro Poire Romero, expressed his concern about U.S. officials' commitment to stopping guns from crossing the border. In an interview, he said, "We need an overwhelming response to prevent these cartels from buying guns in the United States."

Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.