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The Ohio Army National Guard's 52nd Civil Support Unit and first responders in hazmat suits performed a mock training exercise in Portmouth, Ohio last Thursday.

The mock disaster training exercise imagined weapons of mass destruction in the tiny town, a scenario that seems highly-unlikely to most people, but not to local law enforcement.

"It's the reality of the world we live in," Portsmouth Police Chief Bill Raisin told WSAZ. "Don't forget there is such a thing as domestic terrorism. This helps us all be prepared."

MediaTrackers.org has published internal documents of the Ohio Army National Guard's imaginary scenario, which portray the domestic terrorists as having anti-government beliefs and protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights.

In the terrorist attack scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School teachers follow orders from a white-nationalist leader to poison school lunches with mustard gas.

Ohio National Guard Communications Director James Sims refused to speak about targeting gun owners in the imaginary scenario.

Okay, Im gonna stop ya there. Im going to quit this conversation, Sims told MediaTrackers.org. You have a good day.

However, Buckeye Firearms Association spokesman Chad Baus told MediaTrackers.org, "It is a scary day indeed when law enforcement are being trained that Second Amendment advocates are the enemy.

Sources: WSAZ and MediaTrackers.org

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TheBlaze #39;s Dana Loesch Has a Bold Challenge for #39;Anti-Second Amendment Advocates #39; ......
TheBlaze #39;s Dana Loesch Has a Bold Challenge for #39;Anti-Second Amendment Advocates #39; ... And It Involves These Guns.

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Dana Loesch (Second Amendment and Gun Safety)
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Jake: Guns and bars or restaurants just don't mix

Guns are a tricky thing to me. On one hand, I am someone who certainly believes in the Second Amendment. On the other hand, I dont think the Second Amendment as it is written is built for the age of guns and violence we live in.

Lately, guns have made the news more than they should. Over the past month alone, there have been more than five different shooting incidents on college campuses, city malls and plain, ol everyday neighborhoods. Five. Thats a huge number and one that needs to be addressed by us as citizens where we continue to allow such things to happen with a frequency that rivals the number of football games played by one team in a month.

When something terrible happens once, we should look at it closely. If it happens a second time, we should re-evaluate the way we monitor and disavow what has happened. But when something awful involving guns happens five times in a month, there is a much bigger issue than the Second Amendment. At that point, its our responsibility to put aside personal feelings and come up with a solution to a problem that grows bigger by the day.

The stuff that has been happening is scary and I feel like it can only get worse with a new piece of legislation that is on Gov. Nikki Haleys desk. The governor has, in her possession, a law that would make it OK for people to carry a concealed weapon into bars and restaurants in South Carolina.

Now, those same businesses can put a sign up on their door that reads no weapons allowed, but it doesnt change the fact that such a decision shouldnt be placed on a business owner but with the government that has been elected and appointed to protect the citizens of the city, the state and the country that we live in.

Ive worked in the bar industry, and Ive seen some pretty unsavory characters walk through the door. Some have been the nicest people youd ever meet and others have been royal jerks from the kingdom of Jerklandia, but never at any time did I worry that the possible jerk could pull out a gun and do myself and the customers bodily harm. Not once. That was my peace of mind. It came from the fact that no one ever pulled a gun on me in any bar, no one ever threatened me with a gun and I never saw a gun in anyones possession while at said bar or restaurant.

Now, its possible that will happen. Now, I know of four people alone who said they will carry a gun into the first restaurant or bar they visit after this bill passes (and its expected to). I dont understand it. I dont understand why someone thinks they will be able to stop someone with a gun with a gun of their own. Could it happen? I guess. But the odds are so wildly low that there is no reason to tempt fate by upping those odds of a shooting because you want to act like Billy Bada$$ whose gun will be pried from his cold, dead hands.

I hope the bars and restaurants will realize how silly this is, put up the sign and never speak of it again. But what topic involving guns ever has been decided that way. Id wager not too many.

Michael: As usual, caution must be exercised

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The New Year has brought with it a new round anti-Second Amendment rhetoric orchestrated by the editorial staff at the Courier & Press. Whether its the anti-gun MacLeod cartoons, the combative editorials by Franklin Colleges left leaning John Krull, or selective reporting of gun ownership hazards, supporters of the Second Amendment are squarely in the sights of the C&P staff.

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Gary Palmer on the Second Amendment
Gary Palmer on the 2nd Amendment. Learn more about Gary and his positions on important issues at http://www.palmerforalabama.com.

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Posted Wed, February 5th, 2014 8:12 pm by Lyle Denniston

The next chance for the Supreme Court to take up the most important unanswered issue about the Second Amendment whether gun rights exist outside the home will come later this month, according to scheduling shown Wednesday on the Courts electronic docket.

The Justices at their private Conference on February 21 will be examining two cases filed by the National Rifle Association, raising basic questions about the power of Congress and state and local governments to pass gun control laws. In different ways, each of those petitions seeks to draw the Courts attention to the lingering issue of gun rights in public places. The cases are NRA v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (13-137) and NRA v. McCraw (13-390).

So far, the Court has answered two fundamental questions about the Second Amendment: in 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, it ruled that the amendment protects a personal right to have a gun, at least for self-defense inside ones home, and in 2010, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, it ruled that the amendment applies so as to restrict gun control laws at the state and local levels, as well as at the federal level.

Since then, the Court has repeatedly turned down new cases seeking to broaden the personal right to have a gun, with most of those dealing with pleas to extend the right to public settings. The Court, as usual, has given no explanation for remaining on the sidelines in those cases.

Both of the new cases deal with laws a federal law in 13-137, a Texas law in 13-390 that restrict access to handguns for minors. In separate rulings, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld both laws at issue, and in the process raised serious doubts about whether the Second Amendment even applies to gun rights claims of minors. But the two NRA petitionstake different approaches to the issue of gun rights in public places.

The petition in the federal case is a sweeping claim that lower federal courts have been engaging in massive resistance to the Courts landmark decisions on Second Amendment rights. As one example of that resistance, the petition contends that lower courts are stubbornly resisting efforts to view the personal right to have a gun as something so importantthat itmust extend outside the home as well as within.

The petition makes that pointin urging the Court to make it clear to lower courts that its 2008 decision recognized a fundamental right, one that can be curbed only for the most compelling government reasons.The government has countered that the beyond-the-home questionis not even at issue in that case, because the federal law involvedis a narrowly focused issue on minors desireto buy guns from licensed federal dealers.

The petition in the state case, however, is a straightforwardplea to extend the Second Amendment beyond the home, because it involves a state law that bars almost all minors from carrying a handgun in public. Texas requires a license to carry a gun in public, but minors are not eligible to get such a license. The petition in that case said that the Supreme Court in 2008 settled that the right to keep arms applies within the home, so now, it argued,it is time for the Court to decide whether the right to bear arms means the right to carry them when one leaves home.

The Court has been holding both of the NRA cases until each was ready for consideration. The Court apparently has alsobeen holding another case,to examine it along with the NRA cases. That is the petition in Lane v. Holder(12-1401), which is a test of whether gun fanciers have a right to sue to challenge federal gun laws that restrict their option of buying guns from dealers in a different state. That case, too, is now set for the February 21 Conference, according to the docket.

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