Op-ed: The benefits of arming 14-year-olds

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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.com. Republished with permission of the author.

by Gerard Valentino

For the second time this year, the 24-hour news outlets are reporting that a 14-year-old boy used a gun to thwart a violent home invasion. The most recent case took place in Phoenix, Ariz., and the boy not only saved his own life, but also saved two younger siblings. In January, a 14 year-old boy from North Carolina found himself in a similar situation and was also forced to shoot an intruder.

Since the establishment media grossly underreport the number of times gun are used legally in self-defense by adults, it is a pretty good assumption they do the same when children are involved. When an innocent child is killed with a gun, however, the establishment media jump at the chance to sensationalize the event and further the myth that thousands of young children die every year via gun accidents.

Luckily for the families in Arizona and North Carolina, their respective legislative bodies didn’t believe the statistics conjured out of this air by the Violence Policy Center, or the latest permutation of Sarah Brady’s anti-gun corral. So, families in North Carolina and Arizona can exercise the constitutionally protected right to bear as they see fit.

In contrast, California is often on the tip of the spear when it comes to anti-gun insanity, and over the years lawmakers have embraced one anti-gun fad after another. So, when safe-storage laws became all the rage, California’s elected officials jumped right in – with devastating consequences for at least one family.

Second Amendment at stake in Ohio – READ THIS

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Dear Second Amendment Patriot,

Buckeye Firearms Association doesn’t come to you every day asking for help. If you’ve been following us for a while, you know we don’t cry wolf.

But I’m asking for your help today.

That’s because this is an urgent matter that you probably won’t hear about from any other source. And it involves the future of gun rights in Ohio.

So PLEASE … give me just 5 minutes of your time and read this entire letter to the end.

Shooter gets a bang out of National Matches at Camp Perry

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by Jeff Thomas

CAMP PERRY – As the National Matches at Camp Perry wind down and shooters leave after another successful year, it goes without saying it was one heck of a fun time.

But isn’t it always?

I don’t know about you, but the National Matches in High Power rifle shooting at Camp Perry is one of my favorite places in the world to be in late July and early August. It goes without saying I love to shoot but there’s so much more to the National Matches. It’s the Holy Grail of rifle shooting competition.

The National Matches allow anyone to shoot and sometimes average shooters like me get to meet or be squadded with the best shooters in the world. It’s always amazing to see someone shoot nearly all 10s in offhand (standing and shooting from 200 yards away for those of you unfamiliar with High Power). If I can hold the “8 ring,” I’m happy.

My personal favorite when it comes to High Power is the 600-yard slow fire. It amazes me to this day that I, or anyone, can take a .22-cal., 80-grain bullet and hit a target more than one-third of a mile away using only iron sights, and do so with great accuracy. Heck, the best place all their shots in a 12-inch circle. Amazing!

At Camp Perry, you see shooters of all ages and all skill levels. There are also shooters from all over the world competing. This year I met several from Australia who borrowed AR15 National Match rifles to shoot since they are not allowed to own such rifles in their homeland. These men traveled 16 hours by plane to the United States and another four hours by plane to Ohio. They had thousands of dollars in expenses just to shoot at Camp Perry. That’s dedication.

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