A Publication of Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. ♦ Summer 2016 ♦ WHY DO YOU NEED THAT GUN? VCDL IN NATIONAL NEWS How many of us have ever been asked “Why do you need that gun?” Perhaps it’s a spouse, or a family member, or a friend — or an anti-gunner. How do you answer? Here’s some food for thought. The item was originally written by an individual who prefers to remain unnamed, partly because the answer is irrelevant, and partly to avoid noting he may have guns in his home. The individual was responding to a friend after announcing he had ordered a gun through his dealer. Your Editor has chosen to respect this request. Your question... why do I NEED this gun, is the same as that asked by anti-gunners, and for the same reason. Implicit in the question is the statement, "I don't need it; why do you?" I'm not saying that you or your question is anti-gun, but am pointing out the similarity based on a self-perceived notion of "need." I don't need that gun, and I wouldn't buy it rather than pay the rent, buy baby formula or have the cancer surgery. You might ask Jay Leno the same question about his cars and, if he doesn't say "f-off", you'll probably get the same answer. Jay Leno likes his cars, can afford them and they provide him entertainment and challenge for that time of his life which he probably believes, he deserves. I like to buy guns. I am hoping I'll like this one and get to spend some pleasant time with it. I'm comfortably retired, my family is provided for and certain things hold interest (and certain things don't). Continued on page 9 VCDL Public Meeting Dates Thursday, November 17 — Annandale Thursday, December 8 — Annandale YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED Monday, January 16, 2017 — LOBBY DAY, Richmond If you have not yet done so, please comment on the Virginia Regula- Additional meetings held throughout the state are announced in tory Town Hall webpage http://tinyurl.com/havw4pk . VA-ALERT and posted on the calendar at www.vcdl.org/calendar This is the comment period for final approval of the Governor’s Ex- Annandale meetings are held at the Mason Governmental Center, ecutive Agency ban on carry. Even if the agency overrides the will 6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA 22003 of the people, we will need your comments to support a State Agency Fellowship 7:30; Meeting 8:00 PM preemption bill in the 2017 General Assembly session. Suggested comment title: "I OPPOSE this regulation!" Suggested comment: "I OPPOSE banning lawfully carried firearms in state agency buildings." Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. • P.O. Box 513, Newington, VA 22122 • www.vcdl.org 1 VCDL is a non-partisan grassroots organi- PRESIDENT’S PEN further their own gun-control agenda. The zation dedicated to defending the human grieving families become unintentional rights of all Virginians. The membership sock puppets, paraded out at various gun- Who makes up the gun-control considers the right to keep and bear arms control events. Some end up enjoying community? an essential human right. Members are their "celebrity" and make a living by encouraged to participate actively in working for gun-control organizations. After studying the other side for the last 20 developing The Defender. Articles on Except for the celebrities and gun-control or so years, I believe they can be grouped Second Amendment and the Right to Keep employees, their attitudes can often be into several broad categories: and Bear Arms subjects may be published changed if they can be shown a way to as space permits. focus their energies in a positive and * Those with a violent temper, who don't realistic manner - such as working on trust themselves. They fear that if they Articles should be brief and to the point. improving mental health treatment, have access to a firearm, they will either Materials will not be returned. All claims, intervention to keep young people away murder someone in a fit of anger or facts, and quotes must be verifiable. from gangs, making firearms training more commit an impulsive suicide. Because Photos must be accompanied by names of easily available, etc. they don't realize they are not normal, they the subjects, dates, location of events, and "project" that severe character flaw on photographer’s name. Articles must be * Those who have been lied to and misled everyone else. Therefore, they reason that factual, newsworthy, and of interest to the on gun control. This category represents a since they can't be trusted to be a gun membership. VCDL will not endorse sizable chunk of the gun-control owner, no one else can be trusted, either. politicians or political candidates for community and can often be turned around This category represents the majority of office. Information submitted by the by exposing them to the truth, using logic gun-controllers. Because of their visceral Political Action Committee (VCDL-PAC) and reason to repudiate gun control, and self-distrust and associated hatred of guns, appear inside the back page. Opinions teaching them about safely handling they can't really be influenced expressed in The Defender are not firearms and then taking them shooting necessarily those of the Virginia Citizens * Those who want to control all aspects of Defense League. Fortunately, gun rights have come a very everyone else's life. They are mutants long way in the last 20 years. That said, who lack the "leave everyone else alone" We also welcome, subject to space things can reverse if gun owners don't gene that most of us have. They consider limitations, book reviews and firearms/ stand shoulder-to-shoulder and put up a themselves the only ones smart enough to gear reviews. very strong and relentless fight. That fight decide what people should or shouldn't be is one of the many things VCDL brings to able to do. These are the elitists, the Submissions are subject to editing for the table. Your membership and activism hypocrites, like Rosie O'Donnell, who length, style, grammar, and conformity helps guarantee that VCDL will continue want armed guards defending themselves with the goals of VCDL. Authors of to have a loud and strong voice and I thank and their families, while piously saying no articles and letters should be identified, all of you for doing your part. one needs a gun. Since this category and city/town of residence is preferred. cannot be convinced that they are not the Contact the editor for additional details. brain trust for the universe, they are not really capable of being influenced VCDL wants to include clippings from around the state. You can help by * Lazy and extremely insecure people who monitoring your local newspaper for feel they can only be "safe" if they control articles, editorials, and letters to the editor everyone and everything around them. dealing with the right to keep and bear They reason that if everyone is disarmed, arms. Clip the news pieces along with a then they would have no need to take time masthead from the paper and send them in, out of their busy day to think about taking or send a link. If you write a letter to the care of their own personal security. Of editor, please send us a copy. Check the course, what they want is impossible to guidelines of the publication you write to, achieve. Even if they were somehow however; some require you not to publish successful, the law of the jungle would elsewhere, or not to publish elsewhere prevail and they would be at the very until after it runs in their paper. bottom of the food chain. This group can be influenced under certain conditions if Send submissions at any time via e-mail to they are open-minded enough [email protected] or via snail-mail to: The Editor, c/o VCDL, The Defender, * Those who have had a horrendous P.O. Box 513, Newington, VA 22122 tragedy in their lives involving the misuse of a firearm. These people are trying to We are investigating the possibility of cope with unspeakable pain, and are electronic access to The Defender. Should looking for some way to make the death of that be viable, we will notify our members their loved one into something positive via The Defender and via the VA-ALERT. that will prevent other families from suffering as they have suffered. Sadly often those in the above categories will take advantage of such a person's grief to 2 Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.• P.O. Box 513, Newington, VA 22122 • www.vcdl.org UPCOMING GUN SHOWS AND EVENTS Verify all schedules; this list is correct as of press time. CHANTILLY—Dulles Expo Center Sep 30-Oct 2 Nov 18-20 Dec 30-Jan 1 DALE CITY — VFW Post 1503 GUN SHOW Oct 8-9 Nov 5-6 Dec 3-4 COORDINATORS FISHERSVILLE—Augusta Expo Fredericksburg Dec 10-11 Tom Cook [email protected] FREDERICKSBURG — Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center Oct 29-30 Dec 10-11 Chantilly Danny Paulson HAMPTON—Hampton Roads Convention Center [email protected] Nov 26-27 Dale City HARRISONBURG—Rockingham County Fairgrounds Richard Kroh Oct 8-9 Nov 26-27 [email protected] MANASSAS — PWC Fairgrounds Southwest Virginia Dec 3-4 Al Steed, Jr. [email protected] NORFOLK—Norfolk Scope Nov 5-6 Tidewater/Norfolk John Ward NORTH RICHMOND — Farm Bureau Center at Meadow Event Park [email protected] Oct 22-23 Dec 17-18 Tidewater/Peninsula RICHMOND—Richmond Raceway Complex Ron Lilly Nov 12-13 Jan 22-23 Mar 25-26 May 20-21 [email protected] ROANOKE—Roanoke Civic Center Tidewater/Virginia Beach Oct 22-23 Gary Moeller [email protected] SALEM—Salem Civic Center Oct 29-30 Dec 17-18 Richmond Mike Wilburt VIRGINIA BEACH — Convention Center [email protected] Oct 15-16 Winchester WINCHESTER — Body Renew Fitness and Family Sports Center Mark Lintz Oct 8-9 Nov 5-6 [email protected] RIP State Gun Show Coordinator Earlier this year, we lost a friend and gun-show promoter, Terry MacFarlane of Old Milan Sturgis Dominion Gun Shows.