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Title: Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

Description: A Resolution recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

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Gun prohibitionists target Miller; NW officials dis gun owners :: 03/25/2015

A group of self-described “gun violence prevention advocates” has announced it will deliver a petition this afternoon to the Washington, D.C. television station where investigative reporter and author Emily Miller works, demanding that she be dismissed because of her pro-Second Amendment views, in what amounts to a direct assault on her First Amendment rights.

This comes on the heels of yesterday’s update from the National Shooting Sports Foundation regarding the resignation of B. Todd Jones as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The NSSF report noted opposition to a proposed ban on .223-caliber “green tipped” ammunition that ignited a tsunami of opposition, and brought a letter from 23 state attorneys general opposing the ban.

It is perhaps not surprising that absent from the roster of state legal officers are the names of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. An earlier letter opposing the proposed ammunition ban signed by a majority of the U.S. Senate likewise lacked the names of senators from Oregon or Washington. What’s wrong with these people? Their colleagues from Idaho all signed the respective letters.

NSSF’s report once again raises questions among the millions of gun owners and Second Amendment advocates in the Pacific Northwest about who speaks for them on Capitol Hill? Who represents their interests in the U.S. Senate?

The gun prohibition lobby would prefer that nobody speak for firearms owners. Perhaps that’s why they are after Miller, the former Washington Times senior opinion editor and author of “Emily Gets Her Gun…But Obama Wants to Take Yours.” The 368-page book detailed Miller’s personal saga as she worked through a deliberately discouraging system in Washington, D.C. to obtain a city permit to keep a handgun at home for personal protection.

Miller recently obtained preliminary approval for one of the city’s rare carry permits, made available primarily because of a lawsuit from the Second Amendment Foundation known as Palmer v. District of Columbia. Though she has become something of a celebrity among Second Amendment activists, Miller is also known for her reports exposing parking and traffic enforcement problems in the District of Columbia, and other issues of interest, none of which have anything to do with firearms rights.

Three years ago, Miller earned the prestigious Clark Mollenhoff Award from the Institute on Political Journalism. Last summer, she famously challenged the late Marion Berry, former Washington, D.C. mayor, over his unpaid parking tickets. Again, that had nothing to do with gun politics.

But the gun ban bullies at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) not only dislike her Second Amendment views, they now want to crack down on her First Amendment rights as an individual and as a journalist. Today at 2 p.m. according to a CSGV press release, they will deliver a petition to WTTG Fox 5, demanding Miller’s dismissal. Examiner reached out to WTTG for comment but got no response.

It’s not as if Miller violated a gun law, as did former NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory, who infamously held up a prohibited 30-round AR-15 magazine during a segment with National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre a few years ago. Miller even wrote about that incident when she was still at the Washington Times back in early 2013. Gregory was never prosecuted.

Miller’s “sin” is exposing what CSGV incredulously called “popular gun laws” in the District, and appearing as a speaker well known for her book and the Washington Times columns that earned lots of praise for her dogged persistence and investigative tenacity. It probably also has something to do with her pro-rights views. Anti-gunners don’t like this, and their campaign against the petite broadcast journalist reinforces the notion that such people are not simply interested in reducing violence and crime, they seem to want to control people; what they are allowed to say and what they are allowed to think.

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