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Gun rights, 'Legal Eagle' conferences looming for the fall :: 09/15/2015

Two major firearms rights conferences are on the fall schedule, one unfolding later this month in Phoenix and the other slated Nov. 11-17 in Chehalis, and both events could be worthwhile, considering a lengthy analysis of the left’s differing approaches to gun control and the Iran nuclear deal in yesterday’s Jewish Press.

The article noted that “some U.S. Democratic candidates for president have introduced a new concept of ‘Half Standards,’ in which they actively and happily pursue policies for other countries which are much less rigorous than they expect for Americans.” In this case, the Jewish Press explained, while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders want gun control laws that keep firearms out of the hands of people should not have them, both seem rather keen on the Iran deal, though it opens the door to allowing nuclear weapons to a nation that many people believe should not have them, say critics.

Expect a full schedule of gun rights discussions at the Gun Rights Policy Conference Sept. 25-27 in Phoenix. Sponsored by the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the 30th annual GRPC may try to answer the dilemma above. What’s up with political candidates, and their national party, when they trust our enemies with nuclear development more than they trust American citizens with firearms?

The conference will be at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel, and registration is free. According to SAF’s Alan Gottlieb, some 60 speakers are on the agenda, and panel discussions cover a lot of Second Amendment real estate.

Coming Nov. 12-17 is the Legal Eagle Gun Law Conference. This thing has been in the planning for more than a year, and it will bring together some of the top minds in firearms law and self-defense. This six-day course features a presentation on gun rights by Gottlieb, and then gets into the grit of gun law, with such presenters as veteran firearms instructors J.B. Herren, Marty Hayes and Massad Ayoob, attorneys Jim Fleming and James D. “Mitch” Vilos.

The law conference is no lightweight affair. It will be held at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Chehalis, about two hours north from Portland and two hours south from Seattle via I-5. This promises to be serious stuff for people serious about their own defense, and there's a pricetag.

The plain truth is that such seminars, in an ideal world, would not be necessary because nobody would have to gather annually to discuss how best to defend a constitutionally-protected fundamental civil right, many activists will explain. Likewise, one wouldn’t need intense courses on self-defense laws in that “ideal world,” because the issue would be cut and dried. In the event someone had to use lethal force in self-defense, the good guy would prevail and walk away, and the bad guy would lose.

Alas, this is the real world, not the ideal one. And in this universe, it does seem to many conservatives and gun rights activists that the government, and especially the current administration and one that hopes to follow do seem to trust citizens less with firearms than they at least pretend to trust out enemies with the atom.

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