RESPITE

A very few folks complained about me spending all that time and the last twenty blog entries on one topic. I felt those things needed to be addressed. I’ve said my piece on the matter for now. Thanks for your patience.

You get a respite here on that subject. I’m getting a respite this month, too. September 2013 had been shaping up to be a killer on my end, with the 30 days encompassing two classes, a speech at a Friends of NRA meeting in Idaho, teaching at a state bar association CLE course on defending justifiable shooting cases, the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, the IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association) national championships, and two shooting trials.

The two classes (great classes, with great students!) are done. None of the NRA supporters threw tomatoes or anything. The murder trial out west was postponed to November a couple of weeks ago. The attempted murder trial back east, which might have seen me on the stand during the pistol match, was scheduled to start Monday the 16th, and on that morning postponed into January.

As my kids used to say, “Woo-hoo!” I missed last year’s IDPA Nationals because it conflicted with a trial. Not this time. The old guy’s gonna be tripping a trigger in Tulsa, and is looking forward to the CLE and the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC).

Speaking of respites…

The GRPC was created many years ago by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. You don’t need to belong to either to attend (though I recommend that you join both). THERE IS NO CHARGE TO ATTEND – you’re only responsible for getting there and feeding yourself. You’ll hear the finest minds in the gun owners’ civil rights movement giving you the inside story on the fight as it stands now and what to expect next. They’ll give you hundreds of dollars worth of publications for free.

The object is to bring together the people at the point of the spear on the national level, and at the grass roots. You’ll get the inside skinny from the people who’ve been fighting the fight in Colorado, in New York, and in the other most embattled states, and of course, those who’ve been fighting it in Congress and have carried it to the Supreme Court of the United States. Info is here.

Every time I go, it’s a re-charging of the batteries. You’re among hundreds of like-minded advocates of self-protection and civil rights. A respite from the constant assault on your rights? Feels that way to me.

Hope to see you there. In the meantime, I’m getting ready for a shooting match.

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