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Friends,
Be
sure to tune into “Walk the Talk with Michele Fiore”, Saturday
from 9am to 10am on KDWN 720 AM. This week I am joined by guests Dr. John
Lott, a renowned researcher and author, and Thom Collins, the father of
rape survivor, Amanda Collins. We will be talking more about Thursday's
hearing on Assembly Bill 148, facts on guns and crime rates, Michael
Bloomberg’s opposition to the bill and more.
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The Assembly Judiciary
Committee met Thursday to discuss Assembly Bill 148.
AB 148, a bill
I am calling, “Amanda’s Law”, will change Nevada’s
current law to allow permit holders to carry their concealed firearm in any
public building that doesn’t have a metal detector. Amanda Collins, a
concealed-carry permit holder, was a student at the University of Nevada,
Reno in 2007 when she was raped in a parking garage. Collins was deprived
of the right to defend herself, and has joined the fight to ensure Nevadans
can chose how they want to defend themselves.
Amanda was able to
join the hearing and share her story via Skype. Her father, Thom Collins,
was also present to share his testimony, and show his support for this
bill. Thom is a proud, fourth generation, native Nevadan and has testified
on versions of AB 148 four separate times.
We also had a very special guest join us to support AB148; Dr. John
Lott who, in addition to his extensive research, he has written the book
More
Guns, Less Crime was able to eloquently shut down
the opposition with facts.
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Dr.
Lott and Mr. Collins were gracious enough to join me on the Assembly
Floor following the AB148 hearing.
“Almost always the
debate from the other side is about hypothetical things, concerns about
things that might happen. The thing is, there’s a lot of evidence we
can look at, you know, its not just Nevada, but also we have a lot of other
state that have rules similar to what Nevada wants to adopt, and we can see
whether the types of concerns that they raise are valid or not”
–Dr. John Lott on “Walk the Talk with Michele Fiore”
To
learn more about Dr. Lott or to purchase his book, visit his website by
clicking here.
If
you missed the hearing, you can watch it by clicking here.
In
other news, have you heard about the deceitful and downright untrue
ads from Michael Bloomberg’s group, Everytown for Gun Safety? Notice
how it fails to mention that dangerous criminals and the mentally ill are
already carrying. Click
here to watch. |
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| I was also featured on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
this week. Their biased and misleading report displays how the opposition
is choosing to look at irrelevant incidents, and spin them into an argument
against the bill. Fast forward to
2:45. Click
here to watch. |
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These attacks on AB
148 show just how weak of an argument the opposition has. Nevadans deserve
facts, not the misleading stories that the media is choosing to relay to
them.
I'll leave you
with one of my favorite quotes: “I always cheer up immensely if
an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack
one personally, it means they have not a single political argument
left” - Margaret Thatcher
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