Gun Law Expert Hits Bloomberg Helicopter Hypocrisy

TITUSVILLE, FL – Gun rights expert John M. Snyder blasted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today for his “helicopter hypocrisy.”  He said Bloomy’s lack of respect for local regulations shows he does not have high regard for people, including their right to obtain the guns they need to protect themselves from violent criminals.

Snyder said that, “the helicopter controversy in New York shows that Bloomberg is quite willing to trample on the interests and rights of the people if he thinks he can get away with it.

“The helicopter controversy developed when a New Yorker filmed Bloomberg flying his vehicle from a heliport outside of approved hours and days.  After neighborhood dwellers brought the mayor’s action to public attention, Bloomberg said he would not fly his helicopter outside the approved times.”

Snyder said, “This controversy underscores the belief that Bloomberg and his ilk really do not hold the interests of the people at heart but only pretend to do so in order to curry public favor.

“The same is true of Bloomberg’s national gun control campaign.  He and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns say that want the public to be protected from violent criminals.  However, their calls for more and more gun control, if implemented, would further the disarmament of law-abiding citizens in the face of attacks by violent criminals.”

Snyder has been named the gun dean by Human Events, a conservative weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the dean of gun lobbyists by The Washington Post and The New York Times, and the senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News.

You’d Better Register to Vote if You Oppose Obama

By John M. Snyder

The national elections this year are close.

They are just about tied, according to professional polling organizations.

What does this mean for Americans?

For Americans who wish to see Obama defeated in his bid for a second term.

It means you’d better be sure you’re registered to vote.

And that your like-minded friends and relatives are registered to vote.

If you oppose Obama because he opposes the right to life, you’d better register to vote.

Do you oppose Obama because he has the gall, the blasphemous gall, to invoke our Lord Jesus Christ in support of immoral policies?   You’d better register to vote.

If you oppose Obama because he uses state power to force religious institutions to act against a religious conscience, you’d better register to vote.

Franciscan University in Ohio already has been forced to drop student health insurance coverage.  This is in reaction to an administration mandate that such coverage pay for abortion pills.  This Democratic administration is dragging the United States into tyranny.

If you oppose Obama because he nominates anti-gun jurists to the Supreme Court, you’d better register to vote.  More justices like Sotomayor and Kagan on the high court could sink the Second Amendment.

If you oppose Obama because he appoints anti-gun officials to high government positions, you’d better register to vote.  America has had enough of officials like Attorney General Holder.  He still has not come clean on Operation Fast and Furious.  He continues to promote with Obama a ban on semiautomatic firearms.

Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, promotes a United Nations gun control treaty which could torpedo our traditional American right to keep and bear arms.

If you oppose Obama because his fiscal policies undermine the American economy, you’d better register to vote.  Obama’s policies have not alleviated the real estate crisis.  Some observers think the real unemployment rate is 20 or 25 percent.

Do you oppose Obama because you think his foreign policies put American security at risk?  You’d better register to vote. 

If you want us to get out of the mess we’re in, you’d better register to vote.

The elections come in less than six months.  You’d better register to vote.

Obama Forcing Americans into Tough Moral Decisions

TITUSVILLE, FL – “Obama administration policies are forcing American citizens to make tough decisions on matters of conscience,” John M. Snyder said today.

Snyder is the gun dean, according to Human Events, a weekly conservative publication in Washington, D.C.

“As the Catholic bishops in the United States have indicated, Obama health insurance policies may place people in the position of having to make a Thomas More decision,” Snyder noted.

He added that, “Obama policies and personnel appointments regarding Second Amendment and other civil rights matters could require that Americans generally make a Thomas Jefferson decision.”

St. Thomas More, a chancellor of England, was martyred in 1535.  Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, penned the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.

“Ironically,” Snyder concluded, “Obama is making 2012 the year of the two Thomases, a year of decision for Americans.”

Keep Your Eye on the Ball in November Elections

 

 TITUSVILLE, FL – “We American voters should keep our eye on the ball in the national elections coming up in November,” gun rights expert John M. Snyder said here today.

“That ball is electoral triumph,” he added.  “It’s the defeat of Obama and his policies and his supporters in the Senate and House of Representatives.

“Whether you’re disgusted with the administration’s economic policies, anti-right to life programs, Fast and Furious scandals, attacks on religious freedom, medical insurance mandates, foreign policies or whatever, United States citizens can and should unite around a torch of relief from what may well be the most reprehensible presidential administration in American history.”

“It’s time to unite in targeting the nefarious government policies pursued by the current Washington gang of elitists,” Snyder stated.

Snyder has been named the gun dean by Human Events, the dean of gun lobbyists by The Washington Post and The New York Times, a champion of the right to self-defense by The Washington Times, and the senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News.

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) and John M. Snyder conferred recently in Washington, D.C.

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) and John M. Snyder conferred recently in Washington, D.C.

Anti-Gun Bigotry Slammed by American Senior Rights Activist

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Whether it comes from the White House, the United Nations or the local council, the political assault on firearms ownership by law-abiding citizens is bigotry against gun owners,” John M. Snyder charged here today.

Snyder is the senior rights activist in Washington, according to Shotgun News.

“Facts surrounding the Fast and Furious scandal reveal it as an example of this bigotry,” said Snyder. “The White House ultimately bears responsibility for it. Under an ATF program, thousands of guns were sold illegally to straw purchasers, reportedly with the connivance of Justice Department officials.  Many of the guns were transferred to drug cartels in Mexico.  Criminals used them in heinous crimes in Mexico and the United States, including in the murder of government agents. 

“The White House and its Justice Department along with allies in Congress and the media will not admit this nefarious activity shows the federal government is unworthy of trust.  Rather, they persist with their bigoted claim that law-abiding American citizens should be saddled with more and more restrictive gun laws.”

Snyder said that, “Here in Washington, D.C., the local government refuses to abide by the spirit of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision.  This threw out the city’s ban on handgun possession.  Second Amendment hero Dick Heller won the case declaring the right to keep and bear arms an individual right.  But in the spirit of anti-gun bigotry the District constructs legal roadblocks in the paths of law-abiding citizens who want to acquire and carry handguns for self-defense.”

Snyder noted also that, “At the United Nations, bigoted anti-gun owner one world worshippers work to circumvent the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution by inaugurating international gun control.  The one world types have been trying to stop arms trafficking and the use of arms for self-defense at least since 1919 and the League of Nations covenant.  Now they’re promoting an Arms Trade Treaty.  It could have serious negative implications for the rights of law-abiding American gun owners.

“Even some ecclesiastical officials have glommed on to the bigoted UN gun control bandwagon, turning their backs on the traditional defense of the legitimacy, even the necessity in some circumstances of self-defense.  There is a tendency on the part of some clergymen to fall into ‘one world’ thinking.  They should be reminded that Our Lord did not command his followers to baptize the world but the nations, plural.”

Snyder said that, “Clergymen at all levels would be well-advised to avoid unrealistic thinking and in particular pay more attention to the validity and necessity of the use of force in certain circumstances.   The St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc. stresses this.”

The Society recently honored U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) for his commitment to the right to the means necessary to defend life.  The Society named Sen. Johanns, a practicing Catholic, Man of the Year.

Snyder, the Society chairman, presented a plaque to Sen. Johanns on September 27, the 150^th anniversary Feast Day of St. Gabriel Possenti.  Snyder gave Sen. Johanns a medal featuring a profile of St. Gabriel Possenti custom designed for the Society in Rome, Italy.

Sen. Johanns’ wife Stephanie accompanied her husband to the banquet.

Earlier, St. Gabriel Possenti devotees attended Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral.

A former governor of the Cornhusker State and a former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Johanns was elected to the U.S. Senate from Nebraska in 2008.  He serves on five Senate committees:  Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Environment and Public Works; Indian Affairs; and Veterans’ Affairs.

Snyder said, “Sen. Johanns exemplifies the principles held in such high regard by the St. Gabriel Possenti Society.  The Society emphasizes the historical, philosophical and theological bases for the right of self-defense.  The Senator’s public record evidences consistent support for this life-preserving right.”

The Society’s patron, St. Gabriel Possenti, a seminarian, rescued villagers of Isola del Gran Sasso, Italy in 1860 from renegade marauders.  By shooting a lizard running across the road, he demonstrated his handgun marksmanship to the terrorists and marched them out of town.  He did this without causing physical harm to a single human being.

A detailed account of the lizard incident comprises a chapter on “The Savior of Isola” in “Son of the Passion,” a biography of St. Gabriel Possenti by Possenti’s fellow Passionist, the late Rev. Godfrey Poage, C.P., published in 1962 in Milwaukee by Bruce Publishing Company.  It is one of eight chapters in the volume.  Snyder recounts it in his book, “Gun Saint,” published in 2003 in Arlington, Virginia by Telum Associates, LL.C.

Fr. Poage later stood by his account of the lizard incident’s historicity.  He said that challenges to it came from people “who didn’t have the evidence.  They didn’t see it.”  Fr. Poage said this to Mark Pattison of the Catholic News Service on February 10, 1992.  The CNS report appeared in The Catholic Sun of Phoenix, Arizona on February 20, 1992.  Pattison reported that, “Fr. Poage said the episode was witnessed by a ‘lay helper’ at the monastery.  The documentation was uncovered during his research in Italy in 1947-48.”

Fr. Poage’s biography of St. Gabriel Possenti carried the nihil obstat of Frederick Sucher, C.P., S.T.D., Censor for the Congregation of the Passion, the imprimi potest of Walter Kaelin, C.P, Provincial of the Holy Cross Province (of the Passionists), dated February 27, 1962, the nihil obstat of John F. Murphy, S.T.D., Censor librorum, and the imprimatur of Most Reverend William E. Cousins, Archbishop of Milwaukee, dated April 13, 1962.

Fr. Poage explained in the introduction that, “nothing was said that had not been quoted by eyewitnesses, at least in the third person.”

“The Poage account of the lizard incident remained non-controversial for over a quarter of a century,” Snyder noted.  “It was not until I began promoting St. Gabriel Possenti as a Patron of Handgunners in the late 1980s that Fr. Poage was challenged.  Since then, the servants of gun owner-hating bigotry have been crawling out from under the rocks in a belated attempt to attack his account of the lizard incident.  It seems they are more concerned with being politically correct than historically accurate.”

Fr. Poage, who had been a peritus at the Second Vatican Council, died June 25, 2001.  The Passionist Family Circle Newsletter, in its Fall/Winter 2001 issue, stated that he was “a man of extraordinary talents and great kindness” and “a trusted servant of God.”

St. Gabriel Possenti died of natural causes in 1862 and was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.  The international, interdenominational St. Gabriel Possenti Society seeks his Vatican designation as Patron of Handgunners

Fat’s in the Fire on Conscience and Gun Rights, says Gun Dean

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “The fat is in the fire on gun rights and the rights of conscience,” gun law expert John M. Snyder said here today.  He’s the Gun Dean, according to Human Events, a national conservative weekly published in the Nation’s Capital.

Snyder said that, “Obama is trying to use the power of government to force people to act against their conscience on moral issues.  He’s using the Department of Health and Human Services to force religious institutions to pay for insurance coverage for abortion-inducing pills and other morally inimical practices against the demands of conscience.

“For years, Obama has opposed the individual right to keep and bear arms against the interests of tens of millions of law-abiding citizens.  He’s appointed opponents of gun rights to the Supreme Court and other government positions.  Make no mistake about it.  Obama is an enemy of gun rights as well as the constitutional rights of conscience.”

Snyder said that, “Obama’s actions show that defenders of the right to keep and bear arms and defenders of the rights of individual conscience have a common enemy, an enemy of conscience and an enemy of gun rights.  That enemy is Obama.  It is time for gun rights activists and conscience rights activists to unite against him.”

Catholics and Gun Owners Can Unite Against Obama on Life Issue

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Catholics and American gun owners can find common ground against Obama on the right-to-life issue and unite against him on that very issue,” gun law expert John M. Snyder said here today.

Snyder called attention to a recent column in The Washington Post by Michael Gerson in which the writer declared that the Obama “war on religion is now formally declared.”

Snyder noted that, “Obama, through the Department of Health and Human Services, is trying to force Catholic institutions to pay for the distribution of abortion pills via health insurance against the Catholic conscience.  According to Catholic doctrine, life begins at conception, and an attempt to force an individual to pay for an abortion is an attempt to force him or her to commit murder, to act against life itself.”

Snyder said that, “America’s gun owners generally have been wise to Obama since the get-go.   Millions of Americans acquire firearms to defend themselves and others, to defend life itself.  Obama’s Supreme Court justice appointees and other appointees frown on individual Second Amendment gun rights.  They apparently cannot contemplate that people have a right to keep and bear arms in order to defend their lives and the lives of others should the need arise.”

“The individual right to keep and bear arms really is at root a right-to-life issue,” noted Snyder.  “People have the right to the means necessary to defend life.  What could fit this need more directly than a gun, especially a handgun?

“The right to keep and bear arms flows directly from the right to life.  An attack on this right, on gun rights, is linked directly to an attack on the right-to-life itself at conception.

The rights that gun owners and right-to-lifers promote really are two sides of the same coin.  Catholics and gun owners really battle for the same thing, the right to life, and the right to defend life, and the right to the means necessary to defend life.”

Snyder concluded that, “Obama is an enemy of the right to life and of the right to defend life.  That’s why Catholic and gun owner ire is being directed against him.  Obama has managed to unite people of religious conscience and people who own gun for self-defense against his presidency.”

Republicans Must Pick a Fighter, Declares Gun Dean

TITUSVILLE, FL – “Americans must choose a fighter in the Republican presidential primaries,” gun rights expert John M. Snyder said today.  Snyder’s the Gun Dean, notes Human Events, a conservative newspaper published in Washington, D.C.

“It’ll take a fighter to pummel Obama in the presidential debates,” Snyder says in the accompanying video.  “It’ll take a fighter to smash Obama in the general election.

“It will take a fighter to overturn the elite Washington establishment.  It will take a fighter to put the monsters of the media in their place.”

Snyder says, “The United States is in trouble.

“America does not need a people pleaser.  America needs a people leader.”

According to Shotgun News, Snyder is the senior rights activist in Washington.

Armed Americans Bust up Home Invasions, says Gun Law Expert

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Americans with firearms bust up home invasions,” gun law expert John M. Snyder said here today.

“Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens save lives,” he added.  “Shame on those who would use criminality with firearms by some as an excuse for upending the gun rights of all Americans.”

Snyder’s been named the senior rights activist in Washington, D.C. by Shotgun News and the Gun Dean by Human Events.

“Just recently a woman in Fort Worth, Texas shot a bedroom intruder at about 3:30 on a Thursday morning, according to news reports,” Snyder noted.

“Events like this occur over and over in all parts of the country,” he added.  “Surveys indicate law-abiding citizens use guns millions of times a year for defensive purposes in the United States.

“That may be one of the reasons over 90 percent of the sheriffs and chiefs of police in the USA believe law-abiding citizens have the right to obtain firearms for self-defense, according to survey information from the National Association of Chiefs of Police.”