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Captain Christie Mysinger

The Villages Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will welcome Captain Christie Mysinger of the Lake County Sheriffs Office as guest speaker at their 10 a.m. Saturday, April 8 meeting at Captiva Recreation Center. She will speak about the Second Amendment and Florida laws relating to gun ownership.

Born in Michigan, Captain Mysinger received her Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Columbia College, completed the Administrative Officers Course at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, graduated from the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute Senior Leadership Program, and is a Nationally Certified Drug Recognition Expert, IACP.

Captain Mysinger joined the Lake County Sheriffs Office in 1991 and has served the citizens of Lake County for more than 30 years. During this time, she had the opportunity to work in a variety of assignments including communications, patrol deputy, field training deputy, D.A.R.E. officer, School Resource Deputy, Investigations, Public Information Officer, Community Services Unit, Professional Standards, Patrol watch commander, and School Resource commander.In 2020 she was tasked with filling in as the Lake County Schools Safety & Security Specialist at the request of the Superintendent.

Captain Mysinger has been an instructor at the Lake Tech Institute of Public Safety since 1996, specializing in the high-liability areas including firearms, defensive tactics, CPR/First Aid, and driving.She is a live-fire house instructor and has served as the lead concealed weapons instructor for Bass Pro Shops Orlando for the past eight years.Mysinger studies Constitutional Law and is on a list of firearms experts for the State Attorneys Office.

She and her husband, Tom, were married in 1999 and have three children.

The Villages Chapter of SAR meets at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month at Captiva Recreation Center. Visitors are welcome to attend.

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Attorney General Paxton joined two Montana-led amicus briefs challenging New Yorks Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA), which makes it a felony to possess a firearm in any place of worship or a sensitive location.

After New York enacted the CCIA, several religious leadersReverend Dr. Jimmie Hardaway, Jr., Bishop Larry A. Boyd, and Pastor Micheal Spencersued, arguing that the law violated their Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights. A district court then issued a preliminary injunction, which New York appealed. The amicus briefs are thus being filed in defense of the religious leaders, as well as the Second Amendment rights of all Americans, in the New York City-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The amicus brief filed in Hardaway and Boyds case highlights that there is effectively no historical basis for a ban on the possession of firearms in places of worship: Apart from a handful of state and territorial laws enacted during the late nineteenth centurynearly a century removed from the foundingthe historical record doesnt show an enduring American tradition of restricting the right to carry firearms in places of worship.

Additionally, the amicus brief that was filed in Spencers case notes that, since our nations inception, the Second Amendment has long protected the right of Americans to carry firearms in public places: [E]vidence closer in time to the Second Amendments adoption is most relevant for understanding the Amendments scope. . . . The Second Amendment protects the right to possess handguns, both in the home and in public, for the purpose of self-defense. And New York fails to identify a single similar or analogous place-of-worship restriction before 1870.

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To read the brief filed in Spencers case, click here.

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(FOX 9) - A federal judge has ruled a Minnesota statute that requires pistol permit holders to be 21 years old is a violation of constitutional rights.

The ruling follows a 2021 lawsuit brought by three young adults and three gun rights organizations, including the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Second Amendment Foundation, and Firearms Policy Coalition.

The age requirement was put into law in 2003 by the Minnesota State Legislature as part of the Minnesota Citizens Personal Protection Act.

In their lawsuit, the young adults sued to end the requirement after they were denied pistol permits because they were under 21. The lawsuit argued the requirement was a violation of the teen's Second Amendment rights.

In the ruling, Judge Katherine Menendez agreed with that argument, finding the Minnesota law was a violation of both 2nd and 4th Amendment rights for adults ages 18 to 20. In her ruling, the judge is preventing state and local leaders from denying permits to permit applicants between the ages of 18 and 20, who are otherwise qualified.

The gun rights groups involved with the lawsuit celebrated the victory on Friday.

"This decision should serve as a warning to anti-gun politicians in Minnesota that the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and its allies will not hesitate to take legal actions against unconstitutional infringements on the Second Amendment rights of Minnesotans, " added Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus Senior Vice President Rob Doar.

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Safe Streets, Baltimores flagship gun violence intervention program, appears to have led to significant decreases in shootings in areas where it has outposts, a new study found. [The Baltimore Banner]

The gunman who killed 60 people during the 2017 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas was a high-stakes gambler who was allegedly very upset at his treatment in several casinos, according to recently released FBI documents. The FBI and Las Vegas Police concluded they couldnt determine a motive when they ended their investigations years ago. [Associated Press]

Do 90 percent of mass shootings take place in gun-free zones, as John Lotts Crime Prevention Research Center asserts? Experts say the centers claims misrepresent the facts. [Associated Press]

Some staff members at Nashvilles Covenant School, the site of a mass shooting last week, may have been armed during the attack, according to a 911 call. Police havent confirmed if any staffers were carrying a gun or if they fired at the shooter. [The Tennessean]

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The Human Toll of Keeping Baltimore Safe: Safe Streets sends staffers into potentially dangerous situations in the hopes of halting violence. But after a third Baltimore worker was killed on the job, some question whether the approach makes sense. (March 3, 2022)

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Slim Smith

On Aug. 2, 2019, I became a member of a club no one ever wants to join.

Thats the day my daughter, Abby, was killed in a car crash in Texas. At 27, she was a young woman, but she was, of course, still my little girl.

In a variety of ways, I am not the same person I was before that awful day, and there is one example of that change that is especially on my mind now.

Before Abby died, when I heard of the death of a child, I considered it a sad event. But now I am far more sensitive to those deaths because I have a better understanding of the lingering pain, the sense of helplessness and the simmering anger over the unfairness of such a loss.

Parents who, like me, lose a child to an accident or, perhaps, to an illness, come to accept the loss, each in their own way. But there is a subset of parents for whom the loss seems unbearable, parents of murdered children. I dont know how a parent could live with the knowledge that someone intentionally took the life of their child.

On Monday, three 9-year-old children, along with three adults, were killed by a lone shooter at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

Three new sets of parents joined the club, but the nation will quickly forget these deaths.

I know this because Ive seen it play out over and over and over again. From Columbine in 1999 (12 high school students) to Sandy Hook in 2012 (20 first-graders) to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas in 2018 (14 high school students) to Robb Elementary in 2022 (19 elementary school children) and now in Nashville, these tragedies command our attention for a time, but ultimately nothing really changes.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R, Tennessee) said more than he realized when asked what could be done about these school shootings hours after the Nashville carnage.

Were not gonna fix it, he said. Criminals are going to be criminals.

Its worth noting that Burchett didnt say this couldnt be fixed. He said we, as a country, lack the will to fix it.

Hes right.

We made that decision 13 years ago, when the Supreme Courts ruling in District of Columbia vs. Heller provided the broadest possible definition of the Second Amendment, a definition that has led to a profusion of laws that have loosened gun restrictions. Concealed carry, open carry, permitless carry, access to military-grade weapons/ammunition are the byproducts of that decision. The accompanying carnage we see is a consequence of it and any calls for reasonable revisions in gun laws in this country are shouted down by Second Amendment absolutists. Shall not be infringed! they proclaim now that the current interpretation of the Second Amendment suits them.

Well, I think its time that we infringe the hell of the Second Amendment, if thats what it takes.

Christ said, The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. It should be no different with the laws that govern our society. Our laws should protect us, not endanger us.

How can it be that, alone among the developed nations, the United States meekly offers up its children to be slaughtered? For what purpose? A principle?

Other nations would not and have not tolerated that sort of carnage and theyve put a stop to it.

Ask any parent who has lost a child what principle he would abandon, what sacrifice she would make, what freedom he would forfeit to save that childs life.

To say that nothing can be done to stop this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Take heed, Second Amendment absolutists. The next child gunned down at school may be your own, and your thoughts on the subject will change in one horrible instant.

Slim Smith is a columnist and feature writer for The Dispatch. His email address is ssmith@cdispatch.com.

Slim Smith is a columnist and feature writer for The Dispatch. His email address is ssmith@cdispatch.com.

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