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Northborough Rotary welcomed guest Bill McCorty (sorry if that is misspelled) who was checking out the club and guest speaker Nancy Snow, Chief of Staff of Gun Owners’ Action League or GOAL.
The goal of GOAL is to defend, without condition, the right to keep and bear arms. A slide produced during Nancy’s presentation showed how since 1986, gun licenses for carrying a concealed weapon in public have dramatically expanded across the country and GOAL is proud to support such a position.
GOAL functions not only as an information resource to the general public, but is also involved with lobbying various town officials and both our state and national representatives. Asked if GOAL supports any regulation or control of firearms, Ms. Snow’s response was that GOAL would like to see an easier process for citizens to obtain firearms.
GOAL helps to educate and train its members on safety and use of firearms and highlighted 6 reasons as to why people own guns: 1) Collecting 2) Recreation 3) Personal Protection 4) Competition 5) Hunting and 6) Constitutional Right.
The Second Amendment of The Constitution reads as a single sentence, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” One wonders how many citizen gun owners belong to a well-regulated Militia. The issue also raises the question as to how self-proclaimed Constitutional “originalists” can claim that citizen gun owners need not be part of a well regulated Militia. Perhaps “Originalist” is synonymous with “Activist,” but I digress…
GOAL is located on 37 Pierce St, Northborough Ma 01532, 508-393-5333.
Club Business:
October 19 6:00pm-10:00pm is a GEMINI (Global Emergency Medicine Initiative) event which will be a Wine, Martini and Beer tasting event. Where: UMASS Medical School, Aaron Lazarre Research building, The Lakeside Campus, Worcester MA 01604.
October 27, 2007 will be the Boro’s event at Davis Farms’ Mega Maze.
As of 10/2 we are officially a non-profit.
The club received a letter from Jeff Dale who has unfortunately resigned his membership due to increased responsibilities at work. We all wish Jeff the best and hope that one day he can return to our club.
10/9 will be club assembly and there will be a Board Meeting at 8:00am at Swiftec.
The Community Dinner was successful and many “thank you’s” were given by Pat Doyle who encouraged those who have never experienced from beginning to end the dinner process, to please get involved for the next scheduled dinner, date to be determined.
There are 23 cards left in the deck and approximately $400 in the kitty.
Birthdays and Anniversaries for the week: none
Funnies:
Confucius say that baseball very funny game; man can walk on 4 balls.
Quote of the week:
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)
