Join us for the Decmeber 6, 2014 meeting of the Arizona Breakfast Club held at Coco's Restaurant at Paradise Valley Mall, 4514 E. Cactus Rd., Phoenix, AZ. Our speaker will be Dr. Peter N. Steinmetz, a valley brain researcher that took his loaded AR-15 to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

LOCATION - COCO'S (PARADISE VALLEY MALL - 4514 E CACTUS ROAD; PHOENIX, AZ - THIS WILL BE A BUFFET STYLE BREAKFAST (WE HAVE BEEN AT THIS LOCATION BEFORE, SO MANY OF YOU WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SET-UP). 

THE PRICE FOR THE MEETING IS $15 (SORRY FOLKS - INFLATION) - whether you eat or not

CLICK HERE FOR  A LINK TO THE MAP

ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB - Meets on the first Saturday of every month.

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Food is served starting at 8:00 a.m.  Discussing begins around 8:30 a.m. Meeting ends at 10:00 a.m.

About the speaker, Peter Steinmetz

Webpage: Steinmetz.Org

Peter Steinmetz on the Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio Show:

12-03-14:

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/167400-2014-12-03-12-03-14-dr-peter-n-steinmetz-drew-phillips-listen.htm

11-12-14:

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/166251-2014-11-12-11-12-14-michael-belfiore-dr-peter-steinmetz-video-mp3.htm

________________________________________________________________

Why I carried an AR-15 rifle through Sky Harbor

(Arizona Republic) - November 24, 2014

Peter Steinmetz: Our rights should not be jeopardized by others' irrational fears.

Since I peacefully, legally and openly carried an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle through the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport last July, many people have wondered, both privately and publicly, why I would do such a thing. Indeed, many have speculated on my motives in most unkind terms.

Having recently emerged from the threat of prosecution on two felony "dangerous nature" criminal charges, I can now freely address the important reasons for this protest. In brief, I must protest a now nearly institutionalized attempt to intimidate us into surrendering our civil rights to other people's irrational fears.

We all have fears, but what do I mean by irrational fears?

LETTERS: What were you thinking, doctor?

DOCTOR: Carrying at airport was political

MONTINI: Envy, don't condemn, Dr. Steinmetz

Some fears are, of course, quite rational; for example, being fearful of burning your finger after touching a hot burner as a child.

But the responses to other fears are simply not based on a reasonable assessment of reality. They are are irrational.

Extreme examples can be psychotic or delusional beliefs, such as being afraid to get out of bed at night because of a fixed false belief that a ghost will emerge from the closet to harm you.

Other fears are irrational because the assessment of the likelihood of the event is completely out of proportion to reality. An example would be an unwillingness to leave the house because a meteor might strike and kill you. While a meteor could suddenly come out of the sky and kill you, it only happens 1 time in every 74.8 million years of life.

Unfortunately, our airports are now prime sites where people's irrational responses to their fears are used as an excuse to bully, intimidate or force us into giving up our liberties. Here are three such fears:

One argument given for why it is just terrible to carry an AR-15 to the airport is that these are such dangerous and awful weapons that no civilian needs them, let alone to carry them at the airport.

An AR-15 rifle is displayed at the Crossroads of the West gun show in 2013.(Photo: David Wallace/The Republic)

FEAR OF PARTICULAR FIREARMS PER SE

However, as recently noted in the piece "The Assault Weapon Myth" (Sept. 12), this type of rifle is scarcely ever used to commit a crime. From a statistical perspective, these are not the weapons to be concerned about if one is actually worried about firearm injuries and death.

Fearing an AR-15 to a much greater extent than a handgun is simply not supported by facts, and as such, is irrational.

ALLHANDS: Sleeping through gun class?

Kory Watkins, coordinator for Open Carry Tarrant County, carries his rifle during a May demonstration in Texas.(Photo: Tony Gutierrez/AP)

FEAR OF PEOPLE OPENLY CARRYING FIREARMS

Another common argument is that it is awful to openly carry a rifle because it might scare people who can't tell if you are a terrorist. The simple fact is that no mass-shooting or terrorist attack committed with a rifle has ever started with the assailant peacefully and openly carrying the rifle about and then suddenly changing into a mass killer.

CLICK HERE for the rest of the story

__________________________________________

Attorney Marc Victor - Peter Steinmetz Case:

__________________________________________

Caswell's Shooting Show - Marc Victor & Peter Steinmetz (Audio Interview):

Caswells Shooting Show Guest Doctor Peter Steinmetz and Mark J Victor Attorney For Freedom

Attorney Marc Victor and Dr. Peter N. Steinmetz were on Radio Caswell's talk show Friday November 21st, 2014

They discussed Dr. Steinmetz's open-carry protest on July 25th as well as the legal response.