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What Makes a 'Best' Gun?
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The question is asked often, answered often and often answered wrong: "What's the best gun?" There are several important criteria for selecting a gun that will be used for defensive purposes. |
TX: Witness says HPD suspect handcuffed when killed
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From the front porch of the Greater Lighthouse Church, where her husband serves as minister, Perry said she watched in disbelief.
“He got out his handcuffs and he handcuffed him. And after he handcuffed him he got out his gun and he shot him,” she said.
Robert McCintosh, 23, was shot to death by police Monday afternoon in the 4600 block of Knoxville Street in Southeast Houston. |
AR: Some Oppose Change in Deadly Force Laws
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Arkansas prosecutors do not support a proposed change in state law that would expand the limits of self-defense and the use of deadly force, Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Dalrymple said Friday.
State Sen. Jerry Taylor, D-Pine Bluff, has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill expanding the use of deadly physical force which was prefiled prior to the session of the Arkansas Legislature which begins today. |
PA: Fattah's plan: More cops, cash, cameras
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More cops investigating illegal guns, better rewards for tips about dirty firearms, and extra surveillance cameras to catch gun-toting bad guys.
Those are the basics of mayoral candidate Chaka Fattah's plan to fight illegal guns, which he will announce today at Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia.
"The majority of guns used to kill people in Philadelphia and around the nation are illegal," said Fattah, a Democratic congressman. "We think this is a natural place to start." |
FL: 2 men die in separate incidents involving stun guns
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Two men died in separate incidents over the weekend after police used Taser stun guns on them.
A 45-year-old man died after Fort Pierce, Florida, police used a Taser to subdue him while trying to apply leg restraints in the back of a patrol car on Saturday. Douglas John Ilten of Nashville, Tennessee, died after he was stopped for acting erratically and hurling musical instruments out of a rental truck at a gas station, authorities said. |
Mexico: Mexico drugs crackdown leaves cops without guns
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LOCAL police patrolled without their guns in Mexico's tough border city of Tijuana on Saturday after soldiers disarmed them to check if the weapons had been used in drug gang crimes.
In the latest stage of a national crackdown on drug-related violence, more than 4,000 soldiers, sailors, federal and state police this week poured into Tijuana, where some members of the poorly paid municipal police force are suspected of helping drug hitmen in a war between rival gangs. |
SD: Strange Weapons Used In Assault
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A 22-year-old man went to the hospital for stitches after fighting with another 22-year-old who was armed with a snow shovel, a Christmas ornament, beer bottles, and glass from a broken garage door window. Officers say the men were at a bar and returned to a home where the fight broke out. |
KY: Welcome to the South! Put On a Kevlar Vest and Sit a Spell!
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It was March in Lexington, Ky., and still miserably cold outside. It was only marginally warmer in the cramped room where I found myself at 8 a.m. on a Saturday. I was there for a class that would grant me a concealed deadly weapons license, which seemed like an impressive responsibility. The atmosphere did not reflect this gravity. The place was long and narrow and full of clutter. Tables and chairs and people were crammed amidst plastic deer that were targets for bow hunters. |
Australia: Fake guns, real control
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The gun control debate moved on to a new front at the weekend when NSW police minister John Watkins called for "tougher import regulations for replica and toy weapons and uniform laws to prevent them crossing state borders." Somehow NSW lawmakers have got the idea that fake guns are just as dangerous as real ones.
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South Korea: S.K. police turning to baseball bats to subdue criminals
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A police officer in Seoul, only identified by his surname Yoo, said he carries in his car a large wooden staff in case he is confronted with organized gangs or other dangerous criminals. At another police station in Seoul, a police officer identified by his surname Park said police officers there are carrying baseball bats for self-defense.
[Ed. note: Lots of interesting tidbits here.] |
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, "...but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered", March 4, 1829
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"...Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace. . . the military should be held subordinate to the civil power...."
"...But the bulwark of our defence is the national militia . . . As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable �gis. . . but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore...."
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, "...to the said people guarantied and consecrated forever...", Jan. 7, 1839
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"...Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America are not associated on the principle of unlimited submission to the Federal Government, or to the Houses of Congress, or either of them; but that, by the constitution, the people of said States constituted one General Government for special purposes, and delegated to that Government certain definite powers only, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; that while the constitution and laws of the United States do attach to the whole people of the several States immediately in those matters within the true jurisdiction and confines of said constitution...."
"...but inherent in the said people as a people..." |
UT: Utahns support campus bans on guns
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Many Utah residents are at odds with the state's highest court over whether concealed guns should be allowed on university campuses... .....a new statewide poll shows the majority of 400 respondents think concealed weapons permit holders should not be allowed to carry guns on campus.... The Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll shows 64 percent of those surveyed think guns should definitely or probably not be allowed on campus.
Reader Tdoff writes: "So what? The majority also thought slavery and incinerating Jews was a good idea. We live in a Republic, not a Democracy. Scumbag tactics from the media" |
MS: Vancleave man primes charge against firearms ordinance
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Ralph Bellon of Vancleave is leading a group of county residents who have appealed to the Jackson County Board of Supervisors to rescind or change the wording of a 2006 ordinance that limits the discharge of firearms in rural parts of the county. The ordinance prohibits firing a firearm or other weapon in or within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied dwelling. It passed 4-0 on a motion by Supervisor John McKay in July. |
Constitutional Limitations
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"...Those declaratory of the fundamental rights of the citizen: as that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness . . . . that every man may bear arms for the defense of himself and of the state...."
"...Thomas M. Cooley, LL.D, [A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations...."
"...(Outline of Declaration of rights for the protection of individuals and minorities, expected from states when forming/amending a Constitution)...." |
NY: Spano: Westchester County cops should handle pistol permits
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Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano's 2007 state legislation wish list includes putting county police in charge of pistol permits and banning teenage drivers from talking on cell phones while driving. Spano's proposed package, sent to the county Board of Legislators today, contains 13 new initiatives and another 19 carried over from past years that he still hopes will be enacted into law in Albany. Board members are expected to add some of their own ideas and may delete others before adopting a joint package in about a month. |
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| You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you....There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible. � Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Prince." |
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