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Suzanna Hupp to Deliver Welcome Speech at CounterAttack 2003 Gun Rights Conference
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Dallas, Texas - The North Bridge Training Institute announced that Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp, Texas State Representative from Lampasas, will deliver the welcome speech at CounterAttack.
"I am pleased to be asked to speak at CounterAttack 2003. North Bridge Training Institute is doing important work teaching citizens to fight for their rights, especially the right to self-defense. Our Founding Fathers called it 'The Bill of Rights' for a reason, not 'The Bill of Needs' or 'The Bill of Mothers, May I'. It is time for gun owners to break through negative stereotypes, and give a different face to people who believe in the Second Amendment." |
Military Aircraft With Detection Gear To Augment Police
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"Military aircraft equipped with sophisticated sensors far more sensitive than those used by police will join in the hunt for the sniper terrorizing the Washington area, Pentagon officials said yesterday."
"The aircraft will use aerial surveillance tools with night vision to 'put eyes on the target very, very quickly,' even if the gunman should strike under cover of darkness, a senior military officer said." ... |
A Woman and Her Gun
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The individual right to use a handgun in self-defense is anathema to the collectivists. No right derives except from the collective; no obligation is valid unless the collective approves it. Does it countenance the individual's defense of the gift of life, for life�s sake alone?
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The sniper who paralyzed Washington
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The area surrounding the nation's capital is paralyzed with fear.
Some people are staying home from work. Some parents are pulling their kids out of school. Others are avoiding shopping and pumping gas.
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The gun control exploitation society
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While the gun control lobby is fond of portraying Second Amendment defenders as paramilitary kooks, they are the ones who repeatedly exploit tragedies to further their political agenda and forever blame anyone or anything other than the wrongdoers.
If any doubt that Mrs. Brady meant to suggest that stricter laws would have prevented the shootings, she removed it in a follow up fundraising request to her donors where she asked for a "generous donation" to "prevent tragedies like these." |
Tighter gun checks closer
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"The House yesterday passed without dissent a bill authorizing $1.1 billion in federal funds to help states computerize criminal records so they can be used in background checks on gun buyers."
"Lawmakers admitted they don't know if the bill might have prevented the sniper shootings over the past two weeks in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital."
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Glendening to ban firearms hunting in 4 metro counties
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Determined to keep the sound of gunfire to a minimum as police hunt for the serial sniper, Gov. Parris N. Glendening will issue an executive order today banning hunting in four counties in the Baltimore-Washington suburbs...
...The ban covers all recreational shooting except at approved firing ranges and will end when the sniper is caught.
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Bush Questions Gun Tracking's Usefulness
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"President Bush put himself at odds with many law enforcement groups yesterday by questioning the reliability and propriety of databases that help track bullets and shells from crime scenes by recording unique markings when guns are sold."
"The skeptical statements about ballistic fingerprinting by White House press secretary Ari Fleischer put the administration on the side of the gun industry at a time when national news is dominated by a Washington area sniper who has killed nine people in two weeks." .. |
Governor Glendening To Issue Executive Order
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Now I have to pull the charge from my .50 caliber Flintlock, (patched round balls don't have fingerprints).
"It is important that there be no confusion at the sound of gunfire." said Anne Arundel County Executive Janet Owens.
A 50 caliber flintlock sounds like a 223 ?? |
House approves more funds for gun background checks
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[T]he House on Tuesday passed without dissent a bill authorizing $1.1 billion in federal funds to help states computerize criminal records so they can be used in background checks on gun buyers.
Similar legislation is being blocked in the Senate even though it is supported by both gun control advocates and gun owner groups such as the National Rifle Association. |
Warmongers R Us?
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And so it is, in early October, as Congress does what politicians do best; stand to the side so their hands will not be bloodied. Early this week, the House and Senate handed President Bush the keys to make war with Iraq. That is, without any oversight by any other body. The line of least resistance for the warmonger is to make war. First, declare your enemy. Next, sensationalize the threat. Finally, flood the airwaves with propaganda and follow this by defining your cause as true and just. |
Canada: Concealed weapon permit unlikely for shooting victim
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"There's little chance the Edmonton gun shop owner who was wounded during a botched robbery -- or any other gun shop worker -- could get a licence to carry a concealed weapon, a spokesman for Edmonton's Canadian Firearms Officer said Tuesday."
"Phil Harnois said if he had been carrying a handgun last Thursday when two masked men entered his store, things would have turned out differently."
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Sniper attacks return focus to national gun policy
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"The sniper shootings that have shaken the Washington region also are shattering the relative quiet on the gun policy front."
"Since Al Gore's loss of the 2000 presidential election was chalked up in part to his support for gun control, national politicians have shown little appetite for the issue." |
FL: $75 million sought against gun distributor
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"An attorney said Tuesday he is seeking a $75 million civil judgment against the distributor of a handgun used to kill popular teacher Barry Grunow."
"Attorney Bob Montgomery told prospective jurors that Grunow's widow, Pam, and her two young children each deserve $25 million in their product liability suit against Valor Corp., which sold the.25-caliber Raven gun used in the May 2000 shooting." |
Five Sniper Case Witnesses Finger Dark-Skinned 'Mideastern Type'
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"More evidence of a possible Mideast connection to the Beltway sniper case emerged Tuesday as police began releasing descriptions of the alleged shooter given by eyewitnesses."
"According to Fox News, a top U.S. law enforcement official has revealed that three eyewitnesses to Friday's shooting in Fredricksburg, Va., described the perpetrator as a dark-skinned male who looked like a 'Hispanic or Mideastern type.' One witness to Friday's attack described the shooter as a white male." |
MI: Court rules mother can use deadly force to protect fetus
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"A pregnant woman may use deadly force to protect her fetus even when she does not fear for her own life, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled. Legal experts say the decision has opened another front in the legal wars surrounding abortion."
"The court emphasized that its decision was a narrow one, concerning only assaults against pregnant women, but it acknowledged that it was entering charged legal terrain." |
Time to Shoot the Second Amendment
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"Now that the 11th innocent civilian has been mowed down by a sniper in northern Virginia, it's time for the Bush Administration to get serious about the war on terror."
"Since September 11, the president and his attorney general have told us that we must give up some of our cherished civil liberties in order to stop the "evil ones" intent on murdering innocent American men, women and children. And while the White House has done a bang-up job of watering down the First (free speech and assembly), Fourth (search and seizure), Fifth (due process) and Eighth (excess bail and fines, cruel and unusual punishment) Amendments to the Constitution to further the war on terror, there's one Amendment they refuse to touch. It's the one that puts all those guns on the streets in the first place: the Second Amendment right to bear arms." ... |
Police suppress terrorism angle
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"Several witnesses to the Beltway sniper shootings over the past two weeks have described suspects resembling Middle-Eastern men, but authorities have played down the Islamic terrorism angle to avoid mass "panic" in the area, an ATF official told WorldNetDaily."
"That angle is actually being looked at, and the FBI has the lead on it," said the official, who is working with the sniper-murders task force based in Maryland's Montgomery County, where the first five shootings took place." |
Gun Control Capital Grapples With Crime Spree
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"One of the nation's three most anti-gun states has, unfortunately, become the locus of a nationally publicized crime spree. Montgomery County, Maryland, the home of many of the nation's most ardent gun control activists, has suffered five sniper-like killings in a little over 24 hours." |
The Age of Confusion
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" 'We Americans have heard of 'constitutional rights'. Nearly all of us - including Supreme Court justices - have often used the phrase but it has been used with little understanding of 'natural or unalienable rights'. "
"No man or woman born of American Citizens in one of the 50 states - a Citizen of the United States of America - has 'constitutional rights'. |
Armed Pilots Bill Stalled in Senate
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"The Armed Pilot Bill has been stalled in the Senate. As an amendment to Homeland Security it has gone no where fast. As part of the Aviation Security Bill from the Commerce Committee it has gone no where almost as fast. The problem is not with the Armed Pilot provision itself, but with other provisions in the bill. We have it on good intel there is but 1 person holding up the works." |
Congress Considers Instant Background Check Aid
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"With a sniper roaming the Washington suburbs, the House on Tuesday passed without dissent a bill authorizing $1.1 billion in federal funds to help states computerize criminal records so they can be used in background checks on gun buyers."
"Lawmakers acknowledged they don't know if the bill might have prevented the sniper shootings over the past two weeks in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital." |
WI: Brothers foil robbery attempt
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"Everyone is thankful the gun didn�t go off � except the would-be armed robber. He�s the one who wound up in the hospital in critical condition."
� 'Had that gun gone off we�d be looking at a triple homicide,' said Brown County Sheriff�s Capt. Craig Kohlbeck. 'He probably would have killed all three of them.' � |
Pistol-packing proponents of gun-owner tolerance
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Pro diversity angle on gun ownership. Gays, lesibians, transexuals, Microsoft Gun Club, NRA instructors, etc. From the Seattle Times. Pretty amazing.
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Nicole Shounder of Lynnwood is an out and proud, post-operative transsexual lesbian who voted for George W. Bush.
Shounder says, "I'm in sync with Democratic Party values, but their gun-control stance doesn't work. We stand out as possible targets, and we are not going to let harm come to ourselves or our loved ones." |
NRA Shoots Its Own Foot On State Senate Race
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"There was a misfire in the National Rifle Association�s endorsement in the Springdale state Senate race."
"State Rep. Jim Holt, R-Springdale, was endorsed by the NRA in his bid for the District 35 state Senate seat, the gun rights lobby confirmed Tuesday. However, the group�s voter�s guide highlights the name of his Democratic opponent, Winford Phillips." |
Targeting the gunners
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"BALLISTIC fingerprints - the distinctive gun barrel markings on bullets from every firearm - might be enormously helpful in tracking down the Washington-area sniper, but there is no national registry that might identify the gun's owner. The National Rifle Association has successfully lobbied against a registry in the past, and yesterday the Bush administration refused to support such a move." ... |
Fun With Statistics
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WSJ--Best of the Web Today--14th item.
"The (CBS) network's Web site features an interactive guide on 'guns in America,' including a section on 'kids and guns.' Among the 'facts' in this section: 'For 10 to 24 year olds, firearms are the second leading cause of death--trailing only unintentional deaths (which include motor vehicles accidents and drownings).' "
"To make guns look menacing CBS lumps together all forms of 'unintentional deaths', and defines 'kids' to include 24-year-olds." ... |
An ID for Every Bullet
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"Opponents argue that the system won't cover guns already on the streets. Or that gun barrels can be replaced, thus changing the 'markings.' Or that criminals would simply use stolen guns. Yet even with those limitations, such a measure could catch more criminals and create a greater deterrent." ...
"A national 'ballistics fingerprinting' law won't solve every crime. But it's a tool law enforcement needs to solve crimes when other clues are few and far between." ... |
Rational Choice
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"Which is why we need to take a deep breath when a tragedy like this prompts heated debate about all the dramatic ways our society should be overhauled to prevent something similar from ever happening again. This sniper is not the beginning of some broad crime trend. He is a lone sociopath, out to make a statement. We may not be able to make sense of his madness, but we should at least make our response to that madness as rational as possible." ... |
Witness Saw Sniper's Gun
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"The serial sniper stalking Washington used a Kalashnikov to kill his latest victim, a witness claims."
"The onlooker told police the gunman hold an AK-74 on his shoulder as he shot FBI analyst Linda Franklin on Monday night."
" 'The witness firmly believes this is the weapon he saw,' said a spokeswoman for Montgomery County police." ...
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This person was close enough to tell what kind of rifle this was, but can't give a description of the shooter? |
Snuffy and Me
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"I'm a gun owner. 'Snuffy' is my .38 snubnose Smith & Wesson. As a woman a firearm is the only thing that truly equalizes me if faced with someone determined to do me harm. Yes, physical defense courses are good, but in my opinion if a man who wishes me harm is close enough to touch me, he's already too close. Anyone who enters my home with malevolent intentions will not leave standing up. It's that simple." |
They're coming for you (Neal Knox Report)
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An acquaintance sent me a shocking account of a Maryland man who was called last week by a purported FBI agent who claimed to have a list of the guns he owns, and began asking him why he had them and where he was at the time of the sniper murders.
I was ready to believe him because his story fit with alleged quotes of FBI agents and others asking citizens for tips about owners of "assault weapons" or interest in long range shooting. |
Under the Gun
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"It is almost pointless to speculate about the sniper who has killed nine and wounded two (as of this writing) in Maryland and Northern Virginia. So little information is available, at least to the general public, that one has scant reason to believe - or to discount - any particular theory. No one can say for sure even whether the killings are the work of a solitary individual." ... |
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