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Senator pushes bill for reporting gun buys
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"Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey introduced legislation Tuesday that would require the Justice Department to tell law enforcement officials when someone on a terrorism watch list buys a gun."

"The Justice Department says the Brady gun control law prevents it from sharing information about successful transactions by suspects on its watch list -- or anyone else. The department says the law allows it to report attempted purchases only."

Do-Nothing Congress Continues Dragging Its Feet -- While pro-gun bills languish, gun ban still being considered
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"On the one hand, it looks like some folks in the nation's capital are finally starting to realize that banning guns is political suicide. On the other hand, those who have benefited most from 'gun politics' are about to shoot themselves in the foot."

"Several media reports within the past few weeks have reported that Democratic presidential candidates are running to the center, trying their best to distance themselves from the Brady Bunch." ...

"To be sure, many top-level Democrats have finally realized that support for gun control cost them control of the House, the Senate and the White House."

Brady attempts to use the threat of terrorism to incite panic in the general populace and promote more gun control
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"Although the Bush Administration claims to be using every tool to stop terrorism, there is clearly a problem when it comes to gun laws. Instead of aggressively using gun records, Ashcroft is misinterpreting a law regarding gun purchases at the expense of public safety. Last year, Ashcroft contradicted his legal counsel inside the Department of Justice when he testified in front of Congress claiming that the FBI can't audit the background check system to determine if suspected terrorists bought guns. He now stands in the way of keeping the FBI from learning when and where suspected terrorists bought guns."

Slaughter on the streets demands we outlaw possession of handguns
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"... I think we need to consider passing legislation to outlaw the private ownership of handguns."

"Americans own at least 200 million firearms. Every year tens of thousands of people in this country are killed by guns, and many more are wounded. Today, more people are killed by gunfire than auto accidents. The majority of these murders, suicides and accidents are the result of handguns."

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More lies and misrepresentation.

Murders, suicides and accidents were not the result of handguns, but the result of criminal use of said tools.

Additionally, according to the CDC, traffic accidents comprised 41.8 percent of all unintentional fatal injuries in 2001. Firearms comprised .8 percent. Meanwhile, in 2000, firearms ranked 7/10 for non-fatal, violence related injury. Unintentional falls were the number 1 cause of non-fatal injuries, while motor vehicle accidents came in at number 3.

According to the CDC's top ten fatal injuries list for people of all ages, firearm deaths comprised the majority of homicides - 10,746. But if we take this panty-wetter's claim that there are, in fact, 200 million firearms in the hands of Americans, firearm homicides comprise .005 percent of guns used.

Concealed carry law thwarts crime, keeps our homes and loved ones safe
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"...The American people have awakened to the fact that the people who lead such groups have never seen a gun control law they didn't like."

"They come at you with cast-iron statistics. Yet, with millions of licensed firearm permit holders nationwide, they cannot point to a single incident where a permit holder has ever been linked to the death of a law enforcement officer."

"They cloak their hidden agenda of total disarmament by wrapping it around phrases that sound soft and cuddly like 'sensible gun laws' and 'gun safety' legislation."

"Yet they start waffling when you try to nail them down to exactly what their definitions of sensible and safety really mean."

Debate pits the rights of individuals against controlling the use of arms
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"The debate over guns and controlling them always simmers hot, boiling over whenever a high profile shooting occurs, a new gun law is proposed or an advocacy group steps up its campaign."

"Those who advocate gun control laws point to the daily headlines on gun violence and grim statistics on senseless slayings as proof of the need to curb handguns."

"Those who advocate for gun rights point to the Second Amendment and counter anti-gun arguments by noting that crime rates have actually fallen as more and more states have allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons."

"These are not just theoretical arguments. They shape laws, affect court decisions and influence politics." ...

Weapons Lube Issued by Army May be Costing Lives in Iraq Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The key to surviving any war is to have a weapon that works. To that end a good, reliable gun lubricant is critical." "But our investigation has found that a lubricant supplied by the military may be actually causing guns to jam. What's worse, soldiers say they were blocked from getting a better lubricant at a time when they needed it the most."

Innocents Betrayed
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"I believe from the bottom of my heart and soul that one simply cannot be anti-Second Amendment and pro-citizen-disarmament without being in utter denial � denial that is, as Innocents Betrayed reveals, mortally dangerous to oneself, one�s family, one�s community, one�s country and one�s planet." ...

"What I discovered from my exposure to HCI and similar emotion-driven anti-Second Amendment organizations is this: Their members and supporters are self-anointed elitists, who lie so egregiously, consistently and chronically to themselves and others about facts, truth and basic human behavior that their propaganda rivals that of classic, master-manipulator elitists like Josef Goebbels, Adolph Hitler�s Minister of Propaganda, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot and countless other murderous, megalomaniacal, power-hungry tyrants � many of whose actions are examined in Innocents Betrayed."

Ted Kennedy's Hypocrisy Shows Through in Rant About Gun Bill, Says CCRKBA
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"Sen. Edward Kennedy is 'once again epitomizing Democrat hypocrisy' for ranting about an anti-gun bill being bottled up in the Senate, while he and his cronies continue to block confirmation of federal judges nominated by the Bush Administration, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today."

"Kennedy was quoted by the Associated Press complaining that a bill to ban non-existent plastic guns was being anonymously blocked by a Republican senator. Kennedy reportedly stated, 'That's unacceptable, and the Senate leadership has a responsibility to act...' "

Editorial from Jail
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"What America doesn't seem to grasp is the basic fact whereas, 'if we don't have Constitutional rights in the courts, we don't have Constitutional rights in the streets.' "

"Americans are desperate to believe their government is benevolent and is actually operating within the boundaries of their authority to govern. They conveniently forget that the Constitution IS that authority, and that authority IS the people."

"So what does 'symbolic speech' have to do with all this you ask? Not much, just EVERYTHING."

"Since December of 2001, one man in Denver and then again in the summer of 2002 in Thornton, one Rick Stanley, had the audacity to 'exercise his God given, protected and guaranteed 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms on his person, openly, lawfully within his State Constitution right as well, while campaigning for the 2002 US Senate race in Colorado.' Arrested, jailed, tried, convicted and jailed again for exercising rights. Rights are 'NOT PRIVILEGES.' "

WI: Senate's gun veto override rests on 4
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"Gov. Jim Doyle's veto of a concealed weapons bill Tuesday shot the emotional issue back to four Senate Democrats, who will decide whether the Senate takes the first step toward overriding the governor."

"The four Democrats - Bob Wirch of Kenosha, Julie Lassa of Stevens Point, Mark Meyer of La Crosse and Russ Decker of Schofield - weren't saying Tuesday how they will vote when the Senate takes up the governor's veto in December."

"It will take 22 of the 33 senators to override the veto, and all 18 Republicans are expected to again back legalizing concealed weapons, as are two other Democrats besides the four in question. The 99-member Assembly will get a chance to override the governor only if the Senate does so first."

Harm is a 2-way street
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"Let's think about this for a moment. If you owned a restaurant, and did not allow smoking, wouldn't you find it offensive if a law were enacted requiring you to permit smoking?" ...

"The totalitarian method to resolve the conflict is through political power and guns. In other words, the group with the greatest power to organize government's brute force decides whether there'll be smoking or no smoking in restaurants. Totalitarians might justify their actions by claiming that bars, restaurants and workplaces deal with the public, and thus the public should decide how they'll be used. That's nonsense. Just because an establishment deals with the public doesn't make it public property."

Australia: Six weeks till gun buyback program finishes
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"A last minute advertising campaign will be run to publicise a buyback and amnesty for 4,000 licensed but now illegal handguns in Western Australia."

"With six weeks remaining, 1,100 guns, or less than one-third of the weapons police know about, have been surrendered."

"The buyback began in July but the WA Police Minister Michelle Roberts says it is expecting many licensed owners will wait until the last minute to hand in guns for compensation."

"She says 235 unlicensed handguns have also been surrendered to police during a corresponding amnesty but is concerned many more are being imported or held illegally."

Philippines: Councilor's firearm unlicensed: police
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"SUPT. ALFONSO Mardoquio, chief of Police Precinct 1, disclosed Tuesday that the caliber .45 pistol recovered from Iloilo City Councilor Joshua Alim during his encounter with the Ganzons at the City Prosecutor's Office last Friday is unlicensed."

"Mardoquio said the PNP Firearms and Explosives Division has no records for Alim's gun."

"Instead, intelligence reports indicate that Alim owns a Victor .9mm pistol with serial number 100698 which he acquired Oct. 25, 2001. The license supposedly expired Sept. 13, 2003, he added."

TN: Oakland Policeman Suspended For Conduct At Moscow Board Meeting
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"Oakland police officer Ronnie Graves was suspended with pay on Friday by Oakland Police Chief Bob Tisdale." ...

"Graves has been accused of placing his fist near the head of Bet Hurdle in a threatening manner inside Moscow City Hall after the meeting concluded. Hurdle is the mother of Moscow City Manager Sissy Dowdle."

"Although not on duty at the time, Graves was wearing his Oakland Police uniform and gun at the meeting."

"It was also reported to the Review Graves appeared to use his hand and fingers to point at the office of city manager Sissy Dowdle and act as if he was firing a gun into the office after the meeting."

Australia: Gun ban for Michael Diamond
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REIGNING Olympic gold medallist shooter Michael Diamond has been banned from picking up a gun until late December.

The decision by NSW police leaves him unable to train for the Athens selection trials in January.
Diamond, 31, has pleaded not guilty to assault and firearms charges that followed claims he punched his former girlfriend. His case resumes in a Sydney court on December 22.

South Africa: Gun accreditation going slow
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"Application for accreditation of firearms by organisations and individuals was going at a slow pace and this might result in possible prosecutions, North Rand police warned on Wednesday."

"Superintendent Eugene Opperman said individual people and organisations must apply for accreditation in order to comply with the provisions of the Fire Arms Control Act."

"This should be done as quickly as possible to avoid possible prosecution."

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And while the oppressive state is busy playing tyrant and disarming the people, armed marauders are busy victimizing them.

Canada: Most want doctors to report gun wounds
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"We asked readers whether doctors should be required to tell police when they treat patients with gunshot wounds, or whether they should have similar protections to clergy hearing confidences from parishioners." ...

"Doctors should report gunshot wounds to the police. Do they not have to report domestic abuse? Why wouldn't it be the same for gunshots?" ...

"This is a no-brainer. If people who were involved in an incident involving guns are a part of some illegal activity, there should be a recourse available for police to investigate them." ...

"Proper investigation of all incidents involving firearms, accidental or criminal, should include police attending the scene and reviewing all the facts involved."

South Africa: Cop pulled gun on boss - claim
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"Mpumalanga police are investigating a colleague who apparently held a gun to his station commissioner's head and threatened to blow it off." ...

"Superintendent Masiya had announced the police sergeant would be moved from the charge office back into the field as punishment for his poor self-discipline."

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These are the same police who are taking their own sweet time in giving citizens "permission" to have firearms, forcing them to depend on armed, unstable pigs like this for their safety.

New Zealand: New Year wait on gun counts
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"Northland farmer Paul McIntyre has to wait until January to find out whether he will face a trial for shooting a man trying to steal his quad bike." ...

"McIntyre faces a charge of shooting and injuring 29-year-old Moerewa man Samuel Hati with reckless disregard for the safety of others."

"He was also charged with discharging a shotgun without reasonable cause while disregarding the safety of others."

"The charges were laid after McIntyre caught Hati and cousins Ned and Raymond Brown loading his quad bike on to a ute on October 20 last year."

WI: Legislature targets Doyle�s gun veto
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"Surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officers, Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have ended Wisconsin�s 133-year-old ban on concealed weapons."

" 'If the bill sounds dangerous, it�s because it is,' Doyle said at a ceremony Tuesday at the Dane County Law Enforcement Center. 'Just ask the men and women of law enforcement.' "

"But while Doyle shot the bill down, it may not be dead." ...

"For an override to be successful, two-thirds of both houses would have to support the override."

IL: Gun Violence Prevention Groups Offer to Replace Assault Weapon Raffle Prize for Quad Cities Officers Memorial with a Hunting Rifle
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"To raise money for a memorial to honor Quad Cities police officers killed in the line of duty, law enforcement organizations in the Quad Cities area are raffling off an AR15-type assault rifle. The raffle prize is a CAR UTE Elite .223-caliber rifle manufactured by Rock River Arms of Colona, Illinois. The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence offered to provide raffle organizers with a true hunting rifle or shotgun to use instead of AR-15 Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle. The formal offer was made in a letter addressed to the Quad Cities Law Enforcement Memorial Committee... Detective Gene Karzin who chairs the Memorial committee, said his group will consider the offer."

WI: Wisconsin Ready for Gun Season
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"Wisconsin regular nine-day gun deer season opens statewide Saturday, Nov. 22, and state wildlife officials say, if weather cooperates, hunters should have plenty of opportunities to fill deer tags and continue to help reduce the size of the state's deer herd."

"Wildlife officials estimate the state's deer herd is about 1.4 million animals statewide, with more than a third of the state's 135 deer management units estimated to be more than 20 percent over their population goal."

"Last year, hunters registered 277,755 deer during the regular nine-day season, according to Brad Koele, assistant deer ecologist for the Department of Natural Resources."

OH: Gun committee meets, but compromise not apparent
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"The committee searching for a compromise on the concealed handgun bill met for the first time Tuesday -- but the real question is whether it will ever meet again."

"Rep. Jim Aslanides, R-Coshocton, chairman of the committee, outlined the two issues that must be worked out, both dealing with guns in a vehicle. He said the committee would not call witnesses to testify, noting that everything that could possibly be said about the gun issue has been covered in prior hearings."

NY: How Big Brother Destroys Jobs
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"Small-business owners testified at the City Council yesterday that unfair fines - such as the one levied on a coffee company for producing coffee odors - are driving them to New Jersey." ...

" 'Nobody seems to care,' said Donald Schoenholt, president of Gillie's Coffee Company in Brooklyn, who was slapped with a $400 ticket because the aroma of his coffee products could be detected from the sidewalk."

" 'They could come back any time and give us a fine or even close us for having a very ordinary fragrance that most human beings consider to be very fragrant. [There isn't] any other municipality in the world that uses their Clean Air Act against already roasted coffee beans,' he added."

UK: Three die in family shooting at luxury home (Alternate Report)
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"A husband shot dead his estranged wife and their teenage son before apparently turning the gun on himself at a �1m country house the couple had built as their 'dream home'."

"Julia Pemberton called 999 to report seeing an armed man, but when police stormed her Berkshire home they discovered the woman's body, along with her husband, Alan, and son, William."

"The teenager was found in the front drive where he had apparently tried to flee. A shotgun was found at the scene. Police say there are no other suspects involved in the triple killing."

TSA Honors Outstanding Employees, Organizations in First Annual Awards Program
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"Two screeners who intercepted a belt buckle gun, a screener who saved a life, and a long-time transportation security expert were among more than 350 individuals, groups and organizations that were honored Wednesday at the First Annual Transportation Security Administration Awards Program." ...

"Many of the awards went to employees who came on board in TSA's early days, implementing ambitious security measures even before the agency's supportive underpinnings were in place."

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Congratulations on two years of shaking down old ladies for their knitting needles and confiscating eyebrow tweezers in the name of safety!

FL: Records on gun owners assailed
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"Invoking Adolf Hitler's and Fidel Castro's atrocities, a handful of conservative lawmakers have filed a bill to prohibit police from compiling gun-owner and gun-sale lists, saying it infringes on citizens' rights to privacy and to own firearms."

"The proposal, supported by the National Rifle Association, says the records are not legitimate law-enforcement tools and are instead part of 'a phony excuse to harass and abuse American citizens.' " ...

"A government employee who violates the provisions of the gun-tracking bill could face a five-year prison sentence and a fine of $5,000. The agency involved could be fined another $250,000 but wouldn't be required to furnish the employee with a taxpayer-backed lawyer."

MD: Murder suspect is back in jail
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"For the past five months, Leeander Jerome Blake -- the Annapolis teen charged in the murder-carjacking of a city resident in the historic district -- lived like many other teen-agers, working at a Kmart and trying to re-enroll in high school."

"But Tuesday, the same Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge who released Blake from jail in June ordered him to be held without bond because prosecutors recently won an appeal to use his alleged confession as evidence."

"Judge Pamela L. North had thrown out the confession because she said an Annapolis police officer improperly questioned Blake after he had invoked his right to have a lawyer present. An appeal by prosecutors triggered his release."

"The court is no longer duty-bound to release the defendant... The only appropriate bond would be no bond."

MD: Plan calls for paying parolees to comply
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"Crime isn't supposed to pay, but reporting to your parole officer just might."

"Some parolees and probationers would receive up to $25 a month for staying on the straight and narrow under a pilot program being hammered out by the Abell Foundation and the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services."

"Supporters say the plan, which one expert called a rarity in corrections, would provide ex-offenders with an extra incentive to go along with the threat of incarceration."

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Your tax dollars at work.

NY: One Lawmaker Seems Immune to the City's Ticket Crackdown. Why? Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"We know New York cops have been cracking down on parking violations, handing out tickets and towing cars if you don't pay your fine. But an Eyewitness News investigation has discovered a powerful politician with thousands of dollars in unpaid tickets. And he doesn't get towed."

NY: Stealth Police Force Goes Undercover Across State
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"Watching every move, listening to every deal, is a surveillance team of undercover State Police officers-backing up their own. They look like hooded thugs and 'working girls,' but are actually working cops."

"You can think of them like a roving undercover police force. On any given night, they're in a different city or town, wherever local police departments are having a problem with street-level crime."

"First CNET Officer: 'They can go thru these streets where nobody knows them. And they can either buy drugs, they can do prostitution, they can buy guns.' "

MO: Home Owner Kills Intruder Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Another bad guy bites the dust. ------- "An intruder got more than he bargained for when he broke into a home last night in North St. Louis County. Police say the man was shot and killed by the owner of the home."

A Sick Republic with Unhealthy Citizens
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"I try to vote in an intelligent manner and I have a healthy cynicism towards anyone whom would want to regulate my life. I pay attention to what candidates say and more importantly, what they do not say in their speeches. There is one litmus test that I task any politician to take. If they do not trust me with firearms then why should I trust them, period? If they do not respect my inalienable right to self-defense then they are for tyranny, since they view individual rights as privileges granted by government."

IL: Welcome to the Chicago Police State
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"...Superintendent Phil Cline says the department will respond here and in 99 other open air markets around the city with a strategy residents have demanded for decades: by December, there will be a patrol car with two uniformed officers inside parked on every troubled corner." ...

"Cline says it will take 200 cops a day to man the corners. They will be drawn from a pool of 1,000 sworn administrators, office workers and others who normally don't patrol daily beats. They will devote one week of every five to drug spot duty."

"Just a few weeks ago several surveillance cameras were deployed in the worst open-air drug markets."

AZ: Setting record straight on arming helicopters with machine guns
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"The idea was brought to me by customs agents in Arizona, because of their concerns about the safety of both the people being smuggled by profiteering coyotes and innocent people on our highways and in our cities."

"The agents who approached me explained that other customs agents have the authority to fire a disabling round into the engine block of a smuggler's boat in a similar high-speed chase and that the U.S. Coast Guard also has such authority and can fire such a round from a helicopter."

"I have never advocated equipping each customs helicopter with the ability to fire such rounds."

Whack'em & Stack'em: Collateral Damage of The Endless War
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"It's not so much that police sometimes kill people, or make up questionable excuses about why they are compelled to do so. Such is standard in our Whack & Stack Gallery of Justice. From time to time, it helps to look at a case and ask, "Why are the police even involved in the first place?" Despite the question, our next chapter is the lethal by-product of peace keeping." ...

"According to Port of Seattle police, federal screeners pulled them aside after finding what must have been something that was so dangerous to air travel, that it demanded immediate attention." ...

"Desseria B. Whitmore was pulled to the side for what was thought to be...

...a marijuana pipe in her carry-on luggage."

IL: Free Gun Locks Available in the QCA
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"It's estimated that 53% of all households contain a firearm. That means over half of your neighbors may have a gun in their house. And maybe half of the houses where your children go to play."

"So how can you be sure that your kids are safe?"

"A group called Project Child Safe knows that a gun lock makes it impossible for a child to shoot a gun accidentally. That's why the group drove to police departments all over the Illinois Quad Cities distributing gun locks."

UK: Three dead in gun horror in gun ban utopia
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"THE BODIES of three people, believed to have died from gunshot wounds, have been found in a house this morning."

"Police found the bodies of a man and a woman in their 40s, along with a dead male teenager, at an address near Thatcham, Berkshire, in the early hours."

"Firearms officers had been deployed to the area earlier when a member of the public reported seeing a man in his 40s wandering around with a gun."

"Thames Valley Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident."

UK: Raider cornered after gun threats
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"TWO have-a-go heroes chased down a masked robber after he pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot them."

"James O'Donnell had smashed a terrified woman's car window and grabbed the cash she was taking to the bank, a court heard."

"Two men who witnessed the incident chased after him but the High Court in Glasgow heard that as Robert McKillop, 42, and Frank Mair, 19, closed in on the 34-year-old he pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot them."

"The men backed off, but when they realised the gun might be a replica, they gave chase again."

Freedom, Rising And Falling �America's Rejection Of Liberty
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"Today I write of two nations, one taking its first fledgling steps toward becoming a free and democratic society, the other discarding the institutions and traditions of liberty and hurtling mindlessly back into oligarchy and servant-hood." ...

"Why would a people passively surrender precious liberty once it has been won, once it has provided them with all manner of blessings and prosperity? Having been born into freedom and prosperity ...have we simply taken our freedoms and economic opportunities for granted? Has the failure of public schools to teach several generations about the uniqueness of our nation made us so blas� and apathetic, even though it means the certain loss of those freedoms?"