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"When I returned to this country ...I made a promise to myself that I would never attempt to argue with Americans over the issue of gun control."
"I respect the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution and wish that Britain had the sense to write its own instead of relying on the law of precedent."
"But....I digress. I was about to talk about another weapon... the American Pit bull. These dogs require the owner to have as much accountability and responsibility as gun owners in the UK."...
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Australia: Gun dealers want levy to fight ban
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"Gun dealers may impose a 1 per cent levy on all firearm sales to build a fighting fund to seek government compensation for the loss of business arising from a national handgun ban."
"Gun dealers said they were angry at the increased scope of the gun ban deal struck last week by Prime Minister John Howard and state leaders and had already suffered a severe loss of trade." |
Canada: Martin, Rock face scolding over gun debacle
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"Liberal leadership hopefuls, including Paul Martin and Allan Rock, are facing the embarrassing prospect of being called on the carpet at the Commons public accounts committee over the gun-registry debacle, just as the leadership race is heating up."
"The committee, chaired by Canadian Alliance MP John Williams, agreed to conduct hearings into huge cost overruns at the registry and criticism from the Auditor-General about the government's failure to report those overruns to Parliament adequately." |
MD: Ballistic fingerprinting under fire (Letter)
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"A recent correspondent advocates a ballistic 'fingerprinting' database on the grounds that we must 'do something.' I am reminded of the lead character in 'The Dresser' who, when told they must 'do something' replies they must instead do the right thing."
"It costs the state of Maryland approximately $500 per gun to save a ballistic image. After two years of saving images, they have yet to obtain a conviction with this system." |
The Brady Bunch and the "Ballistics Fingerprinting" Fraud
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"One of the most shameful aspects of the recent series of shooting murders here in the Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia areas was the way the motley crew of anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, gun-grabbers attempted to capitalize on this mass slaughter."
"No sooner had the shell casings hit the ground, and the bodies of the respective victims grown cold, than these folks began to hard-sell their current batch of snake oil -- so-called 'ballistics fingerprinting' -- "... |
NC: Complete instructions on how to be a coward
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Original title: UPS driver fights off robber
"Castren grabbed a wine bottle and walked outside his third-story apartment and saw a man wrestling with a United Parcel Service driver on the ground floor of his building."
" 'At this point, I decided to retreat because all I had was a wine bottle and I didn�t think it would do much good,' he said."
"Castren said he thought he saw a gun in the hands of the would-be robber and went back inside his apartment."
" 'As soon as I thought I saw a gun, I got � out of there,' he said." |
FL: Gov. Bush restores rights of FBI agent jailed in Ruby Ridge probe
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"Gov. Jeb Bush and the Clemency Board restored the civil rights Thursday of the FBI agent convicted of destroying records while investigating the agency's role in the deadly 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho."
"E. Michael Kahoe, a former head of the FBI's violent crime and major offenders section, pleaded guilty in 1997 to obstruction of justice for ordering the destruction of an FBI report into the 1992 fatal shooting at the cabin of white separatist Randall Weaver." |
FL: Holly Hill to buy guns for officers
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"The City Commission shot down an old policy in favor of one that will result in new police officers being armed with department issued weapons."
"Tuesday night the commission gave the Police Department unanimous approval to use the city's Special Law Enforcement Trust Fund to purchase seven Glock .40 caliber pistols to be issued to new hires. The department is looking to fill two more officer vacancies and those officers will be issued the new department-owned weapons." |
Canada: Gun registry scaled back after funding problems
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"The federal government, under pressure for overspending on the national gun registry, says it's going to scale back the program for the foreseeable future."
"Justice Minister Martin Cauchon told Parliament on Thursday that he will freeze spending."
"He said the program will continue to operate but at a minimum level." |
FL: Shotgun Found at School
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"It was through a routine check of the student parking lot that a school resource deputy found the gun."
"Rutherford High School principal Joe Bullock says the student had forgotten about the unloaded, Remington 12-gauge shotgun was in his truck."
" 'The young man is a hunter and had been hunting and just neglected to take the weapon out of his vehicle,' says Bullock."
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Gun Victory?
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"With the latest news of our 'victory' over arming the pilots of our commercial aircraft, it comes in about 30 years late, and a few billion dollars short, not including the lives destroyed from all the hi-jackings over this time frame."
"Now don't get me wrong, ANY firearm presentation, legislation, or otherwise "victory" for America's firearm freedoms is a very good thing, and that is what we are all about. But let's take a look at the big picture of what we have now. As of my mention above, we are so very stupid to let the government take control over any domestic security we can do on our own." |
Schumer -- Backdoor Gun Registry
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"On NBC's Meet The Press (10/20/02), Democrat Senator Charles Schumer of New York, defending a 'fingerprinting' program for guns, quoted Randy Rossi approvingly. Rossi is the head of the Firearms Division of California's Department Of Justice, who has said that such a program would be 'a fabulous opportunity.' " |
Rights falling to control, not security concerns (second letter)
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"Perhaps their next ruling will find that the First Amendment (freedom of speech) only applies to the IRS, or that the Fourth (unreasonable searches and seizures) applies only to the FBI. In some future ruling, we may see the Sixth (speedy and public trial) and the Eighth Amendment (excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishment) apply only to senators and congressmen."
"Or, perhaps the court will discover that the Fifth (due process, self-incrimination) only applies to judges and lawyers." |
Schumer Not Truthful
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"U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is one of the most rabid, anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, gun-grabbers in the Congress."
"In a recent Associated Press story (10/21/02), Phil Singer, a spokesman for Schumer, defended his boss' advocacy of a national ballistics database saying such a system would rely on 'hard facts.' But, Schumer has relied on anything but 'hard facts' in his attack on a preliminary California study dealing with ballistics imaging. In fact, Schumer has played fast and loose with the truth and he has been caught saying something that is not true."
"On this issue, if Schumer was Pinocchio, his nose would be roughly the size of the Washington Monument." |
Canada: Disaster Up North: Gun-control laws run amuck
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"Effusively praised by President Clinton, Canada's gun-control laws are in a state of crisis, threatening the political future of many Liberal party politicians. Introduced in 1995 with a promised net cost of $2 million dollars (Canadian), the nation's gun registry is going to cost over a billion dollars.... Now, many Canadians who have no personal interest in gun ownership are turning against the deceit and self-dealing of the Liberals." |
IL: Homes safer after gun buy back
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Note the obnoxious lack of objectivity in the title, and throughout the article.
"The ...event gave residents an opportunity to safely dispose of their unwanted firearms, ammunition and accessories, and possibly avoid a tragic accident in the home..."
"The couple plan (sic) to use the gift certificates they received ...to buy Christmas gifts for the needy and purchase some equipment for a safer activity � fishing..."
"...the presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide."
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IN: Dillinger machine gun back in Lake County possession
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" 'It was stolen from the sheriff�s department. It�s back where it belongs,' Buncich said. 'It�s a piece of history.' "
Although it is said to be worth at least $1 million, Buncich says he has no plans to put it on display..."
" 'I never had any intentions of putting it on display. It will be secure in our vault downstairs,' said Buncich, who wouldn�t even hold the gun."
" 'I just have a bad taste in my mouth knowing that this weapon was used by a cop killer.' " |
OH: Kids deliver message
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"Maurice and 24 other sixth graders from Goodrich Middle School's after-school program were at Stewart & Calhoun funeral home Wednesday to film a commercial warning about the dangers of guns."
"Though the scene was fake, the message it conveyed was real: Never, ever play with a gun."
"It's a matter of life and death." |
PA: Burglars nabbed by college student, cops say
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"Two burglars looking for money to buy drugs instead found themselves staring down the barrels of two guns after they were ambushed during a break-in, authorities said." ...
" 'I cocked the gun right in his face,' John Stuart said in an interview from his Oak street residence."
" 'I said, �Yo, you just robbed my nephew�s Christmas,� ' he said. 'I didn�t take the barrel off him until the police got there.' " |
Argentina: Worried Argentine stores stock guns for Christmas
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"Some Argentine supermarket owners are stocking something new this Christmas season -- guns, in case their stores are overrun by hungry looters like they were this time a year ago."
"Some retailers dismiss the fears as media-driven "psychosis," but others have bussed in dozens of extra baton-wielding police to guard their businesses just in case the country's worst-ever economic depression again explodes into violence." |
Blogs 1, Reinhardt (the lying socialist) 0
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"For example, in arguing that some of the founders "explicitly disparaged the idea of creating an individual right to personal arms," Judge Reinhardt cites precisely one quote from the Founders to make his argument:
"For instance, in a highly influential treatise, John Adams ridiculed the concept of such a right, asserting that the general availability of arms would 'demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government.' "
"But as blogger and TCS contributor Stuart Buck points out, Judge Reinhardt did not provide the full quote from Adams, which is as follows:
"To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws." |
You Must Be Nuts To Want A Gun
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"The Guinness Book of World Records does not yet list the category World's Dumbest Gun-Control Law. But, if such a dubious distinction is ever acknowledged, the Massachusetts communities of Andover, North Andover, Lawrence and Methuen will definitely be in the running for such a singularly asinine achievement. Why?" |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. � Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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