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"The City of Gary can proceed with a lawsuit that seeks to hold gun dealers and manufacturers accountable for years of gun violence, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday."
"The decision could help fuel U.S. Senate debate next year over legislation that would immunize the gun industry from being sued for crimes committed with their products."
"The 5-0 ruling said the northwestern Indiana city could pursue allegations that the gun businesses had become a public nuisance, in part through sales tactics that put guns into the arms of criminals. Justices agreed the city could seek money damages and injunction orders in state court." |
IN: Brady celebrating socialist court decision
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"In an important legal victory against the gun industry, the Indiana Supreme Court today unanimously ruled that the city of Gary may proceed with its lawsuit against gun manufacturers and sellers. The court reversed a lower court ruling dismissing the city's claims and rejected virtually every argument made by the industry against the suit." ...
"The Gary suit charges that the industry has designed, marketed and distributed firearms in ways that ensure the widespread accessibility of handguns to prohibited purchasers..." ...
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CA: Gun suit ends in mistrial
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"The second trial in a $10 million lawsuit against the Beretta handgun manufacturers filed by an East Bay couple whose son was killed in an accidental shooting ended in a mistrial this afternoon."
"The first trial after the 1994 death of Griffin 'Kenzo' Dix also ended without a resolution, but the boy's parents, Griffin and Lynn Dix, vow to try again." |
Cargo Planes Seen Vulnerable to Attack
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"To prevent future terrorist attacks, industry and government officials are increasingly focused on the vulnerability of cargo planes -- potential fuel-packed weapons that lack some of the basic defenses now protecting passenger aircraft."
"The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that after the terror-threat level was raised to 'high,' it boosted the number of inspectors dispatched nationwide to ensure that companies comply with tighter cargo-screening guidelines enacted last month."
"An agency spokesman said extra law enforcement now patrolling the perimeters of airports was specifically put in place to fortify air cargo facilities." |
Jury spares Malvo's life
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"A Virginia jury has recommended life in prison for convicted Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, opting against handing down the death penalty that awaits co-conspirator John Allen Muhammad."
"Malvo was convicted last week of capital murder and associated charges in connection with the Oct. 14, 2002, fatal shooting of 47-year-old FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot store." ...
"During the trial, Malvo's attorneys used an insanity defense, claiming the teen was an 'impressionable 5-foot, 3-inch child' who was brainwashed by his murderous mentor." |
Indifference to liberty
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"The Supreme Court's Dec. 10 decision upholding the May 2002 campaign finance reform law was, in its own way, as great an attack on American liberty as the terror attacks of September 11, 2001."
"The wording of the First Amendment, that 'Congress shall make no law,' etc., is clear. The Founders and Framers understood that opposition to tyranny required the free expression of ideas, consistent with the general welfare." |
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"The State continually fails and destroys, yet it persists." ...
"How it goes about the plundering process is critical to its success. The golden rule is: the victims must approve of it."
"Let�s look at how this works with its two greatest sources of loot, income taxes and central banking. Government created both in the same year, 1913 � erecting in effect its two main pillars. Without them, the State is a pussycat, begging for a dish of milk. With them, the State, in a country as rich as the U.S., becomes the greatest destructive force of all time." |
The Cassandra Chronicles
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"It�s been almost four years since we went to the trouble to copy the Second Amendment positions of Al Gore and George W. Bush from their respective websites and then send the officially stated positions of these two candidates for President out to the folks on our email list, noting that there wasn�t much difference between the two. Na�ve babes that we were, we actually thought we might be complimented and/or thanked for making it easier for folks to understand that there was way less difference between Gore and Bush on the issue of guns than many people were claiming." |
Secrets, Government Lies and Media Privilege
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"Should government agents, operating on their own authority and in violation of privacy law, be allowed to smear Americans by leaking false information to the media? Are journalists who print those lies protected by the 1st Amendment from revealing their sources, thereby preventing those falsely accused from obtaining justice through lawsuits?"
"Those issues were raised by a federal judge's recent ruling that demanded the names of the sources used by reporters who in 1999 printed false claims that scientist Wen Ho Lee had passed on nuclear secrets to China."
"Lee was held in solitary confinement for nine months before the government's case collapsed and 58 of the 59 charges against him were dropped." . . . |
Hollywood's new epics are living (well) by the sword
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"It's as if the movie industry has been taken over by gun-control advocates, though if less violence was the goal, the ploy has flopped. Multiplexes (and DVD players) are now filled with broadsword-brandishing, �p�e-parrying action-adventure epics."
"The list goes on. The summer Disney phenom Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, with Johnny Depp doing a Keith Richards imitation as a wobbly buccaneer. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Peter Weir's recasting of Patrick O'Brian's high-seas novels featuring Russell Crowe. Then there's the back-to-the-past extravaganza Timeline and this week's Peter Pan, along with historical dramas to come..." |
TN: Two officers fired over altercation
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"New developments involving an altercation with police that ended with a man's death. Two Memphis police officers are out of a job."
"The Shelby County Attorney General has decided not to file charges against the police officers. But the Memphis Police Department fired two officers, suspended one officer without pay, and the outcome for a fourth officer is pending."
"The discipline comes after an altercation with a mental patient in April. The officers struggled with Denvey Buckley. He died after his arrest. An investigation found that the officers did not contribute to Buckley's death." |
South Africa: Disarmed victims at the mercy of thugs
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"According to Domeris two attackers robbed congregation members and three priests at gun point on Saturday morning."
"He said that Father Gerard Sharpe and father Mothusimang Makata were in their car in front of the church when two armed robbers approached them."
"They saw Father Bill Domeris walk into the church with his arms in the air only seconds earlier."
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MA: Elderly gas station attendant reduced to screaming for help during robbery
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"A feisty 70-year-old gas attendant pushed an armed robber out the front door, refusing to give up even one dollar of what the foul-mouthed perpetrator demanded." ...
"Having been the target of a robbery twice before, Bainter pushed him out the door and started screaming, 'Police! Robbery!' "
"Freeman fled to a getaway car, allegedly driven by Edward A. Vayda, 40, of Holbrook, falling once and scraping his knee, Weymouth Police Lt. Andrew Wladyka said."
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UK: Bus gun man gets 5 years
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A THUG who pulled a gun on a crowded bus and threatened to blow off a passenger's head because he had a white girlfriend has been jailed. Clifford Bryan, 35, pointed the imitation weapon at Leonard Oputa after branding him an "Uncle Tom" on the No 68 bus in Walworth on December 3 last year.
Bryan told Mr Oputa's girlfriend, Caroline Barber: "Mind bitch, your hair is in my food", Southwark Crown Court heard. He assaulted Mr Oputa and when he fought back, pulled a gun. Bryan, of Church Road, Crystal Palace, who has 13 previous convictions, was found guilty of possessing an imitation firearm.
He earlier pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of crack cocaine, and was jailed for five years on Friday. |
IN: Police providing free firearm safety kits
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"The Bristol Police Department will provide 200 free firearm safety kits to local residents through a partnership with Project ChildSafe, the nationwide firearms safety education program."
"The safety kits, which include a gun lock, will be distributed from Monday through Friday during regular business hours at the Bristol Police Department, Vistula Street." |
TX: Arrested DPS Trooper claims another trooper held him at gunpoint
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"The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper charged with vandalizing an elementary school claimed he broke into the school after fleeing from another trooper who was holding him at gunpoint."
"In an affidavit of probable cause used to obtain his arrest warrant, Trooper Joshua Shedd, 28, told an investigator that he had been drinking at a party Saturday night and early Sunday morning with Trooper Rodrigo Amaya Jr., 28, at the Waterleaf subdivision north of San Marcos."
"Shedd told Hays County Sheriff's Department investigator Teddy Grabarkewitz that he got into a fight with another person at the party and Amaya took Shedd's pistol and held it against him so Shedd would leave the party."
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MA: Spate of fatal wife-beatings last summer
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"While crime overall is down across the city and the Parkway, it seemed like a week didn't go by this summer without some new, horrible act of domestic violence taking the life of girlfriends and wives. There were none more brutal than the death of Amelia Gomez, a 49-year-old woman who was chased down in broad daylight on Archdale Road by a former boyfriend and stabbed to death in front of a large crowd of bystanders." . . .
" 'He ran down after her and pulled her out and chased her around the car, stabbing her,' said a woman who asked not to be named. 'Guys - kids 17, 18 - were trying to stop him, but they were afraid he would stab them, too.' "
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UK: Gunpoint raid horror
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"A YOUNG female receptionist today spoke of the terrifying moment an armed robber stormed into a hotel and demanded cash at gunpoint."
"Amy Taylor, 21, was working at the Oaklands Hotel in Yarmouth Road, Thorpe St Andrew, when the robber, wearing a balaclava, burst in."
"Today, the hotel's management offered a �5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman." ...
"Miss Taylor, of Sprowston, has worked at the hotel for two years and said she never expected to be robbed at gunpoint."
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Australia: More police for worst crime wave in years
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"Sydney is in the midst of one of the worst periods of violent crime in more than a decade, the Police Minister, John Watkins, has conceded."
"At least six taskforces and standing police units, involving as many as 300 officers, are investigating the gang wars in south-west Sydney, several raids on cash-in-transit security guards and a series of ram raids across the city."
"They include the Gain, Brown and Arriflex taskforces; the Metropolitan Robbery Unit; the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad; and the Firearms and Regulated Industries Crime Squad."
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UK: One-armed rapist attacked teenage girl
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"A One-armed man has been jailed for seven years for raping a 15-year-old girl he lured to a secluded field by saying money was buried there. Paul Andrew Roberts, aged 21, of Badger Avenue, Crewe, told the girl he had buried �6,000 in a field, Chester Crown Court heard yesterday."
"But when they got to the field, off Minshull New Road, in Crewe, he punched her in the face and threatened her with a knife and gun before forcing her to undress and raping her."
"The girl pleaded with him not to kill her during the hour-long ordeal, which happened while Roberts's wife was pregnant with their second child."
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DC: DC officials can't even keep weapons out of their jails, and they're expected to enforce gun laws in the city?
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"Problem of weapons at the D.C. Jail is not a new one. Correction officials say knives and guns like the one used in Saturday�s shooting are routinely found in inspections and these problems have been a persistent over the past three years."
"Officials say Swiss Army knives, steak knives, saw blades and even a 22-inch machete have been smuggled inside. They say even small weapons, as well as drugs, are sometimes tucked inside tennis balls and thrown over the jail fence and into the recreation yard."
"Some of the contraband is destroyed at the jail. Other items, such as drugs and weapons are turned over to police."
"The jail remains in lock down while investigators try to figure out how the gun got smuggled in." |
South Africa: Armed gang rob sports bar in Durban
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"Twelve men armed with AK47 assault rifles and pistols burst into a sports bar in Chatsworth Durban and robbed it of cash and firearms."
"In a separate and unrelated incident early this morning, two robbers struck a Chatsworth home, shooting and stabbing members of a family, before making their getaway with cash and cellphones. The family of four are recovering in hospital, but one is in a critical condition."
"It was a bloody attack in which the father of three, Pastor Nad Govender was the first to be hit. Hansel Govender said: 'They shot him through the door.' "
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UK: Hundreds of police in crime raids
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"More than 500 police officers have taken part in early morning raids targeting people suspected of involvement in organised crime in London."
"Scotland Yard confirmed that Operation Tiller involved the biggest number of coordinated armed raids across the capital at any one time."
"It was designed to disrupt organised crime, including drug dealing, blackmail, extortion and gun crime - particularly within the Turkish Kurdish community."
"The operation began in the early hours when officers, 90 of whom were armed, executed 15 search warrants."
"Officers made 12 arrests, recovered a loaded handgun, three firearms, three machetes, drugs and seized counterfeit currency."
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NY: Cop's Web Postings Draw Department Scrutiny... "B'klyn Cop Investigated."
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"A Brooklyn cop is being investigated for Internet postings in which he brags about beating suspects, writing phony tickets and ignoring calls to his precinct."
"The officer, identified by Internal Affairs investigators as a patrol cop who works in the 75th Precinct, uses the pseudonym 'Brooklynbacon' and posts his messages on a site accessible through Xanga.com."
"Alongside pictures of motorcycle trick riders, naked women, photographs with comical captions and pictures of human oddities, he posts messages supposedly about his job and, in some instances, his own misconduct. Any one of the offenses he describes could cost him his job."
"In railing against an unspoken traffic ticket quota he says that officers must meet -- 10 tickets per week, he contends -- he writes: 'The new commanding officer of the precinct is pressuring us to write more and more tickets. We were officially told NOT to write anymore tickets for headlights and taillights. Most people fix the problem within 24 hours and the ticket would be admonished therefore the City of New York makes no money in the end.' "
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"I won't be writing on drama ripped from the headlines this week. I will be writing on the drama silenced under terrifying government bureaucracy and elaborate funding schemes. It's not in the news. It should be." ...
"Yes, there is an elaborate funding scheme that has broken many families called the Adoption and Safe Families Act, of 1997, a baby of Hillary's. Sounds so positive on the face of it, as do many do-gooder social engineering bills. We want to create an incentive to place kids 'languishing' in foster homes in permanent forever families. So we will give "adoption bonuses" in the form of large grants to states that improve their adoption statistics. In 2002 nearly $15 million was doled out for this program,
($82 million since the start) which works out to between $4,000 and $6,000 in bonus money per child placed into an adoptive home."
"An alarming unintended consequence? More babies were being confiscated by Child Protective Services because they are more adoptable." ... |
MD: Bowie councilman may resign seat in January
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"Councilman Michael Bannister will likely resign from his seat, according to a source close to the family." ...
"Bannister (Dist. 4) may wait to resign the day of his Jan. 16 sentencing on four misdemeanor charges for second-degree assault, false imprisonment and violation of a restraining order, said the source."
"This is the first time Bowie has confronted alleged violence on the part of a top elected official. The charges stem from an April 1 incident in which Bannister allegedly went to the home of his estranged wife with a BB gun and a knapsack containing pillowcases, a bed sheet, duct tape and a box of condoms. " |
MD: Armed Robbers Attack Homeowner, Babysitter
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"Montgomery County Police are searching for a home invader on the loose in Wheaton. Police say about 8:30 a.m. Monday, two armed men hit a homeowner over the heard with a gun as he returned to his home in the 3,000 block of Medway Street."
"The attackers didn't know at first that an adult babysitter was in the home and had seen the attack. The robbers found her, but not before she notified police."
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NC: Couple argued after party (Cop shoots at girlfriend)
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"The arrest of a Winston-Salem police officer on domestic-assault charges early Saturday followed an argument when the officer and his girlfriend got lost in Davidson County, authorities said yesterday."
"Officer Oliver Ray Gilley Jr., 29, was charged by deputies with assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon, according to warrants."
"Investigators with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said that Gilley fired a gun in the direction of his girlfriend, Jessica Rae Castro, 29."
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NY: 2 Shot at RAO'S
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Once again, the legacy of gun control proves itself a myth in the face of determination.
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"A 67-year-old gunman calmly walked up to the bar at world-famous Rao's Italian Restaurant in East Harlem last night - and opened fire, coldbloodedly blasting away at a man who was drinking there, police sources said.
The gunman, identified by a source as 'old-time mobster' Louis Barone, then pursued his dying victim through the restaurant - continuing to fire away as his target stumbled off."
"The 50-year-old Yonkers man died at Metropolitan Hospital."
"A ricocheting .38-caliber bullet hit an innocent diner, Al Petraglia, who was at a nearby table, in the foot." |
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"The Libertarians are laying bare their principles again in the 2004 Ladies of Liberty Calendar. And this time, it's national. The Ladies of Liberty, that is: 16 beautiful Libertarian women who display their charms and promote their ideology in the new 2004 edition of the Ladies of Liberty calendar. The calendar is produced by North Carolina Libertarian Rachel Mills, who created the original 2003 edition of the calendar." |
UK: Gun gang in terror raid
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"AN armed gang burst into a South Yorkshire businessman's home and threatened him and his family with a gun and pick-axe handles before stealing thousands of pounds in cash." ...
"Police say the robbers threatened and intimidated the man, his 65-year-old wife and 34-year-old son, brandishing weapons in their faces and demanding they hand over cash and other valuables." ...
"Police estimate the ordeal lasted at least half-an-hour as the men threatened the family and searched their home before making off with their haul."
"The family were left completely helpless and remained tied up until the son managed to break free from the belts and flex wrapped tightly around his arms and legs. He then freed his parents and called the police." |
NJ: Another disarmed victim in Sarah Brady's gun control utopia
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"One taxi driver was assaulted and a second robbed at gun-point in apparently unrelated incidents in Jersey City, according to police reports." ...
"In the second incident, a 36-year-old resident of Tonnelle Avenue in Jersey City was dispatched to pick up two couples at Bright and Freemont streets in the Booker T. Washington Public Housing Complex yesterday at 2:30 a.m."
"When he arrived, two women and a man got into the cab's back seat, and a man wearing a ski mask got into the front seat and pointed a gun at the cabbie's stomach and demanded money, reports said." |
Canada: Toy weapon catches cops� attention
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"Lacombe Police assisted the RCMP in stopping a vehicle last week, whose occupants were suspected of carrying a restricted firearm.
Cpl. Gary Leslie said a concerned resident of Bentley phoned the police when they saw people in a vehicle examining what appeared to be a handgun."
"Police caught up with the vehicle just west of Lacombe on Highway 12 and discovered the weapon was actually a toy pellet gun purchased as a Christmas gift for their son."
"The weapon, a replica of a Glock pistol, was complete with a silencer and laser sight, and according to police, did look very much like a real gun." |
Canada: Officer dead in murder-suicide
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A police officer and his wife were found dead in their Kingston home Tuesday morning in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
Police say Const. Ian Nicholson, 42, used his service gun to shoot himself and his wife Maureen, 39.
Police responded to a 911 call made from the suburban neighbourhood by the couple's 12-year-old daughter.
Nicholson was a court security officer, and had been with the force since 1982.
"This is truly a sad day for the Kingston police," Chief Bill Closs said in a statement. "We mourn the loss and pray for the families of Ian and Maureen, and especially for their young daughter." |
Australia: Ruling will cost gold
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"SHOOTING champion Michael Diamond will be unable to compete at Olympic selection trials next month after an assault case against him was yesterday adjourned until January 20."
"The delay has almost certainly destroyed 31-year-old Diamond's dream of a third successive Olympic gold medal."
"Magistrate Paula Russell adjourned the case in the Queanbeyan Local Court on an application from the prosecution."
"The suspension of Diamond's gun licence will remain in place until then, ruling him out of selection trials that begin in Sydney on January 9." |
Kenya: Kibaki aide's gun mishap will not be probed
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"Police will not investigate how a gun belonging to an aide of President Kibaki went off at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, causing a security scare."
"They are treating the incident involving Mr Esau Kioni � the President's personal security adviser � as an accident."
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Australia: Robbery victims shaken
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"SHAKEN family owners of the Leopold Post Office received counselling yesterday after Monday's armed hold-up."
"Owner Linda Smith and her 17-year-old daughter were serving at the counter when the gun-wielding man jumped the counter and demanded money."
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KY: Too lifelike for comfort
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"The authentic look of the guns is troubling. Already police in Northern Kentucky have rushed with sirens screaming and adrenaline flowing to at least one false alarm, when a Florence shop worker spotted four young men with the guns behind her store and thought a robbery was about to happen. The men said they were filming a low-budget movie; the guns are also used in games similar to paint-ball battles."
"Given the guns' popularity and lifelike look, it's a matter of time before someone gets hurt." |
NY: Futile attempts at control
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"Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled his zero tolerance policy for school violence, it includes the same strategy used by the NYPD to dramatically cut street crime." ...
"One of the first things the mayor wants to do is identify the 10 or so worst schools in the city, and then appoint a crisis team who will go into each one of those schools, flood the place with police officers. And then come up with a plan to fix the problem." |
PA: Merchant offers indoor 'shooting range'
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"The 10-point whitetail stops momentarily at the edge of the clearing, poised to raise its tail in alarm and bound away if anything is amiss."
"Twenty yards away the hunter stands unmoving and ready, arrow notched, peering through the sights of his drawn bow. When the animal stops broadside momentarily the arrow is loosed and speeds to its target, hitting the critical area just behind the buck's front shoulder with a resounding thud."
"A small round red area appears where the arrow struck. However, the area is darker just to one side."
"The hunter's friend, who until now had been keenly watching, bursts into laughter and slaps the shooter on the back with one hand and points to the number 8 that appears just above the buck." |
NY: Amazing transformation: public schools into medium security prisons
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"Public schools aren't as a crime-free as the schools chancellor claims, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller said yesterday."
"At a news conference with several members of the council and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, Miller said violent crime is going up in city schools and urged the chancellor and mayor to act faster to address the problem." ...
"Miller's plan includes oversight hearings about crime next month, a new study to determine how many new school safety officers are needed, a 'zero tolerance' policy for disruptive students, and installing metal detectors, putting panic buttons/intercoms in all classrooms and establishing an anonymous school crime reporting hot line." |
MN: Lawmaker Arrested After Gun Found In Carry-On Luggage
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"State Rep. Dick Borrell, R-Waverly, was arrested by police at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after baggage screeners found a loaded derringer in his carry-on luggage."
"After a screening machine detected the pistol Saturday, Borrell was handcuffed at a checkpoint, then charged with failing to disclose the weapon, which was confiscated. He was allowed to continue his trip on a later flight. He faces a Feb. 12 hearing on the misdemeanor charge in Hennepin County District Court."
"Borrell told police that he forgot the weapon was in his carry-on luggage. He said Monday that he had failed to empty the bag that he normally takes with him on driving trips." ...
"Amy von Walter, regional spokeswoman for the federal Transportation Security Administration, said Borrell's weapons arrest was one of seven such episodes at a Minneapolis-St. Paul checkpoint since the federal agency took over airport screening in November 2002."
"...She added that Borrell did not receive special treatment when he was allowed to continue his trip. It is standard procedure across the country to allow someone caught with a weapon to continue air travel 'depending on intent,' she said."
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South Africa: Youth raped, welcomed "to world of Aids"; Cops laugh
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"An East Rand man who was told, 'Welcome to the world of Aids', after being forced at pistol point to have sex with three women in their 30s, police reported on Tuesday."
"Superintendent Andy Pieke said the highly traumatised 18-year-old was told by the women after his ordeal: 'Welcome to the world of Aids'."
"The youth reported the alleged sexual assault to the Tsakane police station commander on Tuesday after an earlier attempt to lay a charge resulted in officers laughing at him and refusing to open a case."
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With one of the highest AIDS infection rates in the world, anyone being raped in South Africa is handed a potential death sentence, yet the government continues to disarm its peons, forcing them to depend on repugnant pigs like the above cops for their protection. |
IL: Illinois Ex-Governor Pleads Innocent to Corruption
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"Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to corruption charges and accused the federal government of conducting an investigation that he said had torn apart his life." ...
"I want to respond to the almost six years of the abuse of my family and my friends that I have endured as the federal government has torn apart my personal life with the intrusive and overbearing investigation..." ...
"The indictment handed up on Dec. 17 alleged Ryan and associates profited from kickbacks from people who won lucrative state contracts and leases. Ryan received illegal cash payments, gifts, vacations and personal services while serving as both secretary of state and governor from 1991 to early 2003, the indictment alleged." |
UK: Masked raiders caught on film
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"The robbers, one wearing a baby-pink coloured balaclava, burst into the Huttons store in Moss Lane, Fazakerley, on Saturday night (December 19)."
"One pointed the gun at terrified staff before fleeing with the contents of the till."
"Staff were left unhurt but shaken by the ordeal, which was caught on the off-licence's CCTV system."
"The men entered the store at around 9.30pm with their faces covered. One man was waving what appeared to be a pistol." |
South Africa: Commissioner shocked by prison guard killings and suicide
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"The Commissioner of Correctional Services, Linda Mti, expressed shock at an incident in which an official of the Boksburg Community Corrections offices shot dead two of his supervisors before turning the gun on himself."
"Marcus Rantho shot his seniors around noon on Sunday and then shot himself with his service pistol on himself."
"The motive for the shooting was unclear. The names of Rantho's two victims are Hezekiel Sibeko and Nomsa Florence Masilela."
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But Sarah Brady says only government agents are stable, professional and responsible enough to have guns! |
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