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Gunning for A Bad Book
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"What has become Bellesiles�s nightmare began when a historian, suspecting nothing and hoping to build upon Bellesiles�s data, asked for more details about the 18th- and early-19th-century probate records that Bellesiles says show that guns were infrequently listed among the estates of deceased people."
"When Bellesiles�s evasive response led to more tugging on the threads of his argument, it unraveled. The unraveling revealed a pattern of gross misstatements of facts and unfounded conclusions." |
Airport 'Security'
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"for the first time, I had something confiscated."
"Was it the yo-yo, a great boredom reliever and aboriginal hunting weapon? ...the Fisher space pen, 2.5 inches of machined steel that makes a wonderful dan-bon? ...the pile of loose change, which together with the handkerchief and a bit of dental floss makes a nifty blackjack?"
"According to the nice lady that searched me, the most dangerous thing I had was: A roll of electrical tape. Her explanation: I "might tie up somebody's hands with it." |
Browning caught in bureaucracy tangle
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"The US State Department has imposed legislation which says that arms exported from the USA must stay in the country to which they are sent � and cannot be re-exported. While clearly intended to stop ... small arms in countries that either condone or participate in terrorist activities, this move has ensnared Browning�s European distribution in its wake � chiefly because America does not recognise the European Union as a single market for the purposes of this legislation." |
BATF bureaucracy - from a UK viewpoint
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"The crazy world of gun imports to the USA gets crazier still as America�s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) clarifies its regulations on people entering the USA in order to go shooting. It looks like it leaves shooting ranges out in the cold and it�s bad news for anyone transferring to a different flight at a US airport." |
GA: Stop NRA Endorsement of Roy Barnes (Petition)
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To: James Baker at NRA-ILA
"We, the undersigned, as citizens of the United States, do hereby claim our disgust and distrust of Georgia's governor Roy Barnes, his dictatorship-style of ruling and disregard for the will of the people and therefore; wholeheartedly object to another four years of Roy Barnes as governor and do not wish the NRA, or any other organization of which we are members, to make any official endorsements of Roy Barnes for any office now or in the future." |
Germany Shows Us the Failures of a Foolish Policy
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Gun Control Doesn't Work -- "After September 11th, there have been many calls to arm our pilots, but the anti-gun lobby has contained this discussion with their usual scare tactics. How can we trust our pilots with a big Boeing, that has proven to be much more effective weapon than a gun, but not trust them with a personal gun? Imagine the scene aboard one of the Sept.11 aircraft if one of those pilots had been armed with a 10mm pistol and frangible ammunition." |
Whose aim is true on guns?
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"A change of policy can be advantageous to people on both sides of an issue. In fact, the debate over the 2nd Amendment is one of those cases."
"If the Supreme Court were to embrace a new interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, both sides would have to stop fantasizing and start dealing rationally with how to balance the rights of gun owners with the safety of everyone else. It may take Ashcroft's "extremism" to foster moderation." |
Readers "React" to defensive firearm series in Times-Dispatch
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"Bill Jenkins doesn't buy the argument that if his son had carried a gun, he would be alive today. He was ambushed, so even if he had had a gun, it wouldn't have done him any good."
"Jenkins said he knows where he can get the help to make those things happen: "When we're victimized ... we don't go to the NRA for help. We go to the gun control people." |
UK: Owner set to quit after robberies
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"An (knife-)armed robber escaped with �150 ($220) after targeting a convenience store in the eighth raid in the city in three weeks... shop assistant Rex Berry, 60, suffered horrific injuries after he was attacked by a robber with a 12-inch knife at Stuarts."
"Bill Pepper, who owns both shops, told the Evening News he was considering throwing in the towel because of the constant attacks. Raiders have struck at his shops five times in three weeks." |
CO: Columbine records detail search warrant
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THIRD STORY DOWN PAGE
"Hours after Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School, authorities obtained search warrants for their homes using year-old evidence."
"Sheriff's officials had said in 1998 there wasn't enough evidence of a crime to pursue reports that Harris and Klebold were threatening others and making bombs. ... [in 1999] those 1998 reports were used to obtain search warrants, according to documents released Friday." |
Canada: Guns in the family
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"As more women take up shooting, some moms find a day at the range helps bring the family together."
"The silver-haired 59-year-old grandmother -- who's co-owner with her husband of the Ozark Shooters Sport Complex, a gun shop and shooting range in Walnut Shade, Mo. -- is well trained in all manners of gunwomanship, and makes sure the rest of the females in the family are too." |
CO: Truth, honor are what were concealed in gun-bill debate
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"Whatever your views on guns, you should be happy that HB1410 is finally dead. ... The sponsorship of this concealed-weapons bill was disingenuous, cowardly and irresponsible."
"When I pointed out to him that House Speaker Doug Dean, a strong gun supporter, was among those who said that the bill did, in fact, pre-empt local control, Chlouber sputtered something about the value of uniformity in handing out conceal-carry permits." |
ID: Libertarian wants to serve in DC � if he can take his machine gun
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"Should Steve Gothard become the first Libertarian ever elected to Congress, his biopic would be called, �Mr. Smith & Wesson goes to Washington.�
"But he says he won�t serve unless he gets a waiver of the District of Columbia�s tough gun-control laws, allowing him to carry his Smith & Wesson .38 special and his Heckler and Koch 9mm machine gun." |
PA: Student drops gun in school yard; mother arrested
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"The boy's mother, Lori Headen, 39, of the 5200 block of Hazel Street, told authorities she had found the gun in her basement about a month ago but could not remember what she had done with it, police said. Headen was charged with weapons offenses and endangering the welfare of children." |
CO: Guns still in political cross hairs
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"Six years ago, the Democratic Party put guns in its political cross hairs. Trying to help Senate candidate Tom Strickland, the party mailed brochures with dramatic photos of a cemetery burial service and a blunt headline: "How many more will die before Wayne Allard votes to ban assault weapons?"
"Oh, how times have changed. Strickland is trying again to win a Senate seat from Allard, but he's campaigning with a different message. "We don't need any more gun control," Strickland said." |
Bearing Arms: Latest Stories from the Times-Dispatch
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* Display of gun repelled intruders * These dogs not mens' best friends * Market owner tried negotiating * Near-dead with a toy gun in hand
* and an anti-gun biased poll: "If you were put in the same position as these store owners, would you use a gun to defend yourself?" - I'd like to think I would. - No, but I'm glad they did. - I could never use a gun. - Too dangerous, I'm not that brave.
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'Zero Tolerance' Policy Doesn't Make the Grade
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"Is the cure worse than the illness? Some of the ridiculous outcomes in our public school districts make one wonder. I am grousing about "zero tolerance" in our schools these days, i.e., zero tolerance as applied to weapons and drugs in particular." |
G8 Justice Ministers Focus on 'Terrorism, Crime'
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"Meeting for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks forced governments to rethink security, justice officials from the world's richest countries gather in an off-season Quebec ski resort on Sunday for talks on countering a global terrorist threat."
"The discussions, which last until Tuesday, prepare the ground for a June summit of the Group of Eight industrialized countries -- host nation Canada, along with Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States." |
Friends of Hillary Clinton Influencing UN Agenda on Children
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"As the United Nations opens its Special Session on Children, two feminists with close ties to Hillary Clinton will be playing significant roles. Carol Bellamy is the executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), and Kati Marton, the ex-wife of ABC World News Tonight anchorman Peter Jennings, is a representative for the U.N. Office for Children in Armed Conflict." |
MI: MCRGO Unveils New Program: Women Aware
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"Women Aware, founded by Neva LaRue (MCRGO Thumb Area Chapter Chair and MCRGO Foundation Board member) and Jessica Lutz (MCRGO Oakland County - East Chapter Chair), is a program for the advancement of women in firearm issues. The goals are to encourage womens involvement in firearm activism, education, and self-defense. Please stop by the new website, under the Shooting Sports link, or at Women Aware." |
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"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law." --Francis Bacon, From "The Essays of Counsels, Civil and Moral" |
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