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NY: Shooting reported in N.Y. City Hall
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"A gunman opened fire from a balcony in the City Council chamber at New York's City Hall, shooting a man multiple times before being shot himself, witnesses told CNN." ...
"We do not know how someone got a gun into the building... Obviously, there was a breakdown someplace. Somebody got an unauthorized gun into City Hall, and tragically used it."
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That's right. In a city with some of the most stringent gun control in the country, in a building where people are not allowed to carry for personal protection, someone sneaked a gun into the building and killed another human being. What does this tell you about the efficacy of gun control? |
Feds don't track airline watchlist mishaps
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"The government has no idea how many air travelers are being subjected to delays and missed flights because of confusion over security watchlists, according to interviews and internal Transportation Security Administration documents."
" 'There are some bugs in the system,' acknowledged TSA spokesman Brian Turmail in a phone interview. Because there is no centralized computer system for TSA to monitor the number of people wrongly flagged by airlines..." |
MD: Question of the Day
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Click on "? Of the Day" on the right hand side of the page, and look for the below question on the right.
"Do you think Maryland citizens should be allowed to carry handguns for protection?"
98% Yes. 2% No.
Assistant Attorney General Mark H. Bowen argued: "There have been no threats against him, no attacks upon him and his general statement of 'I'm a citizen and I need a gun,' is not substantial reason to have a permit."
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Will the U.N. confiscate America's weapons? (Letter)
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FULL TEXT BELOW:
Regarding "U.N. seeking global gun control?": "By any measure the United States is the most armed country in the world," the report said. "With roughly 83 to 96 guns per 100 people, the United States is approaching a statistical level of one gun per person."
Well, we're working on it, you globalist pinkos, one shall-issue state at a time. Hopefully, we'll achieve at least 5 guns per person, with every adult having (and many carrying) at least one handgun.
Tell the truth: Are you truly horrified, or just jealous?
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UK: Gun permits at all-time low
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"The number of firearms and shotgun certificates issued in Scotland has dropped to its lowest recorded level, new figures show."
"There were just under 80,000 certificates at the end of 2002, a drop of nearly 4,000 from the previous year."
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A Scotland full of disarmed sheeple. |
Brazil: Brazilians call for gun controls
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"The legislation, which could be passed as early as next month, would make it much harder for Brazilians to buy handguns and impose tough prison sentences for illegal gun ownership in a country with one of the world's highest murder rates."
"It also calls for a referendum in 2005 on a complete ban on gun sales similar that enforced in Britain."
" 'It's got to start. They've got to get rid of the guns,' said Marcia, who had a pistol put against her head and was robbed of her company's cash one afternoon in the business district of the capital Brasilia. She asked that her real name not be used for personal reasons."
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Did it ever occur to this mindless, victimized sheep that had she had a firearm to defend herself with, she would be less likely to be a victim? Don't Brazilians read about the skyrocketing gun crime rates in Britain despite their gun control laws? |
DC: Defenseless in DC
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"Sen. Hatch's bill has Democrats sputtering about 'home rule' since it would overturn a city law, but they'd rather not talk about gun control per se so close to an election year. I don't blame them."
"There's no correlation between tough gun laws and lower crime. Indeed all the liberal prognostication on Florida's 'right to carry' law, the first in the nation in 1987, proved wrong. Not only did Florida's streets not turn into public shooting galleries, as liberals predicted, but 24 other states have followed suit. There has been no discernible increase in violence as a result and not a single conviction of a permit-holder for killing an innocent party."
"Sen. Hatch has the right idea. Treat D.C. residents like responsible grownups-and citizens entitled to Second Amendment protection." |
RI: Give a Boy a Gun: A must-read for both parents and students
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"Perhaps the only reading that Coventry's school administrators should place on the required reading list is the instructions for the game Candyland - because apparently that's where some parents think their children live."
"School officials do not (and should not) have all-encompassing power on what children read. However, we're sure that Todd Strasser's Give a Boy a Gun surely got its due in roundtable discussion among school officials before they placed it on the required reading list." |
RI: Give a Boy a Clue: Make'em read the book
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"Since the tragic events at Columbine High School in 1999, the popular scapegoat of the American public has been modern entertainment. Their fingers point at action movies, ultra-realistic video games, and questionable song lyrics."
"Rarely are their fingers directed back at themselves." ...
"The recent controversy over Todd Strasser's book, Give a Boy a Gun, and its presence on the Coventry High School's required reading list continues to be a hot-button topic."
"...peppered throughout the text are relevant quotes and statistics about gun control and teen violence. In the back of the book, a list of senseless massacres is printed. Also, the author asks children not to follow the same path these tortured youths took and calls for stricter gun laws to be enacted." |
NH: Too many concealed-gun permits issued in N.H.
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"Guns are used for hunting, target-shooting and, when there is a real threat against the gun owner, self-protection. In all three cases, there is no need to conceal the weapon."
"But here in New Hampshire, the ability to carry a concealed weapon is a highly prized and protected privilege, whether or not there is a threat against the owner. . . . but it also leads to far too many hidden guns being carried into public places all across the state."
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IN: IPS police officer fired after arrest in gun case
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"A member of the Indianapolis Public Schools Police Department was fired Tuesday after she was arrested on felony firearms charges."
"Monica L. Gray, 25, was charged with carrying a handgun without a license and obstruction of justice. Those charges were filed Monday, and a judge issued a $7,500 warrant for her arrest. Gray was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and was being held at the Marion County Lockup." |
Can You Fight City Hall?
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"My experience has taught me that individuals can and do make a difference when they become involved at the local level. Here we find the essential key to throwing off chains created by an overbearing Nanny State. We must learn to reassert ourselves as true independent citizens and reclaim our stolen birthright, which is control of government. You should never miss the city/county council or commission meetings in your local area. If you have children, and even if you do not, you should never miss a school board meeting. Anywhere the State meets you should be there to witness it first hand and use your presence and voice to oppose each new link in the chain of our bondage as it is forged. You must be willing to speak in public before endless boards in the fight to close down the foundry that produces the shackles of regulation. You must be willing to call for and support the repeal of useless laws to help preserve your freedom and that of generations that will follow. Show up, you can fight City Hall." |
KS: Police investigate gun scare on KU campus
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"Police shut down Kansas University's Wescoe Hall briefly Wednesday morning after a man was seen entering the building carrying a rifle."
"The man turned out to be a KU history instructor who had an antique Civil War-era rifle that he planned to show his class later in the day, authorities said." ...
" 'Everybody should know better than to carry around a gun openly in this day and age,' said Dodie Coker, a secretary in the Philosophy Department.
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UK: �25,000 stolen in gun robbery
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"Armed robbers got away with an estimated �25,000 after holding up a security guard at a city building society in the third gun raid in 24 hours." ...
"A masked man carrying a handgun approached the security guard and forced him to hand over the cash box he was delivering to the Coventry Building Society, in Holbrook Lane, Holbrooks yesterday." |
NY: New York Councilman James Davis Killed in Shooting (Update)
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"New York City Councilman James Davis was killed when a political opponent opened fire during a meeting at City Hall, officials said. The gunman was killed by a police officer." ...
"Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly identified the shooter as Othniel Askew, who had filed papers to run against Davis this fall. Askew entered City Hall with Davis and was allowed to avoid the screening devices used to check visitors for guns."
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MD: Police union says thieves targeting patrol cruisers
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"Recent reported break-ins of county police vehicles should be expected with the high rate of thefts from autos in the county, contend officials with the Prince George's County Fraternal Order of Police."
"Earlier this month, unknown suspects broke into two police cruisers in Lanham--one a fully equipped police car, the other unmarked--and stole one police-issue shotgun, two bullet-proof vests, two protective helmets and other pieces of equipment." ...
" 'I don't think there's an epidemic of our cars being broken into,' said Alston, vice president of FOP 89. 'The police department is just a microcosm of the community.' "
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Australia: Fine for attempt to grab officer's gun
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"A 69-year-old man who lunged for a police officer's gun during an incident at a Burumbeet property escaped with a fine yesterday."
"Alan James Creelman of Edmonston Rd, Burumbeet pleaded guilty in Ballarat Magistrates Court to reckless conduct endangering serious injury and failing to store a firearm correctly."
"The court heard Creelman tried to wrestle a revolver from the holster of a police officer who had attended at his property on May 30 this year." ... |
Hate and Punishment
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"...Suppose there were three men named Furrow, each of whom killed from a different motive. Alfred Furrow shot a letter carrier because he had taken out a life-insurance policy on him and wanted to collect the benefits. Buford Furrow shot one because he disliked people of different ethnic backgrounds. Charles Furrow shot one because he wanted to prove to fellow gang members that he was a tough guy."
"Legally, these crimes are identical. That is, they all constitute premeditated murder." ... |
Second Amendment Cases Full of 'Legal Trickery'
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"A senior official with a pro-Second Amendment group is charging gun control advocates of manipulating the legal system to find better venues for cases involving firearm manufacturers and whether they should be held liable in cases where guns are used to commit crimes." |
House thumbs its nose at FCC's media cap
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"The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would prevent media companies from buying more TV stations, despite a veto threat from the president and the wishes of Republican Party leaders." ...
"Opponents of the FCC decision, which range from non-network station groups to the National Rifle Assn., said it would give giant broadcast corporations too much clout, at the expense of communities and a diversity of voices." |
Australia: Teen charged with air rifle shootings
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A teenager will face court today after firing shots from an air rifle at vehicles near a service station in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
Police said several vehicles were damaged in the incident which occurred at the BP Service Station ...yesterday.
No-one was injured in the incident.
A 17-year-old male will face charges of wilful damage, possession of an air rifle and failing to secure a weapon in Toowoomba Magistrate's Court today. |
U.S. House takes aim at Patriot Act
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"The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to roll back a key provision, which allows the government to conduct secret 'sneak and peek' searches of private property, of a sweeping anti-terrorism law ..."
"The House voted 309-118 to attach the provision to a US$37.9 billion bill funding the departments of Commerce, State and Justice. It would be the first change in the controversial USA Patriot Act since the law was enacted in October, 2001." |
Homeland Security director speaks in San Francisco
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"Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge boasted Wednesday about America's improved security to about 600 people inside a posh hotel, while about 200 protesters outside questioned whether Ridge's department should exist at all."
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Feds Criticizes House Vote on Patriot Act
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"The Justice Department raised strong objections Wednesday to a surprising House vote against covert 'sneak and peek' searches in criminal investigations, a move that sponsors said reflected civil liberties concerns raised by the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act." |
CA: California to Hold Recall Vote on Governor
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"California officials said on Wednesday they had verified enough voter signatures to force an unprecedented special election to determine whether unpopular Gov. Gray Davis will keep his job."
"The Secretary of State's office said it had certified well above the threshold of 897,158 voter signatures needed to put a popular no-confidence vote on the governor onto a ballot to be held as soon as September." |
We made it!
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"In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. Before government got into the business of protecting us from ourselves, we did have a greater measure of protection from others. Yesteryear's children rode their bikes or walked to a friend's house, knocked on the door and let themselves in. Many families didn't lock doors until the last family member was home for the evening, and they did that in poor neighborhoods ..." |
NJ: This firearms trainer shoots back at users
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"Police firearms training in Gloucester County took a giant step forward Monday with the installation of a video system that's so realistic it shoots back."
"It's the latest version of FATS, the FireArms Training System which uses realistic scenarios projected life-size from DVDs through a sophisticated computer rig." |
UT: Court considers jailing abusers who have guns
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"A ruling confirming that authorities can petition a judge to hold these defendants in jail could be imperative for public safety in Utah, prosecutors claim in court papers. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Bearnson noted that the federal government has created Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program to combat gun crime, and that authorities in Utah have filed approximately 500 firearms cases in the state in the past year and a half." |
TN: When it's O-K to shoot to protect yourself and your family
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"Bill Gibbons has a warning, protecting your property with deadly force is not justifiable. Gibbons said, 'Essentially a person cannot use deadly force in self defense merely to protect personal property. A person has to believe that his or her life is in jeopardy.' In fact, state law spells it out: The person must have a reasonable belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury." |
WV: Lawsuit targets Sunday hunting bans
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"The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is taking aim at Sunday hunting bans."
"The group filed a lawsuit Monday asking the Ritchie Circuit Court to declare voter-approved Sunday hunting prohibitions unconstitutional." |
Kids And Firearms
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"Everyday, 10 American children ages 18 and under are killed in handgun suicide, homicides and accidents."
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And how many of those are gang-related deaths or deaths in the commission of a crime?
"Nearly 3,000 teens use handguns to commit suicide every year."
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So 8 out of those 10 "child deaths" are suicides.
"An estimated 400,000 youngsters carried handguns to school in 1987." ...
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Canada: The Issue Isn't Gun Control But State Control
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"... I'm with the protesters. Canada's gun control legislation is moronic. For one thing, it's almost comically wasteful in fiscal terms. For another, it's designed to operate on the law-abiding, without touching the outlaw. People who register their firearms rarely use them for crimes, and people who use their firearms for crimes rarely register them."
"The law's net effect is to diminish public safety rather than enhance it..." |
South Africa: Armed men terrorise families in suburbs
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"It was a family man's nightmare: 14 armed men ransacking his secure home and terrifying his children while he and his wife lay bound and helpless."
"This scenario was played out in not one but two upmarket northern suburbs townhouse complexes on Monday night, and could well be a new type of robbery."
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NJ: Teens arrested in drive-by shooting of Stafford Twp. house
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"Police on Tuesday were investigating the drive-by shooting with a pellet gun of an Ocean Acres home Monday evening by three teenagers."
"Police arrested the trio, two brothers from Barnegat and a boy from Stafford, after a neighbor called to report the incident." ...
"Along with possession of a .177 caliber rifle, the boys also had less than 50 grams of marijuana in the car, police said."
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Australia: Musician's fingers cut off in attack
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"A British saxophonist studying in Australia may never play again after having three fingers chopped off in an attack by armed men."
"Two men in balaclavas broke into his house in Brisbane on Monday night, tying up and gagging his two flatmates with electrical tape and dousing one with petrol."
"Armed with a pistol and hatchet, they watched television for two hours while they waited for Mr Evans to return and grabbed him as he came through the front door." |
CA: Public Handgun Safety Class for Women (Press Release)
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"The California Chapter of Armed Females of America is sponsoring a free handgun safety class for women on July 26, 2003 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the West Hollywood Park between Robertson Blvd and San Vicente and bordering Santa Monica Blvd. There is no requirement to pre-register for this class."
"Instructors certified by the California Department of Justice will conduct this training." ... |
MI: Onsted girl suffers severe bites before dog is fatally shot
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"A Michigan State Police trooper shot and killed a pit bull terrier Monday after it attacked a 14-year-old Morenci girl."
"The girl was baby-sitting a 6-year-old boy at the boy's residence in the 200 block of East LaGrange Street in Morenci when the dog attacked at 8:50 p.m."
"The girl suffered severe bite wounds to her right foot and minor bites to her right hand, troopers said."
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