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"The federal assault-weapons ban, scheduled to expire in September, is not responsible for the nation's steady decline in gun-related violence and its renewal likely will achieve little, according to an independent study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)." ...
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Federal agents added to flights
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"Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson yesterday told senators that Secret Service agents and other armed federal officials are being used to bolster the Federal Air Marshal Service's efforts to guard airplanes from terrorist attacks." ...
"The Washington Times reported Monday that less than five percent of 35,000 daily flights are protected by federal air marshals and that fewer than 3,000 out of nearly 100,000 pilots have been trained to carry guns in the cockpit." ...
"Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, called the low numbers 'pathetic' and demanded that the committee receive a report on the exact numbers."
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Second Amendment "Freaks"?
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... "Then there are the gun freaks who have their cylinders spinning."
"A woman whose husband killed their grandson before then killing himself has suggested a 5-day waiting period for handgun purchases should be extended to include those guns purchased from private sellers."
"Of course 2nd Amendment freaks think that's unconstitutional."
"But then those kind of people think .38 caliber pistols make great baby shower gifts."
"I think changing the law should be a no-brainer, which - given our legislature and the NRA - means that's not likely." ...
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Ban on assault weapons due to expire
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"Congress-ional officials expect that the 1994 federal ban on "assault weapons" will expire Sept. 13 although similar legislation passed this year in the Senate, and a bill co-authored by U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, awaits consideration in the House."
"Critics of the existing law, enacted during the Clinton Administration, argue that it covers primarily 'cosmetic' aspects of firearms not related to lethality."
"Statistics about the weapons, however, speak for themselves, argued U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3." ...
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Yes, they do. According to the NIJ and the CDC, the ban has had no effect on crime. None. Nada. Zero. Bupkiss. |
Keeping Guns Out of Children's Hands
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"When it comes to children and guns, there is some good news to report: According to a national study published in June in the journal Pediatrics, the rate of both fatal and nonfatal injuries inflicted by guns on children 14 and younger declined by more than 50 percent in the 1990's." ... |
Letter from America: The gun culture counts in presidential politics
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... "'Everyone here wants guns - it's a basic freedom, a basic right,' said Pat Rawlings, a soft-spoken middle aged mother of two, waiting for a hairdresser appointment in this quaint leafy Civil War town. 'Particularly in these times, you have to start down at the grass roots and allow people to defend themselves.'" ...
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A surprising pseduo-editorial written by (gasp!) a reporter from the New York Times. While she clearly offers the gun owners' perspective, it's also pretty obvious, in parts of the article, that she's not exactly itching to cozy up to a pro-gun stance. |
Candidate Clueless on U.S. Constitution
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... "The state Senator from Chicago said he supports the 2nd Amendment rights of hunters and sportsmen to have guns. However, he supports renewal of the assault weapons ban that expires this year. He said the gun control issue needs to be reasonable for the entire state, and in the Chicago area, cheap handguns and other weapons create problems."...
Poster's Note: 1) The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution does not mention hunting or sportshooting. 2) "Reasonable gun control" is an oxymoron. 3) I wasn't aware that an inexpensive firearm (or any "other weapon" for that matter) was any more capable of "creating problems" than a crowbar or baseball bat. 4) Chicago already has some very stringent "reasonable" gun laws. Bah. |
On 'brandishing'
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"The Virginia Citizens Defense League Inc., a Beltway-based Second Amendment group, has complained about the use of "brandishing" in our Aug. 9 editorial 'Extend the ban.'"
"The VCDL points out that the word "brandish" describes a criminal violation under the Virginia Code."
"However, league members were perfectly within their legal rights to wear their guns visibly...In a sense, the VCDL members were exercising not only their Second Amendment rights, but also their First Amendment rights, about which journalists are as zealous as any Smith & Wesson aficionado."
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KABA wonders how the editors would feel if we changed their sentence slightly from:
"For example, the gun zealots who participated in a recent series of gun-brandishing incidents in Northern Virginia only threaten the rights of those who use and keep their arms responsibly" to
"For example, the integration zealots who participated in a recent series of lunch-counter sharing incidents in Northern Virginia only threaten the rights of those coloreds who use their civil rights responsibly"? |
The 2nd Amendment: The Original Homeland Security
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"A few weeks ago in an article titled, 'Conscription, Standing Armies, and Love of Country' I wrote that the Federal Government had outlawed the state militias mentioned in the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was incorrect. The state militias have been 'nationalized' into the 'National Guard' and are now being used unconstitutionally for foreign occupations. Governors across the country are complaining to the Bush administration that their National Guard units are being depleted for the War in Iraq, and that they do not have enough manpower to handle emergencies in their home states." ... |
Universities: Tyranny's Breeding Grounds
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... "Adams was hired and became tenured as a liberal atheist Democrat. Although he was not on a religious pilgrimage, he ended up becoming a Christian, and eventually a conservative Republican. There went the neighborhood!"
"Adams had an epiphany on the gun issue while he was still a card carrying PC non-thinker. Some college friends of his were murdered and he had to travel past that spot every day on his way to the job that put him through school. While still a socialist in good standing, he bought a gun and joined the NRA."
"... Adams said that in fact, looking back, it would be fair to say that the decision to buy a gun was a decision to rely on himself for his own safety, and not to rely on the government." ... |
MA: It's Not the Weapon, It's the Criminal, Gun Group Says
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"A Second Amendment group says recent press reports out of Boston prove the point that criminals, not guns, are the problem."
"'For years, the gun rights community has insisted that even if there were no guns, criminals would resort to some other type of weapon. The Massachusetts situation proves that point,' said Joe Waldron, executive director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
"On Monday, the Boston Globe reported on the growing use of machetes by Hispanic gang members. One police detective quoted by the newspaper said in the past few years, police have confiscated at least 50 machetes that were used in crimes." ... |
KY: Will liberal politicians guard constitutional rights?
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"For most of my life, I have fought for the people's right to keep and bear arms, as our Constitution plainly calls for in the people's Bill of Rights. Actually, my concerns have not been limited to the Second Amendment alone but also to a great portion of that guarantee of rights given to us by our founding fathers. ..."
"On March 2 of this year, presidential candidate John Kerry, along with his liberal friends, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Ted Kennedy and other ultra-liberal senators, voted to ban the semi-automatic shotguns used by hunters, also to ban semi-automatic rifles like the little .22 so many use to hunt small game or just plink at targets. ..." ... |
WA: More time for gun crime
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"No gun-toting felon bent on committing a crime is likely to be suddenly dissuaded by a marketing slogan on a billboard or radio ad. So there may be that silly side to local implementation of the national Project Safe Neighborhoods program. But cracking down on criminals who use firearms is serious and sound law enforcement policy."
"The campaign grew out of Richmond, Va., and its Project Exile, encouraged by gun-rights groups, among others. Richmond's gun-related homicides fell markedly under the program." ...
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MN: Doctor arrested after refusing to draw blood from homicide suspect.
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"A doctor working at Hennepin County Medical Center was arrested early Saturday after he refused requests from police and a judge to draw blood from a homicide suspect without the man's consent."
"Police said the man had been drinking alcohol when he allegedly stabbed a man to death in north Minneapolis about 2:40 a.m. Saturday. Police eventually obtained a court order and had another doctor draw blood about 9 a.m., five hours after the suspect arrived at the hospital, police Capt. Rich Stanek said." ...
"The doctor was arrested, questioned and released pending further investigation, Stanek said. Police are seeking obstruction charges against the doctor on suspicion of impeding the homicide investigation, Stanek said." ...
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NY: NYPD Detective Arrested In Internet Pedophile Sting
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A New York City police detective has been arrested in connection with an Internet pedophile sting operation.
Police said Monday they have arrested Michael Lapine on charges of attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor.
Investigators say that for the past six months, Lapine had been participating in sexually explicit online conversations with an investigator posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Officers arrested Lapine in Westchester when he attempted to meet the minor.
Lapine is a detective assigned to the Brooklyn North Anti-Crime Unit. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted. |
SC: Horry County Officer Arrested On Kidnapping, Assault Charges
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A 27-year-old Horry County police officer has been charged with kidnapping and assault.
Horry County Police Chief Johnny Morgan says Bryan David Weich of Garden City has been suspended.
An arrest warrant says Weich entered a Surfside Beach home on August Eleventh with a pistol and woke a man, asking where he could find a woman. An affidavit says Weich made the man drive with him to a motel in Murrells Inlet and that Weich showed his badge to the desk clerk to get information about the woman.
An affidavit says on Sunday, Weich went to a Garden City home where the woman was sleeping, broke into the house, woke her up, forced her to the floor and kicked her repeatedly.
Weich has been with the department for six months.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating. |
HI: Ex-detective gets life term
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"Former Big Island police Detective Albert Pacheco was sentenced to life with possible parole yesterday for the 2002 murder of his wife, Cathalene."
"Deputy Prosecutor Michael Udovic told Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura that Pacheco fired 14 bullets into his wife's head, neck and torso."
"Udovic has said Pacheco thought his wife was having an affair with another man."
"Defense attorney Stanton Oshiro told Nakamura yesterday that Pacheco committed the crime while suffering from a 'misapprehension of facts.'" ...
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IL: Abolish Illinois' mishmash of misguided gun laws
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"Illinois is one of only eight states that allow municipalities to prohibit and regulate the use of firearms through the license of home rule. Illinois municipalities have used their home rule license to pass collections of gun laws that can only be described as contradictory and incomprehensible."
"An examination of municipal ordinances on the web site of the Illinois State Police, and an article titled 'Wilmette enforces gun ban: Resident who shot intruder charged' by the Chicago Tribune, reveals that:
Four municipalities have vehicle impoundment and seizure ordinances. For example, an individual driving through Aurora with a BB gun is subject to having his vehicle impounded. In Carol Stream individuals are prohibited from transporting a gun that is enclosed in a case, while state law requires that guns be enclosed in a case!" ... |
CA: San Bernardino authorities still looking for handguns stolen by former sheriff
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"San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies are still searching for hundreds of missing handguns, assault weapons and shotguns that the former sheriff admitted to stealing back in the mid 80's."
"We have an update on how the search for the missing weapons is going."
"Months after former San Bernardino County Sheriff Floyd Tidwell agreed to help investigators find the weapons he says he stole from the property room hundreds are still missing."
"In fact, the assistant district attorney says only a 'fraction' of the more than 500 handguns and rifles like these have been returned. That's not a comforting thought to county residents we talked to." ...
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Philippines: 2 policemen linked to robbery killed in Vizcaya shootout
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"Three armed men, two of whom were confirmed to be members of the regional police office in the Cordillera Administrative Region, were killed in a shootout with elements of the Solano police station in Nueva Vizcaya Monday night."
"The fatalities were fleeing when they engaged the policemen in a running gun battle after allegedly robbing the Fari�as Farm on Washington Street in Barangay Osme�a, Solano, according to a report sent to the Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Police Office based in this capital town."
"The report identified two of the fatalities as Police Officer 1 Walter Balajo of the Lauig police station in Ifugao, and Police Officer 1 Reynaldo Pinkihan of the Cordillera regional police based in La Trinidad, Benguet." ... |
CO: Right on target -- Shooting champ teaches respect for handgunning
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"A Fort Collins native, this Bond is no silver-screen hero, flirting with the ladies and using high-tech gadgets to bring down the bad guys."
"But as the fastest revolver shooter in the world, Bud Bond, 54, is something of a legend in Colorado and beyond."
"Winner of the 2001, 2002 and 2004 STI/American Handgunner Open Revolver World Shootoff, Bond says shooting is his life."
"'It's very satisfying,' he said. 'I know that with all the work I put in, the end result is the best I can do.'"
"Practicing with his buddies at the High Plains Shooting Range on the Weld County Fish and Wildlife preserve, Bond draws his Smith and Wesson Model 627 8-shot .38 Special and nails the target with every shot." ... |
UK: Policemen Suspended Over Porn Star Report
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"Two British policemen have been suspended from duty after a newspaper reported they had been filmed enjoying the attentions of porn stars while they were supposed to be on patrol."
"The News of the World reported Sunday that the two policemen, aged 30 and 34, had been called to calm down a crowd who spotted a pornographic movie being filmed in a street in London's Soho district."
"But the officers talked their way into the film crew's van and allowed the two female stars to perform a sex act on them, while the crew secretly rolled the cameras, the paper said." ...
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UK: I would do it again, says father who stabbed intruder
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"A man who admitted stabbing a suspected burglar with a bread knife to protect his wife and child is being investigated for assault." ...
"Mr Caeiro, who is from Portugal, said: 'All I was doing was acting in self defence. This man had entered my home and I felt he might harm me or my family. Of course I am sorry that he was hurt, but he had no right to be in my house. If I had to do the same thing again to protect my family then I would do it.'"
"'I thought he was going to kill me or rape my wife. Anyone in my position would have done the same thing. I understand why the police had to arrest me - but I have done anything wrong.'" [emphasis added]
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UK: Road rage victim's advice to other women
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"A 21-year-old woman who left a knife-wielding attacker on the floor after tackling him with a self-defence move admitted last night she could not even remember how she did it." ...
"But despite seeing off the attacker, who she believes would have stabbed her, she warned others against following her example." ...
"A police spokeswoman last night warned members of the public against heroics."
"'The best thing someone in that position can do is to keep their doors locked and their windows closed and call the police, either from a mobile or from a place of safety,' she said." ...
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FL: Thieves plunder in Charley's aftermath
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"After the hurricane ended, the looting began." ...
"Down the road in the park sat Vietnam veteran Gary Snyder, drinking Miller High Life. Snyder, who was among only a handful in Harborview who rode out the storm, said residents were anxious about looters, but he was prepared."
"'If I see 'em, I'll shoot 'em,' he said. 'They're gone. I'll tell 'em I had a flashback.'" ...
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UK: Gun safety is loaded with history
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"THE latter part of the 17th century was a period of enormous growth in the development of the gun trade, as indeed it was for British manufacturing industry generally."
"New trade routes were opening up and the exploration of Africa and the New World generated an insatiable demand for guns by those involved in colonisation and trade."
"Much of this booming industry in weaponry was based in the Birmingham gun trade. Unfortunately, most of it was of extremely poor quality." ...
"A number of responsible Birmingham gunmakers however, expressed their concern at the lack of control over the trade and established their own private proof houses, similar to that which had existed in London since 1637." ...
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CA: Mogan Hill council considers banning toy guns (5th paragraph down on page)
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... "An ordinance against realistic, but toy, guns has been in the works since three teenage boys were almost shot by police when the boys appeared to be threatening a field full of children at Jackson School in April. At almost the last moment, one officer noticed a tell-tale white plastic handle, realized the guns weren�t real and called off the operation."
"The guns, which look like assault rifles, shoot plastic projectiles and are commonly called �airsoft� weapons."
"The ordinance is in response to a request by frightened citizens who thought the boys meant business and police who almost shot what would have been unarmed children." ...
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UK: Youth with gun is not locked up
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"A youth who pointed a ball bearing gun at a terrified woman in Solihull has walked free from court."
"Hotel worker Darren Neeld, 18, of Providence Road, Bromsgrove, was given a two year conditional discharge at Warwick Crown Court."
"He admitted possessing an offensive weapon and using threatening words and behaviour. He was ordered to pay �100 costs."
"Vicki Lofrese prosecuting said Mohinder Johal was in Stanton Road, Shirley, in May, when one of two cars in convoy screeched to a stop and Neeld leaned out of the window with the gun."
"She said: 'Mrs Johal's impression was that he was pointing the gun at her. She broke into a cold sweat and put her hands over her face in fear.'" ... |
Jamaica: 47 Murders In One Week
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"A WEEK-long bloodbath in Jamaica has seen a record 47 people murdered."
"And clashes between rival drug gangs on the Caribbean holiday island have already resulted in 835 people killed so far this year."
"Police chiefs fear the body toll will continue to mount and beat the previous record of 1138 killings in 2001."
"The violence is centred on the rundown Spanish Town district in the capital, Kingston, where there are nightly gun battles between gangs disputing territory."
"It is far removed from the idyllic holiday image experienced by the thousands of British visitors to the island's five-star tourist resorts."
"Most of the violence is being funded by London-based Yardie gangsters, using drug money to fight for political control." ...
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Australia: Pharmacist threatened with gun
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A man threatened a pharmacist with a gun last night during a robbery east of Melbourne.
Police said the man, wearing a black hooded jumper, went into the Croydon pharmacy about 6.25pm (AEST) but left when approached by the pharmacist.
He returned a short time later, produced a firearm, pointed it at the female staff member and demanded cash from the register.
As the staff member took the money out from the register the gunman jumped the counter and demanded more money.
After taking money from a second register the gunman fled.
No-one was injured in the incident. |
UK: Crime: Air-Rifle Yobs Attack College
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"POLICE are stepping up patrols at a college after reports that a gang of yobs has been firing an air-rifle at its staff and pupils."
"Over the past year, the College of West Anglia, in Wisbech, has suffered more than 10 vandalism attacks, resulting in damage which has cost about �3,000 to repair."
"On two occasions, the attacks were carried out by yobs hiding in the undergrowth near to the college and firing the rifles at its windows, causing them to shatter."
"On another occasion, a member of staff heard a pellet whizzing through the air after it was fired in their direction by a hidden perpetrator." ... |
Brazil: Brazil's Gun for Cash Drive Is a Hit
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"Brazilians who own unregistered weapons must turn them in or register them by December 23. Brazil's Disarmament Statute determines that illegal bearing of weapons is a crime without bail. The country is now promoting a disarmament campaign. In one month, more than 50,000 guns have been surrendered to police."
"Brazil's first demolition of firearms turned in to the Federal Police (PF) as part of the National Disarmament Campaign will take place at a public ceremony in the next few days."
"This information comes from the head of the PF's National Arms System (Sirnam), Commissioner Fernando Seg�via. According to him, the idea is to erect 'a monument to peace and life' with the scrap from the destroyed weapons." ...
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