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The night I would have killed
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"On Saturday, it will be 15 years since I wanted to kill. If I'd had a gun the night of Aug. 24, 1987, at least one man-perhaps two-would have died." ...
"But that night, two young men armed with switchblades nearly put an end to any possibility." ...
"Not long after the break-in, I shared those thoughts with a former professor of mine, now a friend and mentor."
" 'If I'd have had a gun, I'd have shot both,' I told her."
"While sympathetic and full of compassion, she wasn't impressed, so I explained further."
"I would be better for me to kill them then let them attack me."
"Her response, to the best of my recollection, was this: 'Certainly it would be horrible if they had done what they wanted to do, but if you had shot them it could have cost you your soul.' "
"Her words stayed with me, niggled me, pissed me off."
"What was I supposed to do? Invite the attackers in so they didn't have to risk cutting themselves on glass, allow them to assault me, then offer them cigarettes?" |
UK: Diners flee drive-by shooting (in civilised 'gun free' London)
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"Dozens of diners fled after a drive-by shooting left a man seriously injured outside a restaurant in north London last night."
"One bullet smashed through the window of the Jamestown Bar & Restaurant in Camden while a 25-year-old man, believed to be the intended target, was hit in the thigh and abdomen as he sat in a convertible Mercedes."
"The shots, which police believe came from a semi-automatic handgun, were fired by someone in a silver Golf GTI."
One witness who did not want to be named said: "We saw people panicking - running and screaming out of the restaurant. They looked terrified." |
MN: Charges filed against intruder shot by Minneapolis homeowner
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"An unsavvy burglar who was shot by a surprised 79-year-old north Minneapolis homeowner was hit Wednesday with criminal charges."
"Jimmie Lee Emerson, 48, was shot about 11 p.m. Monday after he kicked in the back door of Harvey Keefe's house, then tried to open the chained door of the bedroom where Keefe had been sleeping..."
"I was scared stiff," Keefe said Wednesday. "I hated like heck to shoot anybody, but what are you gonna do when you're an old man?" |
FL: Sheriff's office loses court bid to keep deputy's identity secret
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The sheriff's office wanted "to stop The Ledger from publishing the name of a deputy who fatally shot a man who was brandishing a baseball bat during a drug raid."
"We live in an open society," said [Judge] Herring in his ruling denying the department's request for an injunction against The Ledger. "We don't have secret police in our society." [Tell that to the BATF, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. etc.]
Hank Campbell, attorney for the sheriff, argued that the deputy, who had been working undercover, would be put at risk of "great bodily harm" if the public learned the identity of the deputy. |
Russia: Liberal lawmaker shot to death in professional assassination hit
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"Unidentified attackers gunned down a Russian lawmaker while he was walking his dog in a park Wednesday, the eighth member of parliament to be killed since 1994."
"The killing of Vladimir Golovlyov, 54, as he was walking his Asian-Turkmen wolfhound had the earmarks of a professional hit and followed what may have been a thwarted assassination attempt against him only a few months ago, police and associates said."
"But fellow politicians were unsure whether Golovlyov was more likely killed because of an allegedly corrupt past or because of his role leading the small Liberal Russia faction in the lower house of parliament."
" 'The death is a huge loss for all liberal political forces in Russia and ultimately the Russian people,' [Moscow Prosecutor Mikhail] Yushenkov said." |
CO: Columbine Death Suit Settled
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"The daughter of a teacher who bled to death during the 1999 Columbine High School shootings has reached a $1.5 million settlement in her lawsuit against the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office."
"In response to Columbine, law enforcement agencies in seven states and Canada now train first responding officers to enter a building where a shooting is taking place rather than wait for SWAT teams to arrive, said Peter Grenier, an attorney for Sanders. " |
Passenger flicks lighter on SFO-bound plane -- plane diverted
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"He had heard somewhere that if you heated the batteries, you could recharge them."
"Stanford University chemistry professor emeritus John Ross said batteries require electricity to be recharged. He also said heating a battery with a flame could lead to a small explosion and release some toxic chemicals, but it would be no threat to an airborne plane."
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This poor guy gets arrested for being stupid -- he could, according to this report, face 20 years in prison. Meanwhile a naked guy who storms the cockpit is released without being charged. |
Judge Says Government May Appeal in Case of American-Born Detainee Who is Being Held Without Charges
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NOTE: This man is a U.S. Citizen that is being held without charge.
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"A judge decided Wednesday that the government may appeal his demand for more evidence to explain why it is holding a U.S.-born detainee captured in Afghanistan without charging him or giving him access to a lawyer."
"The government contends it can indefinitely hold Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana and later moved to Saudi Arabia with his Saudi parents, because he is an enemy combatant. Federal public defender Frank Dunham Jr. has been trying to meet with Hamdi and win his release from the brig at the Norfolk Naval Station." |
Rebellion at the Airport
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"I'm not a confrontational person by nature. If my steak is too rare, or someone breaks in line, I'm not one to make a fuss about it. But I have my limits."
"I led a revolt against airport security yesterday. They've had it coming. I'll wait longer in line in order to keep the airplane safe. I'll submit to having my less than fresh boxer briefs fluffed on the return trip by someone named Delbert who couldn't spot a shank if it was stuck in his porkchop gut." |
CA: Immigrant driver's license bill returns to Gov. Davis
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"Action by the Assembly on Tuesday apparently will force Gov. Gray Davis to take action before Election Day on the controversial issue of allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses."
"By unanimous consent, the Assembly opted to return to Davis a driver's-license bill that he was weighing last year when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast sparked new security concerns." |
MD: Handgun Sales Drop 8% in First Half of 2002
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"Handgun sales in Maryland dropped nearly 8 percent during the first six months of this year over the same period last year, according to statistics from the Maryland State Police."
"Maj. Greg Shipley, state police spokesman, said 12,780 handguns were sold in the state from January through June, compared with 13,844 in the same period a year ago." |
CA: 'Open government' legislation blocked by state lawmakers
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"A tougher 'open government' measure was blocked in the Legislature yesterday while lawmakers advanced bills that require skateboarders to wear helmets, revamp the rules over renters' deposits and name an official ghost town."
"The amendment would put into the state constitution the stipulation that the public has a fundamental right to attend government meetings and inspect government records, with some exceptions." |
North Bridge Training Institute Launches "CounterAttack" Gun Rights Conference
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"The North Bridge Training Institute announced it will host 'CounterAttack', an innovative new training conference tailored for the new generation of grassroots gun rights activists, in Dallas on February 8th and 9th, 2003. Historian Clayton E. Cramer, whose relentless fact-checking exposed Michael Bellesiles' award-winning book 'Arming America' as an academic fraud, will deliver the first keynote speech." |
Powerful Letter To President Bush!
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Small Excerpt:
"BE IT ALSO KNOWN, I have no intention to harm anyone. I wish to live in peace. HOWEVER, in the course of the administrations of my duties to live under these agreements should this foreign Government, calling itself the UNITED STATES, or any form or extension of that Government, being state or local, not conforming to original, Constitutional Law, as intended, come against me with a 'color of law' tax or any 'rule, policy or statute' that is unconstitutional with intent to cause me harm in the form of penalty, fine, confiscation of property, incarceration or death, without my guarantee of 'Due Process' in a duly constituted, original-Constitution, Article III court, I will use every common sense remedy available including the exercise of my Second Amendment Right. To state this as plainly as possible, I understand Government, ultimately, IS force and to resist unconstitutional, evil, armed force, I will exercise my God-given right to defend myself, my family, and my property with the use of armed force." |
WI: Sporting clays fan passes interest down in family
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"Percy Gunderson of Ellsworth is one of four generations in his family to participate in sporting clays. Others are Gunderson's son, Larry, his grandson, Jason, and his great-grandson, Corey. The eldest Gunderson showed a display of his trophies, plaques and prizes from the sport at his office at Guardianship Diversified Services in the village's west business district last Tuesday." |
Canada: Aylmer area shooting club aims at being best range
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"With an investment nearly $500,000, the East Elgin Sportsmen's Association has taken dead aim at becoming the best comprehensive shooting range in Ontario and beyond."
"A new indoor range and reconfigured outdoor ranges have put the club in the forefront of facilities, immediately attracting top events."
" 'As an overall general-purpose club, we've got it,' says past president John Evers." |
Ruling breaks ground: OxyContin's maker not liable for abuse of drug, judge says
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"In the first ruling of its kind, a circuit judge said the manufacturers of the powerful painkiller OxyContin are not legally responsible for deaths that occur when their drug is abused."
"Judge James Rowe decided that the death of a woman who crushed and injected OxyContin was caused by her own misconduct and not by any fault of the drug's manufacturer."
-- While not directly RKBA related it is a welcome note to see that some judges understand the consequenses of personal behavior. |
GA: Warrant out for gun show vendor in accidental shooting death
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"Gwinnet County authorities today issued an arrest warrant for a Florida holster vendor who reportedly was holding the gun that accidentally discharged and killed a teenager at a Norcross gun show."
"Cleveland Lewis Chaney, 57, of Obrien, Fla., is expected to surrender on the involuntary manslaughter charge as soon as possible, Gwinnett Cpl. Ray Dunlap said Thursday." |
Group Files Motion In U.S.-Born Taliban's Case; Moves To Have Yaser Hamdi Declared A Non-Citizen
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"In an action with wide-ranging implications, a non-profit group filed a motion today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia asking to intervene in the case of a U.S.-born Taliban fighter
being held as an enemy combatant at the Naval brig here. The group, Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement, argues that the captured fighter, Yaser Esam Hamdi, is not a U.S. citizen, in spite
of his birth in Louisiana to Saudi nationals in the United States on temporary work visas." |
CO: Gun producer may help Cortez economy boom
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"Economically strapped Cortez received welcome news Tuesday, when representatives of businessman Eric T. Curlee announced he would be locating a start-up firearms corporation � and ultimately 150 jobs � in town."
"ETC7, a name based on Curlee�s initials, will assemble and distribute high-end firearms and related items such as holstery."
"In the future, the company hopes to start special retail stores as well." |
MA: For safer streets, give women guns
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Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby comments on the recent rush of Boston women to apply for permits to carry chemical sprays. He notes Boston Police flatly refuse to issue permits for guns.
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"What if they [the women] lived in the North End and two of their friends had been raped and they were terrified they might be next?"
"Tough luck, says Burns. 'Living in a high-crime area is just not enough of a reason to get an unrestricted license to carry.' " |
UK: Swallowed suction cup dart is "a toy gun which killed an 11-year-old boy"
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Before you read this, bear in mind that it's about one of those dart guns with darts that have the suction cup on the end -- the kind kids lick and stick to a window or mirror...
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"MORE tests are taking place today on a toy gun which killed an 11-year-old boy in the New Forest - amid suggestions that it is not a dangerous object."
"Scott West from Pulborough in Sussex died after a two-centimetre long soft dart lodged in his throat and blocked his windpipe."
"The tragedy happened at the Sandy Balls Holiday Centre at Godshill in the New Forest on Tuesday."
"It was not confirmed that the toy which did the damage was bought at the site, but it was similar to guns which were being sold at the time." [emphasis added]
"It was taken away for testing by Hampshire Trading Standards officers, who also carried off the stock of similar guns in the Sandy Balls shop."
"After extensive tests had been carried out at a laboratory at Southsea, a county council spokesman said the toy had not so far been branded as 'dangerous'."
"It is a normal small gun that has little plastic darts with a sucker on the end." |
BATF Agent Reveals Gross Gun-Stupidity While Promoting "Project Exile"
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The number of firearms confiscated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has allegedly gone down. And a bunch of government employees -- public servants -- got together at a "news conference" Tuesday to say the drop is a result of the anti-gun program they were gleefully promoting: "Project Exile."
"Under 'Project Exile'," says the report, "someone caught with an illegal weapon or violating the law with a weapon may be prosecuted in federal court."
" 'Handguns are the most common type of weapon seized, with the ones used most frequently in crimes being a 9 mm pistol, a .380-caliber pistol, a .25-caliber pistol and a .38-caliber revolver,' [BATF 'Special' Agent Jerry] Dennis said."
BATF "Special Agent" Jerry Dennis then says, "These aren't the type of guns you have in your gun closet to go hunting or target shooting."
MY RESPONSE:
1) All across America, people go "target shooting" with every single above-mentioned pistol/caliber. Some people compete with those calibers -- especially the 9mm -- in organized events BATF "leaders" could find out about, and train "Special" agent spokesidiots about, if they weren't so busy "investigating" people who are exercising their basic-but-grossly-infringed rights.
2) ALL of those calibers/pistols are carried by decent, peaceable Americans for self-defensive purposes. Insinuating that anyone who has one is a criminal is an outrageous insult.
3) Far more importantly, gun ownership doesn't require a "target shooting" or "hunting" justification. The primary reason America's founding fathers drafted and ratified the Second Amendment was as a defense against the kind of tyranny BATF has been known to systematically deliver. |
UK: Unarmed robber's airport heist
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"An [lone] unarmed man is thought to have stolen tens of thousands of pounds in cash from a security van at Gatwick airport today."
"The raider struck at about 7.30am as a blue Brinks Ltd security van made routine collections and deliveries to shops..."
"One member of the two-man crew was on his own in the vehicle at the time..."
"The raider punched the crew member in the face and seized foreign banknotes of 12 different currencies from the back of the van, then fled." |
AK: Another attacking grizzly stopped with firearm
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"When a brown bear poked its head over the bluff behind the state's most popular fishing hole just after midnight Friday, 20-year-old Matt Pennington was surprised."
"When it came full-bore for Pennington, the surprise turned to shock."
"The speed," he said this week, "that's the part that gets me."
"Nervous about bears, Pennington had carried a shotgun on a sling across his back as he and fishing buddies Garen and Kalen Brenner hiked down along the Russian River to near the Kenai ferry crossing earlier that evening." ... |
Soft Target: How Our Airports Became the First Line of Defense
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FIVE WEEK SERIES ON AIRPORT "SECURITY"
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"In the months after terrorists hijacked four airliners and turned them into guided missiles, how much has changed in the nation�s airport security systems? Baggage screeners are now federal employees, cockpit doors have been bolted shut and the Federal Aviation Administration says security is tighter than ever. But is it tight enough? In a five week series, MSNBC.com investigates what went wrong and examines steps being taken to fortify the nation�s first line of defense." |
OH: Prosecutors drop charges - indicted police officers not good witnesses
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"Hamilton County prosecutors had to dismiss a drug charge because their chief witnesses � Cincinnati Police Officers Michael Mercer and Robert Litman � also are under indictment."
"Assistant prosecutor Lisa Rabanus had to ask Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Niehaus Monday to dismiss trafficking in marijuana and gun charges against Aaron Roberts 'for want of prosecution'."
" 'They were the only witnesses we had,' Prosecutor Mike Allen said of the duo of indicted cops. 'It would be problematic to prosecute with them as witnesses.' "
"[Officers] Mercer and Litman have been indicted for felony abduction and misdemeanors counts of assault and unlawful restraint, charges that carry a maximum sentence of five years and eight months behind bars." |
CT: AG Power Grab - Out of control in Connecticut.
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"The last decade has seen state attorney generals use the power of the courts to shape public policy in unprecedented ways. Among the most aggressive in litigation ranging from tobacco to guns has been Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal, though for Blumenthal this was just the warm up. Even if the ideas that he is now advancing fail in Connecticut, they provide a dire warning of what other state attorneys general may soon start trying." |
AZ: Six-gun removed from University of Arizona sports logo
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"Wilbur the Wildcat, mascot for the sports teams of the 'drug-free/weapons-free' University of Arizona, has been ordered to hang up his guns to comply with campus rules."
"Only the caricature of Wilbur, which appears on T-shirts and other UA paraphernalia, is affected by the gun ban..."
"The real Wilbur, meaning the student in the Wildcat suit who helps lead cheers at football and basketball games, is already disarmed." |
Revenge of the Tweezer People
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"The backlash against senseless -- and useless -- airport security rules is building up into something nasty."
"The anger that travelers feel toward airline security measures...is real. It could blossom into a political force."
"All of this might be simply an unavoidable cost of the war on terrorism if it actually did any good."
"As one Israeli security expert said, America doesn�t have a system for air security, it has a system for bothering people."
"[It's]...all about appearances." |
Hijacking America
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"Next week, at Earth Summit II in Johannesburg, South Africa, plans will have been made to hijack the world and bring it under the control of the United Nations. However, President George W. Bush, taking a cue from these 9-11 heroes, is trying to steer the United States out of the way in a last-ditch attempt to head off this impending disaster." |
TX: Attention, Right-To-Carry Supporters!
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"Our rights and freedoms under Texas Law are being violated by City and County Governments across the state."
"Only by working together can we stop these violations of our rights and freedoms."
"Join us for a discussion of Texas Right-To-Carry Laws with:" |
TX: Defense secretary fields questions at Fort Hood
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"The civilian leader of the military held a free-flowing town hall meeting Wednesday with more than 1,000 troops in Central Texas, renewing his attack on Pentagon leaks and defending his decision to abolish the Army's $11 billion Crusader artillery system."
"Throughout the meeting...Rumsfeld explained his plans to transform the military into a leaner, futuristic force and said soldiers must prepare for joint missions that cut across service boundaries and use lighter, more mobile weapons." |
OK: Judge expunges man's felony record
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[Not directly gun-related, but shows the judicial system does work every now and then.]
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"A man who spent 14 years behind bars for crimes he did not commit has had his record cleared in a different case."
"Since DNA evidence established that McGee was not guilty in the rape case, he deserved also to have his record cleared on the separate stolen property counts..."
"District Judge Linda Morrissey on Friday ordered the older case dismissed and the record expunged." |
KY: Residents Take Up Arms Following Attacks
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Us ol' hillbillies are at it agin'. Damn the "Liberals", full speed ahead...
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"Residents in a Laurel County neighborhood are getting together to stop more attacks like those that have been plaguing the community lately. Neighbors are taking turns staying up all night, watching out in the wake of violence and threats." |
MD: Man who killed tenant's cats acquitted of cruelty charge
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Maryland isn't exactly friendly to people who wish to exercise their right to keep and bear arms by carrying a firearm for self-defense. Even those fortunate enough to have the rare "unrestricted" permit to carry a firearm have been arrested for not obeying some nuance of the "law".
But in Maryland -- where business owners were charged for shooting a burglar who broke into their business -- you may be surprised to learn that you can get out the old 12 gauge shotgun and kill a few kitty cats legally.
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"A Maryland landlord says he warned one of his tenants five times to get rid of her cats -- or else he would."
"She didn't -- so he did. And a judge says it wasn't a crime."
"Judge Mary Stepler ruled yesterday that Eric Grossnickle destroyed the cats in a legally acceptable manner when he shot them with a 12-gauge shotgun."
"Stepler says she doesn't like what Grossnickle did, but added, 'it's not a crime under Maryland law'."
"The case was the first court test of a new state law designed to stiffen penalties for animal cruelty."
"It prohibits acts of torture and mutilation, but allows for killing animals humanely in certain cases."
"The ruling left the cats' owner in tears. Clutching a tin box containing the remains of her cats Babe and Angel, she said, 'there is no justice whatsoever'." |
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