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MO: County Police Take Over Kinloch Missouri Policing
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County police move in and take over Kinloch Missouri police duties after local police are shown to be incompetent.
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"Althea Turner didn't need long to figure out what was happening when she stepped off a bus near her home in Kinloch on Thursday afternoon and spotted St. Louis County police officers."
" 'Thank you, Jesus,' she declared. 'Now the laws will be enforced, and we'll be safer.' " |
UK: School offers morning-after pill to 11-year-olds - without parents' consent
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"Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the morning-after pill at a London school without their parents' consent."
"If the scheme at Chestnut Grove School in Balham is successful, it could be extended to every secondary school in Wandsworth, a borough which has the fifth highest teenage pregnancy rate in inner London."
"Margaret Peacock, the headmistress, said her school was trying to behave responsibly." ...
"The mother of one 12-year-old pupil said:" ... |
NJ: New ad targets Forrester on gun control, prescription drugs
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TRENTON, N.J. -- "A new ad targets Republican U.S. Senate candidate Douglas Forrester's positions on gun control and prescription drug coverage for seniors."
"The ad tell viewers Forrester's 'dangerous plan for guns and seniors are wrong for New Jersey.' "
"Forrester opposes longer waiting periods for buying guns and providing blanket prescription coverage for all seniors." |
Airport workers target amputee
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More airport insecurity.
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At the Asheville Regional Airport, they're leaving no prosthetic leg unexamined in the search for terrorists.
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Protests Challenge IMF, World Bank
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"Chanting protesters used puppets and homemade signs Saturday to drive home their message against trade and economic policies they say hurt the poor and put unmanageable burdens on the Third World. Their goal for the day: surround the financial institutions where officials from around the globe were meeting."
"The second day of protests in the nation's capital began without incident. Protesters on the grounds of the Washington Monument listened to music and speeches, waiting for the crowd to grow before heading to the headquarters of World Bank and International Monetary Fund." |
IA: Man pleads guilty to federal gun charges
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"Robert Lee Frank, 28, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition after having been convicted of domestic abuse in Linn County."
"Authorities said Frank's vehicle was stopped for a traffic violation in Cedar Rapids on June 22. Police found a loaded .22-caliber pistol in Frank's pocket, authorities said."
"Frank faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine when he's sentenced. No date for sentencing has been set." |
MD: Gun sales panel attempts to justify banning self-defense for poor people
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"Members of the Handgun Roster Board, whose effectiveness Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has questioned, said yesterday that the panel is essential in preventing cheap handguns from spreading across Maryland."
" 'It's been effective in ensuring good quality control on guns sold in Maryland,' said Maryland State Police Col. David B. Mitchell, chairman of the 11-member panel that regulates handgun sales in Maryland. 'You don't see junk being sold' anymore, he said."
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The so-called "junk gun" is also a less expensive gun -- the kind a lower-income citizen can afford. While a higher quality firearm is typically better for self-defensive purposes, removing lower-cost firearms from access assures that poor people aren't able to afford self-defense.
So congratulations to Maryland State Police Col. David B. Mitchell for making such elitism possible -- he must be proud. And since the taxpayers bought his sidearm for him -- and, surely, it's a nice one -- this anti-poorman policy won't affect him anyway. |
Air marshal, muggers trade fire on S.F. street
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"An off-duty federal air marshal exchanged gunfire with two would-be muggers in San Francisco on Thursday night, a San Francisco police spokesman said."
"The shooting began after the marshal saw two men trying to rob a couple at gunpoint on the 1100 block of Columbus Avenue at 9:45 p.m., police said. Police said the marshal, whose name was withheld, confronted the assailants, who then fired at him. The marshal fired back, police said."
"No one was hit by the gunfire, and police set up a perimeter and were searching for the two men."
It's nice seeing this person step up to the plate and help a fellow citizen -- but why can't he hit his target? |
MI: Student will not face charges for bringing gun barrel to school
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"Officials say seapons [sic] must be dangerous to violate Student Conduct Code"
"Even though he was bringing a gun barrel to school Thursday morning, the Howell High School sophomore is not in trouble with police or school officials because a gun barrel alone is not listed as dangerous weapon, school officials explained Friday."
"The young man was bringing the gun barrel, along with a gun cleaning kit and a skeet thrower, in a camouflage gun case to school for a class presentation on gun cleaning."
"After several concerned residents called police while the young man was walking to school with the gun case, he was apprehended before he made it to school property. He did not have permission to bring the gun barrel to school." |
TN: [Nashville] Police Officer Arrested for Beating His Girlfriend Over Slice of Pizza
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Don't eat this guy's pizza without permission.
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"A Metro Police officer has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault."
"Officer George Conway was accused of beating his ex-girlfriend for eating a slice of his pizza without permission."
"In 1991, Conway was suspended for 20 days without pay for driving his police car while off-duty and threatening the male friend of a girlfriend." |
Fighting the War On Terror: The Right Way
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"But war fever, macho jingoism, and waving flags is not the be all and end all of 9-11. There is much more that we must do to honor the 9-11 casualties than catching, trying, and killing their killers. If we are to truly honor those who died, we have a duty to honor them, by living our lives as they lived theirs. And if we are willing to go 180 degrees around the globe to thwart terrorists, then we need to eliminate them on our own soil as well." |
"Widower crusades to ban assault weapons"
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"A grimly determined Steve Sposato is back in the capital this week to campaign against assault weapons, nine years after a gunman toting two of the semiautomatic weapons killed his wife, Jody, and seven others at 101 California St. in San Francisco."
"To win passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994, backers had to agree that it would expire after a decade, in September 2004. The new Congress, to be elected in November, and the president would have to approve new legislation to keep the existing federal ban on manufacturing or selling semiautomatic versions of such weapons as AK-47s and Uzi submachine guns." ... |
"Letter Is Crucial in Lawsuit on Liability of Gun Makers"
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"A letter from a federal firearms agent urging a gun manufacturer to help track the illegal use of its weapons has become crucial evidence in a lawsuit by 12 California cities and counties against the gun industry."
"The letter, sent in 2000, suggested that Taurus International Manufacturing, of Miami, install a government computer to help determine whether dealers are helping criminals obtain firearms."
" 'If your corporation determines that there is an unusually high number of Taurus firearms being traced to certain" wholesalers and dealers, "we suggest that you look at their business practices more carefully,' the letter said."
"It was written by Forest G. Webb, a special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in charge of its National Tracing Center, an agency that tracks guns recovered in crimes."
"Taurus never acted on Mr. Webb's advice." |
Gun Rights Policy Conference in the news
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ORIGINAL TITLE: "Retaining gun rights is topic of conference"
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"When Patricia Saye was a young child, her mother took her outside their Montana ranch and taught her how to shoot a gun."
"Now the 53-year-old Las Vegan, who was among the approximate 500 people Saturday at the 2002 Gun Rights Policy Conference, is doing the same for her grandchildren."
" 'It's our constitutional right,' said Saye, who wore a shirt that read, 'What part of 'infringed' don't you understand?' "
"The conference, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms..." |
MN: St. Paul is just like Berkeley, really
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This is a bit of a liberal bragging article in which the writer praises St. Paul for being like various socialist swamps on American soil. From its text, we find the following statement:"We have hundreds of 'peace poles' in gardens all over the city, and they have a big peace bell made entirely out of melted guns." As if wasting perfectly good firearms makes one anything but dumber than a worn out boot. |
FL: Charged under Project Safe Neighborhoods
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Here is a listing of some recent firearm-related arrests -- people who are sitting in jail, some for merely possessing firearms -- under Bush's/NRA's Project Exile/Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Some of these people have no violent criminal history, but their drug convictions mean their firearms rights no longer exist -- and back to prison they go. |
OH: Officers involved in fatal "raid" were allegedly "high-fiving each other"
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"But Helriggle's father, Michael Helriggle, said his son was carrying a glass of water, not a gun. He also said police officers involved in the raid ran around 'high-fiving each other' as he and his wife watched from a nearby field."
" 'They were so busy celebrating and everything. It was like a carnival to them,' Helriggle said. 'They all got to use their new guns and stuff.' "
"The officers entered the home after announcing themselves, but without knocking, at 6:45 p.m. Friday, to serve a warrant seeking drugs suspected in trafficking involving another resident of the house."
"Preble and Montgomery County authorities returned to the home Saturday and seized a small amount of marijuana, an unspecified about of pills and drug paraphernalia, according to a Preble County sheriff's press release." |
NC: Man won't face charge in killing of 13-year-old
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"Passenger shot when Hidden Valley resident fires back at gunmen in drive-by"
"Arthur Taylor won't be prosecuted for fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who was in a car whose occupants fired at his home last month. But police have charged three teenagers -- who also were in the car -- in the drive-by shooting."
"Mecklenburg Assistant District Attorney Marsha Goodenow, after reviewing the case, decided that Taylor, 44, will not be charged in the killing of William McArthur Bulls."
"Goodenow concluded that the shooting was justified." ... |
MI: Drug bust snares cop
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PONTIAC - "A rookie Detroit police officer was one of three people arrested in what investigators call a major drug distribution network."
"Prosecutors expect to arraign the officer and two women this morning on drug conspiracy charges."
"Narcotics officers from across Oakland County raided two homes in northwest Detroit early Friday, including one where the officer lived. Inside they said they found an operation capable of processing dozens of kilos of drugs a month."
" 'They were equipped to handle soup to nuts in the drug business,' said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. 'The investigation led us to his doorstep. '" |
IA: Gun ban details not yet sorted out
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"Pepper spray is not a lethal weapon, but guns are another story."
"That's the way Police Chief Gary Walters interprets the city's new ordinance banning weapons in municipal buildings."
"Gun rights advocates had suggested because of the broad wording of the ordinance passed Monday by the City Council, women would face 30 days in jail and a $200 fine if they accidentally brought a can of pepper spray into City Hall in their purses."
" 'Pepper spray would not be a violation,' Walters said."
Anyone who knows what he/she is doing could use a PENCIL as a lethal weapon. |
MD: Maryland candidates exchange shots over gun control
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"The state of Maryland has more than 300 laws and regulations affecting gun use and ownership. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend recently attacked her opponent, Rep. Bob Ehrlich, for saying that two of them deserved reconsideration ("Anti-gun follies," Editorial, Sept. 17)."
"Judging by the facts alone, Mr. Ehrlich seems to be on solid ground. The first of these regulatory mechanisms, the state's Handgun Roster Board, has approved 1,500 new handguns for sale in Maryland since 1989. The second, the state's ballistic fingerprinting program, costs $1.5 million a year but has not solved a single crime." |
"Students major in running guns"
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"Buy arms cheap in Dixie to sell on city streets"
"Richard Rasheen Waldburg left Jamaica, Queens, to study business at Georgia Southern University and quickly learned a lucrative, illegal lesson in marketing: The ready supply of cheap guns down South filled the demand for weapons on his hometown streets."
"He was part of a group of three students at the Statesboro, Ga.-based university who brought at least 45 guns to New York, authorities say, and a member of a growing fraternity of college gunrunners." |
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