KABA News Briefs
6/14/2000
by The Awakener
TheAwakener@KeepAndBearArms.com

13-year-old indicted as adult in teacher's slaying

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 13 - A 13-year-old boy accused of shooting a teacher to death after being sent home for throwing water balloons was indicted as an adult Monday on first-degree murder charges. <<Good! Make him and others think about the price of such actions.>>

The boy's lawyer, Robert Udell, has said the gun accidentally went off when Nathaniel pulled it out. He said the fault lies with the .25-caliber gun the boy stole from his grandfather's house days before. <<That is B.S.!!!! You don't pull a gun unless you plan to use it! Even if he planed to threaten his teacher, it is a crime to brandish and threaten with a deadly weapon!! So he accidentally shot his teacher while committing a crime, which makes 5 crimes: underage possession of a firearm, carrying concealed w/o a license, possession of a firearm on school property, brandishing a deadly weapon with intent to do harm, and manslaughter.>>

Protesters decrying the expected indictment marched around the Palm Beach County Courthouse on Monday banging on bongo drums and shaking tambourines. 

When the indictment was handed up, they gathered in a hallway outside the courtroom and sang the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome." 

"We feel he should be treated as a juvenile, period," said the Rev. Thomas Masters, pastor of New Macedonia Baptist Church in Riviera Beach. He called for the "the community to come together, black and white, for not trying this child, and I emphasize child, as an adult."

<<Come on. Old enough to have the pride, old enough to pay the price! Do the crime, do the time.>>

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A potential test case on Second Amendment rights

Inherent in debates over gun control is an acknowledgment that the U.S. Supreme Court has said very little on the subject in the past 60 years.

That may not be so for long, for what began as a simple divorce proceeding in a small, central Texas town has escalated into a major legal confrontation over the Constitution's 2nd Amendment.

On Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will confront a case that ultimately could give the nine justices of the Supreme Court their best chance since 1939 to interpret the 27-word amendment.

<<Great article on the upcoming fight>>  See also Neal Knox's Report on this case.

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Colt's Contract Loss Called "Suspicious"

Three months after refusing to produce what the Clinton Administration considers "safer weaponry", the Colt Manufacturing Company has lost a contract with the US Army that could be worth as much as $50 million. A spokesman for the Cato Institute in Washington called the government's decision "mighty suspicious", but a senior defense analyst said he sees no connection between the two incidents.

Colt Manufacturing will stop selling its M-16 rifles to the Army in October, 2001. The new multi-year contract, according to Army spokesperson Nancy Ray, has been awarded to Belgium manufacturer FN Herstal - doing business as FNMI in Columbia, SC. 

<<Not only are we sending our US tax dollars to support a non-US company, but our government is using our armed forces to play politics. They will stop at nothing to take the guns away: Laws, or drive the manufacturers out of business.>>

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Man Convicted in Xerox Shootings 

A Xerox copier repairman was convicted today of murder for fatally shooting seven co-workers in Hawaii's worst mass murder.

A jury found Byran Uyesugi, 40, guilty of first-degree murder, which covers multiple killings, and attempted murder in the second degree for shooting at an eighth co-worker and missing.

The verdict means the jury believes Uyesugi was legally sane during his Nov. 2 shooting spree at a Xerox parts warehouse.

<<Good. The insane defense should never have been accepted. If you have something wrong with you which makes you lose control over yourself, you are still responsible for your actions. It could be argued that an alcoholic is temporarily insane when he chooses to drive. "I don't know why I drove, I don't even remember what happened. I don't even remember drinking." He has a disease and he looses control, but he is held accountable.>>

<<To murder someone with a gun is to dishonor all guns. They are for protecting freedom, regulating violence and GOD forbid, taking life to preserve life.>>

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Burton Draws Bead on Gore, Clinton, Reno 

The chief Republican congressional investigator of political fund-raising in 1996 said he is likely to refer President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Atty. Gen. Janet Reno for prosecution after a new president takes office next year. Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) said Sunday it appears Reno obstructed justice by refusing several times to request special prosecutors to investigate Clinton and Gore for money-raising irregularities during their campaign four years ago. 

<<Why wait? If Gore gets elected, he will have the sway support of the public off of an election high and the congress will be in ass-kiss mode. He should move forward now.>>

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<<On the lighter side>>

Shooting victim put assailant through the wringer

No matter what else he does in life, Guy Boos will forever be known as the guy who shot his washing machine because it ticked him off.

First he pushed it down a flight of stairs. Then he stood it up against the wall of his neighbor's garage. Then he took a gun and blasted the liven' suds out of it.

Once he had cooled down, Boos told police that the washer wasn't working properly but that putting five .25-caliber bullet holes in it was "obviously not a prudent thing to do."

<<Good for a laugh.>>

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