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UN pressed to adopt treaty on global gun tracing
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"Arms control activists urged U.N. treaty writers on Monday to approve a system for tracking small arms sales around the world, saying it was easier to track lost airline luggage than a machine gun."

"Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms called for a legally binding global marking and tracing treaty covering small arms and ammunition at the start of a two-week U.N. conference weighing how to deal with the problem."

"'A piece of lost luggage can be traced from San Francisco to Sierra Leone within hours, yet deadly weapons disappear without trace on a daily basis,' said Jeremy Hobbs, the director of Oxfam International." ...
 

John Silveira: The impact of firearms on crime, business, and politics
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"Why does right to carry result in reduced crime? In surveys of violent criminals, the number one thing they say they fear is not the police, who almost always get to the scene of a crime after it’s over, but an armed citizen. And in his book, More Guns, Less Crime, economist John Lott pointed out that in a county-by-county study of all 3,054 counties in the U.S., wherever gun restrictions are relaxed violent crime rates have dropped, with the greatest drops in the counties that had had the most crime. In adjoining states where right to carry was instituted in one state and not the other, crime in the counties in the right-to-carry states went down while, right across the border, crime in the state with restrictions generally went up."
 

The Gun Control State of Mind
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"Have you ever wondered why Toby Hoover and other gun grabbers have such a problem with your right to carry a concealed handgun? A professor of behavioral science may have the answer."

"In an article titled 'Explaining the Left/Right Divide' from the May/June 2004 issue of Society, a social science journal, Dr. John Ray offers an intriguing look into the psychology of why people are radical liberals. ..." ...

"One reason people support radical liberal ideas is that they have an overwhelming need to satisfy their own ego. While we all have this need to some degree, true leftists are driven and consumed by it."
 

Paul Jacob: Running gun blues
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"Call me a 'gun nut' if you must. But I'm really not one. Still, I did give my sweet, innocent 5-year-old daughter a gun for Christmas. Not just any gun, mind you. It's commonly called a 'street-sweeper.' It's automatic or semi-automatic. Honestly, I don't really know much about guns." ...

"My 5-year-old makes a heckuva lot more sense than those who fear, without a shred of evidence, that playing with toy guns will somehow turn kids to crime. She makes more sense than the school in Indiana, where officials altered their school's mascot — a Minuteman — to remove the musket he carried. They feared the armed minuteman symbolized gun violence. I guess they hadn't yet gotten to American history."
 

FL: Florida Protects Homeowners from Prosecution
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This is a bill filed in the Florida Legislature to install a presumption that homeowners who use deadly force to repel intruders have acted lawfully.

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VA: Poll Supports Closing Gun-Show Loophole
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"Nine out of 10 Richmond-area residents support a proposed law that would close the so-called 'gun-show loophole,' a newly released crime-and-safety survey shows."

"The loophole allows unlicensed gun dealers to sell firearms at Virginia gun shows without making background checks of purchasers."

"The survey also shows that residents in the region overwhelmingly rank crime as the biggest threat to their quality of life and that most believe the crime rate is tied to the availability of guns."

"Voters are also willing to support stricter gun-control legislation and hold elected officials accountable on the issue." ...
 

Canadian ex-pat pens tale of future American civil war
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"It is the year 2018 and the decade-long U.S.-led war on terrorism has been over for seven years."

"... Now Democratic President Alexander Webster has declared the elimination of guns throughout the nation as his legacy for the history books, and his administration is ramming legislation through Congress that would amend the U.S. Constitution, inflaming passions in a collection of western states. In an echo of events in the 1860s, the ultra-conservative governor of Idaho leads a secessionist movement ..." ...

"'I don't think it's far-fetched at all,' says ... R.A.R. Clouston, author of Where Freedom Reigns (AuthorHouse). 'All you have to do is look back to last November and the election . . . how deeply divided the nation is and how there's very little room for compromise.'" ...
 

TX: Alleged Pawn Shop Robber Behind Bars [After Being Shot By Shop Owners]
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A Lubbock woman is in jail after she allegedly tried to rob a local pawn shop.

According to police, 44 year-old Delna Kay Patterson was armed with a pistol when she attempted to rob A-Acme Pawn Shop in the 4100 Block of Avenue Q Saturday.

The owner of the pawn shop and his wife confronted the suspect and defended themselves by firing two shots. One of those hit Patterson. She suffered only minor injuries. [emphasis added]

She is being held in the Lubbock County Jail and has been charged with aggravated robbery.
 

AZ: Retired NYC firefighter shoots suspect
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"The man being credited with stopping the accused kidnapper is no stranger to danger."

"He moved to Bowie after retiring from the New York City Fire Department where he was one of the first people into the World Trade Center after terrorists first attempted to topple the towers in 1993." ...

"His one shot went thru 24-year-old Johnny Williams's shoulder and through the cinder block of the building." ...

"He says the suspect walked into the Mountain View RV Park in Bowie at 5:45 a.m. and told him this was a robbery and to give him all the money in the cash register." ...

"Ritchie was the wrong man to mess with. His weapons instructor told Eyewitness News 4 that all the locals know he carries a sidearm."
 

TX: Homebuilder shoots suspected burglar in head
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"A homebuilder, who police believe was tired of thieves targeting a home under construction, shot a suspected burglar in the head early Tuesday morning."

"Investigators said homebuilder Ricky W. Otis, 47, of New Caney, spent the night at the home after having fallen victim to several overnight thefts of construction materials from the house in the Northcrest Ranch subdivision off Texas 242. He decided to spend the night Monday in an upstairs bedroom of the partially finished home." ...

"When confronted by Otis, one of the men reached into the vehicle, according to the Sheriff's Department."

"Not knowing whether the man was reaching for a weapon inside the vehicle, the homebuilder used deadly force."
 

UK: Richard Munday: There's only one way to protect ourselves – and here's the proof
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"Today, when we are inured to the idea of armed robbery and drive-by shootings, the aspect of the 'Tottenham Outrage' that is most likely to shock is the fact that so many ordinary members of the public at that time should have been carrying guns in the street. Bombarded with headlines about an emergent 'gun culture' in Britain now, we are apt to forget that the real novelty is the notion that the general populace in this country should be disarmed." ...

"Restrictive 'gun control' in Britain is a recent experiment, in which the progressive "toughening" of the regulation of legal gun ownership has been followed by an increasingly dramatic rise in violent armed crime. Eighty-four years after the legal availability of pistols was restricted to Firearm Certificate holders, and seven years after their private possession was generally prohibited, they still figure in 58 per cent of armed crimes. Home Office evidence to the Dunblane Inquiry prior to the handgun ban indicated that there was an annual average of just two incidents in which licensed pistols appeared in crime. If, as the Home Office still asserts, 'there are links between firearms licensing and armed crime', the past century of Britain's experience has shown the link to be a sharply negative one."
 

Schools' weapons policies preclude leeway, some say
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"In this post-Columbine era, when school districts say they have 'zero tolerance' for weapons, students and parents often are shocked to find the policy can mean just that -- no tolerance at all for any transgression, no matter how trivial it might seem."

"That reportedly was the experience of a Cupertino High School soccer player recently, when the district suspended him from school for, according to his father, having a pocketknife in his clothing outside a school dance."

"Present-day enforcement of zero-tolerance policies 'is absurd,' said Gary Redenbacher of the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. 'School officials have completely abdicated their discretion.' "
 

David Codrea: "Safe schools"
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"The people keeping and bearing arms. There's a proactive plan that seems to work--as has occasionally been proven in our country. Remember, at Littleton, the attackers fled when the school's armed guard returned fire. And remember incidents of armed citizens stopping gunmen at Pearl, MS, and the Appalachian Law School. ..."

"Unfortunately, federal and state laws forbid possessing firearms except in narrowly defined circumstances, in many cases within 1,000 feet of school grounds. In other words, schools are mandated law-abiding citizen disarmament zones. Agreeing, inexplicably, is NRA's Wayne LaPierre, who declared at the 1999 annual meeting 'we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools... ' "
 

IA: Boy accused of bringing dart gun on school bus
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A ten-year-old boy accused of bringing a dart gun on a school bus in Muscatine is facing charges.

Officials says the boy brought the dart gun on the bus on Thursday.

Superintendent Tom Williams says the driver noticed the boy had a gun that looked like a real weapon and told the authorities.

The boy was charged with carrying a weapon on school grounds and aggravated assault. His name hasn't been released.
 

CA: Police offering free gun locks
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"Gun owners who want to keep their weapons safer around children in the home are getting some free help at local police stations."

"Newport Beach and Costa Mesa police departments are offering free gun locks through Project ChildSafe, a nationwide firearms safety program. The cable-style locks are designed to immobilize guns and prevent accidental discharge — particularly by a child." ...

"'You've got to look at what you're trying to protect,' [Costa Mesa Sgt. Marty Carver] said. 'The odds of having someone break into your house are much less than a child getting to that gun while you're not watching it.'"
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Submitter's Note: According to the CDC there were 48 children (13 and under) killed and 637 injured in gun accidents in 2002. That same year according to FBI crime statistics there were 2,151,875 burglaries in the US. So which one is more likely?
 

FL: Cop accidentally shot by partner thanks lifesaving medics
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"The police officer who nearly died from a gunshot accidentally fired by his partner in September credits the quick and brave work of city paramedics with saving his life." ...

"...The first medics to arrive did not know McGarry's partner, Stevens Gelu, shot him through a door after a man stepped out of his apartment and pointed a gun at Gelu."
 

TX: Police officers undergo fire arm sessions
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"Practice shooting keeps Jaime Garcia on his toes and safe from the dangers of being a Brownsville police officer."

"Like all 220 police officers in Brownsville, Garcia must qualify each year to bear his standard weapon, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol."
 

MT: Man involved in domestic dispute killed by deputy
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"A domestic dispute escalated into a hostage situation Saturday afternoon and a deputy shot and killed a 56-year-old man as he approached lawmen after putting down his rifle, Flathead County Sheriff Jim Dupont said."

"Dupont said deputies responded to a report of a man holding his wife hostage. Several rifle shots were fired into the yard."

"The sheriff said a shift supervisor negotiated with the man and, 'Eventually, he let her go.'"

"The man put down his rifle and was coming toward deputies, who ordered him to stop. That's when he was shot to death, but Dupont said he didn't know exactly what led to the shooting."

"The man died at the scene. His name was not released." ...
 

Philippines: Murder charges slapped v. 2 cops
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"MURDER charges were filed on Friday against two policemen responsible for the killing of a member of Civil Security Unit (CSU) ..." ...

"Solatorio got up and upon seeing Ramizo carrying an M-16, he raised his hands in surrender and said, 'Don't shoot me, let's settle this amicably.'"

"However, Ramizo, in the presence of many spectators, fired two shots hitting the victim in both arms."

"Afterward he fired two more shots hitting the CSU employee at the stomach."

"After the victim slumped to the ground, the suspect reportedly went closer and fired several shots before fleeing aboard their service vehicle."

"Recovered from the crime scene were 12 empty shells of M-16 armalite." ...
 

India: Protector turns killer on rails
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"Soldiers marched in a rehearsal for the annual show of military might in Delhi and a few hundred kilometres away, some of their colleagues were charged with killing five people who were pushed out of a train."

"Three jawans of the Rajputana Rifles and one of the Border Security Force were arrested."

"At 4.30 am, a group of jawans travelling on the Delhi-bound Farakka Express allegedly shoved six fellow passengers out of the unreserved coach after an altercation. They fell on parallel tracks and under the wheels of the moving Sampoorna Kranti Express. Five, including a woman, were killed on the spot near Shikohabad station in Firozabad district of western Uttar Pradesh." ...
 

Philippines: Padaca seeks inventory of high-powered guns bought by predecessor
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"Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca has requested the Philippine National Police (PNP) to make an inventory of all high-powered firearms, including submachine guns, which the administration of her predecessor, Faustino Dy Jr., had purchased."

"'Please indicate in the inventory the actual recipients and holders of (these) firearms,' Padaca said in a one-page letter dated Jan. 11 to the PNP, a copy of which was obtained by The STAR."

"Padaca reportedly sought the inventory after the high-powered firearms which the procurement officer of the Isabela police received on behalf of the provincial government, could not be accounted for." [emphasis added] ...
 

UK: Soldier on gun charges escapes
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A GULF War veteran facing firearms charges has escaped from army custody for the third time in three months.

Military and civil police are hunting Lance Corporal James Piotrowski, 21, who escaped from his London barracks last Wednesday.

It is thought Piotrowski, who served for three months in Iraq with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, may return to his home city of Birmingham.
 

South Africa: Police move to resolve firearms fiasco
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"A serious glitch in the firearm amnesty process this week sparked a national and provincial investigation into the readiness of the police to deal with firearms handed in as part of the current campaign."

"The alert was prompted by the actions of English teacher Louis Podbielski, who took two firearms to the Westville Police Station last Sunday night and was told by the police on duty that they had neither the correct forms to process the handing over of arms, nor enough information about the amnesty. They suggested he come back another day."
 

MO: Trapshooting teaches skills and safety -- The sport is different from hunting because it's more structured, participants say
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"Jamie Brueggeman, one of two girls on the Washington FFA Trap Team, leads off the squad. It was a bitterly cold day last month — the kind where even if you're wearing gloves, you're fingers don't work as well."

"Shrugging off the frigid temperature, a group of young people stood in a line and waited for a round clay disc to fly upon their command — 'Pull!'"

"The trapshooting season ended in the fall, but these students — members of the Washington FFA Trap Team known as the 'Claybusters' — were holding an impromptu practice session. The competition season will start up again in March, and they want to be ready." ...
 

TX: Traditions of the past have gone up in smoke
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"One recent night, while camped on the steep banks of the Lampasas River, I watched a campfire slowly die and my thoughts drifted back to how things were for hunters, anglers and campers in my boyhood days."

"I remember carrying my .22 rifle down the street to go rabbit hunting in the pasture at the end of the road. No one paid any attention because that's what many young boys did when they weren't in school."

"Back then, a hunting truck was an old half-ton with a whining motor, rusted bed and windows that were difficult to roll up -- not a 3/4- to 1-ton pickup with a four-wheeler in its bed."

"A wildlife feeder was someone who was employed at the zoo." ...
 

VA: Machete Is Weapon of Choice
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"Machetes are becoming the weapon of choice for northern Virginia gangs."

"In the past two years in Fairfax, the long, curving knives have been listed in 40 police reports, ranging from random suspicious persons to gang-related incidents. The weapons have been in use for years, but gang members are wielding them more frequently." ...

"Sensing the growing popularity of machetes, Virginia legislators passed a law last year that included them in a list of weapons - including guns and switchblades - that cannot be concealed."
 

TX: Teaching Children About Gun Safety
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"Sgt.. Jimmy Casper of the Angelina County Sheriff's Department said, 'kids have a natural curiosity about them. And if you just have something put up somewhere, there naturally wanna go see what it is and what it does.' "

"That's exactly why Sergeant Casper taught his children at a young age about guns."

"Casper said, 'if you teach them about them, teach them what it does, and around 5, 6, 7, somewhere right around there if you want, you take them out and let them shoot the gun so they'll know what it does and show them.' "
 

NJ: Gun buy-back gets weapons off street
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"More than 100 guns were collected yesterday during the first day of Jersey City's gun buy-back program LifeSaver, but parents with children attending St. Nicholas Elementary School were up in arms, saying the church, which is right next door to the school, is no place to collect guns." ...

"LifeSaver was organized by Jersey City Councilwoman Viola Richardson and kicked off in cooperation with Healy and Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio."

"DeFazio, whose office donated $25,000 to the program, said people there were gratified by the pubic response."

"Community leaders hope the gun buy-back program brings the issue of gun violence to the forefront, and serves as one tool among many in combating gun violence and accidents."
 

CA - Too Weird for Words! (Are these artists thinking?)
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"Two tenured art professors have resigned from the University of California, Los Angeles, because the school refused to suspend a graduate student who may have used a gun during a classroom performance art piece."

"Chris Burden and Nancy Rubins, internationally known artists who taught at UCLA for more than two decades, filed their retirement papers Dec. 20."

"They feel this was sort of domestic terrorism. ..."

"Burden did performance art in the 1970s and his best-known performance featured an assistant shooting him in the arm with a .22-caliber rifle. That work was different because the audience never felt in jeopardy, while the UCLA performance inspired 'genuine fear,' Watson said."
 

KS: Smart choice (Letter)
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I think the city of Wichita is making a smart choice to cash in on funds from selling confiscated guns. I would complain if that source of revenue were wasted merely because of where it came from. Would they next start destroying the confiscated vehicles of drug pushers instead of selling them, or perhaps not returning stolen items because they were in the hands of criminals?

When will people realize that it's not the gun that commits a crime, it's the person holding the gun? I have a variety of handguns in my home, and I've never once caught one sneaking out for a night of murder and mayhem.

TIM STOLZ Colwich
 

IA: Yepsen: Kill rules and more deer
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"Anyone looking for an example of how government regulations don't work need look no further than the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' mismanagement of the state's deer population." ...

"We are awash in these animals. What was an awesome sight - 'Look, a deer' - has turned sights of disgust and fear: 'Look out, there's a deer in the road.' They damage property, cause accidents and reduce farm income. Last year, several people died in deer-related accidents. ..." ...

"We can debate why the DNR has failed. The agency probably doesn't have enough money, although it's not clear we need more DNR officers or bureaucrats. We need more hunters." ...
 

PA: Hunters unload over deer policies
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"Unhappy deer hunters packing an auditorium yesterday told the Pennsylvania Game Commission that a five-year effort to control the state's deer herd has worked too well, causing overkill that makes their quarry too hard to come by."

"'I'm really fed up and everybody I talk to is very fed up,' said Lebanon County hunter Paul Garman, echoing many others who spoke at the commission's annual public-input hearing. 'Carrying that rifle around like a dummy and not seeing nothing -- it's getting bad.'"

"The hearing was held in advance of tomorrow's preliminary vote to schedule the 2005-06 seasons and set bag limits. Many hunters who spoke yesterday urged the panel to issue fewer doe hunting licenses and to shorten the season." ...
 

PA: Army Sharpshooters Suffer First Loss Of Season
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"Army's rifle team turned in its best effort of the season, but came up short by just seven points (6253-6246) in falling to six-time NCAA defending champion and No.1-ranked Alaska Fairbanks Sunday afternoon in a meet held in Palmyra, Pa. The loss snapped the No. 3 Black Knights' eight-match unbeaten streak."

"Army (8-1) shattered school marks in all three disciplines, breaking the aggregate mark by 41 points, smallbore (4682) by 33, while nipping air (1564) by eight points." ...
 

Portugal: Teen's website features machine gun
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"Police in Portugal have arrested a teenager who set up a personal website that featured photos of himself posing with a machine gun along with cash he said he obtained through crime — as well as his full name and mobile telephone number, a report said."

"Marco Guerra (17) told newsweekly Sabado he was charged with illegal possession of firearms and drugs after police searched the room he occupies in his parents house in suburban Lisbon." ...

"If found guilty Guerra faces a jail term of three years for the illegal possession of arms and another two years for the possession of drugs."
 

Indonesia: Yachtie in court over weapons
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"MILLIONAIRE former champion sailor Christopher Packer will today find himself in the accused's chair when his weapons trial begins in Bali."

"Jailed in Bali since being arrest in mid-November, Mr Packer, 52, of Perth, is denying charges he violated Indonesia's anti-weapons laws by failing to declare the existence of six guns on board his boat." ...

"Family members, including their parents, had visited him in recent weeks and Mr Packer's girlfriend has remained in Bali on board his impounded vessel since the boat was boarded by police as it attempted to leave Indonesian waters." ...

"[Mr Packer] has said the weapons were for self-defence as his 60m vessel would sail through pirate-infested waters on a world journey." ...
 

UK: Addict's 16 years for City gun rampage
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"A drug user has been jailed for 16 years for attempted murder and attacking a man with a claw hammer."

"Nadeem Khan, of North Street, Stoke Heath, Coventry, pleaded guilty to attempted murder after a man was shot at in Sewall Highway, Wyken, on August 11, 2003."

"The victim was blasted a number of times as he sat in a car. Blood-soaked, he ran down the street screaming and broke down the door of a nearby house."
 

Malaysia: Kongster Says: Big gun, small gun, or no gun
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"About two years ago, when the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry said it was toying with the idea of arming its enforcement officers with guns in its war against VCD pirates, I remarked to some of my New Straits Times colleagues: 'It’s a matter of time before someone gets shot.' "

"Before long, the thought was put into action and enforcement officers started carrying guns on their raids. And bang! bang! An enforcement officer shot an 18-year-old VCD peddler in Penang last week, and he accidentally shot another man who was having dinner with his wife in a nearby coffee shop." ...
 

Australia: Two hospitalised after nightclub violence
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"Two men are in hospital after a stabbing and two shootings at Perth nightclubs."

"Police say a man was stabbed in the neck during a fight at the Metropolis nightclub in Northbridge around 1:30am AWST."

"Another man was shot."

"Both remain in hospital with serious injuries."
 

UK: Gun raid at city hotel
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"ARMED robbers terrified guests and staff at one of Sheffield's top hotels during a raid in the early hours of yesterday."

"Three masked men went into the Marriott Hotel in Kenwood Road, Nether Edge, at about 2.20am and tried unsuccessfully to open a safe."

"They then smashed a glass cabinet and stole some items of jewellery before escaping in car parked in nearby Rundle Road. No staff or guests were physically harmed but they have been offered counselling."
 

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For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822)

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