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MI: VA to investigate officers' use of force
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"Officials at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor are investigating whether federal police officers used excessive force on a veteran who says he was handcuffed and knocked to the floor while trying to intervene in a conflict involving an irate woman." |
Canada: Vancouver police accused of brutality
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"Six Vancouver police officers have been suspended over charges that they picked up three suspected drug dealers, took them to a Stanley Park parking lot and beat them." ...
"Fifteen police investigators are looking into the alleged incident, and the six officers could face criminal charges, as well as internal discipline, Constable Bloor said." |
UK: Briefs: 'Test driver' was gunman
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"A Ballyclare man has had his Ford Transit van stolen at gun point by a man responding to a 'For Sale' advertisement."
'Newtownabbey police said the van owner took the robber for a test drive in the vehicle about 6.15pm on Sunday."
"As the white long wheel base van was driven along Ballylinney Road, the test driver produced a hand gun and ordered the owner from the vehicle. He then drove off at speed toward Ballyclare." ...
"The owner was shaken but unhurt in the attack." |
UK: Teenager 'shot ex at point-blank range'
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"His girlfriend rushed him to hospital after he claimed he had taken pills in a suicide attempt - the claim was false."
"On another occasion he coaxed her into his car then drove to a secluded spot where he pulled his belt tight around her neck, later releasing her."
"Bateman is also alleged to have threatened Miss Jones with a knife in an attack at her own home while her parents were in."
"He is also alleged to have threatened to take his own life by setting himself on fire."
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FL: Mother Blames DCF For Son's Death
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"A West Palm Beach mother blames the state for the death of her teenage son."
"By all accounts, Donte Woods, 16, was a troubled teenager. But his mother says his life could have been different had he not been shuffled between foster homes and runaway shelters." ...
"Police said Woods accidentally shot and killed himself while taking part in a home-invasion robbery." |
Where Gun Control is Going
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"It is astonishing that the American people continue to fail to get their collective intellectual arms around the absurdity and increasingly dangerous threat to human freedom that gun control represents. Banned by the Second Amendment, restrictions placed upon government by the law of the land are blatantly ignored by that very same government!" ... |
KY: Budget cuts may hurt poor defendants
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"If his office's budget is cut again, Kentucky's top public defender plans to tell his lawyers to refuse to take new cases of poor people charged with crimes." ...
"His decision means impoverished criminal defendants might go to trial, and face potentially lengthy terms in prison, with no attorney -- or they could be released without their case being heard, Lewis said. Without lawyers, some defendants might feel pressured to plead guilty, he said." |
Big Brother getting bigger
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"Addressing the delegates more than two years ago at the Republican National Convention, President Bush invoked a line that had become a sort of mantra."
" 'Big government is not the answer,' he said."
"Now, just past the midway point of his first term in office, Bush is presiding over the largest, most expensive -- and, some would say, most intrusive -- federal government in history." |
UK: Boy, 16, quizzed over rape
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"The 20-year-old victim was attacked as she headed to meet friends in the city centre. She was dragged into an alleyway off Queen Victoria Road."
"Her attacker then held a gun to her head, pushed her to the ground and raped her."
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She lay there disarmed, unable to defend herself, taking it for merry old Mother England. Thank goodness private gun ownership has been all but outlawed in Britain! Otherwise this girl may have been able to actually defend herself. |
UK: Right note to stop gun gangs
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"A talented teenager and her mum have joined forces to release a life-inspiring CD which they hope will combat the dark lyrics of rap music."
"Dawn Nolan and her daughter Gemma, aged 19, penned the words to Precious Heaven in the aftermath to the Aston shootings ..."
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Gun Control Group's Statistical Study Called 'A Waste of Time'
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"Waldron urged the Brookings Institution and other gun control advocates who subscribe to the authors' nationwide tally of 300 gun laws to recognize that the 20,000 figure is a compilation of every 'stray ordinance' that exists in towns, cities and states across America."
" 'Federal law,' Waldron said, 'is a general rule that doesn't tell you where and how you can possess a firearm.' That's what state and local laws focus on, he said." |
Canada: Horse shootings may be work of serial sniper
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"The latest victim in a bizarre series of shootings was so friendly that he would go to anyone with a hand outstretched, and so gentle that children flocked to caress his gleaming black hide."
"King became the fifth horse shot and the second to die at the hands of what is believed to be a serial sniper terrorizing fields along a stretch of highway in northern Alberta." ... |
Chicago-Area Muslim Banned From America
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"The INS has not commented specifically about Samirah's case but has said in general that people who have applied for but not received permanent residency, even those with the 'advanced parole' papers Samirah said he received to travel, are not guaranteed re-entry into the US." ...
"Samirah, 36, of Orland Park, said Irish authorities held him in a cell overnight and told him he could either buy a return ticket to Jordan or remain in jail for days or weeks 'until an Irish judge decides what to do with you.' "
"Samirah said he had lived in the United States for 15 years and had not returned to Jordan since 1990, in part to give U.S. officials time to investigate him and determine that he was not a threat to the United States." |
Albania: Comedian Disarms Good-Humored Gangsters
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"The gangsters who aimed Kalashnikov rifles at Sejfulla Myftari's car recognized his shaved head and bulging eyes when he stepped out of it, the Shekulli daily said last week."
" 'Oh thanks, I haven't seen a Kalash (Kalashnikov) in ages -- will you let me hold it please,' Myftari said, reaching to pat one of the guns as if it were a much-missed toy."
"The bandits laughed and told Myftari and his friends to leave quickly so that they could hold up another car instead." |
Second Amendment Foundation Applauds Florida Judge For Setting Aside Gun Verdict
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" 'Judge Labarga has allowed common sense and the rule of law to prevail over emotion,' observed SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. 'The Valor verdict defied logic by holding the Valor Corporation responsible for the willful act of a young thug. Nathaniel Brazill, who stole the pistol used to gun down Lake Worth Middle School teacher Barry Grunow, is solely responsible for that crime, and not the distributor.' " |
VA: Feds charge 28 people in gun-trafficking ring
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"Federal officials have charged 28 people in a gun trafficking ring that allegedly stretched from Hampton Roads to New York City."
"The suspects are accused of lying on gun purchase forms about criminal backgrounds or other information that would prohibit them from buying guns in Virginia, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. The guns were then sold on the black market and some wound up in New York, officials said." |
Should Gun Advocates Adopt a Highway?
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"Gay groups and drug legalization groups have adopted highways -- and so have the Boy Scouts of America and ladies' sewing circles. Freedom belongs to everyone."
"I can see why Leetha was surprised to hang that left and see that sign. But litter is a smaller problem than limiting the right to collect it." |
Who is John J. Donohue III?
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"The Brookings Institution, a liberal research group based in Washington D.C., is attempting to revive interest in a flawed study on the effects of CCW on crime, entitled 'Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis', by John J. Donohue III." ...
"Donohue's research abstract provides enough proof of his bias as to damn the whole piece prior to reading it. And thus we at OFCC PAC got to wondering: just who is John J. Donohue III?" |
CA: California Legislative Update
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"Two anti-gun bills have been introduced in the California Legislature. AB 50, sponsored by Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-42), would restrict the sale and ownership of .50 Caliber BMG rifles. Although this is a retread of last year's bill that failed passage, Assemblyman Koretz is pinning his hopes on a batch of new legislators to give him the votes he needs to push AB 50 through the legislature."
"Also, anti-gun Senator Jack Scott (D-21) has introduced SB 35, a measure that would give the California Department of Justice the authority to establish and maintain a ballistic identification database. The fees incurred to administer the database would be passed onto the manufacturers, dealers, and consumers. Scott offers his proposal in spite of the fact that the California DOJ has already studied the idea of ballistic 'fingerprinting,' and the results indicate such a proposal is impractical and unreliable." |
Internet Tax Unconstitutional?
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"The taxation itself is what is hurting local businesses. You do not fix this problem by increasing existing taxes or through the addition of new taxes. Americans pay nearly 50% of their yearly income in taxes. (This includes all taxes, state, federal, income, sales, property etc.) Our founding fathers never intended to fund vast social programs through taxation." |
IL: Three Chicago Cops Accused Of Drug Dealing
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"One former Chicago police officer has already pleaded guilty and two more are charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine."
"Federal prosecutors say the three are accused of conspiring in 1998 and 1999 to distribute five kilograms of cocaine that had been hidden in a vehicle in a police impound lot." |
SD: Bill could save lives without harming privacy
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"If a person has a potentially fatal, contagious illness, others should know about it."
"That's the crux of a bill passed unanimously Friday by the South Dakota House Judiciary Committee (see Monday's Daily Leader)." ...
"We're in a time when concerns over privacy is growing rapidly. New laws are being passed all over the country to ensure privacy in all parts of our lives."
"But we believe there is a public health issue that is more important than privacy." ... |
Health Data Monitored for Bioterror Warning
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"To secure early warning of a bioterror attack, the government is building a computerized network that will collect and analyze health data of people in eight major cities, administration officials say."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to lead the multimillion-dollar surveillance effort, which officials expect to become the cornerstone of a national network to spot disease outbreaks by tracking data like doctor reports, emergency room visits and sales of flu medicine." ... |
NRA Foundation Grant to Fund Professorship at George Mason
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"The NRA Foundation has pledged $1 million to the George Mason University School of Law to establish and endow the Patrick Henry Professorship of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment." ...
"The new professorship will be filled by Nelson Lund, professor of law at George Mason and nationally recognized expert on Constitutional law." ... |
CA: Mom's Murder Said to Imitate 'Sopranos'
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"Carona refused to say where Jane M. Bautista, 41, was killed but said a preliminary autopsy showed she was strangled. Her head and hands were found in the apartment she shared with her sons in Riverside, east of Los Angeles."
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FL: Judge throws out Grunow gun verdict
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"A judge threw out a jury's verdict today in what had been considered a landmark case against the distributor of a gun used in the shooting death of middle school teacher Barry Grunow."
"In November, Valor Corp. was found negligent for not supplying a lock with the tiny .25-caliber pistol. The gun itself was not defective, a jury said..." ...
"Judge Jorge Labarga ruled today that because the jury had not found a defect the product liability case, there could be no negligence claim." |
NY: Henry K. to lecture terror-wary NYPD
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"...sources said the speech could be the first in a series of lectures in which experts address top cops as part of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s focus on the war on terrorism. Kelly formed the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau after becoming commissioner last January, and the new measures are said to be part of a broad effort to help prevent another terrorist attack after 9/11 and to better prepare for a possible next strike." |
OK: Man Shot And Killed By Good Samaritan
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A Good Samaritan goes to the aid of a defenseless woman and get hit by a car in the process.
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" 'After being struck by the car, the good samaritan, who was armed at that time...it appeared the suspect in the car was trying to back over him. At some point, he fired shots into the back of the car, hitting the suspect, who is now deceased,' said Sergeant Eric Dalgleish." |
AZ: Armed & Dangerous
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"In the past few years, migrants have faced a new danger: overzealous U.S. citizens—often carrying high-powered rifles, sporting homemade badges and wearing camouflage fatigues—have forcefully detained thousands of migrants before turning them over to border patrol agents. Chris Simcox, the founder of Civil Homeland Defense, one of several groups in the region focused on keeping out 'illegals,' insists that U.S. citizens have the right to guard the border." ...
"But human rights advocates suspect that vigilantes may be involved in a series of recent murders and attacks on migrants in desert areas between Tucson and Phoenix. Though the allegations remain unproven, there is a growing clamor for federal and state law enforcement officials to investigate the civilian militias and rein them in." ...
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UK: Man shot after Bradford robbery
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"A man who tried to intervene after a raid at a travel agents in Bradford has been shot and killed after he and a friend chased two suspected robbers."
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Alternate title: Disarmed British subject tries to be a hero and pays with his life at the hands of armed criminals. |
Another NRA trojan horse response
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"With regard to your concern over the Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement unit (C.A.G.E), please be assured that NRA is aware of the latest anti-gun activities in Chicago."
"Unfortunately, the simple fact is that the current political atmosphere in Illinois leaves gun owners in a very difficult position. That is why we are not only constantly engaged in legislative battles, but in electoral contests as well. It may not happen overnight, but we must, and will, continue our efforts to elect lawmakers who understand and respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners. You can be sure that NRA will continue to move forward with our fight, and we hope you will continue to work with us." ... |
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