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CO: Proposal Would Expand 'Make My Day' Law To Cars, Businesses Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
DENVER -- State lawmakers will look at broadening Colorado's Make My Day law this week. People who use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes cannot be prosecuted under the Make My Day law. But under the proposal Make My Day Better, people who use deadly force to protect themselves in businesses or cars would also be shielded from prosecution.

AR: Grocery Tax, BMI Debates Await Legislators Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Also this week, lawmakers will consider a proposed “Stand Your Ground” act, which would remove the requirement that civilians try to retreat before using deadly force, as well as a measure to bar former legislators from lobbying the Legislature within one year after leaving office.

CA: RHS senior talks the talk at oratorial contest
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Smith deflected potential claims of extremism with a quote from late Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

When it came to the assigned topic of the right to bear arms, Smith firmly held that the second amendment was an inalienable individual right and the only right that could protect citizens' other liberties.

Give War a Chance Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
“Don’t you ever watch FOX News?” she demanded. “Our glorious leader, Bill O’Reilly, has declared that in order for Americans to be safe from camels overtaking taxis in New York, we must outshout all opposing views and suspend the Constitution. Except for the Second Amendment, of course. No one messes with the right to lock and load!” [satire]

OK: Oklahomans Carrying Concealed Guns on Rise Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
According to information released by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the number of Oklahomans with a permit to carry a concealed weapon is rising.OSBI officials say more than 113 thousand conceal-carry permits have been issued in Oklahoma since the Self-Defense Act went into effect in 1996.

GA: House Committee Approves Gun Bills Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The first bill limits the governor’s powers to confiscate weapons during a state of emergency. The second bill deals more with the everyday -- it says anyone who is over 21, and not a felon, ought to be able to carry a gun in any part of their car without getting a permit first.

PA: Defending Toddler Hunters Against Gun Grabbers Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
At first, it sounded like the protests were against five-year-olds hunting deer. But read closer and you discover the protests against the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners this month in Harrisburg were against a ban against five-year-olds hunting deer. That's very different.

CO: 'Make My Day' Law May Expand Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Tajinder Dhillon's Indian Grocery Store off Academy was robbed at gunpoint 3 times last year. "Usually we close at 10 o'clock, now we're closing at 8," Dhillon said. He said he's all for any kind of law that would help protect him at work and that’s exactly what the new measure is designed to do, protect people in their businesses and cars.

IN: Hunting In Physical Education Classes? Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Aimee Falls says, "I was in shock and I was completely offended." ...when Aimee Falls found out that her 13 year old daughter was learning how to hunt in her physical education class at Lincoln Jr. High School... without parental notice or consent

AZ: 'Just the threat of the Taser is enough' Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
An 18-year-old Gilbert man died in the hospital hours after officers used their stun guns to restrain him on Jan. 18. In November, a University of California, Los Angeles, student was repeatedly stunned by police using Tasers in the University's bookstore despite onlooker's pleas for the officers to stop. Video from this incident is posted on the Web site YouTube.com.

Mexico: No more slingshots: Tijuana cops get their guns back Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Police in this violent border city got their guns back over the weekend, weeks after they were forced to turn over weapons to federal authorities because of allegations they were colluding with drug traffickers.

OH: Democrat Gun Owners Say, "We Want Our Party Back!"
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I am a lifelong registered Democrat who has voted in every election since 1968. I will always be a registered Democrat, in spite of my party’s lack of knowledge concerning the Second Amendment because I believe in most of their positions. However, until my party gets its head out of an unmentionable orifice, I will continue to vote against my party.

I know very few Democrats who support the vision of our party when it comes to firearms, and whenever I do cross paths with a Democrat who does, their opinion soon changes when I engage them in constructive dialogue about gun control.

Letters of Delegates to Congress, "...most express declarations of that Residuum of natural rights, which is not intended to be given up to Society...", Oct. 5th. 1787
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"...I suppose my dear Sir, that the good people of the U. States in their late generous contest, contended for free government in the fullest, clearest, and strongest sense. That they had no idea of being brought under despotic rule under the notion of "Strong government," or in form of elective despotism: Chains being still Chains, whether made of gold or iron..."

"...The corrupting nature of power, and its insatiable appetite for increase, hath proved the necessity, and procured the adoption of the strongest and most express declarations of that Residuum of natural rights, which is not intended to be given up to Society; and which indeed is not necessary to be given for any good social purpose..."

Letters of Delegates to Congress, Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, Aug. 26. 1776
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"...but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I beleive the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men: and I can never doubt an attachment to his country in any man who has his family and peculium in it..."

"...(or in other words the rights of a citizen) to all who had a permanent intention of living in the country. Take what circumstances you please as evidence of this, either the having resided a certain time, or having a family, or having property, any or all of them. Whoever intends to live in a country must wish that country well, and has a natural right of assisting in the preservation of it..."

Hungary: Health ministry wants to tighten gun permits
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The health ministry is planning to amend the law on carrying firearms: Everyone who keeps a gun at home would have to undergo psychological examinations at regular intervals. The planned amendments have been submitted to the authorities. According to hirtv.hu, individuals under 40 would have to repeat the examination every five years, those between 40 and 60 every four years, while those over 70 once every year.

Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence, Franklin to Morris - "...is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of...", Dec. 25, 1783
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"... All property, indeed, except the savage's temporary cabin, his bow, his match coat, and other little acquisitions absolutely necessary for his subsistence, seems to me the creature of public convention. Hence the public has the right of regulating descents and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and uses of it. All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of . . . He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages. He can have no right to the benefits of society who will not pay his club towards the support of it..."

FL: Felons exploit loopholes in Fla. concealed weapons law
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Marion Hammer, a Tallahassee lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, blamed law enforcement gaps, 'bleeding-heart, criminal-coddling judges and prosecutors' for missteps that put guns in the hands of criminals. Critics say the NRA pressures lawmakers to ignore the problem.

'The people who are intimately familiar with these laws, the people at the NRA, they know exactly what's going on,' said Kristen Rand, legislative director of the nonprofit Violence Policy Center. Florida's gun lobby and the program's administrators 'know they're permitting some bad people, but they don't want the general public to know that.'

Gun-control framed by the MSM, NRA sucks v. Sarah Brady sucks.

NY: We're no longer the Wild West
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The less "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State" rings true in contemporary America, the more the gun culture revs up its high-caliber lobbying and propaganda machine. We've made smokers pariah, forcing them out to the street. Alcoholism and drug abuse, once private demons, have become public crusades. Abolishing trans fats is a civic battle legislated by urban councils. Guns, however, reign supreme.

Tracing a Bullet Back to Its Gun
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For soldiers on patrol in Iraq, sniper attacks can seemingly come out of nowhere and leave little chance for return fire. But with new anti-sniper detection systems proving their worth for U.S. soldiers and marines in Iraq since 2004, warriors can now return fire more effectively to defend themselves-- and a Montana researcher is independently studying those systems to better understand how they work. The sniper detection systems in use by the U.S. military follow the supersonic trail of a bullet back to the gunman.

Canada: Ottawa still eyeing lifetime gun licence
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Contrary to some victims' demands after last September's Montreal college shootings, the Conservative government is still considering a one-time application for lifetime gun licences. An applicant would still have to fill out the proper forms, provide references and undergo a criminal-record check to obtain a licence to possess or acquire a firearm. After that, only a complaint from the public or a criminal conviction would trigger a review, according to internal RCMP documents obtained by Canadian Press using access to information legislation.

Frank Keegan: Legislators must ban assaults on thinking
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A political reality in this country is that there is a strong prejudice against guns, a prejudice based--as are all prejudices--on abysmal ignorance.

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics provides the best and most objective data. One study of state and federal prisoners shows only about 2 percent used a "military style semiautomatic gun" --the accepted definition of assault weapons-- when they committed the crimes that put them behind bars.

The same study found that of all guns used by these criminals, 80 obtained them from "family, friends, a street buy or an illegal source," effectively putting them outside the restraint of any law.

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NJ: Boy, 2, dies of injuries from Jersey City crash
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A 2-year-old boy injured when the car in which he was riding was struck by a car driven by an intoxicated off-duty police officer died yesterday, authorities said.

Juan Carlos Zelaya was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. at University Hospital in Newark, where he had been since Tuesday, when he and his mother, Ruth Zelaya, 37, were injured when their car was struck by car driven by Jersey City officer Kevin Freibott.

UK: X-ray cameras on lampposts plan Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Government is considering installing X-ray cameras on lampposts to spot armed terrorists and other criminals. However, officials acknowledged that it would be highly controversial as the cameras can "see" through clothing. "Street furniture could routinely house detection systems that would indicate the likely presence of a gun for example."

UT: War Vet, 74, says cops roughed him up
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A 74-year-old Korean War veteran was held at gunpoint and then tackled by Salt Lake City police officers after he ~~refused~~ was unable to comply with orders to raise his hands above his head.

Miles Lund said he tried to tell the officers - who believed he was carrying a gun - that his war injuries rendered his right arm immobile. "But they just wouldn't listen," he said.

Instead, according to witness accounts and a police report, at least three officers tackled the man, wrestling him to the ground at Liberty Park and wrenching his arms behind his back to handcuff him.

"He told me, 'Put your hands above your head or I'll shoot you dead,' " Lund recalled. "And I said, 'I can't, I was hurt in the war.' "