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Is the Supreme Court All Thumbs?
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"Consider some of their recent decisions. By a 5-4 score the Black Robes decided it's okay for any thumb-up-his-ass county constable to slap thumb cuffs on Soccer Mom and haul her off to the hoosegow for seatbelt violations." ...

"In an 8-0 rout The Supremes nixed any medical exception to the government's War on Marijuana." ...

"Not to be outdone, the minor league Golden State Supremes recently dismissed the historic doctrine of jury nullification, proclaiming that jurors have no right to consult their consciences while deliberating." ...

"These three rulings have one thing in common: the already powerful are made even more powerful." ...

UT: Feds Show No Mercy on Gun Violations
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. . . "On average, one person a day is being sent to federal prison for gun crimes in Utah, with some of the most violent offenders facing 50 or more years without the possibility of parole. The average sentence is 31/2 years." ...

"A recent survey conducted by state and federal officials shows that 55 percent of respondents didn't know defendants convicted of a federal gun crime have no possibility of receiving parole." ...

"The majority of indictments in 2003 involved a felon in possession of a firearm. [Paper felons?] The next most common violation was a drug user in possession of a firearm. Other common crimes include ...lying on federal forms to buy a gun..."

Advice for the Free Staters
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..."In this article are some suggestions based on feedback I have received from FSP members--with broad applicability for any State Party or local Libertarian group thinking about what to do when we actually have quite a few Libertarians pining for action. The question I was asked was this: what would be some key things to focus on daily in bringing Libertarian ideas to a locality that the average person can address?"

DC: 'Crime Emergency' Declaration Ends
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"The District of Columbia will end its four-month-long 'crime emergency' declaration on Monday."

"D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey announced the emergency on Aug. 27, which allowed him to suspend some rules, including one that required two weeks notice before changing officers' schedules."

"Ramsey said that gave him the flexibility to match resources to the city's emerging crime problems." ...

"Fraternal Order of Police President Lou Cannon told News4, 'The main question is, was there ever a crime emergency in the first place?' "

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Why, indeed, was there a crime emergency? After all, guns are banned in DC.

SC: Principal Resigns Over School Drug Raid
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"The principal of a high school where police drew their guns on students and ordered them to the floor during a drug raid announced his resignation Monday." ...

"McCrackin had asked Goose Creek police to come to the school after receiving reports of marijuana sales. Police said dogs sniffed drug residue on 12 book bags during the Nov. 5 sweep but found no drugs. No one was arrested, but some students were handcuffed for a time." ...

"McCrackin probably will spend the coming weeks preparing for two federal lawsuits filed by students..."

Why more senior citizens are carrying guns
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"Reversing longstanding patterns in the US, residents ages 65 and up are now the mostly likely of all citizens to own a gun. 'Personal gun ownership used to be highest among the middle-aged, but in our 2000 and 2002 survey, it was highest among the 65-plus age group." ...

"In Arizona alone, the state's Department of Public Safety reports that more than 31,000 residents between the ages of 50 and 69 - including 6,200 women - have concealed-weapons permits. It's easy to understand why, says Mr. Batory. 'Just read the papers. Older people are getting tired of being picked on by savages.' "

CA: Plead for end to gun shows
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"California has some of the strictest rules nationwide for gun shows nationwide. Guns at shows cannot be sold over the counter. Attendees can pick up purchased guns only through a licensed store after a 10-day waiting period."

"Whether there is evidence that the show floods the surrounding community with guns is immaterial to many lawmakers, who simply find such gun shows immoral."

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Are these the same politicians who scream that you can't legislate morality in any other venue?

Considering that less than two percent of criminals get guns at gun shows, these protests are just another attempt to avoid the root causes of crime: a pathetic, government run education system, a culture that perpetuates the victim mentality and a society that shies away from personal responsibility in favor of government intervention.

Why I Am a Democrat (Humor)
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We are aware that there are Democrats who support gun rights, even some who actually mean it and do understand the Second Amendment. But even those far too few Democrats are still socialists in far too many other political leanings and thus invite fair and insightful ridicule -- especially when it's this funny.

If you're a Democrat who truly understands the Second Amendment and none of the positions described in this humorous editorial depict positions you hold, well, then, you're not really a Democrat and should probably take the World's Smallest Political Quiz to find out what your true political leanings really are.

Australia: Police searching for armed robber in gun control "paradise"
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"Police are searching for an armed man who escaped with cash after separate hold-ups at a bowling club and a hotel in Melbourne's north overnight."

"Police believe the same man, armed with a handgun, is responsible for robberies at a Lalor bowling club and a Reservoir hotel."

"Just after 10pm (AEDT) the man held a gun to the back of a cashier in the bowling club's gaming room, making demands for cash."

"In the second robbery, about three-and-a-half hours later, the man produced the gun at the counter of a Reservoir hotel."

OH: Publics right to know vs. concealed-carry permits: No clear answer
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"Ah, the time-honored debate over what should be public record and what should be private. Were in the middle of it."

"The latest tiff concerns whether the identity of concealed-carry handgun permit-holders should be public record."

"Gun-rights advocates say no, because the element of surprise would be lost. Concealed carriers need to be anonymous. Otherwise, criminals could check on who has a permit and attack only people without them."

"This scenario assumes that the criminal knows his or her intended victim. If so, he or she probably knows whether the individual carries a handgun, anyway."

OK: Man being tried a second time for shooting state trooper dead
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Amendment 5 to the U.S. Constitution: "...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb..."

Meanwhile, here's a man who defended his home against armed assailants working for the state trooper. The first trial was declared a "mistrial", so they are trying him again.

This is not to say he's innocent, or that the "raid" wasn't justified. It's simply a reminder that the Courts can and will try you twice, or three times if that's what it takes to convict you. That is the way it is now.

MO: Authorities "can't find a legal reason to keep the [convicted felon] from owning the weapon."
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"A working replica of an 1851 military-style .44-caliber revolver is at the center of a Cape Girardeau police detective's quest to keep such guns out of the hands of convicted felons." ...

"The former son-in-law -- Joseph Burgfeld -- is a 46-year-old river barge worker from Bloomfield with five felony convictions, including attempted kidnapping. Perry had the weapon for more than two months while Burgfeld was away, she said."

"Convicted felons are prohibited from possessing firearms. But the legal definitions of what is and what isn't a 'firearm' allow criminals to obtain black powder guns. And after talking with prosecutors, Smith can't find a legal reason to keep the man from owning the weapon." ...

IA: Police giving out gun locks bought by taxpayers
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"The Jefferson County Sheriffs Office will provide 300 free firearm safety kits to local residents through a partnership with Project ChildSafe, the nationwide firearms safety education program."

"The safety kits, which include a gun lock, will start be distributed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday at the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office or by appointment at other times."

"Project ChildSafe, a program developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, will distribute millions of firearm safety kits throughout the country this year. The program is funded by a U.S. Department of Justice grant, with additional funding provided by the firearms industry." ...
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Grant: your tax dollars given to others.

KY: County Constable arrested for methamphetamine and marijuana, caught by "State Police traffic checkpoint"
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"A Butler County constable was arrested on drug charges after attempting to avoid a Kentucky State Police traffic checkpoint Sunday afternoon."

"According to a state police report, Michael P. Elmore, 52, of Roundhill was charged with possession of a controlled substance, first offense, firearm enhanced, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia."

"State police were conducting a roadblock on U.S. 231-N about a mile north of Morgantown when Elmore attempted to avoid passing through the checkpoint."

"State police then conducted a traffic stop on his vehicle, and a drug dog showed interest in both the vehicle and Elmore. A search of the vehicle yielded two methamphetamine pipes and other drug paraphernalia." ...

Gambia: Hamat, OJ Decry 'Growing Gun-Culture'
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"The Inspector General of Police and the SOS for Interior have been taken to task by two opposition figures for purported lapses in the country's situation and ongoing investigations to unravel the last week's murder attempt on lawyer Ousman Sillah."

"Both Hamat Bah and Omar Jallow believe that the incident presents what they called 'testing challenges' to the country's security apparatuses, which must deal with the growing proliferation of arms from other countries to The Gambia. Both politicians observed that leftovers of arms from conflict areas of the sub-region are easily wending their way into the country without being detected and this situation is alarming to anybody who is conscious of the repercussions."

South Africa: Robbers so brazen they once again hit a prison vehicle
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Durban - Armed men tried to rob a department of correctional services vehicle carrying bail money in Durban on Monday, police reported.

Vusi Shabalala said two men driving a combi crashed into the vehicle carrying two correctional services officers in Spine Road.

When the prison vehicle stopped, the occupants jumped out of the combi and demanded money from the officials.

One official was hit on the head with the butt of a firearm. The other had minor shoulder injuries from the collision.

The robbers fled after taking the officials' cellphones and keys. They did not find any money.

Bystanders and other correctional services staff saw the robbery.

No arrests have been made.

UK: "Police killers can expect substantially higher" prison terms
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Killing a police officer is apparently worse than killing a mere subject.

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"From today, the start of the new legal year, life will mean life for the most heinous murderers."

"For the first time, trial judges sentencing murderers will use the new stiffer sentencing framework, set out by Parliament and enshrined in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, to determine how long a murderer should spend in prison before being considered for release on life licence."

"Under the guidelines, police killers can expect substantially higher tariffs whereby the minimum term for the murder of a police officer in the course of duty starts at 30 years." ...

The "Murder Capital" Is In The North
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"It just could be that, in many parts of the South, and also in the West, the thought that the folks in the house a criminal desires to break into just might have guns on hand acts more than a little in the way of a deterrent. Towns in the South that have passed laws either mandating or encouraging people to keep firearms in their homes have been towns where crime rates have dropped significantly. A man once said 'an armed society is a polite society.' I wonder if the good people of Chicago, both black and white, had the real ability to defend their homes and families, and the gang-bangers realized that, what that fact would do to the crime rate in the country's murder capital."

Canada: Police union blasts gun registry
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"The union head of Calgary's front-line police officers is calling for the federal government to scrap the billion-dollar gun registry because it has been a colossal failure in reducing violent crime in the country."

"Al Koenig, president of the Calgary Police Association, said the vast amount of money spent on the firearms program could have been much better put to use for front-line police officers in Canada."

"He said the program has had no effect on crime or acted in any way as a deterrent."

" 'Our position on this is very firm,' said Koenig."

" 'We do not support it, and we will be fighting against it.' " ...

NJ: New digital drivers' licenses to be issued some time this March
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"The city's Motor Vehicle Commission office expects to begin issuing new digital licenses some time this March, according to Doug Van Sant, the office's director."

"The Bridgeton MVC is currently slated to become the 15th office out of 45 statewide to begin issuing the new security-feature-laden licenses, he said."

"The new licenses include 22 forms of security to thwart fraud, according to an Associated Press report, but only a few -- holograms, special ink and second photographs visible only under ultraviolet light -- have been announced by MVC officials."

"Local bank and police officials are looking forward to the state's soon-to-be-implemented digital licensing system..." ...

CA: Gun lock handout deemed a success
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" 'Free Gun Locks,' that was the message being spread from Bilsons Sport Shop on Saturday as people stopped by to pick up the free devices." [Devices funded by the taxpayers are not free]

" 'Its a great project thats aimed at keeping kids safe,' said Sanislo." [Educating your children and teaching them to respect your tools of self-defense will keep them safe, not rendering your gun useless in an emergency]

FL: Pit bull attacks three, survives gunshot to the head
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"Authorities are searching for the owner of a pit bull terrier that attacked two women and a man in Orange County Sunday and survived being shot in the head, according to Local 6 News." ...

" 'I felt like a 2-year-old helpless child,' victim Jamie Garner said. 'The only thing I could do was cry and ask somebody, please get the dog off me. But everybody was scared to come out of the house.' " ...

" 'Four bite holes and a big gash on this leg -- you can see all the way to my bone,' Sabrina Harris told Local 6 News." ...

" 'After he jumped on her, they got him away from her.' a victim said. 'He (then) found me. Come looking for me. And he dragged me from one point of the street to the next.' " ...

NM: Suspected burglar in hospital after shot by homeowner
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Police say an Albuquerque resident apparently interrupted a burglary and ended up shooting the intruder.

Sergeant Pat Apodaca says it happened last night in Albuquerque's north valley.

A man was visiting his neighbor when he thought he heard something at his home next door. He investigated and found his door unlocked.

Apodaca says the intruder opened the door and that's when a fight began.

The intruder had a pipe and struck the resident, but the neighbor intervened. That allowed the victim to get a gun he had in the house and fire two shots, hitting the intruder at least once.

Apodaca says the intruder underwent surgery at an Albuquerque hospital.

LIES About Guns!
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"According to the National Self-Defense Survey created by Florida State University criminologists in 1994 the rate of defensive gun uses can be projected to approximately 2.5 million per year, or one defensive use for every 13 seconds."

"Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone 'almost certainly' would have died had the gun not been used for protection -- a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (In another 14.2% cases, the defender believed someone "probably" would have died if the gun hadn't been used in defense. [emphasis added]

UK: Someone could get shot, police warn
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"POLICE have issue a warning that anyone seen pointing an imitation firearm at an officer or a member of the public faces a real risk of being shot."

"They urged parents not to buy ball-bearing guns or airguns for their children after revealing they were dealing with 100 incidents a month involving real and fake weapons."

"Ball bearing guns known as BB guns look so similar to their real equivalent, it is often impossible for even the most experienced firearms expert to tell the difference."

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It's OK for police to shoot kids with BB guns, but a person defending his home against an intruder will spend time in jail if he uses a firearm to do it. Nice to be a part of the elite.

IL: Trial set to start in cop killing
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"Days before the fifth anniversary of the slaying of Chicago Police Officer John Knight, jury selection is expected to begin Monday for the trial of the man accused of shooting him in his unmarked squad car at a South Side intersection."

"James Scott could get the death penalty if he is convicted of the slaying of Knight and wounding of Knight's partner. His trial is expected to last about two weeks."

"The central issue in the case is expected to be whether Scott knew or should have known that he was firing into a police vehicle as he ran away from a crash."

"Scott is claiming self-defense, and his lawyer plans to argue that his client thought he was being chased by people who were not police officers and intended to harm him."

UK: Bird-Shoot Prize Rethink after Star Loses Gun Permit
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"A magazine prize offering a days pigeon-shooting with former soccer hardman Vinnie Jones was being reviewed today after he had his firearms licence revoked."

"Shooting Times said it was considering what to do about the offer which is the second prize in a competition made before the court case last month in which he was convicted of an air-rage attack."

"Jones, 39, star of gangster movie Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, and a keen shooting fan, had his firearms licence revoked by Hertfordshire Police after the case."

UK: Airline rejects guns on flights
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"Britain's biggest holiday flight operator, Thomas Cook Airlines, has become the first carrier to display open dissent to the government's new security requirements by refusing to carry sky marshals on flights to the US."

"The company, which operates 40 flights a week through US airspace, broke ranks over measures viewed as draconian by many airlines and pilots."

"Thomas Cook said if it were asked to carry armed marshals on any aircraft it would cancel the flight." ...

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Apparently, it's much more preferable to these cowards to have their planes flown into tall buildings killing everyone aboard.

Japan: 33 million yen taken by armed robbers in "gun-free" Japan
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Four men broke into a pachinko parlor in Gifu Prefecture early Monday and made off with 33 million yen after threatening the manager with a pistol and knives, police said.

The 45-year-old manager and three employees were not injured, police said.

The intruders wore dark clothing and caps pulled down low to hide their faces, according to police.

The men stormed in through the back door after the parlor had closed and the employees were cleaning up, they said.

They spoke to the employees in broken Japanese and communicated among themselves in what sounded like Chinese, police quoted the employees as saying.
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In "gun-free" Japan?!?

KY: Police investigating fatal shooting of suspect
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"A preliminary report on the death of a teenager shot in the back by a police officer in a drug bust gone awry may be sent to prosecutors this week Chief Robert White said."

"Michael Newby died early Sunday at University Hospital after the shooting outside a liquor store and small grocery."

"McKenzie G. Mattingly, an undercover Metro police officer who fired the shots, was placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated."

"There was a tussle for the (officer's) service weapon, a shot was fired, the subject fled and in the course of that, the subject was shot three times in the back," White said.

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THREE TIMES IN THE BACK by a cop whose nickname is "Mad Dog" What is there to investigate?

Guns are not toys
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"...while waiting for a movie recently, we watched three young boys playing 'shoot 'em up' games in the arcade. One game consisted of two plastic replicas of a semi-automatic pistol where the boys shot people in simulated close-quarters combat. The winner has the highest 'kill' ratio. Another showed even more graphic depiction of kills."

"We teach never to point a gun at anything that even resembles a human being. These games teach that shooting people is not only acceptable, but fun. We teach guns are not toys. These games teach that guns are nothing but toys. After 20 years of coaching, we know kids treat firearms as they are trained to treat them." ...

Immigration inspectors under the gun at airports
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"U.S. immigration inspectors, who are the first line of defense against foreign terrorists entering the country, are being asked to do more in less time and with less money even as the country remains on high terror alert several U.S. officials complained."

"WorldNetDaily has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security late last month ordered inspectors at the nation's international airports to speed the processing of foreign passengers. International flights must now be cleared within 60 minutes of arrival."

"The new one-hour processing rule applies even under the code orange threat level, which is expected to remain in effect at least through the end of the month, said a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official."

Australia: Ex-inmates charged with murders -- with banned knives, while in prison
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The government can't keep banned weapons out of prisons, and ex-prisoners have sound suppressors and banned drugs.

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"TWO former inmates appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today charged over the 1998 stabbing murder of a fellow prisoner at Victoria's Barwon Prison."

"Brian Edwards died from injuries after a stabbing at Geelong's Barwon Prison on March 2, 1998." ...

"Berry, 25, of Mt Eliza, is also charged with possessing a firearm and silencer and carrying a loaded firearm in a populous place."

"Wenitong, 32, of Kangaroo Flat, faces a total of five charges including possessing ecstasy, possessing a silencer and a prohibited weapon without exemption and carrying a loaded firearm in a populous place." ...

South Africa: Cop killed: Wife, 4 men held
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"Five people, including the wife of a murdered policeman, were arrested on Sunday in connection with his death last week, Eastern Cape police said."

"Superintendent Jafta said on Monday sergeant Khalipa was shot dead in his bed on the evening of December 30."

"His wife and four men were arrested after intensive investigations. It was claimed the wife had hired the men to kill her husband."

"Jafta said Khalipa was asleep about 20:30 on the Tuesday night when four armed men stormed into the house and held his wife and children up in the kitchen."

"One of the attackers went straight to the bedroom where Khalipa was sleeping and shot him six times."

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They can't protect each other but want you to depend on them to protect you.

UK: ARMED robbers asked for a festive bottle of brandy after plundering cash from a Leigh shop
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"Toting a machete and pistol, the pair had calmly walked into the off-licence and stolen around Ł85 from behind the counter."

"One had already left when his accomplice, as an afterthought, asked for a single bottle of Courvoisier which the cashier handed over."

"Police today appealed for witnesses to the raid, which happened at J Wilcock's on St Helens Road, Leigh, at 9.40pm on Sunday."

"The owner was upstairs and the 26-year-old female cashier in the stock room when the two men, dressed from head to toe in black and wearing full-face balaclavas, walked in."

"The taller of the two had a large knife in his hand and the other was carrying a handgun which he placed on the counter in front of the assistant but kept his hand on top of it."

Canada: Gangs highlighted in murder trial
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"A murder trial that is shining a spotlight on west-end Toronto gangs, guns and drugs resumes today as lawyers begin making their final arguments to the jury."

"Alejandro Vivar the alleged leader of the LA Boys, and associate James Tamburini have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the point-blank shooting of Christie Boys enforcer Gary Malo." . . .

"But Vivar, who took the stand in his own defence last month, denies pulling the trigger, claiming instead that in the minutes before the shooting, he tried to defuse an angry confrontation between Malo and two other men, brothers Frank Jocko and Chris Jocko."

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But wasn't registration supposed to help stop all this?

KS: Sheriff's office deploys Tasers
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"Douglas County Sheriff's officers, thanks to a $10,000 federal grant, will soon be carrying some new weapons that look like the pistols that used to show up in B-grade science fiction movies."

"The department is joining a growing number of law enforcement agencies that have adopted the Taser, an electric stun gun, as a nonlethal option for disabling disorderly suspects."

"The Taser will join a department weapons lineup that includes a pepper spray canister, baton and 9 mm pistol."

Thailand: Hooded attackers in dead of night raided army camp for weapons and torched schools in a quick, coordinated wave
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It was a peacetime army's worst nightmare - a pickup truck loaded with hooded gunmen appearing out of the night, spraying the military camp with bullets and killing four soldiers on guard duty.

Minutes later, the raiders had broken into the weapons depot of the Royal Thai Army's engineering battalion in southern Narathiwat province, and made off with more than 100 weapons. Among the haul: M-16 assault rifles and handguns, carried away in fertiliser sacks.

It was over in 30 minutes.

The attackers seemed familiar with the camp's layout and officials said they were helped by 'insiders'.

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But only police and the military are responsible enough to keep guns out of bad guys' hands.