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TX: Legislators Take Up Plan for Intersection Cameras
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"In a replay of one of the tightest legislative battles of 2001, Texas lawmakers this year again will decide whether to let cities set up automated cameras to nab red-light runners. Under the plan, civil fines up to $75 could be meted out to owners of vehicles photographed running red lights. The owners would be liable for the fine even if they were not in the car when it went through a red light." |
CA: $100,000 picked up off street; Inept armored-car crew wants it back
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"Find a penny, pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck."
"Find a bag of cash, pick it up and somebody else might make a buck."
"Or 10,000 bucks if they give information about who may have taken the canvas bag holding $100,000 left in a Fresno parking lot by an armored truck crew on Dec. 23."
" 'Through a series of events, they ended up leaving it there and driving off,' King said. While continuing on their route, the armored-truck crew members discovered they were missing the bag." ... |
MI: Detroit officer cuts woman's finger off to cuff her
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"A Detroit police officer with a knife cut off the finger of a 45-year-old woman he was trying to handcuff in a parking lot on 8 Mile."
"The police, who were in plainclothes, said she was resisting arrest. The woman, Joni Gullas of Detroit, said Monday that she thought she was being carjacked." ...
"He severed her left ring (wedding) finger at the top knuckle and deeply cut her middle finger, she said. Police at the scene recovered the fingertip, but it could not be reattached." ...
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Her "crime", according to this report, was sitting in her vehicle waiting for friends to join her for breakfast. The officer demanded her papers, etc. etc. |
TX: Secrecy by the police erodes trust
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... "The truth has been slow in coming from our city police since last week, when two police officers made what might have been tragic mistakes."
"First, an Arlington officer shot a Taser pistol, jolting a suicidal man..."
"Then, a Fort Worth narcotics officer went into a store -- armed and masked."
"We need to know what happened, how and why."
"We trust our city police. But we also expect honest answers."
"Until Monday night, we got zero answers." ... |
UK: Hooded robber strikes again?
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"DETECTIVES are today hunting a hooded robber who held up two Ipswich stores."
"Police launched a major manhunt after the raider, who may have been carrying a handgun, yesterday held-up two late-night stores within the space of 20 minutes."
"The robber struck just before closing time at Costcutters in Stoke Park Drive, at 9.30pm yesterday and later at the Co-op Food Store in nearby Sheldrake Drive at about 9.50pm."
"Both stores opened today despite yesterday's drama." ... |
TX: Use of Taser confirmed in suicide case
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"Arlington police confirmed Monday that an officer used a Taser gun as the last effort to stop a suicidal Grand Prairie man moments before he plummeted to his death New Year's Eve."
"There have been 2,400 incidents reported in the United States and Canada in which a Taser gun was used, with public suicide attempts being among the most common..."
"The Taser has reportedly been used in about 330 suicide attempts, with about a 95 percent success rate..."
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TX: Garden to memorialize Whitman's victims
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"A garden dedicated to the victims of a gunman perched atop the clock tower at the University of Texas in Austin in 1966 will be redesigned to memorialize the dead and wounded, university officials said Monday."
"The proposed memorial design is focused on the middle of three ponds in the garden...[s]ymbolizing the emotional journey of tragedy and healing."
"Dedication of the memorial is tentatively planned for Aug. 1, 2004, the 38th anniversary of the shootings." ...
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NC: Shooting of family pet (by overzealous cop) is a cause for outrage (another report)
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Here we have a family who had done no wrong, was not charged with any crime, who were merely coming home from a vacation in Tennessee only to see a beloved family pet killed before their eyes.
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"Outrageous is a word that tends to be overused these days. Politicians hurl it at their opponents on a regular basis, commentators drown their listeners with it and some advertisers have taken to using it as a complimentary adjective to describe how their products taste or perform."
"In reality, there are very few instances where the word outrageous - which by definition means "exceeding all bounds of decency or reasonableness' - applies."
"But there is no other word to describe the traumatic events the Smoak family of Saluda experienced while returning from a recent vacation in Tennessee." ... |
Australia: Liberals keen on self-defence laws
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"LAWS that give householders the right to use whatever force is necessary against intruders should be considered by the State Government."
"Acting Opposition Leader Phil Honeywood said Victoria should examine South Australian proposals that will give householders under attack absolute protection from prosecution."
" 'The rights of householders to defend their families and personal property must be paramount,' Mr Honeywood told the Herald Sun." ... |
UK: Gun sentence loophole
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"Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted that not everyone caught carrying a gun will face an automatic five-year jail sentence."
"He confirmed there would be some exceptions to the Government's hardline plans."
"But he insisted in a letter to The Times newspaper that there has been no U-turn."
"Police officers attacked the measure as a 'waste of time' when it emerged the sentence would not be imposed in all cases." ... |
American Eagle pilot arrested for taking loaded handgun onto plane
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DALLAS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - "A pilot for regional jet carrier American Eagle was arrested over the weekend for allegedly trying to take a loaded handgun aboard a plane, according to documents obtained on Tuesday."
"Federal screeners allegedly found the handgun in a carry-on bag of pilot William Livingston Jr., 29, as he tried to pass through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Sunday, according to an arrest report filed by the airport's Department of Public Safety."
"Congress has given commercial pilots permission to carry weapons on planes after they have received special training. But the Transportation Department has not yet developed a plan for implementing that program."
"The arrest report said Livingston told security officials that his wife packed his bag and brought it to him." ... |
State Gun Law Report Cards, according to the anti-self-defense crowd
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Anti-self-defense fanatics at the Brady Campaign to Eradicate Gun Ownership came out with their "report cards" for states again. From a liberty advocate's point of view, a Brady "F" is actually, generally speaking, an "A". Noteworthy is the fact that nearly all of Brady's "A" grades land on places that have high violent crime rates and bans on self-defense. That tells us plenty about these disturbed people and their true agenda.
Their grades:
AK: D-
AL: F
AR: D
AZ: D*
CA: A-*
CO: C-*
CT: A-*
DE: C
FL: D+
GA: D
HI: A-
IA: C+
ID: F+
IL: B+
IN: D-
KS: C+
KY: F
LA: F
MA: A-
MD: A
ME: F
MI: D+
MN: C+*
MS: C*
MS: F
MT: F
NC: C
ND: D
NE: B-
NH: D+
NJ: A-*
NM: D+*
NV: D
NY: B+
OH: D+
OK: D-
OR: C-
PA: D+
RI: B-
SC: C-*
SD: D
TN: D+
TX: D-
UT: D-
VA: C-
VT: D-
WA: D+
WI: C+*
WV: D
WY: F |
New Congress Sworn In, Dems Reaffirm Liberal Agenda
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"Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you God?"
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Take a look at the agenda -- breaking the oath so soon! Agenda includes:S. 22 The Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act reintroduce gun control initiatives sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in the 107th Congress, including forbidding private sales of more than one firearm - even between family members - without the recipient undergoing a federal registration/background check. The proposal includes funding for so-called "ballistic fingerprinting" initiatives for gun registration that were dismissed as unreliable by many law enforcement experts last year. |
Publisher Stops Bellesiles "History" Book (Actually, a bad novel) Publication
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"Publication has been halted on a disputed book about the history of guns in the United States."
"Questions about Michael Bellesiles' 'Arming America' had already led Columbia University to rescind the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history."
"When Columbia made the announcement last month, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said the book would remain in print. But Jane Garrett, Bellesiles' editor, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the publisher would no longer sell it." ...
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MI: Project Sentry hopes to cut gun crime
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"More youth die from gunfire than from cancer, pnemonia [sic], influenza, asthma and AIDS combined -- a statistic which has triggered several gun violence prevention programs, including 'Project Sentry.' "...
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Publisher Stops History Book Publication (Wash. Times version)
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Garrett said Tuesday that she still had "great respect" for the author. "I still do not believe in any shape or form he fabricated anything," she said. "He's just a sloppy researcher."
Translation: "He said what all we elitists believe about those gun-toting yahoos, but he stumbled with our flag. We're just gonna hafta find somebody else to carry it." |
Canada: Proven right -- but at what cost?
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"Millions of Canadians were reminded recently that being proved right is not necessarily a good thing. This particular lesson came in last month's startling revelations from the federal Auditor-General that the Liberals' controversial gun registry doesn't work as advertised and, despite repeated assurances to the contrary, will cost taxpayers at least $1-billion."
"Perhaps most galling about all of this is that so many people, especially in rural Canada, specifically predicted these exact results. For that we were scorned, ridiculed and branded as "gun nut" reactionaries indifferent to public safety. Time and time again, when citizens and opposition or provincial politicians protested that public safety came from legislation and enforcement that targeted people who used guns to break the law rather than people who possessed them in compliance with the law, we were ignored." ...
... "I've been told by different federal officials that the costs of the gun registry would be: zero (self-sustaining), $1-million, $10-million, $86-million, $100-million. Seems about the only thing they got right was the trend of ever-escalating cost." ... |
MD: Citizen cleared of charges after shooting four (4) cops who invaded his home
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Baltimore City prosecutor dropped charges against man who shot 4 cops during their invasion of his home. Police battered down the front door and rushed in. He ran up from the basement and met them at the door thinking it was the same robbers as last time back again. Mayhem ensued. No one in the house heard the cops identify themselves before they charged in. Drugs found? Documents say yes. Evidence collectors told not to document the drug finds with photos. Hmmmm. Wonder why? |
AZ: Simcox, group, "patrol" the border -- unarmed
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ORIGINAL TITLE: "Simcox, group, patrol the border"
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"Under intense media scrutiny, a group of about 15 Cochise County citizens monitored the U.S./Mexico border along the San Pedro River."
" 'We're here to make a visible presence,' said Chris Simcox, the creator of the Civil Homeland Defense."
"On Sunday, Simcox said he was heeding the president's call to volunteerism and patrolling the border was Simcox's contribution."
"Their method would be to call Border Patrol agents upon spotting migrants or drug smugglers crossing the border."
"No camouflage, no firearms, only radios by which to communicate with one another." ...
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IN: House Bill 1011 seeks to ban firearms, including semi-auto varieties, along with ammo
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Text from the intro page for the bill:
"Ban on assault weapons. Provides that the manufacture, importation, sale, or possession of ammunition for a machine gun, an automatic weapon, or a semiautomatic weapon is a Class C felony. Creates enhanced criminal penalties for a person who commits certain drug offenses while in possession of an automatic or a semiautomatic weapon."
TEXT FROM THE ACTUAL BILL:
"Sec. 8. A person who owns or possesses knowingly or intentionally:
(1) manufactures;
(2) imports into Indiana;
(3) sells;
(4) purchases;
(5) possesses; or
(6) transfers possession of;
a machine gun, an automatic weapon, a semiautomatic weapon, or
ammunition for any of those weapons commits a Class C felony.
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Australia: Race to beat guns ban
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"A MAJOR gunmaker is flooding the Victorian market with 2000 semiautomatic pistols ahead of a national ban on the weapons."
"The $2 million shipment of Italian-made Beretta guns arrived last week."
"The 2000 weapons represent almost a quarter of the total number of handguns imported last financial year."
"At least three of the Beretta models are on a list of weapons the Federal Government intends to ban after last year's Monash University shootings."
"Beretta plans to sell the pistols before the ban comes into effect on June 30." ... |
Nairobi: Mob burns city building after mother of five is shot dead by cop
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"A mob torched a city building yesterday after a police officer shot dead a mother of five in cold blood in Nairobi's Huruma estate."
"Witnesses said the officer turned his gun on the woman for no apparent reason after a man he was chasing slipped away."
"Ms Charity Njoki Waweru, 48, died on the spot after she was shot in the chest and hand."
"Residents claimed the officer was drinking in a local bar."
"Furious residents set on fire a three-storey lodging house in an attempt to flush out the officer who sought refuge there after the shooting."
"It is not known how the officer, attached to Muthaiga police station, escaped as fire spread through the building." ... |
OH: Local Neighborhood Combats Rise In Violence - Armed Security Guards
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CINCINNATI -- "The first weekend of the new year yielded the city's first homicide, and things didn't get much better on Monday."
"Two people survived gunshot wounds Monday morning, but a west end woman wasn't so lucky when she was shot and killed in the west end by the afternoon. WLWT Eyewitness News 5's John London looked into what city leaders are trying to do to curb the violence."
"Mayor Charlie Luken said he's convinced he knows why crime is on the increase in Cincinnati, London reported."
" 'All of the increases we are seeing are related to drugs,' he said Monday."
"London reported that neighborhood activists said they've got a good idea about how to stop the bleeding: Private security guards on armed street patrols." ... |
UK: Firearm "offence" every 48 hours in just one area of country
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"A violent gun crime takes place in Avon and Somerset every two days, new figures revealed yesterday."
"More than 150 serious firearms offences have occurred in the area in last nine months alone, a spokesman for the police force confirmed."
"On Thursday, official Home Office statistics will reveal the total number of fire-related incidents across Britain last year."
"But during 2001/02, the Avon and Somerset force saw a 25 per cent increase in gun crime and further rises are expected." ... |
Australia: Armed robbery soars, thugs more brazen
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"THIS sickening sight takes place at least two times a day." [See picture at website.]
"An elderly man merely buying a newspaper in broad daylight at a convenience store becomes a victim -- a gun put to his back."
"His attacker, brazenly refusing to wear a mask or disguise, is among the hard core of illegal gun-owning criminals subjecting Sydney to robberies using a gun."
"The boldness of the attack has prompted senior police to warn that handguns now are carried 'like jewellery' by criminals."
"The 60-year-old victim of this criminal act told The Daily Telegraph that he had simply walked into the 7-Eleven store in Newtown in the middle of the day to buy a newspaper -- and had a gun pressed against his shoulder as the store attendant handed the money over from the till." ... |
UK: 22 firearm offences committed in Britain every day
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"Staffordshire Police are set to reveal an increase in gun-related crime over the past year."
"The force has presented it figures on firearm offences to the Home Office, which is to publish the statistics on Thursday."
"Gun crime nationally has soared in the past year, with figures expected to show an average of 22 firearm offences committed in Britain every day." ... |
Ireland: Gun owners face tougher tests to get licences
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"A MAJOR review of gun ownership is planned before the end of the year as the Abbeylara Tribunal begins probing the shooting dead of John Carthy by garda marksmen."
"Among the issues to be decided by the tribunal, and consequently the Dáil, will be whether the recipients of the 209,000 firearms licences issued each year should have to be certified mentally fit to hold a weapon every time they apply for a new licence or renewal."
"Doctors, psychiatrists and solicitors could also face a statutory obligation to report to the gardaí clients they believe are unfit to obtain or continue holding a licence." ...
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Australia: Police ask government to stop importation of firearm set for ban later this year
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"Members of Australia's police force are calling on the government to stop the import of firearms that are due to be banned later this year."
"The police minister of the state of Victoria, Andre Haermeyer, has written to the federal government expressing concern that shipments are continuing despite the imminent ban."
"Mr Haermeyer has also ordered an investigation into a shipment of 2,000 Italian guns that arrived in Melbourne recently, which included weapons that will be banned from July."
"Mr Haermeyer says it is the federal government's responsibility to stop the importation."
" 'I'm a bit concerned that they are still allowing large shipments to be imported of guns that they know are going to be prohibited,' he says." ...
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UK: "Fears after theft of replica guns"
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This sounds like a gag story, but it's a real news story out of the "United Kingdom".
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"Police are hunting thieves who stole four replica guns and an air rifle from a city centre shop."
"The replicas, which fire ballbearings, were stolen from the unnamed store after the thieves broke through security shutters."
"Police say the stolen replicas are so realistic that anyone seen brandishing them could prompt an armed response."
"They have urged anyone who knows where the guns are to contact them immediately." ... |
UK: "Armed and dangerous in seconds"
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Alternate Title: "How the Defenseless Sheep in the UK Bleat for Greater Defenselessness"
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"It took just seconds for Gloucester MP Parmjit Dhanda to stroll into a city centre shop and be offered a range of potentially lethal weapons over the counter."
"On the day Home Secretary David Blunkett introduced tough new firearms laws, Mr Dhanda walked into a well-known shop and was shown an air rifle for £50, an air pistol for £32 and a range of BB guns at £30 each."
"Even though these guns are only replicas, they still have the potential to seriously harm or even kill their victims." ... |
UK: Armed robber jailed for life
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"A career armed robber who had use of three different handguns was jailed for life at the Old Bailey today."
"Karl Millwood, 31, carried out an £83,000 jewellery raid only three weeks after being released from a long prison sentence for armed robbery and carrying firearms." ... |
CA: Lesbian judge accused of drunk driving, brandishing firearm
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"A lesbian judge from Santa Barbara County, Calif., has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and allegedly brandishing a gun at her partner."
"Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall, 52, was arrested Dec. 21 after sheriff's deputies received an emergency call from her partner, Deidra Dykeman, reported the Los Angeles Times. After being held for four hours, Hall was released, her lawyer said."
"An application for a restraining order, sought by Dykeman to prevent the judge from returning to the house, said the two got into an argument during which Hall allegedly grabbed a handgun and threatened to shoot Dykeman and their pet dogs."
"Dykeman claims Hall tore out the phone and pulled her hair as she tried to escape." ...
"Hall was elevated to the superior court bench in 1998, after serving as a municipal court judge since 1990." |
MN: Pink-clad women anti-gunners protest possible concealed carry reform at capitol
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"...several dozen pink-clad women from the Coalition to End Gun Violence lined the steps leading to the Senate chamber in a protest against expanded handgun rights."
"For years, the DFL-controlled Senate has blocked House efforts to make permits to carry handguns available to more Minnesotans. But Republicans and conservative outstate DFLers who favor handgun rights now predominate in the Senate, making the measure a strong candidate for passage." ... |
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