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Democratic Leadership Council Courting Gun Owners with Fraud, Says Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
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"CCRKBA today called the Democratic Leadership Council's joint weekend conference in Atlanta with the anti-gun Americans for Gun Safety 'a fraud designed to fool gun owners into thinking that Democrats are truly interested in gun rights, when they are really pushing gun control disguised as gun safety.' "

"The DLC and AGS conference is entitled 'God, Guns and Guts: Seizing the Cultural Center.' It is an effort to portray the Democratic Party as more pro-gun. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb's response was blunt: 'Dream on.' "

" 'By meeting with AGS,' Waldron continued, 'Democrats are trying to convince voters, and especially gun owners, that they are pro-gun. Look at the AGS record, and you find this organization has supported every gun control measure to come down the legislative pike since it was founded. They're not a gun rights organization. They're not even a gun safety organization. They're a gun control group, the proverbial wolf disguised in sheep's clothing.' "

National Poll Redefines the Gun Issue
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"The poll found that gun owning voters often assume that Democrats, particularly if they are silent on the issue, are anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment, and disrespectful of the values held by those who own firearms." ...

"...In a generic congressional ballot, a Democrat trails a Republican who supports Second Amendment rights by a margin of 42-45%. When the Democrat is described as one who supports Second Amendment rights, closing gun law loopholes, and vigorous enforcement of existing laws, the Democrat wins 57-32%. Support for this "rights and responsibilities" Democrat increases from 30% to 44% among gun owners and from 52% to 68% among non-gun owners.

Democrats rethink gun-control stance (Another Report)
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"The perception that Democrats are hostile to the rights of gun owners has damaged the party in the last two elections and will do so again in 2004 unless they change their ways, the Democratic Leadership Council said yesterday."

"Al From, founder of the centrist DLC, and Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas said the antigun image perpetuates the idea that Democrats are 'cultural elites,' alienating them from mainstream voters."

Major Ad Campaign Takes Aim at NRA
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"The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March has taken out a full-page advertisement in today's New York Times..."

"The ad focuses on the notorious Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, the source of the Bushmaster XM15 rifle that John Muhammad and Lee Malvo used in their murderous crime spree. The Tacoma, Washington-based Bull's Eye has a history of misconduct, including having 238 weapons found to be missing from its inventory. In fact, according to the Seattle Times, Muhammad honed his marksmanship at the Bull's Eye firing range. His alleged underage accomplice has told investigators that he shoplifted the three-foot long rife from the store."

The extremes, while tempting, stifle gun debate
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"Why didn't Leonard Pitts make the list!? I'm anti-gun, too! What, they hate Molly Ivins more than me?" ...

"I believe the right to keep and bear arms is a fiction. Legal experts I respect -- including Departments of Justice previous to the current one -- have all held that the Second Amendment confers no right of individual gun ownership."

"But -- and here's the tricky part -- I also believe the perception of such a right is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche that the legal niceties are largely immaterial. As a practical matter, the right exists."

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A bit of advice, Leonard: Stick to the temptations. Your constitutional knowledge is pitiful.

Democrats Hope to Woo 'Bible-Quoting, Gun-Toting' Voters
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"Two moderate Democrat senators are leading an effort to improve the Democratic Party's image among churchgoers and gun owners with the hopes of recapturing Congress and the White House next year."

"Sens. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) said Democrats have adopted the wrong political strategy when it comes to countering Republicans on cultural issues like religion, gun rights and family values."

Project ChildSafe Distributes Firearms-Safety Kits
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"Millions of firearms-safety kits are being distributed nationwide through Project ChildSafe, the Billerica Minuteman reported Oct. 15."

"Sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Project ChildSafe is funded through a $50-million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The distribution of the 20 million kits is designed to raise awareness about firearms safety and responsible gun storage."

The Moviegoers vs. 'Runaway Jury'
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"I put it to the court that Runaway Jury's thoroughly fake populism coats an essentially cynical view of working-class weathervanes, ready to be blown in any direction the wind blows. I put it to the court that the only reason why Hoffman's Rohr didn't seek solace from a statue of Thomas Jefferson afterward is that there wasn't one handy." ...

"Maybe I'm just a backward old country movie critic. But where I come from, your honor, we like to see the villain outsmarted, not out-hearted. Runaway Jury traffics in every courtroom cliché, including a mawkish grab for the jury at the end of the film with a reel of a child's birthday party. The issues in this issue film could use a hearing. And few buttons are hotter than gun control." ...

Patriot Act Amendments Offered
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"A bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation designed to curb the sweeping government surveillance powers authorized by the USA Patriot Act, passed in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."

"Under the Security and Freedom Ensured Act (S. 1709), the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be subject to additional judicial oversight in its search procedures."

" 'I believe the SAFE Act is a measured, reasonable and appropriate response to concerns we have with the USA Patriot Act,' said Senator Larry Craig at its introduction. 'This legislation intends to ensure the liberties of law-abiding individuals are protected in our nation's fight against terrorism, without in any way impeding that fight.' "

UK: Drugs, guns and a cracked system
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"Toni-Ann Tia Byfield was murdered in a north London bedsit last month, a day before she was due to start at a new primary school. She was seven years old. The killer had come for her father, a convicted cocaine dealer, Bertram Augustus Byfield, 41. Father and daughter died before they could reach a hospital."

"Her slaying is also being seen as a new low in Britain's fight against a wave of gun crime, much of it in the black community and much of it related to a tidal wave of crack cocaine use."

"Gun crime in Britain has risen by 38 per cent over the past two years (though the rate of increase is slowing), with Home Office statistics this week revealing more than 10,000 separate incidents in the year to March."

Jamaica: Guns, ammo found in Montego Bay raid
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"The police yesterday recovered five assault rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and detained five more men as they followed up on Wednesday's operation in the Montego Bay favela of Canterbury in which three gunmen were shot dead and three cops injured during a nine-hour gunbattle."

"Last night, Arthur 'Stitch' Martin, the deputy commissioner of police for crime, who is now leading the operation in the north-shore city, vowed that the police will stay in Canterbury -- notorious as a hide-out for criminals -- until they are satisfied that they have brought in all the illegal guns and have nabbed as many gunmen as possible."

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Is this the police squad that murders people and plants gun evidence or a different one?

CA: Charges in gun case could be dropped
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"An Angels Camp resident charged with possessing several illegal firearms must wait until next week to learn if the charges against him will be dismissed."

"Richard Wilmshurst, owner of 49er Subaru in historic Angels Camp, faces 10 counts of possessing assault weapons."

"A federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent reported the firearms to state officials in January after Wilmshurst showed them to her during a routine inspection."

"Wilmshurst, a federally licensed firearms importer, says federal law allows him to have the firearms, even if they're not legal by state standards."

"State prosecutors disagree."

VA: Attorney General Backs Local Schools on Gun Policy
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Attorney General Jerry Kilgore is agreeing with the Rockingham County School Board about unloaded guns on school property.

In an opinion released this week, Kilgore confirmed the school's right to discipline a student for keeping an unloaded firearm in a locked trunk on school property.

He backed the schools, despite laws permitting unloaded firearms in locked trunks.

The Attorney General did however specify that schools were not allowed to expel students solely for having the firearms in their trunks.

WI: You're Already Armed for Self-Defense
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"After two women were attacked-- one sexually assaulted-- within an hour of each other Thursday, women are thinking about what they can do right now to protect themselves."

"Paul Harris has taught martial arts and defense for 30 years."

"Though a self-defense class would help, there are tools you can put in your hand right now for defense. Walk to your car or house with the key thrust between the fingers of a closed fist-- it becomes a stabbing and slashing weapon; a key chain baton can be thrust in the attacker's face. [See http://www.a-human-right.com/RKBA/s_advice.jpg]

"Fingers used to scratch (which leaves identifying marks) or poke the attacker may be better than pepper spray."

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Or support CCW, being voted on 10/22 in WI. Criminals have been proven to avoid victims they believe are armed

UK: A nation of thieves
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"Have you read about the strange case of Tony Martin and Britain's du jour gun-control injustice? In the October 2003 issue of America's 1st Freedom, Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president, revealed in perfect clarity how Great Britain's stringent gun-control laws and abolishment of the right to self-defense have brought the birthplace of classical liberalism to the footsteps of tyranny." ...

"In Great Britain today, draconian gun-control laws are firmly in place and there is no right to self-defense. All handguns are banned in places of business and even in the home. Firearm registration facilitated disarmament and confiscation in 1998. Simple possession of a firearm carries a 10-year prison sentence, and yet, England's pusillanimous criminal-justice system emphasizes rehabilitation of hardened criminals and revolving prison doors for all habitual thieves and burglars."

ME: Sunday hunting law heads to Legislature
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"When state legislators return to Augusta in January they will consider a controversial bill to create a limited Sunday hunt."

"At a special session Wednesday, members of the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife voted 8-5 for the bill sponsored by Rep. Monica McGlocklin, D-Embden, to allow Sunday hunting for small game on 3.5 million acres of commercial forestland in northwestern Maine that is managed for recreation by North Maine Woods."

"The committee sent the bill forward, despite some committee members concerns about political fallout."

UK: Government accused of reneging on arms pledge
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"The Government has been charged with reneging on a manifesto pledge to tighten the laws on arms trading."

"A committee of MPs, human rights watchdogs, and charities claimed that loopholes in export regulations have not been closed by new legislation announced yesterday."

"The Commons Quadripartite Committee complained that its recommendations for tougher legislation had been ignored."

"In May the committee urged the Government to reform the Export Control Act to prevent British citizens overseas taking part in weapons sales. During the 2001 election campaign Labour promised to curb the activities of arms brokers 'wherever they are located'."

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So you can't even leave your country to be free of its oppressive laws!

NC: FBI Raid On Black Newspaper Raises Freedom Of Speech Questions
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"Our civil liberties were trampled, our freedom of speech threatened."

"How else can one describe an FBI raid into a Black newspaper office? Wielding guns and wearing bulletproof vests, agents stormed the offices of the Augusta Focus, where the only weapons brandished by the workers were pens and notebooks. Of course, the media was tipped off to the events on August 18th, so the escapade was filmed for the nightly news, just as if it were another episode of COPS." ...

"Thompson nor the FBI have given the slightest hint as to why they raided the Augusta Focus. What federal crime are they investigating? They never answered that question."

UK: 'Big Issue' vendors are arrested in drug raids
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"Police were accused yesterday of a 'headline-grabbing publicity stunt' after a number of Big Issue magazine vendors were arrested on suspicion of running a drug-dealing ring."

"Officers held 54 people in Liverpool, including four women, and seized heroin, crack cocaine and weapons, including a sword, knives and a replica pistol. About 30 of those arrested are believed to be homeless. Thirty people have been charged with drug supply offences, and four were released on police bail. The rest were in custody yesterday."

"The arrests were part of a 15-month operation by Merseyside Police, involving 200 officers. It began as an investigation into aggressive begging."

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But guns and drugs are illegal! Don't the criminals realize that?

Canada: Witness 'terrified' with suspect in apartment
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"A witness for the prosecution says she was terrified having Stephane Boucher in her apartment while she waited for the police."

"Marie-Lise Lefebvre wrapped up her testimony at Boucher's trial for premeditated murder in the shooting death of Const. Benoit l'Ecuyer."

"Lefebvre called police when Boucher arrived at her apartment to hide out. She says she waited more than eight hours for the police to arrive. [Emphasis added]

Lefebvre says, later that night, police phoned her asking whether Boucher had a gun. She says she told them it wasn't her job to check. [Emphasis added]

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EIGHT HOURS to come and get a cop killer. Dial 9-1-1 and die!

PA: Former Edinboro Police Officer Arrested On Drug Charges
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"Agents from the Attorney Generals office and the state Drug Task Force arrested a LeBoeuf Township father and son today for possession of large amounts of marijuana found in their home."

"Robert and Jeremy Hitchcock were taken into custody on Friday and were processed at the Edinboro Police Department."

"Robert Hitchcock is a former Edinboro police officer."

"Acting on a tip, police raided Hitchcocks home on Friday and found 41 marijuana plants, a 3 ˝ gallon bucket and metal tin filled with marijuana, 9 rifles and shotguns, a pistol and a .357 magnum."

"The father and son both face several charges including possession with intent to deliver marijuana."

Ghana: Armed robbers strike and loot 70 million cedis
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"A gang of armed robbers on Tuesday afternoon robbed two employees of a Forex Bureau in Dzorwulu in Accra of 70 million cedis at gunpoint."

"A Police Source told the Ghana News Agency that one Shaaba, an Ex-Convict, who has just been released from prison after serving a term for stealing, was suspected to have led the gang."

"The Source said the group had also been involved in about three robberies in the past few days at various locations in the Metropolis."

"The Source said the robbers, who were riding a blue-black saloon car, pulled up at the back of the car carrying the employees just as they arrived at their office and pointing a pistol at them, ordered them to surrender the money or be shot."

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The crime spree in Africa continues, as their governments rush to disarm all the victims.

SD: All Are Invited To A Hunting Party
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"Wall Lake Hunting Club will hold its annual Hunter's Banquet Monday, Oct. 20 at the American Legion in Miller. Social hour will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the meal at 7:30 p.m. Items will be auctioned beginning at approximately 8:30 p.m."

"You don't have to be a hunter to join the party; all are welcome to attend. According to Dr. Fred Hubbard, DVM, 300 or more usually attend the yearly event."

"Three shotguns will be raffled during the evening, and two more will be given as door prizes. You have to be present to win two of the guns being raffled."

DC: Activists Want More Info. on Gang Rape of Lesbian
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"Twenty-three old Anne Marie tells ABC 7 News that she was attacked on September 28th by six men who pulled her into an alley and took turns raping and beating her. She tells us the men approached her as she was walking home alone from a night club, and she told them she wasn't interested in men. She says the men made anti-lesbian remarks as they attacked her."

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Here is another example of a disarmed victim in Washington, DC. While the gun grabbers scream about "gun safety," they politely ignore how UNsafe they're making those to whom they are denying the basic right of self-defense.

NY: Gun control's 'guiding light' faces challenge
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"Nearly a decade after her husband was killed and her son badly wounded in a shooting rampage on the Long Island Rail Road, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is headed back into battle over the same piece of legislation that propelled her to Congress."

"McCarthy decided to run for office after her then-congressman, Republican Daniel Frisa, voted in 1995 to repeal the assault weapons ban. Running as a Democrat, she unseated him the following year."

"As Congress approaches the 10-year expiration of the ban, the widow advocate turned Washington lawmaker is gearing for the political fight to extend the ban, even as state Republicans say a serious challenger is preparing a campaign to unseat her in 2004 in the tightly-balanced Long Island district."

MA: Gun issue still leaves questions, Pelham residents told of legal advice
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"Residents had a lot of questions Thursday night about an incident last month in which Police Chief Edward Fleury discharged a gun during a firearms safety class."

"But the seven residents at the Board of Selectmen's meeting received few answers."

"Selectmen Eli Kwartler, the board's liaison with the Police Department, said the board's legal advisers have told members not to comment."

"The town receives legal advice from Kopelman and Paige of Northampton."

UK: Iain Duncan Smith Admits Gun Crime Will Rise Under His Vision (Humor)
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"The Tory Leader, Iain Duncan Smith, admitted today that gun crime, in particular gun related homicides, would rise under a Conservative Government. He did, however, refuse to concede this would be a bad thing."

"During a television interview, Mr. Duncan Smith revealed his ambition to murder the Prime Minister and felt that as he believed Britain would be better off for him doing so, the law should be changed to enable him to kill Mr. Blair without the assassination being illegal.

"The proposed law, which would sanction Tory Moral Killings, would cover the deaths of Tony Blair, Fred Barras, Public Services and Socialism." ...

UK: Judge's Warning to the Gun Thugs
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"A Judge has condemned Nottingham's growing gun culture as he jailed a man for five years for possessing a firearm."

"Detectives from Operation Stealth - Notts Police's anti-gun crime crackdown - swooped on Adrian Brosnan's home after a tip-off. He was charged in June." ...

"Warning has been given in these courts that anyone found in possession of a gun or ammunition will receive severe punishment."

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Well, gun bans, nice letters, concerts and pleas to armed thugs didn't work. So maybe a judge's stern warning will? (sarcasm intended)

OR: Ashcroft Praises Patriot Act In Portland Terror Cases
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"Attorney General John Ashcroft says the U.S.A. Patriot Act was instrumental in prosecuting a Portland terrorism case."

"The final two defendants in an alleged Portland terrorist cell pleaded guilty Thursday. Patrice Ford and Jeffrey Battle agreed to serve 18 years in federal prison."

"Ashcroft says the law helped prosecutors gather evidence against seven Portland-area residents. They were charged with plotting to wage war against the United States."

UT: U. gun ban back in court
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"The battle over guns on the University of Utah campus has returned to the courtroom."

"The Utah Attorney General's Office on Thursday filed a notice of appeal in the case, which was dismissed in late August following a state court judge's ruling that state law does not prohibit the U. from enforcing its own ban on on-campus firearms." ...

"In ruling in favor of the university, 3rd District Judge Robert Hilder determined that the U.'s 25-year-old internal policy prohibiting firearms on campus does not run contrary to the state's concealed weapons law and firearms act. Those statutes, according to Shurtleff, grant the Utah Legislature sole authority to enact gun laws."

MD: Police Make Arrest in School Stabbing
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"Prince George's County police say a 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in Thursday's stabbing of a student at Charles Carroll Middle School." ...

"A 14-year-old student was stabbed in the shoulder about 4 p.m. Thursday in what police have described as a fight between a group of kids. Police say the student's injuries aren't life threatening."

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I assume we won't hear the gun "safety" grabbers blame this on the kid's access to a knife.

FL: Gun safety advocate challenges circuit judge
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"First Hayhoe took aim at Circuit Judge John K. Renke III, who was quoted in an August newspaper article saying "it's not a mandatory thing" for a judge to take firearms away from someone after a court enters a domestic violence injunction against that person." ...

"Hayhoe accused activists such as Bunting of 'infecting' local officials with a pro-gun rights agenda. Bunting dismissed the comment as sour grapes over the dominance of Republicans in local offices."

" 'If our elected officials and judges follow the Constitution, we're extremely happy with that,' Bunting said. 'You can't pick and choose your amendments in the Bill of Rights. They believe in their First Amendment, but don't trample on our Second Amendment.' "

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"The Carlsbad Police Department is currently investigating more than a dozen cases of toy guns that look and feel like the real thing." "In the most recent case, five teenage boys were pulled out of a car at gunpoint when an officer noticed a gun inside the car. The gun turned out to be a very real looking replica."

CA: Tracy authorities destroy firearms, drugs and knives
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"For local law enforcement officials, fall is the time for destroying the harvest."

"The annual banishment of weapons and illegal drugs seized during investigations by area law enforcement is going on this week at a plant in Stanislaus County."

"Covanta Energy destroys the contraband, including that from the Tracy Police Department, at a solid waste disposal plant." ...

"Earlier this week, Tracy police officials destroyed 120 pounds of drugs and 590 pounds of firearms and knives from cases closed in 2000 and 2001."

Watching You -- Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
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"Having exposed most areas of American life to ongoing government scrutiny and recording, Congress is now poised to expand and universalize federal tracking of citizen life. The inevitable consequence of such constant surveillance, however, is metastasizing government control over society. If that happens, our government will have perverted its most fundamental mission and destroyed the privacy and liberty that it was supposed to protect."