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"Stupid" Study Says Having Gun Increases Risk of Getting Shot
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"In Philadelphia, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania find, possessing a gun is strongly associated with getting shot. Since 'guns did not protect those who possessed them,' they conclude, 'people should rethink their possession of guns.' This is like noting that possessing a parachute is strongly associated with being injured while jumping from a plane, then concluding that skydivers would be better off unemcumbered by safety equipment designed to slow their descent. 'Can this study possibly be as stupid as it sounds?' asks Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts. Having shelled out $30 for the privilege of reading the entire article ... I can confirm that the answer is yes." ... |
Chicago's 2nd Amendment Chokehold
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"Down here in West Texas, I keep a handgun in my car and usually one somewhere on my person. My habits are not novel: For I live among people who understand and value our inherent right to keep and bear arms, as well as our right to self-defense."
"Yet in many parts of the country, like Chicago, where handgun ownership was banned in 1982, the norm is quite different."
"In the Windy City, men like Otis McDonald, a 76 year-old retiree, tell stories of being prisoners in their own homes: unable to defend either their property or their lives because they are denied access to the very tool our Founders believed belonged in the hands of all 'free men.' That tool is a gun. ..." ... |
A Supreme Court gunfight
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"Last year, the Supreme Court declared in a Washington, D.C., case that the constitutional right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals ... Last week, the court agreed to decide whether that broad, and debatable, interpretation of the 2nd Amendment applies to states as well as the federal government. At issue is a Chicago law imposing stringent restrictions on gun ownership, including a ban on ... handguns."
"If you support measures to reduce gun violence, as this page does, it's tempting to hope that the court will rule that states aren't bound by the 2nd Amendment. The problem is that allowing states (and cities) to ignore this part of the Bill of Rights could undermine the requirement that they abide by others." ... |
Libertarian Victories at the Supreme Court
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"In response to a challenge from law professor and blogger Brad Smith, George Mason University legal scholar (and Reason contributor) Ilya Somin nominates a few of his candidates for 'best Supreme Court decisions from a libertarian point of view':""Given my criteria, the Peonage Cases of the early 1900s surely rank high, as they enabled numerous southern blacks to escape a system of forced labor and did so at a time when Jim Crow racism was at its height, and the political branches of government showed little willingness to protect black rights. Also worthy Buchanan v. Warley (1917), which struck down racially based zoning ..." "... Hopefully by the end of the Court's current term we can add McDonald v. Chicago to the list as well." |
Will Sotomayor Recuse Herself from Chicago Gun Case?
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... "There's a meme wending its way around internet forums and the like that she'll recuse herself, since she already ruled at the circuit court level that the Second Amendment does not restrict the power of states to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms. Some seem to be under the impression that she ruled on McDonald, which she did not (she ruled on Maloney v. Rice), and because of that, the prospect of overruling herself will present a judicial ethics conflict." ... |
Does the Second Amendment Bind the States?
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... "Last week, the Court announced that it would hear a case, McDonald v. Chicago, posing the question whether the Second Amendment applies to the states and their sub-divisions. In lawyer's jargon, McDonald requires the Court to say whether the Fourteenth Amendment 'incorporates' the Second Amendment against the states. As I shall explain in this column, the case poses an intellectual challenge for the Justices who were in the Heller majority. To see why, we will need to begin by reviewing the story of how other constitutional rights came to be incorporated against the states." ... |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear New Gun Case
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"Gun-rights activists are once again gearing up for battle. Following last year's decision to strike down Washington D.C.’s prohibition on handguns, the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week to take up another case about the right to keep and bear arms. And this one could have even more widespread implications ... than District of Columbia v. Heller, where the court upheld the individual human right within the federal district."
"In McDonald v. Chicago, the court will rule on the constitutionality of Chicago's quarter-century-old draconian measures restricting firearm ownership — essentially an outright ban on the possession of a handgun, a primary and essential tool of self-defense for tens of millions of Americans. ..." ... |
Stephen Hunter's Latest May Be His Best
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"If you are knowledgeable about firearms and enjoy good fiction, you know how little of the latter embraces the former. This is why novelist and movie critic Stephen Hunter's series ... have become so hugely popular among us 'gun people.'"
"My own favorites in the series include 'Dirty White Boys,' 'Hot Springs,' and 'Pale Horse Coming.' The latter uses the device of real characters with slightly altered names when mid-20th Century lawman Earl Swagger assembles the great gun experts of the period as a posse seeking justice in the Deep South."
"Hunter does something similar in his latest in the series as Swagger's son, retired Vietnam era super-sniper Bob Lee Swagger, decides that it’s once again 'time to hunt.'" ... |
Rumor Mill: Did Freedom Group/Cerberus just acquire silencer/sound suppressor company Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC) for $40 million?
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"DefenseReview has just received an email communication from a professional contact of ours stating that it appears that Freedom Group/Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. has just acquired, or is in the process of acquiring, silencer/sound suppressor manufacturer Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC) for $40 million (40M). Right now, Defense Review is classifying this information as a rumor / uconfirmed/unverified report, since we have not yet been able to confirm this information. However, if Cerberus did indeed acquire AAC, we can’t blame them, since AAC makes great muzzle cans (and flash hiders/adapters) and utilizes some very advanced machinery and processes to do so." ... |
A slippery slope on guns
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"Whatever significance is attached to Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it is of small importance to the rest of the country. More far-reaching and frightening is the Supreme Court's decision to take up a case challenging the city's ban on handgun ownership in the new term ..."
"The case is best considered a preview of coming attractions. The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of government. It will usher in a scary season of assault on the common sense of citizens, law enforcement officials and others who believe that carrying today's high-powered weapons in an urbanized, mobile -- and angry -- society is chillingly dangerous, and deadly." ... |
Shots in the dark
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"LIKE most alarmists needlessly panicked about the direction of the Obama Administration, people who thought that their firearms would be taken away - and who flocked to gun stores to stock up - have lived a fiction. In reality, this has been a boom time for the Second Amendment."
"Congress has fallen all over itself to show that it is the vassal of the [NRA], and the administration, saving its political ammunition for issues like health-care reform, hasn't had a pole long enough to touch gun control. In May, legislation on credit cards ... was amended to allow people to bring loaded guns into national parks. Mr. Obama signed it."
"Now comes the Supreme Court to perhaps seal the deal for the United States of Arsenals." ... |
Guns and Democracy
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"Many Americans were disturbed by the sight of protesters carrying guns to town hall meetings across the country. How have we reached the point where individuals feel the need to engage in such shows of force? The truth is that the seeds of armed political activism in the United States were planted years ago by the gun lobby."
"In the 1990s, the [NRA] and other pro-gun organizations realized that their traditional constituency of hunters and recreational shooters was shrinking. New members were needed, and the gun lobby began to reach out to Americans who fear the federal government and seek to keep it weak in order to ensure individual liberty. ..." ... |
The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
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"It is no surprise that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the so far unsuccessful constitutional challenge to the Chicago handgun ban. The Court's ruling last year in District of Columbia v. Heller, discovering a new Second Amendment right to personal gun possession unrelated to militia service, determined that D.C., and by implication Congress, could not ban handguns consistent with the Second Amendment. However, because D.C. is a unique federal district, Heller did not address the so-called "incorporation issue" -- whether the Second Amendment applies to states and localities through the operation of the 14th Amendment." ...
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NY: Get the guns: Wanton slaying of 13-year-old cries out for crackdown on firearms
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"A 13-year-old boy from Queens is dead, shot in the head, because a 16-year-old got his hands on a gun and opened fire in a moronic street dispute."
"Kevin Miller - an absolutely innocent bystander - paid with his life for simply being in the vicinity when Nnonso Ekwegbalu began shooting near a high school in Cambria Heights. Ekwegbalu also wounded a 17-year-old who was working in a car wash."
"Kevin is lost forever. This is a tragedy. Ekwegbalu faces 25 years to life in prison. That is punishment, unsatisfying punishment. The point, made again and again, screamed about in protests and in editorials, is that neither one of them should have been within 10 miles of an illegal handgun." ...
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Who's In Big Brother's Database?
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"On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined." ...
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OR: Oregon man, 93, pointed gun before he was shot
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The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the shooting death of a 93-year-old man in southwest Oregon appears to have been in self-defense.
Spokeswoman Andrea Zielinski said detectives learned Clarence Hartley had been pointing a gun before he was shot by 75-year-old Clement Dewart on Friday. She says Hartley was a relative of the Dewart family and lived on their property in Glendale.
Zielinski says the investigation remains active. When it's finished, the results will be forwarded to a grand jury for a review of any possible criminal charges. |
CT: Plainfield resident shoots dog, stops attack on animal control officer
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"Plainfield Animal Control Officer Terry Foss was attacked by a 'pit bull-type dog' late Tuesday night, according to Plainfield Police."
"Foss was responding to a complaint at 270 Green Hollow Road, where, according to residents, the dog was preventing them from exiting their home."
"On her arrival, the dog jumped at Foss, knocking her to the ground. Resident Ron Roberts fired '2 or 3 shots' from a .22 rifle at the dog, which police say yelped and ran away."
"Foss was transported to The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich for treatment of possible head injuries, She was transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven." ... |
NC: Sheriff: Revenge likely motive for fatal home invasion
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"A New Jersey man who was shot and killed during a home invasion in Halifax Friday morning was likely seeking revenge for a two decade-old domestic dispute ..."
"Investigators said that a knock woke up Alston around 7 a.m. at his house at 5524 U.S. Highway 301, where he lives alone. When Alston opened the door, Burgess, who had a gun, began assaulting Alston."
"Alston got away and was climbing up the stairs when Burgess fired, striking his victim in the buttocks, investigators said. Alston managed to get to his bedroom and got out a gun he kept there."
"Burgess followed Alston into the bedroom, and Alston fatally shot him in the upper torso, according to investigators." ... |
NC: 74-year-old N.C. state senator shoots, wounds intruder at his home
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"A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition."
"Multiple media outlets reported that Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said that 74-year-old Sen. R.C. Soles of Tabor City shot Kyle Blackburn late Sunday afternoon." ...
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Is it NIMBY at gun shows?
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"Two major gun shows alternate in the Denver market, averaging a show every month in the metro area. Neither one allows concealed carry permit holders to carry loaded weapons. How can strong adherents to the second amendment exclude exercising that right in their own shows? It seemed to me to be a case of NIMBY, Not in My Back Yard. Sure, the right to bear arms is all well and good, except around me. Gun shows are certainly not Gun Free Zones. I had to inquire." ... |
Praying for peace, but prepared for violence
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"In Detroit, we learn that a growing number of pastors are choosing to take a more active role in tending to the wellbeing of their flocks than is typically considered 'normal' for Christian clergy.""The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at the Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a handgun under his robe."
"Adams is one of several Detroit clergymen who have taken to packing heat in the pulpit. ..." "The anti-self-defense crowd, of course, would like us to believe that carrying a gun and not wanting to hurt people are mutually exclusive, but that is patently false. ..." ... |
America does not want stricter gun control laws
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"By now you probably know the US Supreme Court will be taking another look at the Second Amendment, this time to determine if its protection from infringement of our protected rights also applies to state and local governments."
"Although everyone's opinion has little if anything to do with the reality of this legal concept, I thought it would be interesting to share with you some information about what people generally think of this issue."
"There are a number of cities who have or are considering restrictive gun laws, which were usually enacted as a reaction to reduce some recent crime." ... |
Guns and the law: How many gun laws have you broken today?
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"In all likelihood, you're a felon and don't even know it. Despite your best efforts to be a law-abiding gun owner, the vast number of arcane, misinterpreted and sometimes misdirected gun laws in state and federal statutes means that almost inevitably, you are a law-breaker."
"Maybe you drove to your favorite hunting spot, rifle in your trunk, and unwittingly passed within 1,000 feet of a school. Oops. You just violated the federal 'Gun Free School Zones Act.' Maybe you just went leaf-peeping on the Blue Ridge Parkway, unknowingly bringing a gun into a national park." ... |
Virginia gun group to protest Congressman Cantor’s 'roundup' on Oct. 17, 2009
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"For many years Republican leaders in Virginia and their deep pocket contributors have been gathering annually at the Innsbrook 'Snagajob' Pavilion in Henrico County, VA for the 'Republican Roundup.' The managers of Innsbrook's 'Snagajob' Pavilion, out of step with most commercial establishments enforce a strict rule mandated by the Highwoods Corporation against gun carry. In 2005 the facility deployed Sheriffs deputies to escort the Philip Van Cleave, the President of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), from the Republican Roundup."
"That didn't sit well with VCDL leaders and gun owners ..." ... |
Firearms owners versus cities: It's a matter of equal rights
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"An advertisement sponsored by Equal Rights Washington is running on Evergreen State television stations, promoting a referendum aimed at protecting the state's domestic partnership statute."
"It's getting plenty of support, not only from the gay community, but from big name outfits including Boeing, Microsoft, Nike, Puget Sound Energy, RealNetworks ..."
"Gun owners are all for equal rights, which is why gun rights organizations are involved in lawsuits against the cities of Chicago and Washington, D.C. and are threatening a lawsuit against Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and the City of Seattle if the lame-duck mayor pushes ahead with his plan to ban legally-carried firearms from city park lands and facilities. ..." ... |
Gun Politics 101: Exploiting crimes to push an agenda while failing to provide necessary services
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"Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... has petitioned President Barack Obama to adopt several alleged 'reforms' MAIG is pushing that sound suspiciously like a federal crackdown on gun shows."
"It doesn't appear to matter to people like Bloomberg and Nickels that various studies have concluded that criminals don't get their guns from gun shows. The rare exception and the one that seems to be repeatedly exploited was the case of Columbine High School killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Three of the four guns used in that crime were bought for them by Robyn Anderson at a gun show, who was not prosecuted, but did testify in favor of background checks at gun shows." ... |
CA: Ammo controls violate our rights
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"The Anti-gun nuts are at it again both nationally and locally."
"By hook or by crook, they are determined to restrict or to do away with gun ownership ..."
"During U.S. Representative Wally Herger's most recent conference call town hall meeting, a caller told of just such a law being proposed at the federal level."
"Of more immediate interest to Californians, however, is SB 962, which is scheduled to go to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 11."
"... SB 962 would ban mail order or internet shipments of ammunition to Californians, and would require ammunition be picked up only from licensed handgun ammunition dealers. A photo ID and thumbprint would be required to purchase ammunition." ... |
TX: Tasered Central Texas Woman Accepts Settlement
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"A 72-year-old central Texas woman who was Tasered by a deputy constable during a traffic stop in an incident recorded by a dashboard camera and shown around the world has accepted Travis County's $40,000 settlement offer."
"The deputy constable used a Taser to subdue Kathryn Winkfein during a confrontation after the traffic stop in May."
"She repeatedly dared the deputy to use the Taser, and finally he did." ...
"The Travis County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the incident."
"Precinct 3 Constable Richard McCain said a resisting-arrest charge is pending against Winkfein."
"McCain said an internal investigation found no violations by the deputy constable." ... |
NJ: N.J. Officer Admits to Stealing from Union
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"A 23-year veteran of the Hazlet Police Department and treasurer of the local PBA admitted yesterday to stealing more than $16,000 from the union."
"Daniel Lynch, 42, of the West Keansburg section of Hazlet, pleaded guilty to one count of theft by deception in connection with a seven-year span of raiding his union's funds, said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw Jr."
"Lynch, a corporal, retired from the police department on Thursday, entitling him to collect his pension pending a review of his case by the state Division of Pensions and Benefits." ... |
CA: Judge says LAPD officers should be paid for dressing. Ruling could costs city millions
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"A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles police officers should be paid for the time it takes them to put on and take off their uniforms and safety equipment, a ruling that could potentially cost the LAPD millions of dollars in back pay and higher salaries."
"In a 39-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess found that the several minutes it takes an officer to dress for duty is an important part of the job ... and fall under the compensation rules of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act." ...
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NPD Chief Ybarra: 'It can get ugly'
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"Nogales Police Chief William Ybarra hopes a new state law won't cause a Wild West barroom fight with pistols in his town."
"He was talking about SB 1113, which ... allows an Arizona resident to enter an establishment that sells alcohol ... carrying a concealed firearm. The gun-carrier must have a state permit and is not allowed to drink, Ybarra said."
"'How are you going to know it they’re carrying a weapon?' he asked." ...
"Sheriff Antonio Estrada described the new law as 'ludicrous. You can go in there (a bar) but you can't drink,' Estrada said. 'Who's going to be checking people? It'll be on the honor system.'" ...
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TN: Unicoi County hosts first freedom rally
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"Constitutionalists and supporters of the Second Amendment gathered in Unicoi County on Saturday, Oct. 3, for a day-long Rally for Freedom, hosted by Sheriff Kent Harris and the Northeast Tennessee Liberty Coalition."
"Harris estimated that about 500 people total attended the rally, which was held at the former Bear Mountain Outfitters building at exit 40 off I-26. Most attendees came and went throughout the day to hear various speakers." ... |
NC: GRNC Needs Volunteers for Upcoming Concord Gun Show
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GRNC is now establishing a table at the Concord Gun Show at the Cabarrus Arena and needs volunteers to host the tables.
This is a fine new show at an excellent arena at 4751 Hwy 49 North, Concord, NC 28025:
Please set aside some time one (or both) of these weekends to help.
If you have an articulate friend whom you would like to introduce to gun rights activism please invite her or him to work with us show weekend whether or not that person is a current member.
Volunteers please email Frank Hinson at mrwiznc2@aol.com.
You may call him at at Home (704)372-8055, Cell (704)200-0513 with your preferred day and time(s) to be scheduled to work.
Visit www.cabarrusarena.com for event location details.
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Submitter's Note: For anyone who has never worked one of these tables it is a terrific opportunity to meet fellow activists, to inform the general gun-owning public about the issues, and also to hear about the issues concerning them. |
IL: Teen shot in neck on Far South Side expected to recover
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"A teenage girl who was shot in the neck and critically injured remains hospitalized -- unable to talk to police -- but is expected to make a full recovery after the attack Saturday night in the Far South Side’s Altgeld Gardens community, police said."
"The 17-year-old girl was shot about 8:15 p.m. in the 13300 block of South Prairie Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines."
"The girl was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the neck ..." ...
"Detectives were looking for witnesses who can provide further information about the shooting ..." ... |
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