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NY: Vestal Gun Reminders For Deer Hunting Season
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Before deer hunters head to the woods, Vestal wants to remind people of the Town's gun law. Hunters must stay at least 1 thousand feet away from buildings like schools, businesses, farms, houses and churches. That's a longer distance than the state law, which bans shooting guns within 500 feet of buildings. The Vestal Police Department says most hunters are aware of the code. |
FL: Federal agent arrested for rape
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A former immigration agent has been charged with raping a woman he was transferring between detention centers, according to a federal criminal complaint, and authorities are investigating whether she was the only one. |
Keeping Love in the Revolution
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Civil discourse! That's one of the reasons I like this site so much. For the most part we are civil. But emotions do run high when you are handling freedom. |
MA: Boston police to ask to do warrantless searches of youth's homes
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Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children's bedrooms.
The program, which is already raising questions about civil liberties, is based on the premise that parents are so fearful of gun violence and the possibility that their own teenagers will be caught up in it that they will turn to police for help, even in their own households.
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The professionals know best, eh? High-crime neighborhoods, at first. They will "have discretion" whether to file charges if contraband is found in the search to only remove "very dangerous objects."
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NY: Cuffing Suspects Who’ve Been Shot: a Flash Point
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It was done after three men were shot in Queens a year ago in a hail of 50 police bullets. It occurred again on Monday, after five officers fired 20 shots at Khiel Coppin outside his Brooklyn home, killing him.
A man is down, on the ground, bleeding, and the police are handcuffing him.
Relatives, friends, neighbors and curious onlookers often see one thing: a wounded man, who is already incapacitated, being further restrained.
While the deadly force itself is always Topic A, the handcuffing that follows can become a flash point for angry outbursts, seen as one final indignity. It may sound backward: The cuffs go on after the shooting.
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Outlines Of The Constitutional Jurisprudence Of The United States, "The right of every individual to keep arms for his defence", 1833
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"...5. The right of every individual to keep arms for his defence, suitable to his condition and degree; which was the public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation.* ..."
"...37. The same natural, political, and civil rights and privileges which had been declared to be the inalienable inheritance of the People as citizens of the respective States, were, on their becoming parties to the federal compact, expressly asserted to belong to them as citizens of the Union..."
"...40. The Constitution, founded on this basis and on these principles, and formed from these materials, was "ordained and established" by "the People of the United States..." |
OR: First-grader suspended over drawing
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A first-grader was suspended Tuesday for drawing a stick figure shooting another in the head with a gun and allegedly threatening students.
Little Butte School officials sent 6-year-old Ryan Weathers home after receiving complaints from parents saying he threatened their children, said Douglas Weathers, the boy's father.
"He's not a violent kid," Weathers said. "He did not mean any harm."
School district officials declined to comment. State law bars them from discussing disciplinary actions against specific students.
The disciplinary report given to Weathers stated the reason for the suspension was the boy "threatened to shoot two girls in the head."
The drawing was inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons," Weathers said.
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Why the Gun IS Civilization
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The single greatest encapsulation of my own beliefs on gun rights that I've ever read:
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Good blog but he left out the "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep (own) and bear (carry) arms is ,as a last resort ,to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
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VA: Democratic Gun Rights Activists Seek Senate Power
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The Virginia General Assembly could become more friendly to gun rights advocates despite gains by Democrats in state elections this month, several lawmakers and advocates said. But the specter of the April massacre at Virginia Tech could soften the effects of that change as relatives of victims prepare to push for greater restrictions on gun sales and possession, particularly on college campuses. Democrats will control the state Senate with a 21 to 19 majority when lawmakers begin their new terms in January, but those who support stricter controls on gun possession and purchases will hold only a narrow majority in the Senate Democratic Caucus. |
NY: Keeseville technology receives national media attention
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A Keeseville-based company has a new product that will be used by two downstate law-enforcement agencies and has attracted interest from national media. Pistol-Cam, a digital video-recording camera with sound-recording capability, is the creation of Legend Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adirondack Optics. It is the brainchild of company founder and CEO Terry Gordon, who holds six patents on it and similar devices, including his original invention, the SmartScope rifle sight/digital camera combination. |
Gun owners mark National Ammo Day
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"It's important to have this right for self-defense to defend your family and property. It also protects people's right to go hunting," said Mark Taff, executive director of the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
"As a last resort, it protects us against tyranny from our government." |
AR: Game and Fish to consider concealed weapons proposal
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Arkansas concealed weapons permit holders would be able to carry handguns on some hunts and other outdoor recreational activities under a proposal by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission staff. The proposal was made Thursday night at the commission's monthly meeting at the Forrest L. Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center in Jonesboro. Commissioners will consider the proposal at their December meeting. |
MT: Montana Political Gun Group Endorses Ron Paul
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The Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA) announced today that it has endorsed Congressman Ron Paul to be nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States. Ron Paul has long served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas. Congressman Paul stunned many political observers this past Monday by raising $4.2 million in campaign donations from small donors in one 24-hour period.
MSSA president Gary Marbut commented, "Ron Paul has been a consistent and ardent supporter of the rights of gun owners for 30 years. We commend him to all thoughtful and concerned gun owners." |
MS: Castle doctrine lauded by gun advocates
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Kathy Adkins moved from target to target, using a .38 revolver and a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol with deadly efficiency, putting holes in the dead centers of paper targets meant to look like people. Adkins, 48, owns a real estate firm in Jackson and has been taking firearms training since March. Instructor Cliff Cargill said he has had many new students since the Legislature passed a bill last year giving residents expanded legal rights to protect themselves in their homes, cars or businesses. |
NV: Nevada leads in gun deaths, ownership
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With more guns sold and registered per capita than anywhere in the U.S., Nevada is a gun state - always has been. It also is the gun-death state. According to the Center for Disease Control, since 2000, Nevada has led the nation with an average of 26 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people. War-torn Iraq averaged 32 gun deaths per 100,000 people last year, according to the same study. |
PA: English: Don’t take guns from sportsmen
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Curbing criminal misuse of guns, not taking them from the hands of sportsmen, would end gun violence in the United States, a congressman and a National Rifle Association spokesman agreed Saturday in Pine Township. “Arm people with the facts,” Chris Cox, an executive director for the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, told about a dozen people at the Grove City Sportsman Club on Centertown Road. Cox and U.S. Rep. Phil English of Erie, R-3rd District, held a meeting to discuss sportsmen’s issues facing Congress. English is an asset to sportsmen and the NRA alike in proposing and passing legislation favoring them both, Cox said. |
VA: Pioneering 'heat wave' gun may be used in Iraq
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American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorise the deployment of newly-developed heat wave guns to disperse angry crowds or violent rioters.
But the plea for what senior army officers believe could prove a valuable alternative to traditional firepower in dangerous trouble-spots has so far gone unanswered.
Washington fears a barrage of adverse publicity in the suspicious Muslim world and is concerned that critics will claim the invisible beam weapons were being used for torture.
Ed.: I doubt the feds have done any studies on the long term effects of this thing. I wonder if death from skin cancer is a suitable punishment for protesting/rioting? |
Dyke v. Taylor Implement Co., U.S. Supreme Court, "thought he hit the back of the Dodge with one shot", May 20, 1968
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"...Shots were fired from the car at or into the Duckett home. Robert Wayne Ellis, Duckett's son-in-law, was standing in the front yard with another son-in-law, Dale Harris; Ellis fired back at the car with a pistol, and thought his first shot hit the back of the car. Ellis informed Monroe County Sheriff..."
"...Under the front seat they found an air rifle. At trial . . . that Ellis thought he hit the back of the Dodge with one shot, that the car stopped in Athens was a 1960 Dodge with a fresh bullet hole through the trunk lid, that an air rifle pellet was found the next day outside the Duckett home, and that an air rifle was found under the car's seat..." |
AZ: Sheriff: Teens in fatal shooting were burglars
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SIERRA VISTA — The two teenagers involved with the Friday morning fatal shooting were apparently burgling an unoccupied home when the incident happened, according to investigators with the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.
Thus explains the charges against Nicholas Michael Murphy, 16, who remains at the Cochise County Jail on $250,000 bond, accused of second degree murder, burglary and trespassing, Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carol Capas said.
Josh Olson, 16, was evidently killed by the blast that came from the shotgun as it accidentally went off, Capas said. Because the shooting death came during the commission of a felony crime, the second-degree murder charge is authorized by Arizona criminal statutes.
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VA: Gun bans defy common sense
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Larry Hincker believed that Virginia Tech had a sound policy preventing students from bringing guns to campus. However, there is an important distinction that needs to be addressed. What Hincker really meant is that Virginia Tech had a policy prohibiting people from bringing guns to campus, but it did nothing to prevent someone with no regard for the law or policy from bringing a gun to campus and killing.
Many citizens are concerned that allowing students to arm themselves for self-defense would be a bad idea because they could be involved in illicit drug use and binge drinking on campus. Because of this, their approach is to prohibit the possession of firearms on campus. |
UT: Utahns exercise right to openly carry firearms
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Among the things that make Utah a special place are its gun laws. Love 'em or hate 'em, they often make living, working and even dining in the state a visceral experience, harking back to the heady days of Deadwood and Dodge City.
Most Utahns are aware their state issues an easily obtained concealed-weapon permit. By passing a background check and basic course in gun safety, anyone over 21 can qualify to carry an undercover gun. |
Lyle v. Patterson, U.S. Supreme Court, "though it does illustrate what would be the result if possession secured by violence and maintained with force and arms", April 7, 1913
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"...He hauled a small hut upon the land, did a little plowing, and slept on the place one or two nights. He left, intending to return, but was prevented from doing so by James Beacom, who, with a drawn pistol and threats of violence, kept him from coming on the land. Subsequently, Lyle did re-enter and remained until he was again forced to leave..."
"...The fact that by the threats and violence of another trespasser, he was prevented from continuing his forcible entry and detainer, deprived him of no right in the land, though it does illustrate what would be the result if possession secured by violence and maintained with force and arms could furnish the basis of a right enforceable in law..." |
DC: Making sense of the Second Amendment
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The district court upheld the laws, but the U.S. Court of Appeals struck them down on Second Amendment grounds. Mayor Adrian Fenty appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and if the court decides not to step in, the latter ruling will stand.
The court should hear the case and strike down the laws. The Constitution clearly prohibits gun control of the kind the city has enacted, and there is no evidence that taking away the right to self-defense reduces crime. |
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