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Let's Make A Deal
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"Here is a thought: How about the left and right make a deal? In exchange for not invading any more Arab countries, we stop all aid -- military, economic, whatever -- to Israel. Then we remove all US troops from the region. At this point the Middle East will probably have big wars anyway, (and personally, I don't care who wins or loses), but at least the cost to US taxpayers will be zero dollars." |
FL: Officer shoots gunman at home invasion
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" 'I'm going to kill you and the baby,' he said one threatened."
Had one or both victims been armed, they may not have been subjected to threats on their child's life and wouldn't have had to wait for police to arrive and save them. |
Mexico: Proposal to allow gun ownership snags in Congress
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"A motion that would allow people to keep as many as two guns in their home got stuck in the lower house of Congress over concerns about a lack of safeguards, El Universal daily reported Tuesday."
"Defense Commission President Gen. Alvaro Vallarta, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), insisted his colleagues on the Government Commission support his proposal, so it could go to a general vote before session adjourns on Dec. 15." |
OH: Ohio Senate approves gun-carrying legislation
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"The Senate on Tuesday passed a long-debated bill to allow Ohioans to carry hidden guns, but its future is uncertain because the House is out of session and Gov. Bob Taft still opposes it."
"Senators voted 20-11, mostly along party lines, with Republicans prevailing." |
Do States Have The Authority To Use Militias To Protect Their Borders?
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"We are also told that the duty of securing the borders rests solely with the federal government. This is another misconception. The Constitution states that '[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion...' If aliens entering into a State from a foreign country constitute an 'invasion,' as some claim, then the federal government is constitutionally mandated by this provision to intervene and protect the State." |
The Gun control Experiment - Two More Data Points
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"Two seemingly unrelated recent events have highlighted fundamental flaws in the basic model of gun control. They involve the national gun registry in Canada and a small gun shop in Tacoma, Washington."
"Canada's ambitious Firearms Act, a flagship of Liberal Party social policy, took effect in December of 1998. It required all gun owners to obtain a personal firearms license and register each gun with the Canadian Firearms Centre." |
Government Vaccines – Bad Policy, Bad Medicine
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"Simply put, it is not ethical to give a medicine that will kill and maim persons for no demonstrable benefit. Assuaging fears about vulnerability to a potential disease is not a benefit any physician should accept."
~ Dr. Jeffrey S. Sartin, MD
"A controversy over vaccines, specifically the smallpox vaccine, is brewing in Washington." |
CA: California Lawmaker Introduces Gun Bill
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"A state lawmaker introduced legislation Tuesday that would require California to collect ballistic 'fingerprints' on all firearms made or sold in the state."
"If approved, California would become the first state in the nation to require such records for all firearms."
"Maryland and New York require such ballistics records be kept, but only on handguns. Maryland's law was criticized when it couldn't be used to identify the rifle used in sniper attacks around Washington, D.C." |
Subject to inspection
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"Invite friends over, babysit your grandchildren or allow relatives to spend the night in Belleville and you risk an armed police officer turning up at your door to search your home and give you a ticket."
"Enforcement teams consisting of a housing inspector and a police officer do not obtain search warrants before showing up to check for occupancy code violations, a Belleville News-Democrat investigation found." |
Gun Control: Racist and Elitist
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"From the start, of our organization, Seniors United Supporting the Second Amendment (SUSSA), has tried to spread the word that gun control is racist and elitist. It is shocking to find out how few people, White or Black know about the role guns played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s."
"How many people know that the NRA helped train Blacks in Monroe, N.C. and the local NRA chapter mounted an armed defense against the Klan, routing them in a gun battle?" |
DUI Gulag: Are you a Cowboy Cop?
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"If you are a law enforcement officer and you want to know whether or not you are a "COWBOY COP," you should take the following self-evaluating quiz..." |
DE: Wilmington gun-registration veto expected to stand
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"The bill would have required owners of handguns, shotguns and rifles to register their weapons with the police department. Police would have issued a certificate that would have had to accompany a weapon at all times. Violators would have faced a maximum fine of $1,000 or up to a year in prison or both. Law enforcement officers and people transporting weapons through the city would have been exempt. ...
"The Delaware State Sportsmen's Association, a group affiliated with the National Rifle Association, opposed it.
"Urban League Executive Director Tony Allen said he was disappointed that the bill will not become law." |
Canada: Inuit win temporary exemption from gun law
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"The federal government's embattled gun registry took another bullet Tuesday when a Nunavut judge granted an injunction exempting 23,000 Inuit from most of its provisions at least until early next year."
" 'We are happy that come Jan. 1, 2003, when we go out hunting we are not going to worry about breaking the law,' said James Eetoolook of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the organization that oversees the Nunavut land claim agreement." |
CA: Gun stores are punished for violations
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"Two gun stores, including one in Van Nuys, have been penalized by a unit formed by the City Attorney's Office to target illegal gun sales, officials said Tuesday."
"Gun World, 16140 Cohasset St., Van Nuys, sold four guns that were not certified as safe for sale, and the owner has agreed to surrender his city weapons permit and pay $1,350 in fines, officials said. The shop will remain open as a shooting range." |
Justices compares cross burning to assault weapons
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"A case involving whether cross burning is illegal intimidation or constitutionally protected free speech produced sharp debate among justices Wednesday, with most appearing troubled by the symbol's link to racial violence."...
"The justices interrupted each other during the lively argument, comparing crosses to semiautomatic weapons and discussing the history of cross burning."...
" 'The cross has acquired a potency that is at least equal to that of a gun,' " Justice David H. Souter said."... |
OH: Handgun ban to die without new OK
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"In the three years since Toledo City Council banned the sale and possession of cheap and easily concealed handguns, only eight people have been charged - and all but one of those charges were filed in 2000."
"The law’s low use was cited yesterday by council members wondering whether to allow the law to expire. A sunset provision in the original ordinance would cause the ordinance to expire Jan. 27. An ordinance drafted by the city law department would make the gun ban permanent." |
CA: San Leandro's gun tax to help abused children
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"People buying guns at Trader Sports probably never thought that a city tax they paid would be used to help abused children, but it will."
"The Child Abuse Listening, Interviewing and Coordination Center -- better known as Calico -- was the first recipient of the city's gun tax revenues since voters passed Measure H in June 1998, taxing gun dealers 3 percent on concealable handgun and ammunition sales." |
Gun lovers up in arms over ruling
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"On conservative radio talk shows, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is known as 'the Ninth Circus Court.' Last summer the court ruled against God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Last week the court ruled against Moses."
"Judge Stephen Reinhardt tried to rip the Second Amendment from Charlton Heston's cold, dead bumper stickers." |
VPC: U.S. Supreme Court Shuts Door on NRA-Backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program
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" 'VPC Litigation Director Mathew Nosanchuk states, "Today's Supreme Court decision is a resounding victory for public safety. The unanimous opinion decisively rebuffs claims by the NRA and other pro-gun advocates that felons should be able to use the federal courts to have their gun privileges restored.' "...
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Yes, Nosanchuk should be proud that a man who committed a simple, non-violent error - who isn't even a convicted felon in this nation - is deprived of his Constitutional rights. He should be proud that Bean is now just one more disarmed victim left to the mercy of criminals thanks to the VPC. |
IA: Former officer charged in shooting
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"A former Carter Lake reserve officer has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an Omaha man last week."
"Ignacio G. Palma, 26, of Omaha, was shot in the back on Dec. 3 at 2503 S. 17th St. He has since been released from NHS University Hospital."
"Ron L. Wood, 38, of 2503 S. 17th St., was charged with attempted murder and willful injury..."
"In December of 2001, Wood was charged with kidnapping a young girl but the charge was dismissed because of insufficient evidence." |
FL: Bullet maker aims for overseas markets
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"In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, consumer demand for ammunition has shot up, triggering explosive growth for this small Miami bullet manufacturer. Revenue has skyrocketed 270 percent this year over last - to an expected $3 million. The company has doubled its staff to 54 employees and will institute 24-hour production in January." |
More About The 9th Circus
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A short, funny blog by Clayton Cramer that may explain much of the shenanigans of the "9th Circus."
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"An attorney...told me that the 9th Circus's problems aren't just that the judges are liberal. The other problems are that they are on average not terribly bright, lazy, they don't read the briefs before oral arguments, they don't read them carefully afterwards, and they are rude as well." |
GA: Abducted man turns gun on captor
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"Atlanta police today were investigating an early-morning shooting on Verbena Street that left a man dead."
"Detectives said a three-man 'robbing crew' was either robbing or collecting a debt from another man when the 1:30 a.m. shooting occurred."
"The three, who were in a stolen car, pulled their intended victim into the back seat and drove away. The abductor in the back seat had a handgun, and he and the victim struggled over the weapon." |
TN: Shots Exchanged With Owner
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"A small store in Piperton was robbed Friday morning by two armed gunmen. Atta Duraan, owner of Mike's Stop Grocery at 1235 Highway 57, reported an armed gunman entered his business Friday morning and demanded all of the money in the cash register. Duraan told authorities after the assailant received the money from the register he demanded Duraan hand over additional money from the safe." |
IL: Expulsion for bullet spurs lawsuit
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"The mother of a 3rd grader who was expelled from a Sauk Village elementary school last month after he inadvertently brought a bullet to class inside a Tupperware container holding crayons filed a lawsuit Monday against the district."
"The 8-year-old boy was expelled for the remainder of the school year because after he discovered the .30-caliber bullet he showed it to a classmate instead of immediately reporting it to his teacher, the lawsuit said. The classmate told the teacher, who called the principal."
Welcome to today's Gestapo indoctrination centers. Leave all weapons outside, please.
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Canada: Masked men terrorize mother, baby
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"Two masked men had forced their way into her home in what police call a home invasion. The woman escaped through the front door and ran into the road. Drivers rushed her into a neighbour's home and called police. In minutes, police had swarmed the area around Baseline Road between Merivale Road and Fisher Avenue."
"The suspects escaped on foot before Ottawa police's tactical squad, wearing black uniforms and carrying automatic weapons, arrived." |
Gun cabinet fits most decors
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"Whether it's an M1 Garand just like the one Dad or Grandpa carried in World War II, the little single-shot .22 you grew up with or your favorite deer rifle, every gun collector has something special that merits full-time display."
"The trouble is that most gun cabinets are just plain ugly -- too large, too dark and too heavy. And although you're willing to compromise, your spouse won't even discuss it." |
MN: Craftsman works tirelessly to make handmade muzzleloaders
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"Gray November light passes through panes of glass, illuminating Brent Gurtek's workbench."
"Elmo, a tri-colored cat, has folded herself in the basket at the end of the bench. She watches Gurtek as he secures a steel bar the size of a ruler in his vise."
" 'We're going to make a trigger,' Gurtek announces. He lights a propane torch and directs its blue flame at one edge of the piece of steel." |
IL: Gun buy-back effort nets 475
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"More than 475 weapons, ranging from muskets to sawed-off shotguns, pistols and military rifles, were turned in to police during the county's gun buy-back, officials said Tuesday."
"Some guns were so old that modern ammunition would have destroyed them, but others were new, still in the box and worth thousands of dollars, officials said. The weapons will be destroyed." |
OH: Man let off the hook for trying to defend himself
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"A Geauga County man accused of five felonies and facing 30 years in prison will be set free, but the fight for what was right has cost him and his wife their life savings."
"Mike Ferrante and his wife, Anna, were driving away from a home they were rehabbing in Collinwood last November when a man pulled up in front of them, jumped out with a gun, and began yelling at them." |
FL: Gun Program Uses Knowledge As Its Weapon
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"When children visit or sleep over at a friend's house, concerned parents frequently ask: Will parents or adults be there? Are there any adult-rated movies on the agenda?"
"But there's a question that seldom is asked: Are there guns in the house?" |
NJ: Deer hunters baffled by state regulations
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"Due to the complex nature of New Jersey deer hunting seasons regarding zones, limits, and different laws, we can no longer answer questions over the phone - we simply do not have the resources to answer all your questions correctly. We do, however, have an ample supply of New Jersey deer hunting regulations in stock. Also, you can access the law book at njfishandwildlife.com." |
Canada: Where did gun-registry money go?
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"With its shaded windows, locked doors and lack of identifying signs, the processing centre for Canada's much-maligned gun control program has the spooky feel of a covert operation."
"Members of the public are not welcome at the Canadian Firearms Processing Centre in this northeastern New Brunswick community. But insiders say there are no luxurious furnishings or gold-plated bathroom fixtures that might account for some of the excessive costs of running the gun registration program." |
Candidates Take your Marx
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"Since the age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, socialism has been on the offensive in this nation. It has been inexorable in its advance on all fronts. Tyranny has been foisted on us. It has been slowed, temporarily, but never stopped, let alone reversed. The list of abuses by King George III, that Thomas Jefferson proffered in the Declaration of Independence has long since been exceeded by our federal government." |
FL: School Violence
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"The most recent available numbers for Bay District Schools show while fighting is down from three years ago, weapons are a bit more common. In the 1999-2000 school year, fighting was a problem among 30.9 % of the students while 1.42 % carried weapons. In the 2000-2001 school year fighting was down to 23.17 % while 1.53 % of students carried weapons. These figures are based on every one thousand students." |
Terror war eroding civil rights, some say
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"Some people in law enforcement remain unconvinced that all these new tools are needed, and some experts are skeptical that high-tech data mining will bring much of value to light.
"Still, civil libertarians say the nation is putting at risk the very thing it is fighting for: the personal freedoms and rights embodied in the Constitution.
"But some intelligence experts say that in a changed world, the game is already up for those who would value civil liberties over the war on terrorism." |
MADD: Their Real Political Agenda
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"Despite the extremely low statistical threat to public safety posed by low BAC drinking drivers, more than 600,000 low BAC drivers are arrested and convicted for "drunk driving" in America each year.
Once arrested these otherwise law-abiding citizens are subjected to imprisonment; forced to pay huge fines and court costs; forced to pay the costs of probation; suffer unjust property forfeitures; forced to attend political re-education camps; subjected to psychological testing; forced to engage in involuntary forced labor; suffer government sponsored public humiliation; suffer the loss of driving privileges; suffer loss of respect for the courts and their government; suffer the loss of their jobs; their self esteem; and the destruction of their families." |
Who Am I?
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"I'm a .25 caliber pistol—a so-called Saturday Night Special—made by defunct gun maker Raven Arms. Although I'm an inanimate object, I've been found legally culpable in the 2000 classroom shooting of a West Palm Beach, Florida school teacher." |
Are Gun Control Laws Discriminatory?
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"Talk with a serious gun-control advocate about methods used to make gun ownership more difficult, and you may hear an argument that runs something like this: 'Well, if we increase the prices of guns and bullets, those people will not be able to afford them; after all, those people are the ones who commit the greatest percentage of crimes.' Who is this person referring to when he/she says 'those people'? The answer is clear--minorities and the poor." |
The Socialist Ninth Circuit Court
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"Everyone is talking about the Ninth Circuit Court's decision that the Second Amendment doesn't address the personnel right to bear arms. Once more the Ninth has shown that they are out of touch with reality and lean very strongly to the liberal side of all issues."
"I believe that it is time for these judges to be replaced by people who do not interpret the law and Constitution for their own stupid agenda. 'We, the people' have no need, nor should |
Anti-Bush T-Shirt
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"Secret Service Agents question a Bellbrook High School student for wearing a controversial t-shirt."
The shirt has a picture of President Bush on it and the words, 'not my president.' " |
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| I now think the only way to control handgun use is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. — M. Gartner, then President of NBC News, USA Today, January 16, 1992, pg. A9 |
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