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Bloody Christmas weekend: More than 40 shot, 11 killed in Chicago
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Christmas weekend was grim in Chicago even by this year's wretched standards for gun violence: Police say at least 41 people were shot, 11 fatally, between Friday evening and Sunday night, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Chicago Police Department spokesman Jose Estrada tells the New York Times that the number of homicides in the city so far this year is 745, up from 476 at this time last year, and marking the first time since 1997 that there have been more than 700.
He says the total number of shooting victims so far this year is 4,252, up 47% from 2,884 at this time in 2015. Most victims are men under 30.
Submitter's note: How's that gun control working out for you?
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An Officer’s 2-year-old Son Died After He shot Himself With His Father’s Gun, Police Say
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Police say an Ohio officer’s 2-year-old son died after shooting himself with his father’s gun Friday morning.
Officers responded to a home in Cleveland about 10:30 a.m., the Associated Press reported. The child died at a hospital, according to the Cleveland Division of Police.
The toddler’s father, 54-year-old Jose Pedro, is a 23-year veteran of the Cleveland police department.
Preliminary investigation indicated that the toddler got hold of his father’s service weapon, according to the AP.
Submitters note: How does a 2 year old get a gun? This smacks of negligence or laziness.
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NY: Syracuse Woman Stabs Man in Self-Defense
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A Syracuse man is facing several charges after choking and punching a 24 year old woman during a domestic dispute. Police say 29-year-old James Myers Jr. went to the home of his ex-girlfriend on Furman Street Sunday night and confronted her while she was sleeping in the bedroom. There were young children in the bedroom, as Myers Jr. reportedly choked and punched the victim. Police say Myers Jr. also used the base of lamp to strike the victim several times in the head, causing the lamp to break.
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How Liberals Confuse Disagreement With Hate
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This feature appears in the January ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association. Why is it that when gun-ban advocates and other anti-gun types argue against your right to keep and bear arms, it is considered reasoned discourse, but when someone who stands on the side of freedom and the Second Amendment disagrees, it’s immediately labeled “hate”? |
GA: Gun Owner Shoots, Kills Armed Robber
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A gun store owner shot and killed a man attempting to rob his store Monday morning, according to police. The owner of Dixie Gun and Pawn in Cobb County was preparing to open the store when two men with ski masks and guns came in, police said. Police said the owner pulled out his gun and fired, hitting one of the gunmen. |
CA: New Laws Will Raise Minimum Wage, Toughen Gun Restrictions
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Lawmakers passed a package of bills to strengthen California's already tough gun laws then voters reinforced them by passing even more measures. People who own magazines that hold more than 10 rounds will be required to give them up starting Jan. 1. Buyers must undergo a background check before purchasing ammunition and will be barred from buying new weapons that have a device known as a bullet button. |
TX: Brazos Shooting & Social Club Announces Plans for Upscale Gun Club
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The Brazos Shooting & Social Club has announced its new upscale $11 million indoor gun club in Sienna Plantation, a premier master-planned community in Missouri City. The 54,000 square-foot state-of-the-art facility is being developed by Humidor Ventures LLC and Texas Sawdust & Guns. The facility will feature 40 shooting lanes with Action Target technology, including four 100-yard rifle lanes, 36 pistol lanes, six tactical lanes and reserved lanes for VIP members. |
Fear & Loading: Home-Defense Supplement
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Advertisements for the Amazon Echo are cute, and highlight the device’s ability to find and play the right song when all you can remember are a few of the lyrics, offer recipes, answer spelling questions and provide weather forecasts. That’s all nice and good, but my wife—the closet techno geek in the family—received one of the female-voiced home devices on Christmas, and its ability to harden your home-defense profile is profound. |
Liberal Gun Clubs Surge After Trump Election!
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2016 gun sales broke all records as worried Republicans feared a possible Hillary Clinton presidency and further infringement on their Second Amendment rights. On Black Friday, we saw an mind-boggling 185,713 FBI background checks breaking the single day record. Yet since Trump was elected some gun manufacturers have noticed a 20% decline as those fears abated. But it didn’t last long. |
Nichole Smith: No Good Can Come From Campus Carry
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College is a high-stress environment for all. For many it's a first chance to get to know and understand people from differing walks of life. Adding guns into this equation would be a sinister and poorly reasoned cog in the works. Looking at others with fear and suspicion is a sad choice people are free to make; I am not saying bad things don't happen in the world. But no good can come from the combination of inexperienced youth, high stress, suspicion, agitation, and gunpowder. It's a powder keg, and they want to hand out matches in the concourse. |
Gun News of the Week
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Guns Down America—a coalition of gun control and LGBT activist groups—is demanding that FedEx stop giving discounts to the National Rifle Association’s Business Alliance participants. According to Bloomberg News, Guns Down America—joined by Color of Change, Newtown Action Alliance, and Pride Fund to End Gun Violence—called on supporters to “tell FedEx: stop supporting the NRA” in an online campaign and, on Dec. 21, staged protests at FedEx retail stores in Denver, Atlanta, Memphis and Orlando.
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Remington RM380 Pistol
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A couple of years ago, I made a tremendous mistake as an editor. I chose to run the then-new Remington R51 on the cover based on a review of a pre-production sample by a trusted writer. My thinking was: “Remington has been around for 200 years, and the company makes iconic rifles and shotguns that are awesome. Therefore, this new handgun—based on an 80-year-old design—must be good. Besides, Remington assured us that the production guns will be the same as the pre-production test model.” I was wrong. The actual initial production run of the R51 was disastrous. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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