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Traffic-related law officer deaths jump
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WASHINGTON - Police officers who can ticket you for not wearing a seat belt sometimes ditch their own restraints, a factor that may have contributed to a double-digit jump this year in law enforcement traffic fatalities, according to a new study.
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CT: Hotline: Colt classics at a city near you
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Here’s your chance to celebrate the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment - you know, the right to bear arms: Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is currently exhibiting a complete collection of Colt firearms to honor one of the Connecticut city’s most famous native sons, Samuel Colt, an icon who revolutionized the American firearms industry and put Hartford on the world map. |
James Madison: Preface to Debates in the Convention of 1787
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"...now United States, of North America, to add to those examples, one of a more interesting character than any of them: which led to a system without a precedent ancient or modern, a system founded on popular rights..."
"...and save their own rights from violation. The attempt had no other effect, than by bringing these rights into a more conspicuous view, to invigorate the attachment to them on one side; and to nourish the haughty encroaching spirit on the other..."
"Such were the defects, the deformities, the diseases and the ominous prospects, for which the Convention were to provide a remedy, and which ought never to be overlooked in expounding & appreciating the Constitutional Charter the remedy that was provided..."
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The Dirty Little Secret of ‘Gun-Free School Zones’
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This October, there were three fatal attacks on school property in less than a week; more than 20 since February 1996 when a 14-year-old youth strolled into a junior high school in Moses Lake, Wash. and opened fire, killing two students and a teacher. The dirty little secret of all these atrocities is that they happened in so-called “Gun Free School Zones.” Prior to the enactment of that horribly misguided federal legislation and its state-level clones, one never read about school massacres because there weren’t any. The Gun Free School Zones Act transformed the public school landscape into a free-fire zone for whackos by removing any possibility that an armed citizen might be present to intervene. |
VT: Henry Parro has become a gun guru
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WATERBURY – Henry Parro, like any small business owner, knows success can take decades. Step into his newly expanded shop on Route 2 in this central Vermont town, and there's ready evidence that after two decades, Parro's Gun Shop and Police Supplies Inc. is going, well, great guns.
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WA: Trying out Christmas gifts on the gun range
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SPOKANE -- With all the unwrapping and holiday dinner left behind on Tuesday a lot of people who didn’t have to work had some time to sit down and enjoy playing with their presents. Or, as the case was with many people, they took their new presents to the gun range.
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TX: Houston police want New Year's gun fire stopped
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Police are trying to put the brakes on a dangerous New Year's Eve tradition. Crime Stoppers and the Houston Police Department are reminding people that firing guns into the air is dangerous, deadly and illegal. Authorities say they made pleas to stop gun fire in the past and it apparently worked. Between 2004 and 2005 they saw a 28% decrease in incidents. One officer says she was nearly a victim of celebratory gunfire. |
Kyrgyzstan: Arming Parliament
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NBCentralAsia commentators have criticised a decision to allow members of parliament to carry weapons, saying it will do nothing to resolve security problems facing Kyrgyzstan, and is unfair since other citizens are not allowed to bear arms.
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NV: Schools need better security, but not gun-toting teachers
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A six-pack of cheers for Bob Beers! Well, I wish I could say that. The Nevada state senator's proposal for the Legislature to bite the bullet and allow teachers to carry handguns in classrooms doesn't even command a 20-gun salute from water pistols. I do not believe Beers' proposal will be approved, and I certainly do not think it will work, even if it is passed.
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IL: Guns in home not considered endang
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Unless asked to by authorities, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services says it will not be investigating whether Chicago Bears defensive lineman Terry "Tank" Johnson endangered his two children after a Gurnee SWAT team stormed his home morning and seized six guns along with marijuana. |
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, "...to put arms into the hands of the people...", Dec. 8, 1835
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"...In the example of other systems, founded on the will of the people, we trace to internal dissension the influences which have so often blasted the hopes of the friends of freedom...."
"...Wherever this spirit has effected an alliance with political power, tyranny and despotism have been the fruit...."
"...The armor and the attitude of defence afford the best security. . . . In many countries it is considered unsafe to put arms into the hands of the people, and to instruct them in the elements of military knowledge. That fear can have no place here, when it is recollected that the people are the sovereign power. Our Government was instituted, and is supported, by the ballot-box, not by the musket...." |
PA: Too many weapons
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Weeks ago, I witnessed - again - a young man's needless departure from this life. Another victim of the senseless gunshot violence that has besieged our city.
Alas, nothing has changed. Yet one blatant truth remains: There are too many guns.
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So Much For Gun Control
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The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership has released rankings on gun control in the various states, and the results are interesting when correlated violent crime statistics.
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OH: Driskel's hobby includes making muzzleloaders
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Local resident Andy Driskel began his lifelong love for the outdoors as a youth in the 1950s when a cousin introduced him to hunting in the woods of Pennsylvania and New York. It's a love that spans not only hunting, but a hobby which allows Driskel to craft the tools of his trade inside his garage in the town of Florida. Driskel, 66, creates black powder firearms using skills he learned from working with wood and metal as an apprentice at a pattern shop in New York state. |
NC: Man shoots at home intruder
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No injuries were reported late Tuesday night in an apparent attempted home burglary that turned into a fight with at least one shot being fired. A man told police he was preparing to take out the trash at his home when he realized an intruder was in his house. The resident told police he went to get a handgun and as he turned around, the attacker struck him in the back of the head. That triggered a fight between the attacker and the resident of the house. During the scuffle, the victim said, he fired his gun once, with the bullet striking the refrigerator. The assailant then fled on foot. |
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