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UK: Doctors under fire over gun crime
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"Doctors have been accused of hampering police efforts to crack down on gun crime."
"Police chiefs say hospitals fail to report gunshot victims and withhold bullets retrieved from patients." ...
"Dr. Nathanson also rejected calls for doctors to be required to notify police of gun crime victims."
" 'Doctors are not agents of the police and it would be wrong to put calling the police before the needs of their patient.' " |
Pondering the World's Mother-in-Law
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"If we have to poke our nose everywhere, could we at least stop being the Moral Nanny? Somebody said (me, actually) that the Brits fight for empire, the French for la gloire de la France, the Russians to steal watches from the wounded, and the Americans for mommyish moral causes. Spare me."
"It's embarrassing. Europe fought world wars to get the Germans off its back. We fought The War to End All War, and then to Make the World Safe for Democracy. The Soviet Union was the Evil Empire, and now Iraq and Korea are the Axes of Evil. (Whether this refers to malintentioned hatchets or indicates that the White House doesn't know that points can't be lines is unclear.) I don't want to be a Manichean baby-sitter." |
Science Casts Doubt on FBI's Bullet Evidence
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... "Testimony by FBI experts about chemical "matches" between bullets has helped put hundreds of defendants behind bars across the country. In one Texas case, such testimony contributed to the conviction of an accused murderer, who was put to death."
"Now, emerging scientific evidence has called the technique into question." |
Germany: U.S. soldier shot in Germany
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"A U.S. soldier based in Germany was seriously injured when an unknown attacker opened fire on him while he was traveling to work at his army base, local police said."
"The 26-year-old was shot in the hand and leg while stopping at a car park near Poppenhausen northwest of Schweinfurt at about 5.30 a.m. on Monday to clear ice from his windscreen. A gunman immediately opened fire, police said." |
KY: Court declines Ten Commandments case
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"A federal judge has added to the confusion in Ten Commandments jurisprudence by dismissing a lawsuit against a Kentucky county that posted the Ten Commandments in its courthouse."
"On Jan. 22, U.S. District Judge Karl Forester dismissed the suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against Mercer County officials. Foster said the Ten Commandments display had a legitimate secular purpose in educating about the influence of historical documents on American law." |
VA: Sheriff aims to get rid of excess guns
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"The Henry County Sheriff's Office is taking this approach to housekeeping next Friday, auctioning off 102 unclaimed firearms taking up space in its evidence vault."
"...the sheriff's office listed 102 unclaimed guns, many of them confiscated in crimes that it will attempt to return to their rightful owners ...Friday at the Henry County Sheriff's Office."
"Those that remain unclaimed after 2 p.m. will go up for auction, said Henry County Sheriff H. Frank Cassell." |
Canada: Edmonton police suspect two shootings linked
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"Police are investigating two shootings in the city, one which left a young man dead on the road."
"Emergency crews were called to 106th Street and 111th Avenue early Sunday morning, where they found the body of the city's first homicide of the year laying on the roadway."
"A car with its windows shot out was sitting nearby."
"Around the same time, a man with a gun-shot wound to his arm went to the Royal Alexandria Hospital." |
OH: Gun bill back again, and so are its critics
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"The House has revived a measure allowing citizens to obtain concealed weapons permits, and speaker Larry Householder expects the bill to pass quickly."
"But don't expect it to become law anytime soon."
"Senate leaders said the concealed weapons issue is secondary to the state's budget woes for now, and law enforcement groups still have major concerns about the legislation."
"That means Gov. Bob Taft also will oppose the legislation, making it a veto target should it ever pass." |
My Child Play With Guns? Never!
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"Those who speak with parents about gun safety, such as physicians, should think to ask not only what parents believe about guns but also what they believe about children's ability to control their curiosity should they come across a gun..."
"Marjorie Hardy, an assistant professor of psychology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. says ...Everyone who owns a gun should lock it away, empty, she says. Warning your child not to touch a gun is all well and good but hardly the answer..." |
Philippines: PNP: No exemption to gun ban
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"The Philippine National Police leadership last night resolved not to give exemptions to the gun ban called by President Macapagal-Arroyo unless there is a clear threat against the individual requesting to carry a firearm outside of his home."
"The over 10-page draft of the gun ban’s implementing rules and regulations is scheduled to be transmitted to Malacañang for the President’s approval today."
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Australia: Teenager shot in arm
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"A teenager has been shot in the arm in one of two gun attacks in Sydney." ...
"In the second incident, about 2am, a number of shots were fired into a home near Parramatta with five people inside. 'Numerous rounds have pierced the walls of the home, with projectiles entering a bedroom and lounge room,' police said."
"No one inside the home, in Beszant Street, Merrylands, was hurt, but a 55-year-old woman was treated at the scene for shock before being taken to hospital." |
I R Edgukated inn Amarika
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"They're ... multicultural, diverse, humanist, evolutionist, advocates for gun control, politically correct in speech, tolerant, especially of homosexuality, steeped in revisionist history, green, anti-capitalist, anti-fossil-fuel, anti-West, pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist, anti-military, anti-corporate-profits, pro-big-government, 'pro-choice,' pro-family planning, enlightened young citizens..."
"They just can't add, or subtract, or read, or write, or speak the king's English." |
WI: Government Beat: Who's who at the zoo?
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Under the heading: Police had cold month, too
"Questions arose about the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department arrest of a suspected car thief after a televised high-speed chase into Racine County, and about the Racine County Sheriff's Department handcuffing an 8-year-old boy who had been playing with a toy gun." ...
"...it appears there is more to the story about Racine County deputies handcuffing an 8-year-old on Jan. 9 in the Kohl's Department Store parking lot." ... |
CA: Survivors of '98 Riverside shooting agree on this
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"None, however, thinks the outcome might have been altered if any of them could have returned fire."
" 'It was a very small room,' said Pearson, all too aware of friendly fire. 'Crossfire would have been deadly. If someone thought they could protect themselves, they probably would have shot others.' "
" 'But if a council member is packing heat legally, that's fine with me, as long as they've gone through training,' Pearson added." |
CA: Council to vote on banning guns
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" 'I have no problem with Mr. O'Bryant carrying a weapon,' said Deklinski, who also favors arming airline pilots. 'Will O'Bryant is well-trained and has good judgment. I would feel that much more secure, even if they have a uniformed officer in the chamber.' "
"Councilwoman Janice Keating, who sits next to O'Bryant on the dais, and Police Chief Roy Wasden have said they support O'Bryant's right to arm himself." |
Bush Sends Congress $2.2 Trillion Budget
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"President Bush sent Congress a $2.23 trillion spending plan Monday that would accelerate tax cuts to bolster the weak economy, overhaul some of the government's biggest social programs, give NASA a modest increase and shower billions of additional dollars on defense and homeland security."
"Even though hundreds of other government programs would be squeezed, the president projects the deficit will still hit record highs of $304 billion this year and $307 billion in 2004." ... |
The "Real" State of the Union
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"The actual state of the union is that the federal, state, and political subdivisions of states are scamming people out of half or more of the earnings. This is done through unlawfully applied tax statutes - both income and property - unlawful license requirements, unlawful taxes on private means of conveyance, unlawful registrations of conveyances, and other unlawful seizures of property to name a few." |
FL: Neighbor Shoots Confused Intruder
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"A 32-year-old man was fatally shot early Sunday after bursting into a neighbor's town house, apparently mistaking it for his own, authorities said." ...
"Arnold asked McNeil several times what he wanted and then became frightened when McNeil advanced upon him, Pasha said. He fired twice, striking McNeil once through the right eye, Pasha said." |
U.S. Opposes Proposal to Limit Who May Give Legal Advice
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"A proposal by the American Bar Association that would prohibit anyone but lawyers from giving advice about the law is drawing opposition from the federal government, which says it is intended to stifle competition and could subject real estate agents, income tax preparers, credit counselors and other laypeople to civil and criminal penalties."
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FL: Crime scene technician testifies at police corruption trial
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"Myrthlin Jeffrey testified that when she arrived at Richard Brown's apartment, 1344 NW Seventh Ct., to process evidence, a supervisor on the scene handed her a gun that allegedly belonged to Brown." ...
'How did you come in the possession of that gun?' Jeffrey said she asked the officer who handed her the gun."
" 'Why did you asked that?' Assistant U.S. Attorney Allan Kaiser asked her."
" 'The evidence was not where it was supposed to be,' Jeffrey responded." |
GA: Eastman Gun Show returns
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"The show organizer says safety has always been a key at his shows. 'Every gun in here is checked. We've got security walking around constantly making sure the guns are tied with nylon safety ties so the guns cannot be operated and loaded. Every gun that walks into this show is checked to make sure its not loaded,' says Matt Eastman."
"He also says no one will sell or walk out of the show without having the required gun or vendor's license." |
Liberals Want Gun Control For You, Not Hussein
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... "We have guys like Chuck Schumer, Teddy Kennedy - the whole rank and file Democratic Party - saying they can live with a guy like Saddam Hussein working on getting a nuclear arsenal and chemical weapons and anthrax." ...
"But let one law-abiding American woman who's being threatened by some stalker get a gun, and these same Democrats waste no time trying to get that gun away from her." ... |
MA: State Trooper Suspended Without Pay
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"A state trooper accused of putting a gun in his wife's mouth during a domestic dispute was suspended without pay Monday pending the outcome of an internal investigation."
"Stoughton District Court Judge Francis Crimmins last week ordered Sgt. Tim White to undergo a 30-day psychiatric observation at Bridgewater State Hospital. He was expected to appeal the decision Tuesday." |
Product liability tilt to rationality?
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"If doing away with juries seems too extreme, surely it's time to change the way they're selected. In his new book 'The Rule of Lawyers,' excerpted in the January issue of Reason, Walter Olson describes how plaintiffs' attorneys game the system to get malleable jurors. If such manipulation can be curtailed, perhaps common sense in the courtroom will no longer be so remarkable." |
War on Terror vs. Civil Liberties: The Delicate Balance
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" 'Thus far, I would submit that the infringements on our civil liberties have been modest and entirely justified,' [Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, and a former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under President Reagan] said. 'My only hope is that they will prove sufficient, that they will be given a chance to work.' " |
DE: Free State Project may target Delaware
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"A bloodless coup to take control of the Delaware state government is being planned."
"If successful, by 2010 an army of 20,000 will move in, ascend to power and eliminate virtually all taxes - along with nearly all government programs and regulations. No public schools, no health, welfare or social services, no liquor laws, no gun control or land use laws. Smoking would be allowed nearly everywhere, as would almost all forms of gambling and prostitution." |
TX: Racial profiling data collection discussed
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"Representatives of a wide variety of law enforcement agencies met with activists and experts Friday to discuss the data collection process mandated by a bill passed in 2001 that aims to prohibit racial profiling." ...
"The bill mandated no punishment for racial profiling."
"Thompson's bill required that all agencies that regularly make traffic stops collect data on whether or not a citation was given." ... |
NJ: E x-N.J. cops hurt in shootout oppose protection for gun makers
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"A pair of former Orange police officers who were wounded in a bloody 2001 shoot-out urged Congress yesterday to resist pressure from the gun lobby to exempt gun manufacturers and dealers from civil liability when their products are used to commit crimes."
"Ken McGuire and David Lemongello said the legislation would deny them the right to sue a West Virginia pawn shop that sold the weapon and Sturm Ruger & Co., the maker of the 9mm handgun used to shoot the two." |
Loaded Questions
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"The great irony in the contemporary debate over the Second Amendment is that the amendment in its original form would be a nightmare for the NRA because it would require far more intrusive gun regulation, not less. One wonders how the NRA would react if Congress revived George Washington's plan for a national militia muster roll and government inspection of privately owned weapons at least twice a year." ... |
Dodge City?
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"It's often said that the Second Amendment is an antiquated concept, no longer applicable in our modern society. We are told 'This is not Dodge City anymore.' This is correct. Today's America is nothing like Dodge City. It's worse. Americans don't need personal firearms the way they did back then. They need them more." |
Canada: Gun registry reports draw more fire
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"Federal Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was hoping to clear up some of the confusion over Canada's gun registry on Monday."
"Instead, the Canadian Alliance said we still don't know how much it will cost."
"Cauchon released two separate reports into the registry. Some gun owners in Calgary remain skeptical about the whole process." ...
"Thousands of Canadian gun owners are defying the Fire Arms Law." |
Feel-good grading
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"Unfortunately, grade inflation is not costless. One consequence is that students are discouraged from taking science courses, where the nature of the subject matter has held down grade inflation, in favor of those in the humanities, where it is rampant. Over time, this has caused universities to drain resources from science programs. Eventually, this will harm economic growth by reducing technological innovation and advancement." |
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