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Beware the Midnight Knock
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What has this to do with President Bush’s proposed "Freedom Corps"? A great deal. The very title of the initiative is an Orwellian coinage suggesting that freedom can only be achieved as part of a government-regimented program. Similar subterfuge is at work in the President’s call for Americans to give 4,000 hours in federally supervised "service" to the "nation." |
Philippines: With God and a gun on his side
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Father Cirilo Nacorda comes armed with more than his faith to daily Mass at the Church of St Peter on the southern Philippines island of Basilan. Beneath his flowing vestments the stocky, 44-year-old Catholic priest packs his favourite .45 automatic pistol.
"Life is so precious. This is God's gift to us and I have to protect it," he says. "I believe God understands my predicament and why I need to do this. He knows my heart."
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A priest that knows that self defense is a God-given right. |
A history lesson for the historian
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A very nice firsthand account of discreditation of Bellesiles book by a columnist from the San Francisco Chronicle, a generally very anti-gun publication. Finishes up with the schoolmarmish curator of the Contra Costa Historical Society pointing out that he "was just a rude young man." |
CA: Killer bought his weapon legally, passed screening
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I wonder who wrote this article for the San Francisco Chronicle? Perhaps the Brady Bunch or the VPC. I hope the Chronicle starts telling me the origin of all weapons used to illegally murder people, including knives, automobiles, beer bottles, etc. This is not newsworthy!
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KABA NOTE: Except to prove once again that NICS (the 'Brady bill') does not work. |
Property dispute ends in shooting; elderly neighbor arrested
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An elderly former police officer has been charged with first-degree assault in a shooting that left his neighbor seriously wounded.
Lovell A. "Lefty" Hodges, 82, a former patrol officer who retired from the Centralia Police Department in 1977, was being held at Lewis County Jail. |
'A perilous possession'
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"They make millions of dollars and live a lifestyle few can imagine, but some athletes just can't resist the risky lure -- and allure -- of guns."
Jon Vernick, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said his organization has not studied the preponderance of athletes packing heat these days.
He allows that perhaps it just seems that way because when an athlete is arrested, the story runs in the newspaper the next day.
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Media bias?! Really?! |
UK: 'Prince of blunders at it again'
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"FOOT-in-mouth royal, Prince Philip has sparked another wave of condemnation and embarrassment in Britain with his latest verbal faux pas."
"If a cricketer decided to go into a school and batter people to death with a bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?" – On gun laws in the wake of the Dunblane shooting murders in 1996.
"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." – On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995. |
NYC: Diallo Kin Demand Cops
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Diallo, a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea, West Africa, was cornered by the cops in the vestibule of his apartment on Wheeler Ave. in Soundview on Feb. 4, 1999. The officers fired 41 shots, 19 of which hit Diallo, because they thought he was reaching for a gun. The unarmed man had been reaching for his wallet. |
Man shot in face by FBI in serious condition
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An Eagle Scout who was mistaken for a bank robber and shot in the face by an FBI agent was shot at close range about 6 p.m. Friday when FBI agents searching for a bank robbery suspect pulled over his girlfriend's car.
Carrying weapons that his daughter, a junior honor student at Northeast, described as "assault rifles or machine guns," the agents ordered them to put their hands up. That's when the agent on the passenger's side opened fire, striking Schultz once. |
MI: Boy, 8, faces charges for pointing toy gun
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An 8-year-old boy is facing criminal charges "for pointing a toy gun at 3 other youngsters and threatening to shoot them." The boy, 7 at the time of the incident, has a hearing on 3 "felonious assault charges" next week.
Tommy's mother: "This is a waste of taxpayers' money. I didn't think it was against the law to have a toy gun. Doesn't the police department have anything better to do than to take complaints from kids who have a dispute with other kids?" |
Dell: Refusal to sell laptop to gun dealer a mistake
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Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said in a statement that the company screens its orders under federal export laws "to restrict the sale of technology to terrorists and to people in countries that support terrorism."
The screenings, which have been conducted for the past five years, include searching for certain words in orders such as "combat."
"Handguns" or "firearms" are not words that prompt red flags, the company said. |
KY: Update on Charlie Puckett
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Charlie Puckett will get out of jail Monday, March 4, on a $50,000 unsecured bond. He will be under house arrest, and will have other restrictions placed on him. We will have a statement from his attorney and more updates on his situation as they become available.
We are asking that all Patriots remain calm. Mr. Puckett is in good hands with a very competent attorney, Mr. Gatewood Galbraith. We have every confidence that he will be cleared of any wrong doing. |
PA: Gun Show Cancelled For no valid reason (Update)
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The Mid Atlantic Arms Collectors have held 19 shows in the Fort Washington Exposition Center without incident. But for some reason, there will be no show this year.
"We are trying to open up a dialogue with them," said Mid Atlantic Arms promoter Nick Jubinski.
Calling and voicing your opinion in the matter will only result in an answering machine. However the e-mail address for the Fort Washington Expo is info@fortwashingtonexpo.com |
KY: No Trial For Mom Who Shot Alleged Molester
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A woman accused of shooting a man who allegedly molested her son will not go to trial. On Friday, a grand jury decided not to indict the woman, who shot Larry Howell in November.
The woman was charged with one count of first-degree assault, and assault under extreme emotional disturbance.
Prosecutors said Friday that they will not present the charges a second time to the grand jury, which effectively ends the case against her.
Howell has been charged with nine counts of sodomy. |
'Mapping Out Gun Hazards for Children' (Followup)
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"Researchers" are reporting "a correlation between regions of the country where gun ownership is high and the number of children who die from gunshot wounds."
The lead "researcher," Dr. Matthew Miller, said "the study could not definitively prove that increased gun ownership alone was linked to the childhood fatalities."
But the "researchers" said "other factors were unable to account for the differences." |
Raid a house, kick a dog, plug a suspect
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"black-masked, black-helmeted men brandishing automatic weapons and wearing all-black uniforms with no insignias suddenly burst into the house unannounced, kicked the family's dog across the floor, ordered the entire family to 'get on the [expletive] floor,' held them at gunpoint, searched the house, found no drugs or contraband, but nevertheless carted off the family's two sons, Dave and Marcos, and imprisoned them illegally and without charges." |
NC: Bush Helps Elizabeth Dole Raise Money
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Two years after he drove Elizabeth Dole from the 2000 presidential race by dominating Republican fund-raising, President Bush is helping his former rival collect money for her U.S. Senate campaign.
The White House, through the Republican National Committee, helped push other Republican candidates aside in the North Carolina Senate race, mindful that her name recognition could help carry her into office. |
Australia: Gangster acquitted on shooting charges
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American anti-CCW types have long insisted that this type of thing would happen in U.S. streets if CCW was "allowed", instead it is happening where guns are "banned" for self-defense (so of course criminals "illegally" carry them to intimidate the unarmed and to scrap with their rivals)... |
Bush and Cheney champion privacy -- for themselves
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"Every new president pledges to do the public's business in the open and promises to cooperate with that co-equal branch of government, Congress. But all presidents soon think twice about those promises. They inevitably start pulling down the shades and complaining that Congress is intruding on their presidential powers."
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Conning Americans: How Politicians Create Dependence on Government
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"as you know, our speaker tonight is the economist and historian Charlotte Twight. For those of you’ve not seen her book, and many of you have gotten it already, but those of you’ve not, this is her new book called Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. It’s from Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press. And I hope everyone will get a copy. This is going to be a very important book, and we’re the first to hold an event based on it." |
SC: 'Who will monitor those with permits?'
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"People with permits to carry hidden guns now want to make our schools battlegrounds. It is not enough that weapons are now available to settle disputes in public areas such as highways, bars or clubs, but now we are being asked to believe that once someone has been authorized to carry a concealed weapon, that person will forever act rationally and prudently." |
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