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Lautenberg's travesty goes to the Supreme Court
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"For many years the United States Government could not deprive you of your rights, without due process of law and a felony conviction. However, since the passage of the Lautenberg Amendment in 1996 tens of thousands of Americans have been deprived of their right to keep and bear arms for mere misdemeanors."

"Lautenberg's logic is if you commit any violent act then you should be deprived the use of firearms. The law enacted in 1996 was retroactive, meaning it not only affected future action but past actions as well." ...

"This law has irritated me for twelve years, as it clearly is unconstitutional. Finally, the legality of this act will face the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court." ...

Sheriffs protect right to bear arms
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... "A mere 27 words make up the entire text of the Second Amendment of our Constitution. These few words stir emotions, instill fear, cause anger, elicit excitement and ultimately result in an individual sense of security. ..."

"Some people believe, incorrectly, that the words refer only to the states' ability to form a militia. Most believe, correctly, that the Second Amendment applies to both the state and the individual. ..."

"Make no mistake about where I stand in this debate; the Bill of Rights was written to protect the rights of the individual and not that of the state or the federal government. I am a fervent proponent of the individual's right to bear arms." ...

Joe Chaim Gun Free Zone Cartoons
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"I found out about Joe Chaim's Cartoons from my United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) newsletters (PS -USCCA is currently offering a significant spring sale discount if you join or renew by this Friday May 16th, which I highly recommend - it also has a top notch magazine that I enjoy reading). You should check out all of Joe Chaim's Cartoons, they're very good. Below are a few of my favorites he has done on the Gun Free Zone topic:" ...

Reagan's influence lives on in U.S. courts
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"They became the first judges in more than a half-century to say the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns[sic]. ..."

"They are prominent appeals court judges appointed by President Reagan in the 1980s ..." ...

"A case before the Supreme Court that will determine the Second Amendment's scope arose after Silberman ... wrote that it gives individuals the right to bear arms. Silberman's opinion bucked a series of lower-court rulings that said the Second Amendment applied only to a collective right of state militias." ...
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Submitter's Note: Obviously USA Today has never heard of Dr. Timothy Emerson or the Fifth Circuit Court ruling in his case.

NY: Bronx rally against gun violence draws hundreds
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"Chanting 'Save our children; No more guns,' hundreds marched on the eve of Mother's Day in the Bronx, New York to honor the victims and families of gun violence and bring about awareness for change."

"'It is true that 'it takes a village',' said Gloria Cruz, founder and organizer of the annual 'Walk Against Gun Violence.' 'In order to change your community, you have to be active in it.'"

"For the third consecutive year, Cruz gathered family members, the community, fellow advocates and elected officials in the Bronx, at the playground where the life her 10-year-old niece Naiesha Pearson was abruptly ended by a bullet at a Labor Day picnic in 2005." ...

Disarming citizens emboldens criminals
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"In a May 6 Times editorial, 'Concealed-carry guns have no place on college campuses,' readers were told students (faculty, staff, etc.) should not be permitted to carry defensively on a college campus because they're likely to 'make things worse.'"

"But this raises a serious question; given that the shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, and even the smaller-scale shooting at a Louisiana technical college took place entirely at the discretion of mass murderers, how can wrenching control of the situation away from them possibly make things worse?" ...

CA: Scientists probe recent coyote attacks in California
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"A spate of coyote attacks in the fast-growing suburbs east of Los Angeles have left parents on edge and puzzled wildlife officials."

"'Their aggressive behavior seems to be on the upswing,' said Steve Martarano, a spokesman with the state Department of Fish and Game. 'They just seem to lose their fear of humans.'" ...

"Game wardens don't normally hunt coyotes unless they pose a threat to people. After attacks, they trap and then shoot coyotes. They also carry shotguns or small-caliber rifles, but won't fire on the animals unless they get a clear shot."

"Authorities dissuade people from hunting renegade coyotes themselves and suggest that they instead make noise or throw objects to scare them from neighborhoods." ...

OH: Park Tragedy Strikes Again
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"While the Ohio State Supreme Court debates whether your self-defense rights are at the whim of local politicians pandering for liberal votes, another victim has fallen prey to the criminal element."

"A 52 year old woman was attacked while walking her dog in West Creek Reserve park in Parma. She had been beaten with a rock and her car, purse, wallet and cell phone were missing. She was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center and reportedly in very serious condition. ..."

"With the weather warming up, people are taking to the parks in greater numbers to enjoy the fresh air and exercise. Unfortunately, the criminals are also stepping up their visits to take advantage of an increased number of potential victims." ...

VA: Permit-holders take responsibility seriously
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"IN REFERENCE to Clinton Van Zandt's commentary on guns on college campuses, his commentary/analysis was fatally flawed from the start because he referred to a Harvard University study to support his argument."

"Harvard is about as anti-gun/Second Amendment as they come, and any study it would undertake on this subject is highly suspect. None of the study's analyses or conclusions can or should be trusted."

"The study referred to a random sample of college students who indicated that they take a firearm on campus. How many of these students resided in states with right-to-carry laws, and how many had licenses to legally carry a firearm? It is very likely that none of those interviewed fell into this class." ...

LA: Joseph Savoie: Guns will make campuses dangerous
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"House Bill 199, currently before the Legislature, strips Louisiana's colleges and universities of the authority to establish rules or regulations prohibiting any person with a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun on campus."

"Louisiana's higher education community understands the need to ensure our college and university campuses are safe. We have undertaken very deliberate and comprehensive measures to accomplish that goal. Research indicates the widespread presence of concealed weapons would make our campuses more dangerous." ...

PA: NRA's opposition is misguided
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"Why in the world would an avid outdoorsman and hunter like me sponsor legislation - to require the reporting of lost and stolen handguns - on what looks like a big-city gun issue? The reason isn't so far-fetched."

"Hunting, guns and the outdoors are in my ancestral blood ... I owned guns as soon as I was of legal age and love nothing more than still-hunting and stalking in pursuit of white-tailed deer. Now I share the family tradition of hunting with my two teenage sons."

"I respect my firearms and take good care of them. But growing up in the turbulent 1960s also taught me about the damage they can inflict in the wrong hands." ...

IL: Illinois gun prohibitionists' next target: standard capacity magazines
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"Folks, I realize that Armed and Safe has been rather Illinois-centric of late--springtime in Illinois tends to keep me pretty busy with the state level fight ..." ...

"The Brady Campaign, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, and the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have all identified the private handgun sales ban and the standard capacity magazine ban as their top Illinois priorities. We stopped them on the private handgun sales front, but they'll settle for batting .500 ... SB 1007 already passed in the Senate (last year), so it will take only sixty anti-freedom, anti-self-defense representatives to send it to Governor Rod "Public Official A" Blagojevich's desk for his gleeful signature. ..." ...

IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. [N.Y. Times July 12, 1859.]
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"...The Committee appointed by the Constitutional Convention to prepare and report a Preamble and Bill of Rights, have submitted the following: ..."

"...Existence was the first gift of Omnipotence to man. It is the end of the institution and administration of Government to secure to every individual perfect freedom to enjoy in safety and tranquility the rights and blessings..."

"...BILL OF RIGHTS"

"Section 1. All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties

"...Sec. 4. The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security, but standing armies, in times of peace, are dangerous to liberty..."

THE REBEL CONSCRIPTION. [N.Y. Times, July 7, 1862]
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"Correspondence Between Jeff. Davis and Gov. Brown, of Georgia.

"Executive Department, Richmond, May 29, 1862...."

"...They further stipulate that "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." [Sec. 9, par. 13.] ...."

"...What, then, are militia? They can only be created by law. The arms-bearing inhabitants of a State are liable to become its militia...."

"...In other words, the term "militia" is a collective term, meaning a body of men organized, and cannot be applied to the separate individuals who compose the organization...."

NY: New gun cam technology
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"It's known as PistolCam. It was invented in New York by Legend Technologies and it aims to eliminate questions."

"'It's a great opportunity for some clear and specific answers. After the Sean Bell and Diallo shootings there was a question mark of what happened,' said Senator Eric Adams."

"... It's designed to be mounted just under the barrel of any 9mm weapon. The camera records up to 60 minutes of movie quality audio and video and is activated as soon as the officer removes it from the holster ..."

"'It's going to put our men and women in law enforcement in a better situation, in a better position. ...' said Legend Technologies spokesman, William DeProspo." ...

NY: New York proposes mini-cams for police handguns (another view)
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"In a flash, a police officer draws a handgun from its holster. Less than two seconds later, a red laser and bright light shine at whatever is in the gun barrel's path while a mini-camera records it all."

"That's how mini-cams on police handguns would work under a proposal gaining support in New York ..."

"The device could create a critical visual and audio record of police shootings for use in court, said state Sen. Eric Adams, a Brooklyn Democrat and former police officer. ..."

"Adams said recordings from the $695 cameras couldn't be altered by a police officer and would quell many questions after controversial police shootings, like the deaths in New York City of Amadou Diallo in 1999 and Sean Bell in 2006." ...

TX: Man Leads Police On Chase After Officer-Involved Shooting
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"Dallas police said an officer shot a man who then led police on a chase into University Park on Sunday morning. Police said officers had responded to a disturbance call ... Officers were trying to talk to the man, who was apparently suicidal, when he made some sort of threatening gesture at one of the officers ..."

"The officer then shot at the man, police said. It was not known how many times the officer discharged his weapon ..."

"Police said the man got into his vehicle and fled ..."

"His vehicle stopped ... and Dallas police took the man into custody."

"He was taken to Parkland Hospital for treatment. It was not known how badly the man was injured."

"The police officers were not injured."
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Submitter's Note: "some sort of threatening gesture" Yeah, sure.

NY: Police in Gun Searches Face Disbelief in Court
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"After listening carefully to the two policemen, the judge had a problem: He did not believe them."

"The officers, who had stopped a man in the Bronx and found a .22-caliber pistol in his fanny pack, testified that they had several reasons to search him ..."

"But the judge ... concluded that the police had simply reached into the pack without cause, found the gun, then 'tailored' testimony to justify the illegal search. ..."

"Yet for all his disapproval of what the police had done, the judge said he hated to make negative rulings about officers' credibility. 'I dont like to jeopardize their career and all the rest of it,' he said."

"He need not have worried. The Police Department never learned of his criticism ..." ...

IA: Police look to expand pawnshop oversight onto touchy turf shops that buy used guns
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"Pawnshop owners have a point, police Lt. Kenneth Washburn says."

"Why, the shop owners have asked, should the Police Department require pawnshop owners to document for police inspection every used item the pawn shops purchase when other stores buy used items that might as easily have been stolen?"

"The sense of the argument, however, has sent the Police Department into swampy territory to the three non-pawnshop stores in Cedar Rapids that buy used guns."

"Washburn this week said the department is studying the possibility of requiring the three stores to submit lists of used guns they buy and of the people they buy them from, just as the department requires pawnshops to do with everything they buy." ...

CA: DA, Inglewood Police To Investigate Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting
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"Inglewood police killed one man and wounded another when they opened fire on a vehicle, saying they believed the occupants had shot at them -- although it turned out that the men were unarmed and their car was never struck with bullets."

"Two officers ... said they heard gunshots coming from the parking lot ..." ...

"... they saw a male running from the scene. The man got into a vehicle, which moved slowly through the parking lot ..."

"'They went to follow up on that, and unfortunately a vehicle was being driven at them,' Seabrooks said. 'They heard additional shots at that time.'"

"The officers said they felt something strike their patrol vehicle and reported hearing gunshots that they thought came from the car ..." ...

Canada: Cape Breton policeman hurts leg in gun accident
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FULL TEXT BELOW:

A Cape Breton police officer is expected to make a full recovery after his gun accidentally went off and a bullet struck him in the leg during a drug raid at a North Sydney-area home.

Police say the 41-year-old male officer, whose name has not been released, was injured when his service pistol "unintentionally" discharged during one of a series of drug raids that took place on Friday night.

The officer underwent surgery for the non-life threatening injury at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, where he remained yesterday.

Staff Sergeant Ron Donovan described the injured officer as an experienced member of the police force, who works out of central division. [emphasis added]

GA: Law protects armed homeowners
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"It's 3 a.m. and you hear a noise downstairs, but the dog's at the vet's clinic and you're supposed to be alone in your home."

"Your sidearm in hand, you make your way downstairs and see two furtive figures sacking up your family's valuables."

"When you yell, 'Halt!' one of the figures runs toward you and you fire. The figure falls to the floor -- dead of a single gunshot wound -- and the other flees."

"So what happens when the police arrive? Are you in trouble with the law, or is the law on your side?"

"In Georgia and more than 18 other states, you would be in no legal troubles, because those states have similar versions of a 'defense of habitation' law, sometimes known as the Castle Doctrine ..." ...

CA: Actor arrested for allegedly bringing gun to LAX
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"Actor Dennis Farina apologized for his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage."

"'I apologize to anyone and everyone that I have caused any embarrassment or inconvenience to,' the 64-year-old actor said in a statement. 'It is my own stupidity to find myself in this embarrassing situation.'"

"When the weapon was discovered ... police said Farina told them he had forgotten the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage."

"Farina was booked for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon, said Sgt. Dennis Beacham. When police discovered the weapon was not registered, the charge was upgraded to a felony and Farina's bail was increased from $25,000 to $35,000." ...

NY: Former gun store closes doors
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"AK-47s, M-16 military rifles and semiautomatic assault weapons are no longer sold in the big store at the intersection of Kensington and Bailey avenues."

"Karys Jewelry & Loan, a longtime Buffalo pawnshop whose owner has faced federal criminal charges since 2006, has shut its doors."

"For many people who live and work in the Kensington-Bailey area the scene of a number of violent gun crimes the recent closing came as good news."

"'I hate to see any business shut down, but if theres one thing we don't need in this neighborhood, it's more guns,' said Genique Meredith ... 'I have two young kids. I don't live far from here. I never thought it was a good idea to be selling guns at that location.'" ...

UK: Gang of girls 'blew up house with home-made bomb over row about boy'
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"A gang of teenage girls may have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb, which killed a man in a neighbouring property, after arguing with another girl about a love rival."

"Purple liquid was poured through the letterbox of the Victorian house before the an explosion destroyed three houses."

"Their intended victim, Charlotte Anderson, was caught in the blast and was rushed to intensive care suffering with severe burns."

"Ten hours earlier Miss Anderson had phoned police to say a gang of girls aged 16 and 17 was causing trouble outside her home, in Harrow. They were directing abuse, about a boy, at Miss Anderson's ground floor flat." ...

UK: Wounded police rise by 60%
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"The number of police officers wounded in shootings has increased by 60% in four years, according to figures released by the Conservatives."

"The statistics, which cover officers in England and Wales shot while on duty, show the number rose from 12 in 2002/03 to 19 in 2006/07."

"Shadow Home Office minister David Ruffley said the figures showed the Government was failing 'to tackle the scourge of gun crime'."

"He said: 'With the trade in illegal weapons soaring through porous borders, ministers are presiding over a service with falling number of armed officers. Now we see a rise in the number of police getting injured in the line of duty.'" ...
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H/t to David Codrea, who suggests they should ban guns.

Australia: CBD shooter Christopher Hudson emptied gun into victims
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"THE man who went on a murderous rampage in the CBD last year emptied his gun into his three victims, court documents have shown."

"Christopher Wayne Hudson, 31, today pleaded guilty to the murder of 43-year-old father of three Brendan Keilar and the attempted murder of Sydney model Kaera Douglas and Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard."

"He also pleaded guilty in the Magistrates' Court to unlawful imprisonment and intentionally causing serious injury."

"Hudson - a former Hells Angel biker - shot Brendan Keilar, 43, three times at point-blank range and critically injured two others in the triple shooting on June 18 last year." ...