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Guns to Blame for Murder-Suicides in Switzerland?
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"Moral relativism and the entangling web of the mundane trappings of our entitlement society have allowed these heinous acts of senseless violence to creep into our culture only to be explained away by a society that believes everyone is a victim and therefore not responsible for acts committed. No matter how it is rationalized, people kill people, guns don’t kill people." |
In D.C., Mayor Hits Roadblock On Gun Efforts
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"Anti-gun legislation proposed by Mayor Bloomberg and Senator Schumer that would make it easier for local law enforcement to gain information on the origin of illegal guns, immediately ran into opposition from legislators yesterday."
"There were few signs that Mr. Schumer will be able to repeal the so-called Tiahrt Amendment, a Republican measure which he claims prevents local police departments from obtaining Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms data on the origins of illegal guns and which has passed the House and Senate each year since 2003." |
N.Y. gun suit all about headlines
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"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's lawsuit against 15 alleged 'rogue' firearms dealers in five states is political grandstanding run amok."
"The press and prosecutors in those five states ought to be asking Bloomberg why, if his investigators had positively identified these retailers and caught them in an illegal act, was the information not turned over to the proper authorities, including the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives?"
"Instead, the headline-hunting Bloomberg launched a civil lawsuit in what should be, if he is to be believed, a criminal action." |
Mayor lobbies for gun trace bill
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"Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing Sen. Charles Schumer's bill giving local police access to federal gun tracing databases - and is blasting opponents of the plan as 'soft on crime.'"
"Bloomberg, who is suing 15 out-of-state gun shops for illegally selling firearms, wants to give cities the ability to file lawsuits against gun makers."
"The gun trace database, maintained by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, is critical because it can be used to link manufacturers and dealers to specific crimes. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says it's also needed for prosecutions." |
Guns & Ammo: This magazine is serious. Dead serious.
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"Guns & Ammo is a user-friendly guide, written in a breezy, matter-of-fact way. It carries gun news, first-person accounts of firearms, and reviews of particular rifles and accessories chockful of practical information for the gun enthusiast or hunter." ...
"Speaking of owning guns, I know there is fierce debate about the Second Amendment, but the layout on "How to Get Top Accuracy From Your Revolver" sealed the deal for me. The author points a gun at the reader, which sent me straight to my checkbook for a donation to the handgun control lobby. Isn't this what is meant by armed and dangerous?" |
CA: Lockyer backs drive to bust gun trafficking
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"Saying more than half of all firearms used in street crimes come from 1 percent of licensed gun dealers, Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined gun control advocates Tuesday in a campaign to crack down on gun trafficking."
"Officials at the event, staged on the steps of the Hayward Police Department as part of a 15-state gun control campaign, called for local legislation making it easier for the California Department of Justice to inspect retailers before granting a license to sell firearms and bills intended to make it tougher for criminals to get guns." |
WA: Violent crime is not caused by law-abiding gun owners
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"With Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels essentially shilling for the small but vocal Washington CeaseFire, Evergreen State anti-gunners have opened a new gun control campaign that typically offers nothing but wants a lot."
"Exploiting the Capitol Hill murders and other recent Seattle incidents, the gun control lobby has launched a massive assault on this state's gun owners, but with the same old goals that are irrelevant to current problems." |
FL: Woman Shoots Gator That Attacks Her Dog
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"A woman has shot an alligator that came into her home and attacked her dog."
"The alligator was only 3 feet long, but Candy Frey wasn't taking any chances. When the reptile came into the lanai of her home east of Bradenton Saturday and attacked her golden retriever, Frey went and got her gun."
"After Frey and her daughter managed to push the gator out of the lanai through the dog door, she blasted away at it four times." |
MI: Teen says he was shot in back fleeing home he planned to rob
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"A teenager said he was unarmed and running from a house he had intended to burglarize when a man protecting the home shot him in the back."
"While neighbors called the gunman a hero, Fernando Olivas, 18, of Wyoming, sees it differently." ...
"Kent County sheriff's deputies said they plan to ask Prosecutor William Forsyth to determine whether the shooting was justified. They confirmed the two burglary suspects were not armed, but said they were looking for marijuana and guns that they believed were in the home, according to court records." |
MA: Gun Violence Survivors, Activists Stand with Mayor Menino, Join in Coast-to-Coast Kick Off of Illegal Guns Campaign
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"The Massachusetts Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence joined a national coalition of gun safety groups and mayors of several American cities today to call for an end to the business of illegal gun trafficking, in our state and around the nation."
"The lethal business of gun trafficking moves guns from legal manufacturers to licensed dealers, and then, too often, to sales to prohibited buyers, converting them to illegal guns. These illegally sold guns hit the streets at an alarming rate, accounting for five out six guns recovered in crimes. It is estimated that 60 percent of Massachusetts crime guns are trafficked in from surrounding states with weaker gun laws." |
PA: Expulsion for water gun concerns local NAACP
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"The Penn Hills branch of the NAACP is concerned about the punishment for a fifth-grader who brought a large plastic water gun to school."
"Joyce Davis, Penn Hills NAACP president, said her understanding is the student has been expelled for the rest of the 2006 calendar year."
"I really believe there are alternative ways to deal with the situation... It is hard to believe the plastic gun would harm anyone. I don't know what the district is teaching him by separating him from his peers and educational process." |
NJ: Cop's gun misfires, hits condo
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"When a bullet exploded through her living room's bay window less than 10 feet from her, the initial response of a startled Elise Nakhnihian was to find the projectile."
"Her husband, Steven Gittelson, had another idea: Stay out of sight and call the cops." ...
"The couple couldn't have imagined that it was a Princeton Borough police officer's bullet that rocketed into their stately Governors Lane condominium in the early afternoon of April 12."
"The shooting was the result of an allegedly malfunctioning rifle that discharged the bullet at the police firearms training range on River Road in the township without the officer who was holding the weapon even pulling the trigger, borough and township police said yesterday." |
CT: Retired cop runs gun shop
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"Ed Breitling is no stranger to guns."
"As a kid, Breitling was a member of the Brookfield Junior Rifle Club, and at the age 18, he received his pistol permit and joined the Brookfield Gun Club."
"Eventually, he became an officer with the Brookfield Police Department and then worked in the security field for medical facilities." ...
"Now, Breitling is celebrating his third year as owner and operator of Breitling Firearms, where he offers gun sales, repairs, shooting instruction and a host of other services." |
UK: Gun terror at top school
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"A MOTHER was threatened by masked raiders – believed to be armed – at Leeds Grammar School."
"The woman was with her young daughter when her Bentley sports car was attacked at 3.25pm yesterday in the school car park."
"The two men struck as the mother arrived to collect her son from the school's junior section. Scores of other parents and children were in the car park at the time." |
NY: Bloomberg goes ballistic
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"For years, mayors have howled impotently about the flood of illegal guns coming into this city and other big cities across the nation."
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg is actually doing something about it." |
Stop picking on us, cry 'Worst of Worst' gun dealers
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"Gun store owners on Mayor Bloomberg's list of the 'worst of the worst' weapons dealers fired back yesterday - contending they are law-abiding small-towners who are not responsible for lawbreakers in the big city."
"Bloomberg sued 15 out-of-state shops Monday, charging they illegally sold guns in so-called straw purchases to private investigators hired by the city as part of a sting operation."
"The Daily News yesterday visited three of the 15 shops that Bloomberg said sold guns later involved in more than 500 crimes in New York." |
Two sides to every coin..... (Blog)
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"It is said, that when the people make a constitution, and delegate powers that all powers not delegated by them to those who govern is [sic] reserved in the people: and that the people, in the present case, have reserved in themselves, and in their state governments, every right and power not expressly given by the federal constitution...."
"In the first place, Mr. Wilson pretends to point out a leading discrimination between the State Constitutions, and the Constitution of the United States.--In the former, he says, every power which is not reserved is given, and in the latter, every power which is not given is reserved: And this may furnish an answer, he adds, to those who object, that a bill of rights has not been introduced...." |
Canada: Tories offer amnesty to long-gun owners
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"The Conservative government is waiving the fees for long-gun owners who renew their firearms licences and won’t prosecute those who fail to register weapons for the next year, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday in announcing that $10 million will be redirected from gun registration to fighting crime."
"In the meantime, Day said the government will reimburse long-gun owners who have renewed their licences and it will table legislation to repeal the registry of non-restricted firearms." |
VA: Students face gun charges at Huntington
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"Police arrested two eighth-graders and charged them with bringing a gun to Huntington Middle School on Tuesday."
"An assistant principal called police after seeing a 14-year-old girl reach into a trashcan to retrieve a semi-automatic handgun near the end of the school day."
"Newport News police arrested the girl and a 14-year-old boy who the girl says gave her the weapon. The gun was unloaded. It had been reported stolen from Hampton, but police do not know whether the teens were involved in the theft." |
IN: Teen found with gun at Hancock County school
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"A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities say he brought a handgun to New Palestine High School."
"Police say no one was threatened or harmed."
"Classmates say the boy pulled out a handgun during Spanish class and showed it off. Students went for help and the boy was removed from class. Police found the gun in a locker." |
UK: 365 days - and nearly 1,000 gun incidents
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"POLICE in Kirklees responded to nearly 1,000 firearm incidents in the past year, the Examiner can reveal."
"The figure, which equates to almost three incidents involving guns every single day, was revealed in a report by Chief Inspector Jon Carter yesterday."
"The exact number of incidents was 955." |
UK: 'We will kill you' gun raid terror
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"MASKED gunmen threatened to kill the father of a celebrity chef while carrying out a terrifying robbery."
"Andrew Nutter says his dad, Rodney and his assistant chef are lucky to be alive after they were attacked in the living quarters of the award-winning Nutter’s Restaurant in Norden."
"The balaclava-clad hoodlums held a shotgun to the heads of both men before grabbing thousands of pounds and their mobile phones." |
South Africa: Teen took gun for 'protection'
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"A policeman's teenaged son claims he took a loaded gun to school to protect himself from bullies."
"The 15-year-old grade 10 pupil from a high school in Barberton, Mpumalanga, was found with a loaded 9mm pistol in his school bag last Friday."
"Fellow pupils who saw the gun told teachers and police were called." |
PA: Striking Back Against Gun Violence
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"Law enforcement is in the midst of a concerted effort to combat growing gun violence. Police and community leaders today are focusing their efforts on a gun shop they say is responsible for putting many of the weapons on the street."
"The business in question is Lou's Pawn shop. Gun control activists say that in a single year, the shop that store sold 178 guns that were later used in crimes."
"Under Pennsylvania law, those sales were all legal. But the gun control advocates want that to change." |
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