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Mayor: Officers in taped beating will be fired
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"Four Philadelphia police officers will be fired, two others will be disciplined and a supervising sergeant will be demoted because of the violent beating of three suspects caught after a shooting, the city's mayor and police commissioner said Monday."
"Lemoia Dyches, the mother of one of the suspects, told CNN that she was unable to see her son after his arrest. "They wouldn't even permit his attorney to see him," she said. "It strikes me as strange."" |
Loophole
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"We all remember the oaths we took, and they didn't have an expiration clause. There is no debating that the Constitution is under assault from enemies both foreign and domestic. Our elected public servants should quake in fear each time they hear the phone ring, the fax hum, the click of a mouse button, or better yet the sound of their office door opening. And if we don't provide the reason for them to be afraid we will be derelict in our duties as free citizens. I have always gotten better results when the other person I am dealing with has to worry about me pulling them across the desk to emphasize the depth of my convictions." -- Comment on KeepandBearArms.com by "OK fellow vets." (5/16/2008)
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CA: Ex-LA cop sentenced to 102 years in prison
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A former Los Angeles police officer who participated in home invasion robberies staged to look like police raids was sentenced Monday to 102 years in prison.
William Ferguson, 35, was convicted of participating in more than 40 phony raids from early 1999 to June 2001 at homes in working-class neighborhoods while he worked at the department's scandal-ridden Rampart Division.
In January, a federal jury convicted him of conspiracy to deprive people of their civil rights, conspiracy to possess marijuana and cocaine, violating the civil rights of others and using a firearm during a violent crime. |
OH: Concealed carry permit holders renewing licenses
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Northeast Ohio's licensed concealed carry handgun permit holders are beginning to line up to take care of their required renewals. First instituted in 2004, the concealed carry permit process must be renewed between 90 days prior to the holder's expiration date to 30 days after. If the permit is not renewed within this time slot, a document holder must retake the required several-hour course. The renewal process began only several weeks ago with both Lake and Geauga County sheriff departments saying business has been brisk. |
Gun Control or People Control
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TheStateOf . . . Gun Control. Do you believe that each American citizen has the right to possess guns? High-powered guns? Uzis?
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My personal favorite:
Denmark Vesey, on May 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am Said:
The question isn’t should people be “allowed” to own or buy guns.
The question is WHO should do the “allowing”? |
U.S. Supreme Court to Determine Meaning of Second Amendment
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After nearly 70 years of silence regarding the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court is presiding over the District of Columbia vs. Heller and is expected to render a decision in June.
At issue, as attorney and Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook explains in his new book The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (June 6, 2008 / Ivan R. Dee / $28.95), is whether the Second Amendment protects a citizen's right to privately keep arms. |
"...few freemen died by the rope when they had arms in their hands..."
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"...Mr. Foote considered it an insult to place Mississipi on such a disgraceful position, as calling on her sons to make war on the General Government. When such a time did arise, he would deliberate and decide the question. When his State was assaulted--when she called to arms--when his fireside was invaded, he would have no difficulty in deciding where his allegiance was due. He would not in such a case pause to chop logic upon where his allegiance called him; his heart told him where that allegiance was due. . . . They might be called traitors, and the General Government might prepare the rope wherewith to hang them; but at this day it ought to be known that but a few freemen died by the rope when they had arms in their hands..." |
Painting the nation's arms neon
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Most of us can be fairly certain that Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City doesn't know us from Adam....
However, in an elaborately put together press junket in NYC, thousands of miles from Lauer at his business in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Bloomberg not only called him out by name, but also insulted his business, telling the crowd of news reporters and politicians he believes there to be malice behind the firearm finishing market, which includes the innovative product Lauer makes, DuraCoat. Further, Bloomberg predicted tragedy would result if firearms were not prohibited in certain bright colors. |
The NRA On Sen. John McCain, Then And Now
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Sen. John McCain is scheduled to speak before the NRA convention in Louisville this Friday, May 16, 2008, and I suspect he might have to perform a high-wire act to impress most of the folks in attendance.
The NRA has pilloried and even ridiculed Sen. McCain over the years in its magazine articles and graphic caricatures of him.
For example, there's an article from the NRA magazine America's First Freedom from July 2001, called, "What's Happened To John McCain?" In it the NRA says:
The gun control debate in Washington has hit center stage because Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has now become one of the premier flag carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment. |
PA: A Clever End Run on Gun Regulation
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Pennsylvania law gives the attorney general the power to adopt consumer-protection regulations that have the "force and effect of law." Pennsylvania law provides that the "Attorney General may adopt, after public hearing, such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement and administration of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL). Such rules and regulations when promulgated shall have the force and effect of law."
The courts have held that the attorney general has broad power to adopt consumer regulations to protect the public from both unfair and deceptive business practices. |
NY: Ball at firearms demonstration
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State Assemblyman Greg Ball apparently made his feelings known today on a piece of legislation that would require every semi-automatic weapon manufactured in the state capable of stamping a unique code onto the cartridge case of fired ammuntion. The information, proponents say, can help police link the ammunition to the gun it was fired from without having the gun. |
IL: Public input to be sought on conceal carry
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Winnebago County Board member Randy Olson said a groundswell of public support is needed to nudge the Legislature to fall in line with the other 48 states and adopt some form of conceal carry legislation.
If the Winnebago County Board adopts its own conceal carry gun law, Olson said, “It would be our goal that every other county in the state follow suit.” |
PA: Group of Gun Owners Protest Treatment
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A group of gun owners aimed for justice Tuesday in Lackawanna County. They want two Dickson City police officers disciplined for the way they handled a situation involving guns.
A group stood outside the Dickson City Municipal Building, guns visibly on their hips, talking to people before the council meeting began.
Inside, there was more discussion about the second amendment and whether two part-time Dickson City police officers should be reprimanded for their actions last week at Old Country Buffet, a restaurant in the borough. |
LA: Safe or Sorry?
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The all-encompassing nature of the bill poses a major concern for Loyola University — a private, Catholic institution — amid strong opinions for and against integrating guns into campus life. The Rev. Kevin J. Wildes, Loyola president, opposes the Wooton bill....
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Students for Concealed Carry on Campus — a national organization promoting gun carriers' rights on college campuses — has more than 30,000 members nationwide, and some Loyola students hope to be included in that number. A local SCCC chapter is in its formative stages at Loyola, and the group hopes to be chartered as an official campus organization in the fall. |
American gun lovers feeling under fire
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But there was a sense of siege hanging over the annual National Rifle Association convention here this weekend.
It didn't all stem from booth after booth advertising firearms as the best method of dealing with that middle-of-the-night home invader.
There is a sense that no matter how the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign shakes out, freedom is again under threat – the freedom to pack heat and defend home and loved ones with lethal force. |
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