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AL: Tuscaloosa man, 30, dies in shooting
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Witnesses said Campos and a suspect got into a verbal altercation that turned physical when Campos attempted to fight the suspect by kicking the home’s front door three times.
The suspect, who has not been named, shot the victim once when Campos kicked the door in the last time, Baker said.
With the possibility of self-defense, the case will be presented to a grand jury for review, he said. |
TX: Handgun proposal among bills hoping to beat Legislature's deadline
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Unable to get votes to bring his bill up because of Democratic opposition, he tried last week to add it as an amendment to another education-related bill, carried by Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo.
After senators approved the amendment to allow concealed carry on campus to Zaffirini's bill, she withdrew her bill and said she would rather let it die than pass it with the gun measure.
Wentworth is expected to continue looking for another bill on which to attach his proposal. |
AZ: Q&A: Brewer defends her decisions
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Q: You're a strong Second Amendment-rights supporter, yet you vetoed two gun-related bills this session, saying they were poorly written. One would have allowed guns on university or community-college campuses. Another would have required state and local governments to either allow guns in public facilities or secure those buildings with metal detectors and armed guards. Would you sign off on either of those if they came back to you tweaked and improved, in terms of the writing?
A: Well, you know, that's a hypothetical. I am willing to work with the Legislature on anything that they deem is important in moving the state forward in any direction. But to say that I am going to work on those particular bills, that's a stretch. |
IL: Gun rights are guaranteed
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I continue to be amazed with our governor.
He’s quoted in Wednesday’s paper saying, “Loaded concealed handguns in the possession of private citizens will lead to more danger and more bad things happening.”
How long is it going to take for him and Cook County to realize that guns in the hands of private citizens who are guaranteed that right by the Second Amendment are not the problem? Guns in the hands of criminals, felons and the like are the problem. |
Attorney General Holder blasted for "creating public safety hazard"
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At a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa confronted Attorney General Eric Holder on the DOJ’s Operation Fast and Furious, a highly controversial operation where federal authorities facilitated the purchase of assault weapons for drug cartels and chose not to interdict them before being transported to Mexico.
While Attorney General Holder was unwilling to provide answer about who at the Department of Justice authorized, knew about, and even whether he still defended Operation Fast and Furious, three new documents provide information that Attorney General Holder did not address in response to questions posed by Rep. Issa. |
AZ: Fear of campus guns hardly irrational
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I was appalled to read Sen. Ron Gould's comments, in which he said that Gov. Brewer "sided with education bureaucrats and their irrational fear of guns."
I am not an "education bureaucrat," but I admit to having a fear of guns, since they are deadly weapons that can kill or seriously injure me. After all the horrific shooting incidents on campuses, military bases, and other public places in which many people were killed or injured by guns, is fearing them really "irrational?"
Ed.: Yes, it is. By definition, fear is an emotional response. Being rational means using reason, not emotion! It isn't possible to have a rational fear. You can use logic to decide which irrational fears should be ignored or mitigated, but it is still an irrational fear. |
Boarding? Denied. Lock and Loading? Sure.
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Here is a chilling and potentially lethal fact of life: A person on the F.B.I.’s terrorist watch list is barred from boarding an airplane yet is quite free to buy high-power firearms and ammunition at any American gun shop.
This bizarre “terror gap” is starkly underlined by the latest federal data showing that 272 individuals on the terrorist watch list attempted to buy firearms last year, and all but 25 were cleared to make purchases. Those rejected had records for criminal felonies, spousal violence and other threats stipulated in federal gun controls that still don’t use the terrorist watch list as a red-flag caution.
Ed.: Maybe the NYT would like to let the AG shut their paper down without due process. Yeah, didn't think so. |
Note to ATF: When you give guns to Mexican Cartels, they use them
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When you give guns to the Mexican cartels, they use them to kill people. That is the finding of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which involved allowing thousands of guns collected through suspicious purchases to walk across the Mexican border. The guns were later used against U.S. Border Patrol agents. You can read more about the scandal from CBS News here.
Ever since Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in December, the "gunwalker" scandal has been slowly growing. Two guns recovered on the scene of the murder had been deliberately allowed by BATF to walk across the border. |
FL: New Law Stops Pediatricians from Asking About Guns
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The bill has been passed by the Florida legislature, and is expected to be signed into law by Governor Rick Scott this week. Pediatrician Louis St. Petery (what is he, French?!) claims that doctors ask about guns — as well as bike helmets, seat belts, and pools — as part of what they call "anticipatory guidance." (Where's the NRA of pools on this one?) But why would doctors want to "guide" their patients, except to invade their privacy and make moral judgments? Next thing you know, doctors will be asking about your sleep habits, and what you're eating — but in Florida, they'll never ask about your guns. |
DC: Washington D.C. residents unable to purchase handguns after sole dealer seeks new office
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It's been three years since the US Supreme Court struck down the nation's toughest gun control law in Washington, D.C. But a de facto ban has taken effect ever since the city's only firearms dealer stopped registering guns, FOXNews.com reported Saturday.
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"Unfortunately, despite the Supreme Court ruling, the D.C. council has done everything in its power to restrict lawful gun owners from exercising their Second Amendment rights," Sen. Chuck Grassley said in an email to FOXNews.com. "How they go about doing that is up to them, but it's wrong that the residents of the district can't legally buy a gun and then bring it home." |
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