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This is a news alert from the NRA to call our U.S. Senators IMMEDIATELY in order to get this Pro-Gun nominee on the bench. |
NC: Meetings address gun violence
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"Residents concerned about Durham's rising homicide rate are invited to attend a series of brown-bag lunches Mondays, beginning today, at the Lyon Park Community and Family Life Center."
"The 'How to Stop the Shootings in Durham' lunches follow a study released Friday that revealed three years of research by Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Injury Prevention Center, and Marcia Owen, coordinator of the Religious Coalition for a Non-Violent Durham." |
NV: Federal judge in Las Vegas bans anti-tax book
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"A tax protester may not sell his book that contends paying income tax is voluntary, a federal judge ruled Monday."
"U.S. District Judge Lloyd D. George wrote in an order banning the book that Irwin Schiff is not protected by the First Amendment because he has encouraged people not to pay taxes."
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Unbelievable! According to this insanity, the perverts at NAMBLA are protected, but you can't question the legitimacy of the Income Tax or the IRS. |
High court rules against forced drugging
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"In a 6-3 decision, justices reversed a lower court ruling that ordered Dr. Charles Sell to be medicated against his will, though two lower federal courts had agreed he posed no threat to himself or to others."
" 'Never did we think our own country would imprison a peaceful defendant for more than five years without a trial,' said AAPS general counsel Andrew Schlafly."
"We used to complain when the communists engaged in such tactics... This should not occur in America." |
Gun Control Is Socialist
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"When we study socialist countries -- be they Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or too many others -- we find a concept in the law called 'crimes against the state.' These are also sometimes called crimes against the people. In earlier days, they might have been called crimes against the king's peace. Biblically and constitutionally, crimes are against individuals and should result in capital punishment, restitution or acquittal. Non-criminal damages should lead to restitution." ... |
Violation of national security
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"Apparently, under Washington’s post-Iraq mandate, all Americans now include Latin Americans too. Since the terror attacks on New York and Washington 21 months ago, the US government, in its zeal to globalize snooping on its own people, has bought access to the personal records of more than 300 million Latin Americans, including the citizens of the region’s two most populous nations, Mexico and Brazil, as well as Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica." |
TX: Suspect is killed in home invasion
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"A Sanger man was fatally shot Monday morning and another man was stabbed during a home invasion that was thwarted by the homeowner, police said." ...
"Police said they believe the three suspects planned to rob the homeowner, but authorities released few details about the motive."
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TX: For Tulia 12, 'It Feels So Good'
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"The three were among 12 people -- 11 of them African Americans -- who walked free on bail today in this tiny Texas Panhandle town, after four years in prison on drug convictions that a Texas judge and prosecutors now agree were a travesty of justice based on the uncorroborated testimony of a racist white police officer. Two weeks ago, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill allowing them to be released pending an appeals court's review, cutting short sentences ranging from 20 to 90 years." |
FL: Business Owner Chases, Runs Over Robbery Suspects In Hummer
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"Police say three armed suspects walked into the Mr. Insurance building in Phoenix and demanded money. A fourth suspect was in the getaway car, according to the report."
"Investigators said after the suspects left with the store's money, the co-owner jumped into his Hummer and chased after the suspects."
"Police said that the man, identified only as Peter, followed the suspects through a neighborhood and eventually caught up with them. He then rolled his Hummer over their car." |
OH: Senate Committee passes Amended HB12 in surprise move
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"In a surprise move, the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice today passed an amended House Bill 12 today on a 6-0 vote (Senators Stivers, Schuring and Goodman were not present at the time of the vote)." ...
"The amended bill is, in almost all respects, identical to the one passed by the Senate last December, and for which the Ohio House refused to reconvene for a vote of concurrence. The only significant difference is that license-holders would be allowed to 'open' carry their firearms in their personal vehicles, IF no occupants are under 18. If they are under 18, the firearm must be in a locked container." |
Magic Plane Seat Detects Terrorists and Stops Blood Clots
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"Intelligent seats could soon be informing airline crews whether a passenger is a nervous flyer, a potential terrorist or has been sitting still too long and could be at risk of developing blood clots."
"Qinetiq, which was set up last year in a part privatization of Britain's former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, is developing airline seats with sensors that can relay signals assessing a passenger's behavior to a central computer."
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"Well, we had to turn the plane around because passenger 13B's chair said he was sweating too much. In a universe where guns kill people, upholstery can have a unique window into the depths of the human psyche. Why not? |
MN: Gun rights advocates promise challenge to proposed Ramsey ordinance
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"Gun rights advocates today told Ramsey County commissioners to expect a legal challenge to their proposal banning guns from county parks, offices and other facilities." ...
"It will make Ramsey County the sole political subdivision in the state to formally criminalize the possession of legal firearms."
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Domestic Disputes - Bad Social Science Makes Bad Legal Policy
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"What the University of Pennsylvania study found was a statistical correlation: Gun ownership is correlated with gun deaths. But that two things are correlated doesn't prove that one causes the other. The sex-crime rate is correlated over time with the use of air conditioning, but not because air conditioning causes sex crime; rather, both rise during the summer months. Likewise, whether someone in your home has been to the hospital recently is correlated with death in your home, but not because hospital care tends to kill people (though sometimes it does). Rather, both hospital stays and deaths often have a common cause: serious illness." |
Australia: Gun buyback 'still months away'
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"Lives were being put at risk because the South Australian Government was acting too slowly on a handgun buyback, the state Opposition said today."
"SA Liberal police spokesman Robert Brokenshire said Premier Mike Rann had agreed in December that the buyback scheme, part of a national program, would be in place by July."
"The Government allocated $3.6 million in last month's state budget to the scheme." |
CA: Police Destroy Weapons
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" 'This is one of the most satisfying experiences of the job,' says Durand. 'Because I know for a fact these guns won't be used again in any illegal activity.' "
"Once the stash of illegal or unclaimed weapons builds up, Durand is in charge of destroying them. He says he's just now getting rid of guns from cases in the year 2000. Many people think the weapons confiscated by police are then used by police, but that isn't the case. Very few of these weapons meet their strict standards." |
OH: Ohio Could Get Concealed Weapons Law
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"The Senate has put off a vote on a bill allowing Ohioans to receive permits to carry concealed weapons. Governor Taft said he would sign the bill in its current form, reversing five years of opposition to the idea."
"Senate President Doug White says the National Rifle Association wants another day to study the bill. An NRA lobbyist says he has no comment on the Senate changes." |
NC: Gun seizure possible for N.C. spouses threatening violence
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"Defendants in emergency domestic violence orders would have to turn in their guns if they are considered a violent threat in a bill that the House Finance Committee approved Tuesday."
"The measure, which already passed the Senate, would require a person to surrender firearms to the local sheriff if a judge sets an order for the defendant to stay away from a spouse or lover." |
CO: CU not covered by new concealed gun law
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"The University of Colorado can continue to enforce a 10-year-old ban on most firearms despite a new state law allowing concealed guns, Attorney General Ken Salazar said Tuesday." ...
"The permits are not valid on public school property, but concealed handguns can be carried into public buildings unless security personnel and electronic screening devices are permanently installed." |
Holt, Karcher call for assault weapons ban to stay in effect
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"Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) brought a message to town last week. He wants to convince the Garden State’s congressional delegation to keep alive the federal ban on assault weapons."
"Township Council President Ellen Karcher supported Holt’s proposal to sign a joint letter to House of Representatives Majority Leader Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Texas) asking him not to let the federal assault weapons ban die." |
FL: Gun Company Wants Teacher's Widow To Pay Legal Costs
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"A South Florida gun distributor wants the widow of a slain middle school teacher to pay its defense costs from last year's five-week trial."
"The Valor Corp. says it is entitled to recover legal costs, including attorney's fees, because Pam Grunow, wife of slain teacher Barry Grunow, lost her lawsuit. She had accused the Broward County company of being responsible for her husband's death." |
UK: Fleeing rapper 'threw a gun into pile of rubbish'
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"A member of the rap music collective So Solid Crew threw a loaded pistol into a pile of rubbish as he was fleeing from the police, Southwark crown court was told yesterday."
"Jason Joab Phillips allegedly ran from plainclothes officers after being stopped at the scene of a suspected drug deal in the West End of London." |
UK: Stun gun first for police
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"A controversial stun gun which can temporarily paralyse suspects has been used for the first time in north Wales."
"Officers used the M26 Taser gun on a dog after receiving calls from concerned residents living in Tanyfron near Wrexham on Saturday." |
Anyone Believe That the Media Isn't Biased Liberal?
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"That's the trick. Mr. Alterman's project isn't really to disprove that the media are liberal, but rather to move the already liberal media further to the left. He admits that 'elite media reporting favors gun control, campaign finance reform, gay rights, and the environmental movement.' He simply isn't bothered by that, 'as some conservative critics are.' "
"Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation--a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy, and the Republican Party are criminal, racist, or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative." |
Most Gun Sellers Would Sell Firearms Illegally, UCLA Study Says
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"More than half of U.S. gun sellers would sell firearms illegally to buyers who said they wanted to obtain a gun for someone else, a UCLA study found."
"Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles called six handgun dealers from each of the largest U.S. cities. The researchers posed as gun buyers and gave different scenarios for purchasing a gun, including that the buy was intended as a gift for a boyfriend or girlfriend." |
DC: Officer Accused Of Pointing Gun At Other Officer
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"The D.C. police department is investigating allegations that one of its officers pointed a gun at another member." ...
"Apparently, one officer walked into the station carrying marijuana plants he had seized earlier in the day. The desk sergeant on duty told the officer to leave immediately. However, he refused and asked the desk sergeant for an evidence bag. She apparently became irate and pointed her weapon at him." |
MN: Gun-ban postings divide firms
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"Local businesses find themselves caught in the middle of the debate over how to enforce Minnesota's new 'conceal and carry' gun law."
"Do they post a 'no guns allowed' sign, and offend some customers — or choose not to post a sign and offend others?" |
IN: Restricting gun sales sticky, council finds
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"The Winfield Town Council is finding things a bit sticky as it tries to get its hands around an ordinance regulating gun sales."
"The problem is this: The developer of an upscale subdivision is selling guns out of the clubhouse and doing so in compliance with the law." |
CA: Gun taxes to be used against violence
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"The council has established a reserve and separate expense account for anti-violence programs. In addition, the council earmarked $74,000 for anti-violence projects for the next fiscal year. The money had been collected and placed in the city's general fund."
... "Measure H taxes gun dealers in town 3 percent on their gross receipts from concealable handgun and ammunition sales, said Cynthia Battenberg, assistant to the city manager. San Leandro has collected nearly $220,000 from this tax." |
Canada: Gormley shop gave Gardner gun
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"The Gormley gun shop raided in April -- where hundreds of handguns were seized and the owners charged -- is the same shop that gave Toronto police board chair Norm Gardner the gun that has landed him in hot water with his provincial bosses."
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NRA Impotence
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"The NRA is a special interest, and so is the Second Amendment-hating Violence Policy Center. An example of a 'special player' is America’s mainstream establishment media, heavily influenced if not totally controlled by the New York Times and Hollywood. The latter two can also be viewed as 'special players' in their own right. Special players serve as enablers, or disablers." |
New Zealand: Most wanted man arrested by armed police
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"Armed police have arrested the fugitive they described yesterday as one of the most dangerous and wanted men in the country."
"Gustavis William Job was arrested in an early morning police raid near Kaukapakapa, 60km northwest of Auckland."
"No shots were fired and Job was arrested without incident after he was found sleeping in a building." |
U.S. Can Withhold Names of 9/11 Detainees
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"The Justice Department properly withheld the names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The powerful decision was deferential to the Bush administration's arguments over continued threats to America from terrorists." |
Bush Bans Racial Profiling, With Exceptions for Security
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"President Bush today ordered a ban on racial profiling that aides called the most far-reaching in the history of federal law enforcement, but the policy carves out clear exemptions for investigations involving terrorism and other national security matters."
"The new policy, governing the conduct of 70 federal law enforcement agencies, forbids agents from using race or ethnicity as factors in routine investigations." ... |
The State of Hunting
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"The good news is that we have plenty of game animals. The bad news: We're running out of places to hunt them."
"Field & Stream has conducted this special report to find out what we need to do to ensure the future of hunting. With the articles in this section we cover every aspect of the sport: Game, guns, ethics, conservation, and why we're out there in the first place. We even talk to Ted Nugent about involving the next generation." |
The Free State Project: The Real Deal
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"Unlike many libertarian activist movements, the FSP seems not to be driven by ego. Jason Sorens is a quiet, thoughtful looking individual, whose PhD graduation ceremony was held the weekend of the Missoula Great Western Conference. ...Other officers similarly never brought attention to themselves nor tried to dominate any aspect of the conference. This, along with other choices (not asking for money being chief among them), has given the porcupines a lot of credibility..." |
NY: A Father is Going to Jail
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"It may not seem like a long time, after all, it will be for 'just' three days."
"Be that as it may, Ronald Dixon is being taken away from his children, his home and his employment to be locked up because he acted reasonably, saving his children from a hardened criminal who had broken into his home." ...
"Crime is high in Brooklyn, New York where Ronald Dixon lives. Gangs use illegal weapons to murder, rob and terrorize neighborhoods. They are bad people who should be put in jail, and no one, not anyone reasonable anyway, would compare their actions with the actions of a father trying to protect his children from them. Moral equivalency under these circumstances is not just ridiculous, it is absurd. Yet, that is what the DA in New York is saying. The people who defend against the animals who prey on human victims are no better than those criminals and need to spend time in jail." |
LA: Drug trade turning to guns, sheriff says
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"In recent weeks several gun-related crimes involving people suspected of narcotics activity have occurred, Stephens said. In one, a Violet man was arrested on charges of shooting at another man, who was not injured. In a separate incident, a Violet man was booked with pointing a gun at a man. Also, a Chalmette man was booked with pointing a gun at another man during an argument." |
UK: Police to crack down on ball-bearing guns
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"Derbyshire police today launched a major campaign to try to cut down on the number of incidents involving young people and ball-bearing guns."
"Letters outlining police concerns about BB guns will be sent to the parents of all secondary school pupils in the county. Throughout the summer radio advertisements will be broadcast and posters highlighting the problem will be displayed. The action ties in with the Post's Give Pellets the Bullet campaign, which calls for greater control over the use of air weapons." |
Who Let 'Enrique Sosa Alvarez' Loose?
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"Without solid verification of 'Alvarez's' identity, it's impossible to know whether he had a history of child abduction or child molestation in his native country. We also don't know whether immigration officials are responsible for letting 'Cruz/Alvarez' loose in violation of federal law after his auto theft conviction. Criminal aliens are supposed to be taken immediately into federal immigration custody after serving their sentences. But as the Justice Department's inspector general reported, the Immigration and Naturalization Service's failure to track foreign-born inmates led to the release of 35,318 criminal aliens into the general population in 2000 -- roughly one-third of whom went on to commit serious crimes." |
WA: Mother charged after son brings gun to school
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"The mother of a 12-year-old boy who brought a loaded handgun to school has been charged with reckless endangerment."
"If convicted, Amy Levitt could face a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine." ...
"The gun belongs to Amy Levitt, who said she had noticed it was missing and questioned her son about it three times. Each time he denied knowledge of the gun’s whereabouts." |
Canada: Hey Norm, I can't keep all my guns straight, either
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"You ask me, they ought to give Norm Gardner the benefit of the doubt. Okay, so Norm accepted a gun from a guy he did a favour for while chair of the Toronto Police Services Board. So maybe it was a gift, maybe it wasn't, and maybe Norm took a few months to get around to paying for the weapon, and only after the whole thing came to light in some OPP wiretap."
"Big deal. Everyone knows how hard it is to keep track of things." |
Ghana: Guns don’t settle disputes
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"Reverend Father Anthony Kornu, Appellant Chancellor of the Ho Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, has reminded manufacturers and owners of destructive weapons that the use of guns rather perpetrates and worsens already precarious situations than bringing any meaningful solutions."
"He has therefore called on society to debunk the old adage that he who wants peace must first prepare for war." |
CA: South County school district looks at guns
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"A summer hunter-safety course held at Tenaya Elementary School has caused Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District board members to rethink their gun policy."
"The district doesn't run the hunter-safety course, but only provides space for the yearly class." ...
"The course hasn't caused any problems or concern in the past, and Triolo said he attributes the sudden attention to the difficulty Sonora Union High School District's board has been having with its own guns-on-campus policy." |
FL: 73-Year-Old Woman's Controversial Arrest Draws Panel's Attention
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"A citizens' panel will now look into the arrest of an elderly Lauderhill woman that was caught on camera."
"A bystander snapped pictures of a traffic stop two weeks ago that turned into a struggle. Lauderhill police pulled over Ursula Gachette, 73, and she somehow ended up on the ground. She says officers threw her there, while police claim she threw herself down."
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America - land of the brain dead
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"It would be best for freedom and the American people if legislators would just stay home, twiddle their thumbs or whatever, and leave us the hell alone. Who are they to tell us what we may do? They job isn't to make laws governing the people - their job is to make laws assuring that no government entity or government-created entity infringes upon our rights." |
Researchers Create Wireless Sensor Chip The Size Of Glitter
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"The new 'smart dust' chip integrates sensors and transmitters onto a platform that measures a mere 5 square millimeters, or slightly bigger than a fleck of glitter."
"The chip will be the brains behind the new generation mote, dubbed 'Spec' by its creators. It's a significant milestone in the Smart Dust and TinyOS projects, which are part of UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The projects seek to create low-powered, low-cost wireless sensor devices, or motes, roughly the size of a grain of sand."
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NY: Empire State Gun Games
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"The official reason why shooting sports and other events were cut this year is financial--they all draw few spectators and a relatively small number of competitors." ...
"Shooters and other shooting enthusiasts are skeptical, however. The games more than pay for themselves--even with low-performing events." ...
"The games are run by predominately urban and suburban administrators who've been talking about eliminating the shooting sports for years. And for decades antigunners have forced shooting ranges to comply with expensive environmental regulations to remove lead bullets from the backstops behind their targets as well as to install costly ventilation systems in indoor ranges. Many of the high schools that still had shooting teams were forced to disband them and close their ranges to save money. That, combined with strict gun-control regulations that bar anyone under 21 from possessing a pistol, has devastated the youth competitions." |
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