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Gunning for Ben Hur
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More drivel about Michael Moore's factually debunked work of fiction: "Bowling for Columbine"
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"The scary thing about the film is not necessarily the guns themselves, nor is it the hands clenching the stocks — it’s the perceptions of the people behind all of it. You can take a gun away from someone, you can, as Chris Rock suggests in the film, charge people $5000.00 per bullet. You can do all that and more, but the one thing you can’t do is change the way people think."
"And whether it’s Michigan, USA or Krugersdorp or Sandton — you’ll find the same thing. You’ll find the same scared white guy, peering out from a locked door, probing the night for the dangers he knows are true — because his government has told him it’s so." ... |
IL: Law shot down
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"Ryan, a Republican, was interested in a practical way of curbing crimes committed with guns -- while respecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners."
"The idea he came up with was '10-15-Life.' Carry a gun while you commit a felony and get 10 years added on to your sentence. Pull the trigger and get 15 years added on. Fire and hit someone with the shot and earn life."
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The Bush Tax Cut Scam
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The newly-passed tax cut is actually a clever vehicle used by the Bush administration to use demagoguery in order to purchase votes from the voters and to bolster Bush's prospects for re-election to the presidency while he shrouds the true purpose of the so-called "tax cut": to pillage the American people of their earnings via the devaluation of their currency. |
Iraq: British troops agree to suspend arms searches
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Some interesting points for the "gun-grabbers" to ponder, from a generally anti-gun source.
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"The British military has ordered a suspension of weapons searches in the area of southern Iraq where six soldiers were killed, while a fundamental review takes place of the civilian population's right to carry arms."
"The Army has agreed to a two-month 'cooling-off' period in the town of Majar al-Kabir, near Amara, and this may be extended to other areas in an effort to defuse the rise in anti-British sentiment." ... |
OH: Liberals should stop opposing concealed handguns and start defending
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Eventually, it will be completely legal to carry a concealed handgun in the state of Ohio.
With the Republican governor and Republican-controlled Senate on one side of the debate, and the Republican-controlled House on the other, a concealed-carry bill of some sort seems inevitable. The only question remaining is just how restrictive the law will be.
So where do liberals fit into the debate? Perhaps they should start by giving up their opposition and learning to embrace the gun. |
Evidence From Black Boxes in Cars Turns Up in Courts
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An estimated 25 million automobiles in the United States now have so-called event data recorders a scaled-down version of the devices that monitor cockpit activity in airplanes.
GM and, more recently, Ford Motor Co. now allow outsiders to access the data by buying a $2,500 reader built by Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Vetronix Corp. The company says its primary customers are accident reconstructionists, law enforcement and insurance companies. |
"Smart" Gun Invented
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The O'Dwyer VLe - the world's first totally electronic handgun live firing prototype - is Metal Storm's "smart gun". With advanced access limiting features, the O'Dwyer VLe operates without any mechanical moving parts. The only thing that moves in the weapon is the bullets.
O'Dwyer VLe provides authorised operators with immediate and uninhibited firing access, while denying firing access to unauthorised operators. |
Rage. Mistrust. Hatred. Fear. Uncle Sam's enemies within
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... "Coulter says: 'The myth of McCarthyism is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie ... Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught ... McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. He was tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy.' " ... |
Has an America at War Lost Its Moral Way?
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... "...war started creeping into the USA from Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Before 9/11 the Supreme Court reaffirmed that legal immigrants were protected by the same rights (minus voting) as citizens. But soon after the Patriot Act and other acts limiting immigrant rights passed, that decision became moot."
"The wave of patriotism that followed 9/11 provided a political background that encouraged politicians to ignore the civil rights violations, especially those inflicted on people of Middle Eastern descent." ... |
VA: Man convicted of all seven counts in trooper shooting
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... "The officers were briefed by the FBI in 15 minutes while changing into their uniforms, Maguire said, and were told that the occupants would not be armed. Officials had no floor plan of the residence, and did not employ the public address system on their cars to announce their presence at the isolated mobile home." ... |
'Preserve freedom and liberty'
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"For Wayne LaPierre, becoming an activist in the gun-rights movement was an easy choice. That's because, he says, the road that eventually led him to lead what is arguably the most influential and largest pro-gun organization in the U.S. began years ago in southwestern Virginia, growing up around guns and the men who used and believed in them." ... |
IA: Local Lawmen Get High Powered Help
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... "A new semi automatic AR-15 rifle will now be riding in patrol cars. This rifle is similar in firepower to the M-16, which is the main assault rifle in our military. Police can now hit targets up to 500 yards away. They say the extra reach, firepower and accuracy will help them keep up with street weapons."
" 'Most farmers out there have rifles themselves so it does add something to us and gives us confidence to be able to handle a situation if it ever came up,' says Deputy Sheriff, Troy McClimon."
"Deputy Sheriff, Robert Gonzales says the new weapon gives them an even chance with criminals with high caliber weapons. 'It's just something for our added safety and something to help us deal with our job better,' he says." ...
KABA NOTE:
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Court Gives Green Light to Sniper Lawsuit Against Assault Rifle Manufacturer
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"A judge in Tacoma, Washington ruled Friday that a lawsuit brought by nine families of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks against the gun dealer and manufacturer that supplied the assault rifle used in the shootings should proceed toward trial. The court rebuffed arguments by Tacoma gun dealer Bull's Eye Shooter Supply and assault rifle manufacturer Bushmaster Firearms that they are immune from responsibility for supplying guns to criminals."
QUESTION:
Would this same judge allow automobile manufacturers to be sued for the criminal misuse of their legal products? If not, what shall we call this decision? |
CT: Mother, 19, arrested on weapons charges
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"A dawn raid by Norwalk's SWAT team on a Monterey Village apartment led to the arrest of a 19-year-old mother for endangering her infant and possession of two assault weapons." ...
"Apartment resident Tania Humphrey, 19, was charged with two counts of possession of an assault weapon for the shotgun and AK-47, one count of risk of injury to a minor and one count of negligent storage of a firearm."
"Humphrey was charged with the last two counts because her infant child was sleeping in the bedroom where the loaded pistol and assault rifle were found in a closet, Walsh stated in a press release." ... |
WA: Family of slain escapee calls for public inquest
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"The family of a convict who was killed by police after he escaped from a Pierce County courtroom by using a fake gun called Friday for a public inquest into his death."
"Authorities have said eight police officers...forced their way into a Monroe apartment, confronted McCord and shot him when he refused to surrender."
"Authorities have said McCord threatened officers with a gun in Monroe, but until Friday declined to say whether that gun had been found." ... |
Philippines: Police revoke gun licenses of alleged drug lord
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The gun licenses issued to businessman Jose “Kim” Cuadra, who is tagged as a drug lord by the police, and other members of his family have been revoked.
Senior Supt. Geary Barias, chief of the National Police Firearms and Explosives Office, said the revocation of firearm licenses issued to the Cuadra family members was made upon the recommendation of Western Visayas police director.
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MN: Gun owners flocking to get permits to carry in public
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"One month since the onset of Minnesota's liberalized handgun law, more than 4,000 people have applied for permits to carry firearms in public."
"[O]fficials can't reveal the identities of those applying for permits, but Dakota County Sheriff Don Gudmunson has sized them up."
" 'They're soft white guys,' he said. 'They look in the mirror and see they're out of shape and think they need a gun to protect themselves. But they're living in an area where they have nothing to fear.' " ...
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MT: 2 charged with accidentally shooting woman with machine gun
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"Two Polson-area boys are charged with felonies after they accidentally shot a woman with a machine gun Tuesday."
"[T]he boys, ages 13 and 16, were target practicing when a shot went astray and struck a woman in the leg. She was in a field with her husband on a tractor."
"Deputies Cory Anderson and Mike Carlson responded. They confiscated the .233-caliber Ruger mini-14. One of the boys' fathers has a permit to own the machine gun."
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Australia: Gun buy back boon
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"Owners of Glock pistols who bought their weapons during a discount price war are set to profit under the Government's buyback."
"But dealers say that while most private owners will receive fair compensation, gun shops and wholesalers will lose out."
"About 4000 handguns are banned from July 1."
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CO: New gun laws baffle businesses
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"Downtown business owners are frustrated and confused about Colorado's new gun laws."
"They don't want guns in their establishments, yet few are willing to post a sign banning them. And some are queasy about telling a customer with a gun to leave."
" 'If a person came in here legally carrying a gun and looked at you the wrong way, how would you know whether he intentionally wants to harm you or wants to rob us? I wouldn't know,' said Victoria Vialpando, a clerk at Media Play." ...
QUESTION FOR VICTORIA...
If you walk around in downtown with your female organs, how do we know you're not a whore selling sex intent on corrupting a minor? |
WI: Sheriff on defense on search policy
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"Milwaukee County Sheriff Clarke faced tough questions about his consent search policy at a forum Saturday morning."
"Despite ... U.S. Attorney Biskupic's assertion that evidence collected by deputies who stop drivers multiple times asking for consent searches would be inadmissible, Clarke stuck to his message."
" 'It's about the real people whose lives are at stake,' he said. 'They can't play in front of their homes or in the parks without fear of being shot.' " ...
WORD TO THE WISE...
When a police officer asks you for consent to search your car or person and you've shown no probable cause to warrant suspicion of a crime, POLITELY DECLINE. |
The Land of the Submissive and Home of the Wuss
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"Is the United States still the 'land of the free and the home of the brave' or have we become such a herd of passive and over-regulated subjects of arbitrary and meddlesome government that we should be called the 'land of the submissive and the home of the wuss'?"
"There is a case to be made that we ... have become a whining and subservient multitude kept in line by a vast army of all-knowing bureaucrats and who are determined to force us to do what they deem to be for the good of society." ... |
WI: Supervised minors prohibited from firing guns due to age requirements?
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"Eight-year-old Jacob Johnson of Holmen was looking forward to trying his hand at trap shooting Saturday morning at the Holmen Rod and Gun Club. Already wearing his green-rimmed safety goggles and red, white and blue earplugs, Jacob learned he'd have to wait four years. State law prohibits children under age 12 from firing a firearm."
"So, at the Holmen Rod and Gun Club Youth Day he had to settle for the other activities like archery, rod and reel casting and BB gun shooting." ...
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OH: Confused about Ohio's gun bill? You're not alone
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Or maybe you have a great interest in the matter and are still confused about what the heck state lawmakers are doing. If you are, don't worry, because most people in Columbus are confused too.
With that in mind, here's an effort to clear up the muddy situation:
1. How long have state lawmakers been trying to pass a gun bill?
Since 1996. It gets reintroduced with each new General Assembly.
2. Why can't lawmakers get it passed?
Well, it's certainly not for a lack of support. |
UK: Shooting: Two men held
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Armed police are patrolling the streets around a barber's shop in Birmingham where two men were seriously injured during a shooting.
Detective Chief Inspector Dyer said officers had met with community leaders to discuss their concerns about gun crime in the area.
Mr Dyer said: "We are going to try to reassure the community with heightened foot patrols and armed police in and around the area for the foreseeable future."
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WA: Judge won't dismiss suit against gun store
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"A Pierce County judge refused yesterday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by nine families against the Tacoma gun store that once stocked the rifle used in the Beltway sniper shootings and a New England firm that manufactured the weapon."
"The ruling was a setback for the gun industry, which has long criticized efforts to hold firearms dealers and manufacturers legally responsible for the acts of criminals."
"Bushmaster can be held liable if it knew that Bull's Eye was improperly selling weapons." ... |
NY: Gun-totin' dad jailed, gets out like a shot
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"The Navy veteran who shot a burglar rifling through his toddler's bedroom in Brooklyn was a free man yesterday - given his immediate release after being sentenced to three days in jail."
"Ronald Dixon got out of serving any more time because inmates whose release dates fall on a weekend are let out the Friday before, officials said."
" 'I'm just really, really happy,' said Dixon. 'It couldn't have turned out any better.' "
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NH: State Lab Gets New Gun-Tracking Technology
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"The computerized system links New Hampshire to a national database of bullets and casings, so that a process that used to take months or even years takes only a few minutes."
"Forensic scientists match bullets and casings to firearms through microscopic impressions, often linking a gun to a suspect. The crime lab in Concord now has access to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which can search a federal database for a match in minutes." ...
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MT: Court rules stealing loaded gun ups penalty
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"The Montana Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that stealing a loaded gun is the same thing as using a weapon in the act of stealing; each is considered 'aggravated burglary' and carries stiffer penalties."
"Their decision stems from the case of Christopher Ray, a man who stole many guns -- loaded and unloaded -- in a nationwide crime spree that began in Ravalli County in 1999."
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NV: School police renew plea for guns
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"A school police officer spotted a man with equipment for a methamphetamine lab near a Reno high school. But he had to wait for one of his armed colleagues to arrive and make an arrest."
"[A]n out-of-state woman who didn’t have custody of her child attempted to kidnap the student from an elementary school. An armed school officer was called and arrived in time to stop her."
"School police cited these examples this week as they renewed an effort to get permission to carry guns." ... |
VA: 8 in U.S. accused of terrorist links
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"Federal authorities on Friday charged seven men in the Washington, D.C., area and an eighth in Philadelphia with stockpiling weapons and conspiring to wage 'jihad' against India in support of a terrorist group in Kashmir."
"The men, authorities charged, obtained AK-47s and other high-powered weaponry and practiced small-unit military tactics in Virginia using their paintball weapons to simulate combat."
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"U.N. strives to control 'real' weapons of mass destruction"
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"In July 2001 the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus an action program to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. [T]errorism in Palestine, Kashmir and elsewhere in the world is rooted in regional conflicts and uses mostly easy-to-obtain small arms."
"From July 7 to 11, the U.N. will hold its first biennial meeting to discuss progress in the implementation of the action program against small arms." ... |
NJ: Sportsman's Club offers shooting workshop
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"For most women I know, being an 'outdoor woman' would mean sitting poolside."
"But that was not the case for the women the NJ Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife brought together here."
"The women were at the Salem City Sportsman's Club for a workshop called Introduction to the Shooting Sports. [S]keet, trap, pistols and muzzleloaders, these women did it all."
"The workshop explored the barriers limiting the participation of women in hunting, angling and other forms of outdoor recreation." ... |
Winning the war, losing who we are
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"A growing cloud of other constitutional concerns is beginning to swirl about the heads of officials implementing the greatly expanded powers of government under the Patriot Act, aimed at hunting down terrorism suspects."
"Other issues, most arising from our Bill of Rights and the pervasive body of American law and practice rooted in the Constitution, seem to be gaining sober second thoughts involving both the Patriot Act and domestic activities under the rubric of Homeland Security." ... |
CA: Two dead in knife attack (another report)
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IRVINE – "A man wielding a large knife or sword killed two people and injured three others at an Albertson's supermarket Sunday morning before police shot and critically wounded him, authorities said. The suspect later died.
...Shoppers fled the store..." ... |
Security without freedom is meaningless
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"By now most Americans have heard of the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, both of which have the reassuring ring of a Department of Human Resources."
"In my experience, there's not much human about human-resource departments, and zillion-page legal documents detailing ways to enforce patriotism and secure the homeland sound like instruments that might guarantee the opposite effect." ... |
Canada: Home invasion terror
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"Two women were beaten and their kittens were killed by home invaders yesterday morning."
"One woman hid in a closet and dialed 911 while two masked men terrorized the other. One of the thugs smashed her face with a baseball bat. The kittens were stomped to death."
"The other woman was eventually found and terrorized for several minutes."
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Canada: Violent attacks continue in Vancouver
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"Another violent home invasion has occurred in Vancouver."
"The man wounded in the latest attack survived, but police fear there could be more attacks unless people take steps to protect themselves." [Like getting a gun?]
"This is only the most recent attack in a disturbing amount of home invasions, attempted abductions, burglaries, and sexual assaults plaguing Vancouver."
"All of these occurrences have one scary fact in common, the break-ins happen when homeowners are present." ... |
Professor backs local anti-Patriot Act movement
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"Recently the Lansdowne [PA] Council passed a resolution declaring Lansdowne a 'Bill of Rights Protection Zone.' Among other things, the resolution expresses the Council's concern that The Patriot Act and certain executive orders and policy decisions made by the executive branch of the US government violate important constitutional protections. Why was this action taken? Why is a little town concerning itself with national issues? The answer is simple: we are patriots." ... |
Australia: ASIO law: a serious threat to civil liberties
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"On June 26, federal parliament passed the controversial Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation. The powers given to ASIO and the Australian Federal Police are the most serious threat to civil liberties in our lifetime and without precedent in peacetime. They make Australian security laws the most repressive in the Western world."
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WA: Slain Crystal Brame told assistant chief about [police chief] husband's threats
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Hours after Tacoma Police Chief Brame fatally shot his wife then killed himself, detectives searching his apartment found handwritten notes revealing that weeks before the shooting, Asst Chief Woodard knew about Crystal Brame's allegations that her estranged husband had threatened to kill her.
In the notes, "Crystal expressed fear for her safety," Detective Crocker told Times. "They say something very much like, '(Crystal) wishes that David would stop threatening to kill her.'" ... |
NE: Women discover new adventures
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"It had been 15-odd years since Judy Johnson of St. Paul had fired a gun. So when a rifle was put in her hands and she had been properly instructed on how to handle it, the moment before the clay pigeon was released, the unease was palpable."
"Moments later, the orange pigeon went flying and the large crack of a shotgun discharging filled Nature's Acres north of St. Paul. The pigeon fell, intact, to the ground."
" 'I panicked,' Johnson said. 'I thought I was going to shoot too soon.' " ... |
CA: Man kills 2 with knife in grocery
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"A man wielding a large knife or sword killed two people and injured three others at an Albertson's supermarket Sunday morning before police fatally shot him, authorities said."
" 'We're in Irvine, California,' said Denese Ecker. 'You just don't think things like this will happen.' " ...
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Philippines: 'Bruce Lee' fighting no match for muggers
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"Determined not to part with even a single centavo of his salary to two holdup men in Quiapo early Sunday morning, a 30-year-old man fought off his attackers á la Bruce Lee but his style of self-defense proved no match to bladed weapons."
"Jon Bitonga of Santa Mesa, Manila, is now fighting for his life at the Ospital ng Maynila with three stab wounds in different parts of the body."
"A team of police trackers is now hunting down the two suspects believed to be Quiapo residents." ... |
WI: Experts: Cops often arrest abuse victims
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"Officers in Marathon County arrest both the man and the woman in more than one-fifth of the domestic-abuse calls they handle, one of the highest rates of dual arrests in Wisconsin, according to state statistics."
"But police are learning how to reduce that number." ... |
PA: Details emerge of gang killing by use of hammer and hatchet
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... "The two were undressing when Eddie Batzig suddenly appeared. He had a hatchet. With Eddie were two other teenage boys Jason knew. One carried a hammer. ... beating him savagely and fatally." ...
"As Jason lay dying, Coia told police later, 'We took Sweeney's wallet out and split up the money and we partied beyond redemption.' But first, Coia said, the teens shared 'a group hug -- it was like we were all happy with what we did.' "
"The accused killers were not high on drugs. The killing was not random. It was not a crime of passion or self-defense, of soured love or a drug deal gone bad." ... |
MO: Teen acquitted in stabbing death, called self-defense
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A Kansas City, Mo., man has been acquitted in the stabbing death last year of one Kansas City teen and assault of two others.
James R. Tharnish, 18, was acquitted Friday of second-degree murder and five other felony charges in the June 2002 death of 17-year-old Matthew Vice and assault of Eric Sutherland and James Nik-Khah, both 17.
Tharnish testified Wednesday that he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed the three youths in his front yard.
Tharnish and several of his friends testified that Tharnish pulled out a knife only after he and his father had been punched. Defense witnesses also testified that Vice and his friends had threatened Tharnish in the months before the incident. |
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