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Gun-free America still aim of some
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"This campaign season, the Democrats seem to be throwing everything they can think of at George W. Bush to see what sticks. It doesn't seem to matter if the charges are true or even if the president has any connection to the subject in question."

"One of the most recent charges is that Bush endangers Americans if he doesn't actively push for a renewal of the Clinton-era ban on certain semi-automatic rifles and pistols. The decade-old ban is set to sunset in September unless Congress and the president renew it."

"Bush has expressed support for a renewal, but so far he hasn't pressured lawmakers to send him an extension to sign." ...

New Army rifle gets more tests
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"The U.S. Army's pursuit of a weapon to replace the aging M-16 rifle is still on track despite a failed congressional attempt to pump nearly $26 million into the federal budget for manufacturing the weapon in 2005."

"Military and legislative officials say development and testing of the new XM8 assault rifle will run through December. It will be the second round of tests for the highly anticipated rifle, with evaluations taking place in the desert near Yuma, Ariz., the tropical jungles of Panama, and the arctic climate in Alaska, said Col. Mike Smith, who oversees the XM8 testing program at Picatinny Arsenal in northern New Jersey." ...

Kerry & guns
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... "Searching for a post-convention boost, Kerry told a recent Pennsylvania rally, 'I've been a hunter since I was about 12 years old, and I went through the whole progression, you know, BB gun to 22s to 30-30, you name it.'"

"Gov. Ed Rendell says the fact that Kerry handles guns so well could make a difference in Pennsylvania come Nov. 2. The good folks at the National Rifle Association must be laughing themselves silly over that one."

"In reality -- you know, the realm in which presidential candidates are supposed to campaign -- Kerry generally votes against gun rights, supports extending the disingenuous ban on assault-type weapons, and wants to close the mythical 'gun show loophole,' according to the NRA."

"Immunity for gun makers facing frivolous civil lawsuits? No way." ...

Liberals Gunning for Assault Weapons
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"The renewal of the assault weapons ban instituted in 1994 and set to expire this fall is the cause du jour for liberals. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New York Times, Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Postto name just a fewhave all sounded the call to arms."

"Most editorials tug at the heartstrings while pulling wool over the eyes of their readers. The July 17 New York Times editorial, for example, makes a classic populist appeal: 'Few Americans favor a return to the day when military-style assault weapons like AK-47s, Uzis and Tec-9 pistols could be manufactured and sold, making them readily available for use by gangs and drug traffickers.' The Los Angeles Times has been even more alarmist, calling these guns 'weapons of mass destruction.'" ...

MI: Store owner shoots would-be robber
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"Leon Moody has kept a loaded .357-caliber handgun under the front counter of his Grand Rapids corner store for more than a decade."

"Friday morning was the first time the 63-year-old has had to use it."

"The shop owner fired two shots and wounded a 21-year-old man who allegedly put a gun in Moody's face and tried to rob him." ...

"A guy came in and put a pistol in my face, and said, 'Give me your money,'" Moody said. "I never seen him in my life. I said, 'Man, why you want to rob me?'"

"'I'll blow your head off for that money,' Moody said was the suspect's reply."

"'Wait a minute,' Moody said he told the man, buying himself time to reach below the counter. 'And I grabbed my gun.'" ...

Firefight over assault weapon ban's demise
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"The Federal ban on assault weapons is scheduled to end next month, but some gun experts and gun dealers say the law effectively expired years ago."

"Gun dealers have used gaping loopholes in the law to sell thousands of military-style rifles - knockoffs of AK-47s, M-16s and Uzis - that have been legally manufactured by U.S. companies." [emphasis added]

"One disheartening example is the made-in-the-USA Bushmaster XM-15, a legal copycat of the Army's commercially banned M-16. The semiautomatic Bushmaster was the gun of choice for John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, the Washington-area snipers who killed 10 people in their 2002 rampage." ...
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KABA Note: Several people have noted that if M&M had used a real gun, like a .308, several more of their victims would probably have died.

Kill the assault rifle ban? NO
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"Before the assault weapons ban, America was a very different place. Many people remember the shooting in an elementary schoolyard in Stockton, Calif., where a deranged gunman used an AK-47 to fire 106 rounds of ammunition into 35 elementary school children and teachers in less than two minutes."

"Gone forever was the notion, a beloved talking point of gun extremists, that assault weapons are really the same as hunting rifles. The nation was outraged. And in 1994, after the Long Island Rail Road shootings that claimed my husband and nearly my son, America finally made these killing machines illegal."

"But after Sept. 13, these 19 rapid-fire guns will once again be legal. Congress has thus far failed to extend the ban, and to date President Bush has offered only lip-service support for the measure." ...

Kill the assault rifle ban? YES
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"The 1994 semiautomatic or so-called assault weapons ban expires Sept. 13. The media drumbeat to reauthorize it has begun, and some politicians are dancing to the familiar tune."

"Instead of merely reauthorizing the ban, however, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-L.I.) seeks to ban more guns and implement a national registration scheme. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the assault weapons ban sponsor, said on CBS' '60 Minutes,' 'If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate for an outright ban, picking up every one of them - Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in - I would have done it.' The gun control agenda has never been stated more honestly." ...

Weapons ban assault
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"Congress will have less than a week to extend the 10-year-old federal ban on assault weapons when it returns from August recess, but the indication is that congressional leaders are willing to let the ban expire. President George W. Bush has said he favors an extension and has pledged to sign such a bill. But Congress has to pass one first, and so far on the campaign trail, the president is doing nothing to encourage that."

"House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, is opposed to bringing the extension which expires Sept. 13 up for a vote. So is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who misled listeners on National Public Radio Wednesday when he said during an interview that the extension 'might have a chance' in the House, but 'there's no promise we can get it out of the Senate because the Senate has defeated it already.'" ...

The gun-law sky is falling?
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"Chicken Little arrives every four years in a feather-ruffled flurry squawking about some kind of impending doom. This year she is incited to a level of hen-ish hysteria by the encroaching expiration of the federal 'assault weapons' ban."

"Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry is all for extending the ban on 19 military-style firearms, coos Chicken Little. He suspended his campaign back in March so he could go to Washington and cast one of the few Senate votes he found time to make in the past year. No one should read anything political into that." ...

FL: Xbox Theft Spurred Mass Murder; Victims Beaten With Bats
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"Six people found murdered in a Deltona, Fla., were beaten to death with aluminum baseball bats over a missing Xbox game console and some clothes, the Volusia County sheriff said Sunday."

"Troy Victorino ... reportedly recruited three teens to storm the Deltona home Friday and brutally murder the six people inside, Volusia County sheriff Ben Johnson said Sunday morning."

"'The instrument used was baseball bats, aluminum baseball bats,' Johnson said at a press conference. 'They (four suspects) did severe trauma to all of the victims. As a matter of fact, one of them was so badly damaged that we've not been able to officially identify her.'" ...
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Time to ban baseball bats, criminals obviously use them in a high percentage of crimes... right Sarah?

FL: Four Arrested In Slayings Of Six In Deltona Home (another view)
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Biggest Mass Murder in Sheriff Department's History committed with
Baseball Bats!

The anti-gun groups still point to Patrick Purdy's use of an AKS in Stockton for the proposition that "assault weapons" are "only meant for killing".

Here, four thugs beat six people to death with aluminum baseball bats - beating one woman so badly that two days after the murders, she still cannot be identified.

If you don't live in Florida, I'd like to know if your press is even covering this story. And of course, feel free to email me about any calls for "bat control".

Russia: Three Moscow policemen who batter detainee to death, nabbed
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"Operatives of the inside security service division of the Moscow police department detained three police officers of the police patrol service from the Pechatniki police precinct, who supposedly battered to death a resident of the Tatarstan Republic, Tass learnt on Sunday from Moscow law enforcement bodies."

"Policemen, suspected of inflicting serious bodily injuries, which resulted in the death of a man, were detained on Saturday. Investigation established that in the morning of July 31, they had detained a [man] ... who had been brought to the Pechatniki police precinct."

"He had been brutally beaten there. Then, the man who lost consciousness, was brought to city clinical hospital No. 68 where he died at the intensive care unit. The Lyublino inter-district prosecutors office is now engaged in investigating this fact." ...

CA: Jury to weigh agent's claim of self-defense in shooting
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"Forget that state agents were chasing the wrong man."

"Forget that Rodolfo 'Rudy' Cardenas never pointed a gun at the undercover officer who shot him in the back, or that the San Jose man eerily predicted his own death by police shootout." ...

"The pivotal question a jury must consider is Walker's state of mind the moment he aimed his Glock .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol at the 43-year-old Cardenas and fired."

"'The job for the defense will be to focus the jury to that moment in time,' said Los Angeles defense attorney Bill Seki, who represents police officers in excessive-force cases." ...
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So it's okay for a cop to shoot an unarmed man in the back as long as he's scared.

Russia: Brute force of Russias police
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... "The bullet passed through Baibekovs neck, destroying his jaw but leaving him alive. He is now in hospital waiting to undergo a series of operations."

"The incident sounds like a one-off, but it is not."

"Police brutality and violence drip-fed by miserly wages, rock-bottom morale and a general atmosphere of anything goes is taking its toll on Russias long-suffering public."

"The price being paid is high: torture, savage beatings and extortion are all meted out on a regular basis according to both the media and the non- governmental agencies monitoring the 1.5 million-strong police forces activities. Rapes and murders, though far less common, are also perpetrated." ...
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But only cops and the military ...

MI: Cleaned gun leads to charges of evidence tampering against 2 officers
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"Two Flint police officers tampered with evidence in a February shooting at a nightclub where they were moonlighting as security guards, authorities said."

"Officer Jeffery C. White, a 13-year veteran, and former Officer Tony M. Jones, who was convicted on a federal gambling offense, were named in warrants signed Friday by Flint District Judge William H. Crawford II."

"'This is a very troubling case,' said Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur A. Busch. 'This is not a good day for law enforcement in this community.'"

"Busch said the alleged misconduct jeopardizes the case against a man charged with shooting four people in the club and might force prosecutors to drop the charges." ...

South Africa: Metro cop shoots club-goer
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"An East Rand woman is fighting for her life after an Ekurhuleni Metro police officer shot her in the head in Kempton Park in the early hours of Saturday morning."

"The officer apparently fired a single shot at Stacey Woodburn, 30, outside the Madhatters club in Pretoria." ...

"Verhoef says when they left the club, she and another friend walked towards their car while Woodburn went to ask the man to move his vehicle, which was obstructing the exit."

"'She hadn't even finished her sentence when he interrupted her.'"

"'The only thing I saw was the flash of the shot that went off and Stacey falling backwards,' she said." ...
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But only cops and the military, right Sarah?

LA: Ex-police officer gets 40 years
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"A judge referred to a former Shreveport police officer and his wife as 'domestic terrorists,' then sentenced each to decades in prison for their botched robbery attempt more than a year ago."

"Kevin Burford, 33, and wife Gretchen Burford, 24, already were in federal prison - but serving much shorter sentences - in connection with bank robberies in Shreveport in 2002. Additional charges are pending in Caddo Parish."

"The Burfords appeared separately last week before DeSoto Parish district Judge Robert Burgess for sentencing in connection with the guilty pleas both entered in May to the attempted armed robbery of a Gloster man." ...
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And yet if this man still had his badge, he would be a "super citizen" and able to carry concealed in all 50 states.

Nigeria: Military Officer's Son Apprehends As Supplier of Ammunition
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"A son to a serving military officer in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has been named as a supplier of ammunition to a gang of six- man armed robbery suspect recently arrested by the police in the state just as three other suspects were gunned down."

"The military officer's son, whose name was simply given as Thompson, but the identity of the father which the police withheld or kept close to their chest was alleged to have been hiring pistol at the cost of N2,000 per day to the armed bandits."

"Members of the six-man armed robbery squad aged between 19 and 24 years who mentioned the son of the military officer as the source of their weapon were arrested after successfully robbing their victim of the sum of N766,000 at gun point." ...

MN: A one woman crusade has now become a major political force to be reckoned with (Pravda)
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"Just after the 1989 of a California bank, in which two crimers, using assault weapons, held half of Los Angeles Police Department pinned down for almost 45 minutes, one woman started Citizens for a Safer Minnesota."

"So often, we hear only the negative things about Americans, and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of good. CSM is a positive American experience."

"Today, CSM has grown and gained the respect of Minnesota Legislators and Law Enforcement. Their single objective is sane and rational guns laws." ...
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Poster's note: CSM is a checkbook advocacy group, mainly supported by large grants ($200,000 in 2002, $300,000 in 2000) from a group called The Joyce Foundation.

NE: Another Pizza Delivery Man Robbed
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Armed suspects take cash and food.

Omaha Police are investigating the robbery of yet another pizza delivery man Friday night.

An employee of Home Team Pizza was sent to deliver a pizza near 41st and Ohio where two suspects met the delivery man outside. One pulled a gun and took his cash, pizza, and hot wings. The suspects also took the delivery man's car keys and threw them across the street. The keys were later found.

This was the latest in a rash of robberies of pizza delivery men in the metro this summer.
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KABA Note: The entire state of Nebraska is a victim disarmament zone. They have an "affirmative defense" situation. If you are caught carrying, you have to prove in court that a "prudent person" would believe that carry was justified.

Switzerland: Swiss stick to their guns as defence minister moots end of militia army
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"Even Switzerland's defence minister Samuel Schmid admitted he was thinking the unthinkable this week when he mooted the end of an age-old tradition that has turned every fit young Swiss man into a combat-ready pillar of the country's defence force."

"Schmid triggered an outcry on August 2 when he raised the idea of abolishing conscription, which in Switzerland uniquely translates into several weeks service a year with the militia army for each adult male until the age of 30."

"Most Swiss men keep their standard issue weapon -- nowadays a high-powered assault rifle -- and a pack of ammunition at home, in between annual sorties with their regiment in and around the Alps." ...

OUTDOORS: Knight's gun a solution for hunters
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... "When Knight developed the MK-85, an in-line muzzleloader that broke new ground in the field and put Knight Firearms at the head of its class, he gave it his daughter Michelle's initials."

"His son? You'll find the silhouette of William Lee Knight gracing the company's logo."

"And his wife? Well, Rose will be at his side when Knight comes to the Virginia Outdoor Sportsman Show next weekend at The Showplace on Mechanicsville Turnpike."

"'She's never been to Virginia, and she wants to come.'"

"They'll find the Old Dominion friendly ground for black-powder enthusiasts."

"In the 2003-04 season, hunters using muzzleloaders accounted for 52,779 of the 237,035 deer reported killed. ..." ...

MD: Bear hunt revives frontiersman lore
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"What Daniel Boone is to Kentucky and Davy Crockett to Tennessee, Meshach Browning is to Western Maryland: an early-American frontiersman mythologized by outsized tales of his rugged exploits."

"Browning wrote his legend himself. His 1859 autobiography, "Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter," recounts in grisly detail many of his battles with the nearly 400 bears, 2,000 deer and scores of panthers, wolves, wildcats and rattlesnakes he claims to have killed." ...

NY: Black bear, human encounters increasing at camping areas
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"Area guides are finding more than good fishing at Lows Lake this summer."

"Black bears, they say, have become aggressive with campers at popular primitive campsites that edge the lake. The area is accessible only by seaplane or canoe."

"Licensed Adirondack Guide and New York State Outdoor Guide Association Region Five Director Wayne Failing took a party of eight on a four-day fishing trip last weekend." ...

"Before dark, the group stowed trash and food supplies in a canoe moored 100 feet offshore. But the bear came back."

"'I walked out to meet the bear and started talking to her,' Failing said, 'and she growled. In the past, Ive always gone boo or shoo, and they run away.'"

"Failing had a pistol with him, 'in case,' he said. He fired two warning shots into the ground, and the bear ran off." ...

GA: Boy, 9, suspended after bringing gun to school
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A 9-year-old elementary pupil was suspended for five days pending a disciplinary hearing into why he brought a pistol to school.

The boy showed the .22-caliber gun to other students at Cotton Indian Elementary on Thursday, and they alerted school officials, Henry County Police Maj. M.L. Brooks said.

The weapon had been disabled so that it could not fire, but it had five rounds of ammunition in it, Brooks said.

Police confiscated the handgun and removed the boy from school.

NY: Do the anti-gun activists know anything about the statistics on street crime?
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"As a follow-up to Karen A. Molinari's well-written article on the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Second Amendment to the Constitution, I am certain Karen can add much more that would engulf the whole July 15 edition. The NRA's inception in 1871 was to instill upon Americans safety rules relating to the use of firearms, marksmanship, of which the NRA years ago had taught the U.S. Army, Marine Corps and National Guard (militia) to shoot better with small arms, but most important is to defend the Second Amendment -- the guaranteed right to bear arms." ...

Australia: Victoria leads way in gun buyback
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"Gun owners have been paid almost $94 million in compensation by federal and state governments for surrendering 68,727 handguns and 328,891 firearm parts and accessories in the national buyback scheme." ...

"But sporting shooters and the anti-gun lobby said the buyback failed to tackle the problem of criminals with guns and did not substantially reduce gun numbers, because shooters used the cash they received for illegal guns to buy legal ones or to upgrade." ...

"'The actual success of the buyback can't be measured by the number of firearms handed in,' he said."

"'Criminals with illegal guns have still got them... A criminal is not going to give up a semi-automatic pistol for $900 when they can use it time after time to get more from a crime.'" ...

Philippines: Cebu radiomen repulse assailants (by shooting back)
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"A RADIO reporter and his two companions survived an "ambush" Thursday night on Natalio Bacalso Avenue, Cebu City by firing back at their assailants."

"Using an Ingram machine pistol and .45 caliber pistols, George Benaojan, a reporter of El Nuevo Bantay Radyo, said he and his two volunteer reporters scared the gunmen away with superior firepower."

"The radiomen were on board Benaojan's Pajero; the three unidentified assailants on a white taxicab."

"At the time of the attack, Benaojan said he, Gildor Fuentes, and Sol Kelvin Carillo had just come from Minglanilla town and were traveling to their office in Capitol Site, Escario St." ...
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Armed self-defense works!

Philippines: Filipino reporters decry new gun permits
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"The head of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said Saturday Manila's decision to allow reporters arm themselves is foolish."

"Inday Espina-Varona said the government's move allowing journalists to carry weapons is both the height of irresponsibility and an admission of failure to arrest and convict any suspects in the 54 murders of journalists since 1986, ABS-CBN reported."

"This lame, knee-jerk response is a virtual admission by law-enforcement authorities of how inutile they are against those that seek to silence the press in this country, she said." ...
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Don't want a gun? Then don't carry one!

Philippines: Practical shooter guns for gold in trap event
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"Jethro Dionisio remembered pulling off his best performance in the Busan Asian Games and literally gunning down two birds with a single shot a bronze medal and a wild card berth in the Athens Olympics about to unfold."

"'It was my best effort and I came up with 117 score and we won the bronze at the same time enhanced my bid for the Olympics,' said Dionisio, who left with the first batch of Filipino athletes and officials Friday night."

"Long regarded as the worlds fastest gun with six titles to show in practical shooting in the Steel Challenge and the World Shoot-off the Filipino ace gunner is facing the biggest challenge since he shifted to trap shooting three years ago as he goes up against the worlds best on Aug. 14 and 25." ...

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"In a last-minute move that some said was orchestrated to prevent another Democrat or Republican from entering the race for the 5th Congressional District seat, U.S Rep. Rodney Alexander switched parties Friday." ... "Alexander said his voting record often reflected the Republican stance on measures: 'Ive always been pro-life and pro-gun.'" ...

Competitive shooter targets Olympic gold
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"Growing up in a family where everyone but his mother was involved in competitive shooting, Daryl Szarenski quickly developed a desire to see how far he could push himself."

"A quarter-century after getting his start on a gun range, the 36-year-old Saginaw native is heading to Greece, where he will continue his quest for Olympic gold in the free and air pistol events."

"Szarenski, a sergeant first class in the Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning, Ga., said he never planned to become a competitive shooter. He set a goal for himself, he recalled, and things just snowballed."

"'The overall goal is to be the greatest shooter in the world,' Szarenski said. 'I havent gotten there yet.'" ...