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Lest We Forget: Where Were You 16 Years Ago?
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While much of Monday’s news is properly focused on the devastation of Hurricane Irma on Florida and the Caribbean, it is a somber anniversary of the terrorist attack that shook America and the western world.
Thousands lost their lives and millions were traumatized to one degree or another. It was this generation’s Pearl Harbor. |
IL: Chicago Archdiocese Bans Guns on All Church Property
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The Archdiocese of Chicago formally announced Monday that firearms are banned on all archdiocese property. In a statement, the archdiocese said they have "...had ta best practice on the presence of firearms for some time and most of our facilities display signage indicating that firearms are prohibited on their premises. Given the times, we thought it would be prudent to issue a policy on firearms as a 'particular law' so there would be absolute clarity on our position."
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The Keefe Report: 9/11 in the Rearview Mirror
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Sixteen years ago today I was in Kamiah, Idaho, at the Flying B Ranch at the 2001 Weatherby Writers Conference. We were getting ready to head out for morning bird hunting, and I had just secured the upper snaps on my Filson chaps as I looked up at the television and saw the first plane slam into the first tower.
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IL: 2 Plead Guilty in Stabbing Death Tied to Facebook Feud
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Two men charged with murder when a Facebook feud led to the fatal stabbing of their friend in the Ravenswood neighborhood were each sentenced Monday to eight years in prison after they both pled guilty. Raymond Boyle, 23, and Dalton Stropes, 22, pled guilty to second-degree murder in the 2015 death of their friend 20-year-old Angelica Escamilla. Escamilla was stabbed to death after the three of them cornered another man and baited him into fighting, authorities said. |
The Keefe Report: Freedom Matters—It's My Second Amendment
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As I laced up my boots and buckled the snaps of my chaps, I looked up at the television and saw the first plane crash into the first tower. I didn't know it at the time, but America was at war. There were other times that I knew America was at war, even if it wasn’t declared. As a boy, I sat Indian-style on the floor staring at the television as countless rounds were fired into a jungle half a world away, and I watched the helicopters lift off from the American Embassy in Saigon with desperate humanity huddled on their skids. |
Dartmouth and Lecturer Mark Bray at Center of Antifa Violence Dispute
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When it comes to understanding the recent surge of radical political organizations in the U.S., Mark Bray, a visiting lecturer in history at the College, may know more than any scholar today on the far-left “Antifa” or anti-fascist movement. But knowledge can be a burden, as the saying goes. Following a series of recent public comments regarding the use of violence to counter neo-fascism, Bray has landed in the middle of a dispute involving a statement of condemnation from the College, national media coverage and death threats. |
Gunsite Academy Rangemaster: Ed Stock
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I had been doing a great deal of shooting in the years preceding that date—Oct. 18, 1993—but most of it was on my own. As an active writer for several of the better-known gunzines, I made weekly trips to the range to do shooting evaluations of various handguns. In many ways, it was a gun buff’s dream job, but it had essentially taken me away from formal competition and even the traditional so-called “square” ranges of police and military training. Sure, I had put a blue gazillion rounds downrange, but the dude who confronted me on that crisp October morning could not have cared less. |
Apply Background Checks for Gun Purchases to Voting
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Republicans worry about vote fraud. Democrats claim that Republicans are just imagining things. But in testimony Tuesday before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, I will suggest a simple solution that could make both parties happy: Apply the background check system for gun purchases to voting. |
MN: Gun Battle Outside St. Paul Bar Leaves More Than 40 Casings Behind, no Injuries
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After a gunfight erupted near a St. Paul bar, police found 45 casings from at least three guns. No one was injured, but vehicles were struck by the gunfire on the West Side early Saturday. A resident in the area also reported that his house was hit by a stray bullet. Officers responded to El Alamo bar at Robert and Isabel streets about 12:50 a.m. One caller reported hearing 10 to 12 shots, and said people were screaming and running. Another caller reported hearing about 20 shots outside the bar, said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman. |
Neurobiology and Gun Violence
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When someone gets involved with guns and gangs at an early age, it can change the way that person thinks. Earlier this summer, reporter Rob Wildeboer talked to a man who said that shooting became “like a drug” for him, and spent decades chasing the high he felt the first time he shot a gun. Neurobiologist Peggy Mason and comedian Aaron Freeman are co-hosts of the podcast “Brain Buddies,” and they were interested in what was going on inside of that shooter’s brain. They talk about the underlying neuroscience of what happens when you shoot someone, what it means to call shooting an “addiction,” and why understanding neurobiology can help us begin to address Chicago’s gun violence. |
IN: Officials Consider Ridding of Handgun Carry Licenses
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Police officials in Indiana say a proposal to eliminate the state’s handgun carry license requirement for civilians could result in a loss of revenue. The Joint Committee on Judiciary and Public Policy heard presentations on the proposal Thursday, The Tribune-Star reported . It seeks to repeal the law requiring a person to obtain a license in order to carry a handgun in the state.
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Tucson Comes To Its Senses On Gun Destruction
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Great Second Amendment news out of Tucson, Arizona: The city council there has reversed course on its 10-year run of illegally destroying firearms in the name of "public safety." This is news not only because of the change, but the mechanism by which this was achieved. |
Democrat Senator Gillibrand Blames Capitalism for Gun Violence on Netflix’s ‘Chelsea’
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To hear New York’s junior senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, talk, you would think that the reason for random gun violence deaths was due to the sales of gun silencers. In the September 8, 2017, episode of Netflix’s Chelsea titled “Comfortably Naked,” Gillibrand describes the reason she left the ever-shrinking ranks of moderate Democrats to join in with the far-left wing crowd and, of course, it has to do with guns. |
NRA Applauds Reintroduction and Expansion of SHARE Act
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In the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), however, those preparations include an order by Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp for the National Guard to seize residents’ lawfully-owned firearms and ammunition, ostensibly as a means of promoting public order and protecting life and property during Hurricane Irma. |
Files for 3D Printed Guns are Free Speech Too
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In 2013, Defense Distributed uploaded computer-aided design (CAD) files and made them freely available to the public. With the proper equipment and knowledge, someone could use the CAD files to create a 3D-printed gun. The government quickly ordered the files removed (under threat of severe penalties) because it determined that the files ran afoul of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which prevent people from communicating to foreign persons "technical data" about constructing certain arms...
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Australian Gun Culture Part 23: Numbers of Guns, Licenses, and Costs
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When surveying various articles about firearms and firearms ownership in Australia, I have read that the numbers cannot be known. I have had knowledgeable people tell me the same thing. Only a year ago, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) published an important and informative report about illicit firearms. In the report, substantive information is given about firearms ownership and licenses in Australia. |
Urban Shield Offers Tools for Law Officers, Ammunition for Skeptics
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When the Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the use of $5.5 million in federal emergency preparedness funding for Urban Shield, the multiday event that includes tactical exercises for SWAT teams, bomb squads and emergency workers, they also created a civilian task force to monitor the gathering of law enforcement agencies. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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