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Tragedy of poverty underlies violence after the storm
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I had intended to have a little fun today with this column. Well, maybe I should say poke a little fun at an organization that I see no need for its existence.
Somehow, I ended up on the e-mail list of the Second Amendment Foundation awhile back and recently I got an invitation to the group's "20th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, which will be taking place Sept. 23, 24 and 25, 2005 at the Los Angeles Marriott in Los Angeles, Calif.'
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Survivors describe week of horror in New Orleans
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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Thousands of New Orleans residents streamed north on Saturday, escaping the violence that gripped the city in the days after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Women spoke of the terror they felt as gangs of thieves and rapists roamed the streets and temporary shelters night after night, plucking victims -- some of them children -- at whim and with no fear of police intervention.
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New Orleans Police Kill 4 in Shootout
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 - New Orleans police officers yesterday shot and killed four people and wounded two others who had fired at officers escorting a convoy of contractors across a bridge, the authorities said.
The group of 14 contractors from Boh Brothers Construction, one of New Orleans's largest construction companies, was working for the Army Corps of Engineers on levee repairs and drainage, said Robert Boh, the president of the company.
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Woman escapes New Orleans, returns home
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Rhonda Mandel hates guns.
But then Hurricane Katrina sideswiped New Orleans on Monday and the Fort Myers woman was suddenly stuck in a French Quarter hotel.
Two days later, Mandel found herself and about 75 other guests preparing to drive an armed caravan of abandoned cars out of the city.
Mandel's driver — a hotel employee armed to the teeth — stopped to show her how to use a handgun.
"I told him no," Mandel said. "I didn't want to."
The engineer looked her in the eye, deadly serious.
"He said, 'What are you going to do when they shoot me?'" Mandel recalled.
She didn't have a good response. "OK," she finally answered. "Show me."
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Gun In WDM Kidnapping Linked To Iraq War
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- A West Des Moines kidnapping case now has a significant tie to the war in Iraq.
West Des Moines police found a 9 mm pistol while working the kidnapping case, and it turns out that soldiers in Iraq have been looking for that gun.
The figures were released on Friday, seven weeks before a national referendum on whether to ban outright the sale of guns.
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Doctors Blame Taser Stun Gun for Fibrillation
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A shock from a Taser stun gun caused a teenager in Chicago to go into ventricular fibrillation, a usually fatal heart disturbance, according to a letter published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The letter, written by two doctors at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, appears to be the first medically documented case of ventricular fibrillation caused by a Taser gun. Tasers are pistol-like weapons that fire electrified barbs up to 25 feet, immobilizing people with painful shocks. |
Giving crowd some 'Cat Scratch Fever'
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Rockin' and rantin', a wild Ted Nugent takes no prisoners
It's hard to know for sure if legendary wild-man rocker Ted Nugent set a new world's record for offending the widest array of people at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium the other night.
But if he didn't, it sure wasn't from a lack of effort.
Let's see, during the course of a nearly two-hour concert under threatening skies, the famously right-wing, pro-hunting, heavy-metal guitar wizard managed to take shots at, among others: PETA, vegetarians, hippies, smokers, tobacco-chewers, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, gun-control advocates and country music fans.
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ICE ARRESTS SOUTHFIELD MAN ON FIREARMS CHARGES
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Suspect is also wanted by police in Windsor, Ontario, for attempted murder
DETROIT — A Southfield, Mich., man was arrested early today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents for transporting a firearm in foreign commerce with the intent of committing a felony.
According to the affidavit supporting the complaint, eyewitnesses reported that Raelin Coleman, 20, engaged in a dispute Aug. 22 with an individual at his residence in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Roswell City Council recently passed a new "weapons discharge" ordinance.
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Roswell City Council recently passed a new "weapons discharge" ordinance. Reflecting the good bureaucrats they are, the council, with the support of Mayor Jere Wood (but without the support of Councilman Terry Joyner), decided the existing two-paragraph ordinance that basically prohibited the irresponsible discharge of firearms or air rifles within city limits was far too short, clear and concise to meet modern standards of governance.
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Gun rights advocate found guilty
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A Wood County man who carried a loaded handgun in Ottawa Park to challenge Toledo’s ban on concealed weapons in city parks was convicted yesterday of a misdemeanor gun charge.
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Man accused of trying to rob construction workers
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A man was arrested by Salt Lake City police Tuesday after an apparent robbery attempt didn't go exactly as planned.
A man approached a construction worker near 400 S. West Temple just before 2:30 p.m. The construction worker, who didn't speak Spanish, couldn't understand the man, however, said Salt Lake City police detective Robin Snyder.
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Gun buy-back called a success, extended
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The response has been less than overwhelming, but Madison police officials have called this week's gun buy-back program a success and have decided to extend it another week.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, Madison residents, along with Fitchburg residents in the Allied Drive neighborhood, called a special hotline to arrange to have just over 100 guns picked up.
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When guns are fired, it’s animals - not humans - in crosshairs
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When guns are fired, it’s animals - not humans - in crosshairs
Oshkosh Police officers haven’t discharged a gun at a human being since the 1980s.
It’s a streak officers have no intention of breaking.
A variety of animals haven’t been so lucky.
Police Department use of force records show police from 2001 through mid-2005 killed 33 animals. In all cases, the animals were injured or possibly dangerous, commonly found in neighborhoods by residents and reported to police.
Officers were tapped to put the animals out of their misery.
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Quality is built into Ruger's new side-by-side
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A growing cadre of hunters and clays shooters, fascinated by the classic double shotgun but put off by its price, were intrigued when Ruger announced three years ago it would produce a light side-by-side.
Last week I visited the New Hampshire factory and was able to handle this new gun. Both the manufacturing process and the firearm are impressive.
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Critics call Liberals soft on guns
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Ontario reveals plan for firearms amnesty, expanded witness protection
Attorney-General Michael Bryant yesterday announced initiatives to curb shootings in the city, including a firearms amnesty, improvements to witness protection programs and an inspection blitz of gun stores.
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New Law To Help Police Fight Gun Violence
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TORONTO, Sept. 2 /CNW/ - Ontario communities will be safer from gun
violence with the proclamation, yesterday, of the Mandatory Gunshot Wounds
Reporting Act, 2005, according to MPP Liz Sandals, Parliamentary Assistant to
Monte Kwinter, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
"The legislation makes our communities safer. Police need the tools
necessary to protect the public from the grave dangers posed by the use of
guns," Sandals said. "The act will help prevent further violence, injury or
death resulting from guns."
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Raise minimum sentences
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Finally, a politician who seems to be on the right track when it comes to cracking down on gun crime in Canada.
Surprisingly enough the bright idea comes from a New Democrat, and regular readers will know that we don't often agree with what the lefties have to say.
But Manitoba Attorney General Gord Mackintosh hit the nail on the head when he demanded that the feds get tough with people convicted of smuggling guns into Canada.
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Battle cry to save history from ban on replica guns
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FUTURE re-enactments of the English Civil War could have Roundheads and Cavaliers doing battle with broom handles instead of muskets under proposed laws banning the sale and manufacture of replica guns.
The legislation would leave re-enactment societies unable to buy or repair imitation pistols and rifles. The National Association of Re-enactment Societies (Nares), is lobbying the Government to exempt its members from the Violent Crime Reduction Bill.
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Up to 4m guns in UK and police are losing the battle
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British criminals could have access to as many as four million illegal firearms, criminal intelligence experts warn.
The criminal possession and use of firearms, a hallmark of urban America, is now a significant threat in Britain, too, says the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), despite moves to increase penalties for gun crime.
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Teacher arrested in ammo bust
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Pretoria - Pretoria police arrested four men, including a teacher, and confiscated 43 000 rounds of ammunition in Pretoria West on Saturday, police said on Sunday.
A 55-year-old teacher at Pretoria West High School was arrested after 18 000 rounds were discovered in the school's safe on Saturday morning, Inspector Lucas Sithole said.
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Goa's agents of death profit as cops snooze
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They are anonymous but highly dangerous not because they use the products they sell but because the products they sell spew death.
These are gun runners who have no objection to selling any amount and any type of weapons to persons who have the right amount of money.
Shockingly these agents of death are operating in Goa and what is appalling is that the State police are clueless of their whereabouts and their modus operandi.
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Rare drop in gun deaths in Brazil
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Last year 36,000 people were killed by guns - a drop of 8% from 2003, according to the health ministry.
The government says the change is due to innovative disarmament measures, including a gun buy-back scheme.
The figures were released on Friday, seven weeks before a national referendum on whether to ban outright the sale of guns.
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Hunters blast Ont. gun inspection plan
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KENORA, Ont. -- A plan to conduct “blitz inspections” on Toronto gun shops as Canada's largest city battles a string of shooting deaths is getting shot down by two groups representing Ontario hunters.
The Ontario Federation of Anglers, which represents tens of thousands of gun owners and hunters, says the plan is a waste of police resources on an industry that is already rigorously inspected.
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'Control Borders, Not Guns' Says Citizens Committee in National Mail Campaign
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BELLEVUE, WA -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today announced a campaign to flood the White House with letters from American gun owners demanding that government put its energies into controlling the borders, rather than guns owned by law-abiding citizens.
"We intend to tell President Bush that American gun owners are tired of taking the heat, and the rap, for increasing numbers of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. "We need to control our borders, not perfectly legal firearms. Our government should seriously restrict access to our country by people who have no right to be here, rather than restrict the gun rights of citizens who were born here."
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