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Handwringing Over NSA ‘Intrusion’ Rings False
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"The debate over wiretapping U.S. citizens has joined critics from both the left and the right. There are not yet many details known about the surveillance and until there are I think reserving judgment is prudent. What I wonder is where some of these commentators who now seem so troubled about encroachments on citizens’ liberties have been the last several decades."
"In ways large and small, government at every level has been curbing our freedoms for a long time." ...
"We aren’t free to exercise our rights under the Second Amendment. Governments at various levels have infringed on those rights in numerous ways." |
Guns become family heirlooms
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"The news that Winchester Arms is no longer making the Guns that Won the West is the latest blow to the manufacturing industry and the loss of another American icon." ...
"It's true that firearms have become a family keepsake. I personally know the bond family members have with their deer rifles as most men and some women in my family have always owned guns."
"It's quite an honor to receive a rifle or shotgun from someone who no longer hunts or who has passed away. Even friends who don't go hunting have told me about receiving guns after a family member has passed away. They realize that it was something special to that person and it's to be cherished and respected." |
Criticism toward ACLU grounded in partisan dogma (Letter)
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"Cait Jacob's article in last Wednesday's edition of The Post, 'ACLU uneven in approach to liberty,' was an oversimplification of several complex issues." ...
"When making pro-2nd Amendment overtures, Jacob once again turns a very complex issue into a dogmatic, simple one - either by mistake or from calculated omission - when, while quoting the 2nd Amendment, she leaves out a very relevant ellipses. ...When taking the entire Amendment into consideration, the ACLU's stance on gun control seems to be arguable, at the very least. Accusing the ACLU board of directors as being, 'quick to interpret this amendment as they want,' seems quite dishonest, given Jacob's stab at objectivity." |
Gun grabbers' British legacy: 'More carrying firearms as fashion accessories'
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"Despite the fact that handguns were banned in that country in 1997, the (UK) Independent is reporting on record levels of gun crime in Great Britain, and says Scotland Yard blames the rise on the fact that teen-aged criminals, who increasingly believe that illegally carrying firearms is 'fashionable', are now more willing than ever to settle 'trivial disputes' with a gun." ...
"As author James Swan puts it, 'The rate of violent crime in England and Wales is more than double the United States. It is now more dangerous to walk the streets of London than New York.'"
"The failed foreign social experiment of gun bans must never be allowed to meet our shores. It is up to all of us. It is up to you." |
FL: Lauderhill woman shoots home intruder
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"A Lauderhill woman shot an elderly intruder in the stomach, after he broke into her two-story townhouse apartment early Wednesday morning and refused to leave, Lauderhill police said."
"One of the woman's three young children first spotted the man inside their home, at 5925 N.W. 23rd Street, around 6:30 a.m.."
"The child told their mother, who demanded that the man leave. When he refused, she shot him, police said." |
OH: Robber, Clerk Exchange Fire After Robbery
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"A robbery at a Springfield Township convenience store ended in gunfire Tuesday night."
"Officers said a man entered the Kwik-N-Kold store on Daly Road at about 9 p.m., aimed a shotgun at a clerk and demanded money."
"The clerk gave the man money, but as the gunman left, another clerk followed him into the parking lot and opened fire on him."
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IL: Rep. Linda Chapa Lavia Seeks Statewide Ban on Water Pistols, Says ISRA
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"What kind of nut would want to ban squirt guns?"
"That's the question that tens of thousands of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners are asking today after it was revealed that Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) has co-sponsored a measure that would ban the possession of everything from water pistols to hunting rifles."
"The bill in question, HB4132, would ban the sale and possession of so-called 'replica weapons' including anything that looks even remotely like a firearm or other materiel produced for military purposes." |
Boy Shoots Girl
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"AT A DAY-CARE center in Germantown, an 8-year-old boy shot a 7-year-old girl with a handgun yesterday, hitting her in the arm but not killing her. The boy, whose father is a convicted felon with a long rap sheet, had bragged that he had access to guns. But why is it that after years of similar incidents and anguish and debate, the country has yet to enact laws to prevent such tragedies?"
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Canada: Gun owners helped dump Libs: Lobby
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"'Pissed off' Canadian gun owners played a major role in ousting the Liberals, according to the second largest gun lobby group in the U.S."
"Dave Workman, spokesman for the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said gun owners heard enough about the Liberals' gun registry and handgun ban and helped the Conservatives win Monday's election." |
WI: Legislators jump to gun lobby's tune (Letter)
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"Dear Editor: "NO GUNS ALLOWED AT THE YMCA!" I just returned from my workout at the Y in Hudson, and as always, the sign on the door disturbed me. It says handguns are banned! That this healthy, busy place, full of ordinary people and many, many little kids, must post such a sign just floors me. It seems so incredibly out of place."
"Yet, in this age of fear and paranoia, apparently it's necessary. ..."
"Then I heard Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature passed a similar law! We're told that we have a right to protect ourselves from criminals. I am again floored, especially when I read that the police are adamantly opposed. ..." |
FL: Mobile business aims to attract gun owners, police officers
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"They can’t take the people to the mountain, so they take the mountain to the people."
"This is the business strategy of Mike Christoff and Ed d’Alessandro, two Marco police officers who have invested in a 58,000-pound rig that from the outside looks like any big long-hauler, but is actually a completely outfitted, mobile shooting range."
"The duo, who operate the business when they’re off-duty, are based off Elkcam Circle in the industrial area of town."
"If necessary, they can drive the rig anywhere in the state." |
GA: Coach talks student into giving up gun
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"A Norcross High School student was charged with bringing a firearm onto school property when he allegedly brought a realistic-looking pellet gun to football practice last week."
"Receiver Tyrece Gaines had already dealt with administrators and football coaches about several angry outbursts and disruptions when he again 'lost his temper' and became combative at school on Thursday, according to a school police report. Most of the issues involved his on-again, off-again relationship with his girlfriend, whom he had been dating for several months." |
Canada: Sask. MP draws a bead on gun registry
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"Getting rid of the gun registry is still within the sights of Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz."
"Breitkreuz, who was re-elected Monday after capturing 63 per cent of the vote in the Yorkton-Melville riding, has been a leading critic of the registry on rifles and shotguns for many years."
"He says there should be action on the federal gun registry in just a few months."
"Breitkreuz believes the program that resulted from the gun legislation, Bill C-68, has been wasteful and ineffective." |
TX: Student Allegedly Brings Gun To High School
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"A high school student faces felony charges after allegedly bringing a loaded gun to school."
"Officials claim Emmanuel DeLeon entered Richardson’s Berkner High School on Wednesday with a gun hidden away. They say the weapon was discovered when it fell from the 17-year old’s waistband." |
MD: Gun Locks Could Have Stopped Day Care Shooting
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"Police say Tuesday’s shooting at a Germantown day care center is an urgent reminder to gun owners that locking a firearm isn't just the smart thing to do, it's also the law."
"If the gun owned by the accused 8-year-old boy’s father had a lock on it, there would probably not have been a shooting."
"John Hall is under arrest not because he fired the weapon, but because his son found the gun, unlocked and loaded inside a closet. Leaving a firearm where a child can find it and use it is against the law."
"And so since 2002, all gun sold in Maryland come with a lock. New guns have locks built in; older guns are sold with locks to keep the weapons from engaging." |
Canada: Ottawa's Gun Amnesty Officially Begins
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"Ottawa Police don't know how many firearms they may end up with, but by all indications, their Gun Amnesty is bound for success."
"They don't have any statistics or case studies that give them any real indication of what to expect, but what bodes well for the program is word that 55 guns have been turned in since the program was announced a few weeks ago -- before the amnesty officially began Wednesday." |
CA: Protecting kids with gun locks
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"And guns can be an overwhelming lure for a child. They see them every day on TV. The culture of gun ownership is as old as the Revolutionary War or the taming of the Old West."
"The problem is, most kids don't know how to handle a gun, yet they are fascinated by such an intricate piece of machinery. They'll find a way to pull the trigger - which too often ends in tragedy."
"Nearly 200 children a year die in gun accidents at home. We call them 'accidents' but most of those tragedies could be averted. All a gun owner has to do is lock up the firearms in a home. In most cases, all the childish experimenting in the world can't get a locked pistol or rifle or shotgun to discharge." |
WI: Uphold veto on gun bill
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"There's the provision that allows citizens who get concealed carry permits to carry not only guns, but also knives, billy clubs and electric shock weapons in most public places except for schools, taverns and police stations."
"Yes, we understand that 46 other states allow their citizens to carry concealed weapons, but there's a genuine argument over whether those concealed carry laws have really done anything to lower the crime rate within their states. Besides, just because other states have the law doesn't mean it's right. Most states also allow capital punishment. Wisconsin continues to believe that's wrong." |
OH: What If The Gun Grabbers Win?
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"For years now, we at OFCC have been involved in the struggle to return rights to Ohio citizens. Not only the right to carry a concealed firearm for personal protection, but all the gun rights you are entitled to as a U.S. citizen."
"We need only to look across the pond to see the consequences of the failure to act." ...
"This is the kind of thing many of the gun grabbers would like to see here in America, a world where you have no right to defend yourself or your loved ones; a world where even thinking about doing so solicits a visit from the authorities." |
MI: Police find gun inside teen's school locker
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"A teenage boy is facing charges after police found a gun inside his locker at school."
"The .22-caliber handgun was recovered Tuesday morning from the locker at Muskegon Heights High School after officials received a tip."
"Police say the gun was loaded, but that no threats were reported." |
CO: Sixth grader arrested after accidentally shooting girl with pellet gun
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"A sixth-grader has been arrested and could be expelled for bringing a plastic pellet gun to his school that went off, hitting a classmate."
"The boy brought a replica gun to Horace Middle School on Tuesday, said Denver Public Schools spokesman Mark Stevens. He said the boy pulled the gun out and it accidentally discharged, hitting a girl in the torso near him." |
LA: High school student booked on gun count
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"Authorities have arrested a 17-year-old New Orleans evacuee attending Scotlandville High School after bringing a loaded gun onto school grounds."
"East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies booked Terry William White of Baker into the Parish Prison on counts of possession of marijuana, violating a firearm-free zone and carrying a firearm by a student on school property."
"Sheriff's office spokesman Fred Raiford said a student told a deputy patrolling the school that White had a gun." |
MD: What You Should Know About Gun Safety And Kids
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"Joe D'Agostino first learned how to hunt and fire a gun when he was eight years old, the same age of the boy who brought his father's gun to daycare Tuesday morning in Germantown, Maryland and wounded a classmate. D'Agostino says because he was aware of guns and how they work, he knew the power they have."
"You have to make sure everyone is aware of the guns in the house. Even children. Make them aware of basic gun safety and how a gun should be left alone." ...
"Officials with the National Rifle Association recommend all children get involved in firearm safety programs."
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Shootings Showcase Need for Gun Safety
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"Firearm accidents, especially among children, continue to worry parents and law-enforcement agencies, even though the numbers have dropped in recent years. Thirty-four percent of American children live in a home with at least one gun."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1.69 million children live in homes where firearms have not been put in safe places. In 2003, more than 2,000 children were killed by firearms, 182 from accidental shootings. Another grim statistic: More than 900 children committed suicide with a gun."
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Canada: Student shoots BB-like gun in Bowmanville school
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"A 17-year-old male is facing charges after up to eight shots were fired from a BB-like gun inside a Bowmanville high school classroom this morning.
No students were hit and there were no reported injuries, the Durham Regional Police say."
"However, the Bowmanville High School, Vincent Massey Public School and Central Public school went into lockdown mode for about 20 minutes after a suspect, allegedly a former student at the high school, walked into a classroom at 9 a.m. and started firing." |
NH: Teen charged in case of gun brought to school
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"Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with a loaded handgun that was brought to a Manchester (New Hampshire) high school by another teen in November."
"One 15-year-old and two 16-year-old boys were charged in the case yesterday. Authorities say one of the 16-year-olds bought the gun with the help of the other two teens. Police say the three got the gun for a 14-year-old boy who later brought the weapon to school." |
Jamaica: Cop in big trouble
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"A constable who gave conflicting statements to the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) office regarding the seizure of an illegal gun in West Kingston, has found himself in trouble with the law."
"Constable Calvin Hemmings, attached to the Denham Town Police Station, appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court Wednesday, charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice."
"He pleaded not-guilty and was offered bail in the sum of $250,000." |
UK: Police investigate gun crime links
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"DETECTIVES in Sheffield are investigating a series of shootings which may be connected."
"In the space of just 20 minutes two gun attacks were carried out in the same part of Sheffield on Monday night. This comes just days after a man was shot on the doorstep of his Sheffield home - the ninth shooting reported to South Yorkshire Police in the last six months."
"Now police are investigating any possible links."
"In the first of the latest attacks at around 8pm on Monday, a man in his 40s was confronted by two men trying to get into his Southey Hill home in Sheffield. One was carrying what looked like a silver handgun and shots were fired but no one was hit." |
NC: Gun-control group honors deputy's widow
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"Before Patricia Tucker became the wife of a sheriff's deputy, she was a nurse, often tending to others' gunshot wounds."
"That is part of what motivated her and her late husband, Wake County sheriff's deputy Mark Tucker, to favor gun control decades ago." ...
"Whatever it takes to stop the insanity in our communities" is what Tucker wants. Last year, she sued the pawn shop that sold the gun that killed her husband. A friend bought the gun for Matthew Grant, Mark Tucker's killer, because he knew Grant's prior record would prevent him from buying one himself."
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PA: Fritz sets rifle match record
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"Shanksville's Scott Fritz broke his own school record with a 264 score to highlight the Vikings' 1,184-1,040 varsity rifle match victory over Shanksville on Friday at the Scullton Rod and Gun Club."
"Fritz set the former individual school record of 262 in January of last year. His 264 score also ties Berlin's Eric Good for the all-time District 5 record."
"Under the National Rifle Association's qualification program, District 5 rifle team members are eligible to receive a Distinguished Expert award. In order to reach this milestone a competitor must score a 264 in two NRA sanctioned matches. If either Fritz or Good scores another 264 or higher, they will be the first District 5 athlete to achieve this feat." |
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