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Now is the time for Congress and America to sock it to New York's Bloomberg, says gun law expert
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"'Its about time Congress and Americas scores of millions of law-abiding firearm owners combined to really sock it to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other local gun-hating officials around the country,' gun law expert John Michael Snyder said here today." ...

"'...Anti-gun policies of Bloomberg and his ilk lead criminals to realize they generally will not face armed citizens as they engage in their nefarious activities. ...The policies of Bloomberg and company disarm law-abiding citizens and render decent people helpless in the face of violent criminal behavior. In a very real sense, the blood of the innocent is on their hands!'"

Another one complaining about "lack of balance"
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"A more balanced view is to be found in a current book, 'America's Constitution,' by Yale constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar. His extensive discussion of the Second Amendment includes the words, 'The Amendment's syntax has perplexed modern readers precisely because these readers persistently misconstrue the words 'militia' and 'people' by imposing twentieth- and twenty-first-century definitions on an eighteenth century text.'"

"The courts have consistently ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect individual ownership of guns. I called Morton Grove, Ill., and was assured that their gun-control law (the first in the nation) is still on the books. ..."

Philippines: Cop killed by own gun
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"AA policeman died when his own gun fell on the floor and fired a bullet into his chest yesterday."

"The victim was identified as Senior Police Officer (SPO)2 Ramil Bahian, formerly an outpost chief of Police Kabayan Center in Barangay San Jose under the jurisdiction of Fatima Police Station."

"The victim had earlier been reported to have committed suicide but the report could not be confirmed."

ME: Seeing Crime Guns Destroyed Gives Solace to Victims' Families
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"The mother had come to watch the gun that was used to kill her son be sawed into pieces in an acrid plume of white-hot sparks."

"Ms. DeCambra's act of witness was made possible by a law Maine enacted in 2001 that requires handguns used in homicides to be destroyed when they are no longer needed for evidence. Before that, guns were often sold or auctioned by police departments to raise money for other equipment."

"Gun control advocates, gun rights supporters, and law enforcement officials say they believe that Maine is the only state where the police allow victims' relatives to watch a gun's destruction, and the acts of witness are arranged informally by the police, not spelled out in the law."

Canada: Not so Fast on proposed handgun ban
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"If you have lived in Cochrane and area for any of the past five or six years, then youre likely familiar with a sport that Cochrane and area could claim to be Canadas capital of -- fast draw."

"But, with Prime Minister Paul Martins vow to completely ban handguns if re-elected, the sports future in Canada might be in jeopardy." ...

"'The $2 billion boondoggle of a gun registry hasnt stopped crime one bit, and neither will this.' And Blinn isnt unsympathetic to the gun violence that has plagued Toronto in recent months, but he said punishing law-abiding gun owners and collectors would do nothing to stem the tide of gun violence."

MD: 'Exile' firearms program widened
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"Federal and local law-enforcement officials have agreed tentatively to a new plan to lock up any violent felon who carries a firearm in Baltimore."

"The expanded 'Baltimore Exile' program includes significant prison time for the city's most dangerous criminals who carry guns."

"The collaborative effort is being led by the U.S. Attorney's Office and aims to reduce violent crime, including the city's high homicide rate."

UK: Man jailed for police gun attack
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Park was jailed for 21 months.

Adam Cole, aged 24, who had been drinking vodka and lager, told a bystander 'watch this' and pointed the Russian-made A101 ball bearing pistol at the two officers, PC Neil Ellingham and PC Andrew Paveley.

The officers struggled with Cole and the gun went off, St Albans crown court heard yesterday (Tuesday). Nobody was hurt.

Cole of Springfield Road, Hemel Hempstead appeared for sentence having pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a firearm with intent and one of possessing ball bearings with intent on August 26 last year.

SC: Darlington sheriff's deputy charged with manslaughter
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"A Darlington County sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday and charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a Chesterfield County man."

"Investigator Tim Robertson of Darlington fatally shot William E. Sheffield, 45, on Dec. 29 while serving a warrant on the man in Society Hill, just inside the Chesterfield County line ..." ...

"The family claimed Sheffield was unarmed and was shot in the back while running away from the officer."

NC: Former Cop Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking
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"A former police officer from Pitt County pleaded guilty Tuesday to cocaine trafficking, authorities said."

"Jerome Cox, who was a lieutenant with the Bethel Police Department, is being held at the Pitt County Detention Center until his April sentencing hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Bennett said."

"Cox and former Bethel Police Chief Reginald Roberts were arrested in October by federal agents following an undercover operation. Both men were charged with conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. Roberts also was charged with unlawfully selling a firearm to a convicted felon."

UK: Gun cops in park incident
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ARMED police were involved in a full-scale alert after reports of a man with a gun in a Glasgow park.

Specially trained officers were called to Queen's Park at around 8.40 last night after witnesses saw a man with a firearm.

Sniffer dogs and the force helicopter were also involved in the operation.

A spokeswoman for the police said today: "A 23-year-old man has been arrested after being involved in an alleged firearms incident."

IL: Daley says he'll continue push for gun laws Submitted by: News Director	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he'll continue to push for what he calls common-sense gun legislation." "Daley says stricter gun laws would help continue the decline of Chicago's crime rate. He noted that Chicago has posted two consecutive years with fewer than 500 homicides for the first time since 1965."

NY: Shooting Blanks
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"Watching the mayor take on certain causes in which we don't share his views, we've grown to have a good deal of respect for him, even when we think he's wrong. So we're not here to jeer at the demarche on guns that he announced in his inaugural address on Sunday. He wants a national debate about gun control, with an eye to exporting New York's strict gun control laws elsewhere. And we say, let's, by all means, have that debate. If we do, however, the mayor is likely to discover that if other states have gun control laws that are less onerous than ours, it's because other states have caught on to the fact that those laws don't cut crime."

NY: Gun lovers take potshots at Mike
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"Mayor Bloomberg's national call to stop the flow of illegal guns isn't playing too well down in Dixie, where many of the firearms used to commit crimes in the city originate."

"'Why don't he take care of his own problems first?' scoffed Marion Hammer, executive director of Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the Sunshine State's chapter of the National Rifle Association."

"Hammer was responding to Bloomberg's pledge, made at his inaugural on Sunday, to bring his fight for stricter gun control 'to Albany, to Washington and to every capital of every state that permits guns to flow freely across its borders.'"

UK: 50 Cent censured for gun and baby advert Submitted by: News Director	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a number of complaints about the marketing campaign for the star's soundtrack to the film 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'." "It deemed that the poster, which shows the singer otherwise known as Curtis Jackson naked from the waist up with a gun in his waistband and holding a baby, 'was likely to cause serious or widespread offence and was irresponsible'."

Canada: Hand gun ban knee-jerk
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"Long-time gun owner John Parsons has the same opinion as the Conservative candidate of Prime Minister Paul Martins call for banning handguns: Knee-jerk."

"'Theyre punishing the good guys because theyre scared to punish the bad guys,' he said Tuesday.
And while target shooters would be exempt from a handgun ban, Parsons is worried the government is even considering confiscating handguns -- even rifles at some point."

DC: Gun free in D.C.
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"... You are not safe in Washington, D.C. No one is."

"It doesnt have to be this way, of course. Thirty years ago, our nations capitol was in the midst of a crime wave. The city council responded by banning handguns and requiring shotguns and rifles to be kept unloaded, dismantled, and locked away. The law abiding residents of Washington, D.C. had been disarmed, and the criminals took notice. Violent crime dipped slightly in the two years following the ban, although the murder rate actually continued to climb. By 1979, however, the violent crime rate was back above 1976 levels, and it has remained so ever since."

UK: Sub-machine gun seized in home swoop
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"COPS have swooped to seize a deadly sub-machine gun and two converted pistols."

"The Mac 10 can fire up to 1,100 rounds per minute and detectives say it can cause carnage in the streets."

"Police raided a home in Hoxton last week and discovered the weapons, which had been hidden by a teenager."

"Det Insp David Smith revealed it was part of a worrying new trend with youngsters storing firearms for older gangsters."

Ireland: Amnesty expected to net illegal gun cache
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"GARDAÍ expect more than 3,000 illegal firearms will be handed over in an upcoming amnesty ahead of tough new anti-gun laws."

"Automatic minimum jail terms of between five and 10 years for a range of weapons offences are set to be approved by the Oireachtas before the summer as part of the Criminal Justice Bill."

"The move is aimed at cracking down on Irelands spiralling gun culture which left 19 people dead last year in gangland shootings."

NY: Mike's right to target guns
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"Thousands upon thousands of illegal guns are still out there, including the 9-mm. pistol that killed Selina Akther. We can only hope that no other innocent soul has to die before that weapon is finally recovered."

"More illegal guns pour into the city each day, almost all of them originating in other states. The exact numbers are difficult to determine, as the gun lobby has prodded Congress into placing such information outside the public view."

FL: Report lists ways that mistreated kids die
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"The 111 children who died in 2004 from abuse or neglect was up from 95 in 2003. The 2004 review only included 108 of those cases, because officials still didn't have key information in three cases."

"But of those 108 cases, most - 66 - were victims of neglect. The most common type of neglect death was drowning - 22 children in 2004. Eleven died in swimming pools, three in a bathtub, one in a bucket, the rest in canals, ponds or other water bodies."

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Guns accounted for less than 2 percent of those deaths, by the way.

NJ: Two shot outside school
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"Two Lincoln High School students were shot yesterday during a large brawl outside Lincoln High School's Communipaw Avenue entrance that began shortly after dismissal on the first day of class after winter break, officials and witnesses said."

"A boy was wounded in the arm and a girl in a buttock outside the Communipaw Avenue entrance to the Dr. Charles T. Epps Jr. Freshman Academy at Lincoln High School when shots were fired into a 'large crowd' about 3 p.m., Jersey City spokesman Stan Eason said."

IN: Park Tudor disciplines two over gun
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"The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating a 16-year-old accused of bringing a gun to Park Tudor School."

"The boy, who lives in Carmel, was expelled from the elite Northside school Tuesday and sent home with his mother, according to a police report. School officials suspended a 17-year-old Indianapolis boy who police say initially admitted selling the gun to the other boy for $50."

Canada: City set to announce gun amnesty
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"Police received a call late Tuesday night about gunfire at a pizzeria in Ottawa. The incident comes a day before Ottawa police and city officials unveil what they're calling a made-in-Ottawa solution to recent gun violence." ...

"On Thursday, Ottawa police and city officials are scheduled to announce a gun amnesty as part of a plan to get guns off city streets."

"Mayor Bob Chiarelli says the plan is more extensive than the gun amnesty the city ran a few years ago, which resulted in the collection of more than 1,000 weapons."

NY: Gun control in 2006: New Year, New Term Submitted by: News Director	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"If you are a person with some level of intelligence, you know guns are not the problem, and enforcing tougher gun laws is the equivalent of using a Band-Aid on a stroke victim." "Why not stamp out illegal drugs? They are a much bigger menace than guns are. Or why not increase social spending or build affordable housing?"

OH: Exposed: The Buckeye State's Anti-Gun Puppetmaster
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How Ohio's Gun Ban Extremists Try to Create the Illusion of Public Support for Gun Control

"Last August, I pulled back the curtain on the gun grabbers' Wizard of Toledo, exposing how Hoover pays herself a generous salary (plus expenses) and receives exorbitant grants from the ultra-liberal Joyce Foundation, and revealing Hoover's strategy to prop up an image of an abstract anti-gun 'public' in the minds of the press and legislators where in fact no such public exists."

"On the subject of the latter, I would now like to turn attention on the tactics Hoover has used to manipulated legislators and the media without ever having to speak to or even have them know she was involved."

CO: Elderly Couple Fires 'Warning Shot,' Scares Off Burglar
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"A suspected burglar is behind bars after an elderly couple scared him off by firing a 'warning shot' over his head, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said."

"The home invasion occurred just after 4 a.m. on New Year's Day in the 9100 block of Nelson Road."

"The couple told deputies that a man had tried to break into their home by kicking in the front door. The male homeowner yelled at the man several times to go away, but when the burglar wouldn't listen, the man grabbed a gun and fired a 'warning shot' over the burglar's head, the sheriff's office said."

Canada: No quick fix for gun crimes, Cotler says Submitted by: News Director	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said today he was as horrified as anyone by the Boxing Day shootings in Toronto but hes not feeling pressure to make a quick fix to solve the guns and gangs problem in the countrys biggest city." ... "However, with a comprehensive strategy involving the justice system, social system and the police, he said he is confident the gun violence will soon end."

VA: Time to stop selling weapons to criminals in Virginia
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"Here's a statistic Virginia should be ashamed of: The state is one of the top 10 suppliers of illegal weapons. One of the reasons is because the legislature allows the Old Dominion to be turned into a veritable bazaar for illegal weapons, where felons and others who could never acquire a weapon legally have easy access, with the state's blessing."

"That blessing comes in the form of a loophole in the state's gun laws, one big enough to drive an arsenal through: Virginia doesn't require background checks on buyers in many of the transactions at gun shows."

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Patent stupidity. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 2 percent of criminals get their guns at gun shows.

IN: Student Accused Of Having Gun In Vehicle Expelled (Another Report)
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"The security director found the gun and a separate, loaded ammunition clip while searching a 16-year-old's sport utility vehicle, which was in a parking lot at the school, Park Tudor spokeswoman Lisa Hendrickson said."

"The search happened after students told school officials that they heard a student had a firearm in his vehicle, Hendrickson said."

"Park Tudor contacted the Marion County Sheriff's Department, and the 16-year-old was expelled, Spencer reported."

IN: Clerk shoots suspect who tried to rob store
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"A store clerk shot a man who tried to rob a video and DVD store, Elkhart County authorities said."

"A man in his late teens pointed a gun at an employee at Media Madhouse on the city's westside on Monday, trying to rob the store, police said."

"A second employee told the man he would comply with his demands, then got a gun from behind the store counter and shot the man in the chest, said Trevor Wendzonka, spokesman for the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department."