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Cease Fire bus ad campaign a willful violation of Metro policy
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... "What that means is, not only must the signs come down, immediately, but other Metro policies for employee termination due to willful misconduct must be invoked against the responsible manager—otherwise, the ability to discipline any employee will be legally jeopardized if it is established that management turns a blind eye to gross violations from those in its rank for reasons of political sympathy." ... |
So-Called Law-Abiding Gun Owners vs. The Criminal Variety
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"G-d bless mikeb30200, he gives me so much material! A little while back I did a piece on how quiet revolutions in manufacturing and materials will allow people to make their own guns at home. mike commented:""Bruce, You write this stuff and then wonder why I conflate you so-called lawful gun owners with the criminal variety." "Hmmm, I'm not exactly sure how making firearms in your home could be considered any more illegal than, say, baking a cake, or making a knife, but mike seems to believe that such activities are grounds to 1) refer to us as so-called lawful gun owners and 2) smear us as being no different from criminal gun owners. ..." ... |
Astonishing response to crime in the ‘other Washington’
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"No sooner had this column written about Washington Ceasefire’s new unilateral public disarmament bus billboard campaign in King and Snohomish counties than was it brought to our attention about the attitude towards armed self-defense in 'the other Washington.'"
"District of Columbia, that is."
"In a Washington Times story by reporter Emily Miller, the city’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, Paul Quander, was quoted in response to a citizen concerned about crime in the nation’s capital." ... |
WaPo: Go Ahead, Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
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"You read that right. Courtland Milloy, a Washington Post columnist, is touting the efficacy of allowing concealed carry in the District. This after a man who was walking his dog was attacked and killed by a knife-wielding neighbor. We know that the 'we’re winning' articles and posts can get pretty repetitive and tired but you know what? We’re winning . . ." ... |
Holmes’ column on guns shows ignorance
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"You recently editorialized in response to an article focusing on rising gun sales in America (Gun shops find warm welcome in Natick: Feb. 29 Metrowest Daily News.)I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Rick Holmes ('Guns and paranoia,' March 5):."
"My first reaction to your opinion was a sense of embarrassment for you as a journalist. I simply cannot imagine a 'journalist' who could be more ignorant of real reasons American citizens might choose to exercise their Constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms. The most glaring example of this shortcoming on your part would be the Fast and Furious scandal." ... |
Ask Foghorn: Why Red Dots and Red Lasers and Not Green?
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"Brett asks (after seeing Act of Valor):""OK, just came from the show. A question for Nick… Why dual-use of red lasers and EOTechs on M4s in a lot of situations…is that par for the course? And with all of the sophisticated armament they dragged out, the SEALS would not have green lasers? Inquiring non-SEALS would like to know…"
"PS- The guns are great. The acting, notsomuch. But who cares…" "I don’t know if SEALs actually use red lasers, but there would be a damned good reason for it if they did. And it has to do with SCIENCE!" ... |
Davis County man shoots self in foot
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"A 37-year-old Davis County man was recovering Wednesday morning after authorities allege he accidentally[sic] shot himself in the foot." ...
"Authorities said the investigation into the incident continues."
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Guns and paranoia, continued
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"Following up on our earlier discussion, I wrote my column this week on the Obama’s-taking-your-guns phenomenon."
"Predictably, I got response from gun enthusiasts across the country, some of them pretty reasonable. One guy wrote to say that, while he agreed with much of what I wrote, a second Obama term poses a threat to gun-owners, if only because he would have the opportunity to name more Supreme Court justices that might overturn the broadened interpretation of the Second Amendment established by the Roberts Court. That may be true, depending on who retires when." ... |
Guns and paranoia
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"It’s not the guns. A reported surge in gun sales doesn’t bother me. But what they say is behind the surge does."
"'People are stocking up,' Greg Malany, owner of one of two gun stores that have opened recently in downtown Natick, told a Daily News reporter this week. 'A lot of the distributors that we deal with are sold out of guns.' Why? Because people are afraid of Barack Obama’s second term. 'A majority of people are buying guns before they feel it might be too late,' Malany said." ... |
Vanderboegh - SITREP: the GIST of it.
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"Well, that was interesting. Had a long chat with my new surgeon (who actually I had met before when I was going to the wound care clinic for my foot) and tells me I have a Gastrointestinal stromal tumor, or GIST for short."
"Bottom line: 1 in 5 chance of not surviving the surgery and convalescence. Will involve at least a partial gastrectomy with possible involvement in the pancreas, spleen and the main artery that serves the spleen. Minimum hospital stay two weeks. Maximum, two months, if I make it. The Doc led Rosey and me in a prayer at the end of the visit, which I appreciated greatly." ... |
Licenses to Carry Guns, Protection Against Robbery, and Protection Against Rape
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"When states have (or had) discretionary gun carrying license system, they have often provided that people who engage in 'business activities that involve heightened risk, such as the need to carry cash or other 'street valued' commodities' should generally get licenses. ... The theory is that these people are at heightened risk of robbery, and the loss to them from the robberies is likely to be especially grave. And this theory seems factually plausible. To my knowledge, no-one has quantified how great the risk tends to be ... but it’s certainly reasonable that the danger faced by someone who routinely carries lots of valuables is greater than that faced by, say, me."
"But women, especially young women, are particularly likely to be targets of rape. ..." ... |
NC: Armed robbery reported in college dorm room
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"Students juggling armfuls of books and steaming coffee cups strolled along Gardner-Webb University’s campus Wednesday morning."
"They talked in small groups, milling in and out of classrooms and the Dover Student Center. GWU student life seemed back to normal Wednesday, less than a day after two roommates were robbed at gunpoint in their dorm room. The students were unharmed, but police continue to look for the robbers." ... |
WA: Ceasefire’s $50K anti-gun message v. U District rapist
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"In an ironic exercise of remarkably poor timing, Washington Ceasefire has launched a $50,000 advertising campaign with bus billboards in King and Snohomish counties aimed at convincing people they should not have guns in their homes."
"This campaign was launched on the same day that the Seattle Times and other local news agencies were reporting that recently-released University District rapist Robert Douglas Hitt had been arrested in a U District house where, reportedly armed with a knife, he allegedly tied up six women and forced one of them to completely disrobe. This column leaves it to reader imagination what might have happened next, had not one of the women been able to summon Seattle police." ... |
OH: “Can’t Miss” Candidate's Reception Coming Soon
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"The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (USSA) will host a Candidate's Reception for current elected officials, candidates for Ohio's General Assembly, and for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. This free-of-charge event is part of the organization's annual effort to connect Ohio's sportsmen community with current and potential policymakers." ... |
IN: NRA Endorses Mourdock
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"The National Rifle Association today endorsed State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in his primary election battle against Sen. Richard Lugar."
"Chris Cox, the NRA’s chief lobbyist and chairma of its political victory fund, said it was an 'easy' decision."
"'Richard Mourdock is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment,' Cox said, referring to the constitutional right to keep and bear arms."
"Lugar, he said, has an 'F' rating and got it 'the old-fashioned way: He earned it.' He cited various votes by Lugar and Lugar’s refusal to sign letters backing the NRA’s position in various legal cases." ... |
Senate Bill: Create Shooting Ranges on Federal Land
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"The [NSSF], the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, is encouraging all sportsmen, gun owners and firearms enthusiasts to contact members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today and urge them to support the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act (S. 1249 / H.R. 3065). This bi-partisan legislation will give states greater flexibility in using their Pittman-Robertson funds to establish safe recreational shooting areas. More specifically, the legislation will help facilitate the construction and expansion of public target ranges, including ranges on federal land managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management." ... |
NSSF Urges Congress to Pass Hunting, Shooting and Fishing Protection Bills
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"The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will vote today to forward a historic package of legislation to Congress that includes a number of legislative priorities of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry."
"H.R. 4089, known as the Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012, was recently introduced by Congressmen Jeff Miller and Mike Ross, who are co-chairs of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, along with Bob Latta and Heath Shuler, vice co-chairs, and caucus members Congressmen Don Young, Dan Benishek and Dan Boren as well as Congressman Jeff Flake serving as original co-sponsors." ... |
Maryland Handgun Ruling a Victory for Second Amendment Supporters
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"There’s never been a better time in America for gun rights advocates. Starting in 2008 with the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision, continuing through 2010 with the McDonald case, and showing no signs of abating this Monday after the Woollard ruling was filed by a federal court in Maryland: in just a few short years the country has been swept with a wave of unprecedented court decisions that have amounted to nothing less than a revolution for gun rights and jurisprudence surrounding the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." ... |
Federal Judge: Citizens Need Not Ask Permission to Exercise 2nd Amendment Rights
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... "... He was represented by attorney Alan Gura of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), who has argued — and won — two significant gun rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: District of Columbia v. Heller ... and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), in which the court found that the Second Amendment applies to the states."
"Relying in part on those two decisions, Judge Legg held that the Maryland law 'impermissibly infringes the right to keep and bear arms, guaranteed by the Second Amendment' by imposing 'a rationing system' that 'aims … simply to reduce the total number of firearms carried outside the home by limiting the privilege to those who can demonstrate 'good reason' beyond a general desire for self-defense.'" ... |
District Court Concludes Second Amendment Secures Right to Carry, But Not “While Being Employed for” a Felon
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"So holds United States v. Weaver ... The judge expressly endorsed Judge Niemeyer’s separate opinion in United States v. Masciandaro ... that concluded that the Second Amendment applies outside the home and not just in the home, and that restrictions on gun carrying must be tested under so-called 'intermediate scrutiny.' ..."
"But the court held that 18 U.S.C. § 922(h), which bars people from knowingly possessing guns 'in the course of … employment' 'while being employed for any person' who is himself a felon possessing guns. (Here, the defendants were allegedly members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, and were allegedly taking instructions from a club leader who was a convicted felon.) ..." ... |
MD: Suspected weapon in child shooting found in city officer's vehicle
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"A Baltimore police officer has been suspended for his 'conduct' in the aftermath of the shooting of a 13-year-old girl, and after the weapon police suspect was used in the crime was found in his personal vehicle, according to law enforcement sources."
"Police investigators believe the off-duty officer, whose name was not released, was in a relationship with a relative of one of the juvenile suspects charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter, sources said. Investigators are trying to determine whether he advised the juveniles after the shooting occurred." |
CT: Parents of Orange teen accept settlement
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"The parents of 19-year-old David Servin, of Orange, who was killed in a crash with a Milford police cruiser, accepted $2.5 million Tuesday morning to settle state and federal lawsuits in the case."
"Officer Jason Anderson's speed was estimated at 94 mph when he broadsided the car. The officer, who was returning from a mutual aid call in West Haven, did not have his light bar or siren deployed and was not responding to a new call." ... |
IL: Officer gets 3 years in deadly DUI crash
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"A Chicago Police officer learned his sentence Tuesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager who was riding his bicycle nearly three years ago."
"Richard Bolling is sentenced to three years in prison in the death of Trenton Booker."
"Officer Bolling was off-duty when he struck the teen and left the scene. He was a 17-year Chicago Police veteran without a blemish on his record. But, May 22, 2009, he made a fatal mistake by driving while drunk and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. It is those actions that caused the judge to sentence him to prison." ... |
LA: Former officer accused of choking suspect
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"A former Port Allen police officer was charged Tuesday with nearly choking a man to death during a 2011 traffic stop."
"A West Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted Jasmione Clark on charges of second-degree battery and malfeasance in office for the Sept. 24 incident that prosecutors said left Port Allen resident Brandon Whaley bloody and unconscious." ...
"'The medical evidence clearly shows he was choked around the carotid artery,' [Prosecutor] Chabert said. 'A doctor who looked at the records said 45 seconds of being choked like that, and you’re brain-dead. Sixty seconds of being choked like that, and you’re dead. He was only seconds away from brain damage or death.'" ... |
PA: Alleged beating of teen nets $75,000 settlement
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"A Homewood man agreed to a partial settlement of his police brutality lawsuit against Pittsburgh after the city agreed to pay potential civil judgments against three police officers, his attorney said."
"City Council on Tuesday approved a $75,000 settlement with Jordan Miles, 20, whose lawsuit continues in U.S. District Court against the officers who arrested him two years ago in Homewood. Miles, who is black, alleges the white officers never identified themselves as police when they 'beat him to a pulp' and violated his civil rights after stopping him in January 2010 while he walked near the home of his mother and grandmother." ... |
OR: Board wants all unarmed
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"In Appaloosa, the town created by the late Robert B. Parker, the council hires Virgil Cole and his friend Everett Hitch to restore order."
"Cole has a simple system: No guns. If he sees somebody with a gun, he’ll ask him to hand it over."
"What if he refuses? 'I'll shoot him,' Cole says."
"This works in Appaloosa because Cole does shoot people now and then and the town ... can’t have more than 200 inhabitants, if that."
"It would not work on a campus with 20,000 students plus thousands of employees. Also, there’s hell to pay if the law shoots anybody who refuses an order."
"Which brings us to the wishful thinkers on the state Board of Higher Education and in the chancellor’s office of the Oregon University System. ..." ...
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