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Remarks on Blacks Cause Uproar in House (Another report)
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"A Wyoming lawmaker's remarks about guns, drugs and blacks created an uproar in the U.S. House on Wednesday as critics decried her comments as offensive."
"During debate on a bill that would block many lawsuits against gun dealers and gun manufacturers, Wyoming Republican Barbara Cubin referred to an amendment that would have allowed lawsuits when guns were sold to drug users."
" 'Does that mean if you go into a black community you can't sell any guns to any black person?' said Cubin, a fifth-term conservative with a pro-gun voting record." |
CA: Mentally Ill Teen Is Slain by Deputy
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"A mentally ill teenager was shot and killed by a Ventura County sheriff's deputy after cutting himself with a knife and approaching a crowd of people at a Thousand Oaks swimming school, authorities said Wednesday." |
American Flag Flap
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"The mood of Iraqi civilians was briefly muted in Baghdad Wednesday as Chin climbed up and covered Saddam's face with an American flag."
"The crowd's loud cheers faded, and in less than a minute the Stars and Stripes was removed from the massive statue and replaced with Iraq's black, white and red flag."
"Chin's move touched a sensitive chord among Arabs and irritated U.S. military leaders who want Iraqis to view U.S. forces as liberators, not occupiers." |
The left hypocritically asks how much the war costs
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"Interesting how anti-war activists and politicians show concern over 'excessive expenditures' – yet only when it comes to projects they oppose." ...
"What about Clinton-led incursions in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina? Intervention in the Balkans during the '90s cost the United States about $15 billion." ... |
Gun group denounces industry suits
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"A noted gun-rights organization has denounced a series of lawsuits against the firearm industry as financially debilitating and a danger to national security."
"Gun Owners of America, a 300,000-strong advocacy group based in Springfield, Va., says the latest suits, which are being led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, could bankrupt gun makers who must dole out thousands upon thousands of dollars in their own defense." |
CA: Suit accuses LAPD officer of selling celebrity data
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"A Los Angeles police officer used department computers to access confidential law enforcement records of celebrities and sold the information to tabloids, according to a lawsuit recently settled by the city."
"Officer Kelly Chrisman, a 13-year veteran, acknowledged looking up the information, but said he did so at the direction of his superiors, according to internal Los Angeles Police Department records. Attorney Christopher Darden said his client never sold the information to anyone." |
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"Walking through New York's Penn Station the other day, I looked at the young men in military fatigues wielding machine guns and was struck by the thought that this was something I never thought I'd see in America. In Russia, where I lived until the age of 16, military men in city streets were a common sight. Later on, as an American vacationing in Europe several times in the 1980s and 1990s, I noticed the everyday precautions against terrorism—the military patrols, the warnings that any package or bag left unattended in a public place would be destroyed, the metal lids screwed on trash cans—and reflected on how different life was in the United States. That's one reflection we no longer have the luxury to make. Have we changed so much that we have lost ourselves?" |
WA: FBI gun stolen from trunk, recovered
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"The case of the missing FBI submachine gun was solved Tuesday."
"Through a series of SWAT raids, search warrants and interviews, police detectives and FBI agents located the MP-5 that was stolen last week from an FBI agent's car."
"A car prowler stole the gun, a bullet-resistant vest, FBI raid jacket and a blue flashing light last week from the trunk of the agent's car near Audubon Park."
"The prowler 'stole (the firearm) and traded it for methamphetamine,' Deputy Chief Al Odenthal said." |
Gun makers get boost from House (Another version)
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"The House yesterday voted to pre-empt the lawsuits that dozens of cities have filed against gun manufacturers and dealers to recover costs associated with gun crimes."
"The bill, approved 285-140, would head off the series of lawsuits already filed against the gun industry and prohibit new ones. The lawsuits essentially argue that particular gun and ammunition makers, dealers and distributors should be held responsible for how some criminals used their firearms." |
Count your remaining liberties at the next security checkpoint
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"In their America, nobody walks into a courthouse, or a police station, or a City Hall or a State House, without going through a metal detector and showing strangers the contents of any bags they're carrying."
"It's a world where they put security cameras in department stores, and electronic beepers at airports, and the electric sign suspended over the Beltway gives you a telephone number to call if you think you spot anything that might be connected to terrorism." |
FL: Scandal Uncovered At Orange County Clerk's Office
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"A scandal has been uncovered at the Orange County Clerk's Office. Managers say at least four employees have been stealing from people paying court costs. They're still trying to figure out how long it has been going on. They believe it has been going on at least three months, maybe longer. It could have kept going on, if it weren't for one suspicious customer." |
MO: Concealed weapons bill gets OK from Senate panel
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"The Senate Pensions and General Laws committee endorsed the bill 5-3, sending it to the full Senate. The bill passed the Missouri House last month."
"Gov. Bob Holden has said he would veto the measure, but it may have enough support for a veto override." |
Charlton Heston Message To U.S. Troops
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"There is no duty more noble than that which has called you across the world in defense of freedom. Yours is a mission of hope and humanity for the oppressed. Rest assured that while pretend-patriots talk of supporting you, even as they condemn your noble cause, an unwavering vast majority of Americans share and take pride in your mission. You represent all that is good and right about America and are the true face of American patriotism." ... |
TX: Mom sues after student expelled over rap poem
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"The mother of a Fort Worth student expelled for reciting rap lyrics school officials found threatening has sued the Fort Worth school district and Superintendent Thomas Tocco." ...
"Carter, who was ranked sixth in the 186-member senior class, got in trouble after reading an extra-credit poem in his theater-arts class Jan. 30. The offending verse: '(Name of a female student), but I got myself a gun, ready to pull the trigger, for any gold digger.' " |
South Africa: Hunt for 200 000 missing firearms
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"At least 20 000 Capetonians who have died are still listed as gun owners - and police now want to know where these firearms are."
"National police spokesman Andrew Lesch said more than 200 000 guns were registered in the names of dead people countrywide, according to the police national firearms register." |
PA: Cops use ID info in criminal cases
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"Scanning a driver's license at the local liquor store can reveal more than just age."
"When a patron's ID is scanned to ensure authenticity at a liquor store, the person's purchase and identification information is added to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's (PLCB) electronic database in Harrisburg, PLCB spokeswoman Molly McGowan said."
"Police can retrieve the information for use in criminal cases, she said." |
Three Shooters Represent Navy Rifle at National Event
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"Three members of the Navy rifle team will participate in the Junior Olympic Shooting Championship Friday through Monday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo."
"Sophomores Matt Albright (Shelton, Conn.), Mike Miller (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Kevin Wilson (Freeport, N.Y.) take aim at the most prestigious Junior competition in the country. Each competitor will enter the championship in both air rifle and smallbore and will be aiming for a top-two spot in either gun." ... |
NY: Dean draws standing-room-only crowd at Center
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"An enthusiastic, overflow crowd turned out to see Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Governor Howard Dean speak at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center on W. 13th St. last Friday evening." ...
"In response to a question on where he stands on gun control, he said he supports the assault weapons ban and Brady bill, but that gun control means different things in different regions and should be left up to the states." |
Right To Carry 2003
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"There are currently 34 Right-to-Carry states. More than 50% of Americans, including two of every three handgun owners, live in RTC states." |
Australia: Anger on two fronts over new gun law
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"Hordes of pre-1900 firearms held by some Midlands landowners would have to be registered under new gun legislation, the Tasmanian Firearm Owners Association said yesterday."
"Meanwhile, the National Coalition for Gun Control said the bill was a 'spectacular failure' because gun-owners would simply swap one class of lethal semi-automatic handguns for another." |
Bill Would Place Caps on Tobacco Lawyers
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"Lawyers in a landmark tobacco lawsuit could be forced to give $9 billion in fees to the states they represented, according to legislation introduced Thursday by two Republican senators." ...
"The proposal would impose a 200 percent tax on payments to lawyers that exceed five times the 'reasonable' rate, which would vary by jurisdiction. In big cities lawyers still could make more than $2,500 an hour." |
Chinese-American Double Agent Arrested in L.A. Another FBI Agent Included Too
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"A Chinese-American woman helping U.S. government agents as 'an asset on China' allegedly stole classified documents from her FBI agent lover and then sent them to China, prosecutors said on Wednesday."
"Katrina Leung, 49, was arrested along with her lover, retired FBI Agent James J. Smith, 59. She was charged with obtaining documents related to national defense for the advantage of a foreign nation." |
Handgun Control Inc. whines about a conspiracy to "feed the illegal gun market"
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"Previously secret gun industry documents, statements from industry whistle-blowers, and sworn testimony from a host of industry executives obtained in lawsuits show that firearms industry businesses have actively and knowingly allowed guns to be sold into the illegal market, according to a report released today by attorneys at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence."
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Brady complains indignantly about the passage of H.R. 1036
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"Today's vote by the U.S. House of Representatives was shameful. It boggles the mind that any industry, never mind the gun industry, would be given sweeping immunity from citizen lawsuits."
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Sweeping immunity from citizen lawsuits? No immunity from attempts to sue the industry out of existence by money-grubbing, opportunistic swine. |
Don't count on U.N. (Letter)
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"A letter in the March 31 edition is so absurd I simply had to respond. The writer mused, 'War has never solved one problem, moral or otherwise.' Tell that to the French, who'd be speaking German today if the Allies hadn't warred against Hitler & Company and saved them. Have you not seen the picture of Adolf Hitler standing victorious in front of the Eiffel Tower? Problem solved, by war, and may Hitler & Company rot in hell." |
CA: Man shrugs off stun gun, door, fence
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"There wasn't much that could stop Carlos Cruz on Wednesday night."
"After visiting his daughter at an ex-girlfriend's house, police said, the 30-year-old Fresno man raced through a glass door, ran through a wooded fence and shook off three shots from a Taser." |
A disarming man
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... "Off the record, some of Ricker's former brethren suggest that Ricker is a sellout who makes $225 an hour testifying against his former friends." ...
"Only time will tell if hardball lobbies such as the NRA -- or NARAL Pro- Choice America -- are right to oppose almost all compromises. To them, this is war, and the other side is the enemy."
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NY: Wal-Mart suspends toy gun sales in N.Y. after state sues over lack of safety markings
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"Wal-Mart suspended sales of toy guns in its New York stores on Thursday after the state sued, accusing the retailer of selling toys that lack required safety markings to distinguish them from real weapons."
"The toy guns have orange caps on their barrels, as required by federal law, but they don't have nonremoveable orange stripes down the barrel's length as New York law requires, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's lawsuit contends." ... |
The anti-gunners continue to complain
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"With the nation focused on the Iraq war, the House of Representatives chose this week to pass a special-interest bill that would give gunmakers and gun-sellers near immunity from lawsuits arising from violence their wares cause." ...
"Many gunmakers and distributors are careful in selling guns. But they shouldn't try to protect the bad apples in their industry who are neither concerned nor careful enough to keep guns out of the hands of killers." |
Senators to Try to Block Gun Lawsuit Bill
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"Armed with a new report on gun industry sales practices, a group of Democratic senators vowed on Thursday to block legislation that would give gun makers and dealers broad protection from lawsuits."
" 'It is an unconscionable piece of legislation,' New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg said of the bill passed by the House on Wednesday with bipartisan support."
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Is it any surprise that Lautenberg would attempt to facilitate the destruction of a legitimate industry by litigation? This is the same guy who authored the Lautenberg Amendment, an offensive, unconstitutional piece of legislation that deprives citizens of the right to keep and bear arms. |
AL: City schools reverse laser pointer decision
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"Huntsville school officials have reversed their decision to expel Wesley Jernigan from Challenger Middle School for using a laser pointer."
"The agreement finalized late Tuesday would allow the 14-year-old back into Challenger and remove the expulsion from the boy's record..." ...
"In January, Wesley was charged with 'battery upon an individual' for aiming the red beam at a friend while walking home from school. After an expulsion hearing, Wesley was kicked out of school for one year." |
Congresswoman Criticized for Racially "Offensive" Remarks
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"Cubin, who supports the bill, complained on the House floor about an amendment brought by Democrats which, had it passed, would have banned gun sales to drug addicts or people undergoing drug treatment."
" 'So does that mean that if you go into a Black community, you can't sell guns to any Black person?' Cubin asked, according to the Associated Press." |
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