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Cargo Pilots Get Certified to Carry Guns in Cockpit
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"Commercial jet pilots aren’t the only ones getting certified to carry weapons in the cockpit. Now those who command cargo planes are also training to defend themselves against inflight terrorist attacks."
"Those who pass the rigorous Transportation Security Administration course in Artesia, N.M., will become federal flight deck officers (FFDOs) and will be authorized to use deadly force to protect the cockpit if necessary." ...
"This is the first month that cargo pilots are joining the class, but they’re doing it voluntarily and at their own expense." |
More hysteria from the gun banners
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"The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) today released its annual report, Protect Children Instead of Guns 2004, detailing gun deaths among children and teenagers throughout the country. As the threat of gun violence grows, the report helps show why the Bush Administration and Congress should renew the ten-year-old Assault Weapons Ban. ...Children and teens continue to die from gun violence in America at unprecedented levels in comparison to the rest of the industrialized world. Using the most recent annual data, CDF's report shows that 2,911 children and teens die from gun violence each year - one child every three hours. ...Thanks in part to the Assault Weapons Ban, gun deaths among children and teens has decreased since 1994."
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How many of these "children" are gang-bangers? How many of these deaths are suicides? And how many are actually committed with banned "assault" weapons.
This particular press release attempts to link the "assault" weapons ban with the deaths of children, without actually establishing a connection. It mentions ambiguous deaths by firearms and attempts to promote the unconstitutional "assault" weapons ban by using this generalization. |
Robert Ricker: Advice for Bush (JTO)
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"As someone who used to work for the NRA, ...I believe....the NRA does not represent mainstream American gun owners."
"Even more interesting is the fact that the NRA doesn't speak for even its most die-hard members. NRA leaders like Wayne LaPierre and Kayne Robinson are pragmatists. ..."
"...NRA leaders were willing to accept a renewed assault weapons ban in exchange for winning passage of the gun industry immunity bill. But when the far-right grassroots found out, Wayne's world came crashing down."
"Today the tension is boiling over in a more public way. Die-hard pro-gun advocates tend to be more libertarian than conservative, and many are organizing against President Bush -- much to the dismay of NRA leaders." |
Kerry’s Court
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"The most profound impact the next president will have on the direction of the country, aside from prosecuting the war on terror, pertains to the nomination of judges. Absent retirements before the November election, the next president will likely nominate between two and four justices to the Supreme Court, as well as scores of judges to the federal district and appeals courts." ...
"Kerry has pledged to nominate only pro-choice judges to the Supreme Court. ..."
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The majority of the current Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republicans (7 out of 9), and President Bush appointed Reggie Walton - a U.S. District Judge, who declared that "the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to possess firearms."
Looks like we should worry just as much about Bush's Court as we do about Kerry's. |
Abuse Common in U.S. Prisons, Activists Say
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"Horrific abuses, some similar to those revealed in Iraq, regularly occur in U.S. prisons with little national attention or public outrage, human rights activists said on Thursday." ...
"For example, in September 1996, guards at the Brazoria County jail in Texas staged a drug raid on inmates that was videotaped for training purposes."
"The tape showed several inmates forced to strip and lie on the ground. A police dog attacked several prisoners; the tape clearly showed one being bitten on the leg. Guards prodded prisoners with stun guns and forced them to crawl along the ground. Then they dragged injured inmates face down back to their cells." ...
"Two of those allegedly involved in the abuse of Iraqis were U.S. prison guards. ..." |
UK: Armed gang raids home
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"A TEENAGER was forced to watch his dad being beaten by masked thugs brandishing a high-voltage stun gun when raiders stormed a family home in Little Hulton."
"Kevin Atkins was battered and his wife Janet thrown across the room while their 17-year-old son was held hostage."
"The ordeal was the fourth incident the family have faced in as many years following three burglaries."
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UT: U. acting like a law unto itself
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"The University of Utah has a new sheriff, er president, about to be sworn in, and maybe Michael K. Young will have the courage and good sense to end the stare-down with the state of Utah and allow law-abidin' folks on campus with legally acquired concealed weapons permits to pack their firearms."
"Not because it's right, wrong, popular, unpopular, politically correct or will win more basketball games."
"Because it's the law."
"The only part of l-a-w the U. has a hard time understanding is the part about obeying it." |
OH: E. Cleveland police layoffs called 'devastating'
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"The city will lay off up to a quarter of its police officers, leaving the force struggling to provide often violent streets with basic protection."
"Police Chief Patricia Lane said she will make drastic changes to keep patrols as strong as possible. She will reassign all detectives to the streets and make patrol officers responsible for investigations." ...
"The layoffs, which will probably take effect in two weeks, are unavoidable, Onunwor said. He acknowledged that the police would not be able to provide residents with sufficient protection. 'We cannot,' he said. 'We won't fool ourselves to say we can.' "
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OH: Arbitrator forces rehiring of fired cop
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"An arbitrator has ordered city officials to rehire a Cincinnati police officer who was fired for his involvement in the suffocation death of Roger Owensby Jr. while in police custody on Election Night 2000."
"Only some of the administrative charges against Officer Patrick Caton could be sufficiently proven, the arbitrator ruled, and he should have faced a five-day suspension instead of dismissal." ...
"Besides the two firings, five other officers involved in the incident were suspended without pay for up to a week."
"Lemmie has said Caton's off-duty conviction in June 2000 for drunken driving and using a firearm while intoxicated also weighed on her decision to fire him." |
NC: Teen arrested after shots fired at Lexington school
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"An 18-year-old man is charged with firing a pistol at a Lexington Senior High School student."
"Brittany Craven was arrested shortly after Tuesday afternoon's shooting."
"Police and witnesses say Craven went to the school and argued with 18-year-old senior Terence Exodus. During the argument, a .38-caliber handgun was fired three times, hitting a car and the parking lot. Exodus wasn't hurt." |
Australia: Officer defends his sentence
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"A SENIOR policeman who admitted helping himself to stolen goods was back in court yesterday to defend the sentence he received."
"The Office of Public Prosecutions has appealed against a magistrate's decision not to convict Senior-Sergeant Paul Peperkamp for stealing from the property office of Keilor Downs police station."
"The County Court heard Sen-Sgt Peperkamp, in charge of the station for 13 years, was caught taking items such as quilt sets, toothbrushes, children's clothing, air fresheners and door handles." |
IL: ISRA: House Committee Defeats Effort to Kill Self-Defense Legislation
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"The ISRA is applauding the House Criminal Law Committee for turning back earlier efforts to scuttle an important self defense bill."
"...SB2165 would provide an affirmative defense to a violation of a municipal ordinance that prohibits, regulates, or restricts the private ownership of firearms if the individual who is charged with the violation used the firearm in an act of self- defense or defense of another." ...
"In light of the overwhelming support for SB2165's common sense provisions, the bill passed out of both the subcommittee and the full House Judiciary Committee on May 5th - thus halting efforts to kill the bill." |
FL: Miami officer: Not easy to report suspicion of planted gun
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"A Miami police sergeant who reported his suspicions about police planting a toy gun after a SWAT team killing testified Thursday that it wasn't easy to come forward, and it still isn't five years later."
"Sgt. Robert Rambo was a prosecution witness in the obstruction-of-justice trial of former SWAT officer Alex Macias, who is accused of lying twice to his department after fatally shooting a suicidal man alone in his girlfriend's efficiency apartment in 1999."
"Prosecutors claim a toy gun found in Runnels' back yard had been rubbed in his blood and dropped in grass outside the kitchen window. The defense maintains Runnels was holding a gun when he stuck his head and hand out the window, forcing Macias to fire from outside." |
MI: Police: Bar Owner Shoots, Kills Robber
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"Police say the owner of Kerry's Wild Cherry Café on East Eight Mile Road on Detroit's east side shot and killed a robber Wednesday night."
"The owner and a woman were confronted outside the bar by a man in his 20s or 30s, armed with a gun, who ordered them to hand over some items, according to police."
"After giving the robber his cell phone, police say the owner pulled out his own gun and shot the man and killed him." |
MD: Lawsuit challenges gun lock law
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"Maryland gun rights activist Jim Purtilo has filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Circuit Court asking the court to loosen the enforcement of a state gun law that has resulted in a de facto handgun ban in Maryland."
"Purtilo said a key provision of the state law -- championed in 2000 by Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D) -- that requires "integrated mechanical safety devices" has resulted in many handgun manufacturers no longer shipping new handguns into Maryland."
"Even Accokeek-based Beretta USA has not been able to sell new handguns, he said." |
DC: Ramsey: We Can't Pray Our Way Out Of This
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"D.C.'s tough-talking top cop is making it clear that while prayer vigils are all well and good, they won't end the type of violence that killed an 8-year-old girl earlier this week." ...
"Her father, Daniel Cromartie, says the kind of violence that killed his daughter has to stop."
"Cromartie has called for a truce, an end to the street violence. He is asking people to lay down their guns before another innocent child is killed."
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UK: Grassroot Groups Launch Effort to Fight Gun Crime (JTO)
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"A number of community groups in Britain have united to launch a nationwide anti-gun crime effort called DISARM..."
"The effort was created after several high-profile shootings. Organizers hope DISARM will rid neighborhoods of firearms by sending a message, especially to young people, that there is 'a better life.' " ...
"Government officials and several celebrities endorsed DISARM. ..."
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NY: Little Neck Moms Lead Effort To Organize March For Gun Control
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"Little Neck resident Marie Epstein speaks in a calm, determined voice when she explains why she is helping organize a Queens delegation to the Million Mom March for tougher gun control laws in Washington, D.C. on Mother’s Day." ...
"In 2000, Gold helped bring nearly 80 Queens residents to Washington, D.C., where they demanded a sensible cooling-off period and background checks in gun purchases, the licensing of all handguns, requirements for manufacturers to child-proof guns, limits on purchases of handguns to one per month and strong enforcement of gun laws." |
OK: Firearms manufacturers to set up shop in Oklahoma
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"More than 75 major domestic firearms manufacturers operate facilities in 12 states that benefit from the 'quality jobs and revenue resulting from' those industrial activities, SJR 54 declares. Similarly, Oklahoma should establish 'a coordinated effort' to persuade gun makers to relocate to this state." ...
"The resolution directs the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to collaborate with an Oklahoma institution of higher education that offers a gunsmith curriculum, "to develop strategies to attract a firearms manufacturer to locate in close proximity" to the school. Murray State College in Tishomingo has a gunsmith curriculum, Roan and Gumm noted." |
IN: FWCS quiet on gun policy after man shot in lot
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"While they lauded security measures that contained the shooting in a Northrop High School parking lot to one victim Tuesday night, Fort Wayne Community Schools officials refused to elaborate on what steps they would take to prevent a gun from ending up on school property again."
"When pressed to explain what FWCS does or might do to prevent similar situations, spokeswoman Debbie Morgan declined comment, citing a public records law that says, 'school safety and security measures, plans and systems,' are shielded from the public." |
UK: Police threatened with fake gun
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"A 'MOMENT of madness' caused a young man to hold up police with an imitation pistol on his way to collect an Indian takeaway, a court heard on Friday."
"But later the same evening he amazed staff at Windsor police station by turning himself in." ...
"...as he walked towards the police he slipped his hand in jacket pocket and produced a black revolver, while shouting: 'What do you want' and 'Back off '."
"When he took aim, the police sped off fearing for their lives and a major search was launched. Meanwhile, a conscience-stricken Boyd, who has twice tried to kill himself since the incident, phoned his mother to confess what he had done." |
UK: Woman defies robbery attempt and helps jail thief
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"A ROBBER, burglar and thief who threatened to shoot a woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison."
"Surrey Police has praised the 20-year-old victim for the bravery she showed when Antek Pryce tried to rob her in Warlingham last October."
"Pryce, 26, demanded her handbag at gunpoint after driving up to her in Chelsham Road."
"But she bolted off, took the car's registration number and gave the police a detailed description of him." |
UK: Armed officers called to gun drama
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"A MAN allegedly threatened to shoot another man with a handgun, it emerged today."
"Police rapid response units were called to Capel St Mary, near Ipswich, at around 7.30pm yesterday."
"A 34-year-old man was traced to a house in the village and arrested at 11pm in connection with the alleged incident."
"Armed teams and a dog unit, with one dog, from force headquarters in Ipswich, scoured the ground for a man, while a force helicopter provided air support." |
MN: Officer charged, fired after off-duty dispute with bouncer
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"A Milwaukee police officer who faces two charges on accusations he pointed a gun at a tavern bouncer while he was off-duty has been fired."
"Brandon S. Erdmann, 23, was charged Wednesday with endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct while armed."
"If convicted of the misdemeanors, he could be sentenced to a year in jail and be ordered to pay a $2,000 fine." |
OH: Concealed carry licensees from area are pleased with newfound freedom
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"More than a hundred residents in Muskingum, Morgan, Licking and Guernsey counties have received their concealed carry weapons licenses, and applications keep coming."
"Major Bryan Hoover of the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office couldn't determine who the first person to receive the license was, but 116 have been issued to applicants from those four counties since Tuesday. Fourteen of those were women, including Christie Hall of Zanesville."
"Hall, 30, was excited to get her permit after burglars broke into her father's business and assaulted him." ...
"Hall's main reason for obtaining a license is to be able to protect herself if there is ever a need." |
OH: FLASH: Ohio Attorney General files Motion to Dismiss anti-CCW lawsuit
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"Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro's office has filed a Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit filed by gun ban extremist Toby Hoover, which takes the strange approach of asking the Supreme Court to order sheriffs not to perform their duty under the law."
"In the Motion, Petro argues that Hoover and her anti-gun attorneys (the Relators) 'lack proper standing' before the Ohio Supreme Court with a Writ of Mandamus, and that 'the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted by this Court.' " |
Sudan: Armed authorities, disarmed victims
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"The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), a member of the OMCT network, of the torture of three Sudanese children by the armed forces in Sudan." ...
"According to the source, they were detained in a military camp in Jeway Kheena village and it has been alleged that they have been subjected to torture by the military intelligence in Jeway Kheena. They were allegedly chained and beaten with the guns butts and flogged. At time of writing, there is no confirmed information whether they remain in detention or not."
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Malaysia: Seized machine guns used to belong to cops
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"The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) Wednesday confirmed that the 2,800 machineguns including ammunitions which were seized from a ship in Hong Kong on Tuesday were old weapons, formerly owned by the force, which were being disposed off as antiques." ...
"He said the machineguns were old weapons belonging to the PDRM which were being sold to a company in Oakland, the United States (US), through a local company, Global Forecast Sdn Bhd." |
Iraq: "We must rid the area of guns"
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" 'We are here only because we want to bring order and stability to this area,' said Maj. Brandon McGowan, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division."
" 'For the future of Fallujah, we believe we must rid the area of guns so that everyone can live a peaceful life,' McGowan says. 'This is my only desire.' "
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OR: Camp offers shooting tips
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"Four years ago, Steve Vincent thought shooting camp might be an interesting way for his son, Nick, to spend a long holiday weekend."
"This year, the younger Vincent is going to the Junior Olympics sporter air-rifle team championships."
"And his dad is running the Junior Shooting Camp, the 19th annual edition of which is May 29 through 31 at Four Corners Rod and Gun Club east of Salem."
"Steve Vincent said his son had always been interested in shooting. It was a question of channeling that interest." |
PA: Get Cash for Your Gun (Another report)
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Beginning today, Philadelphians can turn in any gun you own, legal or not, to police. No questions asked, and you'll get paid for it.
It's a gun amnesty program, designed to get weapons off the streets, and help cut down on crime. If you give up a gun, you'll get $100 cash, and a $50 voucher to sneaker villa for sporting goods.
The amnesty program was announced today at the police administration building in center city.
You can turn in guns at any police station. |
NM: Man Says He Shot Intruder In Self-Defense
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"The homeowner called police saying someone was trying to break into his home."
"Police said the homeowner defended himself by shooting the alleged intruder, Andy Holduin, in the arm."
"When police arrived, they found the Holduin bleeding and lying on the road."
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IL: Man charged in killing that was in self-defense
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"Bail was set at $65,000 for a 37-year-old South Side man who faces charges in the self-defense slaying of a mentally unstable attacker."
"Charles Lawrence, 37, of the 0-100 block of West 72nd Street, was charged Tuesday with one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in the shooting death Tuesday night of Trevor Anderson, said Tom Stanton of the Cook County state's attorney's office."
"The shooting was ruled self-defense after authorities reviewed the case, Stanton said. Anderson, who suffered from an unknown mental illness, attacked Lawrence about 7 p.m. at his place of business near 75th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, Stanton said." |
OH: Hamilton Police Get New Weapon For Crowd Control
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"A quiet night Wednesday night has police thinking students may be waiting for this weekend to throw their big Cinco de Mayo parties."
"Last year's big bash around the UC campus brought rioting and now this year police have new non-lethal weapons to use for just such a situation."
"A lot has been heard about the taser lately. It has been used to get control of suspects without killing them. And now another non-lethal weapon, which got rave reviews after its use during a riot in Maryland a year ago, is now ready for use in the Tri-state." |
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"...the issue as to whether government has any business in educating these kids in the first place. Sadly enough that issue gets lost in the middle of the debate while the two challengers enjoy duking it out with each other in the debate ring, especially to the point where they ask all the wrong questions and ignore the right ones in the process. ..." ...
"O'Reilly likes to wave the 'Oppose Social Promotion' flag while condemning the socialism behind it, but embraces the socialism that is endemic within the government 'public' schools, including the practice of retentions. ..." |
PA: City increases reward for "illegal" guns
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Now this is a program every criminal can love! Simply turn in the gun you used to commit your crime - no questions asked, no investigation, no chance of getting prosecuted for your crime. And in return, you'll get $100 of someone else's money and a gift certificate for a pair of shoes! Can't beat that!
Too bad this insanity has no hope of stopping crime.
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"The groups behind a gun turn-in program in Philadelphia are upping the ante to get illegal guns off city streets. Bilal Qayyum, co-chair of Men United for a Better Philadelphia, says people can turn in a gun, no questions asked, to any police station." |
PA: Second Student Brings Gun to City School this Week
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"For the second time this week, a student in the Pittsburgh Public School District has brought a gun to school. Fortunately, however, no one was injured in either incident."
"The latest incident happened yesterday at Perry Traditional Academy when a 15-year-old boy showed up at school with a .32-caliber automatic pistol stuffed inside his book bag." ...
"According to police sources, the boy also had an ammunition clip -- but the gun was not loaded when a teacher confiscated it from the ninth-grader near a school bathroom." |
OK: "Free" gunlocks to be distributed
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"Rogers County gun owners can get free locks soon after Thursday when the Justice Department showers hundreds on the area."
"Police headquarters in Catoosa, Chelsea, Claremore and Inola will each be loaded with hundreds of cable-style locks, as will the Rogers County Sheriff’s Office, said Sarah Budka, department spokeswoman."
"Police in these communities said Tuesday they did not yet know when they would distribute the locks and materials. Supplies have discharged quickly in past years, leaving some without locks."
"The department aims to protect children and teach them about guns. The safety locks come with educational material on firearms." |
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