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On "suggestions" and commitments Submitted by: Free Kentucky News Website: http://www.freekentucky.com/	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Don't make suggestions: just do them. ------- "Last Saturday my eyes glazed over." "Two days after Charlie Puckett received his sentence for crimes he didnt commit in the name of the BATF Nazis ongoing persecution of the unorganized militia, I got several 'suggestions' via email on what I or others could be doing to further our cause." ...

UK: Girl to get tracker implant to ease parents' fears
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"The parents of an 11-year-old girl are to take the extraordinary step of having her fitted with a microchip so that her movements can be traced if she is abducted."

"Danielle Duval will have the device implanted in her arm in the next few months, the scientist assisting the plan claimed yesterday. The miniature chip will apparently send a signal via a mobile phone network to a computer, which will be able to pinpoint her location on an electronic map."

TN: Candidates aim for hunters' votes
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"Democrats Phil Bredesen and Bob Clement courted members of a trucking union before going dove hunting with supporters."

"They weren't the only ones out in the fields yesterday afternoon with shotguns."

"Republican Senate candidate Lamar Alexander, along with Sen. Bill Frist, was blasting away on a Williamson County farm at a private hunt."

"It was opening day of dove season, and several politicians took the opportunity to show their backing of Americans' right to hunt and bear arms."

Pay As You GO Plan ... Continental To Charge for Toilet Use?
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Continental Airlines is going to start charging for extra services.

Imagine the flight attendant spiel: "Cocktails $4, beer & wine $3; cups .50 -ice not included; napkins .5-exact change appreciated, use of toilet $2-only accepts quarters; overhead bin $1 for 1st open, .50 thereafter; in an emergency, use seat as flotation device-$10 deposit; forget to return it-forfeit deposit; your servers will be coming down the aisle with a tip jar-our smiles & lame jokes not included in the price of your ticket."

"Twin Missions Overwhelmed Transportation Security Administration" Submitted by: Nicki Fellenzer Website: http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/index.php?section=TAKING+AIM...	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The agency simply couldn't keep up with the twin demands of creating itself and devising a system for stopping terrorists. Internally, there was tension over the TSA's mission, with a growing core of leaders steeped in law enforcement at odds with political forces demanding customer service." ------- Magaw's gone, but the agency remains a gargantuan inept bureaucracy.

Time to arm our pilots
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"Nearly a year has passed since the worst act of terrorism in America's history. The World Trade Center site is clear, the sky above is empty."

"And fear of another deadly attack remains. A so-called miscommunication between pilot and air traffic controllers recently led the government to scramble two F-16s to escort a jet to Baltimore-Washington airport. America must prevent terrorists ever again from turning a civilian aircraft into a de facto cruise missile."

Has Bush infringed the constitution?
Submitted by: Doug Charette

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"As they tend to do in times of national crisis, last Sept. 11 Americans looked to the person the constitution designates as commander in chief. And President George W. Bush responded - with aggressive and often unilateral executive action."

"Without seeking formal approval from either Congress or the courts, the Bush administration has taken steps to establish military trials for foreign terror suspects,

Who made Bush supreme generalissmo?
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"If and when President Bush decides to launch an invasion of Iraq, he will rain untold destruction on Saddam Hussein and his military forces. Unnoticed is the collateral damage he may do at home -- to an important part of the U.S. Constitution that is already battered."

"The chief executive is supposed to have tight limits on his power to make war. But today, those limits are about as binding as the remaining statutes against sodomy."

UK: British parents want microchip to track their kids
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"A British scientist said on Monday he had been inundated with requests by panicked parents to implant a tracking microchip into their children after the recent murders of two 10-year-olds in a quiet English town."

"A spate of recent abductions in the United States have put parents there on edge as they worry about their children, but Warwick believes it is for society to decide if a microchip implant is the ethical way to combat such fears."

McCain 2nd in missed votes
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"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has missed more than one out of every 10 votes in the U.S. Senate since 1995, the second-highest voting absenteeism rate in the 100-seat Senate."

"Nancy Ives, a McCain spokeswoman, did not dispute the figures. She said the senior Arizona senator's vote count has been significantly affected by his unsuccessful run for the White House between 1999 and 2000, and his battles with melanoma, which included surgeries in August 2000 and February of this year."

Plan to track foreign students is full of problems Submitted by: Nicki Fellenzer Website: http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/index.php?section=TAKING+AIM...	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Some say post-9/11 law is too difficult to implement and won't help anyway."

SC: South Carolina Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements
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"South Carolina's 10 active federal trial judges have unanimously voted to ban secret legal settlements, saying such agreements have made the courts complicit in hiding the truth about hazardous products, inept doctors and sexually abusive priests."

"If the court formally adopts the rule, after a public comment period that ends Sept. 30, it will be the strictest ban on secrecy in settlements in the federal courts."

Armed, rude IRS agent removed from Louisville plane, arrested
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So well trained, so well behaved, such a shining example for other federal workers to follow....

Pardon me while I reach for the pepto.
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"An armed Internal Revenue Service agent was arrested last night after making obscene comments to two other passengers while going to their seats on a Southwest Airlines flight in Louisville, an airport spokeswoman said."

"Brandon N. Fox, 24, who is from Chicago, had proper clearance to carry his gun, said Rande Swann, spokeswoman for Louisville International Airport."

"But about 8:25 p.m., on Chicago-bound Flight 2524, he made a 'very obscene' comment to a female passenger who had said he was holding others up while storing his luggage overhead, Swann said."

"When the passenger's fiance asked him to apologize, Fox made a similar crude comment to him, Swann said."

"The couple complained, and the captain ordered Fox off the plane, saying he didn't want an unruly, armed passenger on the plane, according to the arrest record."

" 'The pilot has the prerogative to have somebody removed from the flight,' Swann said."

"Airport police removed Fox, and he was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He was still in the Jefferson County jail late last night."

NY: Police Commissioner: Detective had no choice but to fire on Brooklyn man
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"A police detective fatally shot a Brooklyn man Sunday because the knife-wielding suspect left officers no way to back away from the confrontation, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said."

"The incident marked the fourth time in a week that Brooklyn cops shot and killed a suspect in unrelated confrontations."

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Meanwhile, the average person who wants to carry a firearm for self-defense in NYC, against a knife-wielding attacker who offers "no way to back away from the confrontation" is simply out of luck and must use his/her hands to defend against the attack -- or face a possible felony conviction for having the audacity to exercise the right to keep and bear arms in self-defense.

Flight returns to Charlotte after fight between passenger and attendant Submitted by: Nicki Fellenzer Website: http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/index.php?section=TAKING+AIM...	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The male passenger was arrested when the plane returned to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, said Benet Wilson, a spokeswoman for Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, which operates the regional jet. " "A passenger did get violent with the flight attendant," Wilson said. She said she had no additional details. "We're still trying to determine what set the whole thing off."

Ridge voices confidence Congress will pass satisfactory homeland security bill
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"Tom Ridge, the White House homeland security chief, predicted agreement would be reached but warned anew that President Bush will not accept a version of the bill pushed by Senate Democrats. Bush says that bill would deny the president the flexibility needed to manage an agency of roughly 170,000 employees."
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Yes - that's just what we need - a top heavy, money-sucking bureaucracy that would do nothing to make us safer, but would give the appearance that the government is "doing something."

Ashcroft and Justice: Mutual Exclusives
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"When he went through his bruising confirmation hearings after President George W. Bush nominated him for U.S. Attorney General, a number of Democratic senators expressed concern that Ashcrofts Christianity would somehow interfere with his ability to carry out the laws of this country. The Democrats, of course, were referring to laws that give special privileges to abortion clinics, as though legal abortion were the highest priority of the law."

Terror concerns cause decline in refugee admissions Submitted by: Nicki Fellenzer Website: http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/index.php?section=TAKING+AIM...	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Tightened security imposed after Sept. 11 has, at least temporarily, prevented thousands of people living in squalid refugee camps from starting a new life in the United States." "Increased scrutiny of applicants has produced a sharp decline in the number of refugees -- particularly Muslims -- accepted by the State Department for U.S. resettlement."

General Ashcroft's Detention Camps -- Time to Call for His Resignation Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Attorney General John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace." "[W]e have learned from painful experience that unchecked authority, once tasted, easily becomes insatiable."

TX: Police chief Bradford to answer captain Aguirre's perjury accusations
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"A Harris County grand jury panel is looking into Captain Mark Aguirre's claims that Houston Police Chief C.O. Bradford perjured himself about using profanity with subordinates."

"Aguirre, who is also the subject of an internal police investigation on the mass arrest at a westside Kmart, accused Bradford of lying under oath in May during an appeal hearing on a written reprimand the captain received for using profane and threatening language toward his subordinates."
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Bad cop, worse cop?

TN: In campaign season, chief NRA lobbyist scopes the field Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"When Tennessee's Democratic candidate for governor, Phil Bredesen, goes dove hunting with Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) today, one former Tanner aide will be paying attention from afar."

NC: Gun permits OK'd improperly Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office improperly renewed more than 100 concealed-handgun permits to residents in the past year, but apparently not to ineligible gun owners." "The problem was discovered about a month ago and resulted in a State Bureau of Investigation warning to law enforcement agencies statewide to check their procedures, the Winston-Salem Journal reported Sunday."

So you thought Dems were changing their attitude about gun control? Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Torricelli calls for new gun laws, including one that would limit buyers to one purchase a month. Forrester calls for better enforcement of existing laws." "The DSCC [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] ad is likely to be the first of many funded by the national parties to influence the New Jersey Senate race, now widely considered to be highly competitive."

NH law allows use of force in defense
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"When Hyung Kang, a 21-year-old clerk at Heavens Express, recently slammed a baseball bat down on the arm of an alleged knife-wielding robber, authorities were quick to call the act self-defense."

"New Hampshire law allows the use of deadly force to defend ones life. But recent history shows that less than clear-cut cases of self-defense can result in unpleasant legal consequences, such as civil suits and possible prosecutions."

Bearing arms is our birthright Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Olivia's dad and his sister learned to shoot by the ages of 10 and 11. So in the course of the dinner, I asked Olivia Christine if she was ready to learn how to shoot." "Her first response to my question was to flash me a pretty smile. Next she repositioned herself in her seat before politely responding:" " 'I don't like guns. Only the police should have guns.' "

NY: Cuomo Quits New York's Governor's Race Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Andrew Cuomo - tanking in the polls - withdrew from the New York governor's race Tuesday, one week before the Democratic primary. At a news conference attended by former President Bill Clinton this afternoon, Cuomo announced he is qutting and throwing his support behind his rival, Carl McCall."

Air Marshals Program Draws Scrutiny of Lawmaker, Pilots Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Many of the most highly qualified air marshals protecting America's skies are leaving their jobs and Congress is to blame, one congressional Democrat charges." "Some airline pilots also allege that some of the air marshals who remain are not fulfilling their responsibilities."

AZ: Department Of Safety Researching National Reciprocity Standards For Legally Armed Citizens
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"Every since the 1990's when states first started to enact Right To Carry Laws, there has been a wish by legally armed citizens, that states would recognize the permits and licenses issued by other states, the same way a driver's license is recognized. Obtain a license or permit to carry in your home state, and strap on the gun to take a trip around the country. Sounds good but, it has been a struggle to get some states to recognize another state permit or license."

AZ: Bullets at police firing range recycled Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"There's a lot of copper lying around in an unlikely place: the floors of the Phoenix Police Department's eight indoor firing ranges." "Lead bullets were phased out for police target practice several years ago because of the hazardous dust they kicked up. Officers now use a copper alloy bullet designed to break into tiny fragments when it hits the target."

CT: Their Best Shot
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"Sandwiched between cornfields and the Dayton International Airport, the world's largest shooting event, The Grand American World Trapshooting Championships, happens in Vandalia, Ohio, every August."

"The firing line is 15/8 mile long, the competitors so close to the airport that they can practically aim at the enormous 'X' that lights up at the end of one runway when the sky darkens into a thunderstorm on a hot August afternoon."

What the Second Amendment Supposedly Really Means
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Blog, by Volokh, on Garry Wills' view of the Second Amendment

"It's not an individual freedom from government suppression, or even a right of states to have arms that can protect them against the federal government (Wills rejects that argument, too). Rather, it's an affirmative entitlement to a form of government subsidy. Quite a remarkable reading of the phrase 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms....'

Quite remarkable."

Canada issues license to Kubby to possess and grow medical marijuana
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"The Canadian government has issued Steve a full exemption to possess and grow all the cannabis he needs. Already a flush of media, including the New York Times, has been hot on this story. Of course, none of this would have been possible without your support."

"I know it's hard to believe, but an American now holds an exemption from the Canadian government to grow 59 plants of any size, travel with 3/4 of a pound, and keep up to six pounds at home."

The evil we face Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"There is a state of affairs that should be relatively easy to fix - except that it seems to go unnoticed except by a very few. Presumably this is as expected by those who would destroy our county with the multitude of anti-Liberty treasonous edicts and thoughts emerging from the country's capitol."

Dumping the Constitution
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"Back in the early 1980s, when shock jocks first started titillating audiences with the basest humor, a DJ gained notoriety at Washington, D.C.'s DC 101 radio station with a daily skit he called 'A Constitutional Moment.' "

"Hard to believe anyone thought it was funny, but, as I recall, the Greaseman would read passages from the Constitution, while making noises that - sorry for being so graphic - sounded as if he were, well, taking a 'constitutional.' "

The 'Lost' Thirteenth Amendment
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"The 13th Amendment to the Constitution? Not familiar with it? It's no wonder. No one ever discusses the 13th Amendment - in fact, our so-called government has been ignoring its existence since the 1800's. However, it has been the subject of some controversy in certain circles, and for good reason. You see, the 13th Amendment, also called the 'Title of Nobility' Amendment, which prefaced this article - deals with prohibiting LAWYERS from holding positions of public office within the U.S."

Don't Take Your Guns to Town.... Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A classic predication of the communist party was proposed by a Senator from the Democratic party. To quote the idiot Senator from Florida, 'We need a domestic spy squad.' Yes! I am not lying! He really said that with a straight face. He really thinks he has had an original thought. He doesn't seem to know that Stalin thought it a good idea also."

London mayor: I feel safer in New York
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"In a surprising vote of no-confidence in his own city, Mayor Ken Livingstone said Tuesday that he feels safer in New York than in London."

" 'I do feel safe in London, but I don't feel as safe as I did when I went to New York,' Livingstone told reporters, adding that crime seemed much worse now than when he was a child. 'I want to be back to something more like I grew up with. We have lost the visible (police) presence on the streets.' "

World tax pushed at Earth Summit
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"French President Jacques Chirac will urge world leaders to launch talks on a new international tax to fight world poverty, sources with him at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg say."

"The sources said Chirac rejected the existing 'Tobin Tax' proposal to raise levies purely on foreign exchange transactions but would call in a speech to the summit for discussion on a wider tax on wealth generated by globalisation."

MO: Missouri's Peggy Siler Earns NRA Women's Award Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The National Rifle Association is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2002 Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award is Mrs. Peggy Siler of Branson, MO. Siler's award recognizes her three decades of efforts to introduce women to the shooting sports."

It isn't too early
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"The truth, for example, that the George Bush II administration was probably aware for some months in advance -- and fairly specifically -- what was going to happen on September 11, and let it happen for precisely the same reasons that Roosevelt II let Pearl Harbor happen. For starters, everybody knows that the only great presidents are war presidents. And too, an economic collapse is occurring on W's watch that may rival the one that made FDR desperate to have Japan attack us."

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"Anyway, with all of that going on, and the future more in flux than any establishment 'thinker' knows, I realized this morning that it isn't too early to start planning for what I think we'll call the Nuremburg II Tribunals someday."

Feds scramble to train new officers
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"Georgia facility works to fill ranks of rapidly hiring agencies"

"Theres enough ammunition at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to fight a small war, but the 15 million rounds of bullets and shotgun shells have barely lasted the year. The crush of new federal officers hired since Sept. 11 has stretched resources to the limit at the center, which trains agents and officers for 76 federal agencies."

"JAMES LANIER, chief of the centers Firearms Division, said he has made a few emergency credit card buys to keep from running out of ammo."

"The center, established on the Georgia coast in 1975, has had its training load double in the past year as the government rushed to hire new officers to improve homeland security."

"[Director Connie L.] Patrick says next year will be the centers busiest ever..."

PA: College student caught taking photos of police cars, charged
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Gimme a break... Pictures of cop cars are now illegal...
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"A college student of Syrian descent was arrested after authorities caught him taking pictures of police cars, an activity the FBI has warned police departments about after Sept. 11."

"Mohammed Budeir, a U.S. citizen, was charged with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct after he was found photographing Willistown Township police vehicles last month."

"Budeir, 20, has said that the photos are a hobby. His attorney, Richard Meanix, said there is a large online community of former officers and civilians who are interested in police vehicles."

UK: Man on trial for stabbing burglar during burglary to protect children
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"A father fought back tears yesterday as he described how he stabbed a burglar, who later died, to protect his two young children."

"Barry Hastings, 25, had gone to the home of his wife Nicola, their son and daughter, when he saw a man prowling through the bedrooms."

"He told the jury that when he took the knife his first thought was to protect his children. As he tried to pluck up the courage to walk upstairs, Williams suddenly appeared. "He ran down shouting 'this is it, this is it'." "

"The court has heard that Williams, 35, was 'a career burglar' with convictions including some for violence dating back to his teens, and was wanted by the police."

Private Planes at Risk - General Aviation Airfields Still Lack Tightened Security
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"One year after 19 people hijacked airplanes, flying them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, security has not been improved at the country's small general aviation airports..."

"Thousands of planes and hundreds of airports are still vulnerable to being stolen or hijacked."
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That's why the FAA has "improved security" by disarming all law-abiding citizens - to keep the potential hijackers safe. /sarcasm

IL: Report spurs gun regulation proposal Submitted by: Ken Bach	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"More Illinois children, teens and young adults are killed by gun-related instances than youths in other states, according to a report presented Friday morning by the Champaign County Health Care Consumers." "The health care consumers proposed federal consumer product regulation of guns to prevent deaths and suggested that Illinois families remove guns from their homes."

LA: Profile of a Serial Killer Submitted by: Nicki Fellenzer Website: http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/index.php?section=TAKING+AIM...	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The man who murdered three women over the past year is likely a white man between the ages of 25 and 35 who seems harmless and watched the three women before he killed them, according to a profile of the serial killer released today." "Part of Profile Known Only to Investigators" Ladies, get your guns.

Local Father, Son Charged With Killing Innocent Bystander
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" 'There was a guy on my porch -- I don't really know him -- but he had come up here to visit, been here for about five minutes, and he had a permit for his gun, and he pulled out his gun and returned fire. If that hadn't happened, there probably would have been a lot more dead people here today,' Thompson said. 'They (police) got eight shell casings out of my yard right here and they got another eight or nine from out on the street.' "

CO: Colorado man wins Flatwater Shootout Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The gunfighters, cowboys, showgirls, and marshal were all there Monday morning to see the final showdown -- a shootout between Big Iron Gordon and Wild Ben Raymond." "Both had brought their 1865 to 1899 firearms to an annual event sponsored by the Grand Island Rifle Club at the club range on west Old Potash Highway."

LA: NRA instructor says women getting gun training from husbands "is a bad idea"
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"A handgun is like an insurance policy or a spare tire. It's there, but you hope you never have to use it."

"Louisiana is a sportsman's paradise, and many Northshore residents have guns in the home, many of them handguns. But how many people actually know how to use them?"

" 'Some women have had guns in their house for years, and now with all the stuff going on in Baton Rouge they are getting their husbands to teach them how to use them,' said Alvin Palmer, an NRA certified instructor registered with the state."

"This is a bad idea, said Palmer, who teaches gun safety courses in Mandeville." [emphasis added]

" 'Women can't rely on their husbands to teach them how to properly use a firearm,' he said. 'They need to get trained for handgun safety.' "

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Nigeria: Government critic [and his wife] killed by "Men armed with guns and machetes"
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"Men armed with guns and machetes killed a leading lawyer and outspoken government critic and his wife in southeast Nigeria, police said Tuesday."

"Police spokesman Haz Iwendi said Barnabas Igwe, the Nigerian Bar Association's local chairman, and his wife, Abigail Amaka Igwe, were killed late Sunday as they drove through the market city of Onitsha, in Anambra state."

" 'He was coming home from a meeting when a group of guys accosted them,' Iwendi said. 'They shot them several times and then tried to mutilate the bodies.' "

"Chuka Obele Chuka, the bar association's vice chairman in Onitsha, accused government-sponsored vigilantes, who call themselves the Bakassi Boys, of killing Igwe."

These same "Bakassi Boys" have been a handy excuse for gun confiscations: "Nigeria's police force began cracking down on the Bakassi Boys last month. They raided five bases in neighboring Abia state, arresting 33 vigilantes, freeing 46 illegally held prisoners and seizing stockpiles of guns and ammunition." Fair trial by jury? Nah.

NY: Thousands of weapons seized at halls of justice
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"It seemed innocent enough, an elderly woman carrying a pair of Nike high-top sneakers into Brooklyn Supreme Court for a jailed relative."

"But wary court officers, the front line of defense against mayhem in the city's courthouses, take nothing for granted."

"An officer stuck his finger inside the white shoe and pried the sole loose. Voilŕ! A razor blade."

"No precise figures are available, but court officers seize thousands of weapons at the entrances to city courthouses each year. Ranging from the ingenious to the scary, all the items are potentially deadly in courthouses, where emotions run high."

" 'A lot of people carry knives or fake guns for protection. It's a way of life,' said Maj. Mark Bodde, the top-ranked court officer at Bronx Supreme Court, the landmark just up from Yankee Stadium on the Grand Concourse at 161st St."

" 'When they come to the courthouse for jury duty or on other business,' he said, 'they forget the weapon is in the bottom of their bag or pocket. And they forget it's illegal.' " [emphasis added]

MT: Livingston gunsmith breathes new life into historic guns
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"He looks as if he might practice law or, perhaps, be refining a novel. Maybe he's teaching at an Ivy League school and taking the summer off to catch up on his reading in Montana."

"But Bill Heckman restores and repairs guns."

"Not just any guns, but sporting arms with prestigious pedigree and proud ancestry."

" 'My favorites are those that people send me because they have sentimental value,' says Heckman, known by some locals as the 'gun doctor.' "

"Although his expertise extends to a mail-order rifle, much of his work involves restoration of priceless family heirlooms."

UK: Armed gang raids safe at pub, herds patrons into bathroom
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"The masked gang brandished firearms at terrified pub staff and customers before making off with the contents of the safe."

"People in the bar were locked in the toilets as the gang made their getaway, but managed to raise the alarm around midnight using a mobile phone."

"The gang of up to five men wore black jackets, trousers and footwear and wore black ski masks. Police said they had four 'hand weapons', all firearms."

Town displays pistols used during Civil War pillaging Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
This is an interesting tale covering the history of a couple of old, valuable handguns -- it includes a tale of the Union Army looting a Confederate town during the "Civil" War.

Video reveals plans for home break-ins, killing police, drive-bys, golf course assassinations Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"An al-Qaida training videotape, captured in Afghanistan, shows Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned." ...

UK: Police guard shooting victim
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"A man is being held under police guard after masked gunmen opened fire on his car in Birmingham."

"Two men fired a hail of bullets at the victim's vehicle while it was parked in Parliament Street, Aston, at about midnight on Saturday."

"Last night the 28-year-old Aston man, who has not been named, was in a stable condition after having emergency surgery at City Hospital."

"Two men wearing dark clothing, masks and hoods approached the silver Hyundai saloon from behind, fired at least four shots then ran from the scene."

"Police said several shots smashed through his back into his upper body, but he managed to drive off and call paramedics."

"Scenes of crimes officers found one bullet at the scene and three others in the car yesterday."

"It was the seventh shooting in Aston in the past 12 months, and one victim died."

FL: Rancher uses rifle to chase "magic mushroom hunters" away from cow pasture
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"Around midnight, looking out his window after a recent storm, Jim Adams saw the tiny beams of light in his cow pasture."

" 'It wasn't much of a moon, but I could faintly see shadows moving in my field,' Adams recounted."

"He grabbed his rifle, went outside and confronted intruders who had come on to his pasture not to rustle his cows but to make off with mushrooms."

"Crouched with their flashlights over piles of manure, they were seeking 'magic mushrooms' -- psychedelic fungi that sprout in cow dung after the rain."

"As Adams raced toward them, the trespassers dashed back to their truck parked nearby. ;Hey, I saw you climb through my fence!' he hollered at them. 'You were trespassing.' "

" 'No, sir,' one replied. 'We were just taking a walk in the neighborhood.' " ...

Will You Be Able to Fly in Safety? Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"If all goes well this week, the Senate will vote on Bob Smith's provision to arm commercial pilots. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a similar version of the bill in July by a vote of 310-113. Incredible momentum has continued to build in the Senate where 25 Senators have now cosponsored Bob Smith's bill, S. 2554."

Secret EU-US agreement being negotiated
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[See also article in The Guardian: politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,78235,00.html ]
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"Statewatch has obtained a copy of the secret negotiating agenda for an agreement (treaty) between the EU and the US on judicial cooperation in criminal matters which would have major implications for peoples' rights and liberties."

"The draft agreement is going to be discussed in depth for the first time at the Informal Meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Copenhagen on 13 September - John Ashcroft, the US Attorney General will take part in these discussions."

Gun twist to fire rescue
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ORIGINAL TITLE: "Daring rescue in big fire near Los Angeles"
SUBTITLE: "Woman saved seconds before shooting herself to avoid burning to death"
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"A woman about to shoot herself to death to escape being burned alive by a wildfire racing toward her mountaintop home was saved seconds before pulling the trigger in a daring rescue worthy of a Hollywood film, authorities said Tuesday."
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MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST QUESTION:

Question: If rescuers wouldn't have been able to save her and she'd shot herself to death to avoid burning in agony, the anti-gunners would have:

A. Added her death to the trumped up statistics on gun violence.

B. Guilted and admonished her family for not having had a trigger lock on the gun when the fire broke out.

C. Called for a ban on suicides even when it's to avoid spending the last seconds of your life in unbearable misery.

D. Sued gun manufacturers.

E. All of the above.

What Sovereign Nation? Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"America is not a third world nation, but are we becoming one? I perceive a steady erosion of the foundation of our country. Unless we change directions, I believe our beloved nation is on the decline." "Here are but some of the changes I see for the worse:" ...

TN: Tennessee Judge Convicted Of Permit Scheme
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"In last months newsletter, we wrote of some firearm instructors in Kentucky and Tennessee who were charged with mail fraud. The indictments were issued when undercover investigations resulted in handgun 'Completion Certificates' being issued without the required handgun training as the law requires. Since the Kentucky CCDW (carrying concealed deadly weapons) license, and the Tennessee Handgun Permit are sent by federal mail, the individuals were charged with mail fraud."

The Last Bastion
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"The United States began its journey toward becoming a world power with a rather unique premise -- that citizens were actually capable of self-government. What a concept! This was radical thinking in the prevalent social thought of 1776 and even more so today. Imagine the nerve and personal commitment on the part of the Founding Fathers when they took the dramatic and even life threatening steps of cutting the bonds of rule by a king and other disconnected political agents. They established a new nation based on the notion of personal liberty, personal responsibility and personal accountability."

Here come de judge - here come de judge
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"Let's see. Congress as a legislative body has already been circumvented. It has no power to legislate; it merely mirrors and supports whatever the Executive Branch tells it."

"The judicial system is a complete shambles. Although it appears it makes decisions, those decisions are most often based on whatever the Executive Branch tells it."

"The Executive Branch has become nothing more than an operative for the Federal Reserve owners, a worldwide financial controller of all."

More Women Are Carrying Pistols For Self-Defense Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"During the 1990's, states started to enact Right To Carry Laws. Now, 32 states have laws allowing citizens to carry weapons. Men still hold the highest number of permits or licenses but, women have increased their percentage dramatically. What has changed the most over the years regarding women, is that they are know more knowledgeable regarding what type of handgun they want to buy and carry."