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Blame the guns
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"I guess it was inevitable that a few extremists would attempt, as they always do, to exploit the tragedy of the Washington, D.C.-area shootings to promote a new grab for guns." |
The devil is in the details
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"Like many of you, I have been following the nearly inescapable flood of coverage on the series of sniper killings in the Washington, D.C., area, but with an eye for the details. The major question before us is whether terrorists or simply a deranged criminal has perpetrated the shootings." |
'Bowling For Columbine' throws a gutter ball
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As a work of cinematic entertainment and political provocation, Michael Moore's widely acclaimed new documentary "Bowling for Columbine" qualifies as a substantial success. Despite its outrageously incoherent, even contradictory, ideological agenda, the movie offers an engaging surface that displays frisky originality, frequent wit, skillful editing, wildly ambitious scope and often impassioned advocacy. |
Sniper Officials May Charge Witness
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"Prosecutors were investigating whether to file charges against a witness accused of intentionally misleading investigators by falsely claiming he saw a sniper open fire with an assault rifle and flee in a cream-colored van." ...
"...the witness' emphatic description of the shooter's AK-74 assault rifle is also bogus. But investigators cautioned that they still believe the sniper is using one of a family of more than 30 similar assault-type weapons capable of firing a .223-caliber bullet." |
DE: Policeman suspended after arrest in NCCo
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"A senior corporal with the Wilmington Police Department was suspended with pay last month following his August arrest by county police for a domestic incident with his live-in girlfriend." ...
"...Richard H. Brown III, 34... was charged with one count each of third-degree assault, criminal mischief and malicious interference of emergency communications."
"Officers said they found Brown's 38-year-old girlfriend with an abrasion under her chin from where Brown allegedly grabbed her neck." ... |
UK: People "are sick of this" gun crime
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Letter from a resident in gun-free UK:
"Black ministers, black majority churches and ministers of religion are coming together to discuss this issue of gun crime."
"They're speaking to the police, to statutory agencies."
"But it's not just a police issue."
"The black community itself is concerned about gun crime and it's not being quiet about it."
...People are saying: 'We're sick of this. We want to live in The Meadows, St Ann's, in all parts of Nottingham, and feel safe.'" |
UK: "Enough is Enough"
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One more on Nottingham's gun crime problem - just to drive the point home.
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"Eighteen people have been injured in shootings in Nottingham in three months. Gun seizures have increased three-fold. Nottingham now has the worst gun crime figures outside the metropolitan areas. A judge has said it is part of the city's growing 'gang culture'. Now, the public, politicians and city authorities are saying enough is enough." |
How Reliable Is Ballistic Fingerprinting?
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"When cartridges from the same manufacturer were test-fired and compared, computer matching failed 38 percent of the time. With cartridges from different manufacturers, computer matching failed 62 percent of the time."
"Perhaps -- if ballistic fingerprinting worked. What gun control advocates really want is the proven result of ballistic fingerprinting -- reduced gun sales." ... |
The sniper and the gun controllers
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Gun control laws do not control people who are in the business of breaking laws. Gun control simply disarms their potential victims, making crime a safer occupation, and hence one that can be indulged in more widely by more people.
Gun control laws would no more have stopped the current sniper than they stop innumerable other gun crimes in places with some of the strongest gun control laws in the country. |
Bellesiles Update
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Blog, by Glenn Reynolds, on an article on Bellesiles in The Nation.
Also contains links to related blogs and articles by Reynolds, Clayton Cramer, Eugene Volokh, the NY Times.... |
MD: Lt. gov. pledges stricter gun law
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This odious nazi wouldn't stop until every last gun was outlawed in Maryland.
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"Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said yesterday that she would seek legislation to expand Maryland's ballistic fingerprinting program to include regulated legal assault rifles, her first specific pledge to toughen the state's gun-control laws."
" 'We need to do ballistic testing on all assault weapons and automatic weapons,' Townsend told a meeting of The Sun's editorial board..." |
UK: Armed cops hit the streets
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"More than 200 extra armed police are being deployed across London as Scotland Yard steps up its war against crime and terror." ...
"The SO19 officers will help man 'rolling' checkpoints to intercept armed criminals and terror gangs. Cameras at the roadblocks will monitor cars by reading number plates, which can be checked within seconds on the police national computer and other databases, identifying stolen cars or those associated with known gunmen." ... |
"The NRA's aim"
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"A SNIPER IS shooting up the D.C. suburbs. Useless fear has gripped Americans. No news story sells more than when the bull's-eye looms indiscriminately over parts of the nation we have cordoned off as safe, painted in our head as a pristine pastel. Nothing sells more when Americans can identify with that poor woman in the Home Depot parking lot, just trying to load some shelves for her new house into her car, when a bullet from nowhere takes her life." ... |
Why worry about a national gun database?
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Brady misleads the public by stating that the sniper may be using an "assault rifle," which is a gun designed for soldiers that can be switched from semiautomatic (firing once per trigger pull) to automatic (firing continuously). The legislation Brady wants renewed has nothing to do with automatic weapons, a.k.a. machine guns, which have been strictly controlled by the federal government since the 1930s. |
Ballistic Fingerprinting: New Tool For Gun Opponents
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"A killer is on the loose in the Washington area, and once again, gun haters are using the Beltway shootings as an excuse for more gun control."
"The latest weapon in the gun hater's arsenal is the registration of firearms. Specifically, they want to register the unique "ballistic fingerprint" that each firearm leaves on a bullet or cartridge case after it is fired, and trace it back to the original buyer of the gun." |
Sniper Prompts Gun-Buying Spree
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The Beltway killer has sparked a booming interest in guns in northern Virginia.
"In Spotsylvania, Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax counties - all at or near sniper attacks - officials report up to a 500 percent increase in applications for concealed-weapons permits, and gun sales are up nearly as much," the New York Post reported today.
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MI: GT County gun board denies man's weapons permit - again
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"Dan C. Hollyday believes he has a right to a concealed weapons permit under Michigan's 'shall issue' law because he has no criminal record, has completed gun safety training and meets other requirements."
"For the second time, however, the Grand Traverse County gun board Thursday refused Hollyday's application because police have been called to Hollyday's home or taken reports concerning him 11 times, as recently as earlier this month." ... |
"Most Candidates Evade Gun Issue"
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"A week after a sniper began haunting the Washington area, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ended her self-imposed silence on the shootings and began airing television ads attacking her opponent in the Maryland governor's race for voting against a ban on assault weapons."
"By beginning the ads on Friday, Townsend became the only major national political candidate to raise gun control as an issue in response to the sniper's deadly rampage, political analysts say." |
Former area teacher sues NRA
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"A former Munster teacher is claiming the National Rifle Association defamed her in a newsletter criticizing student essays written by her students."
"Julie Akers, who taught fourth grade at James B. Eads Elementary until this fall, is seeking unspecified damages against the Fairfax, Va., organization in a lawsuit originally filed in Lake Superior Court and transferred recently to U.S. District Court." |
MD: Lt. gov. pledges stricter gun law
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"Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said yesterday that she would seek legislation to expand Maryland's ballistic fingerprinting program to include regulated legal assault rifles, her first specific pledge to toughen the state's gun-control laws."
" 'We need to do ballistic testing on all assault weapons and automatic weapons,' Townsend told a meeting of The Sun's editorial board, saying she was responding to the series of sniper shootings in the Washington suburbs." |
Funding For Gun Buyer Background Checks Stalled in Senate
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"Legislation that would provide states with more than a billion dollars to help them computerize their criminal records and prevent illegal gun purchases is hung up in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate following House passage."
"At the same time, officials from Maryland's Democrat-led state government insist a lack of money is what prevented them earlier this year from furnishing the FBI with criminal records of potential gun buyers." |
Barbara Boxer: Guns Are OK For Protecting Me
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"The debate prior to the U.S. Senate voting overwhelmingly (87-6) to let airline pilots carry guns in their cockpits as a last line of defense against hijackers was very interesting. Particularly interesting was the fact that veteran anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, gun-grabber Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) was among the 87 Senators favoring this legislation." ... |
Massachusetts Morality -- Part II
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"In a previous column, I wrote about an unbelievably stupid law in Massachusetts which says that state-licensed gun clubs 'shall not permit shooting at targets that depict human figures, human effigies, human silhouettes or any human images thereof, except by public safety personnel performing in line with their official duties.' Violation of this law could result in revocation of a club's license and a fine of no less than $1,000 and no more than $10,000." |
Massachusetts Morality -- Part I
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It is, without a doubt, one of the most idiotic laws I've ever heard of -- and I've heard of a lot of idiotic laws. The state, not surprisingly, is Massachusetts. The law, the brainchild of Democratic Rep. Christopher Hodgkins, says that state-licensed gun clubs 'shall not permit shooting at targets that depict human figures, human effigies, human silhouettes or any human images thereof, except by public safety personnel performing in line with their official duties.' " |
Rifled weapon barrel engraver and scanner
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"So what are we going to do about it? Are we going to continue sitting in our recliners with the remote in our hand, watching 'King of the Hill', or are we going to unite and get involved to stop this 'blatant' assault on our 'RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS'?" |
AAA pulls its support for traffic cameras
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"One of the foremost advocates of traffic safety has withdrawn support for the District's traffic camera enforcement program after city officials conceded revenue was a primary motivation."
"The AAA, which supports the use of traffic cameras to enhance road safety, has rebuffed the city's plan to expand the program to earn more revenue." |
Politics, Money and Guns
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"We're in a war on terrorism and there's a chilling shooting spree in the Washington suburbs. Shouldn't that be enough to encourage our leaders -- and especially our president -- to overcome the power of ideology and political interest groups?"
"Apparently not. Where money, guns and the religious right are concerned, the interest groups hold the trump cards and ideology triumphs over realism." |
Former Senator warns civil liberties at risk in face of foreign threats
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"Ex-Sen. Richard Bryan urged his former colleagues in Congress Thursday to have the courage to stand up against politically popular restrictions of civil liberties in the name of strengthening national security."
" 'It seem to me when people are frightened, they are willing to trade about anything for better security,' the Nevada Democrat said in a lecture at the University of Nevada, Reno." |
ABC Reporter Finds It "Alarming" That Women Are Arming
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"In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police say that DNA evidence shows a serial killer has murdered three women: Gina Wilson Green, a 41-year-old nurse who was strangled; Charlotte Murray Pace, a 22-year-old graduate student who was stabbed to death; and Pamela Kinamore, a 44-year-old antique dealer who was found under a bridge with her throat slit." ... |
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