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Ask Tom DeLay for Vote on H.R.1146
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Ask Tom DeLay for a 15 minute vote on H.R.1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, introduced by U.S. House Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. This bill ends the United States' participation in and funding of the United Nations.
Sign the petition before June 23, and forward to family and friends.
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Coalition targets ban on semi-automatics
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"A coalition of 'no compromise' gun-rights groups are drawing a line in the sand and putting federal politicians on notice: Any lawmaker who votes to reauthorize the current ban against so-called 'assault weapons' risks losing gun owners' votes forever." ...
" 'No political career is more important than the rights for which our forefathers fought and died,' the statement said. 'We will win, and we will remember those who vote against us � and repay them in kind.' "
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TX: Festival adds more to nature show
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"Gators and gunmen have been added to a nature show that has bloomed into a springtime festival within a year." ...
"The Travis County Regulators will dress in period costumes and carry historically accurate six-shooters during the spring fest. They'll mingle throughout the festival and answer questions about the Wild West when they aren't conducting live reenactments." |
Too Many Just Don't Get It
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"After decades of conjuring the condition of mankind, I came to the Libertarian point of view. It's like a comfortable robe or pair of socks. It just fits. It's the place where you can tell your children old stories and truths and know they mean something. It has no element of greed or power in it, it is just what is right for you and all the rest of the world. Of this feeling did our founders give their all that we might have our freedom today. Sadly, in a little over 200 years it is gone." |
CA: Kudos for columnist [letter]
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"I worked in law enforcement from 1964 to 1998, both as a sworn officer (30 years) and in unsworn positions, and was directly responsible for several young people choosing law enforcement as a career. I notice that many teachers' organizations today frown on young people being taught gun safety or anything to do with firearms or target shooting. They blame gun owners for the actions of criminals."
"Malkin hits it right on the head with her columns about the covert agenda of the America-bashing upper ranks of many teachers' organizations, the United Nations and the Hollywood left." |
MD: Unarmed and at Risk (letter)
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"I understand Omar Siddique's dismay that no one interfered to stop the brutal beating death of Clifton Stokes on a busy Prince George's County road [letters, April 12]. But I also understand the reluctance of unarmed bystanders to confront a large man in a homicidal rage. This is called 'disparity of force,' and it provides legal justification for the use of deadly weapons in self-defense."
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OH: John Lott op-ed: 'Concealed carry would benefit Ohio'
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"While Ohio's police organizations are divided, national surveys show police support concealed-handgun laws by a 3 to 1 ratio. Many former strong opponents of right-to-carry laws changed their positions after the laws were in effect for a few years. The response of Glenn White, president of the Dallas Police Association, is typical: 'I lobbied against the law in 1993 and 1995 because I thought it would lead to wholesale armed conflict. That hasn't happened. . . . I think it's worked out well, and that says good things about the citizens who have permits. I'm a convert.' " |
ATF May Contact Purchasers of InterOrdnance Parts
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"You may have recently been contacted by an agent of the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), an agency of the United States Department of Justice regarding certain firearm parts sold to you by our company, Interordnance of America, L.P. (IOA). IOA has received no formal notification from ATF regarding its contacts with its past purchasers. We cannot comment on the legal status of these particular parts since they are the subject of litigation with the U.S. government. However, generally speaking, IOA maintains its legal position that all imported parts sold by us were imported and sold in compliance with all local, state and federal laws." |
TX: Texas Teen Blinded in Potato-Gun Incident
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"Daniel Berry was with friends fishing at a local creek when they saw a group of teenagers shooting potatoes out of the gun. One of the teens came up with the idea of putting frogs in the tube. When the gun began to misfire, Berry went over to help. He was looking down the barrel of the toy gun when it shot a frog into his face."
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Transportation Security Agency's Double Standard with Armed Pilots
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"What happens when popular demand, via congressional edict, forces a government agency to do what it doesn�t want to do? Aside from dragging their feet, they create the illusion of complying with the new regulation, that�s what happens!"
"The new Transportation Security Agency, the government entity charged with the responsibility of regulating armed airline pilots, has apparently created a training and screening system that uses a double standard in who and who isn�t allowed to carry a firearm while piloting a commercial airliner."
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More Gun-Carrying Pilots Planned
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"More airline pilots will be trained to carry guns."
"The Transportation Security Administration has another $8 million to train hundreds more to carry weapons for on-board security." ...
"The additional pilots could be in cockpits by Sept. 30. The TSA wants $25 million to train more pilots next year."
"Gun training costs the government about $6,000 per pilot." |
MN: All you need to know about likely new gun law
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"In a little over a month, thousands of Minnesotans may get their first real chance in more than a generation to carry a handgun legally in public."
"Here's a rundown of how the bill, dubbed by its advocates as the Minnesota Personal Protection Act, would work." |
Hypocrite heat
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"Left-liberal Gun Nazis always exempt themselves from any and all laws they are more than willing to saddle others with. Sarah Brady purchased a rifle in violation of local laws. Such a violation in New Jersey could result in a ten-year prison term and a $500,000 fine, but Brady didn't even get a 'tsk, tsk!' from the Lefty NY Times. And Dianne Feinstein is about to order 'Dubya' and his invertebrate warmongering wonders calling themselves 'Republicans' in Congress to extend President Bubba's 'assault rifle' ban. What's an 'assault rifle' to these champions of liberty and equality? Why any rifle with a hole in the end of the barrel and a black stock!" |
The Great Lie
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"Women need to abandon the Great Lie and claim responsibility for and control over their lives. Perhaps a good way to start is to stare at how women in less developed nations live. Without a free market and technology, they live in misery, near starvation. Without Western ideals of property rights and equality under the law, they have no protection from violence."
"The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human being on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. 'Woman as victim' is an idea whose time has passed. Woman as survivor and success must take its place." |
PA: Middle school student kills principal, self
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"Red Lion Borough Police Chief Walt Hughes said Sheets entered the school armed with at least three handguns that he had carried in his book bag."
"Hughes said he learned from Sheets' parents that the boy had somehow gotten the key to his parents locked gun safe and took three revolvers. The principal was killed with a .44-caliber weapon, while the student was believed to have been killed with a .22-caliber weapon, York County Coroner Barry Bloss said."
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This tragic incident emphasizes the truth about gun-free zone laws: they don't work and proposed safe storage laws: they will not work if the individual is intent on committing a crime. |
More Pilot Gun Training Funds Released
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"The federal government is making available $8 million to step up firearms training for commercial pilots who want to carry guns in the cockpit, officials said Thursday."
"Capt. Fred Bates, an American Airlines pilot who helped lead the fight in Congress to arm pilots, said he has been bombarded with calls and e-mails from colleagues who want to be trained." |
DC: Someone Shoots Into Metro Officer's Truck
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"A Metro police officer and his girlfriend believe a shooting in their neighborhood may have been retaliation against them."
"The two are active in anti-drug efforts in their neighborhood near 20th and Newton streets." ...
"The officer's girlfriend said local police have been supportive, but she believes they can do more to protect the neighborhood." |
CA: Ex-LA Police Officer Sentenced To Prison For On-Duty Rapes
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"A former Los Angeles police officer described by a prosecutor as a "wolf in LAPD clothing" was sentenced Thursday to prison for raping three women while on duty."
"Joseph Evan Robinson was sentenced to three consecutive 25-years-to-life terms for the rapes. He faces an additional 22 years for more crimes on the same victims, said Sandi Gibbons, a district attorney's spokeswoman." |
Australia: Grieving son blames system
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"Michael Hames doesn't blame his little brother Stephen for shooting dead their parents and then turning the gun on himself at Jimboomba last week."
"...Mr. Hames said: 'I blame the system for allowing this to happen.' "
" 'Stephen was a sick man who terrorised our parents for 15 years and there was nothing in place to stop him,' he said."
" 'The police couldn't protect them, the Jimboomba community couldn't protect them and we couldn't protect them.' " |
UK: Armed police swoop after city gun prank
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"Armed police today swooped on two men in Princes Street Gardens after a prank with a toy machine gun went wrong."
"The men, aged 20 and 22, were forced to lie face down at gunpoint on the ground in St Cuthbert�s cemetery while they were searched by police."
"The two men were first seen larking about in Castle Street with the toy gun - and worried members of the public called police." |
LA: Kids: Gang Ties In New Orleans Shooting
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"Students said the shooting was apparently gang related and may have been retaliation for a previous fight."
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IL: Audit Finds Handgun Missing From Corrections Armory
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"The Illinois Department of Corrections cannot account for a handgun missing from its Springfield armory, a state audit reported Wednesday." ...
"A Corrections Department spokesman said it was not the same gun that The Associated Press reported was missing in September 2000. Officials later said that .38-caliber handgun had been traded in for a new weapon and not removed from an inventory list." |
Australia: Firearm storage under spotlight
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"The safe storage of firearms and ammunition has come under the spotlight as part of a State-wide compliance audit." ...
"Sergeant Tener said the compliance operation was in response to an increase in the theft of firearms as a result of break and enters. Last year in Bathurst several firearms, including a handgun, were stolen from a home in Torch Street during a break and enter. Similar incidents have also occurred throughout the State." |
Australia: Man with tomahawk arrested
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"A man wielding a tomahawk was arrested after sparking a security alert on the parliament's grounds." ...
"Police later charged him with two counts of possessing offensive weapons and one charge of possessing an imitation firearm."
"Inspector Marty Grenfell said the man was carrying a knife and imitation pistol as well as the tomahawk. Grenfell did not elaborate on why the man was on parliament grounds with the weapons." |
OR: Liberty forum planned
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"The West County Coalition for Human Dignity will host a public forum Sunday, May 4, at on how the Patriot Act affects civil liberties and what people can do to defend the Bill of Rights." |
When Clones Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Clones
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"When clones are outlawed, only outlaws will have clones. In a back-alley abortion, there is no surviving baby ...it will lead to the parent's imprisonment for a Reproduction Violation."
"Will the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003 lead to a future where we have orphanages and foster homes filled with displaced twins treated as second-class citizens because one of their parents went overseas or to an underground clinic to obtain an illegal pregnancy?" |
CO: City girds to keep gun control
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"Denver officials are drafting ordinances and considering a lawsuit in an effort to retain the city's gun controls, even though two recently passed state laws largely take control out of municipalities' hands." |
Bush in bed with gun-grabbers
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E-MAIL TO THE EDITOR
"Today it looks like GWB is in bed with the gun-grabbers. If we don't stand up and fight for the enforcement of the Second Amendment, it will soon be destroyed."
"Right now we have an opportunity to slap the leaders (of the antigun crowd) right in the face. The U.S. Senate will soon be voting on a bill that will stop most of the predatory lawsuits that are designed to destroy the gun industry. If we start right now and call, write and fax our United States senators � telling them to support S.659 � we might be able to turn this fight around." |
Gun rights VS Centralization
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a firm believer in the Second amendment and an opponent of all federal gun laws. In fact, I have introduced legislation, the Second Amendment Restoration Act (HR 153), which repeals misguided federal gun control laws such as the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban. I believe the Second amendment is one of the foundations of our constitutional liberties. However, Mr. Speaker, another foundation of those liberties is the oath all of us took to respect constitutional limits on federal power. While I understand and sympathize with the goals of the proponents of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (HR 1036), this bill exceeds those constitutional limitations, and so I must oppose it." |
DC: A Woman�s Right
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"Like many crime-ridden cities, Washington, D.C. has not been able to keep guns away from the violent street gangs. But the city's success in disarming responsible, law-abiding residents has been remarkable. No handgun can be registered in D.C. Even those few pistols registered a quarter of a century ago, prior to the district's 1976 ban, cannot be carried from room to room without a license. All firearms in the home, including rifles and shotguns, must be unloaded and either disassembled or bound by a trigger lock. In effect, no one in the district can possess a functional firearm in his own residence. Naturally, the criminal class, undeterred by laws against murder and robbery, isn't likely to be cowed by gun regulations. But honest, peaceable citizens will obey the regulations, and therein lies the problem." |
UK: Bank staff are �vulnerable to random attacks�
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"Dozens of bank staff have needed counselling following raids over the years. The official said the fear of being physically injured was not as bad as the feeling of helplessness when at the mercy of armed raiders."
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Maybe they wouldn't be at the mercy of armed raiders if they weren't unilaterally disarmed by their government. You don't suppose they're beginning to understand that, do you? |
TX: FBI Opens New $155 Million Crime Lab
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"The FBI opened the doors Thursday to a $155 million crime lab that gives the bureau state-of-the-art technology for forensic police work ranging from the latest DNA matching to analysis of muddy shoeprints."
"The lab, seven years in the making, is another step in the FBI's recovery from allegations of shoddy science and poor worker performance, officials say." |
Canada: Firearms bill recoils on feds
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"Federal solicitor general Wayne Easter probably is finding he has fewer friends in the farm community than he once did, says an Alberta Canadian Alliance MP."
"On April 1, Easter took over responsibility for the Canadian firearms program."
"Kevin Sorenson said during a House of Commons debate that he understood farmer Easter, a Prince Edward Island Liberal, once opposed the gun registry before ascending to cabinet last autumn." |
MA: Special Budget Alert!
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Special alert for Massachusetts gun owners!
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"Outside section 280 would repeal the Inland Fisheries And Game Fund and the Wildland Stamp Land Acquisition accounts;"
"Language contained in budget sections 462 and 465 would divert some of those funds to a health care program. This is a clear violation of federal regulations regarding the disposition of Pittman-Robertson Act and Dingell-Johnson Act funds. Roughly translated, the state will LOSE about 4.6 million dollars a year from this move � roughly 60% of the DFW budget!" |
CT: Gun dealer who sold rifle to woman critical of system
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"Haunted by his actions a Branford gun dealer is carrying the weight of a crime on his shoulders. He says he's done selling guns and he's criticizing the system that allowed him to sell a rifle to a woman who has confessed to shooting her child."
"State and local police say the man who sold Jennifer O'Connor a hunting rifle did everything by the book. However the gun dealer, Thomas Imperati, says there a flaw in the system that allowed him to sell O'Connor a deadly weapon." |
MA: Gun workshop gives police firepower
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"But nevertheless, quiet suburban communities are not immune to serious crime and the need for police officers to be trained to use a gun if needed."
"To that end, the Scituate Rod and Gun Club off Route 3A provided the setting Tuesday for weapons' instruction for firearms training officers from Cohasset, Scituate, Hull, Weymouth, Rockland, Eastham, Swansea and Plympton. Those who took part will help qualify the officers in their respective departments on their firearms." |
NRA convention opens in Florida
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"The National Rifle Association's annual convention opened in Orlando, Fla., Thursday for three days that will feature the exit of actor Charlton Heston after six years as president." ...
"The organization has become known over that past few decades as the nation's foremost opponent of any attempt at gun control."
"Several hundred anti-gun protesters are expected at the convention Saturday." ...
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Nation's foremost opponent of any attempt at gun control? The NRA is proud to have supported gun control measures. |
MA: Teen Gun Violence Decreasing
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"Recent high-profile incidents involving teens and gun violence may paint a picture of increasing youth violence, but according to information gathered by the commonwealth, the levels of youth violence are actually declining."
"Firearm homicides are the leading cause of injury fatalities for Boston's youth between the ages of 15 and 19, despite a decrease in the number of these incidents of 76 percent between 1995 and 1999, according to the Department of Public Health."
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MN: Concealed-weapon debate muddied by dueling studies
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"As fights over concealed-weapon laws have been waged in dozens of states, both proponents and opponents have wielded stacks of studies to prove the impact of the laws."
"But the studies' statistical conclusions are so contradictory that their findings have the effect of canceling each other out." |
MO: ACLU leader criticizes Bush administration
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"Romero also spoke against Patriot Act II, a proposal to further expand governmental powers including the ability to strip Americans of their citizenship if they unwittingly help a group the Justice Department determines to be terrorist-related."
"He urged support of local efforts to criticize the Patriot II Act, including a resolution sponsored by Jackson County legislators Scott Burnett and Henry Rizzo." |
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