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Schwarteznegger Vetoes Two Anti-Rights Bills: California's governor has
vetoed a pair of bills that would have mandated a report of a lost or
stolen firearm within five days and limited sales of ammunition,
particularly over the internet. (Two vetoes do not an RKBA champion make.)
http://www.crpa.org/showpages.asp?pid=1274
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CCRKBA Applauds Newark Gun-Court Decision: Last week's decision by an
Essex County, N.J. judge to scrap Newark's crack-down on gun offenders
because there's no evidence that the "Gun Strategy" program has done
anything to curb crime was likened to an "epiphany" by the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73608
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Brady Bunch Urges Americans To "Ask More Questions": The recent spate of
school shootings is fodder for gun control groups. Paul Helmke,
president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said on Monday
it is "too easy" for children, teens, troubled adults, criminals and
terrorists to get firearms in this country. Helmke said Americans "need
to ask more questions" of elected officials at all levels of government:
"Americans need to ask why there is so much gun violence. Ask where the
guns are coming from. Ask why laws to restrict access to guns are being
weakened, not strengthened."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200610/CUL20061003a.html
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Good Tactics?: A North Carolina man bypassed his gun in his truck when
he entered his home to confront a crowbar-wielding burglar. He was able
to make it back to his truck and fatally shot the burglar during the
ensuing struggle. (It is not clear from the report if the gun was a a
handgun, which could have been carried in a holster.)
http://www.wral.com/news/9979766/detail.html
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Oops, Wrong House: An Australian burglar is recovering in a hospital
after being shot in the knee with his own shotgun. Three men inside, one
aged 51 and the others in their 30s, were attempting to disarm him when
the gun went off, police said.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20509992-5005941,00.html
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Mixing Alcohol And Gunpowder: A Boston police officer has been arraigned
on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon after a June
incident in which he fired a shot toward a fellow officer, with whom
he'd been drinking.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/10/boston_police_o_5.html
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Guns Sales Rise In Liberal Marin County: The county may have a liberal
political bent and a low rate of violent crime - half that of San
Francisco and a third of Sonoma County. But law enforcement officials
and gun owners say they would not be surprised if more than half of
Marin's residents own guns.
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_4427460
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4-H Shooting Program Profiled: Article favorably reports on a recent
statewide 4-H shooting competition for Missouri youngsters.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/18115/
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From Alan Korwin:
GUN-FREE-SCHOOL FRAUD COSTS LIVES AGAIN
Pennsylvania Is Latest State to Suffer
Another armed murderer has used the so-called Gun-Free-School-Zones law
to simply walk onto school grounds and with impunity begin killing
innocent children.
These dangerous criminals rely on the fact that no one on campus will be
able to offer resistance. Congress passed the law in 1990, renewed it in
1995, and though it cannot stop murderers it has enabled many, experts say.
"The Gun-Free-School law is a cruel hoax that costs lives," said Alan
Korwin, author of Gun Laws of America. "Time and time again, these
killers are using the law to provide a safe haven, where they are the
only people with guns." It's no surprise these madmen never attack gun
stores, police stations, or other places where people are known to be
armed, he says, and news reports consistently overlook this point.
Hoplophobic teacher's unions, school administrators and legislators
project their fears onto the system and disarm honest people, instead of
taking prudent steps to protect the kids. Hoplophobia is a poorly
understood morbid fear of weapons that afflicts millions. It is one of
the greatest undiagnosed and untreated sources of harm in the country,
Korwin and other experts believe.
People who are terrified of guns give themselves a good feeling but
false sense of security by passing such dangerous laws. "All they have
done is create target-rich, no-risk environments for monsters who have
no fear of encountering an armed teacher or administrator, or a
legally-armed private citizen who might happen to be in the building,"
says Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Second Amendment Foundation. The
Pennsylvania attack comes less than a week after a similar attack in
Colorado.
"Gun-control extremists will use this incident to claim we have not done
enough," Gottlieb predicted, and in the past, the harm caused by
gun-free laws has lead to calls for more of the same. This is
irrational, which is a sign of hoplophobic behavior. "They have
disarmed the wrong people and left our schools, and the children inside,
vulnerable to this kind of atrocity."
"We need empowerment, not avoidance," Korwin says, who believes that
properly trained and prepared teachers are at least one prudent step to
take against a rash of homicidal maniacs preying on schools.
Hundreds of thousands of FBI-certified individuals, who routinely use
personal firearms for crime deterrence and safety, but are kept out of
the news, are also banned from school grounds under many states' laws.
They can provide little help against the criminals who simply ignore the
words in a distant law book.
Several states have introduced Gun-Free-Zone Liability laws, which allow
people to make the arbitrary and unenforced gun-free zones, but would
hold them liable for any harm the zones cause. It is believed this would
make people think twice about making the dangerous and negligent zones.
Sample bill language is here:
http://www.gunlaws.com/GFZ/index.htm
Gottlieb categorizes gun-free zones as a myth, since they stop no one,
leaving victims defenseless.
An unintended consequence of the federal gun-free-school-zones law, 18
USC 922(q), is to criminalize millions of citizens who travel near
schools. Because the law stipulates a 1,000-foot gun-free perimeter
around schools, virtually all private travel with firearms in American
cities violates the law.
This creates tens of millions of federal felonies, of unsuspecting
citizens, with no enforcement, but no actual harm done. The law is a
travesty needing repeal. See maps and details here:
http://www.gunlaws.com/Gun_Free_School_Zones.htm
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