Missouri Governor Signs Stand-Your-Ground Bill: Missouri Governor Matt
Blunt signed the legislation Tuesday, the latest in a wave of states
adopting the so-called "stand your ground" laws. People can use deadly
force once the intruder illegally enters their home, vehicle or other
dwelling, including a tent. The bill provides an absolute defense
against being charged or sued... The new law takes effect Aug. 28.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/03/america/NA-GEN-US-Shooting-Intruders.php
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_184125207.html
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What's Going On In Pennsylvania?: The president of the Pennsylvania
Legislative Black Caucus said yesterday that after meeting with House
Democratic leaders and the National Rifle Association, he would not seek
to hold up the state budget over gun-control legislation. "They have
made a commitment to doing something, maybe not today or next week, but
next month," said Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland (D., Delaware), chairman of the
17-member group.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20070703_Guns_wont_stall_Pa__budget__black_caucus_leader_says.html
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More Lawyer Talk: Despite the recent Parker decision and a growing shift
among legal scholars, one New York lawyer tries to explain away the
Second Amendment as a guarantee of the RKBA. "A wise state court said
almost 175 years ago, 'a man in pursuit of deer, elk, and buffaloes,
might carry his rifle every day, for forty years, and, yet, it would
never be said of him, that he had borne arms.' Aymette v. State, 21
Tenn. 154, 161 (1840)."
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1182848789221
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Use Enough Gun, Part 1: A shooting last week led to an arrest Monday -
the person who was shot. Lawrence Halt, 43, took two shots to the chest
and hand in from a handgun fired by Michael Peco, 39...Peco struggled
loose and went inside. Halt entered Peco's home without permission. Peco
retrieved his .25-caliber handgun from the bedroom moments before Halt
grabbed him again, placing him in another chokehold, court documents
state...(There's a reason these sub-caliber pistols are know as
"mouseguns.")
http://www.post-trib.com/news/453523,hbshooting.article
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Use Enough Gun, Part 2: Police in Kentucky say a man shot to death in a
Laurel County Sunday night allegedly was killed by his father-in-law
when he went to the home of his estranged wife with a
machete...According to police, when Justice arrived he confronted Paul
Whitworth, Edna Whitworth's father, and the father shot Justice three
times with a shotgun in the torso.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=6736184&nav=EQlz
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Biased Reporting?: A Florida store owner grabbed his own gun and
followed two robbers out of his store, ordering them to stop. One of
them made the mistake of turning and pointing his gun at the store owner
and announcing his intent to shoot him...Police say it looks like this
was a case of self defense and it doesn't immediately look like Saed
will face charges.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=58277
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Meanwhile, In Texas...: One teen-ager is in custody Wednesday and two
suspects are being sought in connection with a robbery at a supermarket
where the husband of an employee waiting outside confronted the suspects
and opened fire, according to reports. The 17-year-old showed up at
Huguley Memorial Medical Center in south Fort Worth where doctors called
police as the teen was treated for gunshot wounds to his backside and
foot...
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/158522.html
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Iowa Gun Club Profiled: ... However, as the old adage goes, times have
changed. The popularity of shooting sports has grown, as has general
disdain towards guns. Feeling political pressure from almost every
direction, gun clubs across the United States, like the West Liberty Gun
Club (WLGC), have had to bend and adapt to the world's changing
perception of firearms and the people who use them...
http://westlibertyindex.com/article.php?viewID=885
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From John Farnam:
4 July 07
A slug confidently slithers about, naively believing he has a "Divine
Right" to exist and prosper, unmolested, and that this "right" will be
respected by all the hungry, desperate, and wicked of the world, and
that this callow illusion is all that is necessary to keep him from
harm. Without warning, salt is casually poured upon him, and, even as
he is irreversibly converted to little more than a dabble of foam, he
stubbornly clings to this adolescent, delusional fantasy.
At the dawn of year 232, we need reminding that History does not deal
kindly with perpetually helpless whiners. Only energetic nations who
earnestly believe in their diachronic destiny will long endure and
prosper. The chronically apologetic, rudderless, colorless, and
indolent are, without fail, massacred and enslaved by cunning, knavish
nations who seldom hesitate and never apologize!
Quotations:
"The political Left, in naive denial of history's harsh realities,
supposes we have only to roll over on our backs like puppies, dangling
our paws engagingly in the air, to fend off attack."
St Aubyn
"I send you one thought, one sole idea that is written in red on every
beach from Australia to Japan: There is no 'substitute' for victory!
MacArthur
"You ask, what is our policy? I say: To wage war... with all our might
and with all the strength God will give us; to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny... What is our aim? I answer with just one word:
Victory!... absolute, final, immaculate... victory for which neither we
nor our descendants will ever apologize!"
Churchill
/John
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
