Gee, Maybe It Wasn't The Gun's Fault After All: Breaking lockstep with
Mayor Merino, The Boston Globe looks at the cultural factors that led to
the shooting death of eight-year-old Liquarry Jefferson, at the hands of
a seven-year-old cousin...But the killing laid bare a much deeper truth
about urban violence: Crime in many neighborhoods runs in families,
where elders bequeath gang membership, drug abuse, joblessness, and
brutality to their offspring like a toxic inheritance.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/05/crime_consumed_a_family_and_an_8_year_old_is_lost/
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Time To Admit The "Gun Nuts" Are Right: ...Had Dr. William Petit had
access to a gun and known how to use it, he might have been able to
dispatch the two perpetrators, who were armed with only an air gun and
ropes...What if Mrs. Hawke-Petit had been trained in the use of
firearms? Suppose she had been able to get to a gun after her husband
was beaten into unconsciousness by the invaders? Or when she was forced
to take one captor to the bank to fetch him money?
http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18660461&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=569380&rfi=8
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New Hampshire Republicans Fire Away: GOP boosters got the chance to fire
machine guns in exchange for a $25 contribution. About 300 people came
to the Pelham Fish & Game Club to shoot tommy guns and M16s at bowling
pins three feet in the air. They raised between $2,000 and $2,500, split
between the Manchester GOP and the club.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/REPOSITORY/708060328/1043/NEWS01
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/NEWS/708060311/-1/rss10
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Rule Four Reminder: A stray bullet fired by a police officer trying to
shoot a snake hit and killed a 5-year-old boy fishing at a nearby pond,
officials said...A Noble police officer who had responded to a report of
a snake in a tree apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill
the snake, according to City Manager Bob Wade. (Rule Four: Always be
sure of your target and what's beyond it.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292168,00.html
http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=133097
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Ruminations On Car Guns: Walt Rauch offers some thoughts on the
practicality and pitfalls of carrying and leaving firearms in vehicles.
(Rule Five: Maintain control of your firearm.)
http://www.handgunsmag.com/tactics_training/gunsc_080207/
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Ruminations On Survival Guns: The Survivalist Blog presents some
thoughts about firearm selection from a different perspective yet ends
up emphasizing the value of selecting those chambered in military calibers.
http://thesurvivalblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/choosing-firearms-for-survival.html
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Maintain Control Of Their Firearms?: The Pentagon has lost track of
about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security
forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising
fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of
insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501299.html?hpid=topnews
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
