Voice Of America Looks at DC v. Heller: ...Tony Mauro, Supreme Court
correspondent for the Legal Times, says the court has avoided the
underlying issue for nearly 70 years. "This is really the
longest-standing unanswered question in American law - the meaning of
the Second Amendment - and I think the court probably will finally
decide that now is the time to answer it."... Over at the Legal Times,
Tony Mauro guesses that the ban would get struck down. "We now have a
sharply more conservative Supreme Court. So, I think, again, if I had to
predict, I think it might be a narrow decision, or a narrow margin, but
I think the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right
to bear arms will prevail." If the court does go that way, Mauro
predicts decades of legal wrangling to define the limits of that right.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-10-voa19.cfm
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Maybe Bloomberg Should Look Upstate: The renewed scandal involving
alleged missing machine guns that had been secretly and illicitly
purchased by officers with the Albany, NY Police Department several
years ago suggests that if New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to go
after illegal guns, he need only drive up the Hudson River with his
rogue investigators and turn them loose, the Second Amendment Foundation
said today.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-10-2007/0004679781&EDATE=
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University Student Suspended For Advocating Campus CCW: A Christian
church-affiliated university in St. Paul, Minn., has suspended a student
after he raised questions about the campus ban on concealed weapons, and
is ordering him to have a mental health evaluation before he can resume
his education. The Hamline University case involves student Troy
Scheffler, who, after the Virginia Tech massacre where a student shot
and killed nearly three dozen others, suggested the killing spree might
have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58082
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There's A Reason They Choose Schools: Wednesday's shooting at yet
another school has a better outcome than most in recent memory. No one
died at Cleveland's Success Tech Academy except the perpetrator. The two
students and two teachers he shot are in stable condition at Cleveland
hospitals. What is depressingly similar to the mass murders at Virginia
Tech and Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and too many others was the killer's
choice of venue - that steadfastly gun-free zone, the school campus.
Although murderer Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech and Asa Coon, the
Cleveland shooter were both students reported to have school-related
grudges, other school killers have proved to be simply taking advantage
of the lack of effective security at schools. The Bailey, Colorado
multiple rapes and murder of September 2006, the Nickel Mines massacre
of October 2006, and Buford Furrow's murderous August 1999 invasion of a
Los Angeles Jewish day-care center were all committed by adults. They
had no connection to the schools other than being drawn to the soft
target a school offers such psychopaths.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmZiZDdhNjJlZTk2YjY4N2IzYTUxZWNjZDZhZjUxMTY=
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Recent Murders Spur Training In Tennessee: The recent murders of east
Nashville shop owner Classie Wilson and Bordeaux store clerk Gene Kim
have prompted some store owners to attend gun safety classes. The
classes, held at the Academy of Firearms Protection and Security, teach
workers how to protect themselves using a gun. Buford Tune said, "The
safest place to keep a gun is in your immediate control and secured."
http://wkrn.com/nashville/news/shop-owners-fearful-in-wake-of-recent-murders/122832.htm
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Bringing A Pool Cue To A Gunfight: Police are investigating an
early-morning shooting involving a man armed with a pool cue and a
renter trying to get some sleep. According to police, the renter was
sleeping at about 2:30 a.m. when the female owner of the house showed up
with a friend and didn't have her keys. She woke the renter to be let
in. Police said the renter asked the woman's friend to leave around 4
a.m. because they were being loud and he was trying to sleep. The man
left, but returned a few minutes later, and police said he was carrying
a pool cue. The renter told police the man with the pool cue kicked in
the door and threatened him with the pool cue. That's when the renter
shot the man. He was rushed to a local hospital for surgery after
suffering a gunshot wound to the stomach, police said.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14307017/detail.html
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There's A Reason God Put Those People On An Island: An English
grandmother who was shot at by youths in her local park was told by
police that she should walk her dog somewhere else in future, she
claimed yesterday...Speaking of her disgust at being told by police that
it was up to her to change her behaviour, Mrs Laycock said: "If we hand
places over to thugs like that, eventually there will be nowhere left
for us to go. I was convinced my life was in danger. Surely the job of
the police is to stand up to gangs, not tell law-abiding people to keep
out of their way." (It seems as though their job, in Britain, is
actually to ensure that the law-abiding lack the means and the will to
fight back.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486950&in_page_id=1770
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While In Canada...: A victims' advocacy group is asking the Quebec
government to ban the sale of "Rambo-style" combat knives as part of the
province's newest piece of gun control legislation. Boisvenu told the
hearing the bill should not only focus on banning firearms, but also on
combat knives and other large, fixed-blade outdoor knives. Quebec's
government has the power to ban the sale of knives, while the federal
government can legislate on the use and the ownership of those weapons.
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/national/story.html?id=97e80ca2-7004-4bb9-ba4e-699865514379
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
