Buy Ammo On November 19: Second Amendment supporters should buy
ammunition November 19th to support freedom, the Citizens Committee for
the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Monday, November 19th is
National Ammo Day, described as a BUYcott of ammunition. The goal of
National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your
local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that
ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,224320.shtml
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/national-ammo-day-nov-19th.html
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Another Gun-Free-Zone Failure: The recent shooting of a Miami Carol City
High School algebra teacher identified as Sergio Miranda will no doubt
bring wails from gun control extremists that the nation needs tougher
gun laws - when it really serves as another failure of so-called
"gun-free zones."... Within the self-defense community, such locations
are commonly identified as "victim disarmament zones," and time and
again, this has been proven all too accurate. Remember the Tacoma Mall
shooting of two years ago? How about Salt Lake City's Trolley Square
shooting in February? Certainly nobody can claim ignorance of April's
Virginia Tech massacre, or a string of public and private school
shootings that dates back more than a dozen years. The common
denominator in every one of these deplorable crimes is that all of them
happened in gun-free zones.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/opinion/68671.php
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Robert Levy On Heller: ...The stakes are immense. Very few legal
questions stir the passions like gun control. And this round of the
courtroom battle will be fought during the heat of the 2008 election.
Further, Washington is home to the federal government, making it an
appropriate venue to challenge all federal gun laws, no matter where an
alleged 2nd Amendment violation might have occurred. Thus, Parker could
have an immediate effect not only on D.C. gun regulations but on federal
regulations...(This case was originally Parker et al. v. D.C. and is now
generally know as D.C. v. Heller.)
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8794
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Larry Pratt On Heller: ...In recent years, the Supreme Court has already
stated that whenever "the people" is mentioned in the Bill of Rights
that it refers to the same "class of persons." So if "the people" in the
Second Amendment doesn't refer to all of the people, then it doesn't in
the First or Fourth Amendments either. In the USA, the people are the
sovereigns. They are the "We the People" who established and ordained
the government, and they were expected to own firearms in the defense of
their free society. More than that, people were required by the
legislatures to own and possess firearms...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071114/cm_usatoday/opposingviewmorearmslesscrime
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John Longenecker on Heller: ...D.C. v. Heller, if the Supremes elect to
hear the case, can have a profound impact on the country's gun control
policy, and thus an effect on individual liberty. Gun bans do not work,
and where the Second Amendment is affirmed, crime doesn't seem to be a
problem. You might say that government burden has been lifted a bit, as
-- even with more than 2 million gun owners carrying their weapon - none
of the dire predictions of shootings has come true, and armed citizens
are demonstrated to play an important role in crime control...
http://www.goodforthecountry.com/
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Teddy Kennedy Spouts Off: ,,,I'm particularly interested in the role
that ATF can play to help stem the tide of gun violence in our country.
Nearly 30,000 Americans lives are lost to gun violence each year --
more than 80 people a day. In his book, Private Guns, Public Health,
David Hemenway from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center observed
that, "Each day guns were used in the commission of about three thousand
crimes. The U.S. rates of death an injury due to firearms and the rate
of crimes committed with firearms are far higher than those of any other
industrialized country."
http://kennedy.senate.gov/newsroom/press_release.cfm?id=3DE75BAB-7410-4E52-BE0B-CF4AD4CE6580
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Florida Charges Dropped For Armed Reporter: Prosecutors have dropped the
case against a TV reporter who was arrested carrying a loaded gun near a
high school while working on a story on school violence, authorities
said Tuesday. Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG, an ABC network affiliate, was
arrested last month after police said he carried a weapon onto the
grounds of Miami Central High School and refused to cross the street
when asked by an officer...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtUDdcdQSvS52PTfO01NAaPy6yWgD8SSVSUO0
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What Not To Say After A Shooting: Store owner Wade Nassar said the
robber purchased some tissues for $1.80 and then pointed a gun at him
and demanded cash, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported. "He pulled the gun on
me (and said), 'Give me the money or I'll shoot,'" Nassar said. Instead,
Nassar grabbed his own .22-caliber handgun and fired five or six shots
at the robber, who fled the store unharmed. "How I missed this dude, I
couldn't believe myself," Nassar said. "I meant to kill the dude. I
meant to kill him, trust me. Anybody trying to stick me up, if I get the
chance to shoot him, I shoot him on the spot."
http://www.wlwt.com/news/14581634/detail.html
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
