Another Look At The Parker, Heller Cases: ...Unarmed law-abiding
citizens vs. heavily armed criminals - guess who's been winning. If D.C.
City Council members regulated water the way they "regulate" gun
ownership, residents could expect desert-dry water pipes and
registration of garden hoses...Essentially, the appellants claim a right
to possess what they describe as "functional firearms," by which they
mean ones that could be "readily accessible to be used effectively when
necessary" for self-defense in the home...
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2007/11/15/supreme_court_may_target_second_amendment?page=full&comments=true
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Overreaction To Virginia Tech Shootings: W. Gerald Massengill chaired
the Virginia Tech Review Panel that minutely probed the April 16
shootings in Blacksburg. Mr. Massengill is also the former
superintendent of the Virginia State Police. Thus, when he comes out in
favor of ending the exemption on background checks in the sale or trade
of firearms by unlicensed dealers, his is a voice that carries much
resonance. We understand that. Nonetheless, we adjudge Mr. Massengill
guilty of over-reaction, of throwing babies out with the bathwater. The
horrific crimes of Seung-Hui Cho had absolutely nothing to do with the
sale, purchase, or exchange of firearms at gun shows or auctions. Mr.
Cho bought the guns he used with such deadly effect from a licensed gun
dealer. That he was able to do so even though he had been found mentally
ill has been resolved via an executive order from Gov. Kaine. We feel
certain the General Assembly will take further corrective action in this
regard come January. But remove the gun-show exemption? We do not deem
this a proper course, if only because no hard-and-fast data exist
linking gun violence with sales made at gun shows. Usually, these
transactions are between collectors or hobbyists, and involve the sale
or trade of a single weapon.
Brady View:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/col-massengills-common-_b_72905.html
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Oops, Wrong House: A northwest Indiana woman shot her alleged stalker to
death. Police say 41-year-old Ryan Lee Bergner broke into the woman's
home in Hammond Monday night. The 51-year-old woman called 9-1-1 and hid
in a closet with a gun she had been given for protection. She says she
shot him when he opened the closet door and started choking her.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5762204
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Nonsense In Ohio: ...The latest examples of this discrimination against
those who choose to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms
comes direct from Columbus, Ohio, where Senators continue to allow
journalists to access the private information about law-abiding citizens
who obtain concealed handgun licenseholders and publish it on the
Internet. Meanwhile, this same body recently voted to shield the names
of some public employees from view on the Internet, and the Ohio Supreme
Court recently decided that the names of all Ohioans convicted of
drunken driving are off-limits to newspapers...
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4046.html
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Missouri Student Suspended For Rifle In Truck: ...Weeks is an avid
hunter. On Nov. 1, he went into the woods after school. "I decided I was
going to go hunting before the football game, so I came home grabbed my
22 and an extra box of shells," Weeks told KMBC's Dan Weinbaum. After
hunting, Weeks came home, ate and then went to the football game at
Smithville High School. He said he forgot he had an unloaded rifle on
the passenger seat of his truck. "I made the mistake of locking my keys
in there, and that's when everything started getting bad," Weeks said.
http://www.kmbc.com/news/14589729/detail.html
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Arizona County To Renovate Shooting Park: Pima County's Southeast
Regional Park Shooting Range will be closed on Thursdays and Fridays
until the end of the year for renovations. The range still will be open
Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Renovations include the
construction of a shooting sports education center. The center will have
an education range and a training building and will be funded in part by
a grant from the state Game and Fish Department.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/211958
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Gun Guide For Journalists: Pity the copy editor groping through a story
involving firearms. The chances of missing a mistake -or making one -
are enormous. The subject of guns probably is the source of more errors
in writing than anything except grammar itself. The subject has a
grammar of its own, in the sense of a body of rules and principles, but
as with English grammar, the internal logic is sometimes obscure and the
exceptions and quirks and arcana can give you a headache. A copy editor
who doesn't know the grammar of guns can be as lost as the foreigner
wrestling with English - like the one who wrote the sign in the dress
shop telling ladies to go upstairs and have a fit.
http://www.copydesk.org/words/weapons.htm
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
