*Backup Computer: *As I am still having issues with my primary computer,
I will attempt to generate a mailing this morning with my backup laptop.
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*AFL-CIO Launches Mail Blitz for Obama: *Micro-targeting is the name of
the game in this election, and the AFL-CIO is about to unleash one of
its most micro-targeted pushes yet - a blitz of mailers defending Obama
on gun rights that's aimed strictly at union households made up of gun
owners. Here is the first mailer, a piece going to some 80,000 gun
owners in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It offers a stout defense
of Obama on gun rights and ties it directly to an economic message...

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/afl-cio_joins_the_gun_wars_wit.php
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Brady Endorsement Could Hurt Obama in Virginia: * The Brady Campaign To
Prevent Gun Violence announced today it is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama's
(D-Ill) presidential campaign...But in a state like Virginia, which his
home to the National Rifle Association and more than one million
hunters, the endorsement carries considerable risk. The NRA, which has
endorsed GOP nominee John McCain, is already running ads in Virginia
noting that Obama once supported a ban on handguns in Chicago.And if
Obama has made any gains in rural Virginia, it will be tempting for
Republicans to use the Brady Campaign endorsement to undercut Obama on
the gun issue...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/10/will_guns_sink_obama_in_va.html
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John Lott Addresses Pennsylvania: * Barack Obama claims he is a friend
of gun owners. He certainly has convinced the media. On Thursday, the
Los Angeles Times said the NRA's opposition to Obama seemed strange
because "Obama does not oppose gun rights. He has made a point of
pounding this home to rural audiences, telling them he has no intention
of taking their guns away: not their shotguns, not their handguns, not
anything." ...Yet, while the media and their checkers take Obama's
current statements about his beliefs at face value, the NRA doesn't. So
who is right?In Pennsylvania, the answer could alter the election
outcome. With about one million of the country's 12.5 million hunters,
Pennsylvanians spend more time hunting than the residents of any other
state. Pennsylvania also has more concealed-handgun permit holders than
any other state, about 600,000...

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20081014_Taking_aim_at_Obama_s_stance_on_gun_control.html
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Pennsylvania Soccer Mom Gets Back CWP: * A mother who angered fellow
parents when she openly carried a pistol to her 5-year-old daughter's
soccer game got her concealed weapons permit back Tuesday after a
Pennsylvania judge overruled a sheriff's decision to revoke it. Meleanie
Hain lost the permit after other parents complained about the presence
of the gun during a soccer game on Sept. 11. Lebanon County Judge Robert
Eby, who said he also is a gun owner with a concealed weapons permit,
said the law required him to return Hain's permit. But he questioned her
judgment, saying she "scared the devil" out of others at the soccer
field...*

*http://www.newsmax.com/us/soccer_mom_gun/2008/10/14/140506.html
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*A Fundamentalist Gets His CWP:...*My fundamentalist view of the Second
Amendment hasn't changed -- I still consider the CCW permit an
infringement on my Second Amendment rights. In an ideal world, I would
tuck my .45 into a holster, not worrying if my jacket covered it or not,
and go about my business. I would go to work, to the bank, the post
office, to school, or to the airport to catch a plane to New York City,
all without worrying about some misguided busybody's unreasonable fear
of weapons and armed people. Yes, I'm a Second Amendment utopian. But
that's not the world I live in. And wishing won't make it so...

http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4083/67/
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Oops, Wrong House:  *Memphis police & homicide investigators are looking
into the city's latest homicide. Officials tell Eyewitness News that a
homeowner found the burglar in his home early Tuesday morning. It
happened in the 3200 block of Scenic Highway near Dundee around 12:30
a.m. Tuesday morning. Police say the homeowner shot the accused burglar
after a struggle insued, killing him. The homeowner was pistol whipped
by the burglary suspect, and is being treated at the hospital. It's
unknown if he will face charges.
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*http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=a3dfc18f-e74d-4365-964e-9c8974278c74
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Oops, Wrong Driver: *A Fairfield man attempting to rob another man in
Pleasant Grove [AL] was shot and killed by his intended victim Monday
night, police say. Authorities are looking for others believed involved.
Pleasant Grove Police Chief Bill Waites said a man went to check on a
relative's home on Newberry Drive in the Ridgeway subdivision about 9
p.m. The man got out of his pickup truck and was approached by two armed
men who demanded money. "He pulled his own gun and shot one of them,"
Waites said. Waites would not identify the shooter. Marquis Ledelle
Strange, 18, of Fairfield, was pronounced dead on the scene. This is
Pleasant Grove's first homicide of the year, he said.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/10/police_say_wouldbe_robber_shot.html
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*Justifiable Homicides Rise: *The number of justifiable homicides
committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two
years to their highest levels in more than a decade, reflecting a
shoot-first philosophy in dealing with crime, say law enforcement
analysts. The 391 killings by police that were ruled justifiable in 2007
were the most since 1994, FBI statistics show. The 254 killings by
private individuals found to be self-defense were the most since 1997.
The FBI says a homicide committed by a private citizen is justified when
a person is slain during the commission of a felony, such as a burglary
or robbery. Police are justified, the FBI says, when felons are killed
while the officer is acting in the line of duty. Rulings on these deaths
are usually made by the local police agencies involved.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-14-justifiable_N.htm?csp=34