From: Stephen P. Wenger <spwenger@spw-duf.info>
Registration Leads to Confiscation, Not Solving Crimes: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them… Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway… Because registration doesn't help solve crime, it is important to ask why government wants to register the people's firearms. History provides the answer. In countries from Australia to England, registration has been used to create lists of guns that later were confiscated by their governments. Despite Mrs. Pelosi's assurances to the contrary, Americans' fear that registration will lead to confiscation is well-founded. Indeed, Mrs. Pelosi's own state of California already has used existing registration lists to confiscate so-called assault weapons just a half-dozen years ago… (California's "assault weapon" registration, as I recall, is a dead-end street – it severely restricts use of the firearms and bans their inheritance. The confiscation I recall involved a an overturned ruling by the AG that allowed SKS rifles modified to accept detachable magazines to be registered after the statutory deadline. There may be more recent confiscations of which I am unaware.)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/39we-want-them-registered39/
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Newsweek Chides Big Brother et al.: …In the past, national political leaders might have raised troubling questions about how such an unstable character could obtain easy access to high-powered weapons. They might have been even more motivated given that Poplawski's cop-killing spree was part of a near epidemic of mass homicides that have left 58 people dead over the past month. Or given that Mexico's insanely violent drug cartels are arming themselves with high-powered assault weapons purchased at U.S. gun stores and later smuggled south of the border. Yet many past champions of stricter gun-control measures are silent. These include top Obama White House officials who have squelched any talk within the administration about pushing further gun-control measures."It's weird," says Peter Hamm, the communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "When you see people like [Attorney General] Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton or [White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel become muted on this issue, you feel like you want to call up a friend and say, 'What's up?' " …
http://www.newsweek.com/id/193589
CNN Chimes In: During the 7:00 p.m. hour of Saturday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Don Lemon pushed the view that Barack Obama should try to emulate European gun laws as a way of reducing gun violence in America as he discussed the subject with four guests. During an interview with former FBI agent Gregg McCrary, who expressed support for an assault weapons ban, Lemon suggested Obama learn from the Europeans: "The one person who can probably weigh on this and may have the most influence is the President. Since he's over there in Europe now, and they're, you know, they're not perfect, but it seems that their gun laws seem to be at least working in a way that ours are not." …
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/04/10/cnn-s-lemon-suggests-obama-learn-europe-s-strict-gun-laws
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Mexico Repeats 90% Lie: Stopping the flow of money and weapons from the United States into Mexico is critical to dealing with the violent drug cartels creating havoc on the border, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday. Mexican officials think that 90 percent of the weapons seized in their country can be traced to the U.S., Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said. "The key issue right now is how can the United States help to shut down those guns and shut down that bulk cash that is providing the drug syndicates in Mexico with the wherewithal to corrupt, to bribe, to kill," Mr. Sarukhan said on CBS' "Face the Nation." …Although Mr. Sarukhan contended that the cartels' use of assault weapons rose dramatically after the U.S. ended its ban on the firearms in 2004, he stopped short of advocating that Congress reinstate the ban. "What we will say is ... by reinstating the ban, that could have a profound impact on the number and the caliber of weapons going down to Mexico," he said…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/mexico-us-guns-money-fueling-drug-war/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7996196.stm
It's been confidently reported, as of late, that the United States is the source of 90% of all the weapons utilized in Mexican crime. This has become a dogma, repeated by no less than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others. It's an impressive-sounding statistic – but is it true? In a word, no. It's not correct. The 90% figure was originally based upon a misunderstanding, and thereafter it has been constantly repeated in the media and political world. According to a spokeswoman for the ATF (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), "over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." To borrow a Shakespearean expression, "there's the rub." The fact that 90% of the "traced weapons" were from the U.S. was transformed in the media to the false report that 90% of the weapons used for criminal purposes in Mexico were from the U.S…
http://www.mexidata.info/id2226.html
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Speaking of Lies…: …The following transcript is from Oct. 1995. The speaker was Thomas Busey, then chief of ATF's National Firearms Act Branch. The subject was the NFRTR, the National Firearms Registry and Transfer Record. It's the official record the government keeps on all National Firearms Act-registered weapons, such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices and AOWs, or "Any Other Weapons" the agency deems taxable/requiring registration. Here's what Mr. Busey said about it: "Let me say that when we testify in court, we testify that the data base is 100 percent accurate. That's what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true." …
http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d11-If-we-cant-trust-ATF-under-oath-when-can-we-trust-them
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Brady Pants Also on Fire: In May of 2007, the Brady Center, research arm of the Brady Campaign, published a report entitled No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools. Though nearly two years have passed, numerous inaccuracies remain which, having persisted this long in a publicly-accessible document, call into question the Brady Campaign's ability to publish credible reports and/or their capacity for telling the truth…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2879-Austin-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Brady-Campaign-Biased-inaccurate-research
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20/20 Gun "Report" Analyzed: …At the very end of the program, Ms. Sawyer said that they could not find any studies supporting the numbers of self-defense shootings which seem to have inspired this entire report — the idea that an armed citizen can blunt or even stop a killing. The exact quote is: "And by the way, if you're wondering where all the studies about the effectiveness of guns used by ordinary Americans for self defense are, well, keep searching. we could not find one reliable study and the ones we found were contradictory." This statement is perhaps the most outrageous of the entire report. It could be her misguided opinion, perhaps her staff misled her, but the statement is entirely untrue. She just misled the American Public, intentionally or not. That ABC News could not find what Professor John Lott, Gary Kleck et al, our own Department Of Justice, beat police officers and researchers could find from professional experience and from FBI crime data does not pass the test of reasonable expectation. We found it. So can ABC News. Ms. Sawyer's closing line is the exquisite example of the kind of movement blatantly opposing liberty in discouraging the armed citizen by way of hiding facts, values and discouraging the American spirit of Independence from our servants. The thing that gets tens of millions of gun owners is that these people are fighting us instead of fighting crime…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2323-LA-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d11-If-I-Only-Had-A-Gun-misfires-for-2020-when-they-cannot-stay-on-topic?cid=examiner-email
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The Beat Goes On: Ralph Scott has an easy explanation for why sales at his gun shop - the Lock, Stock and Barrel - have been booming since Barack Obama's election last November. "Here's the sad fact of the matter - our business thrives on bad news," he says. Scott's firearms store in Portsmouth, Ohio, an economically stressed river town on the edge of Appalachia, has seen a 40 to 50 per cent spike in sales over the past five months, reflecting a national surge in demand for personal-use weapons that dates to just before the Nov. 4 election. Across the United States, firearms buyers have reported difficulty finding ammunition at major retailers like Walmart, while manufacturers like Winchester and Remington Arms say they are running at full capacity. The evidence of a sustained run on guns isn't just anecdotal. The FBI says the number of criminal background checks - required for guns bought from licensed dealers - conducted from November through February jumped by almost 30 per cent from the previous year…
http://www.canada.com/news/news+good+news+dealers/1487633/story.html
If the rash of mass shootings nationwide is leaving you thinking that there are too many guns in Buffalo and in America, just wait. Gun sales are booming nationwide - and in Erie County, applications for pistol permits are rolling in at nearly three times last year's rate, the county clerk's office reports. Meanwhile, in the nation's capital, gun control has become, in essence, dead on arrival. Chalk it all up to the election of a Democratic president with a long record of supporting gun restrictions and a Congress that includes a surprising number of pro-gun Democrats from rural areas. The election of Barack Obama as president is sparking a run on firearms and ammunition in both Buffalo and nationwide, according to gun dealers and experts on the issue… (Wait a minute – pistol permits in New York are a form of registration. I thought that was what these folks wanted.)
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/638237.html
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University President Opposes Campus CCW: University of Missouri system President Gary Forsee has denounced legislation approved by the state House that would allow concealed weapons to be brought onto college campuses. Forsee said in a written statement Friday that the legislation "increases the risk that our university family could be put in harm's way." He added: "Missouri's college students should be allowed to learn and exchange ideas in an environment free from the threat of concealed guns." Forsee, who was hired December 2007, leads a four-campus university system that governs public institutions in Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis… (Why do legally concealed firearms pose a greater threat to academic freedom than criminals who don't care which laws they violate? Would Forsee be happier if the firearms of law-abiding students were carried openly?)
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/MU-President-Denounces-Concealed-Gun-Bill/ONrQ1TpUo0WjSX2sVajHrw.cspx
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Oops, Wrong House: Armed with a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun, the resident of a Botetourt County home fatally shot an intruder Friday night, authorities said. A family living in the home heard someone yelling, cursing and pounding on their house about 10:40 p.m., according to a release Saturday from Botetourt County Sheriff Ronnie Sprinkle. A man living there called 911 and secured his family members in a locked bedroom, then loaded the shotgun. The intruder used a wrought iron patio chair to break a glass sliding door and come into the house, and the male resident shot him. "From what I'm told, he showed some restraint," Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom said about the shooter. "But it got to the point where he didn't have much of a choice." …
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/200867
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Solution to Somali Piracy: …I don't fish as often as I did in the Texas Gulf Coast in the 1970s. But I do get an occasional invite to go deep sea fishing off the Carolina coast with three good friends. Two of these friends work in a national security capacity for the federal government (please pardon the pseudonyms). So it should go without saying that we have the hardware and skills to defeat a small (or large) band of pirates whenever we venture into the Atlantic Ocean. We don't have any evidence of piracy off the Carolina coast. But we all subscribe to the belief that it is better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one… I understand quite well that there are ports that will not allow entry to boats that are carrying firearms. And I understand that they are in places where we would like to deliver humanitarian aid. But the solution is not to go into these areas unarmed. The solution is to tell the nations in which these ports are located that they must change their laws or forfeit charitable goods coming from our generous Christian nation.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/04/13/the_solution_to_somali_piracy?page=full
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I Guess We're All "Rightwing Extremists": So, if you disagree with Obama on amnesty for illegals or stand up for the Second Amendment, you are branded a "rightwing extremist" by the Department of Homeland Security and become the subject of scrutiny by some 850,000 local and state law enforcement personnel. The assessment goes on to link concerns about the economy, and the stockpiling of emergency food supplies and weapons and ammunition to violent militias and extremist "rightwing" groups. In my state of California, the state government urges all citizens to keep emergency food supplies in case of earthquake. And who isn't concerned about the economy? Most disgusting of all, it targets veterans for increased law enforcement scrutiny. "Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities." …
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94799
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Another Look at British "Gun Control": …The Home Office was worried by the 1917 Russian Revolution: perhaps British "working class" soldiers would do the same thing and overthrow the British establishment when they came home at the end of WW1. In the eyes of the Home Office these men, who had been fighting and dying for their country, could not be trusted. The Home Office was much more concerned by the fact that, in fighting for their country, such men had become familiar with firearms, than the greater truth that they had also been prepared to die for their country – and had done so in vast numbers. Clearly guns should only be permitted in the hands of those "approved" by the State… (I have been under the impression that it was the earlier independence movement in Ireland that had prompted Britain's early 20th century restrictions on firearms. While there were several mutinies of working-class soldiers and sailors in WWI, I recall them as being among the French and the Russians.)
http://www.firearmscoalition.org/images/stories/british%20faith%20re%20gun%20control%2C%2011apr09.pdf
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Some Partisan Humor: Do you have an Anti-gun Democratic friend who doesn't seem as 'joyous' as they were after the election of the "Great One"? Maybe they're worried about their 'security' at home with the increasing "residential crime" they've been reading about. Also, maybe they realize now that the police can't be everywhere to protect them within seconds. Well here's 'good news' for them, and those of us familiar with firearms. Smith & Wesson has just announced a new handgun designed just for the left-wing person who is un-familiar with and possibly afraid of handguns, yet wants to have adequate home protection…
http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/04/12/tell-your-friends-the-answer-is-here/
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/39we-want-them-registered39/
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Newsweek Chides Big Brother et al.: …In the past, national political leaders might have raised troubling questions about how such an unstable character could obtain easy access to high-powered weapons. They might have been even more motivated given that Poplawski's cop-killing spree was part of a near epidemic of mass homicides that have left 58 people dead over the past month. Or given that Mexico's insanely violent drug cartels are arming themselves with high-powered assault weapons purchased at U.S. gun stores and later smuggled south of the border. Yet many past champions of stricter gun-control measures are silent. These include top Obama White House officials who have squelched any talk within the administration about pushing further gun-control measures."It's weird," says Peter Hamm, the communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "When you see people like [Attorney General] Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton or [White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel become muted on this issue, you feel like you want to call up a friend and say, 'What's up?' " …
http://www.newsweek.com/id/193589
CNN Chimes In: During the 7:00 p.m. hour of Saturday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Don Lemon pushed the view that Barack Obama should try to emulate European gun laws as a way of reducing gun violence in America as he discussed the subject with four guests. During an interview with former FBI agent Gregg McCrary, who expressed support for an assault weapons ban, Lemon suggested Obama learn from the Europeans: "The one person who can probably weigh on this and may have the most influence is the President. Since he's over there in Europe now, and they're, you know, they're not perfect, but it seems that their gun laws seem to be at least working in a way that ours are not." …
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/04/10/cnn-s-lemon-suggests-obama-learn-europe-s-strict-gun-laws
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Mexico Repeats 90% Lie: Stopping the flow of money and weapons from the United States into Mexico is critical to dealing with the violent drug cartels creating havoc on the border, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday. Mexican officials think that 90 percent of the weapons seized in their country can be traced to the U.S., Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said. "The key issue right now is how can the United States help to shut down those guns and shut down that bulk cash that is providing the drug syndicates in Mexico with the wherewithal to corrupt, to bribe, to kill," Mr. Sarukhan said on CBS' "Face the Nation." …Although Mr. Sarukhan contended that the cartels' use of assault weapons rose dramatically after the U.S. ended its ban on the firearms in 2004, he stopped short of advocating that Congress reinstate the ban. "What we will say is ... by reinstating the ban, that could have a profound impact on the number and the caliber of weapons going down to Mexico," he said…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/mexico-us-guns-money-fueling-drug-war/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7996196.stm
It's been confidently reported, as of late, that the United States is the source of 90% of all the weapons utilized in Mexican crime. This has become a dogma, repeated by no less than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others. It's an impressive-sounding statistic – but is it true? In a word, no. It's not correct. The 90% figure was originally based upon a misunderstanding, and thereafter it has been constantly repeated in the media and political world. According to a spokeswoman for the ATF (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), "over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." To borrow a Shakespearean expression, "there's the rub." The fact that 90% of the "traced weapons" were from the U.S. was transformed in the media to the false report that 90% of the weapons used for criminal purposes in Mexico were from the U.S…
http://www.mexidata.info/id2226.html
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Speaking of Lies…: …The following transcript is from Oct. 1995. The speaker was Thomas Busey, then chief of ATF's National Firearms Act Branch. The subject was the NFRTR, the National Firearms Registry and Transfer Record. It's the official record the government keeps on all National Firearms Act-registered weapons, such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices and AOWs, or "Any Other Weapons" the agency deems taxable/requiring registration. Here's what Mr. Busey said about it: "Let me say that when we testify in court, we testify that the data base is 100 percent accurate. That's what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true." …
http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d11-If-we-cant-trust-ATF-under-oath-when-can-we-trust-them
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Brady Pants Also on Fire: In May of 2007, the Brady Center, research arm of the Brady Campaign, published a report entitled No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools. Though nearly two years have passed, numerous inaccuracies remain which, having persisted this long in a publicly-accessible document, call into question the Brady Campaign's ability to publish credible reports and/or their capacity for telling the truth…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2879-Austin-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Brady-Campaign-Biased-inaccurate-research
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20/20 Gun "Report" Analyzed: …At the very end of the program, Ms. Sawyer said that they could not find any studies supporting the numbers of self-defense shootings which seem to have inspired this entire report — the idea that an armed citizen can blunt or even stop a killing. The exact quote is: "And by the way, if you're wondering where all the studies about the effectiveness of guns used by ordinary Americans for self defense are, well, keep searching. we could not find one reliable study and the ones we found were contradictory." This statement is perhaps the most outrageous of the entire report. It could be her misguided opinion, perhaps her staff misled her, but the statement is entirely untrue. She just misled the American Public, intentionally or not. That ABC News could not find what Professor John Lott, Gary Kleck et al, our own Department Of Justice, beat police officers and researchers could find from professional experience and from FBI crime data does not pass the test of reasonable expectation. We found it. So can ABC News. Ms. Sawyer's closing line is the exquisite example of the kind of movement blatantly opposing liberty in discouraging the armed citizen by way of hiding facts, values and discouraging the American spirit of Independence from our servants. The thing that gets tens of millions of gun owners is that these people are fighting us instead of fighting crime…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2323-LA-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d11-If-I-Only-Had-A-Gun-misfires-for-2020-when-they-cannot-stay-on-topic?cid=examiner-email
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The Beat Goes On: Ralph Scott has an easy explanation for why sales at his gun shop - the Lock, Stock and Barrel - have been booming since Barack Obama's election last November. "Here's the sad fact of the matter - our business thrives on bad news," he says. Scott's firearms store in Portsmouth, Ohio, an economically stressed river town on the edge of Appalachia, has seen a 40 to 50 per cent spike in sales over the past five months, reflecting a national surge in demand for personal-use weapons that dates to just before the Nov. 4 election. Across the United States, firearms buyers have reported difficulty finding ammunition at major retailers like Walmart, while manufacturers like Winchester and Remington Arms say they are running at full capacity. The evidence of a sustained run on guns isn't just anecdotal. The FBI says the number of criminal background checks - required for guns bought from licensed dealers - conducted from November through February jumped by almost 30 per cent from the previous year…
http://www.canada.com/news/news+good+news+dealers/1487633/story.html
If the rash of mass shootings nationwide is leaving you thinking that there are too many guns in Buffalo and in America, just wait. Gun sales are booming nationwide - and in Erie County, applications for pistol permits are rolling in at nearly three times last year's rate, the county clerk's office reports. Meanwhile, in the nation's capital, gun control has become, in essence, dead on arrival. Chalk it all up to the election of a Democratic president with a long record of supporting gun restrictions and a Congress that includes a surprising number of pro-gun Democrats from rural areas. The election of Barack Obama as president is sparking a run on firearms and ammunition in both Buffalo and nationwide, according to gun dealers and experts on the issue… (Wait a minute – pistol permits in New York are a form of registration. I thought that was what these folks wanted.)
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/638237.html
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University President Opposes Campus CCW: University of Missouri system President Gary Forsee has denounced legislation approved by the state House that would allow concealed weapons to be brought onto college campuses. Forsee said in a written statement Friday that the legislation "increases the risk that our university family could be put in harm's way." He added: "Missouri's college students should be allowed to learn and exchange ideas in an environment free from the threat of concealed guns." Forsee, who was hired December 2007, leads a four-campus university system that governs public institutions in Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis… (Why do legally concealed firearms pose a greater threat to academic freedom than criminals who don't care which laws they violate? Would Forsee be happier if the firearms of law-abiding students were carried openly?)
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/MU-President-Denounces-Concealed-Gun-Bill/ONrQ1TpUo0WjSX2sVajHrw.cspx
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Oops, Wrong House: Armed with a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun, the resident of a Botetourt County home fatally shot an intruder Friday night, authorities said. A family living in the home heard someone yelling, cursing and pounding on their house about 10:40 p.m., according to a release Saturday from Botetourt County Sheriff Ronnie Sprinkle. A man living there called 911 and secured his family members in a locked bedroom, then loaded the shotgun. The intruder used a wrought iron patio chair to break a glass sliding door and come into the house, and the male resident shot him. "From what I'm told, he showed some restraint," Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom said about the shooter. "But it got to the point where he didn't have much of a choice." …
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/200867
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Solution to Somali Piracy: …I don't fish as often as I did in the Texas Gulf Coast in the 1970s. But I do get an occasional invite to go deep sea fishing off the Carolina coast with three good friends. Two of these friends work in a national security capacity for the federal government (please pardon the pseudonyms). So it should go without saying that we have the hardware and skills to defeat a small (or large) band of pirates whenever we venture into the Atlantic Ocean. We don't have any evidence of piracy off the Carolina coast. But we all subscribe to the belief that it is better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one… I understand quite well that there are ports that will not allow entry to boats that are carrying firearms. And I understand that they are in places where we would like to deliver humanitarian aid. But the solution is not to go into these areas unarmed. The solution is to tell the nations in which these ports are located that they must change their laws or forfeit charitable goods coming from our generous Christian nation.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/04/13/the_solution_to_somali_piracy?page=full
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I Guess We're All "Rightwing Extremists": So, if you disagree with Obama on amnesty for illegals or stand up for the Second Amendment, you are branded a "rightwing extremist" by the Department of Homeland Security and become the subject of scrutiny by some 850,000 local and state law enforcement personnel. The assessment goes on to link concerns about the economy, and the stockpiling of emergency food supplies and weapons and ammunition to violent militias and extremist "rightwing" groups. In my state of California, the state government urges all citizens to keep emergency food supplies in case of earthquake. And who isn't concerned about the economy? Most disgusting of all, it targets veterans for increased law enforcement scrutiny. "Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities." …
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94799
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Another Look at British "Gun Control": …The Home Office was worried by the 1917 Russian Revolution: perhaps British "working class" soldiers would do the same thing and overthrow the British establishment when they came home at the end of WW1. In the eyes of the Home Office these men, who had been fighting and dying for their country, could not be trusted. The Home Office was much more concerned by the fact that, in fighting for their country, such men had become familiar with firearms, than the greater truth that they had also been prepared to die for their country – and had done so in vast numbers. Clearly guns should only be permitted in the hands of those "approved" by the State… (I have been under the impression that it was the earlier independence movement in Ireland that had prompted Britain's early 20th century restrictions on firearms. While there were several mutinies of working-class soldiers and sailors in WWI, I recall them as being among the French and the Russians.)
http://www.firearmscoalition.org/images/stories/british%20faith%20re%20gun%20control%2C%2011apr09.pdf
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Some Partisan Humor: Do you have an Anti-gun Democratic friend who doesn't seem as 'joyous' as they were after the election of the "Great One"? Maybe they're worried about their 'security' at home with the increasing "residential crime" they've been reading about. Also, maybe they realize now that the police can't be everywhere to protect them within seconds. Well here's 'good news' for them, and those of us familiar with firearms. Smith & Wesson has just announced a new handgun designed just for the left-wing person who is un-familiar with and possibly afraid of handguns, yet wants to have adequate home protection…
http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/04/12/tell-your-friends-the-answer-is-here/
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