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Monday, February 23, 2009
02-23-09
From: Stephen P. Wenger http://www.spw-duf.info
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Oh, Those Vicious, Inanimate Guns!: Philadelphia Police officer John
Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs - he was killed by the
.357 pistol that Scruggs was using. Take away that gun and Scruggs is
just another thug with his hands in his pockets. And good-looking
family man John Pawlowski might be alive today… This is a news flash
for that gun lobby: Back when they wrote the second amendment,
Americans were still burning women as witches; guns do, indeed kill,
just like that .357, and the main prey that is being hunted in
Philadelphia right now are human beings, especially police officers…
Arkansas Paper Posts CCW List: The Arkansas Times blogger and uber
leftist Max Brantly, gleefully put up a link to the excel file that
holds every Arkansas Concealed Carry License holders name & address.
The Times didn't even bother to scrub the address of the permit
holders, have they ever heard of identity theft? And what about my
privacy rights? As Arkansas Project Contributor and State
Representative Dan Greenberg notes, "Max's glee in communicating
public information wasn't in evidence a week or two ago, when my bill
to make the criminal records of public officials available to the
public came before the House Judiciary Committee. At that point, Max
said that that bill "simply has an aura of meanness." (Of course, he's
hardly the only person who didn't like the idea; the bill got voted
down by the House Friday.)What drives Max's shifting moods on the
freedom of public information? Is it just a matter of what he had for
breakfast that day?" Not only is Max obviously biased in his
intrepetation of freedom of public information he seems to have quite
a distaste for the privacy rights of lawabiding gun owners. Maybe we
should look at getting a bill through that keeps law abiding gun
owners personal information private? …
http://www.arkansascca.org/blog/?content=detail&id=275
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Meanwhile, In Florida…: 347,350 in 2005. 540,991 in 2009. 95,000
applications waiting to be processed. Four of every 100 adult
Floridians now has a permit to carry a concealed gun, and 95,000 are
awaiting action on their application for one. But while the number of
concealed weapons permit holders has jumped 56 percent in four years,
no one knows their names. In 2006, the Florida Legislature exempted
the concealed weapons permit database from public view. Permit holders
may like that no one knows they may be carrying a gun. What about the
other 18 million Floridians? The right to carry a concealed weapon
should not trample the right to know who has a permit to carry one.
Those carrying guns might feel safer, but what about everyone else who
cannot know if their neighbor or co-worker is carrying one? Lawmakers
should remove the exemption from the public records law and make the
names of permit holders' public again…
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article977863.ece
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/02/22/the-anti-privacy-press/
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Minnesota Bill Would Ease Case Requirement: …Dill is author of a bill
that would allow people to transport uncased and unloaded rifles,
shotguns and bows in their vehicles. The bill - which was approved
last week by the House Game, Fish and Forestry Division Committee,
chaired by Dill - was amended to require that the guns be unloaded.
Another amendment clarifies that handguns still would have to be
transported cased, unless the owner has a permit to carry a concealed
handgun. Under current law, the only time rifles and shotguns can be
transported uncased is in the closed trunk of a motor vehicle…
http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/39871702.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUgOahccyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
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Oregon Campus-Carry Case Gains Momentum: Jeffrey Maxwell, a
30-year-old student at Western Oregon University who served in the
Marines, always carries a loaded two-bullet derringer in his front
pocket that's so small it looks like it could be his keys. He has a
license to carry and conceal the gun, but he never takes it out or
talks about it on campus because he doesn't want to scare anyone. It's
only for protection, he says. State law allows him to carry his gun in
most public places. But the university says he can't carry it on
campus - license or no license. Maxwell's case might finally settle
the long-standing conflict in court for all seven public universities
in Oregon…
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/oregon_universities_gun_ban_fa.html
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Oops, Wrong Store: Minneapolis police say a store clerk thwarted a
robbery by swinging hammers at the would-be thief, according to a
report on KMSP-TV. Authorities don't recommend fighting back because
they say innocent people could be hurt. But police Sgt. Jesse Garcia
says some people are apparently tired of being crime victims. Police
say a man entered Bryn Mawr Market about 8 p.m. Thursday wearing a ski
mask. Garcia says the employee calmly asked him to remove the mask and
the man said, "This is a robbery, don't you know that?" When the man
grabbed the cash register, the clerk hit the man once with a hammer.
Then the clerk threw the hammer at the man, pulled out a second one
and chased the man away. The man dropped the cash register and fled on
foot. The employee suffered a cut on his arm. (I have long advocated
carrying more than one handgun. I'll have to think about a second
hammer.)
http://www.startribune.com/local/40026377.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr
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Oops, Wrong Passenger: A 23-year-old visitor from the East Coast had
just gotten money from an ATM when he told his friend on a cell phone
that he had a bad feeling about two men approaching him at the
Fruitvale BART Station in Oakland. His worst fears were realized when
one suspect, Victor Veliz, 18, held a folding knife with a 5-inch
blade to his neck and the other, Christopher Gonzalez, 18, threatened
to shoot him Thursday night, authorities said. In a blind panic, he
lashed out at his attackers, grabbing the knife from one of them and
punching the other as his friend listened in horror on the phone.
Without realizing it, authorities say, the man stabbed Gonzalez in the
chest. Gonzalez stumbled to his family's home around the corner,
collapsed into his father's arms and died. Veliz, who is affiliated
with a gang, was arrested at Gonzalez's home after police allegedly
found him with the East Coast visitor's cell phone. He will be charged
with murder in the death of his accomplice, along with a robbery
count, prosecutors said…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/21/BAI4161N0D.DTL
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Pakistan Arms Militias to Fight Terrorism: Authorities in a Pakistani
border province plan to arm villagers with 30,000 rifles and set up an
elite police unit to protect a region increasingly besieged by Taliban
and al-Qaida militants, an official said Sunday. Stiffer action in the
North West Frontier Province could help offset American concern that a
peace deal being negotiated in the Swat Valley, a Taliban stronghold
in the province, could create a haven for Islamist insurgents only 100
miles from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Village militias backed
by the United States have been credited with reducing violence in
Iraq. The United States is paying for a similar initiative in
Afghanistan…
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/281317
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Tangentially Related: If we had it to do all over again, would we
appoint Supreme Court justices for life? Allow the chief justice to
keep the job forever? Let the court have the final word on which cases
it hears and those it declines? A group of prominent law professors
and jurists thinks not, and the group says in a letter to
congressional leaders that there is no reason Congress should consider
the operation of the high court sacrosanct… For starters, the group
proposes a form of term limits, moving justices to senior status after
18 years on the court. The proposal says that justices now linger so
long that it diminishes the likelihood that the court's decisions
"will reflect the moral and political values of the contemporary
citizens they govern." …It would set up a regular rotation on the
court by providing for the nomination of a new justice by the
president with each new two-year term of Congress. If that results in
more than the current nine justices, only the nine most junior would
hear cases… (Sounds like a "living Supreme Court" to match a "living
Constitution.")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201863.html?hpid=topnews
…In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so
rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of "hope"
equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government's
authority over the states. These states - Washington, New Hampshire,
Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, Georgia,
South Carolina, and Texas - have passed resolutions reminding Obama
that the 10th Amendment protects the rights of the states, which are
the rights of the people, by limiting the power of the federal
government. These resolutions call on Obama to "cease and desist" from
his reckless government expansion and also indicate that federal laws
and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be
nullified by the states…
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