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Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns
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06/07/07 Kentucky 'Castle Doctrine' Protects Right Of Self-Defense A new law gives Kentuckians the right to use deadly force without fear of being prosecuted or sued if an intruder breaks into their home or occupied vehicle. http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060706/NEWS01/607060345/1014/NEWS02
06/07/07 'Castle Doctrine' Lesson? Stay Out Of The Wrong Castle "Detractors of Mississippi's new "Castle doctrine" law are fretting as Senate Bill 2426 goes into effect. But there's a simple solution to concerns about the "Castle doctrine." law. People who stay out of the wrong "castle" should be fine," writes Sid Salter. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060705/COL0412/607050320/1171/OPINION
06/07/07 Gun Stolen From D.C. Officer Used In Crimes The D.C. government and police department oppose gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens, but clearly cannot provide protection for Washingtonians. A case in point, a service weapon stolen from a D.C. police lieutenant's desk at the 4th District police station has been tied to a spate of crimes in which at least six people, four of them teenagers, were shot in recent months. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601614.html 06/07/06 A False Safety It seems simple enough to require that handguns sold in the United States have gun locks, writes John Lott. But despite the obvious feel-good appeal of these rules, gun locks and safe-storage laws are more likely to cost lives than to save them. http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060705-085728-5245r.htmHoosiers Can Get Lifetime Carry Permits Indiana is the first state in the nation to offer residents lifetime handgun permits under a new law that went into effect this month. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060706/NEWS02/607060478/1006/NEWS01
06/07/05 Lawmakers Pass Self-Defense Bill Lawmakers have approved a package of bills strengthening the right of Michiganians to use deadly force in self-defense against thugs who break into their homes or threaten them on the street. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/POLITICS/606300383/1022
06/07/05 Gary Mauser: Statement At UN Small Arms Conference Prof. Gary Mauser highlights the failure of the Canadian registration system before the U.N. Conference. http://www.garymauser.net/MauserUN2006.html 06/07/05 Human Rights Atrocities: The Consequences Of United Nations Gun Confiscation In East Africa On June 26, the United Nations convened a major conference on gun control. Before demanding further control, the delegates ought to insist that the United Nations halt the use of torture, arson, and murder in the carrying-out of existing U.N. gun control programs. http://www.davekopel.org/2a/foreign/kenya-uganda.pdf
06/07/05 Pennsylvania House Plans Session On Guns The state House plans to meet in a one-day special session in September to discuss gun control issues, leaders said Saturday. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_460407.html
06/07/05 Report Finds Gun Crime Dropping As Sales Climb Gun crimes, suicides and firearms-related accidents declined last year at the same time that firearm and ammunition sales climbed, according to data from the US Treasury Department released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?2eddcda2-aab4-4dd2-af10-20ea8b29e8b8
06/07/05 If There Is A Battle, Animal Rights Folks Are Winning If there truly is a battle between sportsmen and the animal rights folks, things are looking bad for the good guys. I mean, a battle has two sides. We never lay a glove on them.http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/COLUMNISTS26/606290346/1006
06/06/30 GOP Eyes U.N. For Budget Cuts As Ill Will Grows Republicans in Congress moved yesterday to cut U.S. contributions to the United Nations budget just one day before the world body is scheduled to lift a budget cap imposed by the United States and other donors and to resume spending as usual. http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060630-121948-5466r.htm
06/06/30 Suit Targets NYC Police Commissioner A Queens pistol-range owner busted last month as part of the city`s anti-gun initiative sued Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday, demanding the return of his clients` gun licenses. The lawsuit claims the Queens District Attorney's Office has already indicated that it was considering dropping the criminal charges in the case -- and says the "sting" was nothing but a mayoral publicity stunt. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/gun_suit_targets_commish_regionalnews_philip_messing.htm
06/06/29 House Votes To Overturn Mandatory Gun Locks The U.S. House of Representatives voted on June28 to overturn a recently enacted law requiring trigger locks on all hand guns sold in the United States. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2131966
06/06/29 False Justification The national media is a power-hungry institution. It maintains its power to determine what is important in American politics and government by making dupes of the American public. The "duping" occurs though media opinion polling. http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060626-094414-6084r.htm
06/06/29 Campaign Finance Reform Is A Fraud "Campaign finance reform," writes George Will, "is what it pretends to combat: corruption. The Supreme Court should have said something like that when it struck down, as unconstitutional abridgments of free speech, Vermont's severe limits on contributions to and spending by campaigns." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/275684_will29.html
06/06/28 House GOP to Focus on Abortion, Guns House Republicans intend to hold votes this summer and fall touching on abortion, guns, religion and other priority issues for social conservatives. "We hope to restore some of those basic values through passing this legislative agenda and renewing our country's commitment to faith, freedom and life," Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Jun27/0,4670,ConservativeAgenda,00.html
06/06/28 U.S. Rejects Limits On Personal Guns The United States will oppose any international effort to limit access of U.S. civilians to legal firearms but supports stronger controls on arms imports and exports, a senior State Department official says. http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060627-103617-7798r.htm
06/06/27 U.N. Challenge To Second Amendment "As our Independence Day celebration approaches, the United Nations is holding a global conference in New York, starting on June 26th and lasting through July 7th, whose real agenda is to begin a backdoor process of interference with our constitutionally protected right to individually bear arms," writes Joseph Klein. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23088
06/06/26 Despotic City, Courts Fret Gun Owners The city of Denver has long criminalized what has been legal elsewhere in Colorado, namely the ownership, use and transportation of firearms. After years of being abused by the city, gun owners found some measure of support in 2003 when the state legislature and governor passed two important bills. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/speak_out/article/0,2777,DRMN_23970_4801307,00.html
06/06/26 Time Runs Out On Carry Reform Legislation to reform Delaware's carry law is dead for this legislative session, the bill’s chief sponsor said June 23. A reworked bill could be introduced when the next General Assembly convenes in January. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS/606240310/1006
06/06/26 Gun Enthusiasts Find Paradise Of Wood And Steel They came to see the merchandise, to touch it, to lift it in their hands and, often, to aim it at some invisible target overhead and pretend to shoot. They waited in line before the doors opened to pay $7 to see the Silverado Gun Show in Frederick. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR2006062400837.html
06/06/23 Brady Backing DeWine The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence June 22 endorsed Sen. Mike DeWine, Ohio Republican, making him the first Senate candidate of the 2006 election season to win the group`s support. The group cited DeWine's unsuccessful effort to block legislation that prevents gunshot victims from suing gun dealers and manufacturers for negligence. The bill passed and was signed by President Bush. (See the last item in the story.) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060623-120335-3056r_page2.htm
06/06/23 Carry Bill Boils Down To Safety The focus of a bill that would remove restrictions in the law allowing Ohioans to carry has narrowed to a few issues, notably the safety of permit holders in cars and police officers who approach them and the rights of cities to set their own bans. http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/14879769.htm
06/06/23 Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming Richard Lindzen, a Professor of Meteorology at the MIT, writes of the fate of academic dissenters to orthodox doctrine on "global warming." "[T]here is a sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis." This is Al Gore's "inconvenient truth." http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm
06/06/22 American Gun Owners Unload On U.N. The chairman of an upcoming U.N. conference on the illegal trade of small arms has received more than 100,000 letters of complaint from Americans who say it could impinge on their constitutional right to bear arms. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/un.us.small.arms.ap/
6/20/2006Top 10 Anti-Gun Representatives Human Events lists the top ten most anti-gun members of the U. S. House of Representatives. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=15482
06/06/20 Top 10 Anti-Gun Senators Human Events lists the top ten most anti-gun members of the U. S. Senate. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=15612
06/06/20 Good Riddance To Gun Registry At long last, the first legislative nails are being hammered into the gun registry`s coffin. Stockwell Day, the Public Safety Minister, has introduced a bill in the House of Commons that would amend the Firearms Act and Criminal Code so that law-abiding Canadians no longer have to register their "long guns." 06/06/20 Coalition Wants Tighter Arms Control In preparation for an international gun control conference sponsored by the U.N., a coalition of groups including Amnesty International, Oxfam International and IANSA, released a survey showing support for more gun control internationally. They claim support for new controls by the people of numerous countries, including Brazil, whose voters soundly defeated a gun ban referendum last year.
6/19/2006 Gun Control System Targeted In Canada Newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his Conservative Party government is going to spend its money on crime control, not gun control, and he announced plans to dismantle Canada`s gun registry. "The gun registry registers legal guns," said Toronto's deputy police chief, Tony Warr. "Gangsters don't register their guns." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-guns18jun18,1,7907209.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
06/06/19 Tories Take On Gun Registry The Conservative government is set to bring in legislation to formally abolish the federal long-gun registry--even though MPs won`t be able to vote on it until the fall, and it might not pass even then.
06/06/19 Dallas City Council May Ban Toy Guns Soon, it may be illegal to sell or play with some toy guns in Dallas. A proposed ordinance considered by the Dallas City Council on Wednesday would ban businesses from hawking highly realistic fake weapons and kids from playing with them in public. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-toyguns_16met.ART.North.Edition1.290650e.html
06/06/19 Would Gun Buyback Increase Peace? A Kent County commissioner wants to take firearms off the streets by buying them and offering limited immunity to illegal owners. Police Chief Harry Dolan is skeptical. Studies show buyback programs don't get the right weapons off the street, he said, and gang members would not surrender their firearms. http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-30/1150526003224740.xml?grpress?NEG&coll=6
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