Notes from the Resistance...
A Newark police officer was in fair condition yesterday at a New Brunswick hospital, where he was taken after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach when he tried to remove his gun from its holster at his Edison apartment...Segarra ran to a neighbor's apartment and banged on the door for help, said Edison police officer Robert Dudash. The neighbor came to the door and tried to assist Segarra and called township police.
Retired Chicago Police officers will be getting letters in the mail soon saying the city won't certify them to carry guns -- a move that angers the head of the local Fraternal Order of Police.
Seventy-six people have been killed by violence in Cincinnati this year - most by guns.
Officials at the Supreme Court and Metropolitan Police Department would not identify the kind of gun found, but a senior federal law enforcement official said it was a loaded MAC-10 assault weapon. It is capable of firing many bullets over a wide area in a few seconds. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Third on the list was the manager of a Citgo station in Gary, Ind., where a woman was robbed at knifepoint while filling a church van with gas. When she ran inside and asked the clerk to call the police, he advised her to use her cell phone because of a store policy that instructs clerks not to place such calls because they could anger the criminals.
A 17-year-old student accused of rigging pens to explode as revenge for being expelled was charged with nine felonies Friday for blasts that injured three people, authorities said.
Vinzant persuasively suggests that, when one looks at gun manufacturers as a business rather than through a gauze of romanticism or a shroud of demonization, it becomes difficult to refute the proposition that the gun industry, like any other, should be held accountable for the foreseeable damage that it causes.
Criminals may be reluctant to turn in their newly banned handguns after police said tabs would be kept on owners.
Though a pacifist at heart, Dick is captivated by the pretty silver handgun. He names it Wendy and starts carrying with him [sic] wherever he goes. Ultimately, the gun becomes a part of his identity.
"Once he finds Wendy, he feels more powerful, more confident within his community...She's the one thing he needs and he clings onto her...
"He spends a night with Wendy, and the day after, he's glowing," the 36-year-old Vinterberg says, laughing. "It's about a Freudian, sexual attraction toward firearms that men have."
"I'm not obeying the Firearms Act, and I'm certainly not going to follow this ban.
"I certainly support that everyone should live in a safe environment, but the firearms registry and this additional ban does not do anything to make people safer," he said.
Paramilitary police and anti-riot units here have opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles for the past two nights on rioting farmers and fishermen who have attacked them with gasoline bombs and explosive charges, according to residents of this small coastal village...
The long-simmering conflict in Dongzhou arose over disputed confiscations and what farmers here said were inadequate compensation payments. Authorities exercising the equivalent of eminent domain seized farmers' fields to build a wind-driven electric generating plant on a hillside overlooking the village...
"It is illegal to impede the progress of a key infrastructure project," a Shanwei spokesman, Li Min, told Radio Free Asia then. "As for whether the compensation is reasonable, it was in line with the usual standards."
