Why become "very angry" at my merely expressing an opinion with which one disagrees?Well, John Paul, maybe it's because you are free to ignore our opinions and no ninjas will come after after you.
Wouldn't it make more sense to define the ultimate battle as one for a national ban on handguns...?Sorry, Jenny Price.
A Jackson businessman who shot and killed a suspected burglar is facing a new charge because of a conviction more than two decades ago.He defended himself against a burglar, but because he was on the wrong side of the law himself a quarter century ago, the LaPierre Center to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly National Rifle Control, Inc.) promotes this policy:
Any felon caught with a gun, no matter what he's doing, goes to jail for 5 years, period.Too bad he didn't let his attacker hurt or kill him--then he wouldn't be facing charges. Plus, think how happy it would have made Wayne.
The city's police chief left his loaded service pistol in a restaurant bathroom last month and didn't realize it until another officer returned the gun to him.Don't you wish you could write yourself up when you screw up on the job?
When he realized his mistake, Chief Bob Deutsch wrote an e-mail to the entire department stating what he had done. He then wrote himself a written reprimand.
The state will hire 100 state troopers as part of a new effort to crack down on illegal gun trafficking, Gov. George Pataki said Thursday.They'll partner with BATFU, and be deputized as federal agents "to go after the sources of the guns, often people in southern states..." That sounds like it will allow them to cross state lines, doesn't it? In any case, there's no danger in federalizing local police, is there?
Eugene Victor Perry Jr., a police officer with a state agency who is accused of fatally shooting two Baltimore police officers Wednesday, had as recently as last week asked to join the city force.And there are those who demand the death penalty if ordinary citizens lift a finger against such rabid dogs...
Two sheriff's deputies have been transferred out of the Juvenile Court system after allegations that one of them pretended to draw his gun behind an 11-year-old boy as the other took pictures.I suppose if I "pretended" to draw down on two deputies, I'd get some sort of transfer, too?
Beatriz Roldan, mother of the victim, reminded her son not to play with the gun but he continued to do so.The guy wasn't a child, he was a 38-year-old prosecutor...
A car burglar made off with a Fontana police officer s department identification card and a firearm...What did Mr. Good say?
A state trooper killed earlier this month after an early morning highway chase was shot twice with his own weapon, a prosecutor said Wednesday."Takeaway" shootings like this were the stated rationale for the initial federal grant to Sandia Labs to develop so-called "smart guns." As predicted, cops quickly got themselves exempted from any such requirement, and if the damned things ever are put on the market, only citizens will be forced to jeopardize their lives with mandated gadgetry.
"If a weapon is taken from an officer, I personally believe it is primarily a training issue. Most folks seem to try and solve most tactical problems through some sort of hardware improvement without looking at the core system. The human operator should be the primary system to be improved upon. Many departments are dangerously low in their delivery of ongoing advanced officer training. If an officer cannot be trusted to deploy and keep his or her weapon, please don't give them one in the first place!"
Ja'nerra Carson-Slaughter testified Tuesday that during a business trip last year to Springfield, she delivered a cash bribe to former Police Chief Ron Matthews.
Carson-Slaughter said the money, including $800 to pay Matthews' girlfriend's overdue utility bill, had been requested by Matthews for his help in getting a .38-caliber handgun out of a locked police evidence room.
She said Matthews agreed to help make the pistol disappear before it could be used as evidence against Matthews' businessman friend, Ayoub "Dave" Qattoum, who had been arrested on an illegal weapons charge.
Paul Martin's plan to ban handguns may have backfired.Who can buy guns at such shops, Mr. Martin, the criminal element you're using as an excuse for this insane and evil crusade, or peaceable, decent Canadians who just want to be able to defend themselves?
As soon as the Liberals unveiled their promise to ban the weapons earlier this month, Vancouver gun shop owners saw a jump in handgun sales.
Subways and buses across the nation's largest city shut down Tuesday morning as transit workers walked off the job following days of acrimonious labor talks, stranding more than 7 million daily riders...
Mr. Codrea,
I appreciate your comments. I do object, however, to your contention that I am challenging "the leading authorities on the subject" when I state that both sides of the gun debate issue can cite colonial history and arguments made by the Founders to support their case.
First, though I do not question Mr. Halbrook's scholarly credentials, there is no monolithic set of "leading authorities" who are all in agreement regarding the Founders' intents. A quick Google search of the gun rights issue will bring up myriad federal court cases (Silveira v. Lockyer, for example) in which federal judges explicitly declare their belief that the intent of the Founders was to preserve a collective rather than independent right to bear arms. While I am not endorsing or refuting either the federal courts' or Mr. Halbrook's view of the original intent of the 2nd Amendment, I would posit that federal judges should be included among "leading authorities on the subject" and that "leading authorities" thus appear to disagree on the issue. There is apparently some gray where you would like to see only black or white.
Second, you can examine the 1789 "House Journal" and "Senate Journal" (the official records of the original debate) or the "Annals of Congress" (compiled decades later) to assess the intentions of the Founders. Contention over the meaning of "milita" abounds, a point critical to collective rights advocates. You can additionally examine English common law, often referenced in the colonies prior to the Revolution, and find a debasement of the individual right to bear arms starting as far back as 1328. These are but examples of the historical evidence that gun control advocates might use to substantiate their case and what I intended when I wrote that "both sides can cite colonial history and quote from the Founders."
But my point in writing the original letter was not to position myself as a leading scholar of matters constitutional nor to advance a particular point of view, but rather to express disappointment that such a complex and interesting issue was treated in so one-sided a manner. I was hoping that leading scholars on BOTH sides of the argument would write thoughtful pieces, and that I and other readers would benefit from their contrasting viewpoints.
I would very much appreciate your removing my e-mail address from your web site as it is intended for school business, and I do not want to be inundated with Second Amendment-related e-mails. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
Regards,
Katherine Letellier
Khadr admitted ties to senior al-Qaida members and confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for them in Afghanistan.
