Except that while Detroit and New Orleans both have/had high crime
rates, neither has strict gun control.
Louisiana is a shall issue state, as is Michigan, and Detroit's police
chief is solidly pro-gun and advises citizens to get a gun and shoot
home invaders. (Ditto Milwaukee County, WI's
Iraq is three distinct subcultures (Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurd) squeezed
together by the British post WW I. Sunnis are a minority, but toss
militant Sunni Al Qaeda into the mix and it's party-time.
Some societies are just better off when someone has their heel firmly on
their neck. Harsh, but
Leave a vacuum, power or otherwise, and someone WILL fill it.
Historically that someone is not our friend.
Joe W
On 1/8/2012 5:02 PM, Phil Lee wrote:
A stretch to apply this lesson to firearms in the USA and really a
stretch to those of us who think our government shouldn't be the
world's
The suit originated with the Second Amendment Foundation and the
Illinois State Rifle Association. It should all be available here:
http://www.chicagoguncase.com/
Volokh, Eugene wrote:
Is the NRA's petition in NRA v. City of Chicago, filed today,
available online somewhere? Thanks,
No. Most serious gang bangers have moved up to fully automatics
like AK-47's. ...
Can anyone document the prevalence of full-auto use by gangbangers? Or
any other group for that matter? Most of the newspaper accounts I read
of full auto weapons used by the criminal element turn
Some interesting parallels between the fear of returning combat veterans
here and the imposition of gun control laws in the UK post-WW I (and the
ongoing Bolshevik Revolution) and the Bonus Army of 1932 followed by the
NFA 1934.
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No such bill filed in the 111th Congress yet.
Joe W
Raymond Kessler wrote:
The article below is probably just media hot-air, but I seem to
remember a movement in the 80’s to repeal the Second Amendment. Never
got out of Congress. Any real movement currently to get a
constitutional
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Joe Waldron
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Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:20:40PM -0400, Joe Rickershauser wrote:
Suppose that police knock on the door and ask, What happened to the gun
that according to records show you purchased last August?
If the resident answers, Just a moment, it's in my closet. I'll
about 5-6 years after Texas passed it's CCW law
in 1995. Jim Dark at TSRA or John Ridlehuber with TX Concealed Handgun
Assn might have the cite handy.
Joe Waldron
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Charles Curley wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't have a cite for this one. When I took my
classes to be certified as an instructor by the NRA, the instructor
said that the chances of someone dieing when shot by:
handgun 50%
rifle 70%
shotgun 90%
I still haven't unpacked book boxes
Jon Roland wrote:
Joyce Malcolm has done the most work on the English side, but it is more
selective than comprehensive, although there apparently also wasn't much
legislation beyond what is in her book. On the U.S. side the closest are
the books by James Whisker, which we have online at
BTW, is the caption under the photo of the Browning pistol accurate?
Handguns are used in most US assaults and robberies
Not remotely. Personal weapons (hands and feet) come in #1 by far.
They fail to differentiate armed assaults and armed robberies from the
generic breed. Another
Page 10 indicates that none of the officers were killed with assault
weapons (the term rifle seems ambiguous though), which contradicts
VPC's
Officer Down document and what Diane Feinstein has recently been saying.
May have been SKSs. There have been several highly publicized officer
The current, restrictive approach is a jurisprudential about-face. I'm a
Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Officer in the Army Reserves and before I
deployed in 2003, professors at the Army JAG School taught me â and I
subsequently taught soldiers â that troops never lose the right of
Here is the message I sent the author which takes a different position.
Of course one should be sure of what one is doing before intervening,
just as a law enforcement officer should be. The duty of the civilian
is the same as the duty of the cop. Just not done as a paid job. All
the same
Don't forget the 1994 changes, to include ATF insistence on compliance
with local zoning regulations (a 10th Amendment violation?) and more
detailed descriptions of the business premises. There was a concerted
campaign under the Clinton administration to discourage or drive out of
business
I have been unable to find my notes on a liability lawsuit with the
past few years against a gun manufacturer, in which the gun in question
was originally sold to a police department, was traded in or resold,
and eventually found its way to a criminal or accidental act by a
civilian. Does
New research by Dr. Halbrook on the Swiss resisting Nazi tyranny. How
about
the alternate viewpoint that the Nazis had no intention of invading
because the
Swiss served as their bankers?
Rich
In his earlier book, Target: Switzerland, Halbrook focuses primarily on
the historical role of
Here's the link to the study referenced below:
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/LibraryReport_PrairieCrimeRates_2005_03_07.doc
PUBLICATION: [Canadian] NATIONAL POST
DATE: 2005.05.09
COLUMN: Lorne Gunter
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Gun control
It's not just gun rights for us, it's the Bill of Rights, [snip]
In a sense, the foregoing is true. Many SA supporters are truly BoR
supporters that any infringement of those guaranteed rights tends to get
our attention. I guess we're all libertarian freedom lovers at heart.
But
the bottom
Where did this come from? A quick look at ifeminists.com and The
Independent Institute's web page (http://www.independent.org/) does
not show it.
And a little wider distribution on FOX News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113094,00.html
Joe W
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