VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 9/5/13
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1. Volunteers needed at Doswell gun show this weekend!
2. Maryland may need Virginia firearm instructors to fill gap under new law
3. Hillsville gun show and picnic wrap up
4. Do police like other police pointing guns at THEM? Oh, I don't think so
5. A "thank you" to VCDL and a story on last weeks Hopewell incident
6. Not enough volunteers - VCDL had to cancel Fishersville gun show booth
7. "The Iron Pipeline Thrives" - NYT blames Virginia ... and us
8. Poll: Virginians tell Bloomberg to butt out after guns comment
9. Mayors against guns rally in Virginia Beach [Video]
10. Here's some devastating news for gun grabbers!
11. Who needs a gun at home in Washington County, VA? [Video]
12. Who needs a gun in a parking lot where they live?
13. Virginia: Officer, another man accused in gun buys
14. Candidate Christopher Sullivan responds to questions on botched ABC raid
15. Miller: N.J. Gov. Chris Christie does a 180 on gun control, vetoes radical bills
16. DHS employee spends spare time promoting race war against 'whites'
17. Christian school protecting children with protective weapons
18. Newtown grandmother fears gun control makes her less safe
19. Heidi Yewman article mentioned in the 8/21/13 VDCL update
20. Setting the record straight on an anti-gun commercial [Video]
21. Piers Morgan's misstatement provides teachable moment in gun debate
22. NPR on guns
23. LTE: Gun culture astounds me
24. Hostage kills Iowa prison escapee who shot deputy
25. 5 dead, 26 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
26. 20-year-old charged in Georgia school shooting
27. 3-year-old Michigan boy kills self with gun he finds in bedroom closet
28. Remington Arms looks at locations out of state
29. Biblical self defense Song 2.0 [Video]
30. Smith & Wesson M&P Shield recall
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1. Volunteers needed at Doswell gun show this weekend!
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DOSWELL http://www.guns-knives.com, September 7-8
Saturday, September 7 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 8 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Please contact Robert Herron at Fredericksburggunshows@vcdl.org to
help at the Meadow Event Park in Doswell, near Kings Dominion.
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2. Maryland may need Virginia firearm instructors to fill gap under new law
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Brook Powers, my counterpart in Maryland Shall Issue, sent me information about an opportunity for Virginia firearms instructors to train Maryland gun owners, a requirement for all Maryland gun owners under a new law:
Here is the Maryland State Police Advisory outlining the new training & other requirements that take effect on October 1, 2013: http://tinyurl.com/kygjd6d
There are some important things to note;
1. The Maryland State Police (MSP) allegedly interpreted the âlegislative intentâ as requiring one live round.
2. There are not enough MD ranges or MD instructors to train new handgun buyers â the point of the legislation.
3. The MSP is now allowing active NRA Basic Pistol Instructors to train and approve MD Handgun Permit holders to draw from a holster â something they have no training in (Prior to October 1, 2013 training for PIâs, SPOâs, Armored Car Drives, etc. was performed by MSP Certified Qualified Handgun Instructors).
4. The MSP is currently processing handgun purchase applications from 5/12/2013. There will likely be a period of weeks or months where no firearms can be purchased.
5. Once an applicant does schedule and complete training, then they must be fingerprinted and apply for a Handgun Qualification License (HQL). Once they get an HQL, they can find and apply to purchase a handgun. Then a 8-110 day wait will begin.
6. The MyLicense software suite the MSP intends to implement to automate this process has 2 previous failed implementations and has never been used by the MSP effectively for any task. If you follow the links to all the permits the MSP promotes, the links end up at Google Docs, or at a page that encourages you to apply for a LEOSA permit via your own LEA, or on paper.
Our Virginia brothers with active NRA Basic Pistol Instructor or one year Military Experience teaching handguns can train Maryland residents by registering as a Maryland Qualified Handgun Instructor.
This will help make ensure there is a pool of instructors to help Maryland handgun buyers get the training they need, if the volume of registrants and the associated paperwork doesnât cause the MSP licensing system to fail and implode.
Perspective instructors can register here:
https://emdsp.mdsp.org/MyLicense%20Ente ... sults.aspx
SSN is not required. Applicants can enter it anyway, enter any number, or all 0âs for their SSN. The Handgun options are not available now, but will become available in the licensing interface in the next few days.
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3. Hillsville gun show and picnic wrap up
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The Hillsville flea market and gun show is over - with thousands of GSL stickers handed out, amongst other things. The picnic was held Sunday, where we had some new members join.
Shannon and Philip Honacker shared their booth with VCDL at no cost. Shannon runs a top-quality concealed-carry purse business for women CHP holders:
http://www.CarryChic.com
Shannon gave away one of those purses, with a taser thrown in for good measure, at the picnic as a door prize. She also gave away some ammo cans, and a very nice camouflaged range bag.
Thanks Shannon and Philip!
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4. Do police officers like other police officers pointing guns at THEM? Oh, I don't think so
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Granted this didn't happen in the United State, but in New Jersey. However, the lesson is still there that pointing a gun at someone threatens their very life, even if it is the police doing the pointing. A uniformed cop unholsters his gun on two undercover cops and a lot of unhappiness ensues.
WARNING - very graphic, profane language used and lots of screaming. Watch first two minutes to get the background. Then skip to the 7 minute mark, where things explode:
From northjersy.com: http://tinyurl.com/msnts9d
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5. A "thank you" to VCDL and a story on last weeks Hopewell incident
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Brandon Howard who was held unlawfully for two-hours for merely carrying a rifle on his back, has continued to protest with the Tea Party group and wanted me to share this with you:
"Today I was in Colonial Heights on the overpass. VCDL members, having seen the Progress Index article below, drove out just to see if I was on the overpass so they could show their support. Many of them stopped and talked with me on the bridge and even went out of their way to bring me bottles of water and Gator aid. Never in my dreams did I imagine that this would happen. It was a very humbling feeling. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude and thanks to my fellow VCDL members for the kindness and support they have shown me. I am proud and honored that they would take time out of their busy lives to say to me, 'We support you.'"
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Here is the link from the Progress Index for their coverage:
http://progress-index.com/news/group-st ... -1.1544672
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6. Not enough volunteers - VCDL had to cancel Fishersville gun show booth
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Sadly, we had to cancel our booth at Fishersville last weekend due to lack of volunteers. If you've never volunteered to help man a VCDL booth, please do so! It gives you a chance to contribute some of your time to the cause and can also give some of our "regulars" a break.
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7. "The Iron Pipeline Thrives" - NYT blames Virginia ... and us
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EM Pat Webb emailed me this:
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From The NY Times: http://tinyurl.com/kmfk9b7
August 6, 2013
When somebody pulls a gun and commits a crime in New York City, that weapon almost certainly comes from somewhere else. [PVC: The state which contributes the most number of guns to New York City's crime problem is - New York! And by a long shot. This article is adding up all the guns that come from the other 49 states to say that most such guns are from out of state.] Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that 90 percent of the guns used to commit crimes were purchased in other states, according to the latest data from 2011, compared with 85 percent in 2009. This "iron pipeline," as this illegal trade is called, is a booming and deadly business.
With Washington's failure to impose needed background checks on gun sales - even after the slaughter of children in Newtown, Conn. - the states will have to lead the change. But, so far, only a few states - including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and New York - have acted this year to stanch the flood of illegal guns.
Other states, like Virginia, are making the gun trafficking even worse. More than 320 of the guns recovered in New York City in 2011 came from that state, which requires no background checks for private gun sales. Virginia's lawmakers compounded the problem last year when they revoked their "one-gun-a-month" limit. With no background check and no limits, it is easy for anybody to buy guns in a parking lot, fill up the trunk and sell their wares to criminal clients in New York City - no questions asked. [PVC: I've seen no proof that guns coming from Virginia are coming from private sellers or by using the elimination of One Handgun A Month. Straw purchases and theft are far more likely.] Illegal weapons from the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania also end up on New York streets.
Mr. Bloomberg has worked hard over the years to organize Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and nearly 1,000 mayors and their police departments are on board to help rid their streets of these firearms.
The big problem for many mayors is their own state governments. In most states, laws pre-empt cities from enacting local gun control measures, which makes it easier for groups like the National Rifle Association to defeat sensible controls since state legislators tend to be terrified of the gun lobby.
Unless Congress cracks down on gun trafficking, guns will continue to be exported from states with weak laws to places with tough laws, like New York City. John Feinblatt, the city's criminal justice coordinator, has been working to get more states to tighten their laws on background checks. Until they do, he said, New Yorkers are "at the mercy of laws beyond our borders." [PVC: Virginia doesn't want to be at the mercy of New York laws, tyrannical laws that we soundly reject.]
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Here we are...The ATF trace data: http://tinyurl.com/kmfk9b7
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8. Poll: Virginians tell Bloomberg to butt out after guns comment
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Executive Member Hal Macklin sent me this in response to VCDL Update 8/21/13, item #10 "Mayor Bloomberg blames VA for many of NY's gun crimes":
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From Newsmax: http://tinyurl.com/n3mmdd8
August 22, 2013
A majority of Virginians say New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went too far when he claimed that many of the guns used in city crimes are coming from Virginia. But, almost half of voters in a new poll said their state lawmakers should do more to address gun control issues.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll of 1,374 registered Virginia voters, 52 percent said the mayor should keep out of Virginia's business, while 43 percent agreed that the Virginia legislature should address his claim that easily-bought guns from the state are increasingly turning up in New York crimes.
The poll conducted Aug. 14-19 found a wide partisan, gender and racial split on Bloomberg's claim with 67 percent of Democrats agreeing that the legislature should do something about his concerns while 74 percent of Republicans disagreed. Among independent voters, 57 percent agreed that Bloomberg may have raised an issue that needs to be dealt with by Virginia lawmakers.
The survey found that among male voters, 57 percent did not believe Bloomberg's claim and said he should stay out of the Virginia gun debate. Women, however, were split 48 percent to 48 percent on the question, while 55 percent of black voters surveyed agreed with the mayor that Virginia's gun laws are not as tough as they should be.
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said the Virginia survey on Bloomberg's claim reflects "the division of opinion in Virginia and the country on gun control matters."
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9. Mayors against guns rally in Virginia Beach [Video]
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This was another teeny-weeny, secret "rally" by Bloomberg's mayors group. You'll see the tight shots in the video and no panning of the audience in an attempt to cover up that no one was there. The antis think that just because the media dotes on them, that most of America does. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course.
Member William Goodman sent me this:
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From The Daily Press: http://tinyurl.com/l3uzrw5
By Ashley K. Speed
August 20, 2013
VIRGINIA BEACH - Patrick McKinley was home from college when he was gunned down on New Year's Day in 2004.
McKinley, 18, had heard someone honking their car horn around 1 a.m. and asked them to keep the noise down. They were in front of his Denbigh home in Newport News.
"Our son went outside of our home and just asked a young man don't make so much noise," said Jeanette Richardson, McKinley's mother. "They beat him and within four minutes he was shot to death."
The man convicted of killing McKinley was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Her son's death prompted Richardson to become a gun control advocate.
Richardson spoke Tuesday during a rally held in Virginia Beach by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan organization aimed at reducing gun violence. During the 100-day bus tour, called "No More Names: National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence," the organization is pushing for expanded background checks to include private gun sellers in commercial settings such as gun shows and over the Internet.
Licensed firearm dealers are required to conduct background checks on potential buyers.
The group is pressing U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell and other members of Congress across the country to support more comprehensive background checks. In each city they are getting residents to sign petitions that will be sent to representatives. The group, which began the tour in June, is traveling to 25 states.
"Sixty percent of gun purchases go through background checks, 40 percent don't and what do you think people who couldn't pass one do?" said Andrew Goddard, whose son was shot during the Virginia Tech massacre. "The vast majority of them just go to someplace where they can buy and walk away."
Goddard said that the gun debate is often portrayed as a choice between everyone having guns and using them as they choose or no one being allowed to have them.
"Neither one of those outcomes is practical -- neither is necessary," Goddard said. "What we need in this country with more than 300 million guns in circulation is a system whereby we know who has those guns and we know that the people who have those guns know what to do with them and are not going to be a menace to society with those guns."
McKinley was a freshman at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., and was studying to be an illustrator.
Richardson was in her backyard talking to neighbors when her son was shot.
"I knew he was dying or he was dead, and it was the most surreal scene," Richardson said. "You can't imagine seeing your college student with honors grades who has made it to his dream college to have such a needless and violent death -- as I screamed to the heavens, I said 'No more. This is not going to happen again.' " [PVC: Sadly her goal will never be achieved by banning guns.]
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10. Here's some devastating news for gun grabbers!
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Board Member Dale Welch sent me this:
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From Westernjournalism.com: http://tinyurl.com/mzf5a9p
By Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins
August 17, 2013
A little heralded Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy study holds some devastating news for those who are trying to take guns from America's population.
Here are the facts the study found.
The overall message of the report is that nations with private gun ownership have less crime.
In the period from 1991 to 2011, gun ownership rose steadily; murders by guns fell 39%; and firearms-related crimes dropped 69%.
The nine European countries with the fewest guns have a combined murder rate three times higher than the nine European countries with the most guns in private hands.
With rare exceptions, since 1950, mass shootings have virtually always occurred in states with restrictive gun ownership laws. [PVC: Virginia is one of those rare exceptions, as the state has good gun laws, BUT Virginia Tech was a gun-free-zone. Enough said.] Moreover, despite very strict laws against private gun ownership, three of the worst recorded school shootings have happened in Europe.
Contrary to liberal lies, while America leads the world in private gun ownership, we are just 28th in gun murders per 100,000 people.
From 1991 to 2011, America's overall violent crime rate and our murder rate both fell by half, a remarkable feat by any measure.
On average, 200,000 American women protect themselves from sexual attacks each year using guns.
By a ratio of 80 to 1, Americans use guns for crime prevention rather than to commit murders.
During the period studied (1991 to 2011), deaths by accidental discharges of firearms fell 58%.
Much to the contrary of liberal lies, the UK's violent crime rate is 4 times higher than ours; and their rape rate is 125% higher than ours. The UK also has 133% more assaults than we do.
After plunging into extreme gun-banning, Australia has experienced a 19% increase in murders and an increase of 69% in armed robberies.
Despite passing increasingly more restrictive gun control laws, Chicago's homicide rate jumped 17% last year. And by many measures, it's the most deadly city in the world.
Over 23 years, following its implementation of a law requiring each household to have a gun, Kennesaw, Georgia saw its overall crime rate drop by 50% and its burglary rate fall by 89%.
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11. Who needs a gun at home in Washington County, VA? [Video]
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Member Ken Marshall emailed me this:
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One more story that could have ended horribly but for a citizen exercising her natural right to self-defense.
From wcyb.com: http://tinyurl.com/kpoylfu
August 19, 2013
Washington County, Virginia detectives say Lenville Wilson turned himself in Monday night. He is charged with robbery and abduction.
Sheriff Fred Newman told News 5 Wilson broke into a home on Fiesta Drive on Monday morning and tried to attack the person inside. The woman at the house shot Wilson before he got away.
Wilson is now under arrest.
Update: August 19, 2013 at noon:
Washington County, Virginia detectives say they're looking for an intruder who was shot during a home invasion Monday morning.
Officers tell us it happened early Monday at a home on Fiesta Drive.
The surveillance video above shows a man pulling up in a truck. Authorities say he appears to be wearing a construction-type vest.
Once inside the home, the victim tells police the man pulled a knife and asked for her medication. Detectives say the victim got her handgun and shot the man in the side of the head.
Sheriff Fred Newman says the man ran away after the shot was fired. "The individual fled the residence in what we believe to be an older model early 90's Dodge Dakota; it's forest green in color and has sort of a gray bottom on it."
The victim was not injured. Deputies are still searching for the man and the truck.
If you have any information you're asked to call the Washington County, Virginia Sheriff's Office.
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12. Who needs a gun in a parking lot where they live?
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Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
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Home invasions have increased in the Hampton Roads Area.
From The Daily Press: http://tinyurl.com/ktw62b4
August 20, 2013
JAMES CITY Ë Police are investigating after a 29-year-old Grove woman reported on Aug. 16 that she was forced into her home by two armed suspects, assaulted and robbed.
Maj. Stephen Rubino with James City County Police said the woman claimed that just before 9 p.m. that night she was at her residence on Harpoon Court when she heard a knock at her front door. He said she advised that she answered the door and no one was outside.
Rubino said she left the residence and went to her car in the parking lot, where she reported that she was approached by two black men, both of whom were armed with handguns. He added that she told police one of the two men also had a knife.
She was forced back into her residence and the suspects demanded to know "where the money was" before they reportedly began searching her home, according to police. Rubino said as the men continued to search the woman claimed she was forced upstairs and at some point, one suspect struck her in the face with a gun.
The two men reportedly took $50 cash from her purse and fled on foot, according to Rubino. The first suspect is described as a black male, 5'10" tall with a skinny build who was wearing all black at the time of the incident. The second suspect is described as 6' tall with a skinny build who was also wearing all black.
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13. Virginia: Officer, another man accused in gun buys
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Looks like these two allegedly were trying to be gun dealers, without first becoming a federal firearms licensee and by using straw purchasers to get the guns that would be resold. Bad juju.
From Delmarvanow.com: http://tinyurl.com/kpgkks7
July 27, 2013
ROANOKE, VA. - A police officer in Rocky Mount and another man have been indicted on federal charges accusing them of acquiring guns through straw buyers to resell them at a profit.
Media reports identified the two as 25-year-old James Marion Slate and 57-year-old David Carson Haskins of Henry County.
Rocky Mount Police Chief David Cundiff said Slate has been a member of the force for about 14 months. Department policy calls for an officer accused of a felony to be suspended without pay.
The two men were named in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Roanoke on Thursday.
A telephone listing could not be found for Slate. A person who answered the phone Saturday at a listing for David Haskins said he did not live at that address.
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From Roanoke Times
By Jeff Sturgeon
July 26, 20113
A Rocky Mount police officer and another man ran a criminal conspiracy to acquire guns through straw buyers in violation of federal firearms laws, prosecutors alleged this week.
Rocky Mount officer James Marion Slate, 25, and David Carson Haskins, 57, whose hometown was not released, are named in a grand jury indictment filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
The felony indictment said the men acquired the guns to resell them at a profit.
Rocky Mount Police Chief David Cundiff confirmed Friday that Slate is a member of the force and said he was hired about 14 months ago. Cundiff said he had not seen the indictment or taken any action against Slate. The department would by policy suspend without pay an officer charged with a felony, he said.
The list of charges is heavier against Haskins, who faces 18 counts of making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer in connection with a firearms purchase. Each man is charged with conspiracy. The alleged conspiracy ran from late December 2012 to mid-February 2013, during which time the men recruited or tried to recruit other people to become straw buyers of guns, the indictment said.
Haskins provided "the purchase money for the firearms together with instruction as to what firearms the straw purchaser would buy", received the guns the straw buyers bought and paid the straw buyers a fee, the indictment said.
The charges, to which prosecutors attached a list of 21 guns they want the men to forfeit, were announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia. The case is pending in the court's Danville division.
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14. Candidate Christopher Sullivan responds to questions on botched ABC raid
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Member Jim Dinger sent me this:
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In my opinion, a very well thought out response from candidate Christopher Sullivan. He questioned why we would need to arm agents in this state agency to begin with, discussed Bill of Rights issues when citizens are party to law enforcement matters and finalized by emphasizing the need to get rid of the ABC agency. This individual nailed it right on!
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Mr. Dinger,
Thank you again for re-sending your inquiry my way. Unfortunately, your first send went straight to my spam folder. Sorry about that!
On the incident in question, I share your concerns with the multitude of problems present in this case.
1. We have too many layers of law enforcement. Before this incident, I was completely unaware of any ABC enforcement arm in Virginia. I would have thought that the state police and local sheriff/police department would suffice to enforce the constitutional laws of our Commonwealth. Since the ABC agents apparently are a sanctioned form of law enforcement at the state level, I believe it is incumbent upon the Attorney General to investigate the matter and for the agents, if found to have been in the wrong, should suffer appropriate disciplinary consequences for their actions. Ideally, the State Police would conduct an investigation on the incident, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
2. Our natural rights, such as the right to privacy absent an explicit warrant, are routinely violated by the government(s) in whom we entrust the protection of those very rights. Judging from my experience and the wealth of online videos, law enforcement officers are too quick to violate citizens' rights, relying on their ignorance of the statutes, case law, and the Constitution, and can be frustrated or enraged by knowledgeable citizens who defend their rights. I have been meaning to dig into the level of training our state police receive with respect to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If elected, my position as Delegate would certainly facilitate my investigating. Otherwise, I will have to do so as a private citizen and a registered Oath Keeper.
3. I do believe that the local law enforcement (Charlottesville PD, I presume) should put pressure on our state government, either by pressing charges on behalf of the assaulted students, and/or by a public chastising of the ABC agents and the state government they serve for their unprofessional conduct. At a bare minimum, I would hope the Charlottesville PD would at least discuss the legal options available to the offended students. I firmly believe that local governments, being closer to the sovereign individuals from whom authority was delegated, have the moral and legal right to hold accountable "greater governments" like state or federal agencies.
4. Government is overly involved in our lives, and especially in free and voluntary commerce. State-run ABC stores is a prime example of the state gladly grabbing up yet another market that it believes the private sector is incapable of managing. I very much supported then gubernatorial candidate McDonnell's proposal to privatize ABC stores. Doing so would completely open the market to entrepreneurs and bring some much-needed competition into the market. If Connecticut (where I still have family) trusts entrepreneurs to honestly run a liquor shop, why can't Virginia?
There truly is much about Virginia of which we can be proud but, as evidenced by this unfortunate incident, there remains so much work to be done in restoring our state's former reputation as a bastion of freedom. I truly appreciate you taking the time to write to me for my thoughts on this incident, sir, and I welcome your additional questions and commentary on this issue or any others. Please feel free to call me directly at the below number at any time.
In Liberty,
Christopher Sullivan
Libertarian Nominee for Delegate, Virginia's 55th District
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Subject: The Rutherford Institute :: College Girls, Bottled Water and the Emerging American Police State
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013
From: James Dinger
To: Christopher.g.sullivan
Dear Mr. Sullivan,
I understand that you have expressed an interest in working for me as a public servant in the elected State Delegate position, District 55, as a
Libertarian candidate, that will be available when Delegate John Cox
retires this fall. The Libertarian Party has many excellent ideas on
running an efficient and limited government.
As you probably know by now, our state agency, the ABC put Virginia in
the national limelight by holding young college women at gunpoint in
their car after they made a grocery store visit while minding their own
business in a public place in Charlottesville. Apparently, the ABC
agents thought that the bottled water the women were carrying was
alcohol, and that they were under age 21. The ABC agents surrounded
the car, pointed guns at these young ladies and began shouting at
them. The ABC agents could not be identified as bona fide law
enforcement officers thus causing great alarm for these law abiding
citizens. The offended women made a quick and correct decision to
preserve life and limb by driving away from the armed agents since they
had no way to protect themselves. Their next correct decision was to
call 911 for police intervention and help. They were pulled over by
the police, handcuffed, had their car searched without a warrant and
then charged for various criminal offenses and thrown in jail. The
charges were later dropped.
In the elected State Delegate position which legislates state laws, what
would be your response to ABC law enforcement agents who severely
reneged their oath to uphold the CONSTITUTION while working for the
State of Virginia by violating the personal liberties and BILL OF RIGHTS
of these law abiding college women who were minding their own
business? Do you believe that it is the role of the local elected
sheriff to investigate this matter, press charges if necessary based on
the facts and prosecute the ABC offenders in the county where this
horrible event took place? Or, do you believe that it should be
investigated at the state level by the State Police? Do you think
that our Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli should investigate this matter
since it involves a state agency? Furthermore, do you think that
alcoholic beverages should be sold by the private sector with minimal
oversight and regulation from the ABC? Finally, wouldn't it make more
sense to leave alcoholic beverage age enforcement matters in the hands
of sheriffs, local police and state police rather than funding an entire
state agency, including approximately one hundred armed agents, to
perform the same law enforcement service?
Thank you ahead of time for running for the elected State Delegate
position. I look forward to meeting you at the upcoming public forums
and an anticipated prompt response to my letter.
Sincerely,
James P. Dinger
Hanover County
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15. Miller: N.J. Gov. Chris Christie does a 180 on gun control, vetoes radical bills
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How can you tell the Republican New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, is considering a run at the presidency? He's try to clean up his sad gun-control record a little bit.
From The Washington Times: http://tinyurl.com/m3hahbo
By Emily Miller
August 19, 2013
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has had such a remarkable change of heart on the Second Amendment over in the past six months that he actually vetoed part of his own gun-control agenda. The governor enraged anti-gun groups when he rejected three of the Democrat-controlled Legislature's radical bills on Friday night.
Mr. Christie, who is running for re-election this year, used a conditional veto to rewrite the most extreme bills that came out of the Legislature this year. The key controversial one would have identified gun owners on a "smart card" such as a driver's license. There was also a training requirement just to own a firearm and a ban on private exchanges.
The governor also vetoed a bill to ban .50-caliber firearms, which are never used in crimes, even though he called for this same measure earlier this year. The Legislature can accept the rewritten bills, find a two-thirds majority to override or the full veto stands, which is most likely.
"The NRA isn't in the business of divining motives," the National Rifle Association's Andrew Arulanandam told me Monday. "We are pleased that he vetoed a number of bad legislative proposals last week. However, we are disappointed that he signed some bad bills into law prior."
Mr. Arulanandam is referring to last week, when Mr. Christie signed into law 10 gun-control bills. Only one of these would have a positive effect on gun violence by requiring the state to submit mental health records to the FBI for the National Instant Background Checks System. Currently, New Jersey ranks 39th in the country in the number of mental health records the state submits Ë having sent just 17 records in 2011.
In the frenzy to pass gun control after the Newtown, Conn., shootings in December, Mr. Christie created a SAFE Task Force, which he followed up with a legislative agenda to "responsibly expand New Jersey's strict gun-control measures." Never mind that the state already had the second-most-restrictive gun laws in the country, according to the Brady Campaign.
During the legislative process, the true intent of New Jersey politicians came to light when an official audio recording from a Senate Budget Committee hearing on May 9 was publicized by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs.
On the hot microphone, a woman who sounded like one of the Democratic senators on the committee said, "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate." Another woman said: "They don't care about the bad guys. All they want to do is have their little guns and do whatever they want with them."
Mr. Christie's rightward move seems to indicate he is considering the impact his gun policies would have in a Republican presidential primary. However, Mr. Christie again reverted to a liberal social agenda on Monday when he signed into law a ban the practice of gay-conversion therapy on minors in New Jersey.
Just last Thursday, the governor was invited by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to speak at the group's summer meeting in Boston. Many attendees at the lunch were apprehensive about hearing from Mr. Christie, whom they view as helping President Obama win re-election with their highly publicized tour of the Garden State after Hurricane Sandy a week before the November election.
Mr. Christie also has taken heat this summer for saying that libertarians such as popular Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, were "very dangerous" to national security. On Sunday, Mr. Paul said on Fox News that Mr. Christie's comments were a "big mistake" because the GOP in the Northeast is "shrinking almost down to nothing" and needs new ideas to attract the young, independents and Democrats.
The Republican Party leaders in Bean Town, however, were wowed by the charismatic governor, who talked of implementing conservative principles in a blue state, which resulted in an increase in support from blacks, women and Hispanics.
Turning away from his own push for radical gun-control measures can only help Mr. Christie in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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16. DHS employee spends spare time promoting race war against 'whites'
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Member Bill Hine emailed me this:
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From Fox News: http://tinyurl.com/ms4p2qt
By Barnini Chakraborty
August 22, 2013
A Department of Homeland Security manager in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government is, on the side, running an inflammatory website that throws around gay slurs and advocates the mass murder of "whites" and the "ethnic cleansing" of "Uncle Tom race traitors," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Ayo Kimathi, who calls himself the "Irritated Genie," told his supervisors that the website was set up to sell concert and lecture videos.
But the report showed the site's content strayed far beyond concert promotion, warning about a coming race war. His website, "War on the Horizon," declares, "in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites - more than our Christian hearts can possibly count," the Alabama-based SPLC said in its report.
One of Kimathi's former supervisors at DHS told SPLC's Hatewatch that, "Everybody is the office is afraid of him," and that his co-workers are "afraid he will come in with a gun and someday go postal."
The supervisor, who was not named, continued, "I am astounded he's employed by the federal government, let alone Homeland Security."
Kimathi, who works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is a division of DHS, reportedly got the go-ahead from the government to create and maintain his website.
That's because as a law enforcement agency employee, he is required to get permission in writing if he engages in outside activities which includes everything from working a second job to volunteering.
The SPLC says Kimathi obtained official permission but did it by misrepresenting the true nature of his site.
"He told management that it was an entertainment website selling videos of concerts and lectures," the report said. "He called it simply WOH, never saying that WOH stood for War on the Horizon."
ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said in a written statement that the agency "does not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence of any kind against anyone."
It is not known what disciplinary actions, if any, will be taken against Kimathi.
"Every ICE employee is held to the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct. Accusations of misconduct are investigated thoroughly and if substantiated, appropriate actions in taken," she said.
Kimathi's site even includes President Obama, who is technically his boss, on its own enemies list.
According to the WOH website, the organization was "created for the purpose of preparing black people worldwide for an unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race. Whites around the world are absolutely determined to exterminate Afrikan people in all corners of the earth."
The mission statement also claims to prepare blacks intellectually, spiritually, psychologically and physically for "a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the black race as we know it."
Calls to WOH for comment by FoxNews.com were not immediately returned.
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17. Christian school protecting children with protective weapons
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Member Roger Tweedy emailed me this:
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From Fox News: http://tinyurl.com/kz9py7o
By Todd Starnes
August 21, 2013
A Christian school in Arkansas has a warning for would-be attackers: be prepared to meet your Maker if you try to harm their students.
"Staff is armed and trained," reads a sign posted outside the Arkansas Christian Academy in Bryant, Ark. "Any attempt to harm our children will be met with deadly force."
School administrator Perry Black told Fox News the "purpose of the sign is to prevent us from ever having to use any kind of force."
"We have a moral obligation to protect those children in our care and we're dedicated to doing that with whatever means are necessary," he said. "I'd rather be in the news for having a sign than having a tragedy."
Black said the academy began beefing up their security after the Newtown, Conn. massacre. As a result, an undisclosed number of staff members have been trained to defend the school in the event of an incident.
A local sign maker crafted the warning signs posted on the school's property.
"If you can read, you can succeed," Black said. "Whatever you choose to do, don't choose to do it here."
Parents have praised the school's security measures.
"We definitely need more like it and more mind sets like they have," said parent Sharon Brownlee. "This is what keeps our children safe - not gun free zones."
"It's very sad to see our public schools not able to defend themselves and we still have a fifteen year old in a public school," she added. "So I've seen it from both sides - and I choose the guns."
Black said seconds count in a tragedy.
"If we can slow someone down, hinder somebody long enough to get the appropriate authorities here, we own that responsibility," he said.
He also said the Christian school has a moral responsibility to protect teachers and students.
"We as ministers are shepherds of God's sheep," the pastor said. "David is a great example. He took out a lion. He took out a bear and ultimately had to take out a giant."
"We would prefer to limit our activities to just lovingly caring for people in our care, but occasionally there are those predators outside who would like to harm the little sheep in our care," he said. "As shepherds, it is our responsibility to provide the protection until we can get the law enforcement here to take care of matters."
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18. Newtown grandmother fears gun control makes her less safe
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Member Bill Albritton emailed me this:
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From Breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/n8l2ue6
By AWR Hawkins
August 15, 2013
As gun permit requests in Newtown, Connecticut skyrocket, one "soon-to-be gun-toting grandma" is worried about the consequences of gun control.
The New York Daily News reports 66-year old Nancy Ellis is concerned that her right to keep and bear arms may be in jeopardy: "The fact that they were reeling in and squeezing more laws made me think, 'You know what? I want my gun permit. I want to exercise my right.'"
As Breitbart News has pointed out, gun control hurts women especially. And Ellis says "she wants a gun to protect herself."
Ellis asked what she's supposed to do if unarmed and faced with an intruder? "What am I going to do? Throw water at him? Get a knife? Go get a pair of scissors? When he has a gun potentially?"
Although Piers Morgan does not "want to see all the women in America armed with guns," Ellis is getting one because she refuses to be a victim.
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19. Heidi Yewman article mentioned in the 8/21/13 VDCL update
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This comment references the VCDL Update on 8/21/13, item #9. The continuing saga of "living with the gun"
A VA-ALERT reader sent me this:
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You may want to point out to your readers that it is likely that Ms. Yewman never actually purchased any ammo for her gun - and her entire article series is therefore misleading. This is the most important response that the pro-gun community can have to her ridiculous article.
Here's why I think that Ms. Yewman never actually loaded the gun that she bought for that article:
1. In her first article, when she described the purchase of the gun, she did not mention any accompanying purchase of ammo. There is no assertion anywhere else in her series that she later purchased ammo or returned to a gun shop.
2. When she gets home and sees that the gun has a magazine already in it, she goes to a nearby police officer to make sure the gun isn't loaded - and he apparently confirmed that it wasn't. So we know that the magazines didn't have any bullets when she brought it home.
3. Not once does she mention selecting ammo for her gun, storing ammo, loading the gun, or unloading the gun. Not once.
4. She leaves the gun on the counter at home, in a backpack on the side of a tennis court, and unsecured in a bag on the floor at a house party where children are present. Do these sound like the actions of a person who is terrified of guns? I submit that no anti-gun person would ever leave a loaded gun in these locations - intentionally or by accident. It is not credible to believe that Ms. Yewman, who is apparently terrified of guns, would carelessly forget that she had the gun in her purse. That leaves us with one of two possibilities: the gun was loaded and Ms. Yewman intentionally left the gun unsecured, or the gun wasn't loaded and she knew it couldn't present a threat to anyone. It is not credible to believe that Ms. Yewman would intentionally leave a loaded gun where children could get it, and it's not credible to believe that she would just forget a loaded gun was in her purse, so this leads us to the conclusion that she never loaded the gun at all.
This is a central fact that Ms. Yewman should be regularly challenged on, and it is the most important response to her article. Forget her supposed irresponsibility, or her use of bad statistics - those are things that the anti-gun folks want to have a debate about. It's much better to label her as a fraud until she offers up evidence that she actually purchased ammo and carried a loaded gun.
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20. Setting the record straight on an anti-gun commercial [Video]
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Gun rights activist and author, Alan Korwin, sent me this:
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We're fighting the media battle here as well.
Someone is behind a propaganda piece disguised as a public-service ad
to attack castle doctrine and stand-your-ground self-defense laws in
Arizona and elsewhere.
Channel 5 KPHO, the CBS-TV affiliate did a pretty good job undressing
this emperor, with balance that is rare these days on the gun issue.
See if you can spot the sounds and footage they got at Shooters World:
I found out that Grey Advertising, the high-powered ad agency in NYC
produced the ad for the anti-gun group. Still unclear where the money
came from, supposedly "crowd sourced." Must've been a large crowd,
it's running in 26 states I'm told.
From kpho.com: http://tinyurl.com/luyhgkv
By Greg Argos
August 22, 2013
PHOENIX (CBS5) - A new public service announcement from the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is getting quite the buzz.
The 90-second ad recreates some of the events leading up to the shooting that killed Trayvon Martin. Actual 911 calls from that night are used, and it's designed to elicit a certain response from viewers.
CSGV's stated mission is to "secure freedom from gun violence," and its website says the goal of the ad it to repeal so-called Stand Your Ground laws and doctrines in 26 states, including Arizona.
"It's an ad against our civil rights disguised as a public service announcement," said Alan Korwin, an Arizona author, gun expert and owner of gunlaws.com.
Korwin says the ad is very well made, but it's inaccurate, since the George Zimmerman trial did not touch on Florida's Stand Your Ground law. Rather, it was a self-defense case.
"The George Zimmerman self-defense case had nothing to do with Stand Your Ground or castle doctrine," he said.
Korwin says he hopes people watching the ad don't let their emotions get to them. Rather, he says it's best to know Arizona's laws protect the victim, not the attacker.
"I think they made a mistake in this ad because they said 'stand up against Stand Your Ground.' Stand Your Ground makes sense. If someone attacks you, you should be able to defend yourself," he said.
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21. Piers Morgan's misstatement provides teachable moment in gun debate
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From Breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/mza46ok
By AWR Hawkins
August 18, 2013
The inaccurate claim Piers Morgan threw at me while a guest on the August 13 airing of Piers Morgan Live provides a teachable moment for everyone in the gun control debate.
During the segment in which I appeared, Morgan countered my contention that more guns have equaled less crime in Virginia by saying that Virginia had the "highest murder rate in the country" in 2009, according to "FBI statistics."
This statement was blatantly false, and after Newsbusters, the NRA, Breitbart News, and others corrected him, Morgan apologized on August 15 via tweeter and on his show. He admitted he had "wrongly stated Virginia had the highest murder rate in 2009" when it didn't.
This is a teachable moment, because this is what rabid gun control proponents are prone to do to argue from emotion rather than reason and throw out numbers that have no basis in reality. This is what conservatives and 2nd Amendment supporters of all political stripes are up against when they stand up for gun rights.
Morgan was not only wrong, he was damn wrong. For not only was Virginia not the state with the number one murder rate in 2009, it was actually 25 on the FBI's list.
Morgan was so eager to prove more guns do not equal less crime that he throw out a state with a murder rate of 4.4 per-100,000 inhabitants while the rate in other states and/or districts was literally five times that much.
The problem is, many of the other states and/or districts did not fit his criteria of too little gun control, so he could not mention them.
In Virginia in 2012, there was a 16 percent increase in gun sales over the previous year, and this was accompanied by a five percent drop in crime. As Cam Edwards and I discussed on NRA programming on August 15, if the goal of gun control proponents really is the safety of citizens, shouldn't they be happy that more guns have meant less crime Virginia?
Shouldn't Piers Morgan be happy as well?
This is a teachable moment.
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22. NPR on guns
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Roy Scherer emailed me this:
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You may find these two news items, from this morning's "Morning Edition" news show, to be of interest. In spite of frequent accusations against NPR, these particular stories seemed to me to be free of any anti-gun bias. Sorry I can't say the same about the California program which is the subject of the second story.
From NPR.org: http://tinyurl.com/k93ke9t
By Jeff Tiberii
August 20, 2013
Conn. Firm Lured To N.C. By 'Hungry Workforce'
Some politicians across the country are getting crafty trying to woo businesses to their states. But in North Carolina, it wasn't an elaborate government sales pitch that got a company in Connecticut interested in expansion. It was the state's high unemployment rate.
Transcript:
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Across the U.S., governments are trying every which way to coax businesses into relocating to their states. Tax breaks and subsidies are just a couple of the incentives they offer up. But in North Carolina, it was not an elaborate government sales pitch that got one company interested. It was something much more simple than that - the state's high unemployment.
North Carolina Public Radio's Jeff Tiberii reports.
JEFF TIBERII, BYLINE: Earlier this summer, Texas Governor Rick Perry launched an unconventional TV ad-campaign, urging companies to consider expanding in the Lone Star State.
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GOVERNOR RICK PERRY: Why more jobs and businesses move to Texas than any other state.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Because we're leaders in technology.
PERRY: Texas, land of opportunity, home of creative renegades...
TIBERII: And last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo challenged New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to a whitewater rafting race. The governor was hoping to use the stunt to increase tourism and business outside of Manhattan.
Leaders in North Carolina didn't need to make any wagers or TV buys. Instead they lured a new manufacturing plant with tax incentives and a promise of a hungry, unemployed workforce.
LANCE METZLER: Two hundred jobs starting out all the way up to 500 jobs, is a pretty big deal to us.
TIBERII: Lance Metzler is county manager in Rockingham County, where there are about 90,000 residents and thousands without jobs. That was a key factor when Connecticut-based Sturm, Ruger and Company selected this rural area to expand its business.
METZLER: The unemployment rate is very low up there. Here, there's an abundance of people who are willing and ready to work. And I think that's one thing that they were intrigued about, is our availability of workforce.
TIBERII: The company has production plants in New Hampshire and Arizona. New Hampshire has an unemployment rate of about 5 percent. In Rockingham County it's twice that. At a job fair, this summer more than a thousand people submitted applications when they heard an unnamed gun company might be relocating.
HOLLY WADE: Certainly businesses are looking for areas that have the type of skilled labor that their business requires.
TIBERII: Holly Wade is a senior policy analyst with the National Federation of Independent Business.
WADE: Many businesses now are very hesitant on expanding, not knowing what economic conditions are going to be like six months out; what costs they will have to incur through higher taxes or regulations. But if they do see opportunities, they're certainly going to look for areas that can alleviate some of that uncertainty.
TIBERII: This is Ruger Gun Company's first expansion in 25 years and it hopes to open the North Carolina factory as soon as possible. It will invest $30 million and bring almost 500 jobs to this right-to-work state. It doesn't hurt that Rockingham County is gun friendly.
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TIBERII: Sheriff Sam Page is wearing a green hunting suit, boots and a black hat on a hot summer afternoon. The Rockingham County sheriff takes a few more rounds of target practice and then secures the firearm's magazine on his belt.
SHERIFF SAM PAGE: For about 20 years, you know, we were made up of textile and tobacco. And a lot of those industries have gone down and a lot of people have lost work and had to go other places to work.
TIBERII: The new gun plant will be in an old yarn factory. Vacant tobacco and textile factories have been turned into loft apartments, restaurants and even radio studios. The new job wouldn't involve rolling cigarettes or any embroidery, but plenty of people are ready to work.
For NPR News, I'm Jeff Tiberii in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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One by one, California agents track down illegally owned guns
From NPR.org: http://tinyurl.com/l2l6ks6
In California, officials are ramping up a unique program that identifies and seizes guns from people who are prohibited from keeping them. Under state law, a legally registered gun owner loses the right to own a firearm when he or she is convicted of a crime or becomes mentally ill.
Last year, state agents seized nearly 2,000 firearms, but implementing the gun seizure program is a painstaking job. In a recent operation, a caravan of four unmarked trucks traversed the bedroom communities of San Francisco's East Bay. The trucks carry nine state agents wearing bulletproof vests and armed with .40-caliber Glock pistols and Tasers. They'll spend the next six hours looking for illegal guns, explains Special Agent Kisu Yo of the California Department of Justice.
An Extensive, Constantly Updated Database
Yo's team will visit the homes of 11 people who are considered Armed and Prohibited Persons, people on the so-called APPs list. They are all people who at one time purchased firearms legally, but have since run afoul of the law, Yo says. "Such as maybe a felony conviction, mental health commitment, they received a restraining order, domestic violence restraining order Ë some type of a misdemeanor conviction that prohibits them from possessing firearms."
Beginning In 2007, California officials began collecting names from court records, medical facilities and lists of known or wanted criminals, then cross-referenced them against the federal instant criminal background check system for gun-buyers. The list is updated every day.
California is the only state in the country that identifies people who are prohibited from having a gun and then sends agents out to knock on their door.
This is tedious, expensive and time-consuming work, requiring hours of background checks and cross-referencing even before the agents hit the streets.
"There's a lot of work that goes into these," says Michelle Gregory, spokeswoman for the California Department of Justice. "People aren't always home, there's different stories as to where the firearms may be and there's a lot of follow-up needs to happen after. So there's still going to be a lot of work even after they come out to these homes trying to confiscate these weapons."
On this night, Yo's agents didn't find the man they were looking for at the house of one convicted felon in the suburb of San Leandro. Still, since he's on probation, the agents had the right to search his house.
"This guy is a convicted felon," Yo says. "He had, or has, two guns in his name. We found one of the guns listed in his name, a revolver."
Since they can't find the second gun, two agents are dispatched to the felon's workplace to question him.
An Expanding Program
The NRA initially supported California's program, but it's since become disenchanted. The program "is being billed as something that it's not," says C.D. "Chuck" Michel, a civil rights attorney whose clients include the NRA and the California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation.
"It's being billed as going after dangerous people," Michel says. "And for the most part, with some exceptions, admittedly, it's not going after dangerous people. It's not making society any safer."
Michel's main problem is that the state doesn't tell people they're prohibited from owning a firearm, he says. "For example, you can get in a fight, and plead guilty to being in a fight, and wind up having a statutory prohibition on possessing firearms get triggered for a 10-year period. But the courts haven't told them that."
Despite that criticism, the APPS program is expanding. Until recently, California had just 33 agents to track down nearly 20,000 people on the APPs list. But thanks to a bill signed into law this spring by Gov. Jerry Brown, the state is spending $24 million to hire an additional 36 agents.
Back on the street, the state agents are regrouping in a shopping mall parking lot. On a good night, they say they might seize 30 guns. But this time they've confiscated only eight firearms, including an assault weapon, and taken two men with outstanding warrants into custody.
Still, agent Kisu Yo appears satisfied. "Overall, it was a very successful night. No one got hurt, and we did definitely got some guns off the street tonight," he says. "You know, if you get one gun off the street, it's a win."
Thus far, no other state has adopted California's gun seizure law. However, there is a bill in Congress to provide funds for other states to follow this model.
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23. LTE: Gun culture astounds me
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Member James Dinger emailed me this:
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Take a look at "Gun culture astounds me", in the Herald-Progress. When I read emotion driven commentary like this, it makes me think that misguided people like Mayor Bloomberg, Obama and Feinstein have partially succeeded with their alarmist mission to abolish the 2nd Amendment which is the entire backbone of our great Constitution. The author's first two statements reveal her misunderstanding of the history of our armed society and why the Founding Father's insisted that all citizens own and bear guns. By the time we get to her third sentence, we learn that she is completely willing to throw personal liberty and freedom out the window. A well known citizen in the same county of residence by the name of Patrick Henry may have responded as follows, "Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we can not be trusted with arms for our own defense?".
Simplified interpretation of this anti-gun commentary: I will never understand the 2nd Amendment, those who openly support it and how it reinforces our Bill of Rights and personal liberty.
From Herald-progress.com: http://tinyurl.com/mg2ssfp
August 14, 2013
Gun culture astounds me
I just don't get it and I've given up trying. I've finally decided that I will never understand the mindset and rationale of those who are in love with their guns.
The gun culture prevalent in America today is beyond reason and those of us who do not think that guns should be allowed in public areas are losing our sense of wellbeing and feel that our liberties are being taken from us.
Last week in friendly Ashland, a man holding the hands of two young girls, ages approximately 5-8, emerged from in front of our public library. On his hip was a gun. I wanted to ask why he thought he needed a gun in Ashland and why he would have it on when accompanying two young girls, but of course there was no way I was going to approach him, as he frightened me. I saw them several times as they walked the streets of downtown Ashland.
Making this even more disturbing is that this is the second time this summer I have encountered a child, again a young girl about age 5, and a man with a gun on his hip. This time it was in the McDonalds on Parham near Three Chopt Road. My 4-year-old granddaughter was with me and she wanted to know if the man was going to hurt some one. How sad that she even said this.
Are these guys doing this because they can and they dare anyone to say anything to them about it? Do they think they are macho? Is this the return of the "Wild West?" Whatever their reason, it is a sad and disturbing commentary on our times.
Ann Marie Martin
Ashland
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24. Hostage kills Iowa prison escapee who shot deputy
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Media was quiet on this: a gun owner stopped a violent escaped prisoner in Iowa after the prisoner broke into his house and held a him and his wife hostage.
Member Perry Hecker sent me this:
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From USA Today: http://tinyurl.com/kenlsvv
By Sharyn Jackson
August 20, 2013
BEDFORD, Iowa Ë An escaped convict broke into the home of a southwest Iowa couple Monday night and held them at gunpoint for several hours before one of the hostages shot and killed the intruder, police said Tuesday.
Rodney Eugene Long, 38, broke out of the Clarinda Correctional Facility about 20 miles away on Friday. He is accused of shooting Taylor County deputy Sunday night after stealing a gun in a home burglary and led police on a 40-minute chase, triggering a massive manhunt Monday in the area.
Around 10:15 p.m. CT Monday, Long broke into the small, one-story home of a retired prison guard and his wife, who were asleep in their bedroom. Long held the couple, Jerome and Carolyn Mauderly, in their bedroom for about four hours as he wandered through the house, disabling their landline phone and using their cellphone although officials did not say whom Long called.
Police suspect that Long was gathering supplies to continue his escape. He was armed with a semi-automatic handgun.
"As the situation wore on, a decision was made by the Mauderlys that they were going to defend themselves," said Mitch Mortvedt, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent in charge.
The Mauderlys had a shotgun in the house and eventually decided to retrieve it, Mortvedt said. Jerome Mauderly, 71, shot and killed Long in the couple's kitchen. Carolyn Mauderly, 66, called 911 at about 2:10 a.m. Tuesday.
fugitive
Officers who responded found Long lying face down with one wound. The Mauderlys were uninjured.
Jerome Mauderly had been a farmer and a prison guard in Maryville, Mo., before his retirement. The town about 25 miles from Bedford has both a county jail and Maryville Treatment Center, a minimum security state prison for male substance-abuse offenders.
Rosalyn Cummings, 62, a lifelong friend of the couple, described Jerome Mauderly as "a very nice man, very quiet and calm."
"He's a great guy, and I feel sorry for him because I think it would be very difficult," she said, adding that he's a deacon in his church.
On Monday, police had searched several area homes for Long, whom they considered armed and dangerous. They searched the Mauderly home and outbuildings three times, last at 11 a.m.
Residents of Taylor County, which has a population of about 6,300, reported taking precautions from locking their doors to escorting one another to their vehicles as they awaited news of a capture.
The wounded deputy, Dan Wyckoff, 33, remained in an Omaha, Neb., hospital in stable condition Tuesday with injuries that are not life threatening, officials said. He is expected to recover fully, and they credit his survival to wearing a protective vest.
"It definitely saved his life, or at least saved him from serious, serious injury," Mortvedt said.
Long is the first person to escape from the Clarinda Correctional Facility since 1997, officials said. Long's escape was the first this year from any Iowa prison.
Authorities earlier gave this account of how the manhunt unfolded:
Long escaped from the prison sometime between 4 and 7 a.m. CT Friday.
On Sunday night, he was spotted walking along Iowa 2, just east of New Market, between Clarinda and Bedford. Taylor County deputies responded.
Wyckoff, who has been with the department for two years, arrived first. When Wyckoff got out of his vehicle, Long allegedly shot the deputy twice, once in the left arm and once in his abdomen, stole the deputy's unmarked truck and fled.
A second deputy picked up Wyckoff moments later and then pursued Long, officials said. He maintained the pursuit until other law enforcement agencies arrived to assist, then took Wyckoff to a waiting ambulance.
Other officers continued chasing Long and exchanged gunfire with him during the 40-minute chase, which ended when Long rolled the vehicle several times. He fled on foot into nearby fields.
Authorities could not say how many shots were fired.
Officers from more than a dozen agencies in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska combed the area searching for Long. The Iowa State Patrol and Nebraska State Patrol aided the search in aircraft. Officials checked houses and outbuildings in the area.
After Long's death, the head of Iowa's public employees union said the state's corrections director should be fired.
Corrections Director John "Baldwin has refused to acknowledge the severe understaffing in the State of Iowa's correctional system," said President Danny Homan of Council 61 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents about 40,000 Iowa public employees. "Instead, he has reconfigured the inmate classification system to quickly and recklessly push more inmates towards less secure settings or towards parole."
Homan described Long as a repeat offender who had his probation revoked but was transferred from a medium-security facility to a minimum-security facility after only a short period. Long's lengthy criminal background had included convictions on drug, burglary and robbery charges.
For Casey Riedel, 33, Long's death is more complicated because her brothers grew up with him. She moved away and hasn't spoken to him since 1996.
"He was quiet and polite," she said. "Nice, well mannered, would do anything for anybody."
Watching this town's fear of Long grow in the past few days was painful for her because of her personal connection to him.
"At some points, I wished he would come out of the cornfield into my yard so I could talk to him," Riedel said.
When Long was at large, residents remained wary.
Josie Gray, a waitress at the Junction Cafe here, said when she went outside to lock the doors on her family's vehicles Sunday, an acquaintance stood guard on the porch with a gun.
Mortvedt said numerous Bedford residents armed themselves since Long's escape from prison.
Some left town in fear, said resident Mick Ware, 68.
"The community is grateful, law enforcement is grateful, because this risk is gone," Ware said.
He called Jerome Mauderly a hero.
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25. 5 dead, 26 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
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Mainstream Media's response to this story of wholesale death in the bastion of gun control (Chicago): yawn
Member Bill Hine sent me this:
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From NBCChicago.com: http://tinyurl.com/n64hhlg
By Alexandia Fisher
August 19, 2013
At least six people were killed and 27 others wounded in weekend gun violence across Chicago.
A 7-year-old boy was shot Sunday night while walking his bicycle up the steps of his family's home around 9 p.m., police said. The shooting happened outside Charles Sumner Math & Science Academy, where school starts in a week.
Residents who live in the area said the neighborhood is normally considered a safe haven for kids.
"This is the safest part of the neighborhood for them to play," resident Lavell Tubbs said, "so all the kids come out and play right here by the school, so I really didn't expect anything like this to happen."
The latest homicide took place just before 10 p.m. Sunday near West 93rd and South Elizabeth streets when a 27-year-old man was fatally shot in the head. Another homicide was reported around 4:35 a.m. Sunday near Springfield and Wilcox avenues when a shooting injured three women and killed one man, police said.
The man was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai hospital, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
A 23-year-old woman with wounds to both feet was listed in stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, and a 21-year-old women shot in the chest and back was listed in grave condition. A 20-year-old woman also suffered a graze wound to the right leg but refused treatment, Mirabelli said.
A 19-year-old man was killed Saturday in a fatal shooting just before midnight in the 800 block of South Lawndale Avenue, police said.
The teen, who has known gang affiliations, was shot in the head while riding his bike. A witness saw him riding his bicycle in the area, heard shots and found him. The witness also saw two men fleeing the scene on bicycles, heading westbound, Mirabelli said.
The man was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital just after 3 a.m., according to police.
Another man was killed 20 minutes earlier in the 0-100 block of South Parkside Avenue, just one block from the Austin District police station.
Two 20-year-old men were shot in the incident. One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene and another was in stable condition at the scene, police said.
Around 11:30 p.m. Friday in the 1800 block of North Pulaski Road when two people were shot, one of them fatally, and another was pistol-whipped by a co-worker after arguing at a party about beer.
Police said a man in his 40s was shot in the abdomen and later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital while a second man was last listed in critical condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds.
A third victim was pistol-whipped at treated at the scene, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.
Police said the co-workers were at a party when an argument ensued over beer. The offender left the party but returned with a handgun and fired multiple shots.
Police said a suspect is in custody but charges had not been filed as of Saturday morning.
Around 9:50 p.m. a 75-year-old man was found dead in the 5600 block of South Racine Avenue with trauma to the head. It was originally unclear how he died, whether by gunshot or being hit by an object, but police later confirmed he died of blunt force trauma.
Earlier Friday afternoon, a 3-year-old girl reportedly alerted neighbors to the fatal shooting of her 24-year-old stepfather at a family home in the Morgan Park neighborhood Friday.
Police responded to a report of shots fired around 3:10 p.m. in the 1100 block of West 111th Place, according to Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.
A 24-year-old man was found dead inside the residence with a gunshot wound to the head, Estrada said.
A toddler, who was thought to have been home at the time of the shooting, ran next door to tell neighbors, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Police believe the shooting may have been narcotics related but no one was in custody as of Saturday morning.
Area South detectives are investigating.
At least 20 other people were also wounded in shootings across the city since Friday.
Two men were injured just after 2 a.m. Sunday in separate shootings.
A 36-year-old man was shot in the chest, arm and stomach in the 200 block of West 94th Street.
Another man in his 40s was shot in the 1100 block of North Kildare Avenue. He was last listed in stable condition at Stroger Hospital with wounds to the wrist and buttocks, police said.
Around 12:45 a.m. Sunday, three men were injured in a shooting in the 1200 block of South Lawndale Avenue in a shooting that stemmed from an earlier beating.
The three men injured are believed to have been involved in the battering of an individual in an alley, Mirabelli said, and the shooting is thought to have been a retaliation for the beating.
A group of offenders approached the three men and one gunman fired several shots, police said.
A 39-year-old man, a 49-year-old man and a 24-year-old man were all injured in the shooting.
No one was in custody as of Sunday morning.
On Saturday, two men were shot while riding their bikes around 11:15 p.m. in the 500 block of West 115th Street, police said.
An 18-year-old man and a 30-year-old man said they heard shots and felt pain.
Their conditions were not known as of Sunday morning.
Just over an hour earlier, a 22-year-old man was shot in the 6000 block of North Sacramento Avenue. The man was allegedly in the process of a narcotics transaction, according to Officer Mirabelli.
The man was shot in the chest and listed in stable condition at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. Police recovered narcotics at the scene, Mirabelli said.
Saturday afternoon, a teen was wounded around 1 p.m. near the intersection of North and Leamington Avenues in the North Austin neighborhood, police said.
A 19-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to his chest, arm, and foot. He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in serious condition, according to authorities.
About an hour earlier, a 22-year-old man was shot in the 9100 block of South Throop Street.
The man was shot multiple times and transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
Details surrounding the shooting were not immediately available.
Around 5 a.m. Saturday a man was shot in the 4000 block of West Grenshaw Street on the city's West Side.
The man, of an unknown age, was last listed in stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital with wounds to the hand and foot, police said.
Just over an hour earlier, a 24-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 1700 block of West 19th Street. He was taken in stable condition to John H. Stroger Hospital.
Around 1 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the arm in the 5000 block of West Superior Street. He was taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
On Friday, two people were injured in a shooting in the 4800 block of West Walton Street.
Around 11:05 p.m. a 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg and transported to West Suburban Medical Center and a 21-year-old man, also shot in the leg, drove himself to the same hospital, police said.
Less than an hour earlier, two teens were shot in the 2600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue. A 17-year-old man allegedly shot an 18-year-old man in the head around 10:10 p.m., police said.
A witness who saw the shooting then shot the teen in the face.
Both teens were last listed in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Earlier, a 23-year-old man walked into Holy Cross Hospital with a gunshot wound to the wrist. The man was shot around 3:15 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Kedzie Avenue, police said.
Minutes earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 5900 block of South Spaulding Avenue. He was last listed in stable condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
The weekend's first shooting took place around 1:08 p.m. in the 9000 block of South Marshfield Avenue when a 34-year-old man was shot in the buttocks. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in stable condition and a female who suffered a graze wound in the incident refused treatment.
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26. 20-year-old charged in Georgia school shooting
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Board member Dennis O'Connor emailed me this:
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She said the school has a set of double doors where visitors must be buzzed in before showing a form of identification to a camera to be allowed in.
"I don't know how this could happen at this school," Zamora said. "There's so much security."
From my.earthlink.net: http://tinyurl.com/lvno8aj
By Bill Barrow & Kate Brumback
August 20, 2013
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) A man with an assault rifle and other weapons exchanged gunfire with officers Tuesday at an Atlanta-area elementary school before surrendering, a police chief said, with dramatic overhead television footage capturing the young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police to safety. No one was injured.
Just a week into the new school year, more than 800 students in pre-kindergarten to fifth grade were evacuated from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, a few miles east of Atlanta. They sat outside along a fence in a field for a time until school buses came to take them to their waiting parents and other relatives at a nearby Wal-Mart.
When the first bus arrived about three hours after the shooting, cheers erupted in the store parking lot from relieved relatives, several of them sobbing.
The suspect, identified later as 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill, fired at least a half-dozen shots from the rifle from inside McNair at officers who were swarming the campus outside, the chief said. Officers returned fire when the man was alone and they had a clear shot, DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexander said at a news conference. Hill surrendered shortly after and several weapons were found, though it wasn't clear how many, Alexander said. Police had no motive.
Though the school has a system where visitors must be buzzed in by staff, the gunman may have slipped inside behind someone authorized to be there, Alexander said. The suspect, who had no clear ties to the school, never got past the front office, where he held one or two employees captive for a time, the chief said. Hill, who had address listed about three miles from the school, is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. There was no information on a possible court date.
A woman in the office called WSB-TV to say the gunman asked her to contact the Atlanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. Assignment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with the woman who said she was alone with the man and his gun was visible.
"It didn't take long to know that this woman was serious," Lecroy said. "Shots were one of the last things I heard. I was so worried for her."
School clerk Antoinette Tuff in an interview on ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer" said she worked to convince the gunman to put down his weapons and ammunition.
"He told me he was sorry for what he was doing. He was willing to die," Tuff told ABC.
She told him her life story, about how her marriage fell apart after 33 years and the "roller coaster" of opening her own business.
"I told him, 'OK, we all have situations in our lives," she said. "It was going to be OK. If I could recover, he could, too."
Then Tuff said she asked the suspect to put his weapons down, empty his pockets and backpack on the floor.
"I told the police he was giving himself up. I just talked him through it," she said.
A woman answering the phone at a number listed for Hill in court records said she was his mother but said it wasn't a good time and rushed off the phone.
DeKalb County Schools Superintendent Michael Thurmond praised faculty and authorities who got the young students to safety, staying calm and following plans in place. All teachers and students made it out of the school unharmed.
"It's a blessed day, all of our children are safe," Thurmond said at the news conference. "This was a highly professional response on the ground by DeKalb County employees assisted by law enforcement."
School volunteer Debra Hayes said she encountered the suspect without knowing it.
She stopped by the office at the end of her shift and saw a man talking to a secretary but she did not see a gun.
"I heard him say, 'I'm not here to harm any staff or any parents or students. He said he wanted to speak to a police officer."
"By the time I got to 2nd Avenue, I heard gunshots," she said.
Complicating the rescue, bomb-sniffing dogs alerted officers to something in the suspect's trunk and investigators believe the man may have been carrying explosives, Alexander said. Officials cut a hole in a fence to make sure students running from the building could get even farther away to a nearby street, he said. SWAT teams then went from classroom to classroom to make sure people were out.
Police had strung yellow tape up blocking intersections near the school while children waited to be taken to Wal-Mart where hundreds of people were anticipating their arrival. The crowd waved from behind yellow police tape as buses packed with children started pulling up along the road at the store. The smiling children waved back.
Regional superintendent Rachel Zeigler used a megaphone to say children were organized on the buses by grade level and that each bus would also be carrying an administrator, a teacher and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer. Relatives had to show ID, sign each child out and have their photo taken.
The school has about 870 children enrolled. The academy is named after McNair, an astronaut who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, according to the school's website.
Jonessia White, the mother of a kindergartner, said the school's doors are normally locked.
"I took (my son) to school this morning and had to be buzzed in," she said. "So I'm wondering how the guy got in the door."
Jackie Zamora, 61, of Decatur, was at the Wal-Mart waiting and said her 6-year-old grandson was inside the school when the shooting was reported and she panicked for more than an hour because she hadn't heard whether or not anyone had been injured.
Since shootings in classrooms all over the country, the massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary being the freshest in people's minds, schools have implemented security from metal detectors to armed guards. McNair had its own safety precautions.
White said the school has a set of double doors where visitors must be buzzed in and show identification to a camera to be allowed in.
"I don't know how this could happen at this school," Zamora said. "There's so much security."
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27. 3-year-old Michigan boy kills self with gun he finds in bedroom closet
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A violation of the safety rule of keeping control of your firearms at all times has tragic results.
Member Bill Hine emailed me this:
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From CNN: http://tinyurl.com/med7e3v
By Leslie Bentz
August 20, 2013
(CNN) -- A 3-year-old boy in a small Michigan town was killed over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun he found on the closet floor of his home.
The shooting death will undoubtedly renew the debate about gun safety, particularly after the boy's father took to Facebook calling for it.
The incident took place Sunday at a home in Dundee, near the Ohio border.
Police said Damon Holbrook discovered the gun, which belonged to a family friend who was living in the house.
Authorities told CNN affiliate WXYZ that the family friend, Joshua Greenhill, had a concealed pistol license and he put the .40 caliber handgun in the closet. It was loaded, with a bullet in the chamber -- but was not locked.
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Three other children were in the house at the time.
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Greenhill, was charged with careless discharge of a firearm -- a misdemeanor which carries a sentence of up to 2 years in prison or a fine of $2,000. He didn't speak to reporters after his court appearance Monday.
"We are working on a more serious charge at this time. We have not completed our investigation," Dundee police Chief David Uhl told reporters. "You have got to get more diligent with the guns. Be a lot safer with them."
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'My boy would still be here'
After the shooting, Damon's father, Brian Holbrook, posted this message on Facebook: "I have nothing wrong with guns it's with this country was built on. I will still support the Second Amendment.
"All I ask is that everyone please, please safety first lock it up and put it out of reach of anyone that has no business being around a gun especially kids.
"Gun safety people! My boy would still be here if it was put away like it should have been."
In May, a southern Kentucky mother stepped outside her home just for a few minutes, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old son to accidentally shoot and kill his 2-year-old sister with the .22-caliber rifle he got for his birthday.
In early April, a 4-year-old boy in Tennessee shot and killed a 48-year-old woman, and just days later, a 6-year-old boy was killed in New Jersey after being shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate.
Firearm deaths of kids rare
But despite the recent incidents, accidental firearms deaths are rare among children.
According to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 703 children under the age of 15 died in accidental firearms deaths between 2001 and 2010, the latest year for which the agency's statistics on fatalities are available.
During the same period, 7,766 children under the age of 14 suffered accidental firearms injuries -- about one injury for every million children.
When and how do parents educate children about guns?
But statistics don't matter much if it's your child that's shot, said Missy Carson Smith, founder of Gun Safe Mom, a campaign to make the gun question as common as asking about food allergies, swimming pools and video game limits.
"It just shreds your family," said Smith, whose own teenage brother died in a shooting. She started the campaign in 2009, after learning during a carpool trip that unsecured guns were in the home of a family where her daughter had played.
"The kids knew where they were, they could get to it," she said. "That's when my heart just dropped in my stomach."
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28. Remington Arms looks at locations out of state
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Member Bill Albritton sent me this:
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Remington looking to leave NY? Kiss more jobs goodbye!
From wktv.com: http://tinyurl.com/kqepgcn
By Anna Meiler
August 20, 2013
ILION, N.Y. (WKTV) - Headlines in Tennessee say Remington Arms could bring hundreds of jobs to the Nashville area, but now there's the question of what that means for workers in the Mohawk Valley.
The article published in the Tennessean on Monday says Remington Arms is looking for a location for a new plant near Nashville's airport. It's unknown whether it's an expansion or relocation, but local leaders say it's a cause for concern.
"Every time that it does pop up, yeah, it brings it to the forefront of New York State once again potentially losing a very valuable business," said Pamela Matt, executive director at the Mohawk Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Following tighter gun laws in New York, other states have been touting themselves as gun friendly, looking to lure businesses like Remington Arms that make semi-automatic weapons. Gov. Cuomo signed the New York S.A.F.E. (Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement) Act into law following the Sandy Hook massacre. The landmark legislation put stricter definitions of assault weapons in place and banned high capacity magazines.
"I think Tennessee and South Carolina and Texas and Michigan and all the other ones that have- I think they are coming after Remington saying we love guns, we'll treat you with open arms, we'll do whatever we need to do to get you here. I don't like that. I don't agree with that at all," said Mayor John Stephens, the mayor of the Village of Ilion, where the Remington Arms plant is located.
"It's very harmful for someone like Remington, who, they're going to listen, they're going to listen to somebody saying please come look at our state rather than stay. I'd love them to be loyal and stay here, but sometimes it becomes a business decision," said Matt.
Local officials said they are starting to work on plans to keep Remington Arms in the area.
"We're starting to lay out some ideas to possibly help them expand a little bit, make a more business friendly, one-story addition to their factory, but right now there's really nothing in concrete. That's just something that's been discussed and we're looking at different options," said Mayor Stephens.
Remington's plant in Ilion is the largest in the country and local leaders say it's crucial to the economy.
"It trickles down, I mean, you have 1,300 employees that if they do relocate out of the state of New York and we lose the company, we lose what it stands for, it's history that walks out of the state, and you know and all the families that support the work as employees at Remington, we lose them, all the Mom n Pops that support all those family members, the schools, everything suffers," said Matt.
Union officials at Remington Arms have yet to respond on the matter.
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29. Biblical self defense Song 2.0 [Video]
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Board member Bruce Jackson sent me this:
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From Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/poh7vez
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30. Smith & Wesson M&P Shield recall
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EM Pat Webb sent me this:
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From Smith & Wesson: http://tinyurl.com/m2t2l8k
For those who have a S&W M&P Shield, there is a recall that was just announced. Please visit the link, watch the short video and check your pistols to see if you need repairs. Some of the recent manufacture Shields may have a defect which could result in an accidental discharge if the pistol is dropped. Here is the link to the S&W web site for details.
Please share with others who have these pistols. S&W will pay the shipping both ways to repair any defective guns.
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