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The sniper and the gun controllers
http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20021020-96759442 Thomas Sowell CREATORS SYNDICATE Published 10/20/2002 ——————————————————————————– It was perhaps inevitable that the recent sniper killings in the Washington area suburbs would be seized upon by advocates of gun control. Like so much in the agenda of the political left, gun control arguments would collapse like a house of cards if people just stopped [...]
New tool for gun opponents
New tool for gun opponents ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/1002/11equal.html By LARRY PRATT A killer is on the loose in the Washington area, and once again, gun haters are using the Beltway shootings as an excuse for more gun control. Ballistic fingerprinting will hardly ever solve a crime, but it will accomplish something else — a gun registry [...]
Where is the Militia ?
Where Is The Militia? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions at the bottom of this alert) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ by Larry Pratt During World War II, governors of east and west coast states called up the citizen-militia to deal with the threat of invasion by the Germans and Japanese. Following 9/11, the governors did nothing and the federal government created [...]
Exploiting Mass Murder by Dr. Michael S. Brown
Exploiting Mass Murder by Dr. Michael S. Brown Exploiting Mass Murder by Dr. Michael S. Brown October 2002 gave the battered anti-gun lobby what it desperately needed: a high-profile mass murderer who used a firearm. It has been over three years since the lobby’s last big public relations victory at Columbine, but time has not [...]
Thomas Sowell’s Comment On Gun Control
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp
Wall Street Journal Article on S&W
Wall Street Journal article http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1034715816783827996,00.html Smith & Wesson Retools Image as Lawsuits Falter Momentum Shifts in Gun-Control Battle, With White House Backing the Industry By VANESSA O’CONNELL and PAUL M. BARRETT Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — For a brief time, one of the most fabled names in the gun business [...]
How reliable is Bullet fingerprinting?
How Reliable Is Ballistic Fingerprinting? Friday, October 18, 2002 By Steven Milloy The sniper spree in the Washington, D.C., area has spawned calls for “ballistic fingerprinting” of firearms. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., announced he would introduce legislation for a national program. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence told The Washington Post that ballistic fingerprinting [...]
Barbara Boxer: Guns Are OK For Protecting Me
Barbara Boxer: Guns Are OK For Protecting Me by Larry Pratt The debate prior to the U.S. Senate voting overwhelmingly (87-6) to let airline pilots carry guns in their cockpits as a last line of defense against hijackers was very interesting. Particularly interesting was the fact that veteran anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, gun- grabber Sen. Barbara [...]
ABC Reporter Finds It “Alarming” That Women Are Arming
ABC Reporter Finds It “Alarming” That Women Are Arming ABC Reporter Finds It “Alarming” That Women Are Arming by Larry Pratt … On ABC’s Good Morning America (8/14/02), reporter Robin Roberts begins her story this way: “Women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are buying handguns at an alarming rate and lining up at firing ranges to [...]
Quote of the month: John Adams
“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.” Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763,reprinted in [...]
