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NM: –Would-be Victim Kills Rapist with His Gun
Rapists should not have guns, they might be taken away and used against them…. :p ———- Shot, killed rapist once had Clovis in a frenzy By Rick A. Maese Tribune Reporter http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news02/072202_news_shoot.shtml> Michael Robert Magirl was one of the most infamous criminals Clovis has seen. “I’ll never forget that bastard,” retired Clovis Police Chief Robert [...]
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/07/23/19942.php Club owner fends off attacker Staff Report RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Police report for July 23 A Sparks nightclub owner used a knife and gun to fend off a maintenance man suspected of attacking her, police said Tuesday. Karen Carvajal, owner of the Oasis nightclub on Victorian Avenue, suffered minor injuries to her face and arms [...]
(GA) Widow uses shotgun to rout armed robbers 07-24-02
http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/3721658.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 24, 2002 Woman fends off robbers with shotgun By Wayne Crenshaw Telegraph Staff Writer CARY – A woman thwarted two masked, gun-wielding, would-be robbers Tuesday after they entered her country store and demanded money. Bleckley County Sheriff Harold Lancaster said Andrea Howell, owner of Willis Howell Grocery, stopped the robbers [...]
Media Ignore Fact That Gun Owners Stopped School Shooter
Media Ignore Fact That Gun Owners Stopped School Shooter Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Saturday, Jan. 26, 2002 Two of the three Virginia law students who overpowered a gunman in a fatal school shooting were armed and used their weapons to disarm the shooter. Yet of the 280 stories written about the shooting, a mere four mentioned [...]
Armed Pilots May Soon Fly
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking10.htm ARMED PILOTS MAY SOON FLY ANTI-GUN BOXER AND PRO-GUN SMITH UNITE TO ARM PILOTS By David M. Bresnahan July 23, 2002
(TX) Shootings ruled self-defense 07-23-02
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=765606 Metro/State briefs San Antonio Express-News Man, 24, acquitted in murder case After deliberating for more than seven hours over two days, a jury Monday acquitted a 24-year-old San Antonio man of murder and aggravated assault in a double shooting at a quincea?era party last year that left one man dead and a second injured. [...]
WHAT gunshow “loophole” ?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Firearms and Crime Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from – o a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2% o a retail store or pawnshop for about 12% o family, friends, a street buy, or an [...]
Reduce violence…use a gun
Reduce violence…use a gun http://www.a-human-right.com/RKBA/martial.html “The Japanese Samurai were quick to adopt the use of firearms after they were introduced by the Portuguese in feudal Japan. Though the Samurai never abandoned the use of the sword, they saw the value that the firearm presented. More importantly for self-defense, the firearm, unlike the sword or my [...]
Hospitals Much Deadlier than Guns
New Report: Hospitals Much Deadlier than Guns CDC Off on Infection Deaths About 103,000 deaths were linked to hospital infections in 2000 – a figure 14 percent higher than government estimates – and nearly 75 percent of the deaths were preventable, the Chicago Tribune reported. The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( news [...]
A Primer on the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Nelson Lund is professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law and has just released a major new perspective paper on the 2nd Amendment. It is available for free in .pdf format at the Virginia Institute. http://www.virginiainstitute.org/publications/primer_on_const.php http://www.virginiainstitute.org/pdf/Right_to_Bear_Arms.pdf
