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Canada’s Gun Registry Costs Climb to $339 Million
Canada’s Gun Registry Costs Climb to $339 Million 10/1/01 During the past six years, the Canadian government has spent more than $339 million on its firearms-licensing system, the Edmonton Journal reported Sept. 26. To date, the licensing system has cost taxpayers well more than the original $760 million estimate when the Firearms Act was passed [...]
Criminals use knives to hijack planes–let’s ban guns!
Criminals use knives to hijack planes–let’s ban handguns! by Robert A. Waters It was as predictable as Ted Kennedy’s bouts with the bottle and Barney Frank’s bouts with his latest live-in lover. As soon as the World Trade Center towers went down in flames and the Pentagon went up in smoke, the anti-gunners began looking [...]
Homeowner wielding gun confronts nighttime intruder
Notice: no shots fired ! ===== http://www.charleston.net/pub/news/local/intrude1001.htm Homeowner wielding gun confronts nighttime intruder Monday, October 1, 2001 A Charleston County homeowner held an intruder at gunpoint early Sunday after hearing a noise on the second floor of his home on Grand Concourse Street, authorities said Sunday. Jessie Pinckney, 19, of Charleston, has been charged with [...]
Intruder killed by elderly homeowner
:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/newsstory/deadthief30.html Metro News Intruder killed by elderly homeowner No charges filed against 93-year-old 09/30/01 By Tara Young #Staff writer# A 93-year-old man shot and killed an intruder who broke into his Abita Subdivision home early Saturday, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The St. Tammany Parish coroner’s office identified the victim as Michael Patterson, [...]
Security-you’re on your own!
In a recent San Antonio Express-News there is an article about airport security by some guy named Geurra. In it he described the security at most airports around the country and how these airports have contracted to private security companies to provide screening of passengers. He explains how, to cut costs a security company will [...]
Zug massacre doesn’t faze Swiss love of guns
Zug massacre doesn’t faze Swiss love of guns > > By Michael Shields > > ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) – The crack of automatic rifle fire fills > the air in Switzerland. It must be Saturday afternoon. > That is when thousands of people — mostly men, but also teen-agers as > young as 16 — [...]
CCRKBA Exposes Congressional Anti-Gun Hypocrisy
CCRKBA Exposes Congressional Anti-Gun Hypocrisy U.S. Newswire 28 Sep 20:05 Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Exposes Congressional Anti-Gun Hypocrisy In Wake Of Terrorist Attack To: National Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911; www.ccrkba.org BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ [...]
Since Sept. 11, Women Are Taking Protection Into Their Own Hands
Since Sept. 11, Women Are Taking Protection Into Their Own Hands By CANDACE J. SAMOLINSKI [email protected] Sep 29, 2001 A state senator, a young wife, a middle-aged office manager and a grandmother set out on a mission this week. They might have been strangers, but they found common ground in their reasons for going. It [...]
(TX) Man killed after assaulting ex-girlfriend 09-27-01
HoustonChronicle.com Address:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1065608 HoustonChronicle.com Sept. 27, 2001, 11:52PM Area briefs Man slain after break-in at ex-girlfriend’s home A man was shot to death Thursday after he assaulted his former girlfriend and broke into her east Harris County home, sheriff’s detectives said. The man, 36. whose name was withheld pending notification of kin, died at 3:20 a.m. [...]
IT’S HARDER TO VICTIMIZE ARMED CITIZENS
FIGHTING BACK Only Guns Can Stop Terrorists It’s harder to victimize armed citizens. BY JOHN R. LOTT JR. Friday, September 28, 2001 12:01 a.m. President Bush yesterday unveiled a plan to tighten airline security, ranging from employing the National Guard at airports to place more marshals on flights. Those are important steps, but they won’t [...]
