A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people and critically wounding another before committing suicide, authorities said early Tuesday.What the hell's the matter with some people? Can't they read?
The handgun used in a double-homicide and suicide was once owned by the police, but how it wound up in the hands of the man blamed for the shooting cannot be conclusively established, investigators say.Yeah, a national gun registry--that'll solve everything...
Within minutes five residents – among them three boys under the age of 15 – lay dead. The weathered cement walls outside the bar were pockmarked with gunshots and the pavement covered in a thick coat of blood.And the executioners?
"It was an execution," one man who was in the bar at the time but was too scared to be identified told Toward Freedom.
Fairfax County's police chief said yesterday that one of his officers accidentally shot and killed an optometrist outside the unarmed man's townhouse Tuesday night as an undercover detective was about to arrest him on suspicion of gambling on sports...Well, it's not like he was a productive citizen or anything, and he was breaking the law...that gambling between consenting adults--now that's something I want government resources used to crush.
"As they approached him . . . one officer's weapon, a handgun, was unintentionally discharged," said Fairfax Police Chief David M. Rohrer.
The officer, a 17-year veteran assigned to the police tactical unit, was not identified.Why the hell not? If you or I killed an unarmed man, do you think our names would be shielded by the police and by the press? Do you think we'd be place on leave with pay, and described as "valued"?
Gee, Dick, let me take a wild guess. It couldn't have anything to do with Officer Secret Identity having his finger on the trigger, could it?
Lt. Richard Perez, a police spokesman, said he could not say how or why the gun discharged.
A case of theft hit close to home for Bloomington police after guns and other gear were stolen from a police officer's car.The funny thing is, Staci, I agree with that statement.
Bloomington police are passing around copies of a photograph showing the kinds of equipment someone grabbed from an officer's car.
"Really, I think it should bother everybody. It gives someone a definite advantage with a gun, radio, handcuffs and a badge," said Gene Perkins, Bloomington resident...
"I think it's just dangerous for people to have guns like that in the possession of police on the street to start with," said Staci Leavitt, university student.
A Tampa police officer lost his 9 mm handgun, Taser, laptop computer and gun belt when someone stole his patrol car from his Manatee County house this weekend, officials said.So it's happened TWICE now. Yeah, that's been a constant problem for me and every gun owner I know, too--always leaving our guns in our cars, because, face it, we're just not professional enough.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office speculated Monday that whoever stole Tampa police Officer Roderick Glyder's car and gear also swiped a patrol car belonging to a Sarasota police officer, who lost an AR-15 rifle that was in the car. Manatee deputies recovered both cars, although not the equipment, within a few blocks of each other, Manatee sheriff's spokesman Dave Bristow said.
Police said Shamia Johnson is facing several charges after she shot her grandfather, pointed a gun at a driver, and caused two hit-and-run accidents.Yeah, that's why they waited around at Columbine, too. For our safety.
Despite the laws Johnson was breaking, at no time did police engage her in a chase...Deputy Chief Dave Stephens said the department's policy didn't allow for a chase in this case.
"Our policy regarding pursuits allows the pursuit only in a situation of a felony dangerous to life," he said...
"That policy has been enacted for the protection of public safety because the risk of pursuit far outweighs the benefit from arresting the person," said Stephens.
The defender always has the tactical advantage.Not always, Ms. Graham. Only when moves are telegraphed.
St. Paul police are rethinking their policies allowing undercover officers to drink on the job after a decorated officer was shot to death outside of a bar...When he was killed, Vick's blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent -- twice the legal limit for driving at that time. Since the defense raised questions about Vick's partner carrying a firearm while consuming alcohol, Harrington said the department is examining that policy...Vick and his partner, Sgt. Joe Strong, were investigating prostitution when they confronted two men outside a bar on St. Paul's East Side. The argument escalated to a shooting in a nearby alley that killed Vick.
On Friday, Harry Evans was convicted of first-degree murder in Vick's death and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Google, the giant internet search company, is to lead industry opposition to new proposals from the European Commission to regulate online content.I guess if everyone sees you back down from a tough bully, picking a fight with the pudgy kid is one way of trying to regain some playground status...
The company, which last week said it would self-censor its Chinese search engine to appease the country's government, objects to the commission's proposals to extend regulations in the Television Without Frontiers directive (TWFD) to cover video content shown on the internet.
Security camera footage that detectives later studied...would show Hernandez being assaulted by at least five men and a woman. He had no teammates to back him, and his opponents hit him without the remotest sense of fair play. He ended up drawing his gun.Michael Daly, who never saw a gun ban he didn't endorse, has nothing but wonderful things to say about the off-duty officer mistakenly shot by NY cops. And naturally, being a police worshipper, he has nothing but excuses for the cop doing the shooting:
Whatever happened next, nobody faults the responding officer who felt compelled to fire. Only when a paramedic discovered a shield in Hernandez's pocket did anyone realize he was an off-duty cop.But while Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were staying mysteriously silent about how officers would be safe if we could just disarm those pesky citizens, another angle to this story has surfaced:
[S]ources said [he] was highly intoxicated and holding his gun on a young man...Naturally, the establishment media was all over this when they had a chance to question Mike and Ray. I mean, you and I would be if we had a chance, right?
Bloomberg and Kelly were not asked about Hernandez's sobriety at the news conference.Maybe it made the reporters uncomfortable. Besides, how drunk could Hernandez have been?
[A]source familiar with the investigation said the officer, who had worked the 4 p.m. to midnight shift Friday at the 52nd Precinct, had been drinking at one or two bars before arriving at the restaurant and that his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit of .08.Well, still, even a drunk cop has a right to defend himself against a mob. I'll bet the "opponents" he held at gunpoint are all in jail now, right? I mean, how could people confronting a drunken armed New York cop (who even other cops didn't realize was one) be giving him "the remotest sense of fair play"?
A man, who would give only his first name, Brian, said he was the one being held at gunpoint and left the 46th Precinct at about 5 p.m. after hours of questioning. "I was a little twisted," he said, referring to his own condition at the time. "Some dude came up and pointed a gun at me and said he was going to shoot and pushed me onto the floor. He looked drunk." He quoted the man as saying, "I know you did it. Get on the floor."All the assumptions!
Brian was one of eight people taken to the precinct for questioning, police said.
Brian and a friend, who gave only his first name, Miguel, said Brian had tried to help Hernandez off the floor after the officer was attacked.
We need to make it clear that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line.This is what traitors like Mike Bloomberg wish to impose on the rest of the Republic. This is what fawning media lickspittles like Mike Daly wish to help them accomplish.
A township officer who left his AR-15 rifle behind at a Butler County high school received a three-day unpaid suspension and will have to undergo more training before he will be allowed back on the SWAT team, his chief said Friday...A student who was on his way to basketball practice at the school found the gun and alerted the coach.I'm sure if it was you or me who left that AR-15 on school grounds for students to find, the authorities would be equally tolerant and understanding, don't you think?
A gun crime review team used E-Trace, a computer database managed by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, that can trace the serial number on a weapon to dealers, manufacturers and registered sellers, to shed light on the exchange of illegal guns in the Bull City...Translation: Well, we have this fancy computer system and all these people working it, but it's really pretty much a make-work boondoggle unless we can use it as a foot in the door to stump for a full-blown gun registry. And then it still won't do anything but tell us who the people who obey us are...
While E-Trace can help investigators locate the gun's original dealer and, in some cases, records of sale, state laws do not require individuals to keep records of private gun sales, Mihaich said.
For that reason, he said, it's difficult to get a grasp on where the guns in Durham are truly coming from.
"We're trying to tighten up how we do that statistically. There's some [statistics] we just don't track because the information isn't there," Mihaich said.
The results of a Washington, D.C.-based FBI probe came down Friday, clearing agents of any wrongdoing in the controversial Nov. 7 slugfest between two Bears players at the shooting range. Sources said alcohol had been served after the shooting practice.Translation: After investigating ourselves, we didn't do anything wrong. And we're banning alcohol at the range even though we didn't do anything wrong, as a way of making sure that we don't not do anything wrong again, even though we didn't the first time. Do anything wrong, that is.
The probe found no evidence that alcohol was mixed with guns. But FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant announced he will still ban the use of alcohol by any future group using the FBI's North Chicago shooting facility.
"He was not suggesting any impropriety ... he just wants to make sure an incident like this will not happen again," FBI spokesman Ross Rice said.
The mayor described new tactics including a gun offender registration system, similar to one required for sex criminals, in which gun offenders would have to register and update their addresses with law enforcement. Bloomberg also said he would lobby to make criminal possession of a loaded gun a felony with a minimum prison sentence of 3 years. Both proposals would have to be pushed through the state Legislature."Enemy."
A police officer accused of pointing his gun at a suspect to force him to confess during voluntary questioning at a police box has been arrested, law enforcers said.Ah, gun-free Japan, where only the Samurai class bear arms in the service of their feudal lords...
A lawmaker accidentally discharged a handgun in his General Assembly office in Richmond...Delegate John S. Reid...was ejecting the bullet cartridge when the gun went off, he said.And I'm sure his finger was nowhere near the trigger.
A National Rifle Association-backed bill that would force businesses that sell hunting and fishing licenses to help register customers to vote cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday."Force"?
My son, Johnnie, is only 12 years old but he has been pestering my husband and me for several years to buy him a gun. My husband had his fill of rifles in the army, and for a long time I told Johnnie that “I wouldn’t have a gun around the house. They are too dangerous."Stop right here a moment. You've seen these kinds of letters before, haven't you? You know where this is going, right?
Last summer Johnnie bought a pistol from one of his playmates at school and managed to find some bullets to shoot in it. The gun went off in his pocket, and badly burned the side of his leg but thank goodness didn’t actually hit his leg or his foot. Our physician made out a routine gun-shot wound report which was sent to the police station, and they sent a policeman around to check up on the “shooting.”
He is now a real friend to our family, because after seeing Johnny and talking with him, he bought us a copy of your magazine with a story on “When to Buy Your Son A Gun.”Yes, this is an actual letter. It appeared in the January 1956 issue of GUNS Magazine, now available for free download.
I want to thank writer Harvey Brandt for that story. It has literally changed our whole lives and really opened my eyes to how harsh and unfeeling my attitude must have seemed to my son. He now has a gun, a proper .22 rifle and he is shooting on a boys team which is supervised by the Police Athletic League. He shoots well, and my husband has promised to take him hunting next year with a real rifle for big game. Things are going fine at home, and the rusty revolver he bought at school reposes in my desk drawer as a reminder—not a reminder to Johnny, but a reminder to me—of how serious our neglect of our son might have been, if the police officer and Harvey Brandt hadn’t knocked on our door.
Mrs. Jane P. Perkins
Los Angeles, Cal.
This is the world I grew up in (I was three going on four when this was published). These are the attitudes I remember.Vin Suprynowicz's The Black Arrow has been nominated for the Libertarian Futurist Society's 2006 Prometheus Award, honoring the best libertarian novel of 2005. The Black Arrow is one of nine books nominated for the award this year. (The deadline for nominations is February 15th.)
The Black Arrow, Vin's first novel, peers 30 years ahead into our future to predict the havoc and hazards caused by government run amok -- when people who've grown fed up with brutality and tyranny are finally willing to fight to take back their freedom. Themes in The Black Arrow are often eerily and sometimes tragically reminiscent of recent headlines. Vin's long and energetic career as a noted (or notorious?) libertarian journalist has stocked his impressive literary arsenal with an endless supply of factual outrages to draw from. Characters and scenes in The Black Arrow ring true, especially to readers of Vin's previous books, Send In the Waco Killers and The Ballad of Carl Drega.
Police say the 41-year-old Singler then ran outside the store and shot himself. Investigators say Singler apparently brought ammunition for the weapon with him.The planets must be going through a phase or something--first the judge, then Uncle Hiccup and now this...
A Colombian man who tried to startle his nephew from a bout of the hiccups by pointing a gun at him, accidentally pulled the trigger and killed him.Sounds like we need to disarm you and me to keep tragedies like this from ever happening again.
"You could be a leader in the community," Greenspan said. "All those guns that's why Desmond is gone now, because of all those guns."Good Lord.
A bill (HB1) expanding the circumstances in which deadly force may be used in self-defense is pending in the Alabama Legislature...One opponent is Arthur Hayhoe, executive director of the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He told the Times the Alabama bill could cause trouble if passed "I call it the 'right-to-commit-murder' bill."And I call that a damned lie, Arthur.
Directors of the Twin City Rod & Gun Club were shocked in December when notified their nonprofit organization had to pay a state sales tax on memberships and fees.The bureaucrats [Sean--note the spelling :)] just keep sticking us, don't they? That's because they believe they won't have to endure any personal consequences.
CANADIAN voters have rebuked Prime Minister Paul Martin and his centre-left Liberal Party, tossing them out after 13 years in power.
The new leader, Stephen Harper, the head of the Conservative Party, will be one of Canada's youngest prime ministers when he is sworn in later this week. He is 46.
05-365 SEEGARS, SANDRA, ET AL. V. GONZALES, ATT'Y GEN., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
Between 1998 and 2002, when he was fired, Brown committed oral copulation, sodomy and other lewd acts on the boys, using force on more than 30 occasions...Officer Friendly, I presume...?
Military-style assault weapons of the kind wielded by Henry have been showing up in increasing numbers since Congress and President Bush allowed federal ban on the guns to expire in late 2004. They did the bidding of the National Rifle Association, and it's all but certain that innocent blood will be spilled because of the blind irresponsibility of the NRA and its agents in Washington.This is why the Brady Campaign doesn't need to have that many members--the media does its job for them.
The Vatican representative called upon the United Nations to consider the possibility of negotiating a legally binding instrument on the international arms trade, based on the principles of international law, and in particular on the question of human rights and humanitarian law.I don't suppose the Vatican representative would like to make sure his own house is in order first?
I don't care personally if some governmental agency listens to our family's phone calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We have nothing to hide. The surveillors may expire from boredom, but that would be their problem.--Pat BooneThat's quite a difference in philosophy between "conservative" and "liberal," wouldn't you say?
The only individuals whose privacy would have been infringed by the bill would have been the privacy of people with something to hide from the police - people who arm themselves and then become a threat to public safety.--Brady Campaign
Elected officials and community members gathered in Center City to try and stop the escalation of violent gun use in Philadelphia. It is an effort many are hoping will save hundred of lives.This was definitely not supposed to happen.
"If you and your prosecutors stick to the simple, proven model of Richmond, the murder rate in Philadelphia will decline and your citizens will be safer."
