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The anti-gun lobby continually links certain modes of anti-social behavior with the tools sometimes utilized to commit these acts.  By drawing what they claim is a cause and effect relationship, they hope to limit or even ban private gun ownership.  They are time and again guilty of committing the logical fallacy most frequently used by those trying to lie with statistics.  That is implying correlation equal equals causation. For example, Japan has a universal ban on firearm ownership.  Furthermore, Japan has low murder and violent crime rates.  Therefore, as anti-gunners would like you to believe axiomatically, the absence of guns...

An NJ Judge has found that Camden city government, police department, and a 911 operator have no responsibility to prevent the kidnapping and murder of a 27 year old woman.  Therefore, none of them can be sued for failing to perform their jobs.  This is the same government and court system that denies that same 27-year-old woman the tools to defend her body and life on her own. What was the basis for the lawsuit? The 27-year-old victim's mother, Linda Reis, blamed the 911 operator and others for not responding to a call  from someone who said he saw two...

New Jersey has recently become the darling of the anti-gun lobby. After numerous crushing defeats at the federal level, they have refocused their efforts at enacting gun control at the state lobby. Their current rallying cry is that NJ gun violence is high because other states are lacking NJ's level of absolute, totalitarian gun control and base their laws on the assumption that responsible, law-abiding citizens deserve their natural rights and liberties. NJ would be A-OK; their twisted logic goes, if every other state enacted NJ levels of gun control. It would put an end to gang violence and the...

“Wilson and DeCroce Must Step Down in wake of 2005 debacle.” Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan said today that the massive ten-point Corzine landslide victory over Doug Forrester coupled with a minimum one seat Assembly loss was a message that the state Republican Party needs to rebuild with new, conservative leadership and said the first step were resignations from State GOP Chair Tom Wilson and Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce. “The Republican Party faced a humiliating defeat in last night’s elections because the party leadership went out of its way to tell conservatives to ‘shut up and sit in the back...

AO PAULO, Brazil, Oct 23 (Reuters) - From sprawling cities plagued by violence to the backwaters of the Amazon, Brazilians voted decisively on Sunday to keep gun sales legal in the country with the world's highest death toll from firearms. About 64 percent rejected banning arms sales in the nationwide referendum, the electoral court said, with more than 90 percent of the expected 122 million votes counted. Only 36 percent supported the ban, even though some 36,000 people were killed by guns last year in Latin America's largest country. Full results were expected on Monday. "We didn't lose because Brazilians...

Anarchist-run Wooden Shoe Books (508 S. 5th) has been a place where one could buy pro-Mumia Abu Jamal shirts and other anti-police merchandise. But when the store was held up on the afternoon of Oct. 7 by a man who claimed he had a gun, guess who was called to help? According to the Philadelphia Police Department's report, an assailant flashed a bulge in his belt to a female clerk and demanded the store's money. She gave him about $200 in cash, and $40 worth of SEPTA tokens. When we asked about the irony of an anti-police organization calling the...

The San Francisco Gun Ban Initiative (Proposition H) will appear on the next election ballot in November. Several supervisors have touted the ban as a step in curbing violence and increasing public safety. The San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA), representing men and women dedicated to a life of service to public safety, must evaluate any legislative effort affecting its membership. After careful review and analysis, the POA does not support the proposed ballot initiative that would nullify the personal choice of city residents to lawfully possess a handgun for selfdefense purposes.

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared universal access to wireless Internet to be a "fundamental right of all citizens" and stated that access to the Internet "is a civil rights issue as much as anything else."  This is the same San Francisco government pushing a complete ban of all handguns within city limits.  They are putting it to a referendum and proposition H will be on San Francisco city ballots next month.  If it passes, any possession of a handgun within city limits will be banned.  Everyone but government personnel and security guards will have to surrender their handguns within 90 days. ...

The details regarding who exactly ordered the gun confiscation in NOLA are still unclear with everyone in authority down there denying responsibility.  Chief of Police Eddie Compass has denied giving the order and so has Mayor Ray Nagin.  Compass has since resigned, ostensibly over the 249-odd NOLA officers who deserted their posts after the disaster.     Even if they didn't order it, I hope they are soon slapped with civil rights lawsuits for allowing the illegal confiscations to continue in their jurisdiction.  They were well aware of the reports of confiscations before the NRA/SAF lawsuit and neither of them took any action to stop it. While the NRA...

MARAH, Jammu and Kashmir -- Women in Jammu and Kashmir have now picked up guns against Islamic militants to protect their homes. At least 30 Muslim women in the disputed region to the north of India and Pakistan have constituted a separate all-women Village Defense Committee (VDC) and are operating with the Indian army in the forested mountains of Surankote in the Poonch district bordering the Pakistani side of Kashmir to fight militants. "Now militants do not dare enter our village," said 18-year-old Nishat Bee, the youngest member of the group. Her companion, however, corrects her by saying, "In fact...

Democratic Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California had tried to hide their frustration while questioning Judge John G. Roberts Jr. for the second time last week. But once the confirmation hearing ended, they betrayed their emotions in the confines of a Russell Senate Office Building elevator, oblivious to who was overhearing them. The two senators bitterly complained that Roberts simply was not answering their questions. Feinstein sounded like a sympathetic sidekick, but this was more serious for Schumer -- a crushing defeat in his campaign to establish a new standard for confirmation of Supreme Court...

For several elections, Democrats have been hurt by the widespread perception that the party consists of a confederation of interest groups to which Democratic leadership is slavishly beholden. You know the knock: Democrats are forever meeting with special interests like the Irish-Jewish Home for the Short or Transvestite Taxidermists Against the Metric System and then caving to the groups' non-negotiable demands.

A recent poll conducted by the National Association of Chiefs of Police indicated that almost 64 percent of police commanders and sheriffs favor a law allowing private citizens to carry concealed firearms for protection. Almost 73 percent said that citizens should not be restricted from purchasing more than one weapon, and 96 percent say they believe criminals obtain firearms from illegal sources. Unfortunately most states -- especially those called Blue States due to their Liberal-leanings -- continue to prohibit private citizens from carrying concealed handguns. At the same time, there are outspoken opponents of gun ownership, such as Senators Chuck...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When Scott Garrett, a New Jersey state representative, ran in Republican primaries against then-U.S. Rep. Marge Roukema in 2000, Garrett was backed by the Club for Growth, a highly aggressive political group run by supply-side enthusiasts in Washington, D.C. When Roukema retired in 2002, Garrett ran in a five-way Republican primary. The Club for Growth endorsed Garrett's candidacy, and helped the anti-abortion, gun-rights conservative win the GOP nomination in a heavily Republican district. Garrett cruised to victory in the general election. Now the Club for Growth faces a major lawsuit from the Federal Election Commission. The bipartisan...

Radical mosques are the spark lighting the fuse that can kill Americans. That has killed Americans. That will kill more if we let it. Such killing sprees, moreover, are plotted by young, male, Muslim militants who often enter to the United States on student and other visas from places known to sponsor or export terrorism. None of this is news. But it is cloaked in taboo. Thus, controversy was stoked last week when Mitt Romney, the Massachusetts governor and potential Republican 2008 presidential hopeful, did something that you should never do in this country. Not, at least, if you want...

Neither whores nor submissives Young Muslim women in the working class suburbs of France have two choices: slut or servant. Fadela Amara is trying to offer them a third option: respect. By Rebecca HillauerFadela Amara has a mission. One sees it in the intensity of her eyes and feels it in the passion of her speech. A good two years ago, the daughter of an Algerian immigrant family in Paris, she founded the organisation "Ni putes ni soumises". This is also the title of her book, which won the "Prix du Livre Politique" of the French national assembly last year....

A North Bellport resident surprised an armed burglar who tried to break into his home, when he grabbed a shotgun and fired at the man, hitting him in the shoulder, Suffolk police said. Cheyenne Ray, 44, was alerted by his girlfriend, Tanya Rivera, 31, that she heard a noise at the front door about 1:30 a.m., said Fifth Squad Det. Sgt. Kenneth Hamilton. Ray looked through the glass storm door and saw a hand holding a 9-mm pistol strike the glass. Ray went into the kitchen, got a shotgun, and fired one shot at the door, Hamilton said. The burglar...

Americans burn U.N. flag Radio listeners torch blue banner to protest United Nations Day Posted: October 26, 2004 A group of talk-radio listeners in Montana burned a United Nations flag to protest a ceremony at the state's Capitol honoring the global body. On Friday, KGEZ radio host John Stokes in Kalispell, Mont., got wind of a planned ceremony that afternoon at the state Capitol in Helena to honor the U.N. on United Nations Day (though Sunday was actually U.N. Day). Stokes tells WorldNetDaily the ceremony included members of the Montana National Guard carrying and presenting a U.N. flag that was...

There is a boycott being quickly organized to threaten the businesses that advertise on Sinclair Broadcasting group. Sinclair is going to run "Stolen Valor" before the election. This is the story of the shameful way Vietnam Veterans were treated upon returning from the war. A brief segment of the movie focuses on John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Please contact the businesses in your market and other markets and express your support for Sinclar broadcasting this documentary.

Here is the letter I sent to snopes.com Hello, I just wanted to tell you that you need to edit the entry http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/snuff.htm dealing with the existance of snuff films. It was last edited in 1999 and in case you missed it, since that date snuff films have become available in great quantity. Now through the technological miracle of the internet and our new global economy, we have easy access to middle eastern cinema. People being butchered on camera has become quite a common thing. The Here is good article on the subject. These snuff films are sold commercially in...