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John Frazer is dubbed the NRA lobbyist, while Michael Beard is the spokesman for the Coalition To Stop Handgun Violence. This article is about an event organized by Close-Up, a Washington Area group promoting greater youth involvement in politics. Kids from several states. I have a good feeling that we came out smelling like a rose on this, reading between the lines, despite AP's poisonous slant and headline. Link to copyright article CNNfyi.com

The Self Defense Files: Maybe they're watching too much TV published: 03.09.01 On October 16, 2000, a clerk at a St. Louis liquor store shot and killed an armed robber. According to the Post-Dispatch, this was "the fifth alleged robber fatally shot in unrelated episodes in St. Louis within the past three weeks." Incredibly, a homicide investigator expressed his concern over the rash of self-defense shootings. "I don't understand it," he said. "Maybe they're [the victims] watching too much TV." Let's examine what happened. At 11:15 p.m., Cortez A. Westley, a seventeen-year-old crack dealer, entered Ja-Mar's Liquor Store. Wearing ...

Sure, Blame the Gun On the media’s love affair with the Santee school shooting. Mr. Kopel is the research director of the Independence Institute, & Ari Armstrong is the publisher of the Colorado Freedom Report. March 9, 2001 9:05 a.m. ure, blame the gun. Never mind that many students in government schools are Printer-Friendly Kopel Archive routinely tormented and attacked in ways that would constitute a felony (if a school principal, rather than a ninth-grader, were the victim). Often, schools are so big and impersonal that administrators frequently don't even know there's a problem. Or schools may be so ...