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 America’s gun control proponents might want to consider shooting (pun intended) this memo to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
“Dear Mayor Daley: Please shut up. You ain’t helping us.”
Is there anyone doing more damage against advocates of gun control than Daley? The man is a walking billboard for right-to-carry laws. Anyone needing proof of that might want to read the statements he made in the wake of an 80-year-old Chicago man fatally shooting a career criminal who invaded his home.
The background story goes like this. The elderly man is a Korean War veteran who bought a handgun after three thugs robbed him at gunpoint in his home in late 2009. Chicago police would not reveal this elderly hero’s name, but my late older sister had a nickname she would give any old-timer she ran across, Pop Bucket.
For the purposes of this story, we’ll simply call the Chicago man, who defended his life, family and home in defiance of Daley’s tyranny, Pistol Pop Bucket. In late May, Anthony Nelson broke into Pistol Pop’s home. According to news reports, Nelson had a criminal history that included prison stints for drug and weapons convictions.
Nelson and Daley, before the incident, probably had little in common other than protoplasm and the firm conviction that Pistol Pop wouldn’t have a handgun in his home, because the city of Chicago bans them. Nelson got his rude and final awakening after he fired at Pistol Pop and missed. Pistol Pop returned fire, fatally wounding Nelson.
Daley has yet to get his awakening.-[source]
 President Obama poses a real and present danger to the Second Amendment, and he’s working to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will undermine Americans’ gun rights.
Mr. Obama didn’t fess up to this radical agenda when running for the highest office in the land. “I have said consistently that I believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and that was the essential decision that the Supreme Court came down on,” Mr. Obama told Fox News in June 2008. Despite the campaign rhetoric, Mr. Obama is appointing judges who strongly oppose that position. The most recent pick, Elena Kagan, ran much of President Clinton’s war on guns from 1995 to 1999.
When Ms. Kagan served as Mr. Clinton’s deputy domestic policy adviser, she was a feverish proponent of gun control. From gunlock mandates to gun-show regulations, she was instrumental in pushing anti-gun policies, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Every court nomination counts. Two years ago, the Supreme Court barely mustered a narrow 5-4 majority to strike down the extreme District of Columbia gun ban. Should Justice Anthony Kennedy or one of the four more conservative justices retire or die while Mr. Obama is in office, the high court likely will undo such narrow victories for the Second Amendment. While Ms. Kagan was nominated to replace the liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, and thus won’t swing the court in a new direction, her being there will necessitate that gun owners concentrate more than ever on fighting outright gun bans.-[source]
 It conjures up a rather frightening vision of a future where intelligent robots work in packs without the need for human intervention.
But scientists are developing robots which can ‘dock’ with each other and fly together in a swarm.
Using infrared beams the drones are able to find each others’ location and connect with one another using magnets, completely autonomously.
n the flight is over, the robots are able to simply detach their magnetic docking system and separate and drop to the ground where they can drive away.
Even if the robots were attacked they are able to detach from each other and then find one another and reform on the ground.
If the array’s level flight is disturbed, each vehicle individually determines the amount of thrust required to correct for the disturbance based on its own position.
While it is only a research project at the moment the ‘Distributed Flight Array’ can, in theory, be scaled up to contain any number of individual robots.
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 In a strong reaffirmation of the fundamental right of self-defense, medical the Tennessee House and Senate have successfully overridden Governor Phil Bredesen’s veto of Senate Bill 3012. This NRA-supported bill will enable law-abiding right-to-carry permit holders to carry firearms for self-defense in establishments where alcohol is served, as long as they do not consume alcohol or are not otherwise prohibited by posting provisions. SB 3012 passed both the House and Senate with broad bipartisan support, but Gov. Bredesen vetoed the bill on May 18, disappointing more than 250,000 right-to-carry permit holders in his state. While an override of the veto only needed a simple majority vote to pass, it cleared both chambers with overwhelming, bipartisan support. This measure was overridden in the Senate by a margin of 22-10 and in the House by a margin of 61-30.-[source]
 Yet another high-profile shooting this morning of a criminal by an armed Chicago homeowner further reinforces the Second Amendment Foundation’s justification for its lawsuit to overturn the city’s handgun ban.
SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb said the early-morning shooting in the city’s South Austin neighborhood involved a fleeing felon who had run from police with a large volume of narcotics, cheapest and crashed through the window of the gun owner’s home. The unidentified armed citizen reportedly has a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, cheap according to the Chicago Tribune.
“This is the second time in a week that an armed private citizen has fired in self-defense against a criminal who was storming into his residence, viagra ” Gottlieb noted. “Today’s incident only amplifies our justification for our lawsuit to strike down Chicago’s insidious handgun ban.”
The wounded suspect was identified as Aaron Marshall, whose criminal history includes felony convictions on drug and weapons charges.
“Our lawsuit against the city was brought because people like Marshall roam the streets and neighborhoods of Chicago, and citizens are essentially defenseless unless they violate the handgun ban,” Gottlieb stated. “Police cannot be everywhere all of the time, and the policies of Mayor Richard Daley and his administration have done less than nothing to make citizens safe from these thugs. Chicago residents should have the same right of self-defense as any other American citizen, but they need the right tools for the job.
“The homeowner in this morning’s incident, just like the 80-year-old Korean War veteran who fatally shot another thug last week, did the city a favor,” he said, “and he apparently will not be charged, thanks to a state law that protects such people, even where handguns are banned.-[source]
 To avoid getting delayed behind noisy schoolkids waiting in line to pass through new metal detectors at the state Capitol, lobbyists are signing up for concealed handgun permits exempting them from the security checkpoints.
Visitors to the Capitol also now are subject to inspections of purses, bags and briefcases by Department of Public Safety officers.
The only people exempted are lawmakers, properly identified state employees or Texans who carry a pistol with a concealed handgun license — or just the license itself, which allows them to bypass the security lines for an express lane reserved for “CHL: Holders.”
“Every lobbyist in Texas is going to become a card-carrying member or a gun-carrying member,” lobbyist and former state lawmaker Pat Haggerty said. “We’re going to have more damn guns in here than we know what to do with.-[source]
California would keep a permanent record of anyone buying a shotgun or rifle under legislation passed Thursday by the Assembly.
The measure would expand state law by adding long-gun buyers to a state Justice Department database that currently can identify only handgun purchasers.
Opponents contend the bill is the latest in a long line of bureaucratic hurdles designed to discourage gun ownership.
“It’s none of government’s flippin’ business what guns I own, or why I own them,” said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California.-[source]
As I labour away at my keyboard I can hear excited Englishmen on Sky News babbling on in the background about a much-needed revamp of British gun laws. Good! If the law is changed so as to make guns more accessible to the ordinary Englishman the authorities could in future warn him about the eruptions of people like that loony Derrick Bird, generic so he could arm himself in preparation of his arrival. The way things were this week, order though, sales all they could do was tell everybody to lock themselves indoors until the coast was clear. That’s fine if you’re lucky enough to hear the warnings, but not so good if you unexpectedly find yourself face to face with a shotgun-wielding nutter who finds himself with fewer targets to choose from than he expected. I suspect, though, that the much-debated changes will be aimed at removing the very few options that Englishmen still have in terms of personal choice.
After the 1987 Hungerford massacre and the Dunblane killings nine years later, the British government reacted in typically nanny-state fashion by introducing increasingly stricter restrictions on private ownership of handguns and rifles.-[source]
Second Amendment: Chicago is deciding whether to prosecute a great-grandfather and Korean War veteran under its handgun ban. He refused to be a victim, and now there’s one less armed thug roaming the streets. What’s the problem?
If the 80-year-old vet living on the city’s West Side didn’t have the gun the city said he shouldn’t have, he and his 83-year-old wife and 12-year-old great-grandson might have joined those victims of gun violence about whom gun-control advocates constantly chirp.
The vet obtained the gun in violation of the city’s handgun ban after a prior incident in which the couple was robbed at gunpoint by three armed intruders. So when Anthony Nelson — a parolee with a record of drug and gun arrests — tried breaking into their East Garfield Park home, they were ready.
Nelson fired twice at the as-yet-unnamed homeowner, who walks with a cane but retained enough of his military marksmanship to drop the intruder with a single gunshot to the chest. Yet in some quarters, instead of being hailed as a hero, it’s the homeowner who’s being considered a threat and the armed predator a victim of gun violence.-[source]
Britain. They have some of the toughest gun laws in the world, and anti-gun proponents would claim that could only lead to positive results, right?
Wrong. According to the UK’s Daily Telegraph who filed for a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to obtain the figures, the results for those advocating looser gun restriction laws could not be better.
The report shows in Britain at least one in three police forces have seen an increase in either gun or knife offenses in the last year.
“Force by force statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information have raised fears that Government initiatives to tackle gun and knife crime in the worst hit areas—mainly urban forces—has left the problem grow in rural areas.”
Twenty-two forces responded to the FOIA, out of that 12 saw a rise in either gun or knife crime in the 12 months up to September 2009. Eight of the forces saw an 18 percent increase in offenses involving a knife or sharp object. In North Yorkshire alone, offenses increased from 520 to 740.
While homicide rates have fallen in Britain with the tough gun ban, police have said the main reason could be due to “skilled paramedics and improved medicine than any suggestion Britain is becoming less violent.”
Now, an anti-gun propopenent would read that last line and say, “See! Homicide rates have fallen, you’re completely misleading people and lying about gun bans! You’re probably a paid operative of the NRA!”
Not so fast, do-gooder. Let’s take a look at the United States, shall we?
In the US, gun ownership skyrocketed in recent years. As gun ownership soars, homicide rates are falling drastically- even MSNBC (painfully) acknowledged this (but not until the third and final page of their report).-[source]
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