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Mass knife killings in public in China 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
South China Morning Post, August 26, 2013: A brutal stabbing incident occurred in Chengdu over the weekend, leaving 11 people injured and four dead. The incident occurred on Sunday evening along Ch....
Milwaukee Co. Sheriff David Clarke educates Milwaukee Police Chief on Guns and Crime 27 Aug 2013 | 09:14 am
Here is part of a press release put out by Sheriff Clarke: . . . “Ed Flynn can stop with his arrogant way of lecturing me on what I need to do. I take my orders from the collective public, not from h...
Lansing, Michigan: defensive gun use with permitted concealed handgun 27 Aug 2013 | 08:27 am
Michigan Live details typical cases where people use permitted concealed handguns defensively to stop crime. From John Barnes: Last month, more than 400,000 adults could lawfully carry hidden handgu...
How corrupt is Obamacare?: Look at how much money is being spent on lobbyists 26 Aug 2013 | 10:13 am
Do you want to get a new rule from the Obama administration? Hire some lobbyists. From The Hill newspaper: . . . Major lobbying firms such as Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Als...
Another Bloomberg anti-gun rally, another one with no one but the ones on the Bloomberg paid bus showing up 26 Aug 2013 | 10:08 am
The amazing thing to me is how much space is spent by the newspaper on so few people showing up for a Mayors Against Illegal Guns rally. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Speaking to a sparse crowd ...
Did surge in number of concealed handgun permit holders more than make up for the reduction in the number of police officers in Michigan? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
From a Michigan Live investigation by John Barnes: . . . • Ann Arbor lost 31 percent of its officers, to 111. Population stayed nearly stable. Still, violent crimes dropped 11 percent; property crime...
Is forcing people to work for others when they don't want to a form of slavery? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:03 am
This last week the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Christian photographers can't decline certain customers based on their religious beliefs. Personally, I don't know how this gets around the "fre...
"NSA employees spied on their lovers using eavesdropping programme" 26 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
The fact that NSA employees spied on lovers enough times to give it a name tells us a lot. If employees could spy on others for personal reasons, why would believe that they couldn't do so for undesi...
Missouri concealed handgun permits length goes from 3 to 5 years 25 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Missouri increases the length of permits from 3 to 5 years at the same time Missouri Sheriffs are taking over the issuing of permits. Ready or not, more than 100 sheriffs across the state will be ta....
This is an academic institution?: Los Angeles City College censoring word "gun" from catalog 25 Aug 2013 | 02:24 pm
So much for the open discussion of ideas. Los Angeles City College apparently is planning banning the word "gun" from course catalogs. The word “gun” conjures up a mental image of a gun. Guns kill p...
