Daily update August 25
Alabama: Gun trumps knife and baseball bat
Dateline Alabama
"A man armed with a fork found out the hard way it's not a good instrument for a robbery.
The man approached a clerk at a convenience store after spending 40 minutes in their bathroom."He stuck his hand under his shirt and said, `This is a robbery. I got a gun,'" Shreveport police Detective Russell Ross said.The clerk told the man she knew it wasn't a gun, sparking a brief argument before the man went around the counter, Ross said.
"They scuffled. And during the scuffle, she felt something sharp poke her," he said. "She reached over and grabbed a baseball bat she had behind the counter and started waling on him when she realized what he had under his shirt was a fork ... which was no match for a baseball bat." The clerk chased him out of the store and continued to hit him with the bat. "A customer saw what was going on, took a pistol from his vehicle, came over and fired his pistol into the ground," Ross said. Then, both the fork and the bat were dropped, Ross said." (08/25/05)
http://tinyurl.com/acswo
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Louisiana: St. Mary man killed after break-in
Daily Advertiser
"Deputies are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Jeanerette man, who was shot when he attempted to break into his ex-wife's home late Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday. St. Mary Parish Sheriff David Naquin said Anthony Sparrow died from multiple gunshot wounds he sustained during the confrontation. Naquin said the incident occurred shortly before midnight in the 1100 block of La. 318 in Jeanerette. Sparrow, who was armed with a gun, allegedly broke into the home and was confronted by another man, who also was armed. "It was apparent that there was an exchange of gunfire. The guy in the house wasn't hurt," Naquin said, and neither was the ex-wife." (08/25/05)
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/NEWS01/508250333/1002
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Oklahoma:Shooting said to be self defense
Channel 5 News
" Osage County authorities said a shooting northwest of Sand Springs that left one man dead appears to be self-defense and no charges are expected. Investigators said Larry Cunningham was shot and killed after pulling a gun and firing a shot during an argument with men who had gone to the home of Cunningham's girlfriend to pick up a motor home." (08/25/05)
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/4895699/detail.html
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Oregon: Man charged in road rage case
News Register
"A 23-year-old McMinnville man faces a trio of criminal charges after allegedly pulling a 9 mm handgun on a truck driver during a Tuesday traffic dispute. According to Newberg-Dundee police, Kevin Forsman was northbound in a white 1999 Honda Accord. They said he set off the chain of events when he used a left-turn lane to pass a log truck as he approached a red light coming into Dundee. At the light, the truck driver got out and approached Forsman to confront him about the traffic maneuver. Police said Forsman responded by pointing a Polish-made Makarov P-64 semi-automatic at the man, who returned to his rig and called authorities. Police tracked Forsman down at First and Edwards streets in Newberg. They seized his highly concealable pistol and his concealed-carry permit, then cited him on charges of menacing, reckless endangering and pointing a firearm at another." (08/25/05)
http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=197518
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Texas: Mom aquitted of shooting boyfriend
Houston Chronicle
"A woman who shot her boyfriend and then allowed her 9-year-old son to initially take responsibility was acquitted of murder today in a Harris County courtroom. Jurors apparently accepted Erika Lynn Ruiz's contention that she was protecting herself and her son from abuse when she shot Jose Flores Martinez once in the head in her southwest Houston apartment last year. .... Ruiz, a former Sharpstown High School security guard, told jurors that Martinez was physically abusing her when she grabbed a pistol from the bedroom and shot him as he continued approaching her. She said she thought he might assault her son, who witnessed the shooting.After police arrived, however, the boy told them he had fired the gun at the man he knew as "Pepe." After spending the night in police custody, however, the boy recanted and told police his mother had shot Martinez.Ruiz's son, now 10 and living in Kansas, testified this week that he saw Martinez assault his mother and slam her to the floor before she ran into the bedroom and grabbed her gun. She then backed into a corner, but Martinez continued advancing toward her, the boy said." (08/25/05)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3325090
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Stop endangering employees
American Enterprise Institute
John R. Lott Jr., April L. Dabney
"Gun-free zones may appear like the solution to violence, but consider an analogy: Suppose a criminal is stalking you or your family. Would you feel safer putting a sign in front of your home saying, 'This Home Is a Gun-Free Zone'? The answer seems pretty clear. Since law-abiding citizens will obey the signs, such 'safe zones' simply mean that criminals have a lot less to worry about. Indeed, international data as well as data from across the United States indicate that criminals are much less likely to attack residents in their homes when they suspect that the residents own guns." (08/23/05)
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23059/pub_detail.asp
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South Africa: New gun law chaos
News 24
" No new firearm licences have been issued in the Western Cape since the new Firearms Control Act came into effect. And experts believe that at the rate that renewals are now being handled, it will take literally thousands of years to complete the process.
The latest statistics on this act paint a gloomy picture for firearm owners in the Western Cape. The police's Phuti Setati said that up to 15 August only 16 firearm licences had been renewed in the Western Cape and that no new licences had been issued in the province. " (08/23/05)
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1758060,00.html
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Dateline Alabama
"A man armed with a fork found out the hard way it's not a good instrument for a robbery.
The man approached a clerk at a convenience store after spending 40 minutes in their bathroom."He stuck his hand under his shirt and said, `This is a robbery. I got a gun,'" Shreveport police Detective Russell Ross said.The clerk told the man she knew it wasn't a gun, sparking a brief argument before the man went around the counter, Ross said.
"They scuffled. And during the scuffle, she felt something sharp poke her," he said. "She reached over and grabbed a baseball bat she had behind the counter and started waling on him when she realized what he had under his shirt was a fork ... which was no match for a baseball bat." The clerk chased him out of the store and continued to hit him with the bat. "A customer saw what was going on, took a pistol from his vehicle, came over and fired his pistol into the ground," Ross said. Then, both the fork and the bat were dropped, Ross said." (08/25/05)
http://tinyurl.com/acswo
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Louisiana: St. Mary man killed after break-in
Daily Advertiser
"Deputies are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Jeanerette man, who was shot when he attempted to break into his ex-wife's home late Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday. St. Mary Parish Sheriff David Naquin said Anthony Sparrow died from multiple gunshot wounds he sustained during the confrontation. Naquin said the incident occurred shortly before midnight in the 1100 block of La. 318 in Jeanerette. Sparrow, who was armed with a gun, allegedly broke into the home and was confronted by another man, who also was armed. "It was apparent that there was an exchange of gunfire. The guy in the house wasn't hurt," Naquin said, and neither was the ex-wife." (08/25/05)
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/NEWS01/508250333/1002
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Oklahoma:Shooting said to be self defense
Channel 5 News
" Osage County authorities said a shooting northwest of Sand Springs that left one man dead appears to be self-defense and no charges are expected. Investigators said Larry Cunningham was shot and killed after pulling a gun and firing a shot during an argument with men who had gone to the home of Cunningham's girlfriend to pick up a motor home." (08/25/05)
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/4895699/detail.html
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Oregon: Man charged in road rage case
News Register
"A 23-year-old McMinnville man faces a trio of criminal charges after allegedly pulling a 9 mm handgun on a truck driver during a Tuesday traffic dispute. According to Newberg-Dundee police, Kevin Forsman was northbound in a white 1999 Honda Accord. They said he set off the chain of events when he used a left-turn lane to pass a log truck as he approached a red light coming into Dundee. At the light, the truck driver got out and approached Forsman to confront him about the traffic maneuver. Police said Forsman responded by pointing a Polish-made Makarov P-64 semi-automatic at the man, who returned to his rig and called authorities. Police tracked Forsman down at First and Edwards streets in Newberg. They seized his highly concealable pistol and his concealed-carry permit, then cited him on charges of menacing, reckless endangering and pointing a firearm at another." (08/25/05)
http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=197518
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Texas: Mom aquitted of shooting boyfriend
Houston Chronicle
"A woman who shot her boyfriend and then allowed her 9-year-old son to initially take responsibility was acquitted of murder today in a Harris County courtroom. Jurors apparently accepted Erika Lynn Ruiz's contention that she was protecting herself and her son from abuse when she shot Jose Flores Martinez once in the head in her southwest Houston apartment last year. .... Ruiz, a former Sharpstown High School security guard, told jurors that Martinez was physically abusing her when she grabbed a pistol from the bedroom and shot him as he continued approaching her. She said she thought he might assault her son, who witnessed the shooting.After police arrived, however, the boy told them he had fired the gun at the man he knew as "Pepe." After spending the night in police custody, however, the boy recanted and told police his mother had shot Martinez.Ruiz's son, now 10 and living in Kansas, testified this week that he saw Martinez assault his mother and slam her to the floor before she ran into the bedroom and grabbed her gun. She then backed into a corner, but Martinez continued advancing toward her, the boy said." (08/25/05)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3325090
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Stop endangering employees
American Enterprise Institute
John R. Lott Jr., April L. Dabney
"Gun-free zones may appear like the solution to violence, but consider an analogy: Suppose a criminal is stalking you or your family. Would you feel safer putting a sign in front of your home saying, 'This Home Is a Gun-Free Zone'? The answer seems pretty clear. Since law-abiding citizens will obey the signs, such 'safe zones' simply mean that criminals have a lot less to worry about. Indeed, international data as well as data from across the United States indicate that criminals are much less likely to attack residents in their homes when they suspect that the residents own guns." (08/23/05)
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23059/pub_detail.asp
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South Africa: New gun law chaos
News 24
" No new firearm licences have been issued in the Western Cape since the new Firearms Control Act came into effect. And experts believe that at the rate that renewals are now being handled, it will take literally thousands of years to complete the process.
The latest statistics on this act paint a gloomy picture for firearm owners in the Western Cape. The police's Phuti Setati said that up to 15 August only 16 firearm licences had been renewed in the Western Cape and that no new licences had been issued in the province. " (08/23/05)
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1758060,00.html
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