2AM News: The week in review Jan.23-29

Source: Second Amendment News Digest

Self defense stories from Tennessee, Alaska, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Alabama, California, Ohio, New York, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin and Malaysia .... in South Africa, a New gun lobby forms to fight weapons restrictions and in the UK educators say it'd be 'impossible'for the teacher'jailed for firing an air pistol during a stand-off with 'yobs' to get her job back [oh no, we can't have someone teaching that dared to stand up in her own defense, now can we ...] Also from the UK, victim disarmers are furious at an MP who wants to 'encourage inner city children to 'take up shooting in the countryside' [oh no, we can't let the peasants learn to SHOOT ...]

Commentaries this week from Howard Nemerov ['Taken for a ride in New York'], nancy Levall ['Police state in America -- a very bad plan '] Sean Haugh ['Why I am a pro-gun pacifist'] and more!

Til next week

Mary Lou


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2AM News: The week in review Jan.17-22

Self defense stories from Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma,Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania ... as police in the UK confiscate the shotgun of a 70 year old farmer who remarked he 'might "do a Martin" on robbers at his farm, and 'Red tape has gun owners up in arms' in South Africa, as the 'extended' deadline for gun 'licence renewal' approaches. Excellent commentaries this week from Alan Korwin on "Decommissioned" guns nearly as good as confiscations', Alan Gottlieb on the 'disastrous failure' of gun control in Canada, and Ross Bielema on ' Concealed carry will keep us safer'.

Til next week

Mary Lou


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2AM News: The week in review Jan.9-16

Self defense stories this week from Oklahoma, Ohio, Louisiana, North Carolina, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Georgua, Texas, Florida and South Africa; pols in Nebraska, Mississippi and Alaska consider expanded RKBA recognition, while in Massachusetts the states first 'gun court' gets underway and an idiot pol proposes a bill to embed tracking devices in guns, in Tennessee a gun manufacturer is named in a frivolous lawsuit, and in Bosnia citizens hold on to their guns 'despite efforts by foreign and local authorities to seize them'. In commentary this week, don't miss Vin Suprynowicz on 'The courts, parents, kids and guns' [followup to 'Have a kid, lose your guns?], John R. Lott Jr. on 'Gun control lessons for Bloomberg ', Doug casey on 'The plight of Cory Maye ', Howard Nemerov on 'Gun control: The promotion of denial' and Jennifer Freeman on 'Guns to defend against rape'.

Til next week

Mary Lou


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2AM News: The week in review Jan.2-8

Elderly gun owners (and pretend gun owners) and the disabled trump attackers this week ... as a 93 year old in Pennsylvania scares off a mugger and an 80 year old in California shoots and kills an intruder and a wheelchair young man in Alabama shoots an intruder. Other self defense stories from California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Indiana, and Maryland. In New York, the idiot Mayor vows to disarm everyone nationwide, while in Canada
Martin escalates victim disarmament threats. Commentaries this week include the clueless 'Honest people have nothing to fear' (it's been suggested that perhaps this is tongue in cheek?) as well as excellent commentaries on the DC and NY gun ban as well as the proposed Canadian ban.

Til next week

Mary Lou


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2AM News: The week in review Dec.26-Jan.1

What a great final week for 2005 ... self defense stories from Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Colorado, Idaho, Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama, New Hampshire, Texas, Washington, Oklahoma, and Oregon .... thousands in the UK turn out to protest the hunting ban, and the NRA lawsuit in California delays implementation of the handgun ban! Good commentaries from Scott Sexton (Winston-Salem Journal) and Glenn McAdoo (Lahontan Valley News) and a first hand account from South Africa on how a 'Firearm saved us from hijackers'.

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Til next week

Mary Lou


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