Hm?
That is a 'peaceable' organization within the borders of the USA? I think not !
Trooper says Alabama gunman had trained to be police officer (click title to entry for video - thank you)
(NECN: Samson, Ala.) - The man responsible for a deadly shooting spree in Alabama has been identified as 28-year-old Michael McLendon.
McLendon gunned down 10 people yesterday, including at least five of his family members, before turning the gun on himself.
Food manufacturer and distributor Kelley Foods said in a statement today that Michael McLendon voluntarily left the position he had held for nearly two years last Wednesday.
Public Information Officer, Trooper Kevin Cook says McLendon had no known criminal record.
Cook said in 2003, McLendon was briefly employed as a police officer in Samson, but failed to complete required training at the police academy in Montgomery.
Assault weapons aren't about sport, they are about killing. A huge difference. Of course the NRA would state, "It is a right." Well. What about the rights of those of us that don't abide by the bullet?
Guns need to be banned in State and Federal Parks. There is no reason for them, when other protections can be garnered including mace. The 'critters' aren't armed after all.
Assault weapons are not about FREEDOM or individual rights, they are about taking away the rights of others in peace with their country's laws.
INTERIOR RESPONDS TO SENATORS
Gun Rules May Be Eased in U.S. Parks (click here)
By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 28, 2008; Page A15
Visitors to some national parks would be able to start packing heat along with their tents and picnic baskets under a proposal being considered by the Interior Department that would ease restrictions on loaded firearms in the parks.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said last week that officials would review long-standing regulations that require firearms in most national parks to be unloaded and inoperable -- through the use of trigger locks, for example, or storage in a car trunk or a special case. The department intends to propose new rules by April 30.
The review pits the National Rifle Association and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers against park rangers and advocates who decry the move as election-year posturing that could make the parks more dangerous.
Kempthorne's action comes in response to two recent letters from 51 senators -- 44 Republicans and seven Democrats -- requesting that the National Park Service align its gun rules with state laws. If a state permits citizens to carry concealed weapons, the national parks in that state should, too, they argued....
Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin holds a confiscated AK-47 rifle during a news conference Thursday afternoon where the police department outlined the details of a large drug bust on Wednesday. Mike Maple The Commercial Appeal
This is from an article in 2008. Powerful guns, drugs and cash. Below the Southern Border and north of it.
Police raid yields heroin (click here)
Firearms, marijuana and cash also seized
By Hank Dudding, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Friday, July 11, 2008
Memphis police showcased a cache of drugs, weapons and money -- real and bogus -- on Thursday, the bounty from raids that officers hope will put a crimp in drug sales and related violence.
"This is going to make a big difference out there," said Police Director Larry Godwin, who displayed the seized materials at the MPD's organized crime facility Downtown....
The gun laws aren't the issue. Gun laws work when they are in place and adhered to, Germany has tough gun laws, but, in Poland it is easy to obtain guns and bring them across any German border. No different than the USA, the gun laws work when they are adhered to, it is when the laws are either applied or followed that guns victimize society. We saw the same use of guns at Virginia Tech. The gun laws hold up so long as they are followed and enforced. The NRA is "W"rong and they know they are wrong, but, it is money that drives their demands for 'Rights beyond the USA Constitution' and NOT love of country. The 2nd Amendment is in regard to militias (which the USA no longer has) and not individuals. In any country caught up in this fiscal whirlwind there is going to be stress among the populous, it should never be complicated by free access to guns, especially assault weapons. The EU should apply strict gun laws throughout Europe and not treat each country as though they have different priorities to arming their citizens.
In the USA, Bush/Cheney/NRA 'loaded' the streets of this country with hideous amounts of firearms while they sank the economy. They USED the sale of firearms as a way to buoy their economic failures and now some people are finding it easier to kill than 'live through it.'
After attacks, Europe hurries to tighten gun laws (click here)
By MATTI HUUHTANEN – 3 hours ago
HELSINKI (AP) — Several European countries have restricted gun laws in the wake of school massacres, gang violence and other gun-related crimes:
_Finland announced plans Wednesday to impose stricter restrictions on firearms, including raising the minimum age for handgun ownership from 15 to 20. The proposal was prompted by two school massacres within a year in which lone gunmen opened fire on classmates and teachers.
_Germany, where a gunman killed at least 11 people Wednesday, raised the legal age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21 following a 2002 shooting in Erfurt that killed 16 people, including 12 teachers.
_Belgian lawmakers passed strict new gun control laws in 2006 in reaction to the racially motivated shooting deaths of a toddler and her black baby sitter in Antwerp.
_Swiss citizens are demanding a referendum aimed at confining army weapons to military compounds and banning private purchases of pump-action rifles and automatic weapons — following a spate of suicides and homicides.
_The Portuguese Parliament is currently discussing a government proposal to tighten gun laws, including denying bail to anyone suspected of a gun crime.
_Denmark's government said last week it will raise the penalty for illegal gun possession as part of a crackdown on gang violence that has killed three people and injured 25 in recent months.
_European Union lawmakers proposed tighter gun control across the bloc last year, including guidelines saying that only people over 18 not deemed a threat to public safety could buy and keep guns. EU members have until 2010 to adopt the measures.
In addition, some U.S. states have recently tightened gun laws as well:
_ Colorado, a year after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, made it a felony to buy a firearm for another person who should know the transaction is illegal, barred anyone from giving a firearm to a juvenile without the consent of the parents; made it illegal for a person not to try to prevent a juvenile from committing a gun crime; and increased the penalty for possession of a weapon by a felon.
But three years later, the state expanded gun rights instead, by requiring sheriffs to issue gun permits to people who pass a criminal background check, prohibiting local governments from making gun laws more restrictive than the state's, and abolishing local registries of gun owners.
_ In Virginia, where a student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 before committing suicide April 16, 2007, the governor signed an executive order requiring that anyone ordered by a court to get mental health treatment be added to a database of people barred from buying guns.
Government urged to endorse Arms Trade Treaty (click here)
ISLAMABAD (March 07 2009): A day long, National Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Consultation on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) organised by Community Appraisal & Motivation Programme (Camp) here on Friday urged the government to endorse Arms Trade Treaty.
The objectives of the event were to build civil society interest in national and international arms export control issues, strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations at provincial and national levels to constructively engage the government of Pakistan on the need for an ATT, deepen the involvement of civil society organisations in Arms Control campaign, develop recommendations through consultation and submit a comprehensive report to the Government.
The workshop was attended by people representing civil society organisations and all walks of life from all over the country. Participants were briefed and sensitised on the issue by a panel of experts. They comprised of Salma Malik a small arms expert, Dr Ijaz Khan Khattak, Asst. Professor of International Relation Department, University of Peshawar, Dr Ayesha Siddiqua, writer and security analyst, Raza Shah Khan Executive Director of Spado, Dr Naeem Ahmed, Asst. Professor of International Relations Department at Karachi University and Naveed Ahmad Shinwari, the Chief Executive of Camp.
Addressing the session, Ayesha Siddiqua said that the ease at which it was possible to obtain small arms has rapidly increased trends of violence in Pakistan. Casualties from small arms are more than that of nuclear weapons. She stressed the need for an urgent and comprehensive civil society campaign against this menace....
Lock them up, don't let them out. If Sharia Law doesn't dictate the end of the gun trade in Pakistan then drop bombs at will.
