Headline Archives for August 19, 2005

Gun Guys News

• Attorney General Race In Virginia Gets Ugly as Candidates Fight Over Who Loves the NRA More.  Dignity and Sanity Sit in the Corner Together, Unloved.  (8.19)
• IA: Judge Says University of Northern Iowa Campus Security Can't Carry a Gun.  Because Judge Actually Cares About the Safety of Students. (8.19)
• Why Hasn't OSHA Gotten Involved In the ConocoPhillips Case?  If They're For Workplace Safety, They Should Speak Up For Workers.  Unless the NRA Has Bullied Them Out of the Picture.  (8.19)
• ME: Not His Day: City Councilman Running for Reelection Arrested for Firing a Pistol at a Motorcycle.  Turns Out-- Whoops-- He's a Felon. (8.19)
• This Just In From the Department of Irony: Village People Cop In Court on Six Felonies.  Should Have Joined the Navy and Lived a Life of Ease.  (8.19)
• The NRA Likes To Say That If You Don't Break the Law, Guns Are Completely Safe.  But It's Also True That If You Don't Break the Law, Gun Fingerprinting Won't Affect You At All.  (8.19)
• TX: Project Safe Neighborhoods Nabs a Felon Carrying a Firearm, Puts Him Away For 15 Years.  That's What I'm Talking 'Bout. (8.19)
• Who's Pushing Guns Into Domestic Violence Victims' Hands in North Carolina?  A Gun Lobby Group Named Grass Roots North Carolina.  (8.19)
• NV: This Is Exactly the Kind of Situation The NC Domestic Violence Bill Will Bring About.  When You Bring a Gun Into an Unhealthy Relationship, You Ask For, And Will Get, Violence (8.19)
• Grass Roots NC Says "We're Not Interested In Them Shooting Their Abusers."  Maybe They're Interested In One of the Many Other Uses For Guns.  Oh Wait, There Aren't Any.  (8.19)

America's Shooting Gallery

• OH: Man Attempts to Rob Woman at Gunpoint, She Refuses and Chases Him Away.  Rock On.  In Other News, "Police Want You To Watch Out For Anything Suspicious."  Will Do.  (8.19)
• GA: Gun Battle, Car Chase in Atlanta Leaves One Man Shot, One Arrested. (8.19)
• WI: Apparently University Officers Can Carry Guns In WI, Because One of Them Shot An Unarmed Man. (8.19)
• GA: Feds Bust Gun Manufacturing Crew That Poured Illegal Submachine Guns Into America Since 1999.  (8.19)
• GA: Another Gun Battle Leaves One Dead, and Four Hurt.  (8.19)
• PA: Father Tells Jury Story of How Son Was Killed In Crossfire of Bullets From Both Sides of Argument.  (8.19)
• NC: Woman and Daughter, 9, Robbed At Gunpoint, And Then Things Get Worse.  Not Only is This Article Terribly Written, But She Gets a Gun to Protect Herself.  Bad News For the Safety of Her Daughter. (8.19)
• MI: Case in Point: Boy, 5, Shoots Himself In the Hand After Finding Gun (8.19)
• PA: Man Convicted Two Years Ago for Gun Assault, Had 40 Bags of Heroin On Him.  Somehow, He's Now Out of Jail and Shooting Women and Wheelchair Bound Men.  (8.19)
• NJ: It's Illegal For Felons To Carry Guns, Right?  Then Why Does This Guy Have Two Loaded Handguns Sitting In His Car? (8.19)