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Kentucky man shoots home invaders Date created: 3/8/2007 8:35:25 AM Last updated: 3/8/2007 9:02:02 AM One of two men who invaded a residence in Boyd County last night has died of wounds inflicted by a man who lived at the house. The dead man is identified as 50-year-old Robert Chapman of Greenup. The Boyd County sheriff's department reports 23-year-old Jason Daniels was tied up by two men who had impersonated police officers and pounded on the door. When Daniels didn't open the door, the two smashed the door open. Sheriff Terry Keelin says they tied up Daniels in the bathroom and began ransacking the house, but Daniels was able to free himself and obtain his nine millimeter pistol. The sheriff's report says Daniels was in a "shooting stance" and opened fire when the men headed back toward the bathroom. Chapman was shot the chest, shoulder and wrist. Keelin says the two then fled, with the wounded Chapman crashing through a bedroom window of the single-story frame house. The other intruder, identified by Keelin as 22-year-old Adam Justice of Summitt, drove Champman three miles to to Kings Daughters Medical Center in Ashland and left him outside the emergency room. Justice was charged with burglary and impersonating a police officer. A grand jury will be asked to decide if Daniels will be charged, but Keelin says none have been filed so far. http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=43094&provider=gnews

Tennessee Police Officer Caught on Tape Assaulting Woman During Traffic Stop Tuesday, February 13, 2007 E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION A Tennessee police officer was caught brazenly assaulting a woman he pulled over for a traffic violation when his vehicle's dashboard camera taped the entire incident. After Stephanie Taylor refused to sign a traffic citation being issued to her, the dash cam video shows the police officer reaching into her car and physically pulling her out into the street, Tennessee's WBIR reported. For More on the Story and a Link to the Video, Click Herehttp://www.wbir.com/video/player.aspx?aid=39661&bw= The police officer, Shawn Temple, was fired after supervisors saw the tape. The other officer on the scene, who did not take part in the assault, was put on leave. On the tape, Temple asks Taylor to sign her citation, but she requests to see his radar. He continues to demand that she sign the ticket, but she refuses. Officer: "Ma'am are you going to sign this?" Victim: "No! Are you going to arrest me?" Victim: "Stop, stop. Oww!" Officer: "Down!" Victim: "Oww!" Officer: "Down!" Victim: "You are hurting me. I have a metal rod in my leg!" Officer: "Quit moving around." A medic was called to the scene of Taylor's traffic stop before officers allowed her to go home. She has hired an attorney and is currently considering a lawsuit. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251781,00.html www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=42200 Dash cam captures West Tennessee police officer assaulting woman Date created: 2/13/2007 8:15:45 AM Last updated: 2/13/2007 8:23:17 AM A Tennessee police officer has been fired, after a dash cam video showed him reach inside a woman's car and pulled her onto the street. It all started when the woman wouldn't sign a traffic ticket. There's Stephanie Taylor on the ground in pain. She was pulled over January 3rd for speeding by former Lavergne Police Officer Shawn Temple. The traffic stop began badly and only got worse. Officer 1: "I need your signature on the bottom. It's not an admission of guilt." Victim: "okay.. Where's your radar?" Officer 1: "Maam, I need your signature here." Victim: "no where's your radar?" Officer 1: "if you refuse to sign it I'm placing you under arrest." "I don't know that there's anything different she could have done." It's hard for Anita and Gene Teamer to watch this tape. Victim: "no. Ya'll obviously don't understand." Officer 1: "apparently you don't understand english like coming out of my mouth. You need to sign this or you're going to jail." Victim: (unintelligible.) Officer 1: "Maam are you going to sign this?" Victim: "no! Are you going to arrest me?" Victim: "stop, stop. Owww.: Officer 1: "down!" Victim: "owwww!" Officer 1: "down!" Victim: "you are hurting me. I have a metal rod in my leg!" Officer 1: "quit moving around." "It hurts no one wants to see their children treated like that. Hearing her cry out in anguish and pain and I not be there." "There were two officers there and personally I feel like other officers should have intervened, call one's supervisor." When a supervisor got a look at this tape they fired one officer and put another on leave. "The officers are to protect the citizens it didn't seem to happen that particular time." Stephanie Taylor's parents don't think race was a factor in the way their daughter was treated. She's hired an attorney and considering a potential lawsuit. Her parents will be watching. In a report, the Lavergne Police Chief said quote: "former officer Taylor actually reached into the car and unlocked the door, then unbuckled Taylor's seatbelt and slung her to the pavement." Medics were called to Taylor's traffic stop before officers let her go home. Taylor's parents said the metal rod she referred to in the video was the result of a car crash two years ago. Andrew Douglas, WMC-TV, Memphis, Tennessee video

No that would be entirely rediculous. I think the best thing is for me to no longer address you in any manner whatsoever. I am done talking to you.

I just figured out what I don't like about you. you are still breathing

Bataan 'Angel' Nurse Jean Schmidt Dies Friday, March 9, 2007 4:25 PM EST The Associated Press LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Jean Kennedy Schmidt, one of the nurses dubbed the "Angels of Bataan" who were held prisoner in the Philippines during World War II, has died. She was 88. Schmidt died March 3 at her home from complications of a fall, her daughter, Susan Johnson of Bemidji, Minn., said Friday. With Schmidt's death, only three of the nurses are believed to be alive, said Elizabeth M. Norman, who wrote the 1999 book "We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan." "She had a wonderful spirit," Norman told the Los Angeles Times. "She loved these women she was imprisoned with, and she said she knew them as well as the back of her hand." Joining the Army after getting her nursing degree in 1941, Schmidt was one of 99 Army and Navy nurses stationed in the Philippines. After Japan attacked in 1942, they found themselves treating casualties in open-air field hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula. When the Philippines fell, they were sent to the rocky island fortress of Corregidor, working in an underground hospital. Some nurses were able to leave before Corregidor fell in May 1942. The other 77 were held prisoner in Manila for nearly three years. While in the camp, they continued to treat other military and civilian prisoners, sometimes eating weeds to stave off starvation. They were freed in 1945 when a U.S. tank crashed through the gates. "We heard a lot of rumors about the Americans coming for us but were still surprised when they did come," Schmidt recalled in Diane Burke Fessler's book "No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II." "I had begun to feel that the Americans thought we weren't worth saving, and to look at how scrawny we were, we probably weren't." Schmidt later married a fellow prisoner, Richard Schmidt, and they settled in California, where she continued her nursing career. "She was not at all bitter about the experiences," her daughter said. "... She simply was doing her duty." Born Imogene Kennedy in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1918, Schmidt grew up on a farm, one of eight children. She is also survived by a son, two sisters, a brother and four grandchildren. See more stories in this category Back to Previous Page

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6a6f7e22-1f49-443d-812e-cbde33535e6e&k=77394 Man held in cop shooting 'feared for his family' Suspect mistook officers with battering ram for thieves, lawyer says SUE MONTGOMERY, The Gazette Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 Basile Parasiris, his wife and two children awoke in a panic as police used a battering ram to break into their Brossard home and then started firing their guns inside during Friday's pre-dawn raid, his lawyer said yesterday. Lawyer Frank Pappas said his client was trying to defend himself and his family when he grabbed a loaded gun and shot Laval Constable Daniel Tessier - whom Parasiris mistook for a crazed thief. "If he would've believed it was the police, do you think he would have taken them on?" Pappas said in an interview. "They have more firepower than him." Parasiris, 41, appeared briefly in Quebec Court in Longueuil yesterday, dressed in a white T-shirt and dark pants, as tearful family members waved and blew him kisses from the courtroom audience. Parasiris was arraigned on four counts: first-degree murder in the death of Tessier; attempted murder in the shooting of his partner, Constable Stephane Forbes; firing a gun with the intent to wound Forbes; and endangering Forbes's life. Parasiris did not enter a formal plea on the charges. The case was put off until April 16, when a date is to be set for a preliminary hearing. Pappas is considering applying for bail, but would have to make a special request to Superior Court, which automatically deals with first-degree murder charges. Parasiris's brother, Nick, said the family is sorry for the death of Tessier, a father of two adolescent girls - but maintained his brother had no idea it was police in his house. The raid at the Rimouski Cres. home was one of eight that Laval police carried out Friday in Laval and Brossard, following a nine-month investigation of an alleged cocaine and crack trafficking gang based in Laval's Chomedey district. The seven Laval raids resulted in six arrests and no injuries. Forbes, 46, was one of at least 13 other officers involved and is recovering in a hospital from a bullet wound to his arm. According to Pappas, police didn't find anything in the Parasiris home. "There was no body, no drugs, no large quantities of firearms," he said. "They may have found one or two pills of Viagra that he didn't have a prescription for. "This guy's no terrorist." Police should have known that Parasiris kept a registered gun, Pappas said - although he admitted that it was illegal to keep it loaded. "Absolutely, he should pay for that," Pappas said. "But my client acted responsibly and is absolutely innocent (of first-degree murder)." While Parasiris was being arraigned, his wife, Penny Panagiota Gounis, was being questioned by police in a hospital, where she is recovering from bullet wounds. In February, she was an organizer of a fundraising spaghetti dinner at her husband's virtual golf course in Dorval, Golf-O-Max, to raise money for more than 30 people left homeless by a five-alarm blaze at a building on nearby Lepage Ave. Their 15-year-old son sat in the courtroom yesterday, refusing to look at his father in the prisoner's box. According to Pappas, the son called 911 after the police barged into the family home and bullets started flying. "Do you think that if they knew they were police officers, they'd call 911?" Pappas said. The couple's 6-year-old daughter and her brother are being cared for by relatives. The defence lawyer said he is convinced his client didn't know he was shooting a police officer; otherwise he never would have agreed to take on the case. "If it had been some gratuitous shooting, where some gang member or someone walked up to a cop and just shot him, I would never defend him," Pappas said, adding he gets along well with all police forces. "I believe this guy feared for his life and his family, and that's why he did what he did." smontgomery@thegazette.canwest.com

That is some funny shit

No, sadly I do not. Maybe one of our resident barristers will opine.

The actions of an INDIVIDUAL are always the causation of any violent criminal act.

I will be interesting to watch and see what happens with the full 12 member panel! Either way, this one is headed to the SC. It's about time, of course SCOTUS could refuse to hear the case.

H.R.1022 Title: To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] (introduced 2/13/2007) Cosponsors (12) Latest Major Action: 2/13/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. COSPONSORS(12), ALPHABETICAL (Sort: by date) * Rep Ackerman, Gary L. [NY-5] - 3/7/2007 Rep Crowley, Joseph [NY-7] - 3/7/2007 Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] - 3/7/2007 Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 3/7/2007 Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 3/7/2007 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 3/7/2007 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] - 3/7/2007 Rep Meehan, Martin T. [MA-5] - 3/7/2007 Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 3/7/2007 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 3/7/2007 Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] - 3/7/2007 Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] - 3/7/2007 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR01022:@@@P Quote And now the assholes are at it again, the circuit court has ruled and yet they pursue the insane idea of gun control.

they ruled 1)Just because DC isn't a State doesn't mean the Constitution doesn't apply 2)2nd Amendment is an individual right 3)2nd Amendment isn't limited to militia related activities

Our Nazi Overlords. Is that statement derived from their actions or their political afilliation?

BREAKING NEWS -- Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights: You can access today's lengthy D.C. Circuit ruling at this link. According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people,' when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual." The majority opinion sums up its holding on this point as follows: To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to placate their Antifederalist opponents. The individual right facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second Amendment's civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia. The majority opinion also rejects the argument that the Second Amendment does not apply to the District of Columbia because it is not a State. And the majority opinion concludes, "Section 7-2507.02, like the bar on carrying a pistol within the home, amounts to a complete prohibition on the lawful use of handguns for self-defense. As such, we hold it unconstitutional." Senior Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman wrote the majority opinion, in which Circuit Judge Thomas B. Griffith joined. Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson dissented. Judge Henderson's dissenting opinion makes clear that she would conclude that the Second Amendment does not bestow an individual right based on what she considers to be binding U.S. Supreme Court precedent requiring that result. But her other main point is that the majority's assertion to the contrary constitutes nothing more than dicta because the Second Amendment's protections, whatever they entail, do not extend to the District of Columbia, because it is not a State. This is a fascinating and groundbreaking ruling that would appear to be a likely candidate for U.S. Supreme Court review if not overturned first by the en banc D.C. Circuit. Update: "InstaPundit" notes the ruling in this post linking to additional background on the Second Amendment. At "The Volokh Conspiracy," Eugene Volokh has posts titled "Timetable on Supreme Court Review of the Second Amendment Case, and the Presidential Election" and "D.C. Circuit Accepts Individual Rights View of the Second Amendment," while Orin Kerr has a post titled "DC Circuit Strikes Down DC Gun Law Under the 2nd Amendment." And at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has a post titled "D.C. Circuit Strikes Down D.C. Gun Control Laws." http://howappealing.law.com/030907.html#023153 Here's the whole opinion: pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200703/04-7041a.pdf

If you lived where you need a jacket all the time you could carry an AR15 SBR with select fire control and suppressor, you can even thrown in a Beta MAG in a sissy looking fanny pack.

DA/SA only!! geez DA Only STINKS!!!!

Justice Dept.: FBI Misused Patriot Act Friday, March 9, 2007 11:00 AM EST The Associated Press By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, underreporting for three years how often it forced businesses to turn over customer data, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. FBI agents sometimes demanded the data without proper authorization, according to a 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. At other times, the audit found, the FBI improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances. The audit blames agent error and shoddy record-keeping for the bulk of the problems and did not find any indication of criminal misconduct. Still, "we believe the improper or illegal uses we found involve serious misuses of national security letter authorities," the audit concludes. At issue are the security letters, a power outlined in the Patriot Act that the Bush administration pushed through Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The letters, or administrative subpoenas, are used in suspected terrorism and espionage cases. They allow the FBI to require telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, credit bureaus and other businesses to produce highly personal records about their customers or subscribers — without a judge's approval. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller called Fine's audit "a fair and objective review of the FBI's use of a proven and useful investigative tool." The finding "of deficiencies in our processes is unacceptable," Mueller said in a statement. "We strive to exercise our authorities consistent with the privacy protections and civil liberties that we are sworn to uphold," Mueller said. "Anything less will not be tolerated. While we've already taken some steps to address these shortcomings, I am ordering additional corrective measures to be taken immediately." Fine's annual review is required by Congress, over the objections of the Bush administration. The audit released Friday found that the number of national security letters issued by the FBI skyrocketed in the years after the Patriot Act became law. In 2000, for example, the FBI issued an estimated 8,500 letters. By 2003, however, that number jumped to 39,000. It rose again the next year, to about 56,000 letters in 2004, and dropped to approximately 47,000 in 2005. Over the entire three-year period, the audit found the FBI issued 143,074 national security letters requesting customer data from businesses. The FBI vastly underreported the numbers. In 2005, the FBI told Congress that its agents in 2003 and 2004 had delivered only 9,254 national security letters seeking e-mail, telephone or financial information on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents over the previous two years. Additionally, the audit found, the FBI identified 26 possible violations in its use of the national security letters, including failing to get proper authorization, making improper requests under the law and unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail records. Of the violations, 22 were caused by FBI errors, while the other four were the result of mistakes made by the firms that received the letters.

They are well made but lack a decocking lever. I like a weapon without any safety that needs to be manipulated. (Sig, Glock etc.) Fumbling with a safety whiles wearing gloves, cold hands, or lack of dexterity can be a real problem. Kel Tec did make a .40cal but it was discontinued.

Take off your shoes then!!!

Hey she was a black woman, so she must have deserved it from the first black president. He just was trying to keep Dem ho's in line.

No, but my butt itches... Still thinking about Narci?

All you need is a pommel horse and some restraints. Oh wait, I bet you already have those (if not I will try and hook you up). Nevermind HI!!!

Ok send your daughter to be a paige at the Klinton presdential library while Bill is hanging around. On second thought don't do it, I would not want you to become a murderer.