Oct. 24 Neal Knox Report -- President Clinton is starting to
hit the campaign trail for Al Gore, Fox News reports.
At a $500,000 fundraiser for Hillary Sunday he blasted NRA for
"lying" about Gore's gun position.
What Gore said in Massachusetts earlier this year was: "As
president, I will ... close every loophole in our law books. I will
fight for a national requirement that every state issue photo
licenses for anyone who wants to buy a handgun. ... Unless you
obtain a license and pass a background test and pass a gun safety
test, you could not buy a handgun . . . Not in a gun shop,
not at a gun show, not on a street corner, not anywhere in
America."
"The gun lobby" is "sure to have a fit," he said. And we did.
And now he doesn't want to talk about guns.
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Dr. John Lott ("More Guns, Less Crime") will speak at Carnegie
Mellon campus in Pittsburgh Sunday October 29.
And there will be a lively debate tomorrow evening, Oct. 25,
at Cal State, Los Angeles, featuring Second Amendment advocate
Professor Eugene Volokh of UCLA School of Law, and RKBA opponent
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of USC Law School.
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The "growing gun culture" in England is blamed for
Nottingham's new policy of routine armed police foot patrols, "the
first time this has happened on the streets of mainland Britain,"
according to yesterday's Guardian. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact
The newspaper reported that "armed crime was up by 10%, with
13,671 armed offences in the year. Government research has found
that one in three criminals under 25 has access to a firearm, and
there are thought to be more than 3 million firearms illegally in
circulation, double the number 10 years ago."
The United Kingdom has banned all handguns, all over-two-round
rifles and shotguns, and required everything else to be registered.
It didn't work, did it?
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This morning's Keep and Bear Arms.Com web page reported a
petition being signed and circulated among Methodist churches in
Kentucky objecting to this spring's Methodist General Conference
resolution calling for the abolition of all privately owned
handguns and "some" rifles. http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives
I've been hearing from angry Methodists all summer. But this
position is nothing new; other General Conferences have passed
similar resolutions after refusing to allow opposing amendments.
In 1974 Rev. Jack Corbett of the Board of Church and Society
of the United Methodist Church created the National Coalition to
Ban Handguns, operating out of the basement of the Methodist Church
building across the street from the Capitol.
The organization is still there, although they've changed
their name to the "Coalition to Stop Gun Violence." They started
paying rent to the church, which stopped its direct funding,
reportedly after the IRS threatened to pull the Methodists' tax-
deductible status.
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hit the campaign trail for Al Gore, Fox News reports.
At a $500,000 fundraiser for Hillary Sunday he blasted NRA for
"lying" about Gore's gun position.
What Gore said in Massachusetts earlier this year was: "As
president, I will ... close every loophole in our law books. I will
fight for a national requirement that every state issue photo
licenses for anyone who wants to buy a handgun. ... Unless you
obtain a license and pass a background test and pass a gun safety
test, you could not buy a handgun . . . Not in a gun shop,
not at a gun show, not on a street corner, not anywhere in
America."
"The gun lobby" is "sure to have a fit," he said. And we did.
And now he doesn't want to talk about guns.
-----------------
Dr. John Lott ("More Guns, Less Crime") will speak at Carnegie
Mellon campus in Pittsburgh Sunday October 29.
And there will be a lively debate tomorrow evening, Oct. 25,
at Cal State, Los Angeles, featuring Second Amendment advocate
Professor Eugene Volokh of UCLA School of Law, and RKBA opponent
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of USC Law School.
------------
The "growing gun culture" in England is blamed for
Nottingham's new policy of routine armed police foot patrols, "the
first time this has happened on the streets of mainland Britain,"
according to yesterday's Guardian. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact
The newspaper reported that "armed crime was up by 10%, with
13,671 armed offences in the year. Government research has found
that one in three criminals under 25 has access to a firearm, and
there are thought to be more than 3 million firearms illegally in
circulation, double the number 10 years ago."
The United Kingdom has banned all handguns, all over-two-round
rifles and shotguns, and required everything else to be registered.
It didn't work, did it?
--------
This morning's Keep and Bear Arms.Com web page reported a
petition being signed and circulated among Methodist churches in
Kentucky objecting to this spring's Methodist General Conference
resolution calling for the abolition of all privately owned
handguns and "some" rifles. http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives
I've been hearing from angry Methodists all summer. But this
position is nothing new; other General Conferences have passed
similar resolutions after refusing to allow opposing amendments.
In 1974 Rev. Jack Corbett of the Board of Church and Society
of the United Methodist Church created the National Coalition to
Ban Handguns, operating out of the basement of the Methodist Church
building across the street from the Capitol.
The organization is still there, although they've changed
their name to the "Coalition to Stop Gun Violence." They started
paying rent to the church, which stopped its direct funding,
reportedly after the IRS threatened to pull the Methodists' tax-
deductible status.
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[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited October 25, 2000).]