The GVP Report - June 12, 2012 |
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► Andy Pelosi, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, 'Carry Everywhere' Gun Proposal Not About Freedom or Safety. Seventy-two percent of those polled in Michigan oppose the bill to allow guns in bars, hospitals, college dorms, and churches. The Michigan Legislature should listen to them.
► Violence Police Center Concealed Carry Killers Update - Non-Self Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit 447. ► In 2010 Nancy Schaab was shot and killed in a domestic violence incident. In March, her brother Mike was shot and killed when returning from his lunch break at Western Psychiatric Institute. Their friends and family will hold the First Annual Adult Co-Ed Slow Pitch Schabb Memorial Softball Tournament in July with proceeds going to CeaseFirePA.
75-year-old John Henry Spooner has been charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of his 13-year-old neighbor, Darius Simmons. According to reports,Spooner approached the unarmed teen as he retrieved a garbage cart in front of the house. Darius' mother, Patricia Larry, saw the shooting. She said Spooner told her son he 'wanted his stuff back and he wanted his shotguns back.' After Darius said he didn't have the property, Spooner pulled a gun, pointed it at Darius and fired one shot from about five feet away. Darius died of his injuries. Spooner told a reporter he had lost $3,000 worth of shotguns in a burglary, was frustrated with police, and was dying of lung cancer. |
Tampa Bay Times investigative report finds Florida 'Kill at Will (aka Stand Your Ground)' Law Yields Some Shocking Outcomes Depending on How Law is Applied. Among the findings - those who invoke law to avoid prosecution have gone free nearly 70 percent of the time. Defendants more likely to prevail if the victim is black.
► Travyvon Martin's parents plead with Gov. Scott's task force to change 'Kill At Will' law. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin delivered 375,000 online petitions collected by Second Chance on Shoot First. "Our son has been sacrificed," Tracy Martin said, "It's a bad law, set up basically for the shooter to take an innoncent life." ► A new study by Texas A & M Professors Cheng Cheng and Mark Hoekstra, Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine, finds "the results indicate that a primary consequence of strengthening self-defense law is increased homicide." ► The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will launch a special investigation into how race affects the enforcement of kill-at-will laws across the nation. ► Mother Jones, How the NRA and Its Allies Helped Spread a Radical Gun Law Nationwide. Florida enacted the self-defense law in 2005. By 2012, with the help from the NRA and its allies, 24 more states had adopted similar laws. ► ProPublica, Five 'Kill at Will' Cases You Should Know About, points to additional troubling cases in Texas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Arizona.
► MLive special report on self-defense homicides in Michigan: Justified to Kill. Report takes a closer look at what happens before and after the killing. ► An Indiana law amends the 2006 Castle Doctrine bill that allows deadly force to stop illegal entry into a home or car to specifically allow force against police. "Someone is going to get away with killing a cop because of this law."
Talking Points Memo, After Giffords Shooting, Violence Rhetoric Trickles Back Into Campaigns, gives examples of guns and violent rhetoric being used in current campaign videos and emails. ► At least eight people were killed and 46 injured in shootings in Chicago last weekend. Murders were up sixty percent over the previous year during the first quarter of 2012 but are actually down eight percent this quarter and gun recovery is up twenty percent. ► California Deputy's Guns Found in Criminal Hands. Prosecutors have charged a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy with acting as a straw buyer to purchase restricted handguns which he then sold to unqualified buyers through a licensed dealer who also faces federal charges. ► The lone survivor of the shooting at a cafe in Seattle, WA that left four people dead says the gunman, Ian Stawicki, was intent on not leaving any survivors. Stawicki's father told reporters that his son had a concealed weapons permit and was becoming noticeably volatile over time. ► Springfield, MA Police Officer Kevin Ambrose was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call. The shooter was a NYC correction officer who wounded his former girlfriend before taking his own life.
Mark Foresth, Baltimore Post Examiner, Gun Safety for Gang Bangers, reminds gang members that a true gunman knows his target and aims accordingly and avoids sloppy, even amateur shooting that wounds or kills innocent bystanders. ► Art on Issues, Guns vs Cars? Would You Send Your Child There. The data are clear that US children and adolescents are at many times the risk of losing their lives to gunfire than those in peer countries. To defend that loss of life in the name of a constitutional right is both obscene and morally-corrupt. ► Spocko, My FireDogLake,Dear Tim: I'm worried my gun carrying son will hurt others, how do I get his concealed weapon permit revoked? examines the issue of revoking ccw permits in the wake of the Seattle shooting. ► Richard M. Aborn, Washington Post, Why Indifference to Gun Violence is a National Crime. The issue is not just that the NRA has created power but also that supporters of gun control have waned. Many things can be done to take that control back, but three things are critical. ►
Media Matters, NRA Partners With Conspiracy-Minded Gun Activist at Chicago CPAC, gives some background information on the speakers on the NRA moderated panel "The Liberal's Shadow War on Second Amendment." ► AmmoLand, The George Soros Anti-Gun Agenda, wants you to know that "Michael Bloomberg wants to ban guns in your town" and that Mayors Against Illegal Guns "just want to make your guns illegal. Period." ► Media Matters, NRA Researcher Makes Dubious Comparison to Downplay U.S. Firearm Related Death Rate, looks at the gun lobby's attack on a recent Violence Policy Center report that shows gun deaths now outpace motor vehicle deaths in ten states. ► The Eagle Gun Range in Lewisville, Texas has announced it is now hosting birthday parties for kids. "The age limit is eight years old," said the owner. "You have to be tall enough to get above the shooting table." |
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