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Mother of 14-Year-Old Rants About Murder Charge

May 29th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Yesterday, I published a post, Self-Defense Claim on Trial in Oklahoma City about a pharmacist who fought back against armed assailants and now faces first-degree murder charges.  Today, I bring you a news report from The Oklahoman which features the mother of a 14-year-old boy issuing an impassioned video plea (above) for her son to [...]

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Self-Defense Claim on Trial in Oklahoma City (Updated)

May 28th, 2009 · 28 Comments

Jerome Ersland, a 57-year-old Oklahoma City pharmacist, is in court today, facing first-degree murder charges for his role in the May 19 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker.
The video above shows how things went down:  Parker and an accomplice entered Reliable Discount Pharmacy while brandishing handguns and wearing ski masks; Ersland reacted by using his [...]

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Constitutional Rights of Gun Owners in Jeopardy

February 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

With five bills introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives so far this year, the Constitutional rights of gun owners are being threatened like never before in the 111th Congress.
Ten days ago, I published a post, Democrats in Rush to Seize Guns with H.R. 45, about H.R. 45, a bill introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush [...]

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Gun Rights Policy Conference Set for St. Louis

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The 24th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (a.k.a., “GRPC 2009″) will take place in St. Louis Sept. 25-27, offering gun rights advocates their once-a-year chance to network and get involved with pro-gun rights strategies for the coming year.
Past GRPCs have outlined victory plans and made public the latest firearms trends, according to the Second Amendment [...]

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Homicide Stats Don’t Support Gun Ban Scheme

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Homicide statistics for 2008 in Seattle do not justify a proposal by anti-gun Mayor Greg Nickels to ban legally-carried handguns from public property, nor his plan to lobby for a change in the state’s preemption law, according to Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation.
“Less than half of Seattle’s homicides in 2008 [...]

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