Kennesaw crime statistics report an overall upward trend in crime based on data from 11 years with violent crime increasing and property crime increasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Kennesaw for 2013 is expected to be higher than in 2010.
For example, of the 1,082 women and 267 men killed in 2010 by their intimate partners, 54 percent were shot by guns. Over the past quarter of a century, guns were involved in greater number of intimate partner homicides than all other causes combined. When a woman is murdered, it is most likely by her intimate partner with a gun. Regardless of what really caused Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius to shoot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp (whether he mistook her for an intruder or he snapped in a lover's quarrel), her death is only the latest such headline. Recall, too, the fate of Nancy Lanza, killed by her own gun in her own home in Connecticut by her son, Adam Lanza, before he went to Sandy Hook Elementary School to murder some two dozen children and adults. As an alternative to arming women against violent men, legislation can help: data show that in states that prohibit gun ownership by men who have received a domestic violence restraining order, gun-caused homicides of intimate female partners have been reduced by 25 percent.
So his argument is that those people wouldn’t have been killed if a gun wasn’t available? That an emotionally unstable person wouldn’t have just as easily snapped and murdered their partner with a kitchen knife, a bat or a car? That’s where Michael’s logical train of thought ends: he apparently believes that if the guns had disappeared, those people would be walking around today. That they wouldn’t have resorted to other means of murder, as the 46% of victims in that statistic were. No, everything would be just peachy if only we’d get rid of the guns.
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A Des Moines man told police he fired a gun into the air to scare a group of juveniles who had attacked his fiancee.
When officers arrived, they found David Kevin Walker Jr., 29, standing in front of his house, unarmed. Police detained Walker without incident.
Walker told police his fiancee had walked outside their house and yelled across Dean Avenue for their neighbors to quiet down. A group of juveniles ran across the street and attacked the woman, Walker told officers.
They dragged her to a corner of the intersection of East 16th Street and Dean Avenue and began punching her in the face, Walker told officers. He said he grabbed his gun and ran toward the group, firing two shots into the air.
The juveniles stopped and ran away after he fired the shots, he said, and Walker put the gun away in his home.
Walker’s fiancee had a bloody nose and bruising and swelling to her face.
Walker was charged with reckless use of a firearm.
A farmer who became a household name after he was jailed for shooting dead a burglar at his home today revealed he had confronted another intruder.
Tony Martin, 67, who was jailed for killing teenager Fred Barras in 1999, said he caught a burglar in the act near an outbuilding at his property in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, yesterday.
He said he confronted the would-be thief who drove off, but decided against trying to stop him, adding: “I couldn’t face going through all that again.”
He told Sky News: “There were weapons inside the shed so, if I had wanted to fight him off, I could have.
“I wished I had but, after everything I’ve been through in the past, I just couldn’t face all that hassle again.
“It isn’t the first time it’s happened since I’ve been out of prison - it’s happened two or three times.
“I haven’t changed my views about what happened in 1999 but the whole experience has made me lose faith in the system and I didn’t want to be made out as the criminal again.”
A toddler died late Wednesday after accidentally shooting himself.
Kinsler Allen Davis, 2, was taken to Navarro Regional Hospital and then flown by helicopter to Children's Medical Center in Dallas, where doctors pronounced him dead.
A preliminary investigation shows the boy found the handgun inside a bedroom and fired it. The bullet hit him in the head, Chief Bratton said. The boy's father was in another room of the house when the shooting happened.
Carlile has been on paid administrative leave since March 2012, when his toddler son found a handgun and fatally shot his 7-year-old sister. Carlile had left the gun in the family van while the children were unattended.
Carlile had been charged with second-degree manslaughter after the shooting, but the charge was dismissed after a Snohomish County jury was unable to reach a verdict after a trial in Snohomish County Superior Court at the end of last year.
Carlile, 32, and his family were in a rush to get to a wedding when they stopped off at a friend’s antiques shop in Stanwood on March 10, 2012. Carlile and his wife had left their four children in the van alone for a few minutes when their then-3-year-old son found a loaded .38-caliber revolver that Carlile had left in a cup holder between the front seats.
Carlile’s son got out of his booster seat, grabbed the gun and shot his sister Jenna in the abdomen. She died at a Seattle hospital.
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Firing a gun in which any part has been made in a 3D printer could result in the death of the user, a specialist has warned, because the plastics in the gun would not stand ballistic pressures and stresses – and so might disintegrate.
Jonathan Rowley, design director of London-based 3D printing specialist Digits2Widgets, issued the warning on the company blog after being approached by two UK newspapers – the Mail On Sunday and the Daily Telegraph – that wanted him to "print" a gun using the files generated by Cody Wilson in the US earlier this week on his company's commercial printer.
Rowley fears that the nylon used to create the designs would be unable to withstand the explosive force of the bullet ejection and that the "gun" could explode, shooting plastic shards that could harm users and bystanders.
Philip Boyce, an independent firearms expert at Forensic Scientific in Thetford, said: "It all depends on how hard the plastic is. You might get one of these to fire 10 to 20 shots before it gives up the ghost. It would just disrupt - the barrel would fall apart, the chamber would fall apart." The accuracy of 3D printed guns is also under question because the barrel would wobble as the bullet passes through it.
Boyce says the existence of files to create such weapons is something people "definitely should worry" about: "normally criminals can only get converted blank-firing pistols. But if they have plastic weapons they can get a few shots off, which is all they want."
He says: "We fear that the next story will be about a child blowing their hand off while experimenting with a 3D printed gun … This type of accident is the immediate danger of the project and will happen long before anyone is deliberately killed by one of these tools."
Wilson, 22, has managed to produce a gun using a commercial 3D printer which successfully fired a shot – but in testament to his own nervousness about safety, he used a piece of string 20ft long attached to the trigger. He has now released the files for making the gun onto the internet so that anyone could "print" their own using a printer.
That led to approaches from the newspapers, which Rowley has turned down flat. "Nobody has done any testing on these materials in regard to high pressure and explosives," he told the Guardian. "All that Wilson has proved is that with one particular machine and one particular material he's produced something that doesn't blow his hand off. He's giving the impression that these files can be used by anybody." That, he says, is enormously risky. "None of our industrial 3D printers run the same type of plastic as used by Cody Wilson." Though the parts might look superficially similar, "the way they would perform under firing would be totally unknown".
3D printing uses materials which can be heated using computer-controlled design systems to form extremely thin solid slices, which are then built up layer by layer to form solid objects. Its principal advantages are that it can be used building prototypes, generating one-off designs and even making shapes that cannot be made by standard injection-moulding systems.
Wilson spent almost a year developing the "Liberator", a "wiki weapon" that can be put together from parts which can be printed in a commercial printer. He hopes that his files will lead to "a complete explosion of all available gun laws … I think we should have the right to own all the terrible implements of war".
Rowley says Wilson has "abstract libertarian philosophy that proposes that anyone has the right to own anything" and that he "doesn't appear to care" about the potential widespread use of 3D printed guns by individuals.
But Rowley argues that making the files available is far more dangerous to those who download and try to use them than to those who might have such guns aimed at them. "If you look at these files, there are all sorts of attached text documents about how to put them together, but nothing about the materials you must use for it to work or the printer you need to employ. It's highly irresponsible, but there are plenty of fools who will jump at the chance to have a go."
He said he could not ethically agree to produce the guns for the newspapers: "Anyone would be putting their life in their hands if they used these."
Authorities have discovered the pickup truck of an "extremely dangerous" Northern California man who they say is the prime suspect in the triple homicide of his wife and two daughters.Shane Franklin Miller is considered heavily armed and dangerous, according to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office. The 45-year-old is believed to have gunned down his family at their home in rural Shingletown, Calif., about 230 miles northeast of San Francisco on Tuesday."There is a manhunt for him right now. He's a prime suspect. We're not looking for anybody else," Lt. Dave Kent said. "We found several different types of weapons, ammunition in the house, so he may be heavily fortified at this time."Police have launched a nationwide manhunt for Miller.
The bodies of Miller's wife, Sandy, 34, and two daughters, Shelby, 8, and Shasta, 4, were discovered after a call was received from the family's residence just before 8 p.m. It is unclear who placed the call, but authorities said that it came from one of the victims while the shooting was in progress.
The Consensus seems to be that it's generally important to the one who is in the wrong to get the last word: That's the only way the can perceive victory.Reasons for getting the last word
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Overall, the Justice Department report said, firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011, while nonfatal firearm crimes declined from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011. The drop extended to schools: Homicides at schools declined from an average of 29 per year in the 1990s to an average of 20 per year in the 2000s.
In analyzing a statute’s text, the Court is guided by the basic principle that afrom Statutory Interpretation: General Principles and Recent Trends, Congressional Research Office, Order Code 97-589.
statute should be read as a harmonious whole, with its separate parts being
interpreted within their broader statutory context in a manner that furthers statutory
purpose. The various canons of interpretation and presumptions as to substantive
results are usually subordinated to interpretations that further a clearly expressed congressional purpose.
If words happen to be still dubious, we may establish their meaning from the context; with which it may be of singular use to compare a word, or a sentence, whenever they are ambiguous, equivocal, or intricate. Thus the proeme, or preamble, is often called in to help the construction of an act of parliament. Of the same nature and use is the comparison of a law with other laws, that are made by the same legislator, that have some affinity with the subject, or that expressly relate to the same point.That gets back to my comment that Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 expressly gives CONGRESS the power to ARM the militia. Looking at the document as a whole, the Civic Right (not my interpretation personally, but the one which was accepted until Heller threw the law into flux).
The best way to make sense of the Second Amendment is to take away all the commas (which, I know, means that only outlaws will have commas). Without the distracting commas, one can focus on the grammar of the sentence. Professor Lund is correct that the clause about a well-regulated militia is “absolute,” but only in the sense that it is grammatically independent of the main clause, not that it is logically unrelated. To the contrary, absolute clauses typically provide a causal or temporal context for the main clause.Diagramming the Second Amendment, one should end up with something that expresses a causal link, like: “Because a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” In other words, the amendment is really about protecting militias, notwithstanding the arguments to the contrary.
The founders — most of whom were classically educated — would have recognized this rhetorical device as the “ablative absolute” of Latin prose. To take an example from Horace likely to have been familiar to them: “Caesar, being in command of the earth, I fear neither civil war nor death by violence” (ego nec tumultum nec mori per vim metuam, tenente Caesare terras). The main clause flows logically from the absolute clause: “Because Caesar commands the earth, I fear neither civil war nor death by violence.”
And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised,that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see.There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.
Most private gun transfers in Delaware will soon be subject to the same background check rules currently applied to sales by licensed dealers, according a measure signed into law today by Gov. Jack Markell.
The signing comes on a day when several other pieces of a Democrat-sponsored package of gun control bills are facing committee action in the General Assembly.
The background check law is the first piece of the package, introduced earlier this year, to win passage.
Effective July 1, private gun sellers will be required to obtain federal background checks on buyers, except in cases where a firearm is being transferred to a close family member, a law enforcement officer or the holder of a valid concealed-carry permit.
The background checks will be performed on behalf of private sellers by federally licensed firearms dealers, who may charge a fee for the service.
“Today we are closing the private-sale loophole once and for all,” Markell said. “No longer will we have two different markets for the sale of firearms, a regulated market for dealers and an unregulated market for everybody else.”
A 3-year-old boy died after shooting himself with his uncle's gun in a Tampa apartment.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's officials say the boy's uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey D. Walker, was arrested late Tuesday and charged with culpable negligence.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter says Jadarrius Speights found the unsecured 9 mm handgun in a backpack in a bedroom he shared with his uncle. The child's parents - Jasmine Bell and Trentin Speights - were in the bedroom with the child when the gun went off.
Officials say Walker purchased the gun at a gun shop in the Tampa area and has a concealed weapons permit.
A 4-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the head when a gun discharged at a home was responding Wednesday to voices and squeezing nurses fingers at Children's of Alabama hospital in Birmingham, police say.
While the boy remains in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition, his relative, Marquis Rashad Abernathy of Midfield, is wanted on warrants for reckless endangerment and receiving stolen property. Police say he left on a bed the pistol that discharged. It was found by the boy who was shot and his 4-year-old female cousin, police said.
Brighton Police Department Lt. Ray Hubbart said the boy's mother, who is the girl's aunt, dropped by a relative's home to change a diaper. Abernathy wasn't there, but had spent the night there and left the handgun in a back bedroom.
As the mother chatted with a relative in the living room, the children went into the bedroom to prepare to change clothes. The adults heard a "pop" and the little girl ran out of the room. The boy's mother ran to the bedroom and called 911. The boy was rushed to the hospital and doctors determined a bullet had entered and exited his head, said Hubbart.
The Senate has rejected an effort to expand the use of firearms on the heavily visited lands of the Army Corps of Engineers in a congressional victory for gun control supporters.
The vote for the proposal by Sen. Tom Coburn was 56-43 for the legislation, but that fell short of the 60 votes needed.
The measure would have let people carry guns onto Corps property for any legal purpose. They currently can only be used there for activities like hunting or target shooting.
The agency oversees nearly 12 million acres containing dams, lakes and trails used for recreation by 370 million visitors annually.
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."This provision in our Constitution requires that the federal government protect us from harms that we inflict upon ourselves, harms that threaten our health and our survival: in particular domestic insurrections.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.The Constitution seems pretty clear that insurrection is not a right.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Now, I need to keep reminding you of the rule of construction: Expressio unius est exclusio alterius.
- If the statute mentions it--it is covered.
- If the statute don't mention it--it ain't covered.
Authorities in Salem say a man who heard a prowler grabbed a rifle to investigate and ended up accidentally shooting himself in the jaw.
The sheriff's office says the 71-year-old Salem man, Frank Moore, is expected to survive.
Moore told deputies he was awakened by someone moving outside his recreational vehicle about 4 a.m. Tuesday.
He said he took a .22-caliber rifle out into the dark and tripped. Wounded, he knocked on a window to awaken his wife.
Deputies said they found the rifle where Moore told them he'd dropped it, but there was no sign of the prowler.
Investigators probing the random killing of three people in the town of Istres, near Marseille, believe the suspected killer bought the Kalashnikov rifle he used in the shooting over the internet, a report in the French media claimed on Friday.
One of the victims, a man thought to be in his sixties, was shot dead at the wheel of his car, the other two were male pedestrians, both local men aged 35 and 45 respectively.
A witness to the incident described how the 19-year-old suspect had walked around with his rifle poised "as if he was out hunting" and might easily have killed more people.
The suspect was arrested not far from the scene and remains in police custody. French radio RTL reported on Friday that a source close to the investigation had suggested that he had bought the military style weapon online.
If this is confirmed it will put more pressure on France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who visited the scene of the shooting on Thursday. Valls has vowed to crack down on the growing problem of gun crime in France.
A Mercer County man pleaded and was sentenced Monday for accidentally shooting his young relative after mistaking her for a skunk.
Thomas Edward Grant, 25, of 35 Lightcap Lane, Jackson Center, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of simple assault and reckless endangerment.
A charge of aggravated assault was dismissed in February after a judge agreed with a defense motion claiming there was “proof of malice” on Grant’s part to support the felony charge.
Beaver County Judge Harry Knafelc sentenced Grant to serve two years’ probation and to pay restitution to the victim’s family. Grant’s hunting privileges have also been revoked during his probation.
Grant’s attorney, Steven Valsamidis, said the victim’s family was in agreement with the plea and sentencing.
Grant was charged by New Sewickley Township police following the shooting the night of Oct. 20 at his mother’s Brewer Road home. Police said Grant fired a gun thinking he was shooting at a skunk when there was actually an 8-year-old girl wearing a black-and-white Halloween costume who was playing hide-and-seek in the distance.
Mikeb, if you'd try some basic research, you'd look smarter. In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for anyone convicted of a crime of violence to own a firearm.
Your unwillingness to look at simple facts is one reason that you'll never succeed in your goals.
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A new front is emerging in the debate over gun control in the US, as some members of Congress seek to ban firearms that can be made through the technology of 3D printing.The technology opens the door for people to create guns, using plans downloaded from the Internet, that could elude detection in security screenings at places such as airports.3D printers are becoming increasingly common as tools for making three-dimensional objects out of plastic or similar materials, much the way a traditional printer applies ink to paper based on instructions from a computer.
Controversy about the technology’s use in making guns revved up in recent days, with a private group that dubs itself the “wiki weapon project” preparing to release plans for constructing a handgun that could be made almost entirely with a pieces from a 3D printer.The gun can operate with 16 printed parts and one nonprinted component, an ordinary nail used as a firing pin. According to news reports, the gun also has a compartment to insert a six-ounce piece of steel - to make it visible in a metal detector, as required by the Undetectable Firearms Act.“Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser,” Rep. Steve Israel (D) of New York said in a statement released Friday. “When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology appears to be upon us, we need to act now to extend the ban on plastic firearms.”
Pincus asks the members assembled where they thought gun safes should be located, in the interest of home defense.
"How about putting a quick-access safe in your kids’ room?" Pincus asks. "We have an emotional push back to that. Here’s my position on this. If you’re worried that your kid is going to try to break into the safe that is in their bedroom, with a gun in it, you have bigger problems than home defense."
As the group laughs, Pincus explains that in a home invasion situation, it makes sense to have a gun stored in a bedroom you're instinctively moving to defend.
"If that alarm goes off and the glass breaks and the dog starts barking, what’s the instinct that most people are going to have, in regards to, 'Am I going to run across the house to get the gun, or am I going to run over here to help the screaming kid?'" Pincus said. "And if I’m going to go to the kid anyway, and I have an extra gun and an extra safe, why not put it in their closet?"
Joshua Duehr is one of more than 50 sex offenders in Iowa who can carry a gun in public.
"I don't leave the house without one," said Duehr, who lives in Dubuque.
It's legal — and it's news that has surprised some state lawmakers and alarmed a few Iowa and national law enforcement officers.
"It does seem to go contrary to what the whole point or the whole purpose" of the sex offender registry is, said Steve Conlon, the deputy unit chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit's Evil Minds Research Museum in Quantico, Va.
"I've never even heard of anybody looking into this arena," Conlon said. "You're in some unchartered grounds."
Some, if not most, applications by sex offenders for permits to carry weapons would have been denied by county sheriffs before 2011, according to officials from the Iowa Department of Public Safety. But sheriffs no longer have discretion to reject such applications.
The article goes on to explain what's wrong with allowing sex-offenders carry guns. Their crimes often depend upon intimidation and coersion. In my opinion these guys should be disqualified just as domestic abusers are.
Four people have been killed and six others injured in a drive-by shooting in Puerto Rico.
Police said in a statement Saturday that a 45-year-old woman and her 17-year-old daughter are among the victims. Police say they were part of a group gathered at a barbecue restaurant in the central mountain town of Aguas Buenas late Friday when unknown gunmen began shooting into the crowd.
Police say one of the injured people is in critical condition.
No one has been arrested, and police say they don't yet have a motive.
The U.S. territory of nearly 4 million people reported a record 1,117 homicides in 2011.
Authorities say a 24-year-old Colorado man accidentally shot himself while cleaning his handgun.
Police say the man, whose name has not been released, was sitting in his vehicle in Colorado Springs when he spilled soda on the gun Saturday afternoon. The man wiped the gun clean, and the weapon accidentally discharged as he was replacing the magazine.
He was taken to a hospital in fair condition after suffering injuries to his left hand, left thigh and left calf.
