Penny Dean and Your Rights

Say what you will about the legality of carrying concealed weapons, but this story proves that allowing the general public to have access to guns can save lives and stop crime!
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A would-be armed robbery suspect was shot dead Monday morning while attempting to hold-up three utility workers in north county, the St. Louis County Police Department said.

According to Sgt. Brian Schellman, a county police spokesman, the incident occurred around 8:55 a.m. around the intersection of Lynncrest and Crown Point.

Federal drug agents have built a massive wiretapping operation in the Los Angeles suburbs, secretly intercepting tens of thousands of Americans' phone calls and text messages to monitor drug traffickers across the United States despite objections from Justice Department lawyers who fear the practice may not be legal.

Do more guns equal more gun crime? Sounds like an obvious question but what happens when guns are in the right hands? Do states with concealed carry laws see an increase in gun crime? Reality Check!

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We recommend <a href="http://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/id-shot-smart-gun-sell-smart-gun/">this article from "Shooter's Log" by Dave Dolbee</a>

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That is a pretty strong statement and one that I am sure will resonate with the Shooter’s Log base. 60 Minutes recently ran a piece investigating ‘Smart Guns’ and opposition against them. You’ll have to watch and view the piece for yourself, but the National Shooting Sports Foundation‘s Steve Sanetti, took up the torch with a reasoned response.

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Semantha Bunce was a young mother, wife, a member of the National Guard Army Reserve — and luckily a legal gun owner.

She was at home with her four-month-old son on Tuesday morning. Her husband was at at work and her daughter was in school, when two men broke down her door and shot her in front of her little boy.

WCNC reported that she was able to bring her son to her room and place him safely in his cradle.

Police in the East Rock section of New Haven are trying to send a strong message to residents to lock their doors amid several car break-ins and they are doing it an a rather unconventional way.

Starting today, police who notice valuables left in plain view inside unlocked cars will take them to keep them safe from would-be burglars, according to the New Haven Register.

<img src="http://binaryapi.ap.org/dd154fe0bb5f4169a19e5381d9865cce/460x.jpg" align="right" width="240">In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.

Handgun owners in Los Angeles will be required to store their firearms in locked containers or disable the weapons with trigger locks under a law unanimously approved Tuesday by the City Council.

The council voted 14-0 in favor of the ordinance that also says owners must keep the guns on their person or within reach if they are not locked away or disabled.

The measure applies only to handguns and not to larger firearms such as rifles.

It was championed by Councilman Paul Krekorian and backed by activists who say it will help prevent children from harming themselves with guns.

"Since at least 1950, all but two public mass shootings in America have taken place where general citizens are banned from carrying guns. In Europe, there have been no exceptions. Every mass public shooting -- and there have been plenty of mass shooting in Europe -- has occurred in a gun-free zone. In addition, they have had three of the six worst K-12 school shootings, and Europe experienced by far the worst mass public shooting perpetrated by a single individual (Norway in 2011, which from the shooting alone left 67 people dead and 110 wounded). ...

<img src="http://wdrb.images.worldnow.com/images/8437179_G.jpg" align="right" width="240">A Bullitt County District Court Judge has dismissed all charges against a man who shot down a drone he said was flying over his property.

The court hearing for William Merideth began Monday afternoon. He shot down a drone in Hillview earlier this year.

Merideth said the operator was violating his privacy and spying on his family, but Hillview police arrested Merideth for firing his gun within city limits and charged him with wanton endangerment.