Wow. Remember the Lebanon mom who showed up at her daughter’s soccer game packing heat, sparking a big national debate?
She’s dead - apparently shot to death with her husband in what looks to be a murder-suicide, reports the Patriot-News.

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For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not personally travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons onto the sidewalks and as a means of political protest. I not only believe such practices are a threat to the future of our democracy, but I am firmly […]

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Because it’s not enough to pack heat outside a presidential event - the Gun Club thinks you should be allowed to bring them inside the event, too!
Remember this the next time we have a Republican president. We all have this idea of liberals who hate guns, but in fact I know quite a few armed […]

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Via Will Bunch over at Attytood, lawyers guns and money:
The Virginia Republican Party spent thousands of dollars on extra security to accomodate the desires of some guns owners to carry their weapons at the annual GOP convention in Richmond this weekend.
One party official estimated that additional security costs approached $35,000.
Now, why would you need extra […]

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Saw this story, and I have to say - this is a fantastic idea:
Handguns will soon be allowed in bars and restaurants in Tennessee under a new law passed by state legislators who voted to override the governor’s veto.
The legislation that takes effect July 14 retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a […]

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Three cops shot dead in Pittsburgh, and get this:
Police did not immediately release the gunman’s identity, but his friends at the scene described him as a young man who thought the Obama administration would ban guns.
One friend, Edward Perkovic, said the gunman feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our […]

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More on the gun-toting soccer mom, from the Philadelphia Inquirer. I think these lines get at the mentality better than anything I’ve ever read:
But Hain sees danger lurking around every corner.
She carries the weapon cowboy-style because in an emergency - not that there has ever been one - “I don’t really need anything extra […]

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Hm. Been following the saga of Plaxico Burress, the former Steeler and current (for now) New York Giants WR who managed to shoot himself in the leg with an unlicensed Glock over the weekend, and now has been suspended for four games. He could go to jail.
Sullivan picks up a quip that I think is […]

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So here’s what I don’t get:
Story on the front page of today’s Intell about how gun enthusiasts are terrified that Obama’s gonna ban Teh Gun, so they’re rushing out to buy their firearms now. I read the article to figure out just what kind of guns they’re buying - because your normal home/personal protection pieces, […]

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I don’t necessarily disagree with the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that Washington D.C.’s gun ban was unconstitutional, and that Americans indeed have the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting.
Methinks, though, Judge Scalia is dismissing one significant concern here:
Scalia said nothing in Thursday’s ruling should “cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of […]

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And this I didn’t know: There are more NRA members in Pennsylvania than any other state.

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Yet another sordid Lancaster County tale, as if we haven’t had enough of them in recent years. But speaking of, there’s a common threat between this murder-suicide in the southern end and the Ludwig-Borden case a few years ago:
WGAL just reported that the .22 that appears to hav been used by Mike Hollow to kill […]

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First time I met him, he showed me the gun. We’d exited an Italian restaurant and he and I walked a few paces behind the others. “Let me show you something,” he said; and out of his pocket he pulled a small handgun, almost a Derringer. Maybe it was a Derringer; it’s not like I […]

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I caught Ray Schoenke in the car on his way home from Lancaster, where he’d presented Mayor Rick Gray with a check for $1,000 from his fledgling organization to help fight gun crime in Lancaster.
Which, while nice, might not seem too significant. Until you consider that Schoenke heads a gun group called the American Hunters […]

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The threads regarding the horrific Manheim Township murder have taken a predictable tack. Basically, any time there’s a terrible crime, you get the same thing.
The gun guys say, “If only the victims had a gun.”
Look, as a liberal I’m supposed to hate guns and want all sorts of new restrictions on them, but I don’t. […]

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