Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
Thomas Macri, the ranking police officer for the Borough of Bessemer, PA, reportedly accidentally killed himself last week while “cleaning his service pistol” at home. Police say he was home alone at the time, but was discovered a short while later by his girlfriend, and that foul play was not suspected. An autopsy revealed that Macri suffered a gunshot wound […]
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An Oregon man was attacked in a WalMart bathroom and robbed of his weapon by a criminal who spotted the poorly concealed or unconcealed gun. The 25-year-old CCW-permit holder had a Springfield XD handgun in a holster in the back of his waistband, and his shirt “covered the weapon.” But a large man in his mid 30s apparently saw the
A housebreaker was shot by a homeowner in Jackson, MS over the weekend. A 43-year-old bank robber at the Citizen’s Bank in Warren, Michigan pointed his gun at a 63-year-old (some reports say 60) CCW-enabled customer who didn’t appreciate that and shot at the bank robber seven times, hitting him three times (43%): once in the leg and once in
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A man opened fire during the morning church service at Oasis Tabernacle Church in East Selma, AL last Sunday, shooting and wounding his girlfriend, his 1-month-old son and a pastor who tried to intervene. Apparently unarmed congregants disarmed the man, who then ran away and was later arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder. I suggest that unarmed
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Headline of the week: “State Fair Bans Guns; State Fair Workers Robbed at Gun Point” Update on MS universities We noted last week that Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning’s (which governs colleges and universities) anti-gun policy did not prevent the murder at Delta State University. List member Matt pointed out that although the IHL Board of Trustees has a gun-free
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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has a spotted history on gun rights, has now released a position paper on guns which proposes re-legalization of machine guns, national CCW permit reciprocity, arming military troops on bases and recruiting centers, better (but not expanded) NICS checks, no gun or magazine bans, enforcement of existing gun laws, and adding ill-advised enhanced penalties
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A new Gallup poll conducted this month shows that 49% of Americans consider the federal government “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen poll indicates that only 36% of likely voters think the federal government should be involved in gun control, 69% think it would be bad for the country if only
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Some Portland (OR) State University students have been protesting this week, calling for campus security to be disarmed. Because, stupid. PETA is suing to make the government assign a copyright for a “selfie” picture to a monkey (a macaca nigra). The US Copyright Act [17 U.S.C. 102(a)] protects “original works of authorship,” and states that the copyright office will not
Examples of Stupidity! Read More »