Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
Four people were killed and 52 wounded during shootings across Chicago last weekend, bringing the 2015 total shootings for the city to over 2300. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is of course calling for more gun control. Chicago already has some of the strictest gun laws in the country — so much so that some have been found unconstitutional — yet […]
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Another school massacre this week, with 10 dead and 7 wounded at Umpqua Community College in a rural part of Oregon. The killer, reportedly not a student or employee, was killed by responding armed officers, as usual, after the innocents were killed. “[He started] asking people one by one what their religion was. ‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask
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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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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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Killer reportedly an anti-violence Ferguson Protester who supported another cop-killer The man accused of fatally shooting a rookie KY State Police trooper Sunday night was shot and killed after troopers commanded him to drop his gun. When he refused and aimed his weapon at them, he died of stupidity. Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, 31, died hours earlier following a traffic
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An unidentified veteran 51-year-old Massachusetts state trooper sergeant shot himself in the leg with a shotgun loaded with buckshot this week while carrying a shotgun into his new cruiser, State Police said. He is expected to survive, and hopefully be wiser. You hear a lot of reports of “cop leg,” but not too many with a shotgun. “Fearing for their
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You’ve heard about the Delta State University (MS) professor shooting his rival on campus this week. “The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning hereby prohibits the possession of pistols, firearms or other weapons in any form by any person other than duly authorized law enforcement officials on its institution premises or at any of its institutions or
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