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Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.
"After Tucson, you would think that people, particularly at a gun show in Arizona, would have been much more careful in enforcing the law," he said. "That unfortunately in some cases wasn't the case."
Bloomberg has authorized similar sting operations around the country as part of a push for tougher federal laws to help keep guns off the streets of New York.
But in the sensitive aftermath of the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the mayor was questioned about the time and place of his hidden-camera investigation, a $100,000 operation conducted almost clear across the country.
"Let me get this straight: From New York City, they are going to send people to Arizona to look into this?" said state Sen. Ron Gould, a Republican. "They might take a look a little closer to home if they are concerned about guns getting in their state."
Meanwhile, Democratic Arizona state Sen. Steve Gallardo introduced a bill Monday to require background checks for all sales at gun shows.
The operators of the Phoenix gun show where the investigators made their buys on Jan. 23 issued a statement Monday saying all exhibitors at its shows are required to follow state and federal gun laws.
"Mayor Bloomberg and his `task force' have no legal authority in the state of Arizona, or in any other place in America except New York City," said the statement from the Crossroads of the West Gun Shows. "These forays into America's heartland committing blatant acts to entrap otherwise innocent gun owners is an unlawful scheme that is created by Bloomberg's task force."
The private investigators, wearing concealed video cameras, were sold the 9 mm guns even after telling two separate sellers they probably couldn't pass background checks.
While many sellers at gun shows are not required under federal law to perform background checks, it is illegal for them to sell a weapon if they have reason to believe the buyer wouldn't be able to pass one, the mayor said.
The mayor said that without mandatory background checks, gun shows had become "magnets for criminals," and called for federal action to close what he said were dangerous loopholes in the law. Last week, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., proposed federal legislation that would require background checks for all firearm purchases at gun shows.
Jim Cavanaugh, a retired agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, where he was in charge of the Nashville division, said he didn't believe the sales described by the mayor were, in fact, illegal.
"It's not a prosecutable offense" because the purchasers were not truly felons, minors or drug abusers and because they didn't tell the sellers definitively that they were, Cavanaugh said. As for Bloomberg, he said, "ATF has asked him not to do it and to please coordinate with ATF if he thinks a violation is occurring."
In 2007, the U.S. Justice Department warned in a letter to City Hall that such civilian operations risk "legal liabilities" and can "unintentionally interrupt or jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations."
The mayor conceded that most illegal guns in New York City are coming from states along the East Coast, but said the rampage in Tucson would bring national attention to the investigation.
The city-hired investigators also obtained a Glock gun and 33-round extended magazine similar to those authorities have said Jared Loughner used to open fire as Giffords met with constituents outside a supermarket.
Investigators have said Loughner legally purchased his ammunition the morning of the attack. He had cleared a federal background check and legally bought a Glock 19 at a big-box sporting goods store two months earlier.
Bloomberg's office said all the investigators were Arizona residents and broke no laws.
The mayor, who heads a national coalition of mayors advocating stronger gun control, argues that it is necessary to bring his battle across state lines because illegal guns from states with more lenient rules consistently find their way onto New York City's streets.
About 90 percent of the 5,000 guns confiscated by city police last year were from out of state, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
An almost identical 2009 sting operation targeted seven gun shows in Tennessee, Ohio and Nevada. As a result, organizers of 35 gun shows around the country — including the 1,300-table Big Reno Show in Nevada — have agreed to end all no-background-check sales, Bloomberg said.
In 2006, more city-hired undercover investigators posed as gun buyers making so-called straw purchases in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia, with one person filling out the paperwork for another person's gun purchase.
ATF spokesman Drew Wade said Monday that he could not comment on whether the agency was investigating the city's findings.
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/31/5962117-nyc-mayor-conducts-gun-sale-sting-in-arizona#c51328727Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover... more
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Southwest Workers Union's living quarters, called "Solidarity House," was sprayed with 15 rounds of semi-automatic rifle fire early Sunday, July 11. A 23-year-old man, James Domingue, was severely injured. His pelvis was shattered by bullets. He remains in critical condition in the hospital.
Six other summer interns fortunately escaped the bullets because they were sitting and eating below the path of gunfire. A member of the group said that if it had been 5 minutes earlier they would have been standing and everyone would have been hit.
Twenty-five shell casings were found in the street by members of the organization and police.
A vigil for the victim was held on Monday at SWU headquarters.
Genaro Rendon, director of the group, said the shooting was not a mistake: "It feels like an attack," he said.
"We think it is related to our beliefs and what we stand for," said one of the group's organizers.
The Southwest Workers Union is a grassroots organization that works for social change from the "bottom up." It recently organized a "Liberation Caravan" of five vans and at least 30 Texans who drove through the night to Arizona to support a May 29 demonstration against the anti-immigrant law SB 1070 passed by the Arizona Legislature. They left at 3 a.m. from the SWU building here to join in the protest against the law, which opponents say would profile people of color and was meant to make life so miserable that immigrants would leave the U.S..
The SWU was started in 1988 in Hondo, Texas, as a community organization to empower workers, poor people and people of color, women and youth to speak out for themselves. They initially organized public school workers for whom the state of Texas denied collective bargaining rights. They organized in other districts for better wages and dignity in the workplace. They have built leadership in the Mexican communities and in the border areas and have developed leadership to empower youth with summer internship programs of which James Domingue was a participant.
SWU's work along the border has focused on the problems resulting from unfair trade agreements such as NAFTA that have driven Mexicans off their land and produced a mass migration of people to the U.S. The organization has fought against the increased militarization of the border and for fair immigration laws. They helped organize 70,000 people in a march in 2005 for immigrant rights.
Recently they have unified with other groups such as Fuerza Unida, which was formed by the women laid off when the Levi jeans plant was moved to Mexico. They have joined with Native Americans from the Indigenous Peoples Council to speak out against the Arizona's unfair and maybe unconstitutional law and to prevent a copycat law in Texas when the Legislature resumes in January,2011.
The fact that this shooting took place at this hub of progressive activity and immigrant struggle when many elected officials and hate groups are trying to outdo each other with immigrant bashing is seen as a dangerous sign.
Activists here say the police and mayor will have to do a thorough investigation of the shooting, and protect the community.SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Southwest Workers Union's living quarters, called... more
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Seattle police say a 10-year-old boy who was shot on a bus turned out to be the victim of his own gun and the aggressor in an attempted robbery.
Police said Wednesday that investigators determined the boy was trying to rob a 17-year-old who had been surrounded on the bus by a group of boys ages 10, 12, 14 and 15.
They say the 10-year-old boy told the teen to empty his pockets.
When the younger boy reached into his backpack, the teen grabbed him in a bear hug. The .22-caliber pistol went off inside the backpack, wounding the 10-year-old in the arm.
Police say the younger boy will face weapon and robbery charges.Seattle police say a 10-year-old boy who was shot on a bus turned out to be the victim... more
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Earlier this month in Yemen, an emotional Hafez Ibrahim greeted Amnesty International researcher Lamri Chirouf, the man he credits with stopping his execution for a crime committed when he was a child.
Now aged 22, Hafez proudly described his determination to make the most of the life that was returned to him. He is in his third year at Sana’a University studying law, and plans to dedicate himself to protecting human rights. His story highlights the additional injustice and cruelty of the death penalty when it comes to juvenile offenders.
Hafez Ibrahim was 16 when he attended a wedding in his home town of Ta’izz. Everyone was in high spirits and most of the men were armed. At some point, the celebrations boiled over, a struggle broke out, a gun went off and someone was killed.
“The first judge sentenced me to death in 2005,” he told Amnesty International. “Then the case was referred to another judge, who confirmed the death sentence.” He was not allowed to appeal.
Two years later and half way across the world in Amnesty International’s headquarters in London, Lamri received a text on his mobile phone. It read: “They are about to execute us. Hafez”. Remarkably, Hafez had managed to get hold of a phone in Ta’izz Central Prison to send his desperate message.
Hafez knew what awaited him. He would be forced to lie face down on the ground inside the prison, and then guards would shoot him through the heart with an automatic rifle. The young man began the cruel countdown to death...Earlier this month in Yemen, an emotional Hafez Ibrahim greeted Amnesty International... more
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EDINBURG - The Hidalgo County sheriff says a man's murder was the result of an intense sibling rivalry. Lupe Trevino says the hostility dated back to 2007.
According to investigators, Zachariah Hooper already had a violent run-in with his 23-year-old brother, Jeremiah. But authorities say the situation turned deadly yesterday morning.
Investigators tell us the two argued over who would use the restroom first. Zachariah Hooper allegedly grabbed a gun and shot his brother in the neck. Jeremiah Hooper later died at the hospital.
Zachariah Hooper is now charged with murder. The 20-year-old stayed silent and showed little emotion as he was charged with the crime.
According to the sheriff, Zachariah Hooper is not cooperating with the investigation.
"He lawyered up and clammed up," explains Trevino. "We will just work with the evidence gathered at the scene and witness statements."
CHANNEL 5 NEWS learned Hooper's mother works at the Hidalgo County jail. She isn't expected to come into contact with her son, since she works in female housing areas.
Zachariah Hooper remains behind bars tonight. He's being held on a $350,000 bond.
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Man-Accused-Of-Murdering-Brother-In-Court/bmESoSrfl0alEtkD8kV7HQ.cspxEDINBURG - The Hidalgo County sheriff says a man's murder was the result of an... more
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A woman remains seriously ill in hospital after being shot in the head in a violent row in which her former partner and their daughter both died.
Hampshire Police said they believed the four-year-old girl was shot dead by her father, who also shot his 40-year-old ex-partner and then killed himself.
They think the man, 56, carried out the shootings as the woman dropped the girl off at their former home in Aldershot.
The woman was said to be "critically" ill in a London hospital.
Police were called at 1011 GMT on Tuesday to the terraced property in Church Hill, close to the main High Street.
Det Insp Darren Rawlings, of Hampshire Constabulary, said officers had been met with a "very traumatic" scene.A woman remains seriously ill in hospital after being shot in the head in a violent... more
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Today I’m sort of sharing a headline with my colleague David Codrea because yesterday’s release by the FBI of preliminary crime data for the first six months of this year just poked a mammoth-sized hole in that bag of hot air carried around by gun prohibitionists.
Not surprisingly, since the Seattle Times and other news outlets reported this Monday, there has not been a peep about it from the gun prohibitionist lobby.
According to the FBI, murder in this country declined by 10 percent overall during the first half of 2009, a period of booming gun sales that primarily focused on the purchase of two types of firearms most often demonized by the anti-gun lobby: semiautomatic sport-utility rifles and handguns.
Anti-gunners have lost another one of their baseless arguments. Millions of Americans bought guns during the first six months of this year, many of them for the first time. Yet with all of those new guns in circulation, coupled with an increased demand for concealed carry licenses around the country, the streets have not been awash in blood, as gun banners repeatedly predict.”—Alan Gottlieb
The National Shooting Sports Foundation commented on the situation here, and also supplied data from the FBI’s National Instant Check System (NICS) here that shows how firearms sales were up, in most months dramatically, from the same period in 2008.
Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, was quick to observe, “What this shows is that gun prohibitionists are all wrong when they argue that more guns result in more crime.”
Hard facts trump hot air. These people are consistently wrong about our rights. Millions of people bought guns, especially semiautomatic sport-utility rifles that gun grabbers want to ban because they say people aren’t safe with all of those guns in private hands. Well, the people disagree, and so does the data.”—Alan Gottlieb
SAF noted in its press release, “The FBI released data Monday that shows murders dropped by 10 percent from the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, according to data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that during the first six months of this year, gun sales were up. January 2009 background checks rose 28.8 percent over the same month in 2008, February’s NICS checks were up 23.3 percent and in March they were up 29.9 percent over March 2008. The trend continued in April, with NICS checks up 30.3 percent, while May showed a slowdown, up only 15.5 percent, and in June they were up 18.1 percent.”
As the Associated Press points out, this declining murder rate continues and even accelerates a trend from 2008, when gun sales began to boom in late autumn with the ascension of the anti-gun Obama administration to the White House.
The early 2009 data suggests the crime-dropping trend of 2008 is not just continuing but accelerating. In 2008, the same data showed a nearly 4 percent drop in murder and manslaughter, and an overall drop in violent crime of 1.9 percent from 2007 to 2008.—Associated Press
Somebody at the Violence Policy Center, or the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, or state-level gun ban lobbying groups like Washington CeaseFire will have to scramble and spin hard to explain this. They’ve been pontificating for years that more guns in circulation – especially those evil, black “military-style, semi-automatic assault rifles” – would lead to gushers of blood in the streets; blood through which they seem all-too-willing to dance right up to the doors of state legislatures and even Congress to peddle their message of citizen disarmament. I wrote about this here.
The most popular firearms selling at that time were handguns and modern sporting rifles (AR-style rifles)--two types of firearms that anti-gunners never miss an opportunity to demonize. Law-abiding handgun owners have been filling concealed carry classes across the country, and AR-Today I’m sort of sharing a headline with my colleague David Codrea because... more
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The rapper is expected to accept an 8-month bid in jail over his alleged involvement with a loaded .40-caliber pistol gun found on his tour bus in 2007 while in New York.
The 27-year-old now faces 15 years in jail for each count of criminal weapons possession and criminal possession of a loaded weapon.The rapper is expected to accept an 8-month bid in jail over his alleged involvement... more
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The Met Police in London launched a hard hitting ad campaign with the title: "Hide his gun and you help commit the crime."
It's aimed at girls aged between 15 and 19, it will focus on the six worst "gun crime" boroughs in London: Brent, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.
Detective Chief Superintendent Helen Ball, head of the Operation Trident squad said of the teenagers: "Many of them believe that if they are caught with a firearm they will not be prosecuted for possession because 'clearly' it is not their gun. But if found guilty of gun possession, they will face a prison sentence, regardless of their sex."
It's a pretty striking ad and hopefully it will work.The Met Police in London launched a hard hitting ad campaign with the title:... more
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A tragic story that should remind everyone how important gun safety is.
An 8 year old boy in Vacaville California fatally shot and killed his 2 year old sister today.
This all took place in a beautiful suburban neigborhood, childrens father a military man in the reserves.
Police removed 6 guns from the home, though police do state there was a safe inside the home. reports ktvu.comA tragic story that should remind everyone how important gun safety is.
An 8 year... more
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A 17-year-old bicyclist is facing charges after deputies say he shot at a driver who yelled at him! That's nutz!A 17-year-old bicyclist is facing charges after deputies say he shot at a driver who... more
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A teenage girl from Croydon, South London, has been arrested after armed police raided her home and found a sub-machine gun in her wardrobe!
What more can be said? A bloody machine gun in a kid's wardrobe? Crikey!
The young lady has been bailed and further arrests are anticipated - police sources say.A teenage girl from Croydon, South London, has been arrested after armed police raided... more
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Americans love their guns. The first battle of the American Revolution wasn't because of taxes or stifling freedom of press or freedom to assemble - but from the attempt by the British soldiers to disarm Massachusetts at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The brigade sized American irregular element used guerrilla style ambushes against a half brigade sized element of British regulars, and the Americans won the day with small arms, to protect their guns.
Small arms, for those of you not in the know, are the pistols, shot guns, rifles, assault weapons, and some machine guns, carried and used by individual soldiers. These are usually differentiated from "light weapons," like RPGs, anti-tank weapons, some heavier machine guns which are "crew served" - that is, that need at least two people to operate. From gang wars, to civil wars, to army on army wars, small arms are almost always the most important weapons, because they are small, cheap, and require very little training to use.
About 80 million private Americans own about 200 million guns, about a third of the world's total of weapons. Pause and think about that for a second. The Vietnamese military and paramilitary forces probably have around 10 million under arms, and weapons for everyone else are outlawed. In China, around 7 million military and paramilitary, and gun ownership is strictly outlawed for others. In North Korea, around 6 million. Compare that to 8 million registered guns in New York City (which has fairly strict regulations by US standards), and 2 million unregistered guns. These three largest armed forces combined are outgunned about 9 to 1 by private Americans.
Demand in the US spiked for weapons this year, as Democrats took over the Congress and White House, causing a spike in international arms trade. Americans love guns so much, the American gun industry can't keep up - hence Americans receiving 27% of all international gun transfers. American suppliers sell 22% of international transfers (including 49% of military grade weapons), as American weapons have strong brand reputations of quality, and of course the cachet of American firepower. Not to mention the US finds it useful for countries to depend on the US (and not Europe, Russia or China) for military weapons.
The international small arms trade isn't a very big business - only around $4 billion in legal, reported small arms transfers reported in 2006. Compare that to about $6 billion per year in Apple iPod sales, or $3 billion per year in Tide laundry detergent. Of course the purpose of guns is not to make profits, but to be able to cause losses. In the US, about 31,000 people were killed by guns in 2006. Most of those deaths, about 17,000, were by suicide, and about 13,000 homicides. Gun violence is a much smaller preventable cause of death than other behavioral problems - about one in 6,500 guns will kill someone per year, generally the gun's owner. Compare that to the 440,000 smoking related deaths per year caused by the 47 million smokers in the US, where each smoker has a 1% chance of passively committing suicide each year.Americans love their guns. The first battle of the American Revolution wasn't... more
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This is a consultation documentary so all the voices are valid and not shaped by the filmakers agenda.The film provides tthe young people with the oppurtunity to articulate their opinions on the causation, culture, and future of gun and knife crime, and thus the film offers an insightful view into the reality of the issue. The film was graded in a monochrome black and white and it was shot with high specification prime lenses. Please support our anti gun and knife crime campaign NOT ON THESE STREETS by joining the facebook group(not on these streets0 ging to www.myspace.com/notonthesestreets and adding us as a friend here on CURRENT!This is a consultation documentary so all the voices are valid and not shaped by the... more
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This is a consultation documentary so all the voices are credible not manipulated by the filmmaker. The film provides tthe young people with the oppurtunity to articulate their opinions on the causation, culture, and future of gun and knife crime, and thus the film offers an insightful view into the reality of the issue. The film was graded in a monochrome black and white and it was shot with high specification prime lenses. If you belive in the message of this project please join th FACEBOOK GROUP - Not on these streets, go to www.myspace.com/notonthesestreets and watch the rest of the project films and here the accompanying music tracks and add us as a friend here on CURRENT!This is a consultation documentary so all the voices are credible not manipulated by... more
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I made this music video with clips courtesy of: Rockstar Games, Inc. www.rockstar.com
I also thrown in a few clips from videos I made myself from my other channels.
I hope you see that this music video has things to with crime and guns and why they are bad both of killing people and ruining relationships. They also infulence jobs based on crimes.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalized three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife. A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, authorities said. She is expected to fully recover.
"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God," said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.
Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton's husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.
He showed up at their home in rural Jackson County in Southeast Mississippi about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.
"She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head," Byrd said. "Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself."
A deputy was greeted by the woman when he arrived minutes after she was shot with the slug from a .380-caliber handgun.
"When the officer got there she said, `What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened," he said. "She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink."
Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to a Mobile hospital by a helicopter.
While such cases may be rare, a neurosurgeon who wasn't involved in Sexton's case said such an outcome is possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.
"There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage. Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare," said Dr. Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
The sheriff called the case bizarre.
"You just don't hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they're dead," Byrd said.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only... more
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Despite a recent spate of killings, the president and fellow Democrats choose not to wage war on assault weapons.
On the morning of April 4, Richard Poplawski had a quarrel with his mother. It was over a dog urinating on a carpet. Mom called the police to have her 22-year-old son evicted from her house, a brick ranch with a dirty aluminum awning in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Two officers responded to the call, figuring it was a typical domestic dispute. Margaret Poplawski greeted them by saying, "Come and take his ass." But the younger Poplawski, who had been laid off from his job in a glass factory recently, had other plans. He went to a private arms cache in the house, retrieved his guns and strapped on a Kevlar bulletproof vest.
Poplawski shot officer Paul J. Sciullo II, 37, inside the house and hit 29-year-old Stephen Mayhle on the stoop. Both men fell dead. Poplawski calmly stood in the doorway and fired two or three more bullets into Mayhle's body, according to a police affidavit from a witness. Then he retreated into the house and fired hundreds of rounds, using an AK-47 assault rifle and other weapons to fend off a police SWAT team for four hours. He killed one other cop, 41-year-old Eric Kelly, and wounded yet another.
It was the deadliest day in the history of the Steel City's police department. When police finally apprehended and questioned Poplawski, he was without remorse. "He said he wishes he could have killed more Pittsburgh police officers," says a cop who was on the scene but asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case. (Poplawski's lawyer did not respond to multiple requests for comment last week.)
There was a time when a creep like Poplawski would have become a potent symbol in the debate over gun control. He wasn't your run-of-the-mill malcontent. A white supremacist, he frequented the chat rooms of racist Web sites, where he posted screeds about a "Zionist occupation" bringing the country to economic ruin. But Keith Savage, manager of the Braverman Arms Co., where Poplawski got many of his guns (but not the AK-47, Savage claims), says nothing seemed amiss when he filled out Form 4473—the standard questionnaire for federally required background checks. The gun-shop staff had no way of knowing, for instance, about Poplawski's January 2005 discharge from the Marines for what Lt. Josh Diddams, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman, tells NEWSWEEK was a "psychological disorder" (he had assaulted his drill sergeant during basic training, says Poplawski's mother). They probably also didn't know that Poplawski's former girlfriend had gotten a restraining order against him, later in 2005, after he grabbed her by the hair and threatened to kill her.
In the past, national political leaders might have raised troubling questions about how such an unstable character could obtain easy access to high-powered weapons. They might have been even more motivated given that Poplawski's cop-killing spree was part of a near epidemic of mass homicides that have left 58 people dead over the past month. Or given that Mexico's insanely violent drug cartels are arming themselves with high-powered assault weapons purchased at U.S. gun stores and later smuggled south of the border. Yet many past champions of stricter gun-control measures are silent. These include top Obama White House officials who have squelched any talk within the administration about pushing further gun-control measures."It's weird," says Peter Hamm, the communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "When you see people like [Attorney General] Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton or [White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel become muted on this issue, you feel like you want to call up a friend and say, 'What's up?' "Despite a recent spate of killings, the president and fellow Democrats choose not to... more
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‘WEAPONS? DISCUSS...’ is part of ‘NOT ON THESE STREETS’, a weapons awareness online resource strand created by Access moving Image and the young people of Leeds.
The strand consists of music videos and documentary films exploring the issue of gun & knife crime viewable online. The whole project is dedicated to the memory of our friend, Pat Regan - the brightest light in the campaign against gun and knife crime.
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'WEAPONS? DISCUSS...' is a consultation film made in collaboration with young people across Leeds. This film spearheads AMI's commitment to spreading the weapons awareness message amongst young people all over the UK. The project was born out of our desire to provide targeted participants with a programme of activity that could help them improve upon their existing ICT skills, whilst collaborating to produce a resource for weapons awareness practitioners within the community, as well as supporting emerging musical artists from around the city. The film features on a forthcoming DVD project aimed directly at schools and youth groups. This film stands in stark contrast to the majority of films exploring the issue of gun and knife crime amongst Britain's young people as it was created through direct consultation with young people. The film provides tthe young people with the oppurtunity to articulate their opinions on the causation, culture, and future of gun and knife crime, and thus the film offers an insightful view into the reality of the issue. The film was graded in a monochrome black and white and it was shot with high specification prime lenses.
A copy of the DVD package can be requested by contacting our assistant producer Lee Ramseyer: Lee Ramseyer-Bache l Assistant Producer l Access Moving Image Limited | Leeds Media Centre l Savile Mount l LEEDS l LS7 3HZ l +44 (0) 113 2007044 l +44 (0) 07814 134313 l lee@accessmovingimage.com‘WEAPONS? DISCUSS...’ is part of ‘NOT ON THESE STREETS’, a... more
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