No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.11/460 - Release Date: 10/1/2006 Brady Bunch Attacks Florida Stand-Your-Ground Law: "In five highly questionable Florida deaths, the law is being used by killers in efforts to avoid conviction for a crime, and one of those deaths predated the law by almost a year." http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73535 --- Priority One - Mental Awareness: A clerk at a gasoline station in Alabama prevailed over two robbers when he noticed them, one with gun in hand, trying to push open a door marked "pull." (1. Mental awareness 2. Mental preparedness 3. Tactics 4. Skill 5. Equipment) http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/115960808286190.xml&coll=3 --- Why Was This Guy Shot 68 Times?: Face to face with an armed man suspected of killing a Polk County (FL) deputy sheriff, SWAT officers riddled his body with 68 bullets. Altogether, nine officers fired 110 times Friday at Angilo Freeland, who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said "executed" one of his deputies. "That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more," Judd said after autopsy results were released Saturday. (That's a hit ratio of 62% for trained SWAT officers.) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-deputy0106oct01,0,618171.story?coll=orl-home-headlines --- Rule Two Reminder: An off-duty Florida deputy sheriff fatally shot himself in the face while showing off an what is reported as an "unloaded" .45-caliber revolver. (Yes, folks, I am aware that he also violated Rule One and Rule Three.) http://www.syracuse.com/ap/stories/index.ssf?/base/national-72/1159673381197340.xml&storylist=topstories --- Rule Three Reminder: A Wyoming police officer shot himself in the leg with a 10mm pistol as he lost his balance while being attacked by two dogs. He went on to shoot both dogs before being transported t the hospital. http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/09/30/news/wyoming/4bee7fd289f48810872571f90003d9c9.txt --- The Rules: For those who may not remember The Rules... http://www.spw-duf.info/safety.html --- Sympathetic Grand Jury: A Grand jury in Tennessee has refused to indict a 72-year-old business owner who shot one of two thieving former employees with a "warning shot." (Discharging a firearm is generally considered deadly force. If there is no justification to shoot an assailant, the gun should generally not be fired.) http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1211&dept_id=169689&newsid=17262161&PAG=461&rfi=9 --- Chicks With Guns, Part II: Mary Katharine Ham follows up on her earlier look at women defending themselves. (Perhaps some list members would care to advise her of my website, book and course offerings.) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/10/02/chicks_with_guns,_part_ii --- Literal Interpretation Of Constitution Not Possible: This Californian fails to grasp that the transition away from a militia to a standing army only makes the intent of the Second Amendment more relevant. http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_5034268,00.html --- California Politicians Proud Of NRA "F" Ratings: When told that Greaves considers her, along with Boxer and Feinstein, to be one of "the three witches" in terms of anti-gun legislation, Woolsey laughed. The way she sees it, she supports common-sense uses such as hunting, limits on who can buy guns and what types of guns are sold. "If that makes me one of the three witches, then I'm glad," she said. http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_4427213 --- Los Angeles Times Obituary For Jeff Cooper: The Los Angeles Times offers an unusually friendly obituary for a man whose overall philosophy of self-sufficiency and self-defense they have strenuously opposed. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-cooper1oct01,0,849848.story?coll=la-home-obituaries --- Tangentially Related: Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor complains, in part, about Congressional efforts that would forbid judges from citing foreign law when they are interpreting the Constitution. (It's a sad day when an Arizonan thinks we should be looking to countries such as Britain and Australia to interpret the Second Amendment.) http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009019 Speculation On The Roberts Court: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1002/p02s01-usju.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/washington/02scotus.html?_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .