Caribbean
Caribbean Countries Call on UN to Launch Global Gun Trade Treaty
Caribbean Net News
6 Oct 2008
ST JOHN's, Antigua -- Representatives from several Caribbean governments, regional NGOs and law enforcement agencies have conducted landmark talks in Antigua on international arms transfers, development and the Arms Trade Treaty. According to the statement read on behalf of the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Baldwin Spencer, the prime minister wished to assure "that my government will do all in its power to support the Arms Trade Treaty in the region". The discussions ended with a call for the United Nations to begin negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty as soon as possible and before 2010. The deliberations of the two-day conference... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Judge Rules Pennsylvania Teen Can't Wear Gun T-shirt to School
Associated Press
6 Oct 2008
LANCASTER, Pennsylvania -- A federal judge has sided with a south-central Pennsylvania school district in a dispute over whether a high school student should have been barred from wearing a T-shirt with images of guns on it. "Students have no constitutional right to promote violence in our public schools," U.S. District Judge James Knoll Gardner in Allentown wrote in the Sept. 30 opinion Miller v. Penn Manor School District. Donald Miller III, now a 15-year-old sophomore at Penn Manor High School in Millersville, was given detention in December after he defied an assistant principal's order to turn the shirt inside-out. Images of two guns were printed... ( gunpolicy.org )
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