United States
14yr-old Boy Survives California Family Shooting Rampage: 5 Others Died
Associated Press
26 Feb 2008
YORBA LINDA, California -- Investigators said Tuesday they are awaiting the results of forensic tests and autopsies as they try to unravel an apparent murder-suicide that claimed the lives of five family members here. Police interviewed the lone survivor, wounded 14-year-old Ian Mercado, on Monday and then returned to the crime scene with a new search warrant, said Lt. Jack Conklin of the Brea Police Department, which serves Yorba Linda. The teen is recovering in the hospital from a gunshot wound to his lower torso and a hand injury. Conklin declined to say what Mercado told police, but said they did a "complete and thorough" bedside interview. Conklin... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
5yr-old Girl Playing, Hit by Stray Bullet: 'Not a Crime' Say Kansas Police
KCTV-TV News (Missouri)
26 Feb 2008
KANSAS CITY, Missouri -- Doctors are trying to remove a 5-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet from life support and start feeding her through a tube, her family said on Tuesday. Katherine Cook was playing in the yard of her rural Leavenworth County, Kansas, home during the weekend with her brothers when the bullet hit her about an inch above her left eye. She was flown to Children's Mercy Hospital, where she's been on life support since. Investigators are trying to determine who fired the shot that hit her. On Monday, her grandfather, Curtis Cook, said he couldn't understand how someone could be so reckless with... ( gunpolicy.org )
Angola
Angola Debates Law to Disarm Citizens in Possession of Illegal Guns
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
26 Feb 2008
LUANDA -- The Resolution Draft on the disarming of citizens in illegal possession of guns will be debated this Tuesday, by the National Assembly, ANGOP has learnt. The plenary session will also analyse the government's request for authorisation to legislate on updating the Customs Tariffs. The lawmakers will also debate the management of the public television (TPA)'s Channel 2, whose alleged privatisation has caused a great controversy. Some press organs have recently reported that Channel 2 has been privatised, but TPA has denied it, having already released two communiqués reiterating that Channel 2 is still part of TPA. In the last... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
High Cost of US Gun Violence: For Each Death, 4 Survivors, Many Paralysed
Associated Press
26 Feb 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Antoine Rosenbaum, shot in the back by a stranger and paralyzed from the chest down, carries a heavy load for someone just 25. So does Sophorina Wright as she gets him out of bed, cradles him in her arms and carries his 6-foot frame into their living room. There, the 21-year-old woman seats her husband gently on the sofa, arranges his legs, straightens his feet and settles down next to him to watch TV. "She sacrificed a lot, because once I got shot she could have just said, 'I can't do this, it's too much.' She stuck with me," Rosenbaum says. "That's my heart. She spoils me, she do." Homicides have become the yardstick for measuring... ( gunpolicy.org )
India
Indian Gun Culture: Craft Manufacture, Psychology Behind Buying a Firearm
Times Now TV (Mumbai)
26 Feb 2008
In a shocking revelation, Times Now's Jagori Dhar uncovers mushrooming of gun culture in Bihar and unravels as to how easy it is to procure an arm in Bihar. Our reporter visited an undisclosed location near Patna where fire arms were available at throw away prices. The place appeared like any other cowshed, however, on closer look it was unveiled that the undisclosed location was the heart of the gun culture in Bihar. Our investigation indicated the fact that gun culture is mushrooming by leaps and bounds and it has become easy to procure a gun. The cowsheds were located just 30 kilometres away from the city of Patna, where right under the heaps of hay mushroomed... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Most Americans Believe Constitution Guarantees Guns: Courts 'Out of Step'
USA Today
26 Feb 2008
WASHINGTON -- Guns, and questions about how much power the government has to keep people from owning them, are at the core of one of the most divisive topics in American politics. Nowhere is that divide more pronounced than in the gap between Americans' beliefs about their rights under the Second Amendment, and how courts have interpreted the law. Nearly three out of four Americans -- 73% -- believe the Second Amendment spells out an individual right to own a firearm, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,016 adults taken Feb. 8-10. Yet for decades, federal judges have seen the Constitution differently, allowing a range of gun-control measures... ( gunpolicy.org )
Guyana
Network Calls for Effective Gun Control, Fewer Loose Firearms in Guyana
Stabroek News (Guyana)
26 Feb 2008
The Guyana Peace Builders Network (PBN) in condemning the slayings at Bartica is appealing to policymakers to consider an effective gun control policy and advance measures to stymie the access to arms. Referring to the slayings as a mirroring of the recent killings at Lusignan, the group said that unless the perpetrators -- the shooters and the highly resourced organizers -- of the killings are apprehended and processed within the framework of the rule of law, acts of violence will continue unabated. PBN stated in a press release last Saturday that the nation needs timely, effective and concerted action, noting that otherwise the likelihood for recovery... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Virginia Senate Views Cars, Bars, Guns and Alcohol as 'Splendid Mixers'
Washington Post, Column
26 Feb 2008
With all the talk about Virginia being in play in this fall's presidential race, and with Virginia's embrace of Barack Obama being cited by pundits across the land as evidence of some leftward drift in what has been since 1964 a rock-solid Republican state, it may be useful to take a reality check. And where better to look than in Richmond, home of the General Assembly, the legislature that loves to stand tall for good old Virginia values. The House of Delegates last week decided to join the Senate in embracing this great new idea: Guns and alcohol are splendid mixers. The House voted 62-36 to let people with concealed weapons permits carry their guns into bars... ( gunpolicy.org )
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