Japan
Japanese Worry As More Licensed Guns Used in Murder, Family Violence
BBC News
27 Feb 2008
TOKYO -- Japan is not a country you associate with serious crime. It has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, but figures published recently suggest the number of shootings here rose by a quarter last year, the first rise in five years. Gangsters were blamed for two-thirds of the attacks but many Japanese are worried that, increasingly, licensed guns are being used for murder too. In 2006 just two people were killed in gun attacks in Japan. Last year the number jumped to 22. Although the numbers are small for such a populous country, the rate of increase is huge. To get hold of a gun here, to hunt or for sport, you have... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Mothers of Gun Violence Victims Join Push for Gun Control in Pennsylvania
Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh)
27 Feb 2008
Each time Terri Coles hears about a child being gunned down, she relives the moments after her 8-year-old daughter was shot to death. Coles, 37, said her life was destroyed on Jan. 25, 2002, when her youngest child, Taylor, and Coles' fiance, Parrish Freeman, died in the ambush on Mr. Tommy's Sandwich Stop in Homewood. She said she doesn't want another family to feel such pain. On Tuesday, Coles and other mothers of crime victims joined law-enforcement officials, politicians and advocates for stronger gun control to kick off an Allegheny County chapter of CeaseFirePA at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The statewide nonprofit works to prevent... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Pennsylvania Groups Push for Gun Theft Reporting, One-gun-a-month Laws
Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh)
27 Feb 2008
CeaseFirePA, an organization that works to reduce gun violence, gathered with residents, local law enforcement and victims of gun violence yesterday at UPMC Children's Hospital to urge revival of legislation that it said could help take illegal guns off the streets. One bill, which would have prohibited purchasing more than one handgun a month, was defeated in the state House Judiciary Committee. Another, tabled in the Judiciary Committee, would give gun owners 24 hours after their guns are stolen or go missing to report the missing weapons to police or face a $500 fine, according to CeaseFirePA. "Law enforcement, the International Association... ( gunpolicy.org )
Namibia
Wife Begs Namibian Court to Free Husband Who Shot Her, Children & Sister
Namibian (Windhoek)
27 Feb 2008
WINDHOEK -- Michael Endjala, the man arrested for shooting four members of his immediate family on October 20 2006, yesterday pleaded guilty to all four counts of attempted murder in the Windhoek Regional Court in Katutura. Endjala (30) is accused of shooting his wife, Priscilla Endjala, in the chest, his wife's sister, Dorothy Gatyehe, in the stomach, and their then eight-year-old son and 16-month-old daughter in the leg and stomach respectively at the family's rented backyard flat in Khomasdal. From the start of the proceedings, Endjala's defence attorney Sisa Namandje said that Endjala accepted full responsibility for his actions, and conceded that... ( gunpolicy.org )
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