Hi,
I did a bit of looking around. At the Demoines Register, there is some
data,
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/NEWS01/40902020/
on meth activity. If you click on the Iowa state map, and then on Story
county, you find
County seat Nevada
Population 79,981
Population ranking 9
Median household income $40,442
Household income ranking 18
Lab seizures (2002) 34
Lab seizure ranking 7
Possession incidents (1995) 24
Possession incidents (2002) 29
This suggests, if 2002 is representative, that more than 200 meth labs
have been busted in story county between 1995 to 2002 (inclusive).
Thus, it seems quite plausible that a bust could have occurred near
where Kerry says it happened.
David Harris
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1. 3rd debate on AWB (dr Zox)
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SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, new question, two minutes.
You said that if Congress would vote to extend the ban on assault
weapons, that you'd sign the legislation, but you did nothing to
encourage the Congress to extend it. Why not?
BUSH: Actually, I made my intentions -- made my views clear. I did
think we ought to extend the assault weapons ban, and was told the fact
that the bill was never going to move, because Republicans and
Democrats were against the assault weapon ban, people of both parties.
I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe
in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns
don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.
But the best way to protect our citizens from guns is to prosecute
those who commit crimes with guns. And that's why early in my
administration I called the attorney general and the U.S. attorneys and
said: Put together a task force all around the country to prosecute
those who commit crimes with guns. And the prosecutions are up by about
68 percent -- I believe -- is the number.
Neighborhoods are safer when we crack down on people who commit crimes
with guns.
To me, that's the best way to secure America.
SCHIEFFER: Senator?
KERRY: I believe it was a failure of presidential leadership not to
reauthorize the assault weapons ban.
I am a hunter. I'm a gun owner. I've been a hunter since I was a kid,
12, 13 years old. And I respect the Second Amendment and I will not
tamper with the Second Amendment.
But I'll tell you this. I'm also a former law enforcement officer. I
ran one of the largest district attorney's offices in America, one of
the ten largest. I put people behind bars for the rest of their life.
I've broken up organized crime. I know something about prosecuting.
And most of the law enforcement agencies in America wanted that assault
weapons ban. They don't want to go into a drug bust and be facing an
AK-47.
I was hunting in Iowa last year with a sheriff from one of the counties
there, and he pointed to a house in back of us, and said, "See the
house over? We just did a drug bust a week earlier, and the guy we
arrested had an AK-47 lying on the bed right beside him."
Because of the president's decision today, law enforcement officers
will walk into a place that will be more dangerous. Terrorists can now
come into America and go to a gun show and, without even a background
check, buy an assault weapon today.
And that's what Osama Bin Laden's handbook said, because we captured it
in Afghanistan. It encouraged them to do it.
So I believe America's less safe.
If Tom DeLay or someone in the House said to me, "Sorry, we don't have
the votes," I'd have said, "Then we're going to have a fight."
And I'd have taken it out to the country and I'd have had every law
enforcement officer in the country visit those congressmen. We'd have
won what Bill Clinton won.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135380,00.html
the Iowa story:
Kerry hits Bush for lapse of gun ban
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 14, 2004
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040914-123037-7051r.htm
He recalled pheasant hunting with a sheriff in Iowa recently. As they
were walking through a field, the senator said, the sheriff pointed to
a house nearby and said, "We did a drug bust in that house about a week
ago. And we came in early in the morning. And the person that they were
arresting was asleep, lying in bed. And lying right on the floor, right
beside that drug dealer, was an AK-47."
earlier version of the tale:
http://www.iptv.org/iowapress/transcripts/3109.cfm
10-24-03
YOU KNOW, IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN I WAS AT THAT PHEASANT SHOOT THIS
AFTERNOON, THE SHERIFF -- I WAS WITH PAUL FITZGERALD AND WITH THE
COUNTY ATTORNEY, STEVE HOLMES, AND THEY POINTED TO A HOUSE THAT WAS
RIGHT LODGED IN NEAR HIS FARM THAT THEY JUST RAIDED AND SHUT DOWN. IT
WAS A METHAMPHETAMINE HOUSE, A CRACK HOUSE. AND THE GUY THEY ARRESTED
THERE WHEN THEY RAIDED IT HAD A LOADED AK-47 BESIDE HIS BED
i'm having a hard time finding online, any meth lab bust stories in
Colo, Iowa near Ryan McKinney's corn farm.
you would think the local papers might mention it
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