Re: Guns, Drugs, and Crime

2003-12-15 Thread Charles Curley
have a copy of the study in PDF. http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/kids.html This supports Guy's contention that the schools are primarily urban (gun banning). -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: All rights

2004-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
instructive to read anterior documents like state BoRs, the English BoR, and Magna Carta. On one point the federalists were correct: if you have a BoR and do not enumerate a right, it will get lost in the shuffle. In spite of the IXth and Xth Amdnts, by and large that has happened. -- Charles

Re: Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel favors individual rights view of the Second Amendment

2004-12-18 Thread Charles Curley
at the U.N.? Isn't the NRA an official NGO? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key

Brazilians reject gun sales ban

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Curley
% of the votes counted on Sunday, 64% of Brazilians were opposed to the ban, while 36% backed it, said officials at the Supreme Electoral Court. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5C4EC2D2-16CD-483A-A70C-C5A5522922DE.htm -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking

Jury clears homeowner who took cop for intruder

2006-01-29 Thread Charles Curley
, Barcia fired a single shot. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/13713521.htm?source=rsschannel=miamiherald_local -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML

Re: A parallel quest

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF

Re: New Report Above the Law on how Texas Prosecutors flouting a new carry law

2007-03-04 Thread Charles Curley
to mean residents of Texas. How does the statute affect non-Texans? I would think that a non-Texan in Texas is traveling within the meaning of the statute, but I'm not a lawyer. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

Re: COMMAS OF THE SECOND

2007-03-22 Thread Charles Curley
State, the right of the people to keep and drive Automobiles, shall not be infringed. It would make an interesting ballot initiative. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing

Re: NYT: Liberal Con Law Scholars responsible for individual right theory

2007-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
involving the 1st or 5th Amdnts quote those at length? I suppose we should be thankful that the reporter at least knows what it says. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X

Yet Another Government Buyback Program

2007-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
launched a campaign last month to shut down shops selling weapons without a license and confiscate unlicensed weapons. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C54AE0B4-ADFB-40BC-A2E0-58DA0A1BF9A7.htm -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Guns, swords, knives, toys, ... . Will two sticks be next?

2007-09-30 Thread Charles Curley
the single most important theme in relation to the use of illegal firearms. This suggests that drug legalization would do a lot to reduce all crimes, not just freamrs offenses -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

US Supreme Court ponders gun law

2007-11-20 Thread Charles Curley
Constitution. The US capital has banned handguns since 1976. BTW, is the caption under the photo of the Browning pistol accurate? Handguns are used in most US assaults and robberies -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect

Re: Fred Thompson calls gun show paradise.

2007-11-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:33:32PM -0600, Joseph E. Olson wrote: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/24/ thompson-calls-gun-show-paradise/ November 24, 2007 This may be a generally useful resource: http://gunowners.org/pres08/. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: Is there a compendium of English and Colonial gun control laws out there?

2008-01-08 Thread Charles Curley
and as often as you can, and keep moving on. -- Ulysses S. Grant Or, as Patton put it, Grab him by the nose and kick him in the pants. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X

Conviction reversed for felon in possession; 10th Circuit

2008-01-16 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: Good discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of shotguns vs. handguns for self-defense

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Curley
tested this on the range with empty weapons, and prefer the handgun. (Hint: put the phone down, and use your free hand to dial.) Safer here means both preventing accidental discharges, and being able to hit the suspect if necessary. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Then they came for the lasers....

2008-04-03 Thread Charles Curley
in the Bexley area of Sydney. Six passenger flights were affected, with air-traffic controllers having to re-route the planes. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/australian_airliner_laser_attacks/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Lost and Stolen guns

2008-04-10 Thread Charles Curley
. And after several minutes, he returns saying, Oh my gosh, it's not there. I need to report this right away, do you have the forms? Or the resident responds, Gee, I sold that in a private sale a while ago. (In a state where such would be legal.) -- Charles Curley /\ASCII

Open Carry Enthusiasts

2008-06-10 Thread Charles Curley
and Budweisers. Resources: http://www.vcdl.org/ http://opencarry.org/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M

Re: Eugene Volokh: Another Early 1800s Source Supporting the Individual Rights View of the Second Amendment:

2008-07-13 Thread Charles Curley
and mustered militia might be in need of ferries, and so of ferrymen. Also, armed ferrymen at their ferries could provide a choke point defense against an invader, a good delaying tactic. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect

Re: DC Rejects Heller's Handgun Application

2008-07-17 Thread Charles Curley
,565463.asp See also: http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1237,q,547431.asp -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

Re: The slippery slope is alive and doing well in Canada.

2008-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
on this list carries over to security in general, I think folks here will find it enlightening. http://www.schneier.com/blog/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML

Re: Priv. Immun. Clause of 14th Amend Incorporation.

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Curley
of the Framers of the XIVth Amdnt. He provides evidence that they clearly meant the IInd to be applied to the states. For example, in Congressional debate they used it as an example of the rights that would be applied. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine

Re: CCW data set

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Curley
want. Other states may also publish such data. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs

Re: 9th Circuit adopts incorporation of 2nd amend. through the 14th amend. in Nordyke.

2009-04-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:53:01PM -0500, Raymond Kessler wrote: Ditto: I’m just a little surprised to see the usually liberal 9^th Cir. Supporting gun rights! Don Kates is much too polite a gentleman to take exception to your surprise. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII

Re: Gun free zones and school shooting list

2009-05-28 Thread Charles Curley
created a diversion, the other tackled him. Their father was US military, SEALS, perhaps, and had taught them about weapons and tactics. He also had the chutzpah to wear an I'm the NRA cap to press conferences. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine

Re: Volokh: California Court of Appeal Upholds Ban

2009-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
have my flamethrower when you pry it :-) -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email

Re: Indiana shall-issue and noncitizens

2009-06-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:44:40 -0700 Volokh, Eugene vol...@law.ucla.edu wrote: Sure, but I take it that those are *possession* limits, not carrying limits, right? Can you carry without possessing? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

They Carry Guns

2009-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
myself when someone else beats me to the punch. A scraggly-looking beachgoer, a man of indeterminable age because he is so weather-beaten, approaches. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jul/15/cover/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Index of Heller opinion

2009-09-03 Thread Charles Curley
be interested in doing it, but only if we can get some funding. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word

Re: Gasoline lead exposure and crime

2009-10-31 Thread Charles Curley
, etc. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4

Re: Playing the fear card in the 2nd Amend. incorp. debate.

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
of the something. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645

Re: Continuing vitality IN LAW of the unorganized militia

2009-11-19 Thread Charles Curley
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Territorial_Guard I seem to recall something not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, that ATG members were part of the invasions of Attu and Kiska, scouting the islands prior to regular Army landings. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine

Re: Continuing vitality IN LAW of the unorganized militia

2009-11-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:06 -0700 Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Also, the US Army put together something called the Alaska Territorial Guard. They were guides and other folk familiar with Alaska, and provide their own kit, including weapons. http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: First and Second Amendment, propaganda

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Curley
consists of hunting and fishing, etc.. We Irish ought to have had such policies 1600 years ago. Oh, well, so much for 20/20 hindsight. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing

Re: New anti-RKBA article

2010-03-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:08:45 -0500 Raymond Kessler rkess...@sulross.edu wrote: This article is more flagellation of a dead horse! Get over it! Not only dead but taken to the slaughter house long ago. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate

2010-04-09 Thread Charles Curley
the law by showing up at so-called meet-ups, in which gun owners appear at Starbucks, pizza parlors and other businesses openly bearing their weapons. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/us/08guns.html -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Gun control and ownership laws in the UK

2010-06-05 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: New article by Joyce Malcolm

2010-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:27:45 -0500 Joseph E. Olson jol...@gw.hamline.edu wrote: Yet the Constitution is silent on whether the Founders intended federal courts to assume that authority. This essay tackles that question,... Marbury v. Madison: the world's most subtle coup d'etat. -- Charles

Re: Bellesiles is STILL lying.

2010-07-13 Thread Charles Curley
://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Central_Connecticut_State_University) again? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http

No ammo in gun fight: Liberals and NDP engage in futile battle over registry

2010-09-18 Thread Charles Curley
is based on an on-line poll, which are self-selecting. It correlates with a year old nationwide telephone poll. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email

Re: Carrying concealed weapon decision

2010-10-18 Thread Charles Curley
of the United States Constitution. http://www.wisconsinappeals.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Schultz1.pdf -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email

The Phrase well regulated through the ages.

2010-12-17 Thread Charles Curley
examples of the use of your phrase. There's more information at http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php?item.3685.3 I'm sure the attorneys can think of other words and phases to try. (Or should that be Words and Phrases?) -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Well regulated

2011-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
recall finding an example to the contrary. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key

Legal Scholars Are “Best” Researchers on the Second Amendment….Not

2011-02-04 Thread Charles Curley
State University, is completely off the mark: (links omitted) http://patrickjcharles.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/legal-scholars-are-best-researchers-on-second-amendment-not/ I shall well regulate myself and withhold comment for the nonce. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

How Many Global Deaths from Arms? - New Journal Article on ATT

2011-02-28 Thread Charles Curley
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The Disarming Nature of the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act: A Constitutional Analysis of Wyoming’s Interposition Between Its Citizens and the Federal Government

2011-03-21 Thread Charles Curley
Court and from a political perspective 11 Wyoming Law Review 201 (2011) http://www.oshane.com/wp/2011/03/wyomingffacomment/ Mostly tenth amendment analysis, but I trust not entirely off topic. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

British gun control is sexist

2011-05-04 Thread Charles Curley
/tatler/2011/04/29/british-gun-control-is-sexist/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email

Re: Good to remember

2011-05-23 Thread Charles Curley
-and-furious/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645

Re: District Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Conceal Carry

2011-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
), and not a one has seen any increase in crime. But the court engages in no analysis on this point. Now I have a question. The court refuses to analogize on the First Amendment. But I wonder: what other constitutionally protected right depends on showing good moral character? -- Charles Curley

Re: District Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Conceal Carry

2011-06-01 Thread Charles Curley
it to court seeking such protection is probably not endangered enough to warrant it. http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/is-the-second-amendment-merely-a-pesky-carve-out/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: Firearmsregprof Digest, Vol 88, Issue 2

2011-06-22 Thread Charles Curley
complaining about bad science on guns should be talking to the folks complaining about bad science on climate change. http://climateaudit.org/2011/06/14/ipcc-wg3-and-the-greenpeace-karaoke/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect

A Hidden Victory for Gun Rights

2011-07-06 Thread Charles Curley
by weighing the value of a particular category against its social costs….” (Emphasis added.) http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/a-hidden-gun-rights-victory/ -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: You can't buy that lime... it could be classed as a weapon: Shock for chef shopping at Asda

2011-11-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:37:53 -0500 Henry Schaffer h...@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: This is a case where it pays to read all the way to the end of the article. :-) I stand corrected. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect

New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner

2012-01-09 Thread Charles Curley
of the new law following attacks in which drain cleaner was poured on two Chicago women, badly scarring them. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/new-law-requires-photo-id-to-buy-drain-cleaner/ When drain cleaner is outlawed -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Re: Firearms Infringement Repeal Act

2012-01-15 Thread Charles Curley
to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Wait, that sound familiar, somehow. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

MILLER: Emily gets her gun, Part 2

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Curley
was there, I should track down this man, who seemed to play a key role. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/6/emily-gets-her-gun-part-2/ Imagine if you had to go through all this to get permission to own a copy of the Koran. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Re: Modern historians, Bad history.

2012-01-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:02 -0600 Joseph E. Olson jol...@gw.hamline.edu wrote: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2012/01/the_ruinous_reign_of_race-and-.html Related: Error cascade: a definition and examples, http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1642 -- Charles Curley

The strange birth of NY’s gun laws

2012-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
/the_strange_birth_of_ny_gun_laws_QJmHRpczvWipydklC80HYM -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key

Re: Even on an island, gun bans can't stop criminals

2012-12-12 Thread Charles Curley
that she had no money to buy diamonds. http://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-police-nail-salon-customer-packs-heat-gunman-leaves/article_e3236de2-6756-539a-92b0-ae3aaf64c900.html That's the way it's supposed to work. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking

Re: Even on an island, gun bans can't stop criminals

2012-12-12 Thread Charles Curley
November 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Letwin You could probably narrow it down further with similar checks on other data in the article. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing

FYI: resources

2013-01-27 Thread Charles Curley
Fish's classic They Were Having a Sale at the Gun Store. http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/jukes.shtml) -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http

Re: Interstate transactions and the Big Lies

2013-05-07 Thread Charles Curley
and the truth. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645

Re: Poletecracy

2013-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 31 May 2013 19:08:39 -0500 Jon Roland jon.rol...@constitution.org wrote: Poletecracy by Jon Roland If the practitioners of plutocracy are fat cats, then the practitioners of poletecracy would be pole cats. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking

Re: Poletecracy

2013-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#Polesotechnic_League_period_of_Nicholas_van_Rijn -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

Police stats inflate the number of guns actually stolen in Blighty

2014-10-21 Thread Charles Curley
Police stats inflate the number of guns actually stolen in Blighty Guns, or objects licensed as guns? Big difference between the two Analysis The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has claimed that more legally owned firearms were lost or stolen over the last few years than appears to

Re: Unsubscribe

2017-04-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:16:48 -0700 "Craig Bolton" wrote: > > Mr Bolton, this is not the way to unsubscribe. For everyone's benefit: many email lists (including this one) add headers to emails with information about the list. The one Mr. Bolton wants is "List-Subscribe:".