Archive for April 12th, 2008
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No Riots Over Lima Gang Shootings
No protests. No marches. No information on the creeps who come along and shoot someone. Everyone knows what goes on near the EZ Check Mart and the area around it. A recent meeting about needing information ends up only blaming the police and the mistreatment they say they received. Doesn’t anyone consider it mistreatment when people shoot people in drug/gang related incidences? Or is the color of the skin the only thing they see?
Tags: OhioLIMA — While understanding ongoing questions about race remain, Mayor David Berger said Friday he and police need residents with information about recent shootings to come forward.
Police need witnesses to or those with knowledge of a rash of street shootings to speak up, even if that’s anonymously, Berger and police Maj. Richard Shade said.
Without that, police “will be hard pressed to identify those responsible and put an end to these street shootings,” Berger said.
Also on Friday, a small group in the black community met with Lima Police officials to talk about what can be done to avoid further incidents. Jobs and things for young people to do top the list.
“When you talk to folks, they will tell you, we don’t have anything to do,” said Sixth Ward Councilman Derry Glenn, who called the meeting, which turned into another discussion of black residents being mistreatment and disrespect by police.
Within the last month, police have handled at least six shots-fired calls, many reports of gunfire at passing cars in the south end of the city. Police believe many of the shootings are connected and most likely connected to drug crime. Police also believe the alleged shooters are local residents and people who may be living outside the city now but with connections to it.
Florida To Allow 2nd Amendment Rights Near Work
The article talks about guns near the workplace. In fact the authority of the Consitution is regain ground once lost to the neo-facist ideology that the Constitution can be eliminated one area at a time until it’s no longer in effect anywhere. It’s amazing how they can make the population feel safer while they are actually being disarmed.
Tags: Second AmendmentFlorida close to allowing guns near the workplace
On Wednesday, the National Rifle Association won a long-standing lobby to allow Floridians to bring guns to work.
The Florida Senate approved a bill by a 26-13 vote that prohibits businesses from barring employees or customers from bringing firearms with them and leaving them in locked vehicles. The bill will be sent to Florida’s governor Charlie Crist for final authorization.
Gov. Crist said he anticipates signing the bill (HB 503):“The Second Amendment is very important. I understand there are competing interests, but people being protected is most important to me.”
SF Gun Ban Receives Death Blow
The power of popular governmental restrictions that infringe upon the Constitutional Freedoms has once again been thwarted. The local government wanted to strip the rights of individuals to protect themselve knowing how dangerous the violence has become. They know what they are doing and still want to do it. What is it they are doing? Providing a culture where the criminal can feel safer knowing the number of victims they are allowed has increased. The State Supreme Court got this one right.
Tags: Second Amendment(04-09) 17:19 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco’s voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms.
The court’s unanimous order was a victory for the National Rifle Association, which sued on behalf of gun owners, advocates and dealers a day after the measure passed with 58 percent of the vote in November 2005. The initiative has never taken effect.
The ordinance, Proposition H, would have forbidden San Francisco residents to possess handguns, exempting only law enforcement officers and others who needed guns for professional purposes. It would have also prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of any type of firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
Lower courts ruled that the measure interfered with a statewide system of gun regulation, which bars certain types of weapons and allows others. The rulings did not address the scope of the constitutional right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, the focus of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving a handgun ban in Washington, D.C.
The state courts recognized that “law-abiding citizens are part of the solution, not part of the problem of violent crime,” said Chuck Michel, lawyer for the plaintiffs in the NRA suit. “The authority of local cities to over-regulate firearms is very limited.”
Alexis Thompson, spokeswoman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, said the court’s action was disappointing.
“As violence continues to be a pervasive problem in our city, we hope that we can explore other ways to abate the prevalence of handguns on our streets,” she said.
In seeking state Supreme Court review, Herrera’s office urged the justices to declare that “local governments retain significant, meaningful … power to protect their residents against gun violence.”
The city’s lawyers said the use of guns in San Francisco homicides is rising, accounting for 61 percent of all killings in 2001 and 83 percent in 2005, and is particularly high in poor and minority neighborhoods. Gun violence costs San Francisco at least $31.2 million a year for hospital care, police and fire response and jail expenses, the city said.
But the courts said the ordinance was beyond the powers of local government.
