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USA Today Mar 30, 2010
The Reagan Assassination Attempt -- A Matter of Inches
This is a good day to remember that history can be a matter of inches -- exactly 29 years ago, it meant the difference between life and death for a president who still casts a large shadow. We now know President Ronald Reagan came closer to dying from John Hinckley's bullet than we were told at the time. What we don't know is how different the political world would be had the 70-year-old Reagan not survived the assassination attempt, less than three months into his first term. There is only one certainty: George H.W. Bush would have become president nearly eight years earlier ...read the full article
Boston Globe Mar 29, 2010
Obama Hasn't Followed Through on One Promise - Gun Control
Earlier this month, I was interviewed by a reporter from Politico regarding Barack Obama's recent White House chat with John Walsh of America's Most Wanted. During their tet-a-tet video-op, the President endorsed the notion of expanding the federal DNA data base to include biological samples from all persons arrested, regardless of offense and regardless of subsequent findings of guilt or innocence. As an aside, I expressed my disappointment that the President had not followed through with his own campaign pledge to repeal restrictions on another important federal data base--one which traces guns connected to criminal activity back their first retail sale. Gun ...read the full article
New York Times Magazine Mar 28, 2010
Starbucks and the Gun-Rights Debare
Starbucks has lately found itself in the middle of a debate between advocates of "open carry" gun rights and of gun control; the former have held armed meet-ups at several of its locations, and the latter have demanded that the coffee chain prevent this from happening. Seeking to duck these fresh salvos in the long debate over how firearms fit into American life, the company has issued a statement that such matters ought to be worked out "in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Well, sure. But drawing a line between official institutions of lawmaking and the daily ...read the full article
Reuters Mar 28, 2010
U.S. Lobbies a Hurdle in Mexico Drug War: Calderon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Powerful groups in the United States appear to be blocking efforts to stem the flow of assault weapons fueling Mexico's drug war, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Calderon, who has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and police to fight drug cartels, told Fareed Zakaria's "GPS" program on CNN that there was resistance in Washington to Mexico's demands that sales of such weapons be stopped. "They (U.S. officials) say that they are facing strong opposition and there is powerful lobbies in the Congress in order to change that situation," Calderon said in a ...read the full article
Washington Post Mar 27, 2010
Wizards Star Gilbert Arenas Avoids Jail Time in Gun Incident
Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas was spared a jail term Friday for his gun-toting confrontation with a teammate at Verizon Center, walking free from D.C. Superior Court after a judge scolded him for immaturity but said probation was more appropriate than time behind bars. Calling Arenas's now-infamous angry encounter with reserve guard Javaris Crittenton "a stupid and immature act," Judge Robert E. Morin recited a list of other factors in the case, finding that nearly all weighed in Arenas's favor. Rather than send him to jail for three months, as a prosecutor wanted, Morin imposed an 18-month suspended sentence and ...read the full article
Dayton Daily News Mar 27, 2010
Group, State Rep Decry ‘Gun Show Loophole’
TROTWOOD -- A local state legislator and a liberal advocacy group called for better enforcement of existing gun laws and closure of a "gun show loophole" that they say allows gun sales without background checks at shows like the one held at Hara Arena. "We're just asking that promoters of these shows do something to proactively require" background checks, said Brian Rothenberg, executive director of ProgressOhio. He spoke at a news conference held outside the Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show, which was held Saturday at Hara Arena. The event continues today. A New York City-funded investigation last year found weapons were sold ...read the full article
WTOP Radio News Mar 26, 2010
Gun Involved in 'Road Rage Duel' Legally Owned
DALE CITY, Va. - The gun that police say was used to fire 13 shots during a road rage duel on Interstate 95 was legally owned, WTOP has learned. Gabriel Poventud, 25, and James Bringham, 44, have been charged with attempted murder in the altercation that began at the height of Tuesday's afternoon rush hour. Police say Bringham, the driver of a 2007 Ford F550 dump truck, tried to merge into the southbound lanes of I-95 near Route 123, shortly after 4 p.m. Police say the drivers then "began engaging with one another in an aggressive manner." The dump truck struck the Jaguar ...read the full article
Associated Press Mar 26, 2010
Jail or No Jail? Fateful Day Arrives for Arenas
WASHINGTON -- When Gilbert Arenas appeared at a charity event a few weeks ago, no amount of smiles and hugs could hide the underlying tension surrounding the next big date on his calendar. "So that's what everybody's waiting for," Arenas said. "March 26, huh?" The fateful date has arrived. The Washington Wizards three-time All-Star point guard will be sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court on one felony count of violating the District of Columbia's strict gun laws. Judge Robert E. Morin will decide whether Arenas does jail time or gets probation. The prosecution and defense teams stated their cases earlier this week in voluminous ...read the full article
Blog of Legal Times Mar 26, 2010
District's Post-Heller Firearm Restrictions Are Upheld
Judge Ricardo Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has just ruled that the D.C. firearm ordinances enacted after the Supreme Court's D.C. v. Heller decision in 2008 "permissibly regulate the exercise of the core Second Amendment right to use firearms for the purpose of self-defense in the home." Urbina ruled in a case brought by Dick Heller, the same plaintiff who challenged the previous D.C. ordinance at the Supreme Court. Heller challenged the District's firearms registration process, its ban on assault weapons and its prohibition of "large capacity ammunition feeding devices," claiming they violated the Second ...read the full article
WTOP Radio News Mar 26, 2010
Arenas Gets Probation in Felony Gun Case
WASHINGTON - Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas has been sentenced to two years of probation for bringing four handguns into the Wizard's locker room last December. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also ordered Arenas to spend 30 days in a halfway house, perform 400 hours of community service and donate $5,000 to a victims of violent crime charity. "You have demonstrated genuine remorse and you're basically a good person," Morin told Arenas. Before his sentencing, Arenas cried to the judge and apologized for the incident. "I am very sorry. Every day I wake up, I wish it didn't happen. I thought by ...read the full article
The Reagan Assassination Attempt -- A Matter of Inches
This is a good day to remember that history can be a matter of inches -- exactly 29 years ago, it meant the difference between life and death for a president who still casts a large shadow. We now know President Ronald Reagan came closer to dying from John Hinckley's bullet than we were told at the time. What we don't know is how different the political world would be had the 70-year-old Reagan not survived the assassination attempt, less than three months into his first term. There is only one certainty: George H.W. Bush would have become president nearly eight years earlier ...read the full article
Boston Globe Mar 29, 2010
Obama Hasn't Followed Through on One Promise - Gun Control
Earlier this month, I was interviewed by a reporter from Politico regarding Barack Obama's recent White House chat with John Walsh of America's Most Wanted. During their tet-a-tet video-op, the President endorsed the notion of expanding the federal DNA data base to include biological samples from all persons arrested, regardless of offense and regardless of subsequent findings of guilt or innocence. As an aside, I expressed my disappointment that the President had not followed through with his own campaign pledge to repeal restrictions on another important federal data base--one which traces guns connected to criminal activity back their first retail sale. Gun ...read the full article
New York Times Magazine Mar 28, 2010
Starbucks and the Gun-Rights Debare
Starbucks has lately found itself in the middle of a debate between advocates of "open carry" gun rights and of gun control; the former have held armed meet-ups at several of its locations, and the latter have demanded that the coffee chain prevent this from happening. Seeking to duck these fresh salvos in the long debate over how firearms fit into American life, the company has issued a statement that such matters ought to be worked out "in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Well, sure. But drawing a line between official institutions of lawmaking and the daily ...read the full article
Reuters Mar 28, 2010
U.S. Lobbies a Hurdle in Mexico Drug War: Calderon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Powerful groups in the United States appear to be blocking efforts to stem the flow of assault weapons fueling Mexico's drug war, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Calderon, who has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and police to fight drug cartels, told Fareed Zakaria's "GPS" program on CNN that there was resistance in Washington to Mexico's demands that sales of such weapons be stopped. "They (U.S. officials) say that they are facing strong opposition and there is powerful lobbies in the Congress in order to change that situation," Calderon said in a ...read the full article
Washington Post Mar 27, 2010
Wizards Star Gilbert Arenas Avoids Jail Time in Gun Incident
Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas was spared a jail term Friday for his gun-toting confrontation with a teammate at Verizon Center, walking free from D.C. Superior Court after a judge scolded him for immaturity but said probation was more appropriate than time behind bars. Calling Arenas's now-infamous angry encounter with reserve guard Javaris Crittenton "a stupid and immature act," Judge Robert E. Morin recited a list of other factors in the case, finding that nearly all weighed in Arenas's favor. Rather than send him to jail for three months, as a prosecutor wanted, Morin imposed an 18-month suspended sentence and ...read the full article
Dayton Daily News Mar 27, 2010
Group, State Rep Decry ‘Gun Show Loophole’
TROTWOOD -- A local state legislator and a liberal advocacy group called for better enforcement of existing gun laws and closure of a "gun show loophole" that they say allows gun sales without background checks at shows like the one held at Hara Arena. "We're just asking that promoters of these shows do something to proactively require" background checks, said Brian Rothenberg, executive director of ProgressOhio. He spoke at a news conference held outside the Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show, which was held Saturday at Hara Arena. The event continues today. A New York City-funded investigation last year found weapons were sold ...read the full article
WTOP Radio News Mar 26, 2010
Gun Involved in 'Road Rage Duel' Legally Owned
DALE CITY, Va. - The gun that police say was used to fire 13 shots during a road rage duel on Interstate 95 was legally owned, WTOP has learned. Gabriel Poventud, 25, and James Bringham, 44, have been charged with attempted murder in the altercation that began at the height of Tuesday's afternoon rush hour. Police say Bringham, the driver of a 2007 Ford F550 dump truck, tried to merge into the southbound lanes of I-95 near Route 123, shortly after 4 p.m. Police say the drivers then "began engaging with one another in an aggressive manner." The dump truck struck the Jaguar ...read the full article
Associated Press Mar 26, 2010
Jail or No Jail? Fateful Day Arrives for Arenas
WASHINGTON -- When Gilbert Arenas appeared at a charity event a few weeks ago, no amount of smiles and hugs could hide the underlying tension surrounding the next big date on his calendar. "So that's what everybody's waiting for," Arenas said. "March 26, huh?" The fateful date has arrived. The Washington Wizards three-time All-Star point guard will be sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court on one felony count of violating the District of Columbia's strict gun laws. Judge Robert E. Morin will decide whether Arenas does jail time or gets probation. The prosecution and defense teams stated their cases earlier this week in voluminous ...read the full article
Blog of Legal Times Mar 26, 2010
District's Post-Heller Firearm Restrictions Are Upheld
Judge Ricardo Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has just ruled that the D.C. firearm ordinances enacted after the Supreme Court's D.C. v. Heller decision in 2008 "permissibly regulate the exercise of the core Second Amendment right to use firearms for the purpose of self-defense in the home." Urbina ruled in a case brought by Dick Heller, the same plaintiff who challenged the previous D.C. ordinance at the Supreme Court. Heller challenged the District's firearms registration process, its ban on assault weapons and its prohibition of "large capacity ammunition feeding devices," claiming they violated the Second ...read the full article
WTOP Radio News Mar 26, 2010
Arenas Gets Probation in Felony Gun Case
WASHINGTON - Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas has been sentenced to two years of probation for bringing four handguns into the Wizard's locker room last December. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also ordered Arenas to spend 30 days in a halfway house, perform 400 hours of community service and donate $5,000 to a victims of violent crime charity. "You have demonstrated genuine remorse and you're basically a good person," Morin told Arenas. Before his sentencing, Arenas cried to the judge and apologized for the incident. "I am very sorry. Every day I wake up, I wish it didn't happen. I thought by ...read the full article