Common Folk Using Common Sense

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One Less Goblin In The World

December 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

From WLS-TV Chicago via No Looking Backwards:

A northwest Indiana woman shot her alleged stalker to death.
Police say 41-year-old Ryan Lee Bergner broke into the woman’s home in Hammond Monday night. The 51-year-old woman called 9-1-1 and hid in a closet with a gun she had been given for protection. She says she shot him when [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The US

Tragedy In Nebraska cont.

December 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the essay “Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement” by John R. Lott and William M. Landes, written April 1999:

Few events obtain the same instant worldwide news coverage as multiple victim public shootings. These crimes allow us to study the alternative methods used to [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns · The US