Former boyfriend breaks into pregnant ex-girlfriend's home, stabs her and then kills her current boyfriend, police say.Fat lot of good that did.
After a former boyfriend tried to break into her home last month, Sulee Gonzalez obtained a court order of protection, pleading that he make "no contact at all" with her and her family.
From my perspective, Senator Obama was allied against Second Amendment Rights while in the Illinois Senate, and appeared disinterested at best in relation to sportsmen's rights. My first contact with him was several years ago when I attended an Illinois Senate Committee hearing that he chaired. The committee was reviewing the contentious "Assault Weapons Ban" bill promoted by Chicago Mayor Daley. When it was pointed out in testimony that the bill's definitions made felons out of every hunter in Illinois that owned a rifled-barrel deer slug gun or an inline muzzleloader, he dismissed the concerns as "minor wording details" and sailed the bill through the committee by allowing two "readings" on the very same day. The wording was later changed in a very superficial way, and the heavily-flawed bill eventually died on the senate floor.Larry Dale
-Snuffy Pfleger
"It’s the downstate that have refused to give us the votes to common sense gun laws. So what we’re saying is, ‘Ok. We’re gonna start disrupting your life like gun violence is disrupting our life.' And that’s here at their businesses and that’s coming to their homes. And we’re prepared to go to the legislators homes and visit them."
"This week at least two national news organizations plus a leading political watchdog (along with the Brady Campaign) criticized a new NRA advertising effort being waged against Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden....
Sadly, NRA leaders seem to feel their only option is to make Americans so afraid that they can't see the truth about the candidates -- or the NRA's pattern of deception.
Thankfully, the American people are catching on.
With more violent crimes being committed in Chicago, the police department can't get approval from City Hall to hire enough officers to keep up with the number of officers who are leaving.
Like other city agencies and departments, the police department is caught up in budget problems facing the city. Mayor Richard Daley has said the city must cut personnel costs but hasn't said where those cuts can be made.
The Fraternal Order of Police says that because of firings and retirements the department is down 250 officers and says it could be down by 400 by the end of the year.
"But if you talk to sportsmen in my home state of Illinois, they will tell you that I’ve always been a forceful advocate on behalf of the rights of sportsmen, on behalf of access for sportsmen and hunters. I’ve been somebody who, well before the recent Supreme Court case, stated my belief that the Second Amendment was an individual right."
Officials in Pennsylvania have revoked a woman's concealed-weapons permit because other parents complained that she was carrying her loaded handgun at her daughter's soccer games.
Meleanie Hain said she's fighting the revocation by the Lebanon County sheriff.
Hain lost the permit and got a warning from local soccer officials after a game on Sept. 11.
Sheriff Michael DeLeo said openly carrying a weapon to a youth soccer match shows a lack of judgment.
Hain told the Lebanon Daily News she has always openly carried a firearm without any problems in the past.
And her lawyer, Robert Magee, said that while Pennsylvania requires a permit for a concealed firearm, it doesn't require a license to carry one openly except in Philadelphia.
Regarding Obama’s work with the Joyce Foundation, Jackson said, “You are an academic? You are asking about the Joyce Foundation? What does that have to do with anything? You would have failed the freshman college logic test.”So past associations have no bearing?
“They are lying. This is what they do. This is how they make their money. Do these people have no shame? They are just making this up. I just wish that they would tell the truth.” He said that their ads were “one of the worst examples of lying” that he had “ever seen.”
“According to police, Giddings was arrested back in August of 1998 for a carjacking, in which he shot the victim twice in the legs and stole $100. Giddings was sentenced to 6-12 years behind bars.
While in prison, police say Giddings was accused of 27 infractions, and found guilty on 18 of those. In addition, police say Giddings was kicked out of two prisons during his sentence.
Giddings was released in August, 2008. Shortly after, police attempted to pull him over for a traffic violation, and he ran off. Officers caught up to Giddings and a fight ensued. Giddings escaped, and four officers were hurt. An arrest warrant was issued after that incident.
During that incident, according to police, Giddings said he would not go back to prison alive, and if police tried to arrest him he would take an officer down with him.
“He was a dangerous individual, and he demonstrated that over and over and over again,” said Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.”
Blagojevich’s aggressive fundraising is the target of the original ethics bill, which was overwhelmingly supported by Democrats and Republicans alike in the state legislature. It would prohibit state contractors and those seeking state business worth $50,000 or more from donating to the official who doles out the work. The governor rewrote the bill to include a variety of side issues and critics charge Blagojevich’s move was an attempt to sabotage the original measure.
“The Supreme Court ruled in Heller that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans. NRA is tired of waiting for Winnetka Village to do the right thing. We’ve been told for months that the Village Council would study the issue and vote on a repeal of their gun ban, but no such action has taken place,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “Winnetka has refused to act, so it’s time for NRA to act instead.”
Annenberg Foundation - FactCheck's primary fund source is a large contributor to gun control lobby
...There's another possible explanation behind FactCheck's positions. Just last year, FactCheck's primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry." Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005.
“They are lying. This is what they do. This is how they make their money. Do these people have no shame? They are just making this up. I just wish that they would tell the truth.” He said that their ads were “one of the worst examples of lying” that he had “ever seen.”
"In the old days, there was sort of incorrect advice: 'Oh, if you fight back, you'll get him angrier. He'll get angry and it'll be worse. The rape is not as bad as the injury you'll suffer,' " Ullman said.
"The worst injury tends to be the completed rape. Other injuries stem from accomplishing the rape," Ullman said.
Data from some of Ullman's studies indicate that biting, scratching, using a weapon and breaking out martial arts or self-defense maneuvers deter rapists without increasing the victim's risk of being injured. When victims have been hurt, Ullman said, they were typically harmed during the initial attack.
Fight back when threatened to deter him. Thrust your elbows out. Power up a groin kick.
Fight back when frightened to scare him. Project your voice with confidence. Yell, holler and scream.
Fight back when attacked to catch him. Scratch his skin. Grab his hair.
