Sentences with phrase «of gun cases»

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The boy reached into his waistband — probably to show the officers the gun was a toy, the prosecutor on the case said — and Loehmann shot him within two seconds of arriving.

IMETs can not simply cherry - pick the 50 pages of «smoking gun» evidence that support their case; Canadian courts demand that prosecutors hand over to the defence virtually every document handled during the investigation.

When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.

Illinois, for example, has had no cases of toddler shootings since January of last year, even though Chicago is infamous for its gun violence.

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

No one has been arrested in the burglary, one of several cases in recent years in which Bay Area law enforcement officers lost guns to thieves and which have prompted legislators to push for tougher requirements for securing weapons.

On Tuesday, facing rising political heat after the Parkland massacre, Trump, as he often does, blamed his predecessors for a lack of action and said he would be different, despite widespread skepticism among gun control activists about his sincerity and capacity to make the case for change.

Outside the hall were millions of Canadians who, in many cases, support other parties precisely because of Harper's position on taxes, daycare, gun control and a hundred other issues.

Yesterday one wag suggested Harper didn't actually need to deliver a speech - of - his - life, and that his ambition should be more modest: «He needs to make the generic case he would make to any audience — economy and trade — and the narrower case that works best with Conservatives — Wheat Board, long - gun registry, resource exports, crime,» this fellow wrote.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

This year, gun owners have declared that they will rush to the stores to buy firearms in case Obama is reelected as President of the U.S. Already, RGR and competitor, Smith & Wesson (SWHC), have enjoyed impressive sales figures.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The documents, which are part of Cruz's criminal case in the shooting, show that he had written the word «kill» in a notebook, told a classmate that he wanted to buy a gun and use it, and had cut his arm supposedly in anger because he had broken up with a girlfriend.

According to the Republican lawmakers I spoke to for this story, there are several reasons why this is the case, from fears of primary challengers to the gun lobby.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

The day before the march, Fox & Friends hosted Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland shooting survivor, to show that not all survivors of the shooting are for more gun control and to make the case that the media is biased:

Because of the distribution of crime by race — why that's the case isn't at issue here — there will be more policemen with guns in predominantly black neighborhoods than white ones.

The gun owner is usually killed with his own weapon in the RARE case of home invasion.

If that were not the case, police would not carry guns because they would have a better chance of not getting shot.

He also said that part of the motivations were for students — who are allowed to carry guns on campus and even in dorms — to be prepared in case of «active shooter» situations.

An off - duty LAPD officer fired his gun during an altercation with a 13 - year - old Latino boy and group of teens in Anaheim, California, allegedly because one of the teens walked on his lawn on their way home from school, sparking protests in the area community protested the case.

(FWIW, the only firearm I own is a.22 rifle that I inherited from my dad, that hasn't been out of its case in 30 years, but I guess that suffices to make me a «gun nut» according to the rubric of the day.)

How should we make sense of these cases, and what if the Servant, the nurse or the clerk were «going through the motions» at the point of a gun, rather than merely (as in the condemned Servant view) in fear of their jobs or an «angry look»?

That allowed the NCR's guns to be turned on to an even larger target: «The cover - up is the product of secrecy, privilege and a lack of accountability that are major elements of the clerical culture in which the sex abuse scandal flourished... It was made worse because officials either ignored or downplayed the claims of victims and went to great lengths in many cases to protect the abusers.»

In the meantime, blogger Liza Long wrote a hyper - viral piece titled «I Am Adam Lanza's Mother,» detailing her experiences as the mother of a mentally ill child, making the case that help for the mentally ill, not gun control, is the solution...

It was suggested that Zafar Bhatti was one of two people involved in a gun attack at a prison in Rawalpindi, but charity Release International says that is not the case.

In one case we had a little revival outside one of the most notorious gun shops in Philadelphia, Colosimo's on Spring Garden Street.

Far too many Christian see Jesus» instructions to His disciples to go buy a sword as an endorsement by Jesus of gun ownership, and in some cases, an endorsement of violence.

we always had guns of all sorts and we never actually even killed a rabbit, although we would go Rabbit hunting... and try not o kill each other... we felt good about the gun in case of snakes but if we saw rattlers we usually ran...

Why not look at this as a case where a psychiatric patient — probably a paranoid schizophrenic — took advantage of permissive US gun laws and carried out the wishes of voices in his head?

Does anyone doubt» even for a moment» how the liberal Justices would have resolved the case if, instead of abortion clinics, coal mines, for example, or gun dealerships, or, heaven help us, tobacco shops would have been the «facilities» singled out for unique immunity?

Meanwhile the boys were walking around the store planning their defense — MacGyver style — in case of Zombie attack — things like how they could use duck tape to modify nail guns.

There are so many 9 - mm guns and so many shootings in New Orleans — 365 people were murdered there in 1995 — that no one thought to match the markings of spent casings from Bannister's Ruger with those found on Morrison Road three months earlier.

Now, in the dark of a February night, Smith and Phillips were carrying guns and casing Tangie's house for signs of life.

I know I am jumping the gun a bit here by assuming that Arsenal will continue to be more like the side we saw win away to Crystal Palace last week, rather than the one that slumped to a dismal defeat at home to West Ham, but the end of last season and the way we were playing in pre-season has given us good reason to think that will be the case.

More recently, it has been a case of incompetence in the defensive side of our game, we've tried to take the game to Chelsea and go guns blazing which put us at danger every time we lost the ball on the counter attack especially as we used to play a ridiculously high line.

With this season schedule and a team of Arsenals stature we should have been gunning for all 12 of those pts but that's already not the case after just 3 games into it so far.

(Or, in the case of the image above, sleeping with a fake gun designed to look like a real gun literally while the child is cuddling with a teddy bear.)

• Water pump fights (in case you don't love guns) • Three - legged races or potato sack / pillow case races • Burpees (kids can do these forever) • Softball • Volleyball • Badminton From the low - sugar cereals to the Cuties mandarins, carbs — and lots of them — are a staple for school - aged kids.

Clashes there get renewed once the dusk - to - dawn curfew is relaxed, which happened in the case of this week's gun attack.

Sneaking a gun into a country is easy if you have diplomats with diplomatic immunity doing it for you, as the perpetrators in these cases could have if they wished, and there are plenty of ways that a trained professional can kill someone with a firearm for which a subsequent medical diagnosis is irrelevant.

Because of the many uncontrolled variables involved in comparisons between countries, I don't believe such statistics can help the case for or against gun control.

In case of someone wishing to argue for gun rights, possible approaches would be:

Until that day, this existing case law is the best guide we have for projecting the viability of future gun laws.

The big gun control case that went to the supreme court, Columbia vs Heller in 2008 actually came down on the side of the right with a (not unusual for the supreme court), 5/4 decision along party lines.

New York gun owners convicted of misdemeanors in domestic - violence cases would have their firearms taken away under a bill lawmakers approved along with the new state budget.

The holding in each case was substantively similar as McDonald primarily served to incorporate the 2nd Amendment via the 14th Amendment (since Heller applied to the District of Columbia only which is governed by the federal government directly) to the states and did not really set new gun ownership precedent.

State Sen. John Brooks who introduced legislation to ban bump stocks in New York — the devices are illegal if attached to a gun, but their possession is not outright banned — said this case points to the importance of passing a complete prohibition on bump stocks.

This may well be the case, but we should also understand that there is a long tradition of mercenary militia activity in this region and, for the most part, fighting is material rather than ideological: the men with guns go to the highest bidder.

This case has attracted the attention of virtually every major gun control and gun rights organization in the nation, many of which have filed briefs either in support of or against the original suit filed by the New York State Rife & Pistol Association.