The January 12 article describing how business owners are demanding action because of the recent string of armed robberies expresses our frustration as Macon residents. Undercover agents will be placed at businesses, but the reality is that police cannot be everywhere all of the time. Moreover, the courts have ruled they need not protect individuals; […]
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This biographical reference book on “the key figures in the gun control debate today” delivers arguments and counterarguments on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. This book puts human faces on the argumentation. The figures featured in the reference book came from different backgrounds
People For and Against Gun Control: A Biographical Reference by Marjolijn Bijlefeld Read More »
Recently, the media, including medical journalists in organized medicine (i.e., American Medical Association and affiliates) have focused their attention on the associations of violence in television, music, video games and movies to violent behavior in children and adolescents. To this end, a consensus statement of experts released July 26 and sponsored by the AMA and
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Great Britain, which gave birth to the great political philosophy of classic liberalism and to America, the flowering of Western civilization, is in moral decline. Not content with holding Gen. Augusto Pinochet hostage, Britain now holds its own citizens hostage like an authoritarian nation that distrusts its own citizens with firearms.(1) Since 1996, when a
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Last August, the rugged Aussie survivalist whose real-life exploits inspired the “Crocodile Dundee” movies died in what then appeared to be a mysterious shootout with Australian police. A police sergeant was also killed in the incident. It was reported that 44-year-old blond-haired Rodney William Ansell resembled uncannily Paul Hogan, the actor who played his part
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Each chapter in this powerful volume will help the readers cut through the rhetoric and sensationalism that frequently surrounds the gun control debate. Written by the leading experts in law, criminology and medicine, this volume includes such headings as “Arms and the Woman”; “Doctors and Guns,” further rebutting the arguments that guns are a public
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