Kelly J
06-03-2010, 03:10 PM
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Chicagos-2nd-recent-selfdefense-shooting-validates-lawsuit-says-SAF-founder
Chicago’s 2nd recent self-defense shooting ‘validates lawsuit,’ says SAF founder
June 3, 1:54 PM Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman
The founder of the Bellevue, WA-based Second Amendment Foundation – they are the group whose federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the Chicago handgun ban is currently being mulled by the U.S. Supreme Court – is marveling at recent events in the Windy City.
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** In the past eight days, two high-profile shootings by private citizens who armed themselves in defiance of the ban have, in Gottlieb’s words, “underscored the necessity of our lawsuit.”
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** Early Thursday morning, a criminal recidivist identified by the Chicago Tribune as Aaron Marshall, a man whose record includes felony convictions for drug and weapons offenses, was stopped by Chicago police for a traffic violation in the city’s South Austin neighborhood. What happened next is the stuff of a Dragnet scriptwriter’s wildest imagination.
Read the entire story here.
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Chicagos-2nd-recent-selfdefense-shooting-validates-lawsuit-says-SAF-founder
Chicago’s 2nd recent self-defense shooting ‘validates lawsuit,’ says SAF founder
June 3, 1:54 PM Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman
The founder of the Bellevue, WA-based Second Amendment Foundation – they are the group whose federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the Chicago handgun ban is currently being mulled by the U.S. Supreme Court – is marveling at recent events in the Windy City.
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** In the past eight days, two high-profile shootings by private citizens who armed themselves in defiance of the ban have, in Gottlieb’s words, “underscored the necessity of our lawsuit.”
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** Early Thursday morning, a criminal recidivist identified by the Chicago Tribune as Aaron Marshall, a man whose record includes felony convictions for drug and weapons offenses, was stopped by Chicago police for a traffic violation in the city’s South Austin neighborhood. What happened next is the stuff of a Dragnet scriptwriter’s wildest imagination.
Read the entire story here.
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Chicagos-2nd-recent-selfdefense-shooting-validates-lawsuit-says-SAF-founder