China: Police announce gun amnesty deadline: "Illegal firearms' owners in Beijing could be jailed for up to two years if they do not turn their weapons in by July 15, Beijing Public Security Bureau has announced. As part of a national crackdown on illegal guns launched last month, the bureau is urging the public to hand in firearms to police, including replica guns and airguns. Those who hand over weapons to police before the deadline will not be punished."



Stay out of the wrong castle: "Detractors of Mississippi�s new �Castle doctrine� law are fretting as Senate Bill 2426 goes into effect this week. They say that the law legitimizes the notion of �shoot first and ask questions later.�... People who stay out of the wrong �castle� should be fine. It�s difficult to be shot as an intruder if one only enter homes or cars or businesses to which one has both a key to gain entrance and a legal right to be on the premises. The new law removes the �duty to retreat� when one is threatened in their home, car or in the street. It also removes civil liability from killing an intruder or attacker. But the protections don�t apply when a person claims self-defense when shooting a law enforcement officer or another person who has a lawful right to be on the premises of the shooting. Further, the �duty to retreat� has never existed in state law prior to the adoption of the �Castle doctrine.� The safety valve for the �Castle doctrine� is for burglars, crackheads, carjackers, strong arm robbers, muggers, rapists, thieves and other assorted boils on the butt of humanity to stay out of homes, cars, stores, offices and other domiciles that don�t belong to them and to stop mugging, robbing, raping and stealing. Those who utilize that course of action aren�t terribly likely to be shot. Those who don�t likely will be. The notion that homeowners, young single women, elderly widows or business people should find themselves the victims of crime and feel it necessary to run down a checklist before defending their lives, the lives of their loved ones or their property before taking action is ridiculous.