Another triumph for New York gun restrictions: "A gunman has killed 13 people after taking dozens hostage in the US state of New York. The suspected gunman was later found dead inside the immigration centre in Binghamton, police officials said. Nearly 40 people escaped from the building but four were critically injured in the shooting, north-west of New York City, police said. The town's police chief, Joseph Zikuski, told a news conference that 14 people had been found dead in the American Civic Association (ACA) buildings. The man believed to have carried out the attack was found dead with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, he said. Ammunition, two more hand guns and a hunting knife were recovered from the scene. Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey told AP the gunman had entered a room where people were sitting exams for US citizenship. It was in the middle of a test. He just went in and opened fire," said Mr Hinchey, whose congressional district includes Binghamton. Witnesses reported seeing a man entering the ACA building during the morning. He was described as being of Asian appearance, in his 20s, and wearing a bright green nylon jacket and dark-rimmed glasses. The gunman, believed to have been a Vietnamese-American, used his car to barricade the building's back door before bursting in the front door, firing his weapon, said officials. He shot two receptionists, one of whom managed to call the police, before walking down a corridor towards classrooms."


NC Man acquitted in '07 shooting: "A Rowland man was acquitted Friday in the shooting death of his neighbor in October 2007. The jury saw the shooting as a case of self-defense, according to lawyers handling the case. Strickland was accused of shooting Hedrick Dial on Oct. 23, 2007. According to investigators, Dial and his brother, Timothy Blue, went to talk to Strickland about an altercation involving Strickland’s son and Dial’s nephew. The boys had fought earlier that day about sand being dumped in Strickland’s mailbox. The fight began after the boys got off their school bus on Countrywood Drive. Dial, who was 38 at the time, was struck once in the back and once in the side, according to authorities. Blue was shot in the leg while trying to help Dial. After the trial, Assistant District Attorney Danny Britt said jurors looked at the fact that Blue and Dial were on Strickland’s property at the time of the shooting. “The only consideration they took into account was where it took place, not anything that happened beforehand,’’ Britt said. “Not the threats that occurred beforehand or the use of force or the different types of wounds... Public Defender Angus Thompson said it was a clear case of self-defense. “I expressed during the trial that I understand the hurt of the Blue family of losing a loved one. It is a shame that neighbors can’t get along. But this was a self-defense case, and it was a defense of habitation of one’s residence,’’ Thompson said. “Regardless if you have a trailer, brick house or one made of stone, it is your castle. In light of what took place prior to this incident, a man has the right to defend his castle.’’


The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.: "The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S. What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the TRACED firearms originate from the U.S." But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S. "Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News. In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S. But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes. In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S."


Gun Owners and Corporate Social Responsibility: “Corporate Social Responsibility around the globe has been a resentful intrusion. It is a device to coerce Business into leftist thought. It uses issues such as Green or accountability or other issues to compel Business to alter their entire corporate outlook and philosophy, and even turns the concept of corporate giving on its head. … I’ve been following CSR for a decade, and there are tons of ways American Business can learn how to live in a hostile political environment, and may even combat effectively some of the unrealistic and dangerous political traps now set out just for them. … One thing Business is doing as a genuine act of concern for community is in lifting bans on handguns. Where the concern for safety had been to ban all evil, it has amounted yet again to the feel-good, do-exactly-the-wrong-thing approach in lumping customers and employees in with the evil that Business would like to stop at the door.”