TN: Man charged despite apparent self-defense: "When a prominent black businessman shot and killed a reputed outlaw in an East Knoxville parking lot Saturday, it was a clear case of "self defense" triggered by years of threats, a defense attorney hired to represent the accused said today. Reginald Stacy Sudderth, 43, of Louisville, was killed just after 7 p.m. in a parking lot at 2515 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., according to the Knoxville Police Department. Sudderth stood trial in 2006 for his alleged role in a bloody series of events in Blount County surrounding the death of an 18-year-old man but was ultimately acquitted. His killer, 41-year-old Troy D. Whiteside of Knoxville, has been charged with second-degree murder and is free on a $750,000 bond. According to Isaacs, Sudderth approached Whiteside while Whiteside was at a clothing store Saturday evening on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and threatened him. Sudderth was kicked out of the store but apparently waited outside in the parking lot for Whiteside to leave. "Mr. Sudderth was escorted out of the business where he encountered Mr. Whiteside," Isaacs said. "After Whiteside exited the building, Mr. Sudderth exited his vehicle, approached Mr. Whiteside, and threatened Mr. Whiteside." Sudderth "appeared to be reaching for a weapon" when Whiteside shot him, Isaacs said. Immediately after the shooting, Whiteside left the scene and flagged down a KPD officer, Isaacs said. He then "cooperated fully with law enforcement investigators" and gave a statement, he said. Whiteside, a Republican who has been active in financially supporting various political candidates, owns or has owned a number of business in the Knoxville area."


TX: Guard who shot 15-year-old robbery suspect says he had no choice: "The Dollar Store owner hired Paige after the store was robbed at gunpoint four times by the same group of teens. Police say one of the teens tried again on Tuesday, but this time he didn’t get away. “I told him to drop his pistol and he turned his pistol toward me and I fired a shot,” said Paige. Surveillance video shows the suspect walking into the store, pointing his gun at the clerk and demanding money. Paige says he sprung into action when he heard the clerk screaming. That’s when I came around the corner with my 12-gauge shotgun,” said Paige. Paige said that he asked the 15-year-old suspect to drop his gun and lay on the floor. “He kept reaching for his gun. I told him, 'Don’t reach for the gun or I’m going to shoot you.' He reached for his gun and I shot him again on his shoulder and still no reaction,” said Paige. The teenage suspect has two bullet wounds, but he's expected to be OK. No one else was hurt."


Plaxico Burress: Two years for fumbling a Glock: "If this is true, there is no such thing as a ‘Constitution.’ That once august document known as The Supreme Law of the Land has no more legal heft than an old dog-eared Daffy Duck comic book. Former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg in a nightclub last November and, because of New York City’s anti-self defense laws, shot himself in the foot as well. For committing the act of harming no one, except himself, Mr. Burress gets two years in the state slammer.”


The liberal fear of guns: "“Liberal columnist David Sirota is scared, and he believes that the First Amendment is intended to eliminate his fear. In a column entitled ‘Freedom from Fear — and the Second Amendment,’ Sirota argues that because some people get scared when they see guns and think that the gun owner is going to shoot them if they say the wrong thing, the Second Amendment is a threat to the First Amendment. The purpose of the Constitution was to call into existence the federal government and, at the same time, to protect us from that government through the grant of very limited powers to the government.”