TN: Vicious home invasion ends with death of invader: "The home invasion robbery at the rancher-style home didn't begin with robbers forcing their way through the front door. Instead, one of the two intruders fired through the front door with the Mossberg pump shotgun loaded with bird shot, killing Robert Sanders Doyal, 31. Robert Doyal lived with his father, Larry Doyal, 61, and his father's fiancee, Judy Adams, 63. Larry Doyal, who was in a back bedroom, grabbed a .40-caliber semiautomatic Glock handgun and "attempted to exit his bedroom to locate the source of the shots," court records show. "He observed a white male (later to be identified as Ronald Carter) walking down the hallway in black clothing with his face covered, pointing a shotgun at him. "Mr. L. Doyal stated that he ducked back into his bedroom and fired several shots down the hallway which resulted in the death of suspect Ronald Carter," records show."


Why shouldn’t Brits have the right to pack heat?: "It’s almost blasphemy to say this, but it needs to be said: Britain’s gun laws should be massively relaxed... But much of the opposition to gun ownership originates not in the brain but in the gut. The proponents of ever-harsher restrictions attack sporting pastimes – or forms of pest control – that they don’t wish to partake in themselves and don’t understand. Anyone wishing to own a firearm is stigmatised as at best a Rambo-wannabe weirdo and at worst a Derrick Bird, Thomas Hamilton or Michael Ryan in the making. The evidence used to argue this case is invariably specious."


"Good cause” lawsuit: "No need to ‘demonstrate’ why you wish to exercise a Constitutional right. The Second Amendment Foundation has joined a U.S. District Court lawsuit filed in New York, which demands a permanent injunction against a state law that requires applicants for gun permits to demonstrate ‘good cause’ ‘American citizens should not have to demonstrate good cause in order to exercise a constitutionally-protected civil right,’ said SAF executive vice president Alan Gottlieb. ‘Our civil rights, including the right to keep and bear arms, should not be subject to the whims of a local government or its employees.’”