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Location Eugene, Oregon, United States
Introduction I am a volunteer activist for reducing gun violence in the Eugene, Oregon area, and all of Oregon. Join me! www.ceasefireoregon.org
Interests Gun Control, Peace, Suicide Prevention

SMU students union shoots down gaming poster
October 9, 2012 - 7:58pm By PATRICIA BROOKS ARENBURG Staff Reporter

It was supposed to be a cool poster to get student gamers to gather for a night of video games and beer at the campus pub.

But it is now a source of controversy — even noted on Forbes.com — since the Saint Mary’s University Students’ Association refused to let the SMUdent Gaming society put up the posters around campus.

“We went to get it approved and we were told we weren’t able to have a gun on the poster,” Alexandria Bennett, outgoing president of the campus’s gaming society, said Tuesday.

The gun-like object on the poster is actually a Nintendo Zapper, an accessory that allows the player to shoot at the screen, said Bennett, calling it “a very iconic item” for gamers...

http://www.fark.com/comments/7375907/University-bans-poster-promoting-gaming-night-because-of-gun-on-poster-w-pic-of-poster-in-question?cpp=1

Check out the posters on the board behind her.

There's a flyer for a karate club. Hamlet, holding a skull. And Sweeney Todd wielding a straight razor.

But a stupid Nintento light gun is right out.

NRA Endorses Mitt Romney
Igor Bobic 6:03 PM EDT, Thursday October 4, 2012

The National Rifle Association has endorsed Mitt Romney, his campaign announced late Thursday evening.

“As the Supreme Court has recently reaffirmed, the Second Amendment protects a basic and fundamental individual right—the right to bear arms,” said Mitt Romney, via press release. “And it is the NRA that protects the Second Amendment. I am proud to have their support for my candidacy, and when I am president, I will do all in my power to defend and protect the right of all law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.”...

The NRA Surge: 99 Laws Rolling Back Gun Restrictions
In the past four years a barrage of measures across 37 states have made it easier to own, carry, and conceal firearms.

—By Mark Follman, Tasneem Raja, and Ben Breedlove
Wed Sep. 26, 2012 3:01 AM PDT

Since 2009, the NRA and its allies in state capitols have pushed through 99 laws making guns easier to own, easier to carry in public—eight states now even allow them in bars—and harder for the government to track. More than two-thirds of the laws were passed by Republican-controlled legislatures, though often with bipartisan support...

By GERARDO REYES and SANTIAGO WILLS
Sept. 30, 2012

On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.

As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to "walk" out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009....

Eric Holder's exoneration by Fast and Furious report strains credibility

Can we believe that information on the disastrous gun-trafficking operation repeatedly reached the AG's office but not the AG?

Jim Geraghty

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 September 2012 17.31 EDT



Picture it: US federal prosecutors and agents, deeply frustrated over an inability to stem violence related to the drug trade and Mexican cartels, decide to pursue a bold strategy to go after arms trafficking on the US-Mexican border.

Under the plan, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will permit known gun traffickers to make "straw purchases" – legal purchases of firearms in significant quantities to be resold to criminals on the other side of the border. This sort of purchase-monitoring had been used before, but the existing law enforcement policy was to intercept the arms shipments shortly after purchase or transfer. Under the new approach, the guns will "walk" – into the hands of the cartel buyers, allowing investigators to identify how the firearms were being paid for and transported to Mexico – and set up major prosecutions of the cartels in the future.

But the more significant busts never come. Instead, more than 2,000 firearms – mostly AK-47 style rifles and FN Herstal 5.7mm caliber pistols – flow across the border into the hands of the cartels. No arrests or indictments are made. The agents on the ground start complaining. The guns start showing up at crime scenes in Mexico.

Only when gunman use the weapons to murder a federal law enforcement agent, US Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry, does the program get shut down and arrests of the "little fish" suspects occur...

Mayor of NJ's capital arrested in corruption probe

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press – 38 minutes ago

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal agents arrested the struggling mayor of New Jersey's capital Monday on corruption charges, alleging he agreed to accept bribes in connection with a proposed parking garage — actually a fake project created by authorities trying to snare him.

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, his brother Ralphiel and convicted sex offender Joseph Giorgianni, a Mack supporter who owns a Trenton sandwich shop, were each accused of a single charge: conspiring to extort the undercover informants who pulled them into the scheme...

...The charges against Mack, a 46-year-old Democrat, did not come as a surprise in the city.

He's been accused of hiring unqualified cronies to city positions, made deep cuts in the police department and overseen a chaotic City Hall as officials fled their jobs soon after he took office in 2010.

Gun-fired grief: Coalition aims for stronger background checks

May 10, 2011
By Alex Zdan

Standing with families of victims of gun violence and a massive clock counting deaths from firearms, public officials gathered at City Hall yesterday morning to demand stiffer background checks for gun buyers.

Trenton was the last stop for participants in a national Fix Gun Checks tour before the group rolls into Washington, D.C.

Mayor Tony Mack saw the timing as significant. "We were the turning point in the Revolution, and we are hopeful this will be the turning point for changing gun laws in America," Mack said.

Fix Gun Checks is sponsored by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, of which Mack is a member. The organization wants background checks for sales at gun shows and a national background check system containing the names of people who should be prohibited from buying firearms...

Trenton gun violence rally: Mother of slain victim speaks on closing loopholes

Monday, May 09, 2011
By L.A. PARKER

TRENTON - RaChele Miller did almost everything to protect her son from city violence, but her safety program failed in September 2005.

Miller remembered that fateful night Monday when she joined Mayor Tony Mack, faith leaders, politicians, community leaders, activists, plus friends and family members of victims of gun violence during a rally to close loopholes in our nation’s background check system...

...Mack pushed for an initiative by state legislators to "do everything possible to fix the national gun background check system."

"While we are aggressively implementing initiatives to safeguard public safety in Trenton, illegal guns are trafficked here from states with weak gun laws - states like Virginia and Georgia. Lives are in jeopardy in Trenton and throughout the U.S. from the absence of common-sense federal gun laws."...