By Tim Inwood

As many gun owners are aware, the United Nations is starting their Small Arms and Light Weapons conference in New York City this June. This is yet another assault on our gun rights but, for a change, it is not being launched from Washington D.C. or a state capitol. This conference is part of a global effort to take your guns, and it is gaining momentum.

So while the UN sits down in June to do this, Second Amendment defenders will be watching....but who will Americans be watching to report the facts to us? An unbiased reporter who will give it to us straight? Unless you are watching Fox News, probably not. Most especially not if you are watching ABC. That's because the American Broadcasting Corporation added former Salon.com reporter Jake Tapper to their line-up in July 2003, and has been using him to cover firearms-related stories.

By Jim Irvine

On Monday May 22, 2006 Timothy Baker Jr. took a .38 caliber revolver, walked into the Euclid Office & Medical Plaza and into the office where his estranged girlfriend worked. Neither the restraining order Sherell Chunn had against him, nor the “no guns” sign at the entrance stopped him.

Baker had a prior offense of aggravated menacing involving another girlfriend. This is an “offense of violence” and thus would be a disqualifying offense for the purpose of obtaining a CHL. I have no reason to believe he ever applied for one. Further, it is likely that Baker was illegally in possession of a gun under disability because of the restraining order. There is no doubt that Baker broke numerous laws before his confrontation in the doctor’s office, but laws do not stop criminals.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
has an excellent article describing what happened. I’m going to focus on the expected and unexpected from this story.

Among the things that are common in these events, it happened in a victim zone (often called a “gun free” zone) it was apparently pre-planned and personal, a non-armed citizen unsuccessfully tried to stop an armed criminal, hundreds of lives were disrupted, law enforcement responded in a timely manner, and it resulted in at least one fatal gunshot.

Among the things that are not so common in these events, the unarmed person was not killed after he attempted and failed to gain control of the criminal’s gun, and no other persons were injured.

When I called the leasing office to discuss their building they confirmed that it is a “gun free” building. Obviously it wasn’t on Monday! After asking questions about why they posted; were they asked to by another entity, and the possibility that posting might not be in best interest of the safety of their tenants and customers, they replied, “I understand your call, but we are not interested.” Not interested in stopping this from happening again, not interested in saving lives, not interested in your safety.
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