The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday on the second of two self-defense shootings in that city in a matter of days.

From the story:

Jamie Buck was asleep early Friday when a sledgehammer shattered his side door’s window and a stranger burst into his rented home, demanding money or jewelry.

That was the last demand Millard Brandenburg would ever make.

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He’d better beware if Thompson enters the race

By John R. Lott, Jr.

One person’s “reasonable and sensible” gun laws aren’t always
another’s. So when Rudy Giuliani recognizes that the Second Amendment
guarantees people the right to bear arms subject to “reasonable and
sensible” laws, it really doesn’t tell us much. Yet one thing is for
sure though: Giuliani is hardly a “strict constructionist” on
constitutional matters, at least when it comes to the Second
Amendment. It is a long ways from “shall not be infringed” to “shall
infringe whenever Congress has a ‘reasonable and sensible’
justification.”

For those who support the Second Amendment, the main problem is that
Giuliani has rarely met a gun regulation he didn’t see as “reasonable
and sensible.” In 2000, he pointed out how he was “a very strong
supporter of gun-control legislation” and called for everything from
federal gun-licensing and registration to banning guns based upon
their price.

Only in the last couple of months has he finally gone on the record
as opposing a gun law: he came out against re-imposing the assault-
weapons ban. Yet he originally supported this law when it was first
adopted, and he wanted it renewed as recently as 2004, when it expired.

His support for all these gun laws isn’t too surprising given his
belief that “the single biggest connection between violent crime and
an increase in violent crime is the presence of guns in your
society . . . . the more guns you take out of society, the more you
are going to reduce murder. The less guns you take out of society,
the more it is going to go up.”

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