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Jacksonville store clerk, 64, sorry she had to shoot robber Associated Press April 16, 2005 JACKSONVILLE -- A hooded gunman may have thought the older, female clerk would be an easy mark as he entered a convenience store, weapon blazing and demanding money. But he wasn't counting on...

While I have a Florida CCW and carry regularly, I have doubts about the wisdom of removing "duty to retreat" from the law. Not because I fear a new age of vigilante bloodshed, but because "duty to retreat" makes good practical sense. The use of a self-defense weapon should be a LAST resort...

Are Campus Police really sworn officers, or are they rent-a-cops? And might they not be in the habit of using any pretext to pull over attractive young female students for investigation on suspicion of carrying concealed breasts? If that's the case, would they refuse a student ID (which...

A while back, down near Tampa, there was a kid who ripped a purse off a woman's arm. As a Certified Stupid Criminal (tm), he of course had an escape plan. He jumped into a car that was stopped at a light and said, "Get me out of here, man!" to the nice police officer behind the wheel.

I concur with the above posts -- you are technically breaking the law. Maybe you have no evil intent, but governmental nannyism dosen't trust you to behave like a responsible citizen on the day before your 18th birthday. The day after, of course, you're a whole new person. :confused: I...

I have a small, thin leather ID case in which I keep my driver's license and CCW permit. I keep it in my shirt pocket, so that if I'm stopped I do NOT have to reach for my right hip to get ID. My hand stays in plain sight, away from the 9mm in the IWB holster. This helps keep the LEO from...

Just another example of the true purpose of the so-called "Patriot Act" -- to use vaguely defined "terrorism" as an excuse to establish a police state. It's the logical next step after 40 years of using the phony "war on drugs" to ignore constitutional rights and due process. Dubya, Dubya...

What I find amusing about this discussion is that politicians have no "morals". Every election, they stir up this great big debate about morals to get voters fired up, while in the back rooms it's bipartisan business as usual, doing what the money men tell them.

If history is any guide, the State of Pennsylvania would begin investigating under its established laws and procedures, only to have the whole issue snatched out of its hands by the Supreme Court.

Pilgrim said: Why should a woman be driven from her home, her friends, her job, her life by some abusive piece of walking, talking excrement? There's got to be a better answer than this. On a feminist forum, I once proposed an "electronic restraining order". This would be similar to the...

Just another example of how the 2 major political parties maintain their "closed shop". They've put up huge barriers to entry for any third political parties. If they were non-governmental entities, we might get the government to force them to open up, but since they run the government they...

If you're in the same boat as a lot of Americans, your sign should read... WILL VOTE FOR FOOD

In fairness, I will repeat what a Rock The Vote volunteer told me. According to him, a big part of the motivation is that many young people don't vote at all, because they figure there's no point. Whoever wins, the country will still be run by rich white protestant men controlled by special...

Has anyone stopped to wonder why the big male security cop couldn't restrain an Asian woman (most of whom are remarkably petite) without bashing her face in? I thought the rule was to use only the amount of force required.

This seems like a good place for my every-four-years voting suggestion. Since our political system only offers a choice between one venal, self-serving whore and another venal, self-serving whore, the best we can do for all of us normal folks caught in between is to vote for BALANCE. If we...

So are rightists. I suspect that the Vegas hotel would not have fired Toby Keith or Charlie Daniels for expressing a few right-wing sentiments. "Political Correctness" has acquired a whole new meaning since Bush & Co. capitalized on the 9/11 disaster to define themselves as "real Americans"...

Just to clarify a bit, weapons like the Kel-Tec P32 are double action, and the longer, heavier trigger pull IS the "safety".

IMHO, if it is possible to desgin a firearm so that you DON'T have to disengage the safety for unloading or loading, you damned well ought to do so. It's a common sense precaution. I do NOT think that the stupidity of one manufacturer, known for poorly made products, is reason to slam the...

In a late breaking development, the Mother of the Washtenaw County prosecutor issued a statement saying, "If I told him once, I told him a thousand times, you could put someone's eye out with that thing!"

The Pizza Guy should come down here to Florida & work for Hungry Howie's pizza. They have had a few such incidents and the company has praised its employees for their bravery in preventing robbery and threats to employess & bystanders.