Tuesday, December 25, 2012 1:49:29 AM
Webster NY Firefighters Shot Audio Dec. 24, 2012
On Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 a gunman open fire on four firefighters from Webster NY as they arrived on scene of a car and house on fire. Two firefighters were killed, two others were shot. The audio is of the incidents. We are posting to show the true bravery of the firefighter who was shot and pinned down due to the gun fire.
Our thought and prayers go to all affected in this horrible tragedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7VXwnyAvp8
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William Spengler Identified As Webster Firefighter Shooter; Killed Grandmother In 1980s
A booking photo of William Spengler from 1998.
Posted: 12/24/2012 2:57 pm EST | Updated: 12/24/2012 9:43 pm EST
The shooter who shot and killed two responding firefighters [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/firefighters-shot-webster-fire_n_2358822.html ] and injured two others in Webster, New York this morning has been identified as convicted killer William Spengler, 62.
Police say that Spengler spent 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother in 1980. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the violence at the fire this morning.
Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Spengler set a home on fire on Lake Road and waited for firefighters to arrive, ambushing them with gunfire. His motive is unclear. The shooting killed Lt. Mike Chiapperini, 43, a volunteer firefighter and Webster Police Department’s public information officer, and firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka. Theodore Scardino and Joseph Hofsetter were also shot and are recovering in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital.
In addition a police officer from [nearby] Greece[, New York] who was driving by was hit by shrapnel and injured.
Several weapons were used at the shooting today, including "at least" an assault rifle, Pickering said.
"This is an individual who obviously had a lot of problems," he said, adding that there were "probably some mental health issues."
Pickering said Spengler was arrested in 1980 and convicted of killing his grandmother, serving time until 1998.
The fires are reportedly under control, Webster police officials said at a press conference. Four homes were completely destroyed in the blaze and four more were damaged.
Copyright © 2012 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/william-spengler-identified-webster-shooter_n_2360280.html [with comments]
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Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; 2 police killed elsewhere
A fire burns on Lake Road after a suspect shot four firefighters responding to the blaze in Webster, New York, December 24, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/WHEC/Christine VanTimmeren/Handout
By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK | Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:14pm EST
(Reuters) - A gunman who spent 17 years in prison for murder ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said.
William Spangler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester suburb, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.
"It was a trap set by Mr. Spangler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference.
Separately, a police officer in Wisconsin and another in Texas were shot and killed on Monday, according to police and media reports.
The attacks on first responders came 10 days after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history that left 20 students and six adults dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and intensified the debate about gun control in the United States.
Spangler was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer, according to New York State Department of Corrections records, and after prison he spent eight years on parole.
"We don't have an easy reason" for the attack on the firefighters, Pickering said, "but just looking at the history ... obviously this was an individual with a lot of problems."
Spangler opened fire around 5:45 a.m. after two of the firefighters arrived at the house in a fire truck and two others responded in their own cars, Pickering said.
Pickering appeared to wipe tears from his eyes at a news conference earlier on Monday when he identified the dead firefighters as Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka. Chiapperini was also a police lieutenant.
The injured firefighters, one of whom was in critical condition, were identified as Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino. Off-duty Police Officer John Ritter was hit by gunfire as he drove past the scene.
Pickering said police had found several types of weapons, including a rifle used to shoot the firefighters. As a convicted felon it was illegal for Spangler to own guns.
Police had not had any contact with Spangler in the "recent past," Pickering said.
Four houses were destroyed by the fire and four were damaged, Pickering said.
COPS TARGETED
Police Officer Jennifer Sebena, 30, was found dead on Monday in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb of Wauwatosa, police said.
Sebena was on patrol between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. and wearing body armor when she was shot several times, police said. She was found by another officer after she did not respond to calls from the police dispatcher.
In Houston, Texas, an officer with the Bellaire Police Department died after a shootout at around 9 a.m. and a bystander was also killed, according to local media reports.
A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department was not immediately available for comment. A police officer answering the telephone confirmed media reports but declined further comment. A suspect was in the hospital, according to reports.
Before Monday's killings, the Washington-based National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reported that 125 federal, state and local officers had died in the line of duty this year.
Forty-seven deaths were firearms-related, 50 were from traffic-related incidents, and 28 were from other causes, it said.
(Reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by David Brunnstrom and M.D. Golan)
Copyright 2012 Thomson Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/us-usa-newyork-shooting-idUSBRE8BN0HB20121224 [with embedded video report, additional photos, and comments]
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Asa Hutchinson, Former GOP Rep, Longtime Gun Lobby Ally, To Lead NRA Armed School Guards Plan
Former Rep. Asa Hutchison, R-Ark., speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington.
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
By Alina Selyukh
Posted: 12/21/2012 5:58 pm EST
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - In 2006, a political ad swept through the state of Arkansas, touting Asa Hutchinson's values as "shaped in rural Arkansas, a half-mile down a dirt road."
In his unsuccessful bid for governor, the former federal prosecutor and U.S. congressman touted his conservative political views and garnered a strong endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a powerful U.S. gun lobby.
On Friday, the NRA announced that Hutchinson - also a former Homeland Security official and now a lawyer predominantly focused on white-collar crime - will spearhead an effort to put armed guards at schools in hopes of preventing mass shootings like the one on Dec. 14 in Connecticut that killed 20 young children and 6 adults.
"School safety is a complex issue with no simple, single solution," Hutchinson said at Friday's news conference. "But I believe trained, qualified, armed security is one key component among many that can provide the first line of deterrence as well as the last line of defense."
His effort, dubbed the National School Shield Program, would have a "budget provided by the NRA of whatever scope the task requires." It will focus on producing a security model, which may rely on local volunteers as armed security guards and would be offered for adoption at every school in America free of charge, NRA officials said.
Opponents of the plan say the United States needs to tighten gun controls rather than introduce more guns into school environments.
NRA has contributed more than $30,000 to Hutchinson's various political campaigns for state and federal offices over more than a decade, becoming one of his top backers, according to the Sunlight Foundation that tracks money in politics.
In a brief stint as a registered lobbyist at Washington law firm Venable LLP Hutchinson in 2007 represented Point Blank Body Armor, a maker of body armor for the U.S. Army, according to another money-tracking group Center for Responsive Politics,.
Hutchinson, now 62, was the youngest U.S. Attorney in the country, when Republican President Ronald Reagan appointed the then-31-year-old to the post in 1982.
In what his political ads later touted as a character-forming experience, Hutchinson at the time put on a flak jacket to negotiate a stand-off between local, state and federal law enforcement and a white supremacist group known as The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord.
After unsuccessful bids for Senate and Arkansas state attorney general, Hutchinson became a congressman in 1996, replacing his brother Tim Hutchinson in the U.S. House of Representatives. He later served as one of the managers during the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton.
At the time, he voted for a bill that would have shortened the waiting time for gun buyers for any necessary background checks to 24 hours.
Hutchinson later went on to become the administrator at the Drug Enforcement Administration and the first under-secretary of the newly-formed Department of Homeland Security under Republican President George W. Bush.
In 2006, he returned to Arkansas for his unsuccessful run for governor, during which he briefly came under fire from his Democratic opponent Mike Beebe for airing an attack ad that featured children delivering the anti-Beebe message, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette at the time.
In an interview with the newspaper in October 2006, Hutchinson also shared his enthusiasm for hunting deer and other game and said his favorite hunting firearms were "a Remington 12-gauge shotgun and a Remington bolt-action .308 deer rifle."
"I think promoting hunting and shooting sports in general is a strong tradition in Arkansas, and it's a tradition that dies out if it is not passed on to the next generation," he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
When asked about the connection between hunting weapons and the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, he said: "To me, it's a matter of freedom, it's a matter of history and tradition, and it's a matter of self-protection."
Copyright 2012 Thomson Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/22/asa-hutchinson_n_2348725.html [with comments]
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Arrest Piers Morgan For Foreign Subversion!
Arrest and deport red coat globalist agent Piers Morgan for subversion of the republic. The games are over!
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1AvYiPq6w
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Kansas Residents Plan Human Shield To Block Westboro Baptist Church At Police Funerals
A Westboro Baptist Church protest.
By John Clelock
Posted: 12/21/2012 9:05 am EST | Updated: 12/21/2012 1:01 pm EST
Over 2,000 people have signaled an intent to join a human shield in an attempt to block a Westboro Baptist Church protest of the funerals of two Topeka, Kan., police officers killed in the line of duty [ http://cjonline.com/news/local/2012-12-16/2-topeka-police-officers-killed-shooting-sunday-evening ].
Two grassroots-based movements, organized via Facebook, are planning to surround the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka on Saturday to block planned protests by the controversial group, which is based in Topeka. The funerals are for Topeka police officers David Gogian and Jeff Atherly, who were killed in a shootout in front of a Dillon's supermarket last Sunday evening. The planned shield comes as Westboro faces a national backlash [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/westboro-baptist-church-protest-newtown-victim-funeral-_n_2331880.html ] and similar events have occurred [ http://www.facebook.com/groups/549992341697461/ ] in response to the group's plans to protest the funerals [ http://newtown.patch.com/articles/westboro-baptist-church-member-says-group-will-picket-sandy-hook-elementary ] of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut.
"This isn't a counter-protest, it isn't a fight against Westboro," Jude Quinn, the organizer of one of the events, told The Huffington Post. "It is a rally for the police officers. You can use the same law Westboro Baptist Church uses against them."
Quinn and fellow Topeka resident Caitlin Yoho started the events [ http://www.facebook.com/events/136171256539565/ ] through Facebook event pages earlier this week [ http://www.facebook.com/events/457561850946917/ ], and the plans have now gone viral in Kansas and the surrounding area. While the pair started their events separately on the social network, they have since spoken and plan to form one large shield. Both events have over 10,000 outstanding invitations on Facebook.
Quinn is an organizer with SilverbacksKS, a community service group, and Yoho said Take Back Topeka has also been helping to spread word of the events.
"The numbers will be shocking," Quinn said of how many people he anticipates.
The shield participants do not plan to picket or engage with Westboro, a controversial group that has gained notoriety for picketing military funerals in order to promote an anti-gay and anti-abortion rights agenda. The shield organizers said the plan is to protect the families of the two officers from the Westboro picket, while also making it difficult for Westboro to picket in close proximity to the Expocentre. Westboro member Jonathan Phelps tweeted earlier this week [ https://twitter.com/Jacob2895/status/280556714217054208/photo/1 ] that the murders of Gogian and Atherly were in response to police "abuse" of Westboro. Westboro member Margie Phelps has blamed singer Carrie Underwood's [ https://twitter.com/MargieJPhelps/status/279814384153395201 ] support of gay marriage for the Newtown shootings.
Westboro spokesman Steve Drain told the Topeka Capitol-Journal [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/brownback-denounces-westboros-conn-picketing ] that the group plans to "get to as many of these high-profile funerals as we can."
"We are telling the people of the world you ought not be mourning the loss of those children or those cops. What you ought to be mourning is our sins," Drain said.
Drain did not confirm a funeral protest to the Capitol-Journal, but said the group is "daily picketing the situation [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/united-we-stand-topeka-comes-together-post-tragedy ]."
Topeka residents have gotten used to frequent Westboro pickets around the city. In response to the group's planned pickets in Newtown, Topeka Councilman Chad Manspeaker (D), who represents Westboro, apologized to the people of Newtown [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/chad-manspeaker-westboro-baptist-church_n_2317113.html ] on behalf of Topeka residents. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) called the Newtown plans "horrible [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/brownback-denounces-westboros-conn-picketing ]." Earlier this year, former Kansas state Rep. Sean Gatewood (D-Topeka) challenged Westboro to picket his house [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/jack-wu-kansas-sam-brownback_n_1938794.html ] instead of picketing a military funeral.
The Topeka planning comes as the group Anonymous hacked Westboro's website and Twitter accounts earlier this week. Anonymous has also tweeted looking for information [ https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/281882413167177728 ] on Westboro's plans for the Topeka police funerals. Over 200,000 have signed a White House petition [ https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/DYf3pH2d ] to have Westboro classified as a hate group.
Yoho said that she believes the current Westboro picket plans have galvanized Kansas' capital city.
"We've kind of been desensitized to this; they picket here daily unless they are out of town," Yoho told HuffPost. "People tend to not pay attention. It is hard to ignore when they do something as disgusting as picket a funeral. This is to show people that we are out here and don't agree with this. We will show our support of the city and the nation."
Copyright © 2012 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/kansas-westboro-baptist-church-police-funerals_n_2342849.html [with comments]
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Walmart Sells Out of Guns, Bans 'Dangerous' Products
"With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14. By contrast, Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. suspended sales of similar guns at its more than 500 stores."*
In the days following the Sandy Hook massacre, Walmart sold out of guns, including the model used by the gunman. Walmart is fine with selling these instruments, but what have they banned from sale, and why? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more from Matt Townsend/ Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/guns-sold-out-at-wal-mart-as-ammo-surge-on-e-bay.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYhQarmpEM
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Published on Dec 24, 2012 by phillyfirenews
On Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 a gunman open fire on four firefighters from Webster NY as they arrived on scene of a car and house on fire. Two firefighters were killed, two others were shot. The audio is of the incidents. We are posting to show the true bravery of the firefighter who was shot and pinned down due to the gun fire.
Our thought and prayers go to all affected in this horrible tragedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7VXwnyAvp8
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William Spengler Identified As Webster Firefighter Shooter; Killed Grandmother In 1980s
A booking photo of William Spengler from 1998.
Posted: 12/24/2012 2:57 pm EST | Updated: 12/24/2012 9:43 pm EST
The shooter who shot and killed two responding firefighters [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/firefighters-shot-webster-fire_n_2358822.html ] and injured two others in Webster, New York this morning has been identified as convicted killer William Spengler, 62.
Police say that Spengler spent 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother in 1980. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the violence at the fire this morning.
Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Spengler set a home on fire on Lake Road and waited for firefighters to arrive, ambushing them with gunfire. His motive is unclear. The shooting killed Lt. Mike Chiapperini, 43, a volunteer firefighter and Webster Police Department’s public information officer, and firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka. Theodore Scardino and Joseph Hofsetter were also shot and are recovering in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital.
In addition a police officer from [nearby] Greece[, New York] who was driving by was hit by shrapnel and injured.
Several weapons were used at the shooting today, including "at least" an assault rifle, Pickering said.
"This is an individual who obviously had a lot of problems," he said, adding that there were "probably some mental health issues."
Pickering said Spengler was arrested in 1980 and convicted of killing his grandmother, serving time until 1998.
The fires are reportedly under control, Webster police officials said at a press conference. Four homes were completely destroyed in the blaze and four more were damaged.
Copyright © 2012 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/william-spengler-identified-webster-shooter_n_2360280.html [with comments]
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Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; 2 police killed elsewhere
A fire burns on Lake Road after a suspect shot four firefighters responding to the blaze in Webster, New York, December 24, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/WHEC/Christine VanTimmeren/Handout
By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK | Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:14pm EST
(Reuters) - A gunman who spent 17 years in prison for murder ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said.
William Spangler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester suburb, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.
"It was a trap set by Mr. Spangler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference.
Separately, a police officer in Wisconsin and another in Texas were shot and killed on Monday, according to police and media reports.
The attacks on first responders came 10 days after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history that left 20 students and six adults dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and intensified the debate about gun control in the United States.
Spangler was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer, according to New York State Department of Corrections records, and after prison he spent eight years on parole.
"We don't have an easy reason" for the attack on the firefighters, Pickering said, "but just looking at the history ... obviously this was an individual with a lot of problems."
Spangler opened fire around 5:45 a.m. after two of the firefighters arrived at the house in a fire truck and two others responded in their own cars, Pickering said.
Pickering appeared to wipe tears from his eyes at a news conference earlier on Monday when he identified the dead firefighters as Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka. Chiapperini was also a police lieutenant.
The injured firefighters, one of whom was in critical condition, were identified as Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino. Off-duty Police Officer John Ritter was hit by gunfire as he drove past the scene.
Pickering said police had found several types of weapons, including a rifle used to shoot the firefighters. As a convicted felon it was illegal for Spangler to own guns.
Police had not had any contact with Spangler in the "recent past," Pickering said.
Four houses were destroyed by the fire and four were damaged, Pickering said.
COPS TARGETED
Police Officer Jennifer Sebena, 30, was found dead on Monday in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb of Wauwatosa, police said.
Sebena was on patrol between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. and wearing body armor when she was shot several times, police said. She was found by another officer after she did not respond to calls from the police dispatcher.
In Houston, Texas, an officer with the Bellaire Police Department died after a shootout at around 9 a.m. and a bystander was also killed, according to local media reports.
A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department was not immediately available for comment. A police officer answering the telephone confirmed media reports but declined further comment. A suspect was in the hospital, according to reports.
Before Monday's killings, the Washington-based National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reported that 125 federal, state and local officers had died in the line of duty this year.
Forty-seven deaths were firearms-related, 50 were from traffic-related incidents, and 28 were from other causes, it said.
(Reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by David Brunnstrom and M.D. Golan)
Copyright 2012 Thomson Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/us-usa-newyork-shooting-idUSBRE8BN0HB20121224 [with embedded video report, additional photos, and comments]
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Asa Hutchinson, Former GOP Rep, Longtime Gun Lobby Ally, To Lead NRA Armed School Guards Plan
Former Rep. Asa Hutchison, R-Ark., speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington.
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
By Alina Selyukh
Posted: 12/21/2012 5:58 pm EST
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - In 2006, a political ad swept through the state of Arkansas, touting Asa Hutchinson's values as "shaped in rural Arkansas, a half-mile down a dirt road."
In his unsuccessful bid for governor, the former federal prosecutor and U.S. congressman touted his conservative political views and garnered a strong endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a powerful U.S. gun lobby.
On Friday, the NRA announced that Hutchinson - also a former Homeland Security official and now a lawyer predominantly focused on white-collar crime - will spearhead an effort to put armed guards at schools in hopes of preventing mass shootings like the one on Dec. 14 in Connecticut that killed 20 young children and 6 adults.
"School safety is a complex issue with no simple, single solution," Hutchinson said at Friday's news conference. "But I believe trained, qualified, armed security is one key component among many that can provide the first line of deterrence as well as the last line of defense."
His effort, dubbed the National School Shield Program, would have a "budget provided by the NRA of whatever scope the task requires." It will focus on producing a security model, which may rely on local volunteers as armed security guards and would be offered for adoption at every school in America free of charge, NRA officials said.
Opponents of the plan say the United States needs to tighten gun controls rather than introduce more guns into school environments.
NRA has contributed more than $30,000 to Hutchinson's various political campaigns for state and federal offices over more than a decade, becoming one of his top backers, according to the Sunlight Foundation that tracks money in politics.
In a brief stint as a registered lobbyist at Washington law firm Venable LLP Hutchinson in 2007 represented Point Blank Body Armor, a maker of body armor for the U.S. Army, according to another money-tracking group Center for Responsive Politics,.
Hutchinson, now 62, was the youngest U.S. Attorney in the country, when Republican President Ronald Reagan appointed the then-31-year-old to the post in 1982.
In what his political ads later touted as a character-forming experience, Hutchinson at the time put on a flak jacket to negotiate a stand-off between local, state and federal law enforcement and a white supremacist group known as The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord.
After unsuccessful bids for Senate and Arkansas state attorney general, Hutchinson became a congressman in 1996, replacing his brother Tim Hutchinson in the U.S. House of Representatives. He later served as one of the managers during the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton.
At the time, he voted for a bill that would have shortened the waiting time for gun buyers for any necessary background checks to 24 hours.
Hutchinson later went on to become the administrator at the Drug Enforcement Administration and the first under-secretary of the newly-formed Department of Homeland Security under Republican President George W. Bush.
In 2006, he returned to Arkansas for his unsuccessful run for governor, during which he briefly came under fire from his Democratic opponent Mike Beebe for airing an attack ad that featured children delivering the anti-Beebe message, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette at the time.
In an interview with the newspaper in October 2006, Hutchinson also shared his enthusiasm for hunting deer and other game and said his favorite hunting firearms were "a Remington 12-gauge shotgun and a Remington bolt-action .308 deer rifle."
"I think promoting hunting and shooting sports in general is a strong tradition in Arkansas, and it's a tradition that dies out if it is not passed on to the next generation," he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
When asked about the connection between hunting weapons and the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, he said: "To me, it's a matter of freedom, it's a matter of history and tradition, and it's a matter of self-protection."
Copyright 2012 Thomson Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/22/asa-hutchinson_n_2348725.html [with comments]
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Arrest Piers Morgan For Foreign Subversion!
Published on Dec 23, 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel
Arrest and deport red coat globalist agent Piers Morgan for subversion of the republic. The games are over!
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1AvYiPq6w
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Kansas Residents Plan Human Shield To Block Westboro Baptist Church At Police Funerals
A Westboro Baptist Church protest.
By John Clelock
Posted: 12/21/2012 9:05 am EST | Updated: 12/21/2012 1:01 pm EST
Over 2,000 people have signaled an intent to join a human shield in an attempt to block a Westboro Baptist Church protest of the funerals of two Topeka, Kan., police officers killed in the line of duty [ http://cjonline.com/news/local/2012-12-16/2-topeka-police-officers-killed-shooting-sunday-evening ].
Two grassroots-based movements, organized via Facebook, are planning to surround the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka on Saturday to block planned protests by the controversial group, which is based in Topeka. The funerals are for Topeka police officers David Gogian and Jeff Atherly, who were killed in a shootout in front of a Dillon's supermarket last Sunday evening. The planned shield comes as Westboro faces a national backlash [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/westboro-baptist-church-protest-newtown-victim-funeral-_n_2331880.html ] and similar events have occurred [ http://www.facebook.com/groups/549992341697461/ ] in response to the group's plans to protest the funerals [ http://newtown.patch.com/articles/westboro-baptist-church-member-says-group-will-picket-sandy-hook-elementary ] of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut.
"This isn't a counter-protest, it isn't a fight against Westboro," Jude Quinn, the organizer of one of the events, told The Huffington Post. "It is a rally for the police officers. You can use the same law Westboro Baptist Church uses against them."
Quinn and fellow Topeka resident Caitlin Yoho started the events [ http://www.facebook.com/events/136171256539565/ ] through Facebook event pages earlier this week [ http://www.facebook.com/events/457561850946917/ ], and the plans have now gone viral in Kansas and the surrounding area. While the pair started their events separately on the social network, they have since spoken and plan to form one large shield. Both events have over 10,000 outstanding invitations on Facebook.
Quinn is an organizer with SilverbacksKS, a community service group, and Yoho said Take Back Topeka has also been helping to spread word of the events.
"The numbers will be shocking," Quinn said of how many people he anticipates.
The shield participants do not plan to picket or engage with Westboro, a controversial group that has gained notoriety for picketing military funerals in order to promote an anti-gay and anti-abortion rights agenda. The shield organizers said the plan is to protect the families of the two officers from the Westboro picket, while also making it difficult for Westboro to picket in close proximity to the Expocentre. Westboro member Jonathan Phelps tweeted earlier this week [ https://twitter.com/Jacob2895/status/280556714217054208/photo/1 ] that the murders of Gogian and Atherly were in response to police "abuse" of Westboro. Westboro member Margie Phelps has blamed singer Carrie Underwood's [ https://twitter.com/MargieJPhelps/status/279814384153395201 ] support of gay marriage for the Newtown shootings.
Westboro spokesman Steve Drain told the Topeka Capitol-Journal [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/brownback-denounces-westboros-conn-picketing ] that the group plans to "get to as many of these high-profile funerals as we can."
"We are telling the people of the world you ought not be mourning the loss of those children or those cops. What you ought to be mourning is our sins," Drain said.
Drain did not confirm a funeral protest to the Capitol-Journal, but said the group is "daily picketing the situation [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/united-we-stand-topeka-comes-together-post-tragedy ]."
Topeka residents have gotten used to frequent Westboro pickets around the city. In response to the group's planned pickets in Newtown, Topeka Councilman Chad Manspeaker (D), who represents Westboro, apologized to the people of Newtown [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/chad-manspeaker-westboro-baptist-church_n_2317113.html ] on behalf of Topeka residents. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) called the Newtown plans "horrible [ http://cjonline.com/news/2012-12-20/brownback-denounces-westboros-conn-picketing ]." Earlier this year, former Kansas state Rep. Sean Gatewood (D-Topeka) challenged Westboro to picket his house [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/jack-wu-kansas-sam-brownback_n_1938794.html ] instead of picketing a military funeral.
The Topeka planning comes as the group Anonymous hacked Westboro's website and Twitter accounts earlier this week. Anonymous has also tweeted looking for information [ https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/281882413167177728 ] on Westboro's plans for the Topeka police funerals. Over 200,000 have signed a White House petition [ https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/DYf3pH2d ] to have Westboro classified as a hate group.
Yoho said that she believes the current Westboro picket plans have galvanized Kansas' capital city.
"We've kind of been desensitized to this; they picket here daily unless they are out of town," Yoho told HuffPost. "People tend to not pay attention. It is hard to ignore when they do something as disgusting as picket a funeral. This is to show people that we are out here and don't agree with this. We will show our support of the city and the nation."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/kansas-westboro-baptist-church-police-funerals_n_2342849.html [with comments]
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Walmart Sells Out of Guns, Bans 'Dangerous' Products
Published on Dec 23, 2012 by TheYoungTurks
"With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14. By contrast, Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. suspended sales of similar guns at its more than 500 stores."*
In the days following the Sandy Hook massacre, Walmart sold out of guns, including the model used by the gunman. Walmart is fine with selling these instruments, but what have they banned from sale, and why? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more from Matt Townsend/ Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/guns-sold-out-at-wal-mart-as-ammo-surge-on-e-bay.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYhQarmpEM
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