Tale of two robberies shows why gun control is bad

Security camera still of the robbery at Junior’s (VRPD/Examiner – Kemitha Lewis)

Citizens of the small Georgia town of Villa Rica got a lesson in gun control last week.  On two consecutive days last week, armed robbers attacked local businesses in the normally quiet suburb of Atlanta.  In each incident, a man was killed by a gun.  Ostensibly both were victims of “gun violence,” but for circumstances were very different.  After a weeklong manhunt, the final suspect was arrested this morning in Atlanta.

 

According to the Villa Rican, the first incident occurred on Tuesday, June 25, when a 19-year-old man wearing a hoodie and ski mask entered Junior’s Food Store, a local convenience store and gas station, around 9:45 p.m.  The man, Durante Octavious Ashley, 19, was a part-time employee of the store, but that night he pulled a gun on the clerk who was on duty and demanded money.  The clerk opened the cash register and, when Ashley turned his attention to the money inside, pulled his own gun and shot the robber, killing him.

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Nine myths about same-sex marriage

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Same-sex marriage is once again in the news. Three weeks ago, North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. The next day, President Obama reversed his support for traditional marriage and returned to a previously stated position that same-sex couples should be granted the right to marry. Now a decision by a federal appeals court in Boston has thrust the issue into the headlines once again.

The ruling by the First Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals found Section Three of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as between a man and a woman, to be unconstitutional. The Court did not address Section Two, which stipulates that states do not have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. The Court stayed its own ruling pending appeal which will almost certainly reach the Supreme Court.

There are many myths and much misinformation surrounding the same-sex marriage issue:

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http://www.examiner.com/article/nine-myths-about-the-same-sex-marriage-debate

 

A Klan killing in Georgia

There is now a historical marker near the bridge over Broad River where Penn was murdered. (David W. Thornton)

In the early morning of July 11, 1964, three U.S. Army officers passed through Athens to their homes in Washington, D.C.  from Ft. Benning where they had been training.  At the wheel was Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a veteran of WWII who had earned the Bronze Star for his service in the New Guinea and Philippines campaigns against the Japanese.  All three officers were black.

Nine days before the men started their drive home from Ft. Benning, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.  This landmark legislation banned racial discrimination in hiring and ended segregation in public places and many businesses.  Local members of the Ku Klux Klan in Athens had heard rumors that Georgia might become a “testing ground” for the new law according a 2004 article from Online Athens.

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Does NDAA allow indefinite detention of Americans?

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Many Americans are concerned about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by Congress in December 2011. Rumors have spread around the internet that the NDAA contains a sweeping assault on civil liberties that includes the authority to detain American citizens indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism.

H.R.1540, “the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012,” was signed into law by President Obama on December 31, 2011. According to Govtrack.us, the House passed the bill in May 2011 by a vote of 322-96. It passed the Senate in December 86-13.

Both votes were passed by strong bipartisan majorities. The only member of the Georgia House delegation to vote against the bill was Rep. John Lewis. All other Georgia representatives, both Republican and Democrat, voted for the bill, as did both of Georgia’s senators.

 

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