Funny About The Timing Of These Shootings

Second Amendment Foundation Files Landmark Brief With Supreme Court

"BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb 12, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus curiae brief in District of Columbia v Heller, the appeal of the landmark case that overturned the district's handgun ban on the grounds that it unconstitutionally violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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"While anti-gun extremists are beating drums about the downfall of civilization if the high court upholds the individual right," Gottlieb stated, "we believe that the time has come for the Second Amendment to take its place as the Constitution's insurance policy against tyranny and as our guardian against unjust laws that leave us defenseless against a growing criminal element."

At least 17 shot in Illinois university class

"CHICAGO (Reuters) February 14 - A man opened fire with a shotgun in a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, wounding at least 17 people before killing himself, authorities said.

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Within two hours of the shooting police said the area had been secured. They said the gunman had killed himself."