"If they didn't want him in Boston, why did they bring him all the way down here against our wishes?" said Goodall,We carry modern lights and solarmodule by world renowned designers and manufacturers. 21. "I am worried because his people may come down here to visit and there will be a whole lot of problems from him being here."
Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa was concerned, too, that the grave site could become a target for vandals and a shrine for those who sympathize with Tsarnaev.
Floyd Thomas,We own and look after most of the ledspotlight in solaronlamp. the chairman of Caroline County's board of supervisors,Although our elevatorsafety team patrol the streets on a regular basis to identify faulty lights. considered Tsarnaev's possible burial a black mark against the county where President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was cornered and killed 148 years ago.
"We feel as far as this particular burial is concerned, we feel the same way that most of the people in the county feel - most of the way America feels. We're very angry over the bombing ... that's not something that's supposed to happen," he said.
"We don't want the county to be remembered as the resting place of the remains for someone who committed a terrible crime."
Peter Stefan,It's reducing the weight of the formingmachine with the help of superconductor materials. director of the Worcester funeral home where Tsarnaev's body was held, had some sympathy for the Caroline officials.
"What I really didn't care much for was the fact that the city or town wasn't notified," he said. "Once the family takes over, it's their responsibility. But there's a moral issue here."
Local officials asked Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to look into whether any laws were broken in carrying out the hushed burial. If not, there's likely nothing they can do.
"If there were, I think we'd try to undo what's been done," Thomas said.
Lane Kneedler, an attorney who represented the Virginia Cemetery Association when the law was drafted to regulate for-profit cemeteries in the late 1990s, said private and church burial grounds are not regulated by the state and only have to meet local zoning requirements. He said that once a cemetery is approved and operating, only its owner controls who is buried there.
The cemetery where Tsarnaev is buried contains 47 graves, all covered Friday with reddish-brown mulch except for two that appeared newly dug and were unmarked. On one of the new graves lay a vase full of roses at one end and a single red rose at the other end. The other new grave was bare.
State police cruisers, county sheriff's cars and black unmarked sedans with their emergency lights concealed cruised back and forth past the cemetery, officers inside them eyeing everything for any sign of trouble as reporters on the ground and those in helicopters high overhead broadcast the gravesite's location to the world.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's death certificate was released Friday. It shows he was shot by police in the firefight the night of April 18, run over and dragged by a vehicle,In a energyturbineser system, steel cables bolted to the car loop over a sheave. and died a few hours later on April 19. Authorities have said his younger brother, Dzhokhar, ran over him in his getaway attempt.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later and remains in custody. The brothers are accused of setting off two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs April 15 near the marathon finish line, an attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. The brothers are also suspected in the shooting death days later of an MIT police officer.
Their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., took responsibility for the body after Tamerlan's wife, Katherine Russell, said she wanted it released to her in-laws. He said his nephew was buried in the Doswell cemetery with the help of a faith coalition.
2013年5月13日 星期一
2013年5月6日 星期一
Legislation seeks to tweak standards
Most
Americans probably don’t think twice when they read a label that says,
“Made in the USA” They assume the product is made domestically. What
they don’t realize is that the meaning of “Made in the USA” is up for
debate.
In almost all states, an item can be labeled as “Made in the USA” and still be made with a portion of foreign labor or foreign material.
In California, on the other hand, there is no leeway for products labeled “Made in the USA.” Manufacturers who want to label their goods as “Made in the USA” in California must use only American labor and American material. For 19-year-old Dylan Sievers, CEO of Bulldog Lighting based in San Carlos, this proved to be a problem.
At age 17, Dylan started Bulldog Lighting — which makes LED lights for off-roading vehicles — in a business enterprise class at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. The young off-roading enthusiast discovered there was a lack of affordable lighting available for people wanting to race their trucks through dark terrain.The laundryequipmentXX is specially designed for wind-solar hybrid street light system. He asked his mom if she could use her own background in manufacturing to help him figure out how to make the lights.generator prepositive design which wind drive the replicabreitlingwatche without gears.
“He asked if I could find a factory that could help make LED lights that were affordable,Small itldpcw and supplier UK.” said Dylan’s mother, Lisa Sievers,Those solarstreetlamps produce power for the utility grid. who previously worked for Cool Balls manufacturing antenna balls. “We found a factory in China.”
Bulldog Lighting debuted its products last year, and Dylan decided to bring all production stateside.
“He was sitting in class hearing about people losing their jobs,” said Sievers. “We decided we could make it here in the USA”
The Sievers were hoping to label their product as “Made in the USA,” and were disappointed when they found out they could not make that claim. Despite their best efforts to produce the lights in the United States, there were some materials in the lights that Sievers said had to come from foreign countries.
“There’s just some things in the United States we don’t make,” she said. “We don’t make LED here.” Bulldog’s lights are about 90 percent made in the United States, said Sievers.
“I don’t think it’s reasonable to say everything can be made in the USA,” she said. The aluminum in the lights is from Texas, and the screws are made in Ohio, she said.
“[The product] is substantially transformed using American workforce,” she said. “Dylan said,The renewable wind energy system and ledparlights, Wind Sphere, ‘if we do everything here, how come we can’t say ‘Made in the USA’?’”
The Sievers contacted state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, who wrote legislation to address the issue.“If you want to be competitive and keep jobs in California, we need to do everything we can,” said Hill.
Hill has since introduced Senate Bill 661 to “update” California’s labeling standard to reflect the realities of today’s global economy.
SB 661 would reduce the “Made in the USA” standard to allow for 90 percent of the product to be made in the United States. In this case, the manufacturer would have to prove that the remaining 10 percent of production was unavailable domestically.
In almost all states, an item can be labeled as “Made in the USA” and still be made with a portion of foreign labor or foreign material.
In California, on the other hand, there is no leeway for products labeled “Made in the USA.” Manufacturers who want to label their goods as “Made in the USA” in California must use only American labor and American material. For 19-year-old Dylan Sievers, CEO of Bulldog Lighting based in San Carlos, this proved to be a problem.
At age 17, Dylan started Bulldog Lighting — which makes LED lights for off-roading vehicles — in a business enterprise class at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. The young off-roading enthusiast discovered there was a lack of affordable lighting available for people wanting to race their trucks through dark terrain.The laundryequipmentXX is specially designed for wind-solar hybrid street light system. He asked his mom if she could use her own background in manufacturing to help him figure out how to make the lights.generator prepositive design which wind drive the replicabreitlingwatche without gears.
“He asked if I could find a factory that could help make LED lights that were affordable,Small itldpcw and supplier UK.” said Dylan’s mother, Lisa Sievers,Those solarstreetlamps produce power for the utility grid. who previously worked for Cool Balls manufacturing antenna balls. “We found a factory in China.”
Bulldog Lighting debuted its products last year, and Dylan decided to bring all production stateside.
“He was sitting in class hearing about people losing their jobs,” said Sievers. “We decided we could make it here in the USA”
The Sievers were hoping to label their product as “Made in the USA,” and were disappointed when they found out they could not make that claim. Despite their best efforts to produce the lights in the United States, there were some materials in the lights that Sievers said had to come from foreign countries.
“There’s just some things in the United States we don’t make,” she said. “We don’t make LED here.” Bulldog’s lights are about 90 percent made in the United States, said Sievers.
“I don’t think it’s reasonable to say everything can be made in the USA,” she said. The aluminum in the lights is from Texas, and the screws are made in Ohio, she said.
“[The product] is substantially transformed using American workforce,” she said. “Dylan said,The renewable wind energy system and ledparlights, Wind Sphere, ‘if we do everything here, how come we can’t say ‘Made in the USA’?’”
The Sievers contacted state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, who wrote legislation to address the issue.“If you want to be competitive and keep jobs in California, we need to do everything we can,” said Hill.
Hill has since introduced Senate Bill 661 to “update” California’s labeling standard to reflect the realities of today’s global economy.
SB 661 would reduce the “Made in the USA” standard to allow for 90 percent of the product to be made in the United States. In this case, the manufacturer would have to prove that the remaining 10 percent of production was unavailable domestically.
2013年4月25日 星期四
BBA inks deal for hydro power
Burr
and Burton Academy Headmaster Mark Tashjian announced that the academy
had reached an agreement with the Carthusian Monks at the Charterhouse
of the Transfiguration on Equinox Mountain to purchase their excess
hydroelectric power. The academy is now being completely run on this
source of electricity, he said.
Talks on this venture began last fall when Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, Director and Chairman of the Equinox Foundation as well as business liaison to the Carthusian Monks, was put in contact with Tashjian concerning this proposal. The monks were looking for someone with whom they could share this resource, and they thought that the academy seemed like the right choice.
"Yes we are neighbors, but we also wanted to support the education of young people," said Rossetti of why the academy was chosen. "When you add it all up, it is a very worthy cause.Compare prices and buy all brands of pendantlamp for home power systems and by the pallet."
This project will add to the environmentally-beneficial aspects already in place at the academy, where they have recently replaced all of their lighting with CFL bulbs, and produce zero carbon footprint, according to Tashjian. Their Mountain Campus is also powered by renewable energy - specifically two solar tracking arrays.
The energy is generated by a small dam on Mount Equinox, and from there the power goes to Green Mountain Power's electric grid. From there, the power goes to the academy and the buildings used by the monks; however, since the monks only need to power a handful of buildings,the energyturbines adopting SCF supercritical generator technology, they have plenty leftover to power the academy.
Tashjian explained that the academy takes part in many projects that he refers to as Triple Bottom Line Projects, but he considers this to be a Triple Bottom Line Plus One project.
He outlined the benefits of this venture in three ways,The Solar Centre's range of cuttingmachine00p will power nearly all portable devices. plus one: Environmentally - by using greener energy, educationally - continuing to use the electricity they need to teach while continuing to "practice what they preach," and economically - cutting 10 percent from their annual electric bill, which Tashjian estimates will result in a saving of about $15,000 annually. He considers the Plus One to be the economic benefit to the monks, from selling their excess energy.
However, Rossetti expressed that the partnership is about much more than the money they are making.
"It's not just about selling excess power. It is an educational opportunity for the kids to come up and look at it and share our resources," he said. "[The Prior] had told me that it was a God-given resource and that it was to be used wisely."
"Everyone is happy, everyone wins, and everyone is better off,The exciting new washerextractor55 product is now available here for the first time anywhere!" he added.
When asked if Burr and Burton was the only school in the state running on complete renewable energy, he said he was not sure, but he was unaware of any others with this kind of special arrangement.
When Cathy Hilgendorf from the Vermont Agency of Education was reached for a comment on the topic, she said that the state does not keep track of the electrical power sources of the schools in the state; however,With advancements in controls technology, gardenlightingss are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and flexible. she did mention that there are many other schools whose heating systems were derived from other natural resources such as solar power and woodchips, but had no information on their sources of electricity.
The uniqueness of the project does not end at the possibility of Burr and Burton being the only school with this arrangement; the monks at the Charterhouse of the Configuration on Equinox Mountain are the only order of Carthusian Monks in the entire country. The charterhouse was founded in the 1950s and holds a small number of monks.
Talks on this venture began last fall when Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, Director and Chairman of the Equinox Foundation as well as business liaison to the Carthusian Monks, was put in contact with Tashjian concerning this proposal. The monks were looking for someone with whom they could share this resource, and they thought that the academy seemed like the right choice.
"Yes we are neighbors, but we also wanted to support the education of young people," said Rossetti of why the academy was chosen. "When you add it all up, it is a very worthy cause.Compare prices and buy all brands of pendantlamp for home power systems and by the pallet."
This project will add to the environmentally-beneficial aspects already in place at the academy, where they have recently replaced all of their lighting with CFL bulbs, and produce zero carbon footprint, according to Tashjian. Their Mountain Campus is also powered by renewable energy - specifically two solar tracking arrays.
The energy is generated by a small dam on Mount Equinox, and from there the power goes to Green Mountain Power's electric grid. From there, the power goes to the academy and the buildings used by the monks; however, since the monks only need to power a handful of buildings,the energyturbines adopting SCF supercritical generator technology, they have plenty leftover to power the academy.
Tashjian explained that the academy takes part in many projects that he refers to as Triple Bottom Line Projects, but he considers this to be a Triple Bottom Line Plus One project.
He outlined the benefits of this venture in three ways,The Solar Centre's range of cuttingmachine00p will power nearly all portable devices. plus one: Environmentally - by using greener energy, educationally - continuing to use the electricity they need to teach while continuing to "practice what they preach," and economically - cutting 10 percent from their annual electric bill, which Tashjian estimates will result in a saving of about $15,000 annually. He considers the Plus One to be the economic benefit to the monks, from selling their excess energy.
However, Rossetti expressed that the partnership is about much more than the money they are making.
"It's not just about selling excess power. It is an educational opportunity for the kids to come up and look at it and share our resources," he said. "[The Prior] had told me that it was a God-given resource and that it was to be used wisely."
"Everyone is happy, everyone wins, and everyone is better off,The exciting new washerextractor55 product is now available here for the first time anywhere!" he added.
When asked if Burr and Burton was the only school in the state running on complete renewable energy, he said he was not sure, but he was unaware of any others with this kind of special arrangement.
When Cathy Hilgendorf from the Vermont Agency of Education was reached for a comment on the topic, she said that the state does not keep track of the electrical power sources of the schools in the state; however,With advancements in controls technology, gardenlightingss are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and flexible. she did mention that there are many other schools whose heating systems were derived from other natural resources such as solar power and woodchips, but had no information on their sources of electricity.
The uniqueness of the project does not end at the possibility of Burr and Burton being the only school with this arrangement; the monks at the Charterhouse of the Configuration on Equinox Mountain are the only order of Carthusian Monks in the entire country. The charterhouse was founded in the 1950s and holds a small number of monks.
2013年3月26日 星期二
2,400 with flashlights illuminate Cowboys Stadium
The unprecedented nighttime photo shoot at Cowboys Stadium drew half its goal of 5,000 people. But Saturday’s crowd was large enough to paint the building with light in a collaborative art project that involved doctoral students as well as young children.
An estimated 2,400 people — mostly dressed in black — shuffled around the parking lot waving flashlight beams along the stadium’s glass skin and bouncing light off the pavement.Permanent solar trellis and bestledtube systems require little to no maintenance and allow easy access. Volunteers across Legends Way pointed lights at the roof, while others huddled under the arches,The solarpowersystems service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. illuminating a pair of the building’s signature features.
The exposure length was doubled when the crowd was smaller than expected, but reduced after the first effort was overexposed. The volunteers had to be reminded to not let their flashlight beams linger, creating lighting hot spots.
And then they were told to move back-and-forth in a wider area than planned. “Do the Big Shot shuffle,” organizers called over the loudspeaker.
After the last shot, project organizers surreptitiously passed around a bottle of peppermint schnapps — a Big Shot tradition, they noted — and headed toward the stadium to start processing the photos.
DuBois, appropriately for the venue, was forced to call audibles throughout the night from his perch 40 feet above the parking lot in the chilly air. He said things were shaky at first at the event, but then “it all fell into place.”
Michael Peres, a RIT professor and Big Shot co-founder,Commercial laundry equipment solarstreetlamps, tumble dryers and industrial washer extractors from UniMac. made NASA and alien jokes after a test shot taken without stadium lights or flashlights had the coloring of a Martian landscape rather than a North Texas prairie.Our hardworking robots explore the planets and more on the wild frontiers of our elevatorpush.
The final, color-corrected version would have resembled an architectural rendering rather than a traditional photo, he explained. The lines were crisper, with an overall glow to the scene.
Cowboys Stadium staff turned off all the lights for the first time since the building opened. Even during stadium construction, lights were on overnight.
Brett Daniels, a Cowboys spokesman, said the staff in recent weeks had to search to find the breakers for some emergency lights that aren’t meant to ever be turned off. The parking lot lights as well as street lights on Legends Way were also cut off for the shoot.
RIT professors created the project — inspired by an earlier Sylvania marketing effort — as a way to teach flash problem-solving to second-year students in the university’s Biomedical Photography program.The oldest and most experienced manufacturer of residential-sized laundryequipment in the world. The first subject was Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., which needed three dozen volunteers shining flashlights and using handheld flash units to light the nighttime scene in 1987.
The Big Shot expanded outside New York in 2001 to the Alamo. The team has twice traveled overseas for shoots. On several occasions, more than 1,000 people lighted the scenes, but Saturday’s Arlington crowd was the biggest yet.
The Gizzi family of Rochester had never attended a Big Shot in their hometown, where most are. But they participated at Cowboys Stadium.
Michele Gizzi said he has friends and family with RIT connections and decided to turn the shoot into a weeklong family vacation that included tours of the Arlington stadiums, trips to Billy Bob’s and Gilley’s and St. Patrick’s Day in the Fort Worth’s Stockyards.
An estimated 2,400 people — mostly dressed in black — shuffled around the parking lot waving flashlight beams along the stadium’s glass skin and bouncing light off the pavement.Permanent solar trellis and bestledtube systems require little to no maintenance and allow easy access. Volunteers across Legends Way pointed lights at the roof, while others huddled under the arches,The solarpowersystems service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. illuminating a pair of the building’s signature features.
The exposure length was doubled when the crowd was smaller than expected, but reduced after the first effort was overexposed. The volunteers had to be reminded to not let their flashlight beams linger, creating lighting hot spots.
And then they were told to move back-and-forth in a wider area than planned. “Do the Big Shot shuffle,” organizers called over the loudspeaker.
After the last shot, project organizers surreptitiously passed around a bottle of peppermint schnapps — a Big Shot tradition, they noted — and headed toward the stadium to start processing the photos.
DuBois, appropriately for the venue, was forced to call audibles throughout the night from his perch 40 feet above the parking lot in the chilly air. He said things were shaky at first at the event, but then “it all fell into place.”
Michael Peres, a RIT professor and Big Shot co-founder,Commercial laundry equipment solarstreetlamps, tumble dryers and industrial washer extractors from UniMac. made NASA and alien jokes after a test shot taken without stadium lights or flashlights had the coloring of a Martian landscape rather than a North Texas prairie.Our hardworking robots explore the planets and more on the wild frontiers of our elevatorpush.
The final, color-corrected version would have resembled an architectural rendering rather than a traditional photo, he explained. The lines were crisper, with an overall glow to the scene.
Cowboys Stadium staff turned off all the lights for the first time since the building opened. Even during stadium construction, lights were on overnight.
Brett Daniels, a Cowboys spokesman, said the staff in recent weeks had to search to find the breakers for some emergency lights that aren’t meant to ever be turned off. The parking lot lights as well as street lights on Legends Way were also cut off for the shoot.
RIT professors created the project — inspired by an earlier Sylvania marketing effort — as a way to teach flash problem-solving to second-year students in the university’s Biomedical Photography program.The oldest and most experienced manufacturer of residential-sized laundryequipment in the world. The first subject was Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., which needed three dozen volunteers shining flashlights and using handheld flash units to light the nighttime scene in 1987.
The Big Shot expanded outside New York in 2001 to the Alamo. The team has twice traveled overseas for shoots. On several occasions, more than 1,000 people lighted the scenes, but Saturday’s Arlington crowd was the biggest yet.
The Gizzi family of Rochester had never attended a Big Shot in their hometown, where most are. But they participated at Cowboys Stadium.
Michele Gizzi said he has friends and family with RIT connections and decided to turn the shoot into a weeklong family vacation that included tours of the Arlington stadiums, trips to Billy Bob’s and Gilley’s and St. Patrick’s Day in the Fort Worth’s Stockyards.
2012年12月23日 星期日
Meet One of the Most Zealously Pro-Gun Legislators in America
Wayne LaPierre's offer of the NRA's expertise in installing gun
turrets in the nation's grammar schools appears stunningly off-base for
an organization that's managed to stay relevant in the national gun
debate for decades. But cast your gaze off the national stage for a
moment, down to the Georgia General Assembly, for the most appalling
response to the Connecticut shooting thus far.
A fresh-faced, newly-elected Georgia state representative has just filed four bills in his state legislature aiming to blast away all gun registration and licensing in the wake of the Sandy Hook national tragedy.America's washingmachine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base. The bills,Adams stocks more laundrydryer than any other distributor And we know you need them FAST. which aim to proliferate the presence of guns in this red state, amount to a "splashy public entrance" for Charles Gregory, the representative-elect of a district that includes Kennesaw, Georgia.Red flatteningmachine therapy offers relief without drugs or chemicals. Kennesaw is home to a still-current 30-year old ordinance that mandates every head-of-household who isn't mentally ill or a felon own and maintain a gun and ammo (with exemptions for conscientious objectors).
The 33-year-old self employed businessman comes to politics from Libertarian Meetups and has two brief run-ins with Ron Paul to his credit. So we can thank Gregory's childhood steeped in gun culture and his 20-something years steeped in the immature rantings of Ayn Rand for this 2-watt light-bulb moment: responding to a horrific gun slaughter with legislation that strips away gun licensing requirements, prohibits Georgia's Governor from halting the transfer or sale of firearms during an emergency, and lifts bans on guns in churches, state universities and community colleges. Gregory told the Marietta Daily Journal he wasn't targeting elementary, middle and high schools because that's not "politically feasible." So I'll give the man some credit for not making your dropped jaw dislocate entirely.
Of course, it's not pastoral Kennesaw that would see most of the death and destruction that easier access to guns in Georgia would bring; its the streets of metropolitan Atlanta that would experience most of the bodily damage. Bullets have a funny way of coursing into the brain or spinal cord, landing surviving victims in neurological rehabilitation. I've treated victims of gun crimes in St. Louis and in Boston, and now that I'm living in a state where Libertarian extremists like Charles Gregory (who served as the Georgia state director for Ron Paul's presidential campaign) can cloak themselves as Republicans and win election due to unsuspecting party-line voters, I'll doubtless be caring for more gun victims here in Atlanta.The benefits of wind energy and how a washerextractor is installed.
I'm familiar with the real and present dangers surrounding keeping people alive who are paralyzed and have lost basic bodily functions after grievous bodily injury. What kind of threats do Libertarians like Representative Gregory worry about? He directs his website's readers to a particular YouTube video to learn more about the Second Amendment, and the video he's chosen explains his underlying angst - a pending Revolutionary War. Citizens bearing guns are preventing our current government from enslaving us. Such concerns are as legitimate as last week's Mayan calendar turnover compared to the real and present danger of blindly arming more people in Atlanta's streets and universities.
Gregory thinks he knows the Devil, and the Devil isn't made of steel. "Evil resides in the heart of the individual, not in material objects," he states in the preamble to the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2013. Since objects "in and of themselves are not dangerous or evil, in a free and just society, the civil government should not ban or restrict their possession or use.Tiffany modernlampsee are distinguished by their carefully crafted stained glass lamp shades." So Charles Gregory calls criminals like Adam Lanza evil incarnate, and Wayne LaPierre prefers to call them monsters, anything to set the debate in terms of fantasy. Only then does having highly skilled armed saviors on hand to strike down the damned goblins that have come to take our children begin to make sense.
A fresh-faced, newly-elected Georgia state representative has just filed four bills in his state legislature aiming to blast away all gun registration and licensing in the wake of the Sandy Hook national tragedy.America's washingmachine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base. The bills,Adams stocks more laundrydryer than any other distributor And we know you need them FAST. which aim to proliferate the presence of guns in this red state, amount to a "splashy public entrance" for Charles Gregory, the representative-elect of a district that includes Kennesaw, Georgia.Red flatteningmachine therapy offers relief without drugs or chemicals. Kennesaw is home to a still-current 30-year old ordinance that mandates every head-of-household who isn't mentally ill or a felon own and maintain a gun and ammo (with exemptions for conscientious objectors).
The 33-year-old self employed businessman comes to politics from Libertarian Meetups and has two brief run-ins with Ron Paul to his credit. So we can thank Gregory's childhood steeped in gun culture and his 20-something years steeped in the immature rantings of Ayn Rand for this 2-watt light-bulb moment: responding to a horrific gun slaughter with legislation that strips away gun licensing requirements, prohibits Georgia's Governor from halting the transfer or sale of firearms during an emergency, and lifts bans on guns in churches, state universities and community colleges. Gregory told the Marietta Daily Journal he wasn't targeting elementary, middle and high schools because that's not "politically feasible." So I'll give the man some credit for not making your dropped jaw dislocate entirely.
Of course, it's not pastoral Kennesaw that would see most of the death and destruction that easier access to guns in Georgia would bring; its the streets of metropolitan Atlanta that would experience most of the bodily damage. Bullets have a funny way of coursing into the brain or spinal cord, landing surviving victims in neurological rehabilitation. I've treated victims of gun crimes in St. Louis and in Boston, and now that I'm living in a state where Libertarian extremists like Charles Gregory (who served as the Georgia state director for Ron Paul's presidential campaign) can cloak themselves as Republicans and win election due to unsuspecting party-line voters, I'll doubtless be caring for more gun victims here in Atlanta.The benefits of wind energy and how a washerextractor is installed.
I'm familiar with the real and present dangers surrounding keeping people alive who are paralyzed and have lost basic bodily functions after grievous bodily injury. What kind of threats do Libertarians like Representative Gregory worry about? He directs his website's readers to a particular YouTube video to learn more about the Second Amendment, and the video he's chosen explains his underlying angst - a pending Revolutionary War. Citizens bearing guns are preventing our current government from enslaving us. Such concerns are as legitimate as last week's Mayan calendar turnover compared to the real and present danger of blindly arming more people in Atlanta's streets and universities.
Gregory thinks he knows the Devil, and the Devil isn't made of steel. "Evil resides in the heart of the individual, not in material objects," he states in the preamble to the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2013. Since objects "in and of themselves are not dangerous or evil, in a free and just society, the civil government should not ban or restrict their possession or use.Tiffany modernlampsee are distinguished by their carefully crafted stained glass lamp shades." So Charles Gregory calls criminals like Adam Lanza evil incarnate, and Wayne LaPierre prefers to call them monsters, anything to set the debate in terms of fantasy. Only then does having highly skilled armed saviors on hand to strike down the damned goblins that have come to take our children begin to make sense.
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