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How's that for 'Narrative' If there’s one thing the left has taught us, it’s that the NRA is an evil organization that panders to gun nuts, craves violence, wants children to die, and works for the destruction of all that is good and decent in America. While they like claim otherwise, people with guns never stop mass-casualty attacks, guns are pretty much never used in self-defense, and carrying one in public is a recipe for disaster. If there are two things the left has taught us, it’s that the NRA is evil - and cops are just as bad. After...

A firearms instructor has died after he was shot by a nine-year-old girl when she fired an Uzi at a shooting range in the Arizona desert. Mohave County sheriff’s officials said 39-year-old Charles Vacca, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, died at the hospital on Monday after he was shot at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range. Mohave County Sheriff Jim McCabe told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Vacca was standing next to the girl when she pulled the trigger. The gun recoiled and it went over her head. The paper reported that the girl had successfully fired the 9mm weapon...

A veteran firearms instructor violated two key safety rules when he brought a loaded gun into a Cobb County police academy, where he accidentally shot and killed a recruit Tuesday during demonstration on how to draw a pistol, officials said Wednesday. Tara Drummond, a 23-year-old who hoped someday to become a detective, died Tuesday afternoon shortly after being hit in the chest by a single round, said Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren, who is leading an investigation of the shooting. All ammunition is banned from the building, said Warren, who declined to release the instructor's name or any initial findings as...

(New Haven-AP, Oct. 14, 2002 7:22 AM) _ A New Haven police officer who was fired, then rehired after a shooting at a sobriety checkpoint, has a new part-time job as firearms instructor. Shafiq Abdus Sabur has been certified as a firearms instructor with the National Rifle Association. Sabur had been fired for shooting out tires on a car at the sobriety checkpoint, then rehired. Sabur has informed department officials that he obtained NRA certification and he would offer paid instruction to the public on firearms safety. In another incident involving problems with firearms, in June of 1999, he was...