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(Sacramento, California; Friday June 17, 2005) Lodi, California Mayor John Beckman and Sacramento radio talker Mark Williams today said that they are joining forces with the Lodi Muslim Mosque to stage what has been unofficially dubbed The Million Muslim March ...Williams has been attempting to rally Northern California Muslims to speak out against terrorism for more than three years now said that “this is a first step on a long road by Muslims to retake their faith from extremists who grip Islam by the throat.” The popular radio personality added “All of Northern California should turn out in support of...

NRA says Kaine ad misleading, wants it halted Candidate defends spot that uses remark by Charlton Heston The National Rifle Association is shooting at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine. In a news release that invoked the name of actor and former NRA President Charlton Heston, Chris W. Cox, chairman of the NRA's political victory fund, accused Kaine of "a shameful and dishonest" attempt to mislead voters in a recent radio commercial. The ad uses Heston's name. (SNIP) In a conference call with reporters, Kaine stood by the ad. It is "extremely accurate," he said. The Kaine ad says he...

California Million Mom March Making Progress on Anti-Crime Bills; At Lobby Day Will Urge Legislators, Governor To Turn Bills Into Law 6/5/2005 12:01:00 PM To: Metro and Assignment desks, Daybook Editor Contact: Griffin Dix of California Million Mom March, 510-528-0255 News Advisory: -- California Million Mom March Making Progress on Anti-Crime Bills -- At Lobby Day, Chapter Members Will Urge Legislators, Governor To Turn Bills Into Law For News Media Planning Purposes The California members of Million Mom March chapters throughout the state will lobby legislators in Sacramento on Monday, June 6. The activists will honor State Senator Joe Dunn...

On its website, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) proudly proclaims its mission -- "To stop the defamation of the Jewish people … to secure justice and fair treatment for all." But when a Democratic ex-president supports a march by the most notorious anti-Semite and hatemonger in America, the ADL runs for cover. Bill Clinton has endorsed Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Million More March (scheduled for October 14-15, 2005, in Washington, D.C.). The event will mark the 10th anniversary of Farrakhan’s so-called Million Man March of 1995. (The 100,000-man march probably would be more accurate.) In an exclusive interview with the Amsterdam News,...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is endorsing Nation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakahan's "Million More March" over the objections of the Anti-Defamation League, which is urging top politicians to avoid the October event because they say that both Farrakhan and march organizer Malik Zulu Shabazz are anti-Semitic. "I think this is a very positive idea,” Clinton told the Amsterdam News this week in an interview from his Harlem office. "I like the idea of a march," he continued. "It’s fine to be concerned about [homeland] security, but we also have to keep trying to make America strong and better here at...

Million Mom March comes up a bit short Nick Coleman, Star Tribune March 16, 2005 NICK0316 There were a million moms at the Cathedral of St. Paul Tuesday. Minus 999,979. Five years ago, the moms could have taken a run at a million. But five years ago is a long time, when you are talking about politics. Five years ago, the Million Mom March turned out thousands against guns in St. Paul and then, on a beautiful Mother's Day in May of 2000, assembled three-quarters of a million strong in Washington, D.C., to demand that the nation's lawmakers put an...

This is a breaking news situation. A man entered a courtroom in the Fulton County Courthouse this morning and shot a Fulton County Sheriff's deputy, a clerk and a judge; there are reports from both WSB and WAGA, the judge is deceased. The perp has carjacked multiple vehicles -- now on his third -- and is still at large. I've just come from downtown Atlanta, and the city is a madhouse.

Nation of Islam leader the Rev. Louis Farrakhan is encouraging women and gay men to participate in the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. “The makeup will be our people, whoever we are – male, female, gay, straight, White, dark rich, poor, ignorant, wise,” said Farrakhan Saturday during the sixth annual State of the Black Union symposium in Georgia. :: AD :: Keith Boykin of the National Black Justice Coalition – an organization of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people – was pleased by Farrakhan’s open invitation. “I remember in October 1995, there were about 200 of us...

Nation of Islam leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan is encouraging women and gay men to participate in the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March.

A Springfield woman who began lobbying against gun violence after her son was shot to death in 2002 was arrested last week when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home. Annette "Flirty" Stevens, however, said Monday she's innocent, and the arrest is an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crime in the city. The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and drugs allegedly were discovered Friday morning inside Stevens' home in the 2500 block of South 15th Street. Authorities said they obtained a search warrant for the residence as...

The goal of gun control is not to actually control guns and make the world a safer place, but to control people. It is not as important for you can pass a criminal background check so much as it is that you feel obligated to ask the state for permission to buy a gun. Liberals know gun control laws will not stop criminals, but it will erode the sense of independence and self reliance of regular people until they feel that they can do nothing that does not meet government approval.

How does CBSNews handle their credibility issues? Why, they hire as a publicist the organizer of the Million Mom March. This is to let you know that Donna Dees, whom many of you may remember from her previous stint at CBS News (1987-93), will join our press office next Monday, Jan. 10, as senior press representative responsible for the CBS EVENING NEWS, the CBS EVENING NEWS weekend editions and FACE THE NATION. In the interim, Donna founded and organized the Million Mom March, which took place in May 2000, and served as a communications consultant for CBS for the LATE...

Toy Guns Pulled From Costume Shop Shelves Thousands of toy guns that were for sale in costume and novelty shops in New York state have been removed as part of a settlement between the state attorney general's office and two national wholesalers, the New York Times reported Dec. 20.Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had accused the wholesalers of distributing 12,000 toy guns in 2001 in violation of a state law which previously had applied only to retailers. New York State bans the sale of toy guns in stores unless they have a permanent orange stripe running down both sides of...

'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime Press ReleaseContact:Wisconsin Anti-Violence EffortP.O. Box 170393Milwaukee, WI 53217Phone: 414-351-9283'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime According to a New Report From the National Academy of Sciences: Statement by Wisconsin Anti-Violence EffortGun Lobby Shoots Blanks on False Claims That Wisconsin Families Will Be Safer If Residents Are Allowed to Carry Hidden and Loaded Handguns in Public Places MILWAUKEE -- A new report released from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), "Firearms and Violence," found "no credible evidence" that carrying concealed weapons laws decrease crime. The gun lobby...

Bullets Come Down: Help Stop Celebratory Gunfire this New Years Action AlertBrady Campaign to Prevent Gun ViolenceUnited with the Million Mom March1225 Eye Street, NWWashington, DC 20005www.bradycampaign.orgBrady/MMM is joining with America's police departments to urge Americans not to engage in what police call "celebratory gunfire" -- the indiscriminate firing of weapons into the air. On New Years Eve, scores of people will place others at risk of injury or death because of celebratory gunfire. When a bullet is fired into the air, the bullet has to come down somewhere. This holiday season, help spread the word about the dangers...

Amazon.com, the online superstore, has united with the anti-gun movement this holiday season. Amazon.com is promoting the Million Mom March, a group known for its support of strict gun control laws and regulations. It will give five percent of every sale to the organization when visitors access Amazon’s website through the Million Mom March site. In 2001, the Million Mom March joined the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center to become the largest grassroots, non-partisan, anti-gun organization. Since then, the group has supported many anti-gun proposals, such as New Jersey Assembly Bill 3942, which was proposed to outlaw the sale...

Chocolate, wine can aid heart By Sharon Labi December 17, 2004 A DAILY meal of seven ingredients including wine and chocolate could cut heart disease by 76 per cent, Australian researchers have found. The diet comprising wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruit, vegetables, almonds and garlic, would also increase life expectancy by more than six years in men and five years in women. Researchers at Monash University, in Victoria, and the Erasmus University Medical Centre, in The Netherlands, studied the effects of the "polymeal" to see if its benefits could match those of a polypill. Research last year into a polypill...

Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction. As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semiautomatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun...

Anti-weapon campaign runs on fiction By JOE WALDRON AND DAVE WORKMAN GUEST COLUMNISTS Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction. As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine...

Action Alert: Senator Frist Blocking Vote on AWB 7/20/2004 Action Alert The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March 1225 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 www.millionmommarch.org Senator Bill Frist, the Republican Majority Leader (and a physician), is currently preventing the Senate from voting on renewing the Assault Weapons Ban. A majority of Senators are on the record supporting renewal. But Dr. Frist is blocking it. Attaboy, Dr. Frist. With Congress leaving for a five-week recess on Friday, the Republican leadership needs to get a strong message: schedule a vote on the Assault Weapons Ban...

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to...Sink the Pink! The "Halt the Assault Tour" is coming to a town near you this summer! The Halt the Assault tour will be on the road in their pink RV throughout the summer as they take their fact-free message of the joys of gungrabbing and state submission directly to the voters. At each stop they will urge President Bush and our spaghetti-spined Congress to save the assault weapons ban, each time exploiting tragic deaths in order to steal our freedoms. Can we make sure that Freepers greet them at every stop? Their schedule appears...

Save the Assault Weapons Ban Help Us Save the Assault Weapons Ban before it expires on September 13, 2004 Our Goal Tour Blog News The "Halt the Assault Tour" is coming to a town near you this summer! The Halt the Assault tour will be on the road in our pink RV throughout the summer as we take our message to save the assault weapons ban directly to the voters. At each stop we will urge President Bush and Congress to save the assault weapons ban. Notes from the Road... The Big Pink Rig... off to save the country...

Renewing the assault weapons ban ill-conceived An organization called the Million Mom March held a rally in Washington on Mother's Day to urge a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban. If you must know, the turnout was about 997,500 short. But the advocates are not easily discouraged. Afterward, they launched a vehicle called the Big Pink Rig on a "Halt the Assault Tour." The bus will crisscross the nation between now and September, when the ban is scheduled to expire. The 1994 law was a monument to President Bill Clinton's distinctive political genius--which generally involved tiny symbolic changes that...

This month, the Million Mom March in Washington drew an anemic showing of only 2,000 people, while this year, all of the Democratic presidential candidates— however unenthusiastically— spoke of Americans’ Second Amendment right to own guns. These are just a few of the signs that the facts finally seem to be catching up to the movement. The future for the movement looks even worse.

NJ Coalition for Self DefenseSink The Pink!!!Please join with us in staging a counterprotest against the "Commie Mommies" and their "Halt The Assault" road show of lies.On Friday, July 16th, the Million Moms will be sending their propaganda machine back into Trenton,  New Jersey where they started. The NJCSD  needs your help to be there to "welcome" them.Please help us send them the message that our rights are not negotiable.For more information, please contact our coordinator for more details on how to help us Sink The Pink, or log onto our bulletin board to discuss strategy!The return of assault weapons,...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Minister Louis Farrakhan is considering organizing another national march next year – the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March – to encourage African Americans to keep a larger share of their $688 billion annual spending in the Black community. That disclosure was ignored last week after the Nation of Islam leader held a 2-hour speech/news conference at the National Press Club here that dealt primarily with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Middle East and foreign affairs. “I’m not so much interested in a march,” Farrakhan said, replying to a question. “I’m not too much interested...

DURHAM -- A group of moms presented some staggering statistics about gun violence and children in North Carolina and Durham at the old North Holloway Street school Wednesday afternoon. Between 1999 and 2001, 131 children under the age of 17 died from gunshot wounds in North Carolina, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Durham County had the second-highest number of youth gun deaths of all N.C. counties and the highest per capita percentage of gun deaths in the state. Only Mecklenburg County reported more youth gun deaths. Anna Lee Mosley, president of the West Triangle Chapter of...

REVIEW & OUTLOOK Here's more evidence that a million ain't what it used to be. On Sunday the Million Mom March ended up attracting between 2,000 and 3,000 women to the West Lawn of the Capitol. Though organizers tried to put a brave face on the paltry turnout, it was quite a comedown from Mother's Day four years ago, when the same event attracted hundreds of thousands and was cheered on from the Clinton White House. The ostensible purpose of this year's march was to kick off a campaign to secure bipartisan Congressional support for the extension of the federal...

C-Span2 was covering yesterday's MMM ralley, this morning. Turnout was pathetic, speakers were typical. Jesse Jackson took the stage to close out the presentation and to begin the march. He told the crowd that just last week we had intercepted 7500 AK47s off the coast of Vermont. Fascinating...

Gun Control Rally Fails to Draw Large Crowd All Things Considered audio May 9, 2004 A crowd in the hundreds gathers for the Million Moms March on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. The turnout was far smaller than the tens of thousands who showed up for the first Million Moms March, four years ago. Organizers downplayed the small size of the crowd -- but they acknowledged these are tough times for gun control. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

I attended the Second Amendment Sisters SAFER rally yesterday, and also checked out the "Million" Moron Mom rally. They had about 2000 people, we had about 200. Enjoy the photos and check out Kristinn's after-action report thread here: Second Amendment Sisters SAFER Rally, After Action Report 5/09/04 The "Million Mom March" Ahh, irony. The "American Sheep" shirt with the "FOLLOW" slogan... the Kerry for President sticker... make special note of this "gun free" sticker. A friend of mine hoping for a happy September. Let's hope this is one promise the President WON'T keep! This guy gave me a free "Million...

(CNSNews.com) - It wasn't a "Million Mom March" -- it was a "thousand gang limp," said one Second Amendment supporter, describing Sunday's anti-gun march in Washington. The Washington Post, which ran the story on page B-1, said "thousands" of people, mostly women, marched to "end gun violence" on Sunday. The newspaper described the rally as "the largest gun-control demonstration in four years," then went on to say, "The rally lacked star power, and certainly the numbers, of the first Million Mom March in 2000, when hundreds of thousands of women flooded the Mall on Mother's Day." The Washington Post said...

Mother’s Day on the Mall Gunning for gun-free citizens. By Daniel J. Flynn The Million Mom March took place on Sunday. Roughly 999,000 moms decided to stay home. The marchers who did show up, though, had a lot to say. "I don't think guns should be legal," declared Joan Davis, who traveled to the Capitol from Manhattan. "I don't think the average person should have a gun." "Ideally, I guess I would like to see a total ban on guns," held Bonnie Rock of suburban D.C. "But in reality, I would be satisfied with getting rid of the assault weapons...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control supporters marched through Washington, D.C. on Sunday demanding that President Bush extend a federal ban on the sale of military-style assault rifles. Several thousand protesters, organized by the same group that put together the Million Mom March in 2000, walked from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument chanting "Halt the assault." At the head of the march, protesters held a banner depicting an AK-47 assault rifle, saying the president would be to blame for more violence unless he fulfilled a previous promise to sign an extension of the 1994 ban before it expires in...

Million Mom March 2004: Reflections and New Commitments 5/6/2004 Feature Story by Dick Dahl Four years ago, Laurel Redden couldn't have said who her elected representatives were. A middle-class mother of two from Salem, NH, married for 15 years, Redden was outraged by TV reports of senseless gun violence, but felt powerless to do anything about it. She voted, usually Democratic, but never wrote a letter to an office holder or a newspaper. But then she heard about New Jerseyite Donna Dees-Thomases' ambitious plan to gather one million mothers on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the gun violence...

Millions March Again: After Women's Rights Rally In D.C., Gun Control Advocates Plan To Take To The Streets By Maureen Ledden Rossi Found among the mounds of rubble in Kabul after the U.S.-led assault was an al Qaeda manual entitled, "How Can I Train Myself for Jihad," which singles out the United States for its easy availability of firearms. Any al Qaeda member living in the U.S., according to the book, should "obtain an assault weapon legally, preferably AK-47 or variations." "If there ever was a threat report that clearly spelled out the dangers of failing to renew the assault...

On August 10, 1999, Donna Dees-Thomases watched as every parent's nightmare unfolded on TV: A gunman had shot and injured three young children at a California day camp. "My heart was in my throat," she says. "Those children could have been mine." Outrage and fear led Dees-Thomases, 46, a mother of two from Short Hills, NJ, to organize the Million Mom March on Mother's Day in 2000. A stand against the 30,000 deaths and 75,000 gun-related injuries a year in the United States, it drew an estimated 750,000 to Washington, DC. Now the second Million Mom March, set for May...

"Halt the Assault": Million Mom Marchers to Return to D.C. After 4 Years, Thousands of Lost Lives; America's Landmark Assault Weapons Law Hangs In the Balance 4/6/2004 9:40:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National and Assignment desks Contact: Rob Wilcox of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March, 202-898-0792 WASHINGTON, April 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Across America, mothers and others are organizing buses, stapling flyers in the supermarkets, calling into radio shows and organizing local press conferences. They're securing entertainment talent, stuffing envelopes in church basements and calling their representatives in Congress. The message to...

I remember reading that the Million Mom March was going to have a press conference on Feb. 16 regarding Mother's Day weekend of 2004. It was to be held outside Martin Luther King, Jr. High School at 10:15 a.m. Has anyone heard if it happened and what it was about?

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Three third-grade boys who brought tiny action figure toy guns to school received one-day suspensions for violating the Spokane School District's zero-tolerance weapons policy. District officials said the suspensions Tuesday also were given because the 2-inch-long GI Joe toys violated a policy against bringing toys to school. "They don't need toys during the school day. If kids are playing with toys, they are not attending to school," Bemiss Elementary School Principal Lorna Spear said. Spear called two of the boys' parents Tuesday and met with another and agreed on the disciplinary actions. Two boys, who allegedly used...

TRT/MD/DC FReepers vs. Clinton/Brady Bunch: 2004 Elections implications? From 4:00 pm. until about 8:30 pm., Thursday, December 4, 2003, members of the Maryland/DC Tyranny Response Teams, plus three DC Chapter Freepers, gave the national anti-RKBA, anti-gun elite a chilly greeting as the “Brady Bunch” celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the passage of the infamous “Brady Bill”. This exclusive forum and reception was held at the internationally acclaimed Omni Shoreham hotel in the Cleveland Park area of Washington, D.C. Sarah/James Brady, John (D.C. Gun Ban) Hechinger, Sr., Sam Donaldson (ABC News), national Million Mom March leaders, elected members of the Kennedy...

“SAFER” in Washington, DC;Second Amendment Sisters Announce Mothers Day Pro-Gun Rights Rally Contact: Maria Heil, National Spokesperson, at 877-797-4857 (press only) or email: press@2asisters.org Web site: www.2asisters.org LAKEWAY, Texas, December 3, 2003--The Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) are proud to announce that they will be holding the SAFER, or Second Amendment Freedoms for Everyone Rally on Mother’s Day 2004. The SAFER event will be held on Sunday May 9, 2004 in Washington, DC, currently scheduled for Freedom Plaza from 11am until 3pm. The first SAS rally, which was named the “Armed Informed Mothers Rally & March”, was organized in direct response...

NRA lying about Silveira case AGAIN Press Release - Is the NRA Serious from Gary Gorski, attorney for Silveira Plaintiffs August 26, 2003 [filed here late due to site being down] [Additional analysis by Angel Shamaya below press release] The NRA issued the following press release: NRA Files Brief with the Supreme Court in Silveira v. Lockyer The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Silveira v. Lockyer, arguing that the Second Amendment is indeed an individual right, and a right that is applicable to the states...

The Palm Beach Post reports on June 26 that a recent Million Mom March rally drew -- FOUR people! Gun-owner factoid: those who pay the MOST attention to the "Miniscule Mom March" anymore are gun activists! It's good to reflect a bit on what a non-sequiter they have become in American politics! Relegated to silly events that create more head-shaking than attention, these throwbacks to the now-exposed 40-year-old political sham of "gun control" are mocked even by their own name! Isn't it funny how the anti-gunner's "names", those monikers they ORIGINALLY CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES, became a problem for EVEN THE...

When Is a School Shooting Not a “School Shooting”? Why Are the Gun-Grabbers Making Criminals Out to Be Innocent LAKEWAY, TEXAS, April 18, 2003-The Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) is appalled, but not surprised, that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly Handgun Control Inc. or HCI) would yet again use another instance of criminal violence to further their agenda against all law-abiding gun owners. The former HCI released their statements after a gang-related shooting occurred in a New Orleans high school. The former HCI totally ignores the fact that this was not a “school shooting”, but rather part of...

Join MMM FL Rally in Opposing the NRA on April 26th 4/15/2003 Action Alert MMM Florida State Council Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March Orlando, FL Phone: 407-872-2221 www.millionmommarchflorida.org All Million Mom March members and supporters who want to show America that Florida and others are united against gun violence and for kids, and oppose the extremists who run the NRA are cordially invited to join us at the Orlando Convention Center on April 26th. The convention center is the site of the National Rifle Association's annual convention where Jeb Bush will be the Keynote Speaker on Saturday...

FOLKS, Come on out! Stop hibernating! We need your help. Just read about the IMMUNITY BILL. We really need to take action on this. Why should we let gun manufacturers get immunity from victims of gun violence when virtually no other industry (cars, food, toys, clothing, everything you touch) doesn't???? Click on the link http://capwiz.com/brady/dbq/officials type in your zip code and send a message to OPPOSE H.R.2037/S.2268 (the capwiz link will give you a cue for this Immunity Bill). Yeah, life is busy, and we are all stressed, but please take a moment to DO SOMETHING! THANKS A MILLION! Joan...

Maryland TRT members were on the frontlines, in the cold, pouring rain, until the jublilant end! Some of the many Maryland Tyranny Response (TRT) patriots and FReepers celebrate with other grassroots campaign volunteers at the Ehrlich/Steele for Governor victory celebration in Gaithersburg, Maryland, right after the polls closed Tuesday night. Maryland TRT members worked 13 hour shifts at key swing voter polling places for the Ehrlich/Steele (R) gubernatorial campaign in Montgomery County, Maryland on November 5, 2002. The evening rush hour shifts were worked outside during the cold, pouring rainstorm that hit this area last night. This explains the bedraggled...

At a time when almost all of Maryland's gunowners are cowering in fear from police interrogations, gun grabbing raids... and while "politically correct" (PC) politicians avoided freedom debates, hide in their closets or "head for the hills" on the subject of gun control... once again, the DC and Maryland Tyranny Response Teams rise up to confront the anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-RKBA, anti-American, gun CONTROL FREAKS that came out to "protest" Maryland gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich's moderate "record" on gun control, right in front of the main Ehrlich/Steele campaign office in downtown Bethesda, Maryland. This gun control freak protest and the resulting...

<p>So far this year, 10 Detroit-area children were killed by guns. How can we, as a community and a state, stop this rising tide of gun violence?</p> <p>Other communities that have stood at the dangerous intersection of young people and guns provide a good lesson. The similarities between school shootings in Littleton, Colo., and Erfurt, Germany, are striking -- troubled kids, access to guns and unbearable tragedy. Even more striking: the difference between the two countries' responses.</p>