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Gun Bans Don't Work, and Marion Barry is Living Proof, Says CCRKBA 1/3/2006 3:37:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911 BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The armed robbery Monday of Washington, D.C. Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry should not have happened to him, nor should any citizen in the District face such a crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. "Unfortunately," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "Barry and his anti-gun colleagues on the city council...

The United States and Russia clashed yesterday over a way to end the conflict in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, with Washington calling for a political solution and Moscow vowing to crush the separatist movement. Days after a school siege in the Northern Ossetia region that claimed at least 350 lives, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West -- and the United States in particular -- of having a double standard when dealing with terrorism. "Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants...