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2007-10-02 Europe

Italy: Former Red Brigade commander arrested during bank heist

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Posted by mrp 2007-10-02 11:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The recividism rate for recipients of the death penalty is...0%.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-02 12:05|| 2007-10-02 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 The left wants to have this happen here also. Mumia Al-Jamal comes to mind. Also the SDS and Weather Underground come to mind - Kathy Boudin is free and I wonder where she is and how many guns she owns?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-02 12:13|| 2007-10-02 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, that's why I have nothing but contempt for American leftists. If things were truly as bad as they claim (USA fascist theocracy), then surely there would be an armed resistance movement blowing up churches and so on. Instead, the spineless leftists just shake their tiny fists in rage and vote for another story at digg.com.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-02 15:08|| 2007-10-02 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 . Piancone tried to fire back but didn't realise he hadn't released the safety catch on his revolver, police said.

Revolvers don't have "safety catches", only automatics do.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-10-02 20:50|| 2007-10-02 20:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Oddly enough, there are revolvers with safety catches.

Thus the Webley-Fosbery "Automatic Revolver" is meant to be loaded, push-cocked, and then carried at full cock, ready to fire. That's why this peculiar single-action revolver has a safety-catch on the left side of its frame, and needs it.

When mystery writer Agatha Christie wrote "he released the safety-catch of his revolver" and she used that particular phrase quite often she may have been expressing personal experience. The Webley-Fosbery was never a government-issue weapon, and almost all of them were privately purchased. Christie's husband, Archeologist Max Mallowan, may have bought one for self-protection, for when he and his wife were out digging up antiquities in Mesopotamia.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-10-02 22:08|| 2007-10-02 22:08|| Front Page Top

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