Penny Dean and Your Rights

<img src="http://www.opposingviews.com/sites/opposingviews.com/files/imagecache/30... align="right">A mother is furious after being banned from a Hepzibah, Georgia elementary school several weeks ago, which she says stemmed from her posting a picture on Facebook of her concealed weapons permit, WRDW reports.

“I feel like a criminal. I want to be heard. I want a public apology,” Tanya Mount said.

The parents of a young man who was attacked by the police and an unidentified police officer speak out about police brutality.

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<img src="http://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ashland_lead.jpg" align="right">Just after 6:00 pm on August 15th, 35-year-old Medford resident Dallas Smith was riding in the bike lane on Main Street in Ashland when he was pulled over by Ashland police officer Steve MacLennan. The offense? Officer MacLennan claimed that Smith was riding his bicycle outside of the bike lane.

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(thanks ReasonTV)

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This is the common story: bad guy committing a crime; honest homeowner has a gun; good guy stops bad guy; no shots fired; cops eventually show up to take the bad guy away.

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This scenario supports the right of the people to keep and bear arms. What is not clear is why so many politicians do not want the public to be armed.

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The video, dated Sept. 27, was recently posted to YouTube by one of the frisked pedestrians. After an officer calls out “Yo, my man,” from inside the cruiser, things quickly go downhill. The two officers allege that the two pedestrians said hi to a stranger, and in that particular neighborhood of Philadelphia, “you don’t just say ‘hi’ to strangers.”

<img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/dr/hln/www/release/sites/default/files/imagecac... align="right">UKIAH, Calif. (AP) - A 72-year-old hunter who got hurt in a Northern California forest and was lost for 19 days survived the ordeal by eating squirrels and lizards and covering himself with leaves to stay warm, authorities said.

<img src="http://www.opposingviews.com/sites/opposingviews.com/files/imagecache/30... align="right">Sen. Dianne Feinstein reportedly got her hands on “assault weapons,” which are illegal to possess in Washington, D.C., with the help of Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request unveiled that Chief Lanier had partisan and ideological reasons for going along with breaking the rules.

NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America’s greatest treasures.

Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.