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Connecticut school massacre: Why?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsEvery gun massacre is horrible, but this seems worst of all. If the preliminary reports are true, a gunman (or perhaps gunmen?) might have massacred an entire kindergarten class at an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty children, six adults and......Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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Newtown official calls for FAU professor's firing
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI'm all for academic freedom and freedom of speech, but there's a not-so-fine line between critical thinking and crackpot lunacy. Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy has clearly stepped over it. Tracy's doubts about the Sandy Hook Elementary...Tags: Politics, Personal Weapon Control, Teaching and Learning, Florida Atlantic University, Freedom of the Press
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Resolute, but with an asterisk
WASHINGTON -- The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deadly rampage through...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Harry Reid, Religious Conflicts, Barack Obama
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Will school massacre spur real change in gun laws?
By Tuesday, the argument over gun control had almost vanished from my Facebook feed. Gone were the passionate gun-related posts that had dominated Facebook since Friday, when a man walked into a Connecticut grade school, pulled the trigger on a semi-...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gays and Lesbians, Chicago Mayor, Civil Rights, Firearms
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Can Fort Lauderdale compel background checks at gun show?
A showdown is brewing between Fort Lauderdale and the Ohio-based company that has long held gun shows at the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium. The city has clamped down on the arms-bazaar excesses of the show, and a lawyer for Suncoast Gun Shows say...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Fort Lauderdale, Government, Politics, Public Officials
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Plan to sell gun maker needs a background check
What with the terrorist attack in Boston, the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas and the inane vote against gun control in the U.S. Senate, you may have missed the news late last week about Stephen Feinberg. The reclusive co-founder of the...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Lazard Limited, Dell Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Companies and Corporations
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate, Firearms
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying, Lake Worth, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Parties and Movements, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Patrick J. Toomey, Barack Obama
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Ebert grew more inspirational with age
A number that jumps out from the coverage of Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert's death Thursday at age 70: 306. That's the number of movie reviews he wrote last year, according to what turned out to be the final entry on his blog Tuesday. "The most of...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Personal Weapon Control, National Basketball Association, Hoop Dreams (movie)
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The forgotten victim: Nancy Lanza
The philosopher Kahlil Gibran's meditation on children is a touching favorite among parents who have read "The Prophet." In it, he captures perfectly the helplessness we feel as our children go out into the world, into the future, and necessarily...
Tags: Adam Lanza, Schizophrenia, Barack Obama
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...Tags: The Washington Post, Personal Weapon Control, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Lobbying
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