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Gun control debate revitalizes local tea party groups
Ventura County StarA recent Tea Party Second Amendment program attracted an overflow crowd to a rear dining room at the First Street Family Restaurant in Simi Valley. A few days later, a couple of hundred people, many of them local Tea Party members, attended a "Day of...Tags: Barack Obama, Local Elections, Interior Policy, Parties and Movements, Personal Weapon Control
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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, White House, Interior Policy, Democratic Party
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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: Interior Policy, Behavioral Conditions, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Psychology
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The Lima News, Ohio, Thomas J. Lucente Jr. column
The Lima News, OhioAnd so it begins. The gun grab. Liberal politicians keep telling us they don't want to take away our guns. "I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away," President Barack Obama has said....Tags: Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Behavioral Conditions, Erie County
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Arlington school district looks at security measures
Fort Worth Star-TelegramArlington school board members say they have no desire for teachers to bring concealed guns to class and instead are focusing on measures such as new surveillance cameras and door buzzers to improve security at elementary schools. School districts...Tags: Interior Policy, Teaching and Learning, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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Editorial: Heroes Among Us In Boston, Newtown
All hearts have been with Boston this past week — and eyes glued to the scene as police closed in on the remaining marathon bomber. Few moments in history have been as gripping to watch in real time as the lockdown in Boston's suburbs, swat...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Sports
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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: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, National Rifle Association of America
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Blumenthal: Not Giving Up On Gun Control
The Hartford CourantOn Wednesday, the Senate said no to America. But the American people will not take no for an answer. The first words I heard when Vice President Joe Biden banged the gavel to end the vote Wednesday on the gun purchasing background check bill were,...Tags: Interior Policy, Newspaper and Magazine, Adam Lanza, Personal Weapon Control, Heroism
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Mark Leno, Tim Donnelly, Teaching and Learning
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, White House
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, News Corp.
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Elmhurst library board rejects request to stop carrying M-rated video games
Rejecting claims of a direct link between violent video games and violent behavior, Elmhurst Public Library board members Tuesday turned down requests by a small group of residents to change the library's selection policy for violent video games....
Tags: Barack Obama, PlayStation 3, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Wii
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