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Somerset school cop deal one step closer to fruition
Staff writer, @DA_AmberRA deal to bring an added layer of security to Somerset school district passed unanimously Monday night during Somerset Borough’s monthly meeting. School and borough officials have been working for months on details of a plan to add a security... -
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: Auction Service, Lazard Limited, Gun Control, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Michael S. Dell
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Glencoe's District 35 to decide on security measures
Glencoe School District 35 has received two of the three security audits it commissioned on school safety, and when the third comes in this month, the audits will include recommendations on issues such as security cameras and armed guards for schools,...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Services and Shopping, Accounting and Auditing, Photography and Video, Photography Supplies and Services
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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, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Psychology, Gun Control, Behavioral Conditions, Shootings, University of Texas at Austin
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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: Lobbying, Gun Control, Justice System, Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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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: Mark Leno, Brian W. Jones, Gun Control, Justice System, Joan Buchanan
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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: Lobbying, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Dianne Feinstein
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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: Marriott International Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Labor Legislation, Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013)
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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, Anders Breivik, Entertainment, Adam Lanza, Wii
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Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — In a final appeal to her colleagues to reinstate an assault weapons ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) displayed on the Senate floor Wednesday a New York Daily News front page from the day after her ban was pulled from a broader...
Tags: Harry Reid, Gun Control, Mike Johanns, Dianne Feinstein, Mark Kirk
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Assembly panel rejects arming teachers against campus intruders
A state legislative committee on Wednesday rejected a proposal to allow school districts to train teachers and administrators to use guns to protect campuses against armed intruders. Only one member of the seven-member Assembly Education Committee voted...
Tags: Schools, Tim Donnelly, Joan Buchanan, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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