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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: Politics, Lobbying, Lake Worth, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate
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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: Politics, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Sports, 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: Politics, U.S. Congress, Education, Schools, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Politics, Susan Collins, Dianne Feinstein, Mark Kirk, Max Baucus
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), News Corp., Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Career and Workplace
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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, Gaming, Libraries, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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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: Politics, U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein, Mark Kirk, Assault
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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: Teachers, Joan Buchanan, Education, Tim Donnelly, Schools
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Biden speaks about gun control at University of Baltimore event
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday at an event in Baltimore, said he was unsure whether there is enough support in the Senate for what would be the biggest change to federal gun laws in decades. "We may not get it this week, but we will prevail,...
Tags: Politics, Sports, U.S. Congress, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Memories of shootings return for Newtown runners
BOSTON (AP) — Laura Nowacki rushed to help the shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. As a first responder, the pediatrician was stunned at the horror she encountered. Four months later, she hurried out of Boston with...
Tags: Martin Richard, Sports, Boston Marathon, Running, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Villaraigosa urges state lawmakers to approve gun controls
As California lawmakers began Tuesday to consider more than a dozen gun control measures, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew to Sacramento to urge them to take "dramatic and heroic" action. Villaraigosa referred to mass shootings, including the...
Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, National Rifle Association of America
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Three killed, more than 170 injured as two bombs explode at Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 170 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that...
Tags: Sports, U.S. Congress, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), FBI, Starbucks Corp.
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