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No atheists in foxholes -- or at memorial services for children?
Three things struck me about Sunday night’s interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.: 1) The program was amazingly ecumenical, with Hebrew chants, invocations of Jesus and contributions from Muslim and Baha'i...Tags: Christianity, Personal Weapon Control, Church and State Relations, Religion and Belief, U.S. Congress
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Gun control advocates denounce NRA plan
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Assn.’s proposal Friday to finance a National Model School Shield Program in which armed volunteers would be stationed at every school in America was quickly slammed by gun control advocates who accused the...
Tags: Republican Party, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Frank Lautenberg, Mike Thompson
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NRA vs. common sense
When the National Rifle Association promised "meaningful contributions" to prevent another massacre like the recent horror in Newtown, Conn., I didn't expect much, but I hoped for more than what we got. After an allegedly mentally ill gunman killed 20...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Newspaper and Magazine, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Periodicals
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Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Northern Illinois University, Long Island Rail Road, Students, Toulouse, France Shootings (2012)
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Let's focus the discussion on safety
Let's stop talking about "gun control." The term scares many of the people whose support is needed for gun sense, common sense, to keep military-style assault weapons with quick-loading 30-round magazines from the hands of another deranged killer. A...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Weaponry, Wayne LaPierre
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Sens. Feinstein, Graham clash on gun control
If Washington’s effort to reach a deal on the "fiscal cliff" looks daunting, just wait for the debate over what to do about mass shootings like the one that killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Appearing on...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Weaponry, U.S. Congress
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On Education: Sandy Hook is a lesson told too often
There are families in Newtown, Conn. who are enduring the holidays without their children. There are empty spots on couches, unwrapped presents and those who weep at the sight of them. The Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School —...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Glendale (Queens, New York), Personal Weapon Control, Religion and Belief, Gun Control
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Avoiding charity scams
KWCH Eyewitness NewsA 37 year old New York woman is charged scamming people looking to help victims in connection with the deadly school shooting in Connecticut. Police say the woman posed as an anut of one of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Prosecutors...Tags: Business, Social Services, Social Issues, Charity, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Armed Police In Each School?
The National Rifle Association, silent for a week after the horrific massacre of 20 first-graders and six women who tried to protect them at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, finally broke its silence. At a "press conference" at which no...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Eric Harris, Wayne LaPierre, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Dylan Klebold
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How Columbine Climbed Back
The Hartford CourantAfter the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, then Superintendent Jane Hammond remembers impassioned pleas from the parents of the murdered children: Get rid of the school library where their children died. "They didn't want people walking where their...Tags: Parenting, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Students, Human Interest
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LIFE MATTERS: After tragedy in Newtown, it's time we have a talk
Contributing WriterI used to work with someone who would on rare occasions step into my office and ask, “Can we talk?” I immediately knew something was seriously amiss and therefore needed to be addressed in order to avoid potentially disastrous consequences....Tags: Entertainment, Murder, Shootings, David Brooks, Gaming
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Apodaca: Our children, first and foremost
I am not a particularly brave or noble person. But like every other parent I know, I possess an unwavering certainty that I would lay down my life for my children. Yet we parents also know that we can't always protect our kids from danger, a fact that...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Holidays, Landforms, Mountains, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Dec 27, 2012
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Dec 30, 2012
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