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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: Barack Obama, University of Illinois Springfield, Laws, Mental Health, Shootings
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What's Left For Gun-Control Advocates After Crash-And-Burn In U.S. Senate?
The Hartford CourantOne of the phrases repeated often by advocates of stricter gun laws since the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre has been: "If not now, when?" That rhetorical question became a literal one Wednesday when a federal gun-control bill crashed and burned in the...Tags: Voting, White House, Laws, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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An Angry Obama Lashes Out At Senate's Rejection Of Gun Measures
The Hartford CourantAngered by a resounding defeat Wednesday of proposed gun control legislation that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with parents of murdered Newtown first-graders and vowed: "This...Tags: Barack Obama, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), White House, Health and Safety at School, Washington, DC
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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, Justice and Rights, Health and Safety at School, Laws
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Senate thwarts public on guns
The U.S. Senate's handling of a gun safety package was cowardly and contemptible. With a series of procedural votes, most Republican senators and a handful of Democrats opted Wednesday afternoon to not even debate modest gun safety measures. They...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Lobbying, Safety of Citizens, Government
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Obama minces words in addressing the Boston bombing
WASHINGTON - Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it "propaganda by deed." Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Barack Obama, Terrorism, Jihad, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Joe Biden, White House, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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The language of terror
WASHINGTON -- Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it "propaganda by deed." Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful...
Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism, White House, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Boston: News organizations' race to be first leads to stumbles
Sports radio personality Dan Patrick often jokes that the motto of his news team is, "Fast and wrong is still fast." Too often these days that slogan could be used to describe real news organizations. The latest example came Wednesday when false reports...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Entertainment, Radio, CNN (tv network)
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CORRECTED-ANALYSIS-U.S. Senate vote shows gun-control advocates the size of challenge
Reuters(Corrects senator's name to Mark Kirk from Ron Kirk in paragraph 23) By Samuel P. Jacobs NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - In the end, nothing could persuade enough U.S. senators to approve the most significant gun legislation in two decades: Not the...Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, Heidi Heitkamp, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Voting
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In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority
"We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone." — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, in testimony before the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Harry Reid, John McCain, Barack Obama, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Heidi Heitkamp
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