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Broward commissioners worried, want more security
Two weeks after a crowd of pit bull supporters jammed County Hall, county commissioners voiced concerns over their personal safety and reiterated a request for increased security. The county complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a former Burdines...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Local Government, Broward County
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Remembering Sandy Hook on the way to Congress
From Washington to Annapolis to Hartford, Conn., wherever new gun restrictions are being debated, it's important to remember Sandy Hook. That's not a plea to the emotions. That's a plea to human decency and common sense — a reminder of the...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Senate committee approves gun trafficking bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday making gun trafficking a federal crime as lawmakers cast the first vote in Congress to curb firearms since December's horrific shootings at a Connecticut elementary...
Tags: Republican Party, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Assault, Dianne Feinstein
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Wal-Mart Urged To Pull Military-Style Rifles
The Hartford CourantGun-control advocates, including parents of victims of mass shootings, delivered nearly 300,000 signatures to a Wal-Mart store a short drive from Sandy Hook Elementary School Tuesday morning, calling on the nation's largest firearms seller to pull...Tags: Danbury, Interior Policy, FBI, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Blumenthal Wants Background Checks On Ammo Buyers; Giffords Launches Anti-Violence Effort
The Hartford CourantU.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that he will introduce a bill to close what he called a "ludicrous loophole" by requiring that people undergo instant background checks when they buy ammunition — just as they must do before they buy a gun....Tags: FBI, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, ABC (tv network), Sandy Hook Elementary School
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New NRA ad denounces Obama as a hypocrite
This post has been updated. See below for details.WASHINGTON -- Denouncing President Obama as an “elitist hypocrite,” the National Rifle Assn. released a new video attacking the president for opposing universal armed guards in schools while his own daughters are protected by the Secret...Tags: Interior Policy, MSNBC (tv network), Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Secret Service, NBC (tv network)
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A Deeper Divide: The Gun Control Debate After Newtown
The Hartford CourantLast fall, residents of Newtown were having a debate that could have taken place almost anywhere in America. It was an argument over guns. The issue was fairly simple: Should amateur shooting ranges be subject to inspection and approval by the police...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Fairfield County, Valentine's Day, Criminals, Gun Control
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'They deserve a vote' can be more than rhetoric
State of the Union addresses are traditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. President Barack Obama's started that way, but it ended as the most emotional speech before a joint session of Congress in modern memory. The theatrics of the event...Tags: Interior Policy, Hadiya Pendleton, Personal Weapon Control, Human Interest, Elections
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We deserve a vote
Much of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week was a fairly ho-hum affair, with the usual laundry list of programs and goals (most so familiar that it could have been a recycled campaign speech from 2012, or maybe 2008) and the...Tags: Interior Policy, Shootings, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Personal Weapon Control
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Obama calls for 'smarter' government in State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Declaring that the nation is stronger “after years of grueling recession,” President Obama advocated an array of modest second-term initiatives Tuesday night that he said wouldn’t bust the federal budget. There...
Tags: Interior Policy, Environmental Politics, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Ecosystems, Government
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2 charged in Hadiya Pendleton's murder to appear in Chicago court
The two men accused of shooting Hadiya Pendleton will appear in a Chicago courtroom on the first-degree murder charges Tuesday, hours before her parents are to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama for the president’s State of the Union speech....
Tags: Hadiya Pendleton, Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Crimes, Prisons
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Texas lawmaker invites Ted Nugent to State of the Union address
WASHINGTON – Ted Nugent, the rocker-turned-gun-rights activist who was the subject of a Secret Service investigation last year after controversial remarks about President Obama, will attend Tuesday's State of the Union address as the guest of a...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Ted Nugent, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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