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Shame on Senate -- send 'em all home!
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...
Tags: Government, Max Baucus, Mitch McConnell, Crime, Law and Justice, Safety of Citizens
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: Justice System, Colleges and Universities, George Ryan, Lawyers, Trials
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Obama's Potemkin gun plan
Political trends come and go in response to events. Gun control was the rage during the Clinton administration, but over the past decade or so it became an obsolete cause. After the horrific crimes in Newtown and Aurora, though, it's staging a comeback....
Tags: James Holmes, Laws, Periodicals, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Responses to Dorner case contain surprises
A Christopher Dorner sighting was reported Sunday in my Northridge neighborhood. Helicopters swarmed, patrol cars roared up. The hardware store was evacuated and my favorite bakery roped off. It turned out to be a false alarm — just some random...
Tags: Elections, Racism, Ellen DeGeneres, Colin Powell, James Holmes
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The roots of mass murder are deep and tangled
WASHINGTON - Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Laws, Politics, Criminal Laws
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There's no safety in our vast numbers of guns
In 2009, when I was trying to figure out why gun sales were so brisk, I visited a couple of gun shops in Riverside and Corona. Back then, part of the reason people were arming themselves, they told me, was that President Obama had recently taken office,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Holidays, Leland Yee, Gabrielle Giffords
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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: Elections, Periodicals, Politics, Virginia Tech, Wayne LaPierre
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The roots of mass murder
— Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Laws, Politics, Criminal Laws
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Loughner sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2011 shooting spree
Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords stood next to her husband in court Thursday as he spoke directly to Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who tried to assassinate the then-congresswoman in a January 2011 shooting. "Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Trials, Laws, Prosecution
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El tema que no nos atrevemos a discutir
Como parte del proceso de duelo posterior a una tragedia, los estadounidenses siempre quieren hablar — y hablar, y hablar. Es una lástima que tendamos a distraernos y hablar de las cosas equivocadas. Sucedió nuevamente después del tiroteo en...Tags: Columbine High School, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), James Holmes, The Washington Post, Dylan Klebold
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Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Elections, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X
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Only a year ago ...
The names Bill Badger, Patricia Maisch and Roger Salzgeber probably don't ring a bell with most people and after a year, their names have faded with time even out here in southern Arizona. But those three stopped a deadly shooting rampage from turning...Tags: Arizona Legislature, Gabrielle Giffords
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Dec 23, 2012
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Aug 2, 2012
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Jan 29, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jan 9, 2012
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