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Newtown tragedy brings bipartisanship back to Congress
They started out with a lot in common -- Joe Manchin and Patrick Toomey. Sure, one's a Democrat and one's a Republican, but they're both conservatives, both longtime gun owners and both sport an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. But now...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, John Boehner, Joe Manchin III, Government
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Guns but no roses
WASHINGTON -- The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration's push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown. This is because nothing proposed in the gun control debates would have prevented the mass killing of children at Sandy...
Tags: Gun Control, Firearms, Seung-Hui Cho, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy
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Timeline: Worst U.S. mass shootings
A heavily armed gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, July 20, killing at least 12 and wounding 38. Police arrested a suspect in theater's parking lot. Here are some of the worst U.S. mass shootings since World War II....
Tags: Virginia Tech, Shootings, Seung-Hui Cho, University of Texas at Austin, Dylan Klebold
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Music and the Tucson shootings
Pop & HissAnyone who has been raised under the sway of a spiritual belief system -- Christian or Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or pagan -- knows that when a crisis arises, one thing you do is listen for a sound. A still, small...... -
Lakeland police: 3 middle school students had plans to create 'chaos'
Three Lakeland middle schoolers were arrested on conspiracy charges after, police say, they had plans to create mass "chaos" at Sleepy Hill Middle School. One 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were all arrested and face charges...
Tags: Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Students, Columbine High School, Teaching and Learning
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Local Voices, Apr. 18
Reducing murder If you want to reduce the murders in Chicago, reinstate the death sentence. It will do more good than any gun-control law. A gang member will realize that he can be sentenced to death if he kills someone, not spend his life in jail. He...Tags: Adam Lanza, Punishment, Steven Kazmierczak, Politics, Gun Control
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Tags: Punishment, Shootings, Human Interest, Facebook, Family
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Overusing the bully label
A Florida mother was arrested this month for allegedly stabbing her two sons' bullies in the back with box cutters. News reports stated that after calming down an altercation between her sons and a group of boys, the mother reignited the situation and...
Tags: Dylan Klebold, Health and Safety at School
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Sandy Hook violence prevention commission meets for first time
A 16-member commission, appointed in Connecticut to examine last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school, kicked off its deliberations Thursday, even as the nation continued to wrestle with finding policies on how to deal with gun violence....Tags: Executive Branch, Behavioral Conditions, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Our View: We need common sense solutions when it comes to gun legislation
It's not a pleasant thought, but after what happened last month, it's a scenario that is hard not to think about. Your child is in his classroom at school with all his other classmates, listening to the teacher who is giving a lesson from the front of...Tags: Executive Branch, Students, Separation of Church and State, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy
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Essential reading after Newtown: 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen
When it comes to events like the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there are knowns, unknowns and, already, mis-knowns. A photograph of Ryan Lanza circulated asserting he was the shooter, when in fact it was his brother, Adam Lanza. Their mother,...Tags: Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Columbine High School, The Rachel Maddow Show (tv program), Michael Chabon
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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: Gun Control, Barbara Boxer, Separation of Church and State, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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