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Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Richard Blumenthal, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Laws
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US gun debate overlooks daily violence
LARGO, Maryland (AP) — Florena Carter's shattered life didn't make national news. Her son was killed on his 28th birthday in 2009. Carter's brother pulled the trigger. Her father shot himself soon afterward. The horrifying family tragedy...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School, Elections
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Firearms safety class draws women
As the debate over gun control continues, the NRA is offering a "women-only" gun training class in Niles. The class is called "Women on Target" and it filled up within three weeks. The targets are up, the guns locked and loaded. And the people behind...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Firearms, Gun Control
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School safety worries stir Ind. Statehouse debate
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The debate inside and outside the Indiana Statehouse over the past couple weeks over a lawmaker's proposal that all public schools should have a gun-carrying employee on hand had an undertone magnified by the deadly December...
Tags: Executive Branch, Career and Workplace, Regional Authority, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning
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Gun control advocates rally in South Bend
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — About 60 people gathered in the cold, damp air Saturday in front of the Morris Performing Arts Center, urging U.S. senators to move ahead with a bill that would expand background checks for gun sales. Dale Gibson of South Bend held a...Tags: Justice and Rights, Personal Weapon Control, Laws, University of Iowa, Crime, Law and Justice
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Couple who lost son in shooting frustrated by laws
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Whether you love guns, hate guns or are somehow totally indifferent to them, only a fool would argue that Tim and Patty Williams haven't survived the worst gun nightmare that any parent can endure. Nineteen years ago, their 13-...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Interior Policy, Justice System, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Indiana panel poised to drop school guns mandate
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal to require a gun-carrying employee in all of Indiana's public and charter schools seemed on the verge of being dropped by legislators Monday. The chairman of the House committee currently considering the bill said he...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, NAACP, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics
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Ind. schools chief leery of armed school staffers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's state schools superintendent signaled her opposition Wednesday to a plan that would require public and charter schools to have an employee armed with a loaded gun, saying such decisions should be made by the...
Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics
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Administrators armed in W. Colo. school district
DENVER (AP) — As lawmakers across the country debate arming teachers and administrators to prevent another deadly school shooting, one Colorado school district has voted to let its superintendent and a high school principal carry concealed semi-...
Tags: Executive Branch, Weaponry, Judges, Career and Workplace, Personal Weapon Control
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Buttigieg: Old strength, new hope
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- In his second address on the topic since taking office in January 2012, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday described the state of the city as "rest(ing) on old strength and new hope." At the same time, he announced a substantial...Tags: Interior Policy, Government, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Tom Coburn, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Personal Weapon Control, Chuck Grassley
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NRA likens universal checks to gun registry
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association's executive vice president continued to oppose background checks for all gun purchases despite polls indicating that most NRA members don't share his position. The NRA's Wayne LaPierre said on...
Tags: Shootings, Gabrielle Giffords, Wayne LaPierre, Fox News Channel (tv network), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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