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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: Joe Donnelly, Elections, Laws, Civil Rights, National Rifle Association of America
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UPDATE: Indiana panel drops school staff guns requirement
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Local school boards would have to decide every year whether they wanted to have gun-carrying employees at their schools under a proposal approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee. The House Ways and Means Committee...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Laws, Health and Safety at Work, Mike Pence, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Justice System, Firearms, Executive Branch, Laws, Judges
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Penn Harris Madison schools implementing $2 million in safety, security measures
WSBT TVParents and teachers asked for it, now big changes are on the way to Penn Harris Madison schools and administrators say everyone will be safer because of it. The safety upgrades stem from the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut where 20 kids...Tags: Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Madison (New Haven, Connecticut), Health and Safety at School, Security Measures
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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: Justice System, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Patrick Leahy, National Rifle Association of America
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Indiana seeing surge in gun-permit applications
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The national gun-control debate sparked by December's deadly Connecticut school shooting is spurring a surge of applications in Indiana for gun permits, with State Police seeing three times the number of such requests the...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Shootings
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Gun owners rally at Indiana Statehouse
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gun-toting protesters rallied at the Indiana Statehouse to voice their opposition to President Barack Obama's proposed gun control plan. A crowd state police unofficially estimated at 250 chanted and waved signs on the...Tags: Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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South Bend police keeping closer eye on schools
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – It's been nearly two months since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. That mass shooting caused schools across the country to look again at their safety procedures. "I think a police officer would make...Tags: Health and Safety at School
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Local congressional delegation reacts to Obama gun plan
WASHINGTON, DC – Some of our area members of Capitol Hill are reacting to the president's new gun control plan unveiled on Wednesday. Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (IN-02) released the following statement: “As a supporter of the Second...
Tags: Civil Rights, Interior Policy, Joe Donnelly, Gun Control, U.S. Congress
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Biden meets with gun safety, victims groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday heard personal stories of gun violence from representatives of victims groups and gun-safety organizations as he drafts the Obama administration's response to the shooting at a Connecticut...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics
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Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort
BRIAN SKOLOFF,Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically...Tags: Periodicals, Diane Sawyer , Safeway Inc., Newspaper and Magazine, Punishment
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Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder vetoes gun legislation
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have allowed concealed weapons in churches, schools and daycare centers, days after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that weighed heavily on his mind....
Tags: Students, Firearms, Executive Branch, Laws, Colleges and Universities
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