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Somerset school cop deal one step closer to fruition
Staff writer, @DA_AmberRA deal to bring an added layer of security to Somerset school district passed unanimously Monday night during Somerset Borough’s monthly meeting. School and borough officials have been working for months on details of a plan to add a security... -
Plan to sell gun maker needs a background check
What with the terrorist attack in Boston, the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas and the inane vote against gun control in the U.S. Senate, you may have missed the news late last week about Stephen Feinberg. The reclusive co-founder of the...Tags: Gun Control, Economy, Business and Finance, Personal Weapon Control, Companies and Corporations, Lazard Limited
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Glencoe's District 35 to decide on security measures
Glencoe School District 35 has received two of the three security audits it commissioned on school safety, and when the third comes in this month, the audits will include recommendations on issues such as security cameras and armed guards for schools,...
Tags: Photography and Video, Accounting and Auditing, Services and Shopping, Health and Safety at School, Photography Supplies and Services
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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Health and Safety at School, Arts and Culture
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Psychology, Gun Control, Shootings, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Editorial: Heroes Among Us In Boston, Newtown
All hearts have been with Boston this past week — and eyes glued to the scene as police closed in on the remaining marathon bomber. Few moments in history have been as gripping to watch in real time as the lockdown in Boston's suburbs, swat...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Sports
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Lake Worth, Justice System, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Shootings
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Blumenthal: Not Giving Up On Gun Control
The Hartford CourantOn Wednesday, the Senate said no to America. But the American people will not take no for an answer. The first words I heard when Vice President Joe Biden banged the gavel to end the vote Wednesday on the gun purchasing background check bill were,...Tags: Elections, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Adam Lanza
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Criminals, Justice System, Gun Control, Teachers, U.S. Congress
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Begich, Heidi Heitkamp, Gun Control, U.S. Congress
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Justice and Rights, Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Patrick J. Toomey, Joe Manchin III
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Elmhurst library board rejects request to stop carrying M-rated video games
Rejecting claims of a direct link between violent video games and violent behavior, Elmhurst Public Library board members Tuesday turned down requests by a small group of residents to change the library's selection policy for violent video games....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Wii, PlayStation 3, Gaming, Barack Obama
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