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Resolute, but with an asterisk
WASHINGTON -- The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deadly rampage through...
Tags: Politics, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Barack Obama, Religious Conflicts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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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: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Politics, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Evercore Partners, Michael S. Dell
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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: Services and Shopping, Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Health and Safety at School, Accounting and Auditing
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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: Politics, Michael F. Bennet, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Max Baucus
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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: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Politics, Psychology, Gun Control, University of Texas at Austin
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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: FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Sports, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, Gun Control
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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: Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Interior Policy
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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: Brian W. Jones, Mark Leno, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Parties and Movements, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Susan Collins, Max Baucus
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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: Parties and Movements, Marriott International Inc., Republican Party, Politics, Immigration
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