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The Front Burner: Legislature put gun rights, NRA ahead of public safety
We in the Florida gun-violence prevention community are concerned about the accelerating increase in gun rights in this state at the expense of public safety. This is evident in the passage of the "stand your ground" law in 2005, but especially the more...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Time to end the imposed ignorance of guns and the harm they do
Mary SanchezA revealing thing happened in the grief-filled days that followed the massacre of helpless children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Virtually every conversation about gun control, about any possible remedy for gun...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Suicide, Barack Obama, Shootings
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First, We Need To Understand Guns And Gun Violence Better
The Hartford CourantA revealing thing happened in the grief-filled days that followed the massacre of helpless children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Virtually every conversation about gun control, about any possible remedy for gun...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Suicide, Barack Obama, Shootings
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LETTER: Felon Thanks The NRA
As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Bank Robbery, Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice
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A Southern Lawmaker In Connecticut Yankee Gunmakers' Court
The Hartford CourantAlan Clemmons knew he had to act when he saw pictures of Texas Gov. Rick Perry arm-in-arm with a Connecticut gun company owner just a few weeks ago. Clemmons, a state representative in South Carolina whose district includes Myrtle Beach, is a friend...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Connecticut Gun Control Law (2013), Justice System, Executive Branch
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Press On For Better Background Checks For Guns
Way too often, from Connecticut to Virginia to Arizona, mentally unstable people get their hands on firearms. To stop this, state officials are creating a database of people who are disqualified for mental health reasons from owning a gun, part of a...
Tags: Politics, Al-Qaeda, Shootings, Safety of Citizens, Kelly Ayotte
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What we think: Environment, consumers lose to Big Sugar money
The gun lobby has gotten plenty of attention lately for its clout in Tallahassee and Washington. But the sugar industry could give the National Rifle Association a run for its money. A couple of recent examples typify the power, boosted by campaign...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Marco Rubio, Crime, Law and Justice, Everglades
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Calvert County student suspended for bringing toy gun on school bus
A Calvert County elementary school student was suspended last week for bringing a toy gun onto a school bus to show a friend, according to a lawyer representing his family. At a two-hour meeting Friday between officials, the boy, his parents and the...
Tags: Calvert County, Justice System, Lawyers, Pies and Tarts, The Washington Post
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Illinois lawmakers approve concealed carry gun bill
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- State lawmakers today approved compromise legislation to set up rules on who can carry concealed guns and where they can be carried. Illinois is the last state in the nation not to have some form of concealed carry on the books, but a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Brandon W. Phelps, Michael Madigan
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Illinois Senate concealed carry showdown: one up, one down
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate pressed for a compromise Tuesday to allow concealed weapons in Illinois, advancing a measure that would let Chicago keep local firearms laws like its assault weapons ban and rejecting a separate bill that would wipe...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Justice System, John D'Amico, Crime, Law and Justice, Kwame Raoul
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Deadline could backfire on gun-control advocates
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Talk about the Wild West. Imagine officials of more than 200 local home-rule units of government in Illinois — trustees, aldermen, councilors, commissioners, most of them part-timers — suddenly and urgently... -
Gun makers show no remorse over deaths
The Kansas City StarThe following editorial appeared in The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 29: The world's gun makers have a devil-may-care approach to the firearms violence that claims thousands of lives a year in America and causes billions of dollars in medical...Tags: Laws, Politics, George W. Bush, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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