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Connecticut school massacre: Why?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsEvery gun massacre is horrible, but this seems worst of all. If the preliminary reports are true, a gunman (or perhaps gunmen?) might have massacred an entire kindergarten class at an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty children, six adults and......Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, Politics
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Newtown official calls for FAU professor's firing
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI'm all for academic freedom and freedom of speech, but there's a not-so-fine line between critical thinking and crackpot lunacy. Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy has clearly stepped over it. Tracy's doubts about the Sandy Hook Elementary...Tags: Gun Control, Teachers, Personal Weapon Control, Florida Atlantic University, Teaching and Learning
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: Laws, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Adam Lanza, University of Connecticut Health Center, Civil and Public Service
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Will school massacre spur real change in gun laws?
By Tuesday, the argument over gun control had almost vanished from my Facebook feed. Gone were the passionate gun-related posts that had dominated Facebook since Friday, when a man walked into a Connecticut grade school, pulled the trigger on a semi-...
Tags: Holidays, Newspaper and Magazine, University of Chicago, Assault, Barack Obama
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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: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Religion and Belief, Harry Reid
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Can Fort Lauderdale compel background checks at gun show?
A showdown is brewing between Fort Lauderdale and the Ohio-based company that has long held gun shows at the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium. The city has clamped down on the arms-bazaar excesses of the show, and a lawyer for Suncoast Gun Shows say...Tags: Father's Day, Public Officials, Government, Fort Lauderdale, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Companies and Corporations, Michael S. Dell, Lazard Limited, Auction Service, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013)
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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: Behavioral Conditions, U.S. Senate, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , University of Texas at Austin, Politics
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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: Justice System, Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, U.S. Senate, Politics
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Gun laws and human nature
Cal ThomasIn 1983 when President Reagan ordered the deployment of missiles in Europe as part of his "peace through strength" strategy to counter the Soviet Union, the very liberal town of Takoma Park, Md., declared itself a "nuclear free zone." City officials...Tags: Laws, Prince George's County, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Adam Lanza, Cal Thomas
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Ebert grew more inspirational with age
A number that jumps out from the coverage of Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert's death Thursday at age 70: 306. That's the number of movie reviews he wrote last year, according to what turned out to be the final entry on his blog Tuesday. "The most of...
Tags: Entertainment, Women's National Basketball Association, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Basketball Association, Same-Sex Marriage
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Reckoning With Emotions' Powerful Political Pull
The Hartford CourantDuring Wednesday's debate on new gun laws, Sen. John Kissel rose and began a lengthy set of remarks with two anecdotes. First, the Enfield Republican spoke movingly of hugging his youngest son, Tristan, on the day of the Newtown massacre, one day before...Tags: Laws, Human Interest, Voting, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Republican Party
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