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Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, Lobbying, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Barack Obama
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The language of terror
WASHINGTON -- Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it "propaganda by deed." Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful...
Tags: Islam, Religion and Belief, Terrorism, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Boston: News organizations' race to be first leads to stumbles
Sports radio personality Dan Patrick often jokes that the motto of his news team is, "Fast and wrong is still fast." Too often these days that slogan could be used to describe real news organizations. The latest example came Wednesday when false reports...Tags: Entertainment, CNN (tv network), News Agency, Radio, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority
"We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone." — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, in testimony before the...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Lobbying, Justice System, Michael Bloomberg, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Chuck Schumer, Lobbying, Assault, Max Baucus, Mark Kirk
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Obama arrives in Boston on a mission of healing and commemoration
BOSTON -- In a gesture of healing and commemoration, President Obama arrived on Thursday in Boston, a city still reeling from the shock of a bombing that turned a holiday into a terrorist attack. Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, the president landed...Tags: Christianity, Mitt Romney, FBI, Religion and Belief, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013)
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Max Baucus, Lobbying, Mark Kirk, Harry Reid
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Giffords returns to site of Tucson mass shootings
Survivors of the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and victims' loved ones gathered at the site of the attack Wednesday to call for tougher gun-control laws. Giffords, her husband, Mark Kelly, and others took...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Weapon Control, Schizophrenia, Quinnipiac University, Gun Control
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Giffords: 'Be bold. Be courageous,' support gun background checks
Survivors of the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and victims' loved ones gathered at the site of the attack Wednesday to call for tougher gun-control laws. Giffords, her husband, Mark Kelly, and others took...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Weapon Control, Quinnipiac University, Gun Control, Jared Lee Loughner
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Mark Kelly calls for background checks to curb gun violence
Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the lawmaker who was wounded in a gun attack, on Monday called for universal background checks for private sales of guns during testimony in Colorado. Kelly and Giffords have previously said...Tags: Lobbying, Personal Weapon Control, Injuries and Wounds, Jared Lee Loughner, Interior Policy
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US arms control advocates must show they like guns
NEW YORK (AP) — Lobbying for gun control in the United States often means proving how much you like firearms. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state recently passed some of the strictest gun control measures in the country, often reminds people...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Michael Bloomberg, Wayne LaPierre, Barack Obama, Gun Control
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Chuck Schumer, Assault, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Gun Control
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Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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|Story| Petoskey News
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|Story| Aberdeen News
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