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Save community laws on firearms
Under orders from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Illinois legislature is trying to craft a law that will allow responsible gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public. The court said the legislature has to do this, but the court didn't say...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Illinois General Assembly, Justice System, Firearms
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Stephen Goldstein: Real scandal is how lobbyists get away with what they do
These days, the country is consumed by scandal-mania — real, or mostly trumped-up, partisan allegations of violations of the public trust, the truth of which no one knows for sure because we don't have all the facts and probably never will. We...Tags: Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Interior Policy, Lobbying
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Quinn, Emanuel lash out at Madigan gun bill
— Gov. Pat Quinn, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Senate President John Cullerton decried a bill to legalize concealed firearms that is backed by powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan, contending it would invalidate strict local gun laws like Chicago's...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, National Rifle Association of America, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Rahm Emanuel
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Stan Van Gundy: 'It's been a year since I've been fired, and it still stings'
It is time for sportswriters and sportscasters everywhere to fly their notebooks and tape recorders at half-mast. Stan Van Gundy says he likely won't return to coaching next season and even says there's a possibility he may never return to coaching at...
Tags: Urban Meyer, Sports, National Basketball Association, Orlando Magic, Gun Control
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LETTER: Gun Owner Shouldn't Feel So Smug
I'd like letter writer Mark Goduto [May 21, "Gun Owner Doesn't Feel Guilty"] to try this on for a rational argument: Most gunners, at least the ones who call the rest of us gun-grabbers, like to think the Second Amendment, and only the Second Amendment,...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Interior Policy
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Light Must Shine On Government Secrecy
The Hartford CourantMamie Till did the unspeakable almost 60 years ago. She opened the casket at her son Emmett's funeral so the world could see how this 14-year-old was shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and then drowned in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan...Tags: Eric Holder, Crime, Law and Justice, Emmett Till, Executive Branch, Racism
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Gun groups sue to block new Connecticut gun law
ReutersMILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Leaders of Connecticut gun advocacy groups said on Thursday they had sued to knock down a strict new gun-control law passed in April because they believed the measure would not improve public safety. In the wake of the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Trials, Justice System
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Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy
Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...
Tags: Conservation, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, United Nations, Justice System
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Illinois concealed carry bill heads to House floor
SPRINGFIELD --- An Illinois House panel today approved a concealed weapons bill that supporters say attempts to walk the fine line between gun rights advocates and gun control supporters, but some Chicago-area lawmakers want a more restrictive bill. The...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Crime, Law and Justice, Rahm Emanuel, Justice System, Firearms
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Illinois House introduces less restrictive gun bill
— An Illinois House version of legislation to allow people to carry concealed weapons that emerged Wednesday would not let Chicago have its own set of rules and could make it easier to get a permit. The latest proposal is an attempt to address...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Rifle Association of America, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms
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Gun research a waste of time, money
Johns Hopkins University receives billions of tax dollars and for the past 23 years they have used these tax dollars to support a Center for Gun Policy and Research ("Gun research is not biased," May 20). What a waste of our tax dollars. Most...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Gun Control, Politics, Interior Policy
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Paranoid or prescient?
Victor Davis HansonGovernment is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founders. Is that perennial fear an exaggeration? Survey the current news. We have just learned that the Internal Revenue...Tags: Abortion Issue, Hillary Clinton, Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency
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