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Letters: No to more of the same on guns
Re "Another kind of gun control," Opinion, May 5 David M. Kennedy's Op-Ed article saying that efforts to curtail gun violence should be focused on "hot" groups and areas, instead of on doomed legislation, was a refreshing moment of clarity in this...Tags: Laws, Criminal Laws, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Gun buyback yields sniper rifle, AK-47, other weapons
Thanks to a push from local faith-based organizations and an assist from the Pasadena Police Department, 135 guns were taken off the streets Saturday at the Pasadena Area Gun Buyback and Peace-source Fair. More than a hundred gun owners drove up to...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Target, Weaponry, Firearms
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Politics as usual
Bloomberg gun control group thanks Toomey A gun control advocacy group backed by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg began airing a TV ad Thursday that thanks U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey for his work on strengthening background checks. The Mayors Against ...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Patrick J. Toomey, U.S. Embassy, Gun Control
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Pasadena gun buyback trades guns for goods
PASADENA — Thanks to a push from local faith-based organizations and an assist from the Pasadena Police Department, 135 guns were taken off the streets Saturday at the Pasadena Area Gun Buyback and Peace-source Fair. More than a hundred gun owners...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Google Inc., Target, Gun Control
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Nan Rich, long shot for governor, says she's undeterred
In her dark-horse campaign to become Florida's next governor, former state Sen. Nan Rich likes to recall the stories of Democratic political legends Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles and Bob Graham. Each was a little-known state senator when he launched his...
Tags: Tampa, Bill Nelson, Gun Control, Executive Branch, Children's Health
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Art Callaham: O'Reilly's book on Kennedy a good read
I was never a “Kennedyphile” — lifelong southern conservative Republicans usually are not. Sure, I was a starry-eyed 15-year-old who understood “Camelot,” liked the pictures of bikini clad Jackie-O (as she was later to be...Tags: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Washington, DC, Fidel Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gun Control
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Letters to the Editor - May 12
Police chief supports Zook in Pa. judicial race To the editor: As the chief of the Shippensburg (Pa.) Police Department and a retired state police sergeant with more than 40 years of combined experience, I write this endorsement. I have had the...Tags: Defendants, U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Punishment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Gun sale loopholes can often put weapons in felons' hands
Kenneth Lee was a convicted felon who wanted a gun, authorities say. Darlene Hoover was a single mom with a clean record who needed cash. So the two acquaintances from the South Side made a deal, according to prosecutors. For $200, Hoover drove about 40...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, O'Hare International Airport, Theft, Gun Control, University of Chicago
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Strategies for another kind of gun control
Los Angeles TimesSupporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill's death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing? Had it passed, the new law would have been hailed as a historic...Tags: Arts and Culture, Rahm Emanuel, Gun Control, Criminals, Interior Policy
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Poll: The feds' selective scrutiny of tax-exempt 'patriots'
Vindicating the complaints of some "tea party" activists, a top IRS official admitted Friday that the agency had singled out such groups for scrutiny in the months leading up to the 2012 election. The revelation (accompanied by an apology from Lois...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Money and Monetary Policy, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Taxation
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UCAN to break ground on new campus, address gun violence
Before Tom Vanden Berk's 15-year-old son was shot and killed at a Rogers Park house party in 1992, Vanden Berk didn't think much could be done about gun control. But since then, the gun violence prevention movement has been front and center in his life....
Tags: Justice and Rights, North Lawndale, Social Services, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Civil Rights
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Sarah Palin, New York City, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Patrick J. Toomey
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