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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: Elections, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control, 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: Fort Hood Shootings (2009), White House, Sports, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism
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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, Sports, News Agency, CNN (tv network), The New York Times
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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: Justice and Rights, Annapolis, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, 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: Assault, Personal Weapon Control, Chuck Schumer, Wayne LaPierre, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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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: Elections, Sports, White House, Barack Obama, Christianity
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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: Justice and Rights, Arts and Culture, Frank Lautenberg, Personal Weapon Control, Timothy M. Kaine
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Senate vote nears, background check bill in peril
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan effort to expand background checks is in deep trouble as the Senate approaches a long-awaited vote on the linchpin of the drive to curb gun violence. As the showdown draws near, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Chuck Schumer, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Heidi Heitkamp
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Gun background-check supporters struggle for votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate gun control supporters struggled Tuesday to salvage their drive to expand background checks to more buyers, buoyed by a visit from wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but facing enough potential opponents to derail...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Assault, Personal Weapon Control, John Cornyn, Chuck Schumer
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Prospects for U.S. background checks remain unclear
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of a bipartisan Senate effort to subject more firearms buyers to background checks remains uncertain as seven Republicans amenable to a gun control debate are still likely to resist such an expansion. On an initial...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Rights, CBS Corp., Gun Control
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Jared Lee Loughner, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Mark Kelly
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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: Assault, Personal Weapon Control, Kay Hagan, Television Stations, Chuck Schumer
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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Apr 16, 2013
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Mar 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
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