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Assembly panel rejects arming teachers against campus intruders
A state legislative committee on Wednesday rejected a proposal to allow school districts to train teachers and administrators to use guns to protect campuses against armed intruders. Only one member of the seven-member Assembly Education Committee voted...
Tags: Joan Buchanan, Schools, Teachers, Education, Tim Donnelly
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Villaraigosa urges state lawmakers to approve gun controls
As California lawmakers began Tuesday to consider more than a dozen gun control measures, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew to Sacramento to urge them to take "dramatic and heroic" action. Villaraigosa referred to mass shootings, including the...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Justice and Rights, Personal Weapon Control, Justice System
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Wendy Greuel discusses how gun violence affected her in new TV ad
In her first television ad in the runoff for mayor or Los Angeles, Wendy Greuel describes how gun violence has affected her and other Americans and promises Angelenos, “I’ll work so this never touches your life.” Greuel uses the 30-...
Tags: Mental Health, Television Industry, Politics, Satellite and Cable Service, Personal Weapon Control
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Criminals, Personal Weapon Control, Joan Buchanan, Education, Brian W. Jones
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New gun registration requirements take effect in New York state
Even as Congress prepares to debate new gun legislation, New York’s tougher gun control provisions became effective on Monday, the latest example of how the issue has broadened into a battle on the state as well as federal level. In the wake of...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Andrew Cuomo, Elections, Periodicals, Personal Weapon Control
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Senate votes to consider gun control laws
WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...
Tags: Mike Lee, Elections, Barack Obama, Gun Control, U.S. Congress
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Senate votes to overcome filibuster of gun bill
WASHINGTON – The Senate crossed the first of many hurdles Thursday in the drive to pass new gun legislation, with a bipartisan vote to begin what could be weeks of debate on the issue. By a 68-31 margin, senators moved to open formal consideration...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Elections, Health and Safety at School, Chuck Schumer, Patrick J. Toomey
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In Connecticut, Obama makes emotional appeal for gun legislation
HARTFORD, Conn. – President Obama drew the families of the Newtown school shooting victims into an emotional call to pass gun control measures on Monday, urging that the displays of solidarity and grief in the aftermath not be the end of the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Newtown, U.S. Senate, Gun Control
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'Knife control' and gun laws: Readers weigh in
As I've noted before, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in December, most Times readers who write letters on gun control favor strong action by Congress. But the coincidence this week of a mass knife attack in Texas and a...
Tags: Laws, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama
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Senators report deal on gun control legislation
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved Tuesday to begin long-anticipated deliberations this week over new gun laws as Republicans appeared to lack the strength to block the debate and bipartisan talks over expanding background checks on gun buyers appeared...
Tags: Laws, Joe Manchin III, Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Chris Murphy
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Senate moves to begin debate on gun measures
WASHINGTON -- The Senate may begin voting as soon as Thursday on legislation intended to reduce gun violence, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided Tuesday to initiate the procedural steps required to overcome a threatened filibuster by...
Tags: Susan Collins, Joe Manchin III, Chris Murphy, Elections, Personal Weapon Control
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Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks
Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Mark Begich, Parties and Movements, Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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