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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Republican Party, Elections
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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: Gun Control, Jay Carney, Interior Policy, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Senate
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Plan to install panic buttons in schools clears Assembly panel
California lawmakers have moved forward with one of several bills introduced after the massacre of young students in Newtown, Conn. The measure would put panic buttons in the state’s schools. Under the legislation, proposed by Assemblymember...
Tags: Education, Health and Safety at School, Kristin Olsen, Tim Donnelly, Schools
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Connecticut lawmakers approve sweeping new gun law
Lawmakers in Connecticut, the site of the Dec. 14 massacre that renewed a national debate over gun control, passed a bipartisan measure that increases background checks for buyers and bans the sale of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Newtown&...
Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Gun Control, J Brendan Sharkey, Interior Policy, Periodicals
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Obama back to fundraising in effort to retake House
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is fond of saying that he’s run his last campaign for public office. But the quest for cash continues even though he’ll never appear on a ballot again, as he heads to California on Wednesday for party fundraisers....
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Nancy Pelosi, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party
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Newtown families help Obama press for gun reform
HARTFORD, Conn. — President Obama sought Monday to use the emotional pull of the Newtown school massacre to galvanize public support for his drive to pass stricter gun control measures, even as more than a dozen Republican senators promised to...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, John McCain, U.S. Senate, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Tom Coburn
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The NRA's off-target plan
Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...
Tags: Shootings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Roosevelt, Wayne LaPierre, Theodore Roosevelt
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States move quickly, divergently on gun laws
Even as momentum for new gun legislation wanes in Washington, lawmakers across the country are fashioning their own response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, resulting in a patchwork that tightens restrictions in some places and eases them...
Tags: Shootings, Regional Authority, Andrew Cuomo, U.S. Senate, Justice System
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Shootings, Regional Authority, Andrew Cuomo, Health and Safety at School, Sandy Hook Promise
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Connecticut state Senate OKs tougher gun control bill
This post has been updated, as indicated below.A lone gunman attacked a Connecticut elementary school just four months ago, renewing a debate on how to control gun violence. On Wednesday, that state’s Legislature began the final steps of passing what advocates call one of the nation’s...Tags: Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Shootings, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate
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750 L.A. Unified security aides hired since Newtown school shooting
The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The aides, equipped with radios, keep watch during school hours,...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Los Angeles Unified School District
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L.A. Unified filling security jobs created after Newtown shooting
The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting last year at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The aides, equipped with radios, keep watch during school...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District
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