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It seems we know not what we do
Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday. She was with her father, who was sitting in a minivan in Chicago on the night of March 11 when someone opened fire. Doctors worked 17 hours trying to repair what a bullet had done to her body, but to no avail. She...
Tags: Easter, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Politics, Lobbying, Religion and Belief
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Maximum mayhem on his mind
WASHINGTON -- The gunman in the Newtown massacre fired 154 bullets from his Bushmaster military-style rifle in less than five minutes, killing 20 first-graders and six adults. He brought with him 10 large-capacity magazines, each holding up to 30 rounds,...
Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Gaming, Politics, Elections, U.S. Congress
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The detectives who remember the children
The other day at lunch, two Chicago police detectives, Bill Sullivan and Michele Moore-Grose, were talking with me about the murder cases they've been working and the young people shot dead. They brought up a movie to explain what they see in Chicago....
Tags: Murder, Hadiya Pendleton, Peanuts, Witnesses, The Hunger Games (movie)
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No blank check for criminals
Some people should not be trusted with access to firearms. On that point almost everyone agrees, the only debate being where to draw the line. But no one thinks that if the Unabomber had his sentence commuted, the Second Amendment would entitle him to...
Tags: Politics, University of Chicago, Wayne LaPierre, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America
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As UCF reels, firearms lobby pushes for guns on campuses
As UCF students were still grappling with how close they might have come to mass murder, a gun-rights group was in a Jacksonville courtroom arguing that Florida universities have no right to ban guns from campus. Welcome to the collision between college...
Tags: Florida State University, Colleges and Universities, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Politics, Lobbying
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In our state, politicians are protected — but not the rest of us
Illinois — where politicians force law-abiding citizens to bring a bat to a gunfight. An amazing video released Wednesday that shows a Chicago shopkeeper fighting for his life should be a commercial for Second Amendment rights in this, the only...
Tags: Springfield, Chicago City Hall, Rahm Emanuel, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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For parents, the worry that never leaves
If you're a parent, there are certain fears you can't put to words when you learn of children being killed. Like those four teenagers in Will County, their car skidding off the road into a swollen creek, the parents calling and texting for hours without...
Tags: Chicago City Hall, Judges, Rahm Emanuel, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Mayor
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Imagine the life that Jonylah never had
Imagine Jonylah Watkins' life if she'd been allowed to have one. Imagine the happy version. Her father marries her mother — that part really happened shortly before Jonylah was shot to death this week at the age of 6 months — and she grows...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Garry McCarthy
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Cermak's death offers lesson in Chicago Way
The assassinated Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died 80 years ago this week, is often portrayed by official histories as just an innocent victim of bad luck and bad aim. But Chicagoans don't believe in coincidences, not even us chumbolones,...
Tags: Al Capone, Kelsey Grammer, Chicago City Council, Edward M. Burke, Immigration
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Trayvon Martin deserves better from state lawmakers
So, how does Florida commemorate the anniversary of the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin, whose death following a confrontation with an armed and overzealous neighborhood watch volunteer prompted national outrage over one of our more...Tags: Don Gaetz, Politics, Florida Legislature, Fort Lauderdale, National Rifle Association of America
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Gun advocates should take aim at real scandals
Last month, I received emails from two people I know but who don't know each other: one a close friend and Second Amendment supporter, and the other a regular reader who sends me news items she believes the "liberal media" are willfully suppressing....
Tags: Sports, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Politics, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America
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A grieving father's plea
WASHINGTON -- Most of our top elected officials probably didn't notice -- they were too busy making fools of themselves over an idiotic budget "crisis" of their own manufacture -- but something worth remembering happened in Washington this week: A...
Tags: Politics, Dianne Feinstein, Lobbying, Michael Bloomberg, National Rifle Association of America
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