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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, Elections, Interior Policy, 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: Terrorism, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religion and Belief, Islam, White House
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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: NPR, CNN (tv network), Fox News Channel (tv network), Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), 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: National Rifle Association of America, Civil Rights, Firearms, Justice and Rights, Politics
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Chuck Schumer, Mark Pryor, Shootings, Weaponry
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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: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religion and Belief, Christianity, Politics, Elections
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Chuck Schumer, Mark Begich, Parties and Movements, John McCain
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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: Chuck Schumer, Mark Pryor, Washington, DC, Firearms, Mark Begich
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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: Chuck Schumer, Washington, DC, Mark Pryor, Firearms, Mark Begich
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Giffords: 'Be bold. Be courageous,' support gun background checks
Survivors of the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and victims' loved ones gathered at the site of the attack Wednesday to call for tougher gun-control laws. Giffords, her husband, Mark Kelly, and others took...
Tags: Quinnipiac University, Jared Lee Loughner, Shootings, Mark Kelly, U.S. Senate
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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: Jared Lee Loughner, Shootings, Mark Kelly, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Chuck Schumer, National Rifle Association of America, Ted Cruz, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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|Story| Aberdeen News
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