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On Rutgers basketball, Princeton husband-hunting and Jimmy Kimmel
"What's the second paragraph?" That is my boilerplate response when someone suggests a column idea to me. "Yeah. Right. But where do I go from there?" Not every topic is worth 700 words. So, today I will offer a few words on recent headlines in the...
Tags: College Basketball, Executive Branch, Jimmy Kimmel, NBC (tv network), University of Virginia
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Why we should ban assault weapons
In 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington region for three weeks by firing bullets at innocent people in parking lots and at gas stations, ultimately killing 10 people and wounding three others. They used a Bushmaster XM-15...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Firearms, Periodicals, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Enough gun laws on books already
Like many of Gov. Martin O'Malley's constituents, I strongly urge him to withdraw any legislation to ban so-called "assault weapons" and "high capacity" magazines. He should stop any legislation that creates gun-free zones and not make laws that hurt law-...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Shootings, Executive Branch, Abusive Behavior, International Trade
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Good sense and gun control
In the early 1980s, transit officials in Washington couldn't figure out why traffic on the Beltway would grind to a near halt every day around the exact same time. The usual explanations didn't fit. Then it was discovered that a single driver was to...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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Maryland panel begins look at gun access by mentally ill
A state task force composed of police, mental health advocates and gun rights representatives began its look Tuesday at whether Maryland laws governing gun access by the mentally ill should be changed. Questions the 17-member panel will consider...Tags: Cymbalta (drug), Mental Health, Legal Services, Lawyers, Executive Branch
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Shooting puts renewed focus on school safety
As authorities continued to investigate the shooting at Perry Hall High School, about two dozen students gathered at a church Monday night, recounting their fears during the incident — and a reluctance to go back to school. "You just think, if it...
Tags: Christianity, Michael Dorn, Weaponry, Students, Tampa
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Call the Colorado shootings what they were: terrorism
In the search for answers in the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colo., authorities have made one curious conclusion about the suspect, James Holmes. The FBI has made clear that Mr. Holmes has no ties to terrorism. This is flat wrong — he is a...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Philosophy, Injuries and Wounds, Gun Control, Fort Hood Shootings (2009)
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People, not politicians, killed gun control
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed gun sales to felons and...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Tom Foley, Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement, Allergies
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Police: Crofton man planned mass shooting, called himself 'joker'
A Crofton man who owned a cache of weapons repeatedly threatened to "blow everybody up" at his former workplace and declared himself a "joker," police said, in what authorities believe is a reference to last week's mass killings during a midnight...Tags: Anne Arundel Medical Center, Firearms, Shootings, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Hospitals and Clinics
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Post-Colorado, liberals want to talk about gun control -- not the death penalty
In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colo., slaughter, the question went forth on all of the political chatter shows: "Will this reopen the debate over gun control?" That's the script. When heinous monsters kill people with guns, we tend to talk about the...
Tags: Racism, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Punishment, Interior Policy
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Aurora copycat?
With the deadly shooting that killed 12 people and injured 58 at an Aurora, Colo., theater still fresh in people's minds, authorities in Prince George's Countywere right to waste no time last week investigating the case of a Crofton man who reportedly...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Firearms, Gun Control, Shootings
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Shootings are God's will, Godlessness or other?
In an interview with Fox News hours before the Aurora gun massacre, George Zimmerman, who stands accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said that the young man's death was "God's plan." Hours after James Holmes used three guns, including a...Tags: Trayvon Martin, Japan, Fox News Channel (tv network), Shootings, Louie Gohmert
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