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Shame on Senate -- send 'em all home!
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...
Tags: Mark Kirk, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Mark Pryor, Susan Collins, Government
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Executive Branch, Death Penalty, University of Texas at Austin
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Obama's Potemkin gun plan
Political trends come and go in response to events. Gun control was the rage during the Clinton administration, but over the past decade or so it became an obsolete cause. After the horrific crimes in Newtown and Aurora, though, it's staging a comeback....
Tags: Periodicals, Assault, Interior Policy, Rentals, Weaponry
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Responses to Dorner case contain surprises
A Christopher Dorner sighting was reported Sunday in my Northridge neighborhood. Helicopters swarmed, patrol cars roared up. The hardware store was evacuated and my favorite bakery roped off. It turned out to be a false alarm — just some random...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Monica Quan, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Michelle Obama, Racism
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The roots of mass murder are deep and tangled
WASHINGTON - Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Assault, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Weaponry
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The roots of mass murder
WASHINGTON -- Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Assault, Interior Policy, Weaponry, Gun Control
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Loughner sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2011 shooting spree
Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords stood next to her husband in court Thursday as he spoke directly to Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who tried to assassinate the then-congresswoman in a January 2011 shooting. "Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through...
Tags: Lawyers, Punishment, Prisons, Injuries and Wounds, Justice System
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Brian Ross' brain cramp
Jonah GoldbergIf ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin. Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect, James Holmes, might be...Tags: Fort Hood (military base), Gabrielle Giffords, Journalism, George Stephanopoulos, Republican Party
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There's no safety in our vast numbers of guns
In 2009, when I was trying to figure out why gun sales were so brisk, I visited a couple of gun shops in Riverside and Corona. Back then, part of the reason people were arming themselves, they told me, was that President Obama had recently taken office,...Tags: Homes, Holidays, Assault, Interior Policy, Weaponry
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The social context of mass murder
Robert KoehlerHey, loser! And so the nail is driven in. This is isolation; this is the coffin. And there are so many ways of saying it. The social context of being human has been shattered for far too many people, and one manifestation of this is the eerie rise in...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Mining, Massacres, Robert Bales, Culture
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NRA vs. common sense
When the National Rifle Association promised "meaningful contributions" to prevent another massacre like the recent horror in Newtown, Conn., I didn't expect much, but I hoped for more than what we got. After an allegedly mentally ill gunman killed 20...
Tags: Periodicals, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Gabrielle Giffords, Virginia Tech
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El tema que no nos atrevemos a discutir
Como parte del proceso de duelo posterior a una tragedia, los estadounidenses siempre quieren hablar — y hablar, y hablar. Es una lástima que tendamos a distraernos y hablar de las cosas equivocadas. Sucedió nuevamente después del tiroteo en...Tags: The Washington Post, Columbine High School, Dylan Klebold, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Gabrielle Giffords
Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Dec 23, 2012
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Dec 21, 2012
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Nov 8, 2012
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Jul 25, 2012
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Dec 16, 2012
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Jan 3, 2013
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Dec 27, 2012
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Aug 2, 2012
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