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Connecticut school massacre: Why?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsEvery gun massacre is horrible, but this seems worst of all. If the preliminary reports are true, a gunman (or perhaps gunmen?) might have massacred an entire kindergarten class at an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty children, six adults and......Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Gun Control
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If religions can have limits, why can't gun owners?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked,......Tags: Michael Mukasey, Separation of Church and State, Interior Policy, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Civil Rights
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Here's to more chills and thrills in 2012
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsA chilly burst to kick off 2012 in South Florida (I love sweater weather) and in print today I tried to bring some warming chuckles with a humorous look at some possibilities for the year ahead. A sampling: Jan. 10......Tags: Lotto, Harpo Marx, Labor Markets, FedEx Corporation, National Government
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Trayvon Martin death shows the perils of Stand Your Ground law
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsWe've seen it before in Florida, and we'll see it again. A confrontation turns deadly, with shots fired under questionable circumstances. People wonder whether the shooter overreacted, and whether the response was disproportionate to the threat. In the...Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Trayvon Martin, Laws, Florida Legislature
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Trayvon Martin death: How did Stand Your Ground pass Senate 39-0?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsThirty-nine yeas, zero nays. Hard to believe that such a bad bill could have been approved unanimously, but it was. When the so-called Stand Your Ground bill went to a vote in the Florida Senate on March 25, 2005, the......Tags: Fort Lauderdale, U.S. Senate, Lawyers, Trayvon Martin, Chris Smith (New Jersey Politician)
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2-Month Wait Too Long For Gun-Ban Rules
The Hartford CourantSo much has happened since April 4 that it seems like more than four weeks since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed the strict gun-control bill into law. We had the showdown on background checks in the U.S. Senate, and of course, the Boston Marathon bombings....Tags: Books and Magazines, U.S. Senate, Credit and Debt, Lawyers, Magazines
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NRA won't allow guns sales at Harrisburg show
So after all the spit and vinegar directed at Reed Exhibitions for not allowing modern sporting arms to be displayed at the now-canceled Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show last February in Harrisburg, the mighty National Rifle Association has taken the reins...Tags: Consumers, Leukemia, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Lymphoma, Lehigh County
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Stands against the majority opinion
A statewide poll shows that Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats, Indiana's U.S. senators, took stands opposed by a majority of their Hoosier constituents -- one on gay marriage, the other on background checks for gun purchases. The poll was conducted for Howey...
Tags: Family, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Patrick J. Toomey, Polls
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Stephen Goldstein: Think NRA was winner? Not so fast
The NRA has won the battle but lost the war. The best thing that happened to gun control is its defeat in Congress. Today's losers (Obama, Democrats, the 90 percent of Americans who support sane legislation) will be tomorrow's winners. Today's winners...Tags: U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, Interior Policy, Mitt Romney, Lobbying
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Pollution in the news stream
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In today's ever-growing coagulation of fact, fiction and rumor from print, digital and social media, where is the news consumer to look with confidence for the truth? The flood of instant accounts of the Boston marathon explosions and their...Tags: U.S. Senate, Interior Policy, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Gun Control, Jules Witcover
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Thankfully, There Is No Right To Own Bombs
The Hartford CourantIn the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, I was thinking how thankful we, the American people, should be that the right to bear bombs was not included in the Second Amendment. If bombs were part of the Second Amendment, the National Rifle...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Barack Obama, Media Industry, Clint Eastwood, Laws
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Immigration, Patrick J. Toomey, Interior Policy, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013)
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