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Letters: Political correctness leads to senseless deaths
The tragedy in Connecticut highlights how the level of political correctness in this country leads to senseless deaths. This is evidenced in how Nidal Hasan was never relieved of duty even after red flags appeared concerning his behavior. Even after...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying, Interior Policy, American Civil Liberties Union, Armed Conflicts
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Chocolate Affair tickets selling fast
The Baltimore SunThe annual Health Care for the Homeless Chocolate Affair is Feb. 9. There are still tickets remaining for the popular winter event, but they're going fast. The event returns to the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott, where it relocated in 2012 after many... -
Shortchanging the children
America's children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns, we're not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Firearms, Marketing, Lobbying, Poverty
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Unquiet minds
Horrific as the crime was, the fact that a Baltimore judge last week accepted Alexander Kinyua's plea of "guilty but not criminally responsible" in connection with the brutal beating of a classmate last May doesn't come completely as a surprise....
Tags: Harford County, Alexander Kinyua, Justice System, Schizophrenia, Symptoms
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Bealefeld: What we must do about gun violence
After 31 years in local law enforcement, I'd often tell myself that I had seen and experienced every act of cruelty man can inflict. In light of the despicable act of violence this month in Newtown, Conn., I was clearly wrong. We are learning more,...
Tags: Firearms, Injuries and Wounds, Weaponry, Separation of Church and State, Movies
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Panel suggests gun seizures for 'substantiated' threats
A state task force studying gun access laws for people with mental illnesses has proposed authorizing police to seize firearms from individuals deemed a credible threat to themselves or others. Such seizures, the panel said Wednesday, would take place...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Firearms, Harford County, Interior Policy, Justice System
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Pediatricians applaud Obama effort to reduce gun violence
Maryland's pediatricians applaud President Barack Obama for his leadership in the wake of the gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. ("Obama pledges fight for gun laws," Jan. 17). The president's federal policy recommendations...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Pediatrics, Sandy Hook Elementary School, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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O'Malley gun measures are about running for president, not public safety
As a legal owner of a firearm in Maryland and a registered Democrat who voted for Gov. Martin O'Malley in the last two election cycles, I was initially supportive of the push following the Newtown tragedy for new gun legislation ("O'Malley to push...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Firearms, Government, National Government, Interior Policy
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Community-based mental health care providers can't do it alone
Over 140,000 adults and children with mental illness are served by community-based mental health care providers in Maryland. With the right mix and amount of services and supports, the great majority of these individuals recover from their illness and...Tags: Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions
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State initiative aims to increase role of primary care physicians in diagnosing mental health issues in children
The state is attempting to make it easier for physicians to connect child and adolescent patients to mental health services and better diagnose those that have potential psychiatric symptoms. Under a new initiative, primary care physicians in Maryland...Tags: General Practitioners, Family, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Behavioral Conditions
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Kinyua guilty but not criminally responsible in Morgan beating
Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday....
Tags: Court Preliminary, Injuries and Wounds, Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Schizophrenia
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O'Malley takes a stand on guns
State and federal politicians have been scrambling for the last few weeks to react to the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., with governors, congressmen and the president exploring new laws that might have prevented that tragic massacre. But today, Gov....
Tags: Firearms, Johns Hopkins University, Regional Authority, Health and Safety at School, Gun Control
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