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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: Annapolis, Martin O'Malley, Labor Legislation, Interior Policy, Justice System
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Don't be fooled by gun control lies
I am writing to you to voice my opposition to Gov. Martin O'Malley's extremist gun bill ("O'Malley battling for gun controls," March 22). I oppose it in any and all forms. I was in Annapolis on Feb 6, March 1 and March 5, along with thousands of other...
Tags: Annapolis, Martin O'Malley, Interior Policy, Regional Authority, Nottingham
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Keswick using music to treat dementia, Alzheimer's
Linda Kellar seemed too young for dementia, the slow-forming disease that erodes the memories of people usually much older than the then-54-year-old housewife. But in 2009 that's what doctors found to be the cause of Kellar's severe agitation, memory...
Tags: Music, Diseases and Illnesses, Cab Calloway, Alzheimer's Disease, ABC (tv network)
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Remembering Sandy Hook on the way to Congress
From Washington to Annapolis to Hartford, Conn., wherever new gun restrictions are being debated, it's important to remember Sandy Hook. That's not a plea to the emotions. That's a plea to human decency and common sense — a reminder of the...
Tags: Annapolis, Assault, Interior Policy, Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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We deserve a vote
Much of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week was a fairly ho-hum affair, with the usual laundry list of programs and goals (most so familiar that it could have been a recycled campaign speech from 2012, or maybe 2008) and the...
Tags: Unions, Interior Policy, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Gun Control
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A voice of reason on guns
Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson added a much-needed voice of reason to the national debate over gun control last week when he appeared before Congress to testify in favor of universal background checks for gun purchases and a ban on assault...
Tags: Annapolis, Interior Policy, Justice System, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Hadiya Pendleton
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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: Assault, Colleges and Universities, Health and Medical Professionals, Symptoms, Separation of Church and State
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Havre de Grace council members urge action, dialogue after Newtown shooting
Havre de Grace City Council members sent their sympathies to the people of Newtown, Conn., during Monday's meeting, and several said they want to see mental health and gun safety better addressed as a result of the shooting at an elementary school that...Tags: Interior Policy, Family, Adam Lanza, Civil Rights, Lobbying
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Astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly speaks at SCALE fundraiser
Donald Cormack hasn't driven a car since his stroke last spring. He walks with a crutch. Most frustrating, he can hardly speak, because the words seem stuck in his head and it takes all of his energy to get them out. "I talk so much, I have a headache,"...
Tags: Mark Kelly, Skull, Ellicott City, Stroke, Pikesville
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What does the NRA say now?
The rifle Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School is a descendant of the military's M-16 rifle. The bullets it fires are not as large as those used in some other rifles, but the gun's high muzzle velocity makes...
Tags: Assault, Mitt Romney, The New York Times, Criminals, Michael Bloomberg
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Md. man accused in cannibal case deemed incompetent to stand trial
Alexander Kinyua, the college student accused of killing a family friend and ingesting his heart and brain, has been declared incompetent to stand trial, according to court records. Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly said in an Aug. 13...
Tags: Trials, Colleges and Universities, Labor Legislation, Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals
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The false politicization of the Family Research Council shooting
We do not yet know exactly what led a young man to carry a semi-automatic pistol into the lobby of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy organization, and to instigate a confrontation that left a security guard with a gunshot...
Tags: Christianity, Gays and Lesbians, Family, Civil Rights, Lobbying
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