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Chan Lowe: The Senate background check vote
It was Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania who indicated that there was another, less savory Senate motive for defeating universal background checks for gun purchases last week. All this time, many of us had assumed that the dogged preservation of the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, U.S. Congress, Patrick J. Toomey, U.S. Senate
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RPT-FEATURE-Video game maker drops gun makers, not their guns
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Reuters) - In the midst of the bitter national debate on gun violence, gun manufacturers and videogame makers are delicately navigating one of the more peculiar relationships in...Tags: EA Tiburon, Electronics, Gaming, National Rifle Association of America, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Is NRA protecting weapons manufacturers?
Wayne LaPierre, the mouthpiece of the National Rifle Association, has said it over and over again. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Of course, in his simplicity, he ignores the all-to-human propensity for...Tags: Gun Control, Sarah Palin, Personal Weapon Control, Criminals, Interior Policy
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COLUMN - Benghazi and the Republican abandonment of the center
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist) By Nicholas Wapshott May 10 (Reuters) - In World War Two, the Libyan port of Benghazi was hard fought over, changing hands five times between Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the Allied forces. Seventy years on,...Tags: Eric Cantor, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, National Rifle Association of America
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Jon Stewart accuses NRA of fear-mongering at convention
The National Rifle Assn. held its annual convention last weekend in Houston, where conservative pundits like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck railed at efforts to enact tighter gun control measures -- and, as Jon Stewart pointed out Monday on "The Daily Show,"...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control, Sarah Palin, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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LETTER: NRA Making Stand Against Government?
Wayne LaPierre's remarks at The NRA enclave come frighteningly close to declaring war on the U.S. government [May 5, news, "We Will Never Surrender, NRA Chief Vows At Meeting"]. They'll "never surrender" and they prefer to "stand and fight"? If that... -
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo., Alonzo Weston column
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.Think about it: How much trouble would it be for the government to take away all of our guns? Think of all the illegal drugs, stolen goods and other illicit things some people have in their homes that the government hasn't found, let alone taken away....Tags: Gun Control, Gaming, National Rifle Association of America, Sarah Palin, Shootings
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LETTER: LaPierre: Boston Proves ... Something
Wayne LaPierre told the NRA convention that "Boston proves" gun control is dangerous. This is just more fear-mongering rhetoric -- the same old NRA mantra. Have some more Kool-Aid ... Notice he doesn't say how Boston proves anything about gun control....Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control, Tampa, Mitt Romney, Lobbying
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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), Laws, Media Industry, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Harry Reid, Assault, Heidi Heitkamp
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The NRA's Supposed Clout Is A Charade
The Hartford CourantBefore the horrific tragedy in Newtown claimed the lives of 20 children and six educators, I didn't pay much attention to the National Rifle Association. As a three-term member of Congress, I certainly had caught wind of the mythology surrounding the...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, U.S. Congress, Firearms, National Rifle Association of America
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