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- The reactions to the Orlando massacre range from the noble to the foolish.
- What if the mass shooting that took place at an Orlando night club, killing 49 and wounding 53, had taken place on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives? What if instead of having 49 anonymous partyers lying dead we had 49 members of Congress in the morgue? Would the reaction from officials in Washington have been any different? Would we still have a Florida congressman stating that it was too early after the massacre to make any judgments? I really doubt it.
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In the wake of the Orlando massacre this week, top Maryland Democrats plan to renew a push to ban people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns here. - The filibuster for votes on gun control measures won't amount to anything so long as the NRA calls the shots on Capitol Hill
- As soon as news broke of the attack in Orlando, pundits and politicians returned to dog-eared scripts to repeat lines memorized long ago, says Jonah Goldberg.
- Democrats angered over the lack of action on gun control after this weekend's shooting in Orlando launched a filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday.
- Gun control is not only sensible, it's a Constitutional requirement for the U.S.
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- Veteran Montgomery County congressman would make a worthy successor to Barbara Mikulski
- An ally of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Chris Van Hollen has risen quickly from the back bench of the House of Delegates to the upper echelons of power in Washington. He is now seeking Maryland's open Senate seat.
- The gloves were off the other night in the latest debate between Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The verbal slugfest confirmed not only their personal dislike, but also their basic disagreement on how each proposes to govern if elected in November.
- A well-connected hedge fund manager is behind a new Senate ad attacking Rep. Chris Van Hollen, according to disclosure reports filed Thursday — the latest development in a widening controversy in the high-profile race.
- A hedge fund manager and major Democratic donor is behind a new super PAC that is airing a controversial attack ad in Maryland's competitive Senate race.
- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi added her name to the growing list of Democrats calling on a super PAC to take down an ad attacking Rep. Chris Van Hollen.
- The Obama administration on Wednesday called on a super PAC backing Rep. Donna F. Edwards' bid for Maryland's Senate seat to pull an ad featuring the president.
- As the high-profile contest for Maryland's open Senate seat erupted Wednesday into fight over an attack ad paid for by an outside group, Rep. Donna F. Edwards'
- Attack ads paid for by shadowy, third-party groups stirred the high-profile contest for Maryland's open Senate seat on Tuesday, underscoring the limits of disclosure rules and leaving the candidates in the Democratic primary bracing for a potential onslaught in the final weeks of the campaign.
- Ever try to bring a gun into the U.S. House of Representatives or any U.S. Senate office? How about any state legislative chamber or governor's office? I would not recommend that you try to do this or you are likely to get arrested or, as we observed last week in our nation's capital, you may be shot by police or other security personnel guarding our local, state and national representatives.
- Maryland law allows substantial room for a governor to tip the scales in favor of putting more guns on the streets, and there is reason to worry that Mr. Hogan is exercising it.
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: If it's OK to have guns in schools, bars and churches, then why not at the GOP convention?
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- Smart Gun technology and other reasonable restrictions are a proven method for saving lives
- Marco Rubio was lambasted by his Republican competitors during a recent debate when he kept repeating a line about President Obama "trying to change America." They took him to task for his robot-like repetition, but they should have addressed the accuracy of his statement. Perhaps they did not for one simple reason: Mr. Rubio is right.
- 'Smart-gun' technology might have saved Isaiah Deloatch
- Democrats in the Maryland legislature plan to push a trio of new gun bills that would bar firearms from college campuses, domestic abusers and terrorists.
- A federal appeals court deals a blow to Maryland's landmark 2013 gun safety law, ruling that a lower court was wrong when it upheld the state's ban on assault rifles.
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- Our laws, technology and culture have worked to make kids safer from everything but guns.
- I just found out that my good friend, a Baltimore City school teacher, was shot in the chest at 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 21st in New York City. Hearing the news makes me sick. I can't get enough air.
- Henry A. "Hank" Lingenfelder, 83, the retired curator of an Inner Harbor maritime museum collection who once owned the gun that killed Jesse James, died Jan. 19 at his Manchester home.
- Here's what happens when the NRA tweets your gun-control column, which is then picked up by several conservative media outlets: It makes your piece one of best read opinions of the new year, and it unleashes the hounds.
- Almost everywhere you look, the super-rich are being stymied by democracy, says Jonah Goldberg.
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- Only 1 out of 3 Americans own a gun and I respect their right to do so. But it is time for the majority of us to stand up for our rights to be safe from the minority who place all of us at risk because they refuse reasonable gun control and safety regulations, as we have for cars, car seats, pill bottles and far less dangerous items in our environment.
- Kathleen Matthews, the former television news anchor running for Congress in Maryland's 8th Congressional District, is focusing on gun regulations in a new radio advertisement her campaign released on Tuesday.
- The president wept during his speech on gun violence, and it was a starkly human thing, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Why is the NRA so set against reducing gun violence?
- Congress' refusal to curb gun sales is a national disgrace
- WASHINGTON — Maryland already has some of the tightest restrictions on gun sales in the nation, but gun control advocates on Monday said President Barack Obama's expected executive actions may address an outstanding issue: Weapons trafficked in to Baltimore from other states.
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- Why can't the Hogan administration see that people on federal no-fly lists shouldn't be allowed to buy firearms in Maryland?
- Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic candidate for Senate, is pressing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to use his executive power to stop people on the FBI's terrorist watch list from obtaining guns.
- Sometimes it feels as if our nation is lost hopelessly in the mirror maze of a fun house. Even when easy and logical courses of action lie before us, we illogically take wrong turns and end up where we started. Deja vu meets deja vu on a regular basis here. On Dec. 2, two radicalized Muslims committed a horrific act of terror in San Bernardino, California, claiming the lives of 14 people and wounding 21.
- Leonard Pitts Jr. asks 'where's the indignation for what African Americans do to themselves?'
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- National Rifle Association must answer for arming terrorists and criminals
- If indeed Jihadist murderers sneak in with the refugees they will have no problem getting their hands on military style guns.
