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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Obama Pushes for Stronger Gun Laws on Day of Gun Violence in Maryland

President Obama pressed for social and economic change in his State of the Union address.

By Jeremy Barr, Capital News Service President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address as a second-term president Tuesday to focus on an economy that continues to struggle toward recovery and to lobby for better gun laws to stem violence that claimed two student lives in Maryland the same day. “A growing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs—that must be the North Star that guides our efforts," Obama said. "Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation:  How do we attract more jobs to our shores?  How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?” His administration released a package of job training, business …

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Keith B.

12:37 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013

let me guess...your cap lock button is stuck or the battery in your hearing aid is dead? Gun rights...Remember entry on the left, exit on the right for best odds of success.   more ›

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Speak Out: Will Newtown Change Your Attitude Toward Guns?

Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has sparked broader debate over gun control and whether semi-automatic weapons should be banned.

The Sandy Hook shooting has opened a broader discussion over gun control and whether there should be tighter restrictions on semi-automatic weapons like the one used by shooter Adam Lanza. As Columbia Patch points out, citing an article from The Washington Post, current law bans fully automatic assault weapons, but semi-automatic assault weapons are legal, as well as high-capacity magazines. Since the shooting, Walmart stopped selling online the Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine M4A3 Rifle, which is in the same family of firearms as the weapon Lanza used, The Huffington Post reports.  Wheaton Patch is reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods has suspended the sale of "modern sporting rifles" at all of its stores.  The shooting has sparked a …

Alex Josemaria

3:14 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Bob McDonnell is right that armed security is the only form of force protection that works, in tandem with passive physical security (buildings that are hard to get into). Both have huge downsides (schools looking like and acting more fortresses, at the minimum at their entrances.) Even when they look nice, buildings with adequate physical security are NOT inviting at all. (see the Department of …   more ›

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