The second amendment of the constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. As the specter of gun violence continues in our workplaces, roads and schools, the question keeps arising: do guns keep you safe, or just increase the level of violence?
Kansas City Star - January 07, 2009
In 1993, near the height of America’s anger over out-of-control crime, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a seminal article for American Scholar on ...
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The Associated Press - January 07, 2009
"You'd put it all together and you'd be able to essentially manufacture a crime." Carona, once dubbed "America's sheriff" by CNN's Larry King, was indicted ...
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WIBW - January 07, 2009
The suspect approached the clerk with a semi-automatic handgun and demanded money, according to police reports. A little over an hour later, police received ...
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Lewisville Leader - January 07, 2009
“I did not see anything, I just heard the gun shots and was hit,” Matise said. “I did not see them or anything. All I saw was the effect. ...
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The Associated Press - January 06, 2009
They are charged with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a machine gun to commit a crime of violence. ...
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San Jose Mercury News - January 06, 2009
Based on that experience, I believe it's possible for an officer to inadvertently pull and fire a gun, in that split-second, thinking it was his or her ...
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guardian.co.uk - January 06, 2009
Israel blamed a technical error in the artillery gun. Undeterred, Tutu made a rare crossing into Gaza from Egypt last year. He emerged from his interviews ...
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CBS News - January 06, 2009
You’ve written about abortion, gun control, the conflict in the Middle East – just about everything they tell us not to talk about at dinner parties! ...
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Examiner.com - January 06, 2009
Gun rights advocates have long known that it isn't possible to rely on the police for protection from violent crime. The sad reality is that the police are ...
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The Ledger - January 04, 2009
Members of the Sheriff's Office dive team found the .38-caliber handgun about 4:30 pm Because of a serious illness, Farley's wife, Mary, takes medication ...
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TheDay - January 02, 2009
The town’s bus company, Student Transportation of America, has added 19 brand-new buses to its fleet. Police say a man armed with a semi-automatic handgun ...
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MLive.com - January 02, 2009
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com, MI - 3 hours ago
Most gun owners act responsibly. So, why the fear? Buyers presumably are acting on the Democratic Party's stereotype — soft on crime and hard on gun owners. ...
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Joliet Herald News - January 02, 2009
Or, Chicago's handgun control laws, among the most restrictive in the nation? As a lawyer once chastised me, "It doesn't have anything to do with what's ...
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Seattle Times - January 02, 2009
But according to the annual data compiled by the FBI, the number of young white men who committed gun-related homicides also rose over the same period, ...
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Washington Post - January 01, 2009
It's important to know that hundreds packed the church for his funeral, because too often America looks upon the murders of its black youths as just numbers ...
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Wall Street Journal - January 01, 2009
It concerns 15-year-old Benji Cooper who, like Mr. Whitehead's 15-year-old self, works in an ice cream parlor, gets into a BB gun fight and adores the ...
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Herald - January 01, 2009
Omaha World-Herald, NE - 11 hours ago
Buske noted that Crime Stoppers will pay up to $500 for information about an unregistered gun or a person who has such a gun. Of the 44 homicides, ...
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Orlando Sentinel - January 01, 2009
The crime took place about 11:20 am at Community Loans of America, 4702 W. Colonial Drive. The 6-foot-1-inch robber carried a silver handgun and wore a ...
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Barbados Advocate - January 01, 2009
The senior officer said gun crime was “receiving intense scrutiny from the regional law enforcement entities and there are particular steps that are being ...
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Toronto Star - January 01, 2009
In fact, there's more gun crime in places like the Yukon on a per-capita basis than there is in Toronto," he said. In March, Maclean's magazine released a ...
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