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Mental health gun-control dodge misses the bigger point

February 26, 2013 Bill Kesler Civil Rights, Congress, Crime/Violence, Government, Guns, Media, Missouri region, Politics, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

Ask a politician where he or she stands on gun control legislation and it’s likely you will get an answer that involves “mental health.”

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This is your representative on guns

February 22, 2013 Renee Shur Congress, Crime/Violence, Guns, Violence Leave a comment

It’s been just over two months since twenty children and six adults were brutally gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  Since then thirty-three

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Rewriting the Second Amendment

February 21, 2013 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Congress, Crime/Violence, Government, Guns, History, Military, Politics, Public safety, States, Violence, War 6 comments

“They’re trying to take away my Second Amendment rights,”  say many gun rights advocates. But what do they mean by that? I doubt that

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“Proposing gun legislation should be a felony,” says MO lawmaker

February 19, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans, States, Violence Leave a comment

File this one under idiotic state laws. Missouri state representative Mike Leara–a Republican– has filed a bill that would make it felony for state

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A funny thing happened on my way to the gun show

January 31, 2013 Barbara Finch Guns, Missouri region, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

On Saturday, January 26, when page three of my morning newspaper featured a story about four local homicides, and when people in cities across

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Cory Booker: It’s not easy being a political star

January 29, 2013 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Cities, Crime/Violence, Democrats, Government, Housing, Infrastructure, Media, Obama, Politics, Public safety, Senate, States, Violence Leave a comment

Several weeks ago, I  wrote about the hazard of being seen as a hero. The downfalls of General David Petraeus and Lance Armstrong demonstrate

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Putting a special stamp on the State of the Union

January 21, 2013 Arthur Lieber Budget, Congress, Crime/Violence, Financial reform, Good government, Guns, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Taxes, Violence, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

There are certain thoughts that are de rigueur in every State of the Union Address. Honor is paid to our men and women in

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NRA’s new iPhone app: Locked and loaded with propaganda

January 18, 2013 Bill Kesler Children, Crime/Violence, Guns, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

A month after Newtown, here comes a new shooting app—“NRA: Practice Range.” That’s right, it’s from those same tone-deaf folks who blamed video games

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FDR’s Fourth Freedom and gun control

December 31, 2012 Arthur Lieber Congress, Crime/Violence, Guns, History, Public safety, Uncategorized, Violence 2 comments

As our national debate on gun control continues, we can learn a great deal from FDR and his Fourth Freedom.  This was part of

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It took too long to start the gun control debate

December 27, 2012 Arthur Lieber Children, Congress, Crime/Violence, Guns, Media, Obama, Violence Leave a comment

Progressives, can you imagine Rachel Maddow shying away from a story high on the liberal agenda. I couldn’t until the evening of Friday, December

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