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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Do You Support Gun Control?

The president has proposed comprehensive legislation to curb gun violence. Read what your neighbors think about gun control and join the conversation on Patch.

President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious, $500 million proposal to curb access to guns and improve mental health services Wednesday, putting the hot-button issue of gun control at the top of the public agenda a month after the horrific mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school. The Huffington Post reports that the plan calls for: "requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales; reinstating the assault weapons ban; restoring a 10-round limit on ammunition magazines; eliminating armor-piercing bullets; providing mental health services in schools; allocating funds to hire more police officers; and instituting a federal gun trafficking statute, among other policies. The cost of the package, senior officials estimated, would…

In this Article:

Davis: APS police officers can better identify sensitive relationships, head issues off earlier (in Midtown Patch), Weapons Debate Draws Gun Enthusiasts and Buyers to Local Range (in Sandy Springs Patch), Local Shooting Victim's Father on Gun Control: 'Education is the Best Thing' (in Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch), and 3 more ›

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CrowBurger

6:20 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Again. What was a mental patient doing (in, on, near, within, without, about, around) at a gun range?   more ›

Sunday, December 23, 2012

What's Your Opinion on the NRA's Call for 'Armed Security' Around Schools?

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.

In an amazing Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the …

In this Article:

Newtown United: Grassroots Group Seeks to Curb Gun Violence (in Newtown Patch) and Newtown Parent: NRA 'Playing to People's Fears' (in Newtown Patch)

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Sophist

3:21 am on Tuesday, January 1, 2013

I don't understand this whole hunting argument. The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting. It was written to protect the citizenry from tyrannical government not protect the right to hunt. There is no right to hunt; it simply does not exist. This is not meant as an ad hominem attack, but I believe you are a little ignorant about ammunition and body armor. Virtually any rifle can defeat body armor…   more ›

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