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A Mother's Day of Action to Protect Children From Gun Violence
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, congress )

Cal
- 6 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
We, as mothers, have the absolute right to protect our children from harm. We have the right to know our children are safe from gun violence, from the moment they leave our arms in the morning until they return home later in the day.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Condemn the Four Democratic Senators Too Cowardly to Allow a Vote on Background Checks
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, congress )

Cal
- 21 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Because of 45 senators, including four Democrats, the American people won't get an up-or-down vote on even the most modest part of the president's gun regulation agenda.
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Baucus, Powerhouse Senate Democrat, Will Not Run Again
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: americans, congress, constitution, corruption, democrats, dishonesty, elections, ethics, government, Govtfearmongering, gun violence, politics, propaganda )

Kit
- 24 days ago - nytimes.com
Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, will retire from the Senate after 36 years, the sixth Senate Democrat to head to the exits in 2014, according to Democratic officials close to the senator.
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MORONS! Background Checks Voted Down; Senate Gun Bill in Peril
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans )

Cal
- 30 days ago - cbsnews.com
In a major setback for gun control advocates, the Senate Wednesday voted down a key amendment to the embattled Democratic gun bill, signaling the increasingly dim prospects of any meaningful legislative action aimed at strengthening America's gun laws.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Senate: Pass Universal Background Checks for All Gun Purchases
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, republicans )

Cal
- 36 days ago - signon.org
If a background check is needed to join the military and carry a weapon in Iraq, we should require the same of people who want to carry one at home.
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New Research Confirms Gun Rampages Are Rising--and Armed Civilians Don't Stop Them
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans )

Cal
- 36 days ago - motherjones.com
Data on 84 attacks echoes MoJo's investigation and further debunks the NRA's "good guys with guns" myth.
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60 MINUTES: Newtown Families Voice Support for Gun Control
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, congress )

Cal
- 39 days ago - cbsnews.com
"Newtown" is now synonymous with unimaginable tragedy. But many of the families who suffered through it call it something else,"12/14," the December day that they lost a son, daughter, or wife when a dark young man with dark dreams awoke, murdered his mot
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Conn. Governor Set To Sign Gun Control Law
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans )

Cal
- 43 days ago - npr.org
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to sign a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown.
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N.R.A. Can't Believe How Well National Conversation About Guns Is Going ~~ Andy Borowitz
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, americans, congress, corruption, crime, dishonesty, ethics, Govtfearmongering, gun violence, HUMOR )

Kit
- 57 days ago - newyorker.com
Because of what appeared to be a new resolve to finally do something about gun violence, he said, "I was concerned that the national conversation about guns would turn into something uglier, like congressional action." ***HUMOR***
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New Player in Gun Control Ad Wars
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, media, congress )

Cal
- 89 days ago - politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
MoveOn.org is moving into the TV fight over curbing gun violence.The progressive group says that it's going up with a television commercial that goes after members of Congress who accept donations from the National Rifle Association.
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Gun Focus Shifts From Ban to Checks and Trafficking
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, congress )

Cal
- 95 days ago - cnn.com
Eight weeks after the massacre of 20 Connecticut first-graders, a ban on the kind of semi-automatic rifle used by the killer remains elusive -- if not impossible.
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Gun Control Bill With Bipartisan Support Unveiled In House
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans )

Cal
- 101 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
House lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled their first bipartisan bill targeting gun violence in this Congress: a measure to make firearms trafficking a federal crime.
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Paul Krugman: GOP's Immigration Reform 'Problem Is Their Base Is Old White People'
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, republicans )

Cal
- 102 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
As the debates on immigration reform and gun control heat up, the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association have problems ahead, Paul Krugman predicted on Sunday. Those problems, he suggested, have to do with how the two groups fundamentally wor
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Unmasking the NRA's Inner Circle
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans, congress )

Cal
- 121 days ago - motherjones.com
The NRA's shadowy leaders include the CEO who sells Bushmaster assault rifles and a top director who lives in Newtown.
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Barack Obama Admits He Might Fail to Outlaw Assault Weapons
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: gun control, Newtown Massacre, gun violence, children, news, government, ethics, media, lies, politics, americans )

Cal
- 122 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
President Barack Obama may fail to outlaw high-power assault weapons, he admitted, as he was accused by Michael Bloomberg of jeopardising American lives by not confronting the gun lobby.
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