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LETTERS: Transparency in Niles schools? Cheers and jeers for Trump, GOP

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Tweet Where is transparency in Niles City Schools? I am a proud grad- uate of Niles City Schools and president/broker of Association Group Insurance Agency Inc. Our agency has been the agent of record for the Niles school district Anthem Blue Cross plan from 2004 to September 2018 except for one year in that time […]

My Turn: The racist roots of the Second Amendment

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Mass shootings have become institutionalized as an almost normal part of American life, as have the responses to such shootings. After each massacre, victims, their families and gun-control advocates bemoan the latest atrocity and call for background checks and a ban on assault weapons. Gun rights advocates oppose such reforms and stand behind the Second […]

Twenty years after Columbine

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The columbine is a perennial flower often seen growing wild in the Rocky Mountains. But since April 20, 1999, the word has been a universally recognized reference to what was then the worst mass shooting at a school in American history. Thirteen people were shot to death and 21 were wounded by a pair of […]

Public forum on gun rights vs. gun control slated Tuesday

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Don Spencer is a lifelong resident of Oklahoma and became president of the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association in 2016. He is a firearm instructor certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training and is licensed to be an armed security guard. Editor’s Note: This story is for release Sunday, April 21, 2019. The […]

Flashpoint: Gun rights vs. control, New Pa. sec of pardons, Easter promenade

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(L to R) Shira Goodman, Serita Lewis, Jonathan Goldstein PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — This week on Flashpoint: Host and KYW Community Affairs reporter Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions about guns as the country marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre and the 12th anniversary of the Virginia Tech mass shooting. In 2017, 40,000 […]

Columbine, 20 years later: Poll shows most Americans favor stricter gun laws

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An AR-15 style rifle is displayed at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, in Aurora, in a July 26, 2012 file photo. WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws, and most believe places of worship and schools have become less safe over the last two decades, according to a new poll […]

Second Amendment rights supporters at Legislative Hall

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VIDEO: Opponents of three new Delaware gun control bills organized at protest at Legislative Hall in Dover on Wednesday, April 10. Click here to view original web page at Second Amendment rights supporters at Legislative Hall

How President Obama politicized the use of ‘thoughts and prayers’ after mass shootings

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On a July afternoon in 2012, Denton Dickerson logged onto Twitter to share his grief after getting notice that a dozen moviegoers had been murdered at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” — a movie he was planning to see later that day. “My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by […]

Pete Buttigieg Wants More Background Checks, Reinstatement of Social Security Gun Ban

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Election 2020 Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg In this Jan. 10, 2019 photo, South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, talks with an AP reporter at Farmers Market in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Democrat presidential hopeful Mayor Pete Buttigieg supported gun controls Barack Obama pushed, as well as the gun control “framework” Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors […]

Second Amendment rights supporters at Legislative Hall

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