Monday, February 11, 2013
Guns Courthouse shootout in Delaware
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Three dead and two wounded in a courthouse shooting in Wilmington, Del., not long before a scheduled visit by Vice President Joe Biden to talk about gun safety. Sounds as if a man in a domestic case might have shot his wife and then been killed by police officers.
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Morning report: Leaks, guns and welfare kings
May 14, 2013The morning roundup: * WHEN WILL REP. TOM COTTON PRAISE OBAMA'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT? Republican mouthpieces are howling about the news that AP reporters' phone records were gathered by the Justice Department in an apparent investigation of leaks about a Yemen-based terrorist plot to bomb an airliner. /more/
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A Blue Ridge morning — politics, pay raises, crime
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Two-year-old dies from handgun shot to head
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Has Arkansas deregulated guns or not?
May 8, 2013John Lyon of Stephens Media examines at some length today a simmering topic in the gun nut community that is of general interest. /more/
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'Powder, lead, walnut, brass and steel': Nate Bell's tribute to weapons
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Churches choose on guns
May 7, 2013Now that the Arkansas legislature has opened the sanctuary doors to guns in churches — if the churches choose — decisions are being made. /more/
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