Nev. Politician: Let Teachers Carry Guns
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LAS VEGAS - A Nevada state senator and also-ran in this year's Republican primary for governor says the Legislature should consider letting teachers carry guns in classrooms to stem a rise in school violence.
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Dropping his attempt to outlaw selling violent games to minors, a Utah Representative throws his support behind other states' efforts to ban such sales. In Game|Life.
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A tiny town in western Pennsylvania could ask all of its residents to own guns, if a proposal under consideration on Wednesday wins approval from local officials.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 25--Legislators have never trusted mayors or county commissioners to raise a local sales tax for transit.   But, apparently, they'll trust these local officials to OK or veto a nuclear power plant -- unilaterally.
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Fire officials may impose restrictions on target shooters in this gun-friendly state for the first time after a man with a rifle admitted he started a wildfire that destroyed six houses south of Reno.
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Spurred by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the Democratic-led House of Representatives is expected to approve a bill to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Ministers say young boys should not be prevented from playing with guns, but teachers condemn the advice.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said on Thursday the mayors of more than 100 other U.S. cities have joined their effort to get illegal guns off America's streets after a spike in violent crime.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Saturday that if he's elected, he wants "to carry the big stick" by increasing the size of the nation's military.
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By Ray McAllister, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Mar. 10--NEWPORT NEWS   On a day celebrating one of America's most famous gunships, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine himself hauled out the big gun yesterday:   Conciliation.
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The leading House Democrat on education issues proposed revisions yesterday to the No Child Left Behind law that would ease the penalties for public schools that barely miss academic testing targets but tighten another rule that has helped the District and Virginia.
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A bearded drifter walks into a Colorado school and fatally shoots a student before taking his own life. Wisconsin authorities charge three boys with plotting a bomb attack on their high school and, two weeks later, a student in a rural school allegedly shoots his principal. A gunman bursts into a Vermont elementary school looking for his ex-girlfriend and guns down a teacher.
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Parents want radical action to stop drugs and weapons getting into schools, a survey suggests.
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By Karl Terry, The Portales News-Tribune, N.M.  Feb. 1--A bill protecting wildland firefighters from criminal prosecution has been introduced in the New Mexico Legislature by Rep. Keith Gardner R-Roswell.
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Modern police departments have been deploying modified paintball guns like the ones provided by Pepperball, Inc. to help police officers balance the American people's First Amendment right of free assembly against the demands of politicians. The "less than lethal" designation of these weapons was highlighted recently by the shooting death of Victoria Snelgrove, a baseball fan, by Pepperball equipped police near Fenway Park in Boston.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - When dozens of suspected  insurgents showed up for a "peace conference" in troubled  Baquba on Tuesday, they told the governor sponsoring it why  they would not lay down their weapons ahead of elections.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.