Kerry and Bush Trade Blows on Gun-Ban Lapse
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Description: Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry says President Bush did not do enough to urge the Republican-controlled Congress to extend a 10-year federal ban on the sale of assault weapons that expired Monday.
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Democratic Sen. John Kerry attacked  President Bush's "shifting explanations" on missing explosives  in Iraq on Thursday, but Bush said Kerry lacked the conviction  and consistency to lead the nation at a time of war.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Friday President Bush's failure to fight for a renewal of a ban on assault weapons would make it easier for groups like al Qaeda to get the lethal guns.
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Democrat John Kerry rebuked  President Bush on Monday for letting a ban on assault weapons  expire and said his Republican rival paid for tax cuts by  taking police off the streets and slashing anti-drug programs.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry brought their differences over foreign policy into a face-to-face confrontation Thursday night, the two clashing mostly over the war in Iraq in a debate
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President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry veered away from campaign combat over Iraq and terror yesterday, trading insults on health care, medical liability and stem cell research during stops in crucial swing states.
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President Bush and Democratic rival  John Kerry dueled over health care and the expired assault  weapons ban on Monday, with Bush slamming Kerry for backing a  costly "government takeover" of health care that would lead to  higher taxes.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - From the South and the Midwest, President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry yesterday traded barbs and aggressively questioned the other&#39;s qualifications to be president.
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A ban on the manufacture and possession of military-style assault weapons came to an end in the United States with a bitter dispute between political rivals and a debate over its effectiveness.
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Washington -- Sen. John Kerry outlined a $5 billion anti-crime package Monday and used the day on which the decade-old federal assault weapons ban expired to again rebuke President Bush for what the Democratic
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WASHINGTON Sept. 13, 2004 - Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday accused President Bush of ducking his responsibility to protect the country from crime and terrorism by allowing a national assault weapons ban to expire.
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Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday President Bush had not done enough to protect America from another attack while the president labeled his Democrat rival's approach to preventing terrorism as "dangerous."
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John Kerry linked U.S. assault weapon sales to worries about terrorism Friday and said President Bush was bowing to the National Rifle Association by not pushing to keep alive an expiring ban.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry battled on Wednesday over missing explosives in Iraq as they raced across vital swing states in the last days of a deadlocked White House race.
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Hopes of finding a solution to Northern Ireland&#39;s political deadlock stalled last night over the IRA&#39;s refusal to disarm its weapons transparently.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, seeking to cut George W. Bush's edge on security issues, branded him a puppet of the powerful US gun lobby who allowed a decade-old ban on assault weapons to lapse.
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Inside the campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, the final week before the election was a blur of tarmacs and rallies, of furious squabbling over elusive explosives