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Obama eyes ‘common sense’ US gun control
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama says it’s time for US lawmakers to tackle the divisive issue of gun control in hopes of preventing tragedies like the Tucson shooting spree that killed six people. In an opinion column published Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star, the main Tucson newspaper, Obama…
Exclusive: 2 million mentally ill people missing from national gun check system
The issue of gun control leapt back into the national discourse in the wake of January’s Tucson massacre. But one of the most shocking gaps in the effort to prevent people prohibited by law from purchasing firearms continues to fly beneath the radar. Records of at least two million dangerously…
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