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		<title>Good People, Bad People and the Fort Hood Shootings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As our nation continues to contemplate the horror of the Fort Hood shootings, one revelation about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan caught my eye.  In 1996, after completing his official &#8220;NRA Personal Protection Course,&#8221; he was issued a permit in Virginia to carry a concealed weapon.  Virginia is one of the many states where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1573</link>
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		<title>Virginia Tech Survivor With Hidden Camera Films Dangerous Gun Sales At Gun Shows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should someone who wants to buy a military-style assault weapon be required to undergo a criminal background check?
In America they don&#8217;t have to.
In fact, felons, gangsters, wife-beaters, and the dangerously mentally ill can buy as many military-style assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols and other firearms as they can carry, with no questions asked.
They just have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1562</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Breathtaking Inanity&#8221; Of Jacob Sullum&#8217;s Homage To The Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Doug Pennington
Assistant Director, Communications
After the shooting massacre at Fort Hood, commanding Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone was asked whether personnel in the Soldier Readiness Center on base would have been armed during the attack.
Gen. Cone  answered:
No.  We would not.  As a matter of practice, we do not carry weapons. This is our home.  So, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1489</link>
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		<title>Reading The Election Tea Leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While some of our friends on the other side of the gun violence prevention issue can be forgiven some, er, irrational exuberance over yesterday&#8217;s election results, the reality is a little more mundane.
For better or worse, guns didn&#8217;t play a prominent role in the outcomes of any of the four high-profile races yesterday &#8212; Virginia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1473</link>
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		<title>Guns in Montana and Tennessee:  Is Secession Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that individuals can defy the law.  Can a state legislature defy the law?  When it comes to the gun issue, apparently it can.
I refer to the extraordinary legislation passed into law by the states of Montana and Tennessee declaring that guns or ammunition manufactured and retained entirely within the borders of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1468</link>
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		<title>For The Record: NRA Fails To Elect Scozzafava, Endorsed Candidate In NY-23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one in the gun violence prevention movement has any illusions about the ultimate winner of the special Congressional election in the conservative NY-23 district somehow becoming a champion for our cause.
Yet as we now know, Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava &#8212; the NRA&#8217;s endorsed candidate &#8212; has dropped out of that race.
The most recent Siena [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1450</link>
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		<title>Who Shot At Lou Dobbs&#8217; House?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dobbs blames immigration activists.
Police remind folks that the shot apparently &#8220;did not come close to&#8221; Dobbs wife, that it was hunting season at the time, and that they wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;classify it [the gunfire incident] as very unusual&#8221; since hunter complaints go up during that time of year.
We report, you decide.
First, Dobbs&#8217; take via FOX News:
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1435</link>
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		<title>UN Black Helicopters Tracking Former Rep. Bob Barr&#8217;s Every Move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, maybe not.
But remember, it isn&#8217;t &#8220;paranoia&#8221; if they&#8217;re really after you.
&#8230;The real agenda of these folks at the UN, and in London, Tokyo, Brasilia, and the other capitals around the world of nations pushing the US to “come on board,” is not international regulation, but limiting the freedom we enjoy within the United States [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1417</link>
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		<title>LA Times: Police &#8220;Back Away&#8221; From Claims That Synagogue Shooting Was Hate Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is often the case after major shootings, initial reports of events tend to be called into question or corrected by new discoveries reported in the following days.
Yesterday&#8217;s shooting at a North Hollywood synagogue seems to be falling into the same pattern.
In today&#8217;s LA Times:
&#8230;The victims, Maor Ben-Nissan, 37, and Allen Lasry, believed to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1409</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Freakonomics&#8221; Author Asks For &#8220;Fresh Ideas&#8221; To Solve Chicago Teen Shooting Epidemic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Doug Pennington
Assistant Director, Communications
Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt posted a request on his New York Times blog, asking readers to offer ideas for reducing &#8220;teen shootings&#8221; in President Obama&#8217;s adopted hometown of Chicago.
Some 300 public school students have been shot since September 2008.  Over 40 Chicago kids have been killed since January 1.
Levitt writes:
…But how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1376</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Certified Good Guy&#8221; Sentenced For Smuggling Gun Onto Plane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via AP:
&#8230;Damien Young was sentenced Monday after earlier pleading guilty to sneaking the gun onto a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Phoenix.
Young was helped by his roommate, an airline employee who authorities say switched bags with Young at the gate to bypass security.
Authorities say Young was moving to Arizona and thought it would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1365</link>
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		<title>Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty To Gun Show Purchases Bound For Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to see the gun show loophole in action?
The Kansas City Star reports today on a guilty plea by someone who admits to frequenting gun shows, buying and selling assault weapons, and sending weapons to Mexico:
&#8230;Mynor Guerra, 25, a Guatemalan citizen who was living in Overland Park, was arrested at a Kansas City gun show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1338</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Paranoid&#8221; &#8220;Campus Vigilantes&#8221; &#8220;Take The Law Into Their Own Hands&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us in the gun violence prevention movement live in dangerous neighborhoods.
Sad to say, too many activists in our movement lost loved ones as a product, in part, of living in dangerous parts of town.
Based on that experience, our movement believes that fewer people carrying guns will help make our neighborhoods safer.
The gun lobby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1327</link>
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		<title>Politician Buys Pistol For 4-Year Old Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a headline from The Onion.
Or a plotline from The Simpsons.
No, apparently Georgia State Rep. Sean Jerguson &#8212; a real live elected official soaked in the gun lobby&#8217;s Kool-Aid &#8212; actually boasted of purchasing a pink .22-caliber pistol for his 4-year old daughter, according to reports.
But what about his son, you ask?  Not to worry.
On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1318</link>
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		<title>Rapper Lil&#8217; Wayne, Reported Concealed Carry Permit-Holder, Pleads Guilty To Gun Charge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via the Associated Press and the Yuma Sun (Arizona).
From AP:
&#8230;Arguably rap&#8217;s most popular artist, Lil Wayne somberly answered his judge&#8217;s questions with &#8220;yes, sir&#8221; and &#8220;no, sir&#8221; as he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempted criminal possession of a weapon.
He acknowledged he had a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun when [his tour] bus was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=1302</link>
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