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Showing posts with label assault weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assault weapons. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Will divestiture erase assault weapons? & did it have much effect in S. Africa?

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I’m old enough to remember when trendy form of political protest was to talk of divestiture – as in picketing companies that spent money or ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Taking the lead on firearms? Or being impatient? Emanuel needs to relax

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After learning that Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants the City Council to approve an ordinance banning firearms as a way of prodding the Illinois G...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

So predictable. Little to lose. And it just might work to curb assault weapons

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I can’t say I was shocked to learn of the action taken this week by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan with regards to the court ruling ...
Monday, January 7, 2013

The nada session?

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Unless we get some mystical, magical and excessively speedy political maneuver, the Illinois General Assembly isn’t going to consider the ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Quinn wants ban on assault weapons, willing to play nasty like opponents

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It’s actually one of the oldest dirty tricks in the Illinois Statehouse playbook. QUINN: How badly does gov want ban? Take some con...
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Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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