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The anatomy of a headline: Some stories on Federal Way tragedy imply it’s part of Seattle

Excerpt: Last night’s dead­ly ram­page in Fed­er­al Way — which result­ed in the deaths of five indi­vid­u­als at the Pinewood Vil­lage apart­ments com­plex just off Pacif­ic High­way South — has focused nation­al and inter­na­tion­al atten­tion on our region. Although the tragedy occurred in Fed­er­al Way and author­i­ties there are han­dling the inves­ti­ga­tion, sev­er­al nation­al and inter­na­tion­al […]
Published at:12:19 PM on Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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U.S. Senate’s NRA caucus blocks legislation to require background checks on more gun sales

Excerpt: A bipar­ti­san pro­pos­al to require back­ground checks on the sale of firearms at gun shows and over the Inter­net has failed to advance in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate after being suc­cess­ful­ly fil­i­bus­tered by forty-one Repub­li­cans and four Democrats. By a vote of fifty-four to forty-six (with Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Har­ry Reid vot­ing nay so that […]
Published at:2:05 PM on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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NRA’s answer to Newtown tragedy: Put armed guards in every school in America

Excerpt: This morn­ing, the Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) and its zeal­ous leader, Wayne LaPierre, final­ly broke their silence over the slaugh­ter of twen­ty chil­dren and sev­en adults at Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary in New­town, Connecticut. At a press con­fer­ence in the Dis­trict of Colum­bia, not far from the White House, LaPierre said that imme­di­ate action need­ed to […]
Published at:1:10 PM on Friday, December 21st, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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A modest proposal

Excerpt: In the wake of the Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary school shoot­ings of Decem­ber 14th, many are call­ing for reform of gun con­trol laws, stronger gun con­trol laws, a re-intro­duc­tion of the assault weapons ban, and so forth. These are wor­thy con­ver­sa­tions that should be had. To them I would add anoth­er idea. On Sat­ur­day, author Mau­reen John­son tweet­ed: @maureenjohnson: […]
Published at:6:00 AM on Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Written by:Jason Black
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Authorities release the names of those killed yesterday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary

Excerpt: Author­i­ties in Con­necti­cut have now released the names of the chil­dren and fac­ul­ty killed yes­ter­day morn­ing at Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary in New­town, Con­necti­cut. The over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of those killed were very young chil­dren, only six years old, as has been report­ed. Three of the chil­dren were sev­en years old. The adults (all women) ranged in […]
Published at:2:26 PM on Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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At least eighteen children and eight adults slaughtered at school in Connecticut

Excerpt: Dev­as­tat­ing, heart­break­ing, hor­ri­ble news out of New Eng­land this morn­ing: At least 27 peo­ple — includ­ing 18 chil­dren — were killed Fri­day morn­ing at a local ele­men­tary school, mark­ing the dead­liest shoot­ing ever in Con­necti­cut and one of the worst ever in the country. The shoot­ing hap­pened at about 9:40 AM [6:40 AM Pacif­ic Time] […]
Published at:11:53 AM on Friday, December 14th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Another mass shooting: Gunman reportedly kills six at Sikh temple near Milwaukee

Excerpt: Tragedy has struck again, this time near Wis­con­sin’s largest city: At least sev­en peo­ple were killed, includ­ing one shoot­er, just after 10 a.m. Sun­day at the Sikh Tem­ple in Oak Creek, police said. Four of the dead were inside the tem­ple at 7512 S. How­ell Ave. and three of the dead, includ­ing a shoot­er, were […]
Published at:3:08 PM on Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Latest tragedy in Seattle a sad reminder: Guns don’t kill people, people with guns kill people

Excerpt: Anoth­er late spring day has come and gone, and with it, the lives of more inno­cent Wash­ing­to­ni­ans have been blot­ted out, cru­el­ly cut short by gunfire: A man who killed four peo­ple in a bloody shoot­ing spree at two Seat­tle loca­tions end­ed an intense man­hunt by turn­ing the gun on him­self as offi­cers closed in […]
Published at:9:02 PM on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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