Editorial: To save lives, change psych laws
Published: May 07, 2007

Every once in a while, a mind bent on mayhem seizes a moment and turns it into a massacre. Whenever such a horror strikes, bewildered people ask the very questions they asked last time: How could this happen? Wasn't anybody watching? Couldn't this have been prevented? [continues]

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Editorial: Time for new debate on the subject of guns
Published: May 07, 2007

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Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign & Center to Prevent Gun Violence, proposed an excellent catalog of reforms at the National Press Club last week. Top on the list: passing the Schumer-McCarthy NICS Improvement Act, which would give states reason and help to send more information to the federal database consulted in background checks. That's a no-brainer, as are others he poses, including requiring background checks for all gun sales and again banning magazines holding more than 10 rounds.

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