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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Do You Support Gun Control?

The president has proposed comprehensive legislation to curb gun violence. Read what your neighbors think about gun control and join the conversation on Patch.

President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious, $500 million proposal to curb access to guns and improve mental health services Wednesday, putting the hot-button issue of gun control at the top of the public agenda a month after the horrific mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school. The Huffington Post reports that the plan calls for: "requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales; reinstating the assault weapons ban; restoring a 10-round limit on ammunition magazines; eliminating armor-piercing bullets; providing mental health services in schools; allocating funds to hire more police officers; and instituting a federal gun trafficking statute, among other policies. The cost of the package, senior officials estimated, would…

In this Article:

Davis: APS police officers can better identify sensitive relationships, head issues off earlier (in Midtown Patch), Weapons Debate Draws Gun Enthusiasts and Buyers to Local Range (in Sandy Springs Patch), Local Shooting Victim's Father on Gun Control: 'Education is the Best Thing' (in Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch), and 3 more ›

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CrowBurger

6:20 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Again. What was a mental patient doing (in, on, near, within, without, about, around) at a gun range?   more ›

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Floyd Joins Mayors Against Illegal Guns

The national group of mayors, including a dozen from Georgia, sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday outlining the need to change gun legislation in the United States.

Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd joined more than 750 mayors across the country Wednesday in sending a letter to President Barack Obama in response to the shooting in Newtown, CT and the need to change gun legislation in the United States. Floyd was among a dozen state mayors to join the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group is led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.  The letter read, in part, "As mayors, we are charged with keeping our communities safe. But too many of us have sat with mothers and fathers of children killed with guns. Twenty-four children enrolled in public schools in your hometown of Chicago were shot to death just last year. At the moving memorial service on Sunday evening, you…

A Decatur Mom

10:48 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Yes. Many interventions are needed to prevent horrific episodes like the Newtown massacre--reestablishment of options for long-term mental health treatment for mentally ill teens and young adults, safe schools, and assault weapons restricted to military or law enforcement use. It's not one or the other. All are necessary if we want to be safer. We owe it to the victims of Newtown and other …   more ›

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