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NRA chief: If putting armed police in schools is crazy, 'then call me crazy'![AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left](https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/bias-leaning-left.png)
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On NBCs Meet the Press, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre on Sunday refused to support new gun control legislation and maintained his support for putting armed guards and police in schools in response to the Dec. 14 school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
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Despite Tragedy, Conn. Gun Seizure Law May Have Prevented Others![AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left](https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/bias-leaning-left.png)
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At about 8 a.m. on March 6, 1998, Matthew Beck arrived to work at the headquarters of the Connecticut State Lottery. He hung up his coat, walked into an office and shot the first of four victims.
Beck ended up killing a number of his co-workers and then took his own life in the parking lot when the police arrived.
Mike Lawlor, the Connecticut governor's criminal justice adviser, was a state representative at the time, and wanted to understand what led to the rampage. He learned that Beck had previously...
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Sen. Graham: Mental-Health System Is Key to Preventing Mass Murder![AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right AllSides Media Bias Rating: Right](https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/bias-right.png)
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called for improvements in the mental-health system as key to preventing “nontraditional criminals from committing acts of mass murder.
During an appearance Sunday on NBCs “Meet the Press, Graham said Columbine High School had an armed guard on campus when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 15 and injured 23. The massacre also occurred despite a five-year-old assault-weapons ban in the U.S. at the time, and “neither one of them worked, according to the Republican.
On Dec. 14, Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School...
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