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How were the Vaughn children protected by the Second Amendment?

A little more than a week after the shooting deaths of four members of an Oswego family -- including two girls, ages 12 and 11, and a boy, age 8 -- there are a great many questions on how such a horrible crime could take place.

Most revolve around whether the shootings were done by Kimberly Vaughn, the kids' mother, or Christopher Vaughn, their father. We all know that the children were murdered in the family's Ford Expedition while the Vaughns were on their way to a water park in Springfield. We know that Mrs. Vaughn was shot once in the head. We know that Mr. Vaughn told police that his wife shot the children and shot him in the leg.

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Re: The AP article "Driver arrested after plowing into crowd," concerning a vehicle plowing through several blocks at a crowded street festival, injuring about 35 people, seven severely, in Washington, D.C., (A-J, June 4).

As far as I know, you are the only news media that carried this story. My questions and comments are:

n Why was the story not on page one followed by days of additional reports?

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From the podium came fighting words. The target of all the punching: America's partisan politics.

First up was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, delivering a scathing admonition: "The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision making," he told a group of some 200 national politicos and guests. "We can turn around ? our wrongheaded course, if we start basing our actions on ideas [and] shared values ? without regard to party."

The next day, his partner in taking to task the political climate, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), echoed: "There really is no more urgent issue facing America today than ? bridging the political divide."

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While I strongly agree with Chris Cox that reasonable laws allowing U.S. citizens to own and use guns are constitutional, the idea that an increase in civilian gun ownership and easier access to such weapons results in less gun-related crime is bogus (Laws to control guns only lead to an increase in crime, June 22).Indeed, in almost every country where gun ownership and use is severely restricted including Australia, which the NRA frequently and anecdotally cites to support its case the per c...

Also, most U.S. cities that have strict gun control laws and still experience high gun-related crime Washington, D.C., for example do so because weapons are obtained from neighboring communities where much more lax gun laws are in effect.

That is why most Western world nations restrict civilian gun sales and use to a much greater extent than America particularly assault weapons.

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Jeff Roe figures that outside the KC metro area, most voters don’t know much about Kay Barnes, and he intends to fill in the blanks in a way that puts her at the greatest possible disadvantage.

The region’s leading practitioner of hardball politics admits that the one area where he lacks self-discipline is food. Jeff Roe comes to work early, stays late and subsists on four or five hours of sleep. But food is his weakness.

Today, however, he orders the salmon-and-Caesar salad. The bread sits invitingly in the center of the white tablecloth. He recommends it. It’s quite good, he says. So is the butter. But he touches neither.

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