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Connecticut is launching two task forces to examine mental health treatment in the state, following last year’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 children and six adults dead. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is leading one task force, and the legislature is heading up the second. A more focused conversation about how people with mental illness get access to care and how to identify people who could become violent is also occurring in other states and at the …

As Congress ponders an assault-weapons ban and universal background checks, local authorities across the country are using gun “buyback” programs to try to decrease the numbers of guns in their communities. And like just about everything else in the gun control debate, the buybacks are becoming a bone of contention between proponents of stricter controls and those who resist them.   Thousands of Weapons Collected New Jersey has held several buybacks, with the latest, held the last weekend in January in …

Democratic members of Congress announced on Thursday that they will introduce a new bill that would impose a federal ban on assault weapons, following a wave of mass shootings in recent years including the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The bill is more expansive than the federal assault weapon ban that was in place from 1994 until 2004. The proposed legislation names 158 specific types of military-style guns that would be outlawed for civilians. Magazines that …

Joe Arpaio, el infame agente del orden público, se encuentra en el grupo de sheriffs alrededor del país que se han pronunciado en contra de aplicar cualquier nueva ley sobre armas que sea impuesta por el gobierno federal. “Ahora, si van a decirle al sheriff que va a tener que ir a recoger las armas de todos, van a tener un problema”, dijo el sheriff más rudo del país a una estación de radio en el Condado de Maricopa. “Posiblemente …

An attorney who sought to sue the state of Connecticut for $100 million following the Sandy Hook massacre has withdrawn his lawsuit request for the time being, citing public backlash. Irving Pinsky, a personal injury attorney in Connecticut, had started proceedings to sue the state on behalf of a six-year-old girl who attended Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of December’s horrific massacre by gunman Adam Lanza that left 20 children and six adults dead. The girl suffered damages from hearing …