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Connecticut School Shooting Sparks Assault Weapons Ban Talk

The elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., has opened the politically explosive subject of gun control and the Second Amendment in the United States. That debate took center stage Sunday, when California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she intends to introduce an assault weapons ban on the first day of the next Congress. "The purpose of this bill is to get ... weapons of war off the streets," the longtime Democratic senator said on NBC's "Meet The Press." President Bill Clinton signed an...Full Story
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