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Baltimore Sun Editorial

Roughly 10 years after Columbine and two years after the Virginia Tech massacre, the families of shooting victims were back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday pleading for Congress to close the gun show loophole. All they seek is for all gun purchasers to be required to pass background checks that help keep guns out of the hands of criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill.

Is that really so much to ask?

Too many states continue to allow individuals without a dealer's license to sell firearms at gun shows and thereby skirt the 16-year-old federal background check requirement. Authorities estimate that between 25 percent and 50 percent of vendors at gun shows are unlicensed.

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From this editorial:  "The U.S. needs to turn the pirate captured Sunday over to authorities in Kenya, whose courts have been prosecuting these cases. That would signal this is a global problem that requires a global response." 

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Public investments best stimulus package

January 27, 2009

Our economy is in a perilous state, and it is essential that Congress designs an effective stimulus package. The bulk of that package must go to investments in creating public facilities. Such investments achieve the maximum immediate economic stimulus in terms of jobs created and yield the greatest long-term benefits. Tax cuts have no place in the stimulus package.