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Their reports on school violence advise instituting techniques of early detection and threat assessment as the means most likely to succeed in stopping school killings.
FORBES: Searching For Hard Data On Guns And Violence
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His rare pronouncements on the two main national issues of the past few weeks show him failing to use opportunities for straight talking: he was late in criticising Congress's Kosovo votes, and did little to lead public debate about gun laws and youth violence in the wake of the high-school killings in Littleton, Colorado.
ECONOMIST: Out of the dark, Republican glimmers
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The proposals, all recommended by the president in the aftermath of the killings at an elementary school in Connecticut, include expanded background checks, tougher laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, and improving safety at schools.
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