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IN THE NEWS - Shooting at Connecticut School has Americans Re-Examining Gun Laws 时事新闻 - 康州校园枪击案使得美国人重新审视枪支法 From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Chicago passed a grim milestone recently. The city has seen more than 700 homicides this year, that's more than any other major U.S. city. Of course, that startling number does not begin to tell the whole story. As we're about to
Washington Week: Focus on Gun Control, Obama Cabinet Picks President Obama travels to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to promote proposals for reducing gun violence. The citys police chief was among law enforcement officials consulted by Vice President Joe B
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The debate in Washington over what to do about mass shootings is following a familiar pattern. Democrats and Republicans both say they want to end gun violence, but they disagree on how to do that. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are ho
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A school shooting in Florida prompted a nationwide drive for more gun laws, but cities in Florida are not likely to join in. The state of Florida did impose a waiting period for gun purchases and raised the age for gun sales to 2
By Amelia Shaw Port-au-Prince 20 January 2006 Red Cross with victim of violence Haiti continues to struggle with violence and instability in the wake of its upcoming presidential elections in February
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 07 February 2008 Forty kilometers west of Washington - in the southeastern U.S. state of Virginia - sits the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, or NRA. It is a non-profit research and advocacy group dedicat
Jerry Baldwin was 30 years old. He was the manager of a pizza restaurant. He lived in an apartment about one mile north of the restaurant. He walked to and from work. When it was raining, he took the bus. Jerry loved gangster movies. When a new one c
Obama Calls for Action on Gun Violence Gunfire erupted on December 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a heavily armed young man shot and killed 20 children and several school administrators. The entire nation recoiled in grief and horror. Days
US Tragedies Make Gun Control Likely Target in State of the Union Address In a country where the tradition of gun ownership goes back to the founding of the nation, any talk of taking guns away triggers an emotional reaction on both sides. The push f
Washington Week: Focus on Government Funding, Gun Violence In coming days, the U.S. Senate is expected to pass a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Total funding will be at reduced levels mandated by automatic budget cuts. On
Washington Week: Focus on Immigration, Gun Control Months of negotiations between a group of Democratic and Republican senators have yielded a bipartisan immigration reform bill, expected to be unveiled later this week. Reports say the proposal would
NRA Leaders Step Up Calls to Fight Restrictions on Gun Ownership NRA members came from all over the country to rally for the right to bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is under threat, according to NRA Execu
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The recent shooting in Las Vegas has sparked some soul searching, certainly more debate about guns in this country. And we have a new poll out this morning from NPR and Ipsos. And it reveals overwhelming support for various gun co
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Those students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School also have their eye on Congress. They're planning a big gun control rally in Washington next month. They've received a lot of praise from around the country, but as North Cou
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When the parishioners at one church in upstate New York gather for worship each week, many of them are armed. The church even advertises its open-carry policy online. From member station WRVO, Payne Horning reports. (SOUNDB
By Kari Barber Port Harcourt 01 June 2007 While violence has reached new heights this year in Nigeria's Niger Delta with nearly 200 kidnappings of foreigners since January, one former militant leader, now a peaceworker, has taken the risky step of de
By Jim Stevenson Elmont, New York 08 June 2008 Big Brown has fallen shot of winning horse racing's so-called Triple Crown, finishing last at the Belmont Stakes in New York. As VOA's Jim Stevenson reports, the race belonged to an unlikely winner. Da'
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