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

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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

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many teachers across the country are calling on their state pension funds to sell their stakes in gun manufacturers. The teachers say they don't want their retirement money invested in these companies. But many people, including th

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Senate Gun Debate Moves to Judiciary Committee Mass slaughters of children in Connecticut, movie-goers in Colorado, college students in Virginia, and congressional constituents in Arizona have amplified calls for action. First to speak at the hearing

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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

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

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

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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

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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

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By Chris Simkins Washington 16 May 2008 Republican Party Presidential candidate John McCain is set to speak to members of The National Rifle Association on Friday, May 16. The powerful pro-gun lobbying group is holding its annual convention in Louisv

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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

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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

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Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities Scenes of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut are seared in the minds of many. Twenty students and six teachers died in the December mass shooting. Yet it has only been in the past two w

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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

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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

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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

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NOEL KING, HOST: All right. Here in the U.S., when we talk about gun violence, we usually talk about homicides. But two-thirds of gun deaths in this country are caused by suicide, by people deliberately harming themselves. As North Country Public Rad

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, earlier this year, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted a Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency. We are now learning more about Russia's influence campaign on social media against the United S

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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

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今天我们要学的词是gun control。 Gun control, 枪支管制。 The deadly shooting in Tuscon re-energized gun control advocates, 图森发生的造成多人死伤的枪击事件让主张枪支管制的人重新振作。 The shooting has broug

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: How is it that police officers sometimes shoot the wrong person? That question has grown more urgent after recent police killings of two black men. Emantic Bradford Jr. was killed while running from a shooting at an Alabama mall.

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