House conservatives have kneecapped GOP leaders’ attempts to pass a compromise gun-control bill to keep firearms out of the hands of suspected terrorists, saying Wednesday that the chief Republican plan still tramples on Americans’ constitutional rights. Speaker Paul D. Ryan had hoped to push the gun proposal through as part of a broad anti-terrorism package, but…
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If it took Kennady weeks, the average person probably never gets an opportunity to clear his/her name.
–Jerome Liner, Cincinnati, Ohio
Any gun-control background check needs to include due process for those on any secret files. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy was wrongly placed on a no-fly list and it took him weeks to clear his own name. No law should violate citizens’ constitution rights. —Steven Kalka, East Rockaway, New York