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A North Bellmore man was arrested on Nov. 27 after allegedly threatening a woman and her 6-year-old at a 7-11, according to police. Police later discovered an arsenal at the man's home.
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11/30/18
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It takes a roomful of cool heads and years of expertise to treat a gunshot wound. Even then, adrenaline runs high among emergency department staff, and the patient is never guaranteed to live — no matter where the bullet wound is on the body.
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By Erik Hawkins and Melissa Koenig
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9/7/18
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For many Americans, firearms are linked to the national concepts of self-reliance and individualism — after all, it was with guns that we shook off the yoke of British rule. Even with popular attitudes toward gun control changing, the place that guns hold in the country’s imagination still makes a serious public conversation about how to legislate them difficult, experts say.
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By Erik Hawkins
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5/17/18
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Part two in an ongoing series.Dressed in olive-green fatigues and brandishing placards touting the legality of the AR-15 assault rifle, an estimated 300 to 400 gun rights advocates descended on …
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By Scott Brinton
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4/23/18
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Just in front of me, a teenage girl tentatively raised her arm. Then she clenched her fist. We were at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on March 24 . . .
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4/20/18
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When 13 people were shot dead at Columbine High School in 1999, many of today’s youth, including the survivors of the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., had not yet been born. Hayden Gise, a senior at Hewlett High School, recalled the routine lockdown drills conducted when he was in elementary school just a few years later.
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By Brian Stieglitz and Erik Hawkins
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4/19/18
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Four Bellmore-Merrick high school students were highlighted Saturday on WGBB Radio, as they shared their thoughts on the post-Parkland, Florida, shooting movement against gun violence.
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By Erik Hawkins
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4/19/18
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Nearly 25 years have passed since Colin Ferguson stepped onto a Long Island Rail Road train in Mineola and started indiscriminately firing a 9mm pistol at passengers. Six were killed and 19 wounded. Kevin McCarthy, then 26 and a broker with Prudential Securities in New York City, took a bullet to the head, but he survived. His left arm remains partially paralyzed.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/24/18
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33 New York colleges pledge prospective students will not be penalized for anti-gun violence walkout
With high school students on Long Island and nationwide preparing to walk out of school on Wednesday in protest of gun violence, more than 200 colleges and universities have pledged students’ admission prospects will not be affected by any discipline they face at their schools for participating.
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By Erik Hawkins
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3/12/18
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You knew CNN’s town hall to debate gun control — on Feb. 21, only a week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. — would devolve into absurdity when National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch took the stage.
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3/9/18
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