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Republicans are betting that this too will pass, that as with Jonesboro and Paducah, Pearl and Springfield, once the white coffins are in the ground and the cameras gone, the outrage will subside. But maybe not this time. In town meetings and talk radio, the public has had its fill of politicians talking resignedly about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate...
...Paducah or Springfield or Littleton, there is no crack FBI team waiting around the block. The crisis falls to local officers who are more like SWAT reservists, training together once in a while and spending the rest of their days minding what is often a sleepy suburban community -- until terror flares. They do their best; certainly the team that waded into hell last Tuesday saved hundreds of young lives. Can all of America's cops be ready for the worst to happen at any time? Probably not. But Shannon thinks if the apparent epidemic of school violence...
...Harvard grads are at it again. Perennial slacker Bart causes Springfield to lose the Olympic Games, and as punishment he must pitch in at a retirement house. Wacky antics are sure to ensue. Voices of Dan Castelleneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. Guest voice of Jack Lalanne...
...reminiscent of Springfield, Ore., where a physically fragile 15-year-old named Kip Kinkel last May allegedly opened up on classmates a day after calmly murdering his parents in their home. Or West Paducah, Ky., where Michael Carneal began shooting in a crowded school hallway, killing three and wounding five others before an extraordinarily calm student walked up and told him to stop. Or the most incongruous of all, Mitchell Johnson and Drew Golden, 13 and 11 years old, baby fat still pinching at the collars of their school clothes as they laid down an exceptionally accurate line of fire...
...bill that some say violates First Amendment protections of free speech, State Rep. Benjamin Swan (D-Springfield) has proposed that sworn public officials be punished for using derogatory language about any group...