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Opinion Stories from December 22, 2012 (Change date)

Court ruling will help crime drop

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Well Illinois citizens finally will have the right to protect their gift of life and their loved ones. Illinois is way behind the rest of America in granting concealed c...
We’ve waited too long for action

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Shame on us! Twenty little children are dead. Eight adults are dead. These are the latest victims of our culture that glorifies violence, refuses to discuss gun control ...
We must end our love affair with guns

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Concealed carry in Illinois — seriously? Chicago is already close to, if not at, the point of being the handgun murder capital of the U.S. Why are we wanting to put more...
Craft Illinois’ gun laws carefully

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - The state of Illinois has 180 days to craft legislation and make it law that only those who qualify can own and carry a fully loaded, 16-shot automatic firearm. We can o...
The Soapbox

The Daily Herald Editorial Board
Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Still moving: The tragic case of Elgin High School teacher Carolyn Gilbert, spotlighted through Daily Herald reports, led to state legislation that should make teachers...
A Christmas plea for prayer

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Each year, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus, it once again becomes a reminder that God has given us His Son, so that we can be saved. This Christmas, we find our natio...
God’s healing love needed at this time

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - During this most horrific time of indescribable violence and heartbreak in Newtown, Conn., my prayers are with that community and our country as we try to cope with and ...
We should repeal Second Amendment

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Now is the time to repeal the Second Amendment and write reasonable gun laws I hate to be crass, but I am getting fed up with the superficial sorrow that the nation emo...
No where else are gun laws so lax

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - The National Rifle Association and its supporters like to say: “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” The fact is, though, that it is much harder to kill without ...
Perpetuating a culture of death

Dec 22, 2012 4:00 am - Even before the lifeless bodies of the Sandy Hook massacre could be removed from the classrooms, the predictable, illogical and emotional calls for gun control/eliminati...

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