Cook County Opinion
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What if someone had been armed?Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - A killer enters a crowded megachurch in Colorado shortly after noon on Sunday, Dec. 9 and begins shooting. Other recent shootings include those at Northern Illinois Univ...
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Concealed carry safety is a fantasyFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Some people say we need to let college students have the right to carry concealed weapons so that they can protect themselves and others. Here's a possible scenario: Dea...
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Goudie's column missed the pointFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Chuck Goudie's column about the NIU shooter ("There were many red flags," Daily Herald, Feb. 16) focuses on the wrong problem. It wasn't that no one noticed that the yo...
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Seniors need help figuring out rebatesFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - The amount of the rebates the government will be sending is certainly clear, except for the seniors. From what I understand, at least the details listed in the Daily He...
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Lessons learned at NIU come back to the foreFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Jim Davis, NIU Class of '77. B.S. in Journalism. Frankly, I hadn't been thinking about that a lot lately. Until this past week. In that time, I thought more than once of...
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Not illegal, but the words still do hurtFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - In response to Ms. Dinkheller's Feb. 6 letter defending Association for Legal Americans as being against only illegal immigrants, not all Hispanics, I strongly disagree....
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Why can't outsiders follow entry rules?Feb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - This is in response to Al Kirkland Jr.'s Letter against the Association for Legal Americans. Illegal is simply that. It's unlawful, unauthorized. Why can't illegal alie...
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Lawyers advocating breaking of the lawFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - With all of the letters written against the Association for Legal Americans by local lawyers, my question to them is, "What about the word 'illegal' don't you understan...
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It's not racism to want laws enforcedFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - What do prejudice, hate or racism have to do with illegality and the will of the people? When my house was broke into, that was illegal entry. The United States of Amer...
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Concealed-carry law would save livesFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - In the news we have seen much carnage of late. The Tinley Park/ Lane Bryant execution-style murders and the equally heinous act of a loser who chose to burst into a hall...