Because the nation is watching what Washington is doing right now as the President is speaking about how important it is to do something to discourage the gun violence, to do away with the scourge of gun violence.
These considerations prompt the Center for Security Policy to conclude that, if the budget summit is not to do real violence to the economic health and security of the Nation, the only possible outcome is to slip the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets for FY1991 and the outyears.
And one of them had to do with violence because there was a string of violence.
But first we turn to Chicago and the ongoing debate about what to do about gang violence there, and by extension across the country.
His greatest hope: That the will to do something about the violence does not die along with those who never had to.
Arafat has condemned the violence, adding that he would do everything to stop such violence.
He said he was proud of his record in reducing burglary but had wanted to do more to cut alcohol-related violence.
"Look, I have suffered more than most from gun violence, and I certainly want to do all I can to reduce gun violence and I understand it helps to have common sense gun laws, " she said recently on the campaign trail.
Pearl and guitarist Jonas Stein agree the lawyers' decision had more to do with demographics than violence.
For that only gives cover, and sometimes makes an excuse, for those who do resort to violence.
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For those who want to do something about gun violence, change isn't easy.
There are reasonable things we could do to reduce gun violence while respecting the rights of law-abiding citizens to own guns.
The challenge Joe Scarborough made on Morning Joe is a fair one: the Republican party needs to do something about gun violence.
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And there are some meaningful, common-sense things that we can do to reduce gun violence in our communities at the same time respecting the rights provided by the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
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The group has helped secure the peace at the Cluan Place interface and said it would continue to do all in its power to ensure that violence would not be instigated from the loyalist side.
"It recognizes that there are good people on both sides of this issue, and we don't have to agree on everything to know that we've got to do something to stem the tide of gun violence, " he said.
Because while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try.
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He remembers how he felt about those who chose not to get involved in crime and violence and instead chose to do legal jobs, even if they didn't pay as much as crime.
"So it's really incumbent upon the Security Council members and regional states to exercise leadership and do what we can to help end the violence and get to a political transition, " the official said.
Does the rapid growth of gun ownership and armed citizens have anything to do with a diminishing gun violence trend?
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So they have had huge success particularly in Japan with games that have nothing to do with that kind of violence at all.
We have about a minute left and just wheeling back to this question of the response to the violence, where do you think the conversation goes next?
And it will be a question for all 100 members of the Senate to ask themselves about whether or not they think that voting for and supporting an assault weapons ban would actually do something to reduce gun violence in communities all across the country.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
And while it may well be that background checks will ultimately do more to stop gun violence than the other two, there is simply no argument in 21st century America for anyone to own an assault weapon or magazine clips that can fire more than 10 bullets in rapid succession.
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Mr Khatami, trying to avoid open conflict with his political opponents, has not dared to do much, except call gently for an end to violence.
And even as we uphold these universal values, we do want to make sure that transitions do not degenerate into chaos and violence.
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During his 1 is 2 Many announcement last year, Vice President Biden also challenged us to think about cultural change- how do we change the attitudes that allow violence to continue?
What can women do to reduce their risk of violence in the workplace?
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Many of those in the bar were known to the police, but some may well have had nothing to do with the evening's violence.
French President Jacques Chirac, the summit host, told reporters that the EU leaders were desperately concerned about the escalating violence and wanted to do anything they could to help to restore dialogue.
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