Following the NRA's formal announcement today of a plan calling for armed guards or armed staff in all schools, the Brady Campaign released this statement:
"Once again, the NRA leadership is missing the point. The American public is calling for a comprehensive solution that not only addresses tragic school shootings, but also helps prevent the thousands of senseless gun deaths each year. Expanding the background check program, which nine out of ten Americans support, is one place to start. The entire package of sensible gun legislation passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee will get us the rest of the way there. The announcement today is not the conversation the American people want to have."
What do you think about the NRA's proposal?
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2 Brazil
3 Spain
4 Italy
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2 Cricket
3 Tennis
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2 China
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4 South Korea
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1 Literature
2 Journalism
3 Science
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2 Golf
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1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1929 – RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston
1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.o.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
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Ready in London
By Robbie Pangilinan
London via PCSO – Philippine Memory Team member Mary Sharmaine Deldio Dianquinay, the reigning Thailand International Open Women’s Champion is ready and confident to win two days before the Welsh Open Memory Championships starts on Saturday, March 30 at the Llanover Village Hall in South Wales, United Kingdom.
“I’m ready. It’s a big challenge for me, but I will try my best,” said the silver and bronze medalist during the 2013 Australian Open Memory Championships last November in Brisbane, Australia.
The 18-year-old UP Manila Speech Pathology student is eyeing her first Grandmaster norm/ results in the event organized by Dai Griffiths and sanctioned by the World Memory Sports Council headed by co-founder famous book author and mind mapping inventor Tony Buzan, England’s Chess Grandmaster Raymond Keene and General-Secretary Chris Day.
Dianquinay is the international overall champion in the Women’s Division at the 2012 Thailand Open Memory Championships where she also got a gold medal in the Random Words Division. She was also the silver medalist in the Spoken Numbers Division and the bronze medalist in the Random Words Division at the 2012 Australian Open Memory Championships.
Dianquinay started last year when she was 17, but didn’t expect to compete in the adult division. She was suddenly fielded there when she turned 18 in June. She was one of the youngest, yet finished on top in the Women’s Division during her first international competition.
“If you aim for something big, never expect it to be easy. If it wasn’t difficult, then it wouldn’t be worth it,” said Sharmaine, who is now also a Memory Sports Coach.
Dianquinay’s teammate, 16-year-old Princess Grace Mendoza begged off at the last minute due to an unavoidable circumstance. #
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