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Believe federal reform should just restrict access to criminals, mentally ill By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO
sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Area gun owners gathered Sunday as meticulous consumers, inspecting and asking questions about the numerous handguns and rifles on display at a gun show at the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn. But those owners were equally as attentive to President Barack Obama’s recent gun-control proposal made in the form of legislative recommendations and executive orders after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 schoolchildren and others last month. Gun owners who were leaving the Crystal Lake gun show said any federal reform should restrict gun access to criminals and the mentally ill, not the many law-abiding gun owners throughout the country. “Everybody seems to have something that triggers these rampages,” said Richard Young, who is chairman of the McHenry County Friends of the NRA. “The common denominator is mental health. That should be the priority.” Young, a retired officer from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, was raising money for his local National Rifle Association chapter at a booth just outside the doors of the Holiday Inn conference center. The conference area, which
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mcHenry County Board member Paula Yensen will attend President Barack Obama’s inauguration today. Here, the Democrat holds a photo from when she met Obama in 2006, before his presidency. Yensen is attending the inauguration with her friend, who won the tickets through a congressional representative office.
Locals make their way to D.C. to witness Obama inauguration By kEVIN P. CrAVEr
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y plane, train and automobile, Maggie Rivera and Paula Yensen made their way to Washington, D.C., on Friday morning. Their ultimate destination is the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building, where President Barack Obama will be sworn in today for his second
term. It is the fourth inauguration for Rivera, of Crystal Lake – Midwest vice president of the League of United Latin American Citizens – and the first for Yensen, of Lake in the Hills – one of the McHenry County Board’s two Democratic members. Both secured tickets for the inauguration, and both have hopes for what Obama and a deeply divided Congress can
accomplish over the next four years. “My hope is that Congress can work together collaboratively with the country’s best interests at heart,” Yensen said. “This polarization is a detriment to the future of our country, and it’s my hope that they can work across the aisle and work in the best interests
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King ‘content of character’ quote inspires debate By JESSE WASHINGTON The Associated Press
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This sentence spoken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America’s bedrock values, its language almost
sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality. Yet today, 50 years after King shared this vision during his most famous speech, there is considerable disagreement over what it means. The quote is used to support opposing views on politics, affirmative action and programs intended to help the disadvantaged. Just as the words of the nation’s founders are parsed for
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character? For at least two of King’s children, the future envisioned by the father has yet to arrive. “I don’t think we can ignore race,” said Martin Luther King III. “What my father is asking is to create the climate where every American can realize his or her dreams. Now what does that mean when you have 50 million people living in poverty?”
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modern meanings on guns and abortion, so are King’s words used in debates over the proper place of race in America. As we mark the King holiday, what might he ask of us in a time when both the president and a disproportionate number of people in poverty are black? Would King have wanted us to completely ignore race in a “colorblind” society? To consider race as one of many factors about a person? And how do we discern
“Everybody seems to have something that triggers these rampages. The common denominator is mental health. That should be the priority.”
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