1.0 link 124365 <![CDATA[Bring the Assault Weapons Ban Back Into Presidential Politics]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-brown/bring-the-assault-weapons_b_124365.html Tonight, Barack Obama is attending a fundraiser in Newark, New Jersey. I truly hope he uses this opportunity to speak about Bukhari Washington and the tragic lunacy of allowing civilians to possess assault weapons legally.

Who is Bukhari Washington? In October 2007, The New York Times profiled him: a tragedy-stricken, resilient teenager in Newark. To introduce his 14-year-old subject, Samuel G. Freedman wrote:

After every cataclysm had struck -- after his father had died and his mother had fallen ill with...
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