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Isabel Elliott
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Presidents Day
Fabulous Film Friday: “Black
is ... Black Ain’t” @ King 128E
6-8 p.m.
College Mtg for Worship w/
Christina Repoley ‘02
@ Moon Room, 1 p.m.
Pickup volleyball
@ Alumni Gym, 7-10 p.m.
325th anniversary of
the first formal Quaker protest
of slavery in Germantown, Pa.
CORRECTION
In Issue 13 on page 11, Said Sadek was
incomplete.
Important notice from Residence Life:
We intend to convert either English Hall or Shore Hall into a coed Honors
Program residence hall beginning Fall 2013. See the article in this weeks online
Guilfordian for a rationale and complete information. We welcome any questions
or concerns after you’ve read the article.You can reach us at reslife@guilford.edu.
Sojo Spotlicht
Gung-ho for guns: gun control and gun
violence in North Carolina
Aurora. Oak Creek. Newtown. Clocks comparatively loose regulation of
and AR-15's. 9mm's and .223's. firearms. Citizens are required to possess
These places and phrases were splattered a permit in order to purchase a handgun,
over the news media throughout this past but not a rifle or shotgun. Furthermore,
year. The rash of mass no license or registration is required to
shootings in 2012 left own a firearrrg^ background checks are not
over 140 people killed required to purchase rifles or shotguns;
or wounded and led weapons regQlated by the National
to a reappraisal of gun Firearms Act, including automatic
laws and legislation weapons, can be owned by civilians at the
across the nation, enforcement; citizens
Im,f,||prih Carolina^ allowed to carry most firearms openly
BY ANTHONY
HARRISON
Staff Writer
howe^^ the
conve’^sation on gun
contrails taking a hard
line stance against
progressive legislation.
North Carolina
already has
in public; and there are no restrictions
on civilian ownership of military-style
weapons.
In 2009, there were 1,083 firearm-related
deaths in North Carolina, accounting for
60 percent of violent deaths in the state.
Sixty-one percent of them were suicides.
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