A year of disasters: Top ten local stories of 2013
Peoria's two UnityPoint-Health facilities have about 4,000 employees and serve more than 100,000 patients through their physicians' practices. The affiliation also brought Proctor's Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery and Hult Center for Healthy … Read more on Peoria Journal Star

Groton man's struggles fuel his drive to help others
Gardner bought a pair of slippers, visited his family in Chicago, and used the rest to start a fund to help recovering addicts. John Haugabook, off-campus coordinator for Stonington Institute, said he's called Gardner eight or nine times to help people … Read more on TheDay.com

Gun Control Battle Shifts To States After Newtown Massacre
In scores of statehouse battles, both gun-control and gun-rights advocates have notched wins since a mentally unstable gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012. … That includes $ 2.2 … Read more on Huffington Post

Gulf Coast Drug Rehab Sees Success with Long Term Addiction Treatment …
Gulf Coast's approach to drug rehabilitation has, thus far, proven quite successful among the most difficult of patients. According to co-founder Debbie Ross, "We want to allow program participants to focus solely on recovery. We know that when …
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Man jailed over 41kg marijuana find
"The potential for commerciality was there but it was actually for his own long-term addiction," he said. Judge Clive Wall QC accepted Fry was remorseful and had been undergoing drug rehabilitation however he remained concerned about the large cannabis …
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Sen. Mark Kirk talks about guns, Hadiya Pendleton and being 'the good guy in …
Kirk had suffered a major stroke one year earlier and underwent extensive rehabilitation, including having to learn how to walk again. He had been on … A Republican with long-held moderate stances on gun control, Kirk has ended up helping broker what …
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Question by usa_jcrew68: Can you think of some ideas on how we can prevent school shootings?
The VA Tech massacre, the Columbine killings, and countless other school shootings has created fear and paranoia in the our schools and society. We realized since 911 anything devastating can happen at any moment. The VA tech incident (even though it wasnt terrorist related)has created a a higher “awareness” in our society. I think gun control, random drug testing, and mental health testing should be the norm in all institutions.
List some other reasonable ideas that can prevent a shooting like this from occuring again?

Best answer:

Answer by Roadkill
Arm the students and faculty. Banning guns from schools just creates unarmed victims at the mercy of someone who doesn’t obey the gun ban.

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