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June 29, 2007

Comment on Friday's local commentary and letters

Young, rash and armed?
Gary Skaggs
Skaggs is an associate professor in the educational research and evaluation program at Virginia Tech.
Many of my colleagues, friends and students at Virginia Tech who are not from this country are bewildered by our insistence on owning firearms and even more so by the numerous letters and essays in this newspaper that propose greater, not less, access to guns.
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A second chance to live productive lives
Charles Benninghoff
Benninghoff is the founder and trustee of The Rehabilitated Project.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., stated on the floor of Congress that the federal penal system is structured in such a way that it actually drives good people into prison. He also noted that this so-called "justice system" unduly impacts minority communities.
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