This time must be different

Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), told a Senate committee on Wednesday morning that “this time must be different,” calling for stronger gun laws in the wake of a string of mass shootings.

Kelly, a retired Navy officer who flew four times in space, has become the country’s best-known spokesman for gun control, following the January 8, 2011, shooting that nearly killed his wife. Giffords was shot in the head as she held a constituent event in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Ariz. Six others were killed,Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. before alleged gunman Jared Loughner was stopped as he sought to re-load. Kelly spoke after a brief opening statement from Giffords, who he said is still partially blind, and struggles to walk. He took her hand to help lead her from the room,Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online. and then returned a few minutes later to be a witness himself.

In Kelly’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he took pains to cast himself–and his wife–as political moderates, and longtime gun owners. “We take that right very, very seriously, and we would never, ever give it up,We specializes in rapid plastic injection mould and molding of parts for prototypes and production.” Kelly said.

But Kelly urged the committee to seek to fix the “matrix of failure and inadequacy” that underlies every gun death. He suggested three potential actions.

Kelly, who founded a group called Americans for Responsible Solutions with Giffords, had previously said he wanted a new ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. In this hearing, however, he stopped short of calling explicitly for those measures. Instead, Kelly called for a “careful and civil conversation” about whether those items should face greater regulation.

Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, tagged along in January when her father took part in a nine-person US delegation to North Korea, organized by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Ms. Schmidt, a grad school student, made a number of enlightening observations about the “hermit kingdom” on her blog, Sophie in North Korea.

In a post titled “It might not get weirder than this,” Schmidt writes, “Our trip was a mixture of highly staged encounters, tightly-orchestrated viewings and what seemed like genuine human moments.” She notes under “Top Level Take-aways” that “Nothing I’d read or heard beforehand really prepared me for what we saw.” It was also extremely cold and none of the sites they toured – schools, malls, and government buildings – were heated,Nitrogen Controller and Digital dry cabinet with good quality. despite frigid temperatures.

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Beacon Hill business owners and residents are working on ideas to improve parking on Charles Street, including shuffling commercial parking spots and installing multispace parking meters.

Business owners and neighborhood residents met Tuesday night at a Joint Charles Street Committee meeting to discuss possible changes that would make more parking spots available to customers.

“We obviously don’t want to make changes willy-nilly,” said John Corey, co-chair of the committee, who presented a parking study of the street.

Corey noted that the commercial loading zones on the street ban customer parking from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and are clustered in certain areas, such as the eight commercial spots at the top of the street near Charles Circle.Source crystal mosaic Products at Mosaics.

“That didn’t seem to make a lot of sense,” said Corey. “A lot of these loading zones could be left over from God knows when.”

Corey and co-chair Susan Symonds, who is also president of the Beacon Hill Business Association, suggested redistributing the commercial spots along the street without reducing their numbers.

The suggested moves would include changing the commercial spaces on Mt. Vernon Street into resident parking while moving the commercial spaces onto Charles Street in front of Charles Street Market, where commercial and delivery vehicles could more easily park.