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In this article the author is discussing the events of the mass shooting on Valentine’s Day. The author talks about how Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the NRA, argues that we need guns to protect the people from bad guys and that the left are trying to take their guns away. During this the victims of the shooting are begging for lawmakers to create stricter gun laws. The author states that people think that will this mass shooting help change the minds of lawmakers to put stricter gun laws in place. Republican state representative Larry Pittman stated that we need to get over this gun craze and arm our teachers to protect schools. Which is a position that the NRA has advocated for many years.
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In this article the author is discussing how the tax cuts and job act proposed my republican senator creates tax breaks for the creation of opportunity zones. There are talks that underway between city officials, universities, and the Durham Housing Authority about what census tract will get the opportunity zone. Andre Pettigrew, director of the city’s office of Economic and Workforce Development, states that they will be choosing census tract 10.02 and that they have a focus on the poverty reduction initiative which was proposed by the former Mayor Bill bell.
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