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Various sites,including Michelle Malkin's Twitchy,posted the full video of Neil Heslin's testimony that had originally appeared on the town's website. Participants in those sites then began to fire off Tweets complaining that it had been wrong to describe the behavior of the gun advocates as "heckling." I didn't see the MSNBC edit until pretty deep in the afternoon. By then,a live controversy was boiling. So I watched back-to-back first the unedited video and then the MSNBC version.Here's what I saw: I saw a father anguished by grief. He spoke at length,then posed a challenge to the people in the room. (I'm paraphrasing here) Why would anyone need an assault-style rifle anyway? There was a pause,
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You can't deny that those decisions by the courts have been very hurtful to the movement overall. But I look at them as wake-up calls to many of us who've fallen asleep at the wheel of contentment. My generation and the next generation must join in and make our voices heard. The next generation must step up and be ready to do what must be done to keep the fight going for better health care,a better environment,better housing and better education. We've let far too many issues,
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Cameron says there are some signs that the German position is changing.12.56pm: Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman asks Cameron to deplore President Obama's "offensive discourtesy" to the president of Pakistan.Cameron says he would not put it like this. He urges partners to show "patience and understanding" towards Parkistan. Pakistan needs to know that its friends, like Britain, will not abandon it when the Afghan war is over.1.08pm: Labour's Dennis Skinner asks Cameron to accept that he needs a plan for growth.Cameron says that he was too abrupt in his last exchange with Skinner (the one when he told Skinner to retire). Skinner is an ornament to the Commons,
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