Politics

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks at a gun violence conference in Danbury, Conn., on Feb. 21, 2013. The conference, held near the Newtown where 26 lives were lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, was organized by members of the state's congressional delegation is to push President Obama's gun control proposals. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Stewart Parnell, then the president of the Peanut Corporation of America, arrives at federal court in Lynchburg, Va., on Thursday, March 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

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In this undated handout file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lt. Col.. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force, File)

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Jeffrey Atkins, aka the rapper Ja Rule, served 20 months of a two-year state sentence for gun possession at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., and was released directly into federal custody on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, to serve a 28-month sentence for tax evasion. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision)