Social Issues

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President Obama comforts Nicole Hockley on Monday at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Mrs. Hockley and her husband, Ian, lost their son, Dylan, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Mr. Obama is pushing Congress to hold votes on the gun controls he has proposed. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A beggar asks for donations in a street in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 7, 2013. There are fears in Serbia that the troubled Balkan nation's economic recovery may slow down because of global financial crisis and rising poverty. (Associated Press)

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“When a youth’s confidential information is made public, our agency’s rehabilitative efforts are severely undermined,” wrote DYRS Director Neil Stanley. (The Washington Times)

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Matthew Warren, the youngest child of the Rev. Rick Warren of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., committed suicide, the church said in a statement on Saturday, April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Saddleback Valley Community Church)

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (center) signs legislation at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, April 4, 2013, to place new restrictions on weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Neil Heslin (behind left), father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis; Nicole Hockley (right), mother of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Dylan Hockley; and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman (left) look on. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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**FILE** Larry Pratt, executive director of gun rights group Gun Owners of America, talks at a Second Amendment news conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 14, 2006. (Associated Press)