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In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, gun store owner Dave Burdett talks about gun rights as he displays a hand gun in his store in College Station, Texas. Burdett, who owns an outdoors and adventure shop across the street from the sprawling Texas A&M University campus in College Station, says his affinity for guns is rooted in history, not sport. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Study: States with more gun control have less gun deaths

Last updated Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 2:03pm

Connecticut has more restrictions on gun ownership than most states, so gun-rights advocates argue the Dec. 14 schoolhouse massacre there illustrates the futility of gun control.

But a new study by a pro-gun control San Francisco organization reaches the opposite conclusion: States with the most restrictive laws, including Connecticut and California, have lower rates of gun-related deaths, while states with few limits on firearms have the highest rates.

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Presidential election will shake up Supreme Court balance

Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Monday, October 15, 2012 - 11:18am

The next president may have the power to change the direction of the Supreme Court -- and determine the future of abortion, gay rights, corporate influence in politics and much more.

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Obama pressed to ban antigay bias by contractors

Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 4:45pm

Now that President Barack Obama has taken his boldest and riskiest stance on gay rights to date by endorsing same-sex marriage, advocates say it's time to keep a 4-year-old campaign promise to sign an executive order banning antigay discrimination by federal contractors.

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Notorious liar Stephen Glass wants law license

Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 2:32pm

Stephen Glass faked all or parts of more than 40 articles for national magazines from 1996 to 1998. In 2003, he acknowledged that his violation of journalistic standards was so severe that he would "never be welcomed within journalism, and rightly so."

Now the California Supreme Court will decide whether Glass' behavior was so bad as to make him morally unfit to practice law.

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High court spurns athiest's challenge of 'under God' in Pledge

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 1:15pm

WASHINGTON -- An atheist's challenge to the addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, which stirred a legal and political frenzy nearly a decade ago, has quietly expired in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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