Reporters’ Notebook, Aug. 19
The deadly shooting rampage inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., added new fuel to the debate over gun control and whether future attacks could be thwarted if more people legally packed concealed weapons.
For your consideration, we at Week in Review offer the following news tidbit without comment: According to police, a 56-year-old man in a Sparks movie theater for a showing of "The Bourne Legacy" suffered a non-fatal wound to his buttocks when the handgun he was permitted to carry slipped from his pocket, dropped to the floor and fired.
HENRY BREAN
This week, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of them young adults who came to the United States as children, applied for two-year work permits made available by President Barack Obama in mid-June.
The president's tweaking of the guidelines has drawn criticism from Republicans, who are calling it an about-face in immigration law.
For their part, some of the immigrants are now concerned that if Mitt Romney is elected, he could reverse Obama's order. So there's a mad rush to finish the application process before the November presidential election.
But progressive activist Bob Fulkerson said any incoming Republican president would be "foolish" to nix the two-year work permit. "It would be a major gut-punch to America's youth and their future. It would be morally and politically damaging, whoever the president is," he said. "And you can bet that whoever it is, he'd suffer the consequences in the next election."
TOM RAGAN
TWEET OF THE WEEK: @mybigblondelife (Hannah Elisabeth, entertainer and actress) Caged chimp escaped for the second time, and Miss Nevada looks like a drag queen. Oh, and it's hot. You're all caught up on Las Vegas news.
FACEBOOK POST OF THE WEEK: (from North Las Vegas Police Department spokeswoman Chrissie Coon) "'Hey Mom, when you get done with that murder, can we go swimming?' - LMAO! The things cops' kids say!"
