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Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), at a news conference yesterday in Manhattan, said he and congressional colleagues plan to step up efforts to close loopholes in gun-control measures and create a federal task force to come up with national school safety guidelines. They also plan to push for congressional hearings on links between mental illness and school violence

Among the efforts Schumer outlined are a bill introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) last February, which is stalled in Congress, to provide funding for security at colleges and high schools.

“We have to make sure every college campus has a plan to deal with the violence,” he said.

Schumer noted the threat last week at MacArthur High School in Levittown, where school officials found a note in a boy’s bathroom that read: “I Will Kill Every 1″ with the date “2/15/08.” Yesterday, Nassau police said they were continuing to investigate the threat.