Word: antigun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America is citing its antidrug campaigns (think "Just Say No") as a major factor in the new age of abstention, claiming that drugs are shedding that pesky veneer of "coolness." Attorney General Janet Reno is applauding the Clinton administration for putting more cops on the street and stepping up antigun campaigns. It's probably more complicated than either of these explanations would suggest, and there will be a rash of analyses; some will point to the rising rates of incarcerations, some may even promote a causal link between the numbers (less drug use means less crime). At this point...
...realize I'm too late on the antigun movement. So I'm going to spearhead the next big cause: anti-suntanning. I plan to debate George Hamilton, if he still has that talk show. If not, he's really not worth my time. That's what my publicist says...
...parents, violent entertainment and a lack of moral and spiritual grounding that are responsible for the subculture of death that exists among our youths today. If guns are the problem, why have school shootings not been going on since the founding of the country? Quit spouting that tired old antigun b.s. that contributes nothing. JERRELL A. PARKER Lewisville, Texas...
...done much to bring this more flexible approach to the forefront, as concerned citizens on both sides of the debate seek to come up with effective but measured steps to minimize gun deaths. There may also be an added incentive prompting gun manufacturers to come up with solutions: Antigun groups have begun targeting the industry with liability lawsuits...
This was not what gun enthusiasts wanted to hear. "Dr. Feel-Good of the gun-ban crowd," one of them labeled Wintemute. Under pressure from the gun lobby, federal funding for gun studies has been slashed. But Wintemute insists he is not on an antigun vendetta. Rather, he wants to get at the roots of firearms violence: why it has climbed to the highest levels of the century, why so many children are shooting children, whether easy access to guns is in itself a stimulus to violence. If that means putting heat on manufacturers and dealers...