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Guns and attitudes; like so many American cities, Milwaukee is aching from the frequent and often fatal combination of the two. "It used to be your money or your life," says Sheriff Richard Artison. "Now they'll shoot you anyway." Since 1980 the city's homicide rate has doubled and now stands at more than 150 so far this year, spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from...
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