Word: assaultive
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...despite his declaring a "new era in U.S.-Mexico relations" and saying he will stand shoulder-to-shoulder against the drug cartels. Particularly telling was Obama's admission that he will struggle to deliver on two key issues of major importance south of the border: the sale of U.S. assault weapons and immigration reform. The statements played into the hands of skeptics who argue that despite the more liberal face, it is still business as usual for the gringo colossus. "There were a lot of words and pats on the back," wrote political commentator Ciro Gomez Leyva...
...sold assault weapons including Kalashnikov and AR15 semi-automatic rifles are responsible for the vast majority of drug related killings in Mexico. With gangs of gunmen using them to spray hundreds of bullets at their targets in ambushes, the weapons are also linked to the deaths of more than 100 civilians last year, many of whom simply had the misfortune of driving or walking close to a hit. However, in 2004 a U.S. ban on sale of assault weapons was repealed and a 2008 Supreme Court decision reinforced the second amendment, making a future ban even more difficult...
...have not backed off my belief that the assault weapons ban made sense... assault weapons, as we now know here in Mexico, are helping to fuel extraordinary violence," Obama said. "Having said that none of us are under any illusion that reinstating that ban would be easy." The President said that he would focus his efforts on getting lawmakers to approve a treaty against arms trafficking, which was signed by President Clinton in 1997 but has never been ratified by the Senate. However, American officials concede that the majority of weapons smuggled to Mexico are purchased by U.S. citizens...
...Nathan Marsh Pusey--barged in to evict the students. The protesters had resolved to nonviolence and formed a human chain across the doorway--right before getting arrested. Though the University had agreed not to press charges, the city ended up putting two guys in jail for nine months for assault and battery (including the one who had punched the assistant dean in the face). 23 students were also expelled, with the possibility of readmission in the future, and three were permanently expelled...
...Green exemplifies the former ideal for men of science. The intellectual progeny of the Enlightenment and its assault on the teleological view of the universe and of man’s nature, modern science had won for itself the liberty to investigate material phenomena without regard for the political or moral consequences of their findings. The most certain and dependable knowledge that men can acquire comes only from a rigorous and mathematical inquiry into nature. The tenets of theology or the moral virtues—the most important knowledge for the soul—may have had greater priority...