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...seem to have concluded that securities day trader Mark Barton's murderous rampage was due to his financial losses [THE ATLANTA MASSACRE, Aug. 9]. But that's probably as wrong as the assumption that the Internet or rock music compels kids to go gunning. America clearly accepts violence as normal behavior, both in entertainment and as a way to resolve conflict. Don't expect a decline in mass killings until there is lower attendance at bloody ice-hockey games and action movies. GEORGE BOHMFALK Texarkana, Texas...
...tragedies in Atlanta and at Columbine High School in Colorado provide useful lessons. No gun-control law can prevent criminals from obtaining deadly weapons. If not a gun, a homemade bomb, hammer or ax will suffice. And new antiterrorist police, who seldom intervene before a bloody rampage is over, cannot protect people. Had a single would-be target or bystander been carrying a "cheap" concealed handgun, these attackers might have been stopped sooner. Legitimate gun owners see beyond the thinly veiled attempt to first demonize, then criminalize all gun ownership. God help us when only the police have the right...
Congratulations to Roger Rosenblatt for speaking the unspeakable and asking for the elimination of all handguns [THE ATLANTA MASSACRE, Aug. 9]. The grass-roots movement has begun. Thanks, Roger, for your courage. RAYMOND C. HOLTZ Covington...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, BILLY PAYNE, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more...
...haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National HIV Prevention Conference hoping that those statistics will help them challenge the complacency over AIDS in recent years. "The slowing of the decline in AIDS deaths is a reminder that the message of prevention needs to be reaffirmed," says TIME science correspondent Janice Horowitz. "The drug breakthroughs...