Word: bakal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned down intruders. "Of course, the column omits stories of innocent people who are killed in these encounters," notes Carl Bakal, author of The Right to Bear Arms, a book critical of the gun trade...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are in an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...
...correct when you say, in reviewing Carl Bakal's The Right to Bear Arms [July 29], that the U.S. of 1966 has no marauding redcoats or redskins. But unfortunately we do have the Black Muslims, Hell's Angels, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Since the beginning of time, man has needed to defend himself. To deny the honest citizen easy access to firearms is to deny him a life without fear...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. An often intemperate but thought-provoking polemic against the easy availability of firearms, which cause close to 17,000 deaths yearly...