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...keep saying that I don't commit. I don't know what the hell that means. What do you do when you commit? Do you hang yourself or hold a gun to your head and say, "I'm gonna squeeze it five times, and if there's not a bullet in there I'll be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with LAWRENCE RAWL: Exxon Strikes Back | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Police recovered a bullet from the baggage compartment on the driver's side and were trying to determine the caliber and type of gun used, said state police spokesman Adam Berluti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shots Fired at Greyhound Bus | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...eight passengers were hurt when someone fired a bullet through the front of a Greyhound bus Sunday night in south Jacksonville. The passengers were injured by fiberglass and shrapnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shots Fired at Greyhound Bus | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by witnessing yet another President, Ronald Reagan, become a victim of a would-be assassin's bullet. That day my husband Jim, his press secretary, also became a statistic in America's handgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And the Case Against Them | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Stuart's story gained even more credibility because of the severity of his wound. Though he apparently meant to shoot himself in the foot, he somehow ended up with a bullet in his abdomen. It was hard to imagine that anyone would inflict injuries so severe that he would need two operations, ten days in intensive care and six weeks in the hospital, that he would damage his bowels, gall bladder and liver merely to deflect suspicion from himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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