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...about the rights of hunters. No serious hunter goes after deer with an Uzi or an AK-47; those weapons are not made for picking off an animal in the woods but for blowing people to chopped meat at close-to-medium range, and anyone who needs a banana clip with 30 shells in it to hit a buck should not be hunting at all. These guns have only two uses: you can take them down to the local range and spend a lot of money blasting off 500 rounds an afternoon at silhouette targets of the Ayatullah...
Technology has a way of mocking history. When the framers of the Constitution provided Americans with the right to bear arms, they could hardly have imagined the development of high-powered semiautomatic weapons capable of firing more than 30 rounds in a clip. The slaughter last January of five Stockton, Calif., schoolchildren by a psychopath wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort...
...economic downturn. University of Maryland sociologist Bart Landry, author of The New Black Middle Class, predicts that by the end of the next decade 56.4% of all black workers and 63% of all white workers will be in the middle class -- provided the economy expands at a healthy clip. If it does not, Landry warns, the expansion of the black middle class could come to a sudden halt. Says he: "During periods when the economy is tight, discrimination asserts itself...
After viewing a 1986 film clip of Black students taking over buildings at the University of Michigan, students discussed confrontation and negotiation as means of achieving change in society...
...Look in the mirror and ask yourself," he saysin a film clip taken from a rally. "Is George Bushon your side...