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...from 1975 to 1990, California had a higher murder rate than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, tough gun control laws in New York City and Washington, D.C. have done little to reduce violent crime. Gun control has never been shown to significantly reduce crime, but it does disarm law-abiding citizens...
...first half of the action is dominated by Lois Smith as the family's beleaguered matriarch, a woman whose rambling talk can disarm a felon through sheer boredom. The second half is dominated by Pippa Pearthree as the most successful of the clan's three adult daughters, a lesbian lawyer with a taste for vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain...
Since 1988 the U.N. has launched 14 peacekeeping operations -- compared with just 13 in the previous 40 years. The latest such venture will send 7,500 peacekeepers to Mozambique to monitor the cease-fire in a 16-year civil war, disarm the fighting factions and organize elections...
Nonetheless, a campaign to disarm Somalis could create hostility. "If we were obliged to go on a house-to-house search -- which we wouldn't do anyway," said Oakley, "the Somalis would see it as rank colonialism." Still some Somali leaders discount a major backlash because, they say, the people are sick and tired of the violence...
Only an "outside authority" can disarm Somalia, says 56-year-old Ahmed Jama, a former Somali national police chief. "We are unable -- or unwilling -- to disarm ourselves. The best authority, which has the goodwill of the Somali people, is the American soldiers." He thinks it would take four to six months for "total disarmament." If the U.S. proves unwilling to undertake this part of its mission, then the result will be like the end of the Gulf War -- a job half done...