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...help that C-Murder (P's brother Corey Miller) was arrested in March after speeding, carrying a pistol in his waistband and wearing body armor (he later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally carrying a firearm) or that in June, P's bodyguard was briefly detained for failing to check two semiautomatic pistols before boarding a commercial flight...
...fail us? Gun-rights supporters rightly point out that one of the charges against Buford Furrow was illegal possession of a firearm. Illegal, signifying that enforcement, not legislation, is the answer to keeping the rage of the crazies impotent. The police? At his press conference Wednesday, L.A. police Chief Bernard Parks resisted all his political urges and declared that martial law was not coming to the City of Angels. The "community" of Los Angeles, he hoped, would find a way to heal without a cop on every corner. The courts? Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding...
...claim otherwise tend to cite America's enduring love affair with guns, but there never was one. The image of shoot-'em-up America was mainly the invention of gunmaker Samuel Colt, who managed to convince a malleable 19th century public that no household was complete without a firearm--"an armed society is a peaceful society." This ludicrous aphorism, says historian Michael Bellesiles of Emory University, turned 200 years of Western tradition on its ear. Until 1850, fewer than 10% of U.S. citizens had guns. Only 15% of violent deaths between 1800 and 1845 were caused by guns. Reputedly wide...
HSPH researchers published a study in this month's Journal of American College Health showing that 3.5 of undergraduates surveyed own handguns at school. Students who drink heavily are more likely to keep a firearm in their dorm room, the study said...
HSPH researchers published a study in this month's Journal of American College Health showing that 3.5 of undergraduates surveyed own handguns at school. Students who drink heavily are more likely to keep a firearm in their dorm room, the study said...