Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supplement style, exaggerations and errors. It is obviously not true that "guns are made only to put a bullet through a living body, in order to kill." Most ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner controls to keep arms out of irresponsible hands...
...rioters turned to guns. Snipers shot at police and firemen, wounding half a dozen. At the intersection of Lake and Wood Streets, 100 policemen armed with rifles traded shots with a dozen assailants in and around an apart ment project for an hour. Like guerrillas, most of the gunmen disappeared into the night after being surrounded...
...violence missing from the first, expurgated movie version of Harold Robbins' bestseller. Turning a thankless bit part created by the late Alan Ladd into a title role for Steve McQueen, Nevada follows a half-breed boy on an odyssey of vengeance in pursuit of three professional gunmen who murdered his white father, raped and skinned his Indian mother...
...prevented opposition candidates from running, even reversed local vote counts to give his party a lopsided victory despite a hostile electorate. A wave of violence immediately broke out, and the wave became a flood. Political riots and assassinations have taken more than 150 lives in the past three months. Gunmen of the opposition Action Group ranged the roads, stopping cars and trucks and demanding money for the party. Police, unable to control them, warned motorists to stay off the roads, and truck drivers demanded hazard...
...were an ex-con, a bartender, and a box-factory worker. No one could tell why the ex-con or the bartender had been killed. But John B. O'Neil, 26, a Navy veteran and father of four, was innocently sipping a beer at the bar when two gunmen entered and cut down the bartender. As a memento, they also pumped five shots into O'Neil...