Word: gunness
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...already kvetching over her Cambridge cugine, whose early application isn’t due until Nov. 1. “I have a middle son who is going to Harvard to study law,” Victoria told The Toronto Star last month, jumping the not-so-proverbial gun. Asked to clarify, a spokesman for the family told Gadfly that Gotti has squared away his SATs and will formally apply to the College in time to be considered for early action...
...ban’s bizarre and ineffective classification of assault weapons led Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center, a leading gun control advocacy group, to tell NPR this March: “If the existing assault weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t pass...
...shoot a post-ban AR-15 knockoff. (It was a lot of fun, by the way.) If I had decided to go on a shooting rampage—which I did not feel like doing—the federal government’s insistence that the gun lack a bayonet mount would not have hampered me substantially. Indeed, my biggest obstacle would have been the oldest form of gun control: the fact that those around me on the shooting range also had guns with which to defend themselves...
...become a prime target of speculation as a possible source of the memos. A retired National Guard officer, Burkett has spent years telling the media shifting stories about efforts to purge or embellish Bush's military records. In February, Burkett told TIME, "I don't have the smoking gun, but there was an effort to make [Bush] look better than he was." He has posted angry and sometimes reckless statements on liberal blogs. CBS's Howard denies that Burkett was interviewed for the Sept. 8 show but won't comment further...
Consequently, the park was sniffed for bombs, "Muslims Only" was struck from the website, and security at the gate was beefed up. None of that hampered the hybrid entertainment unfolding within. Boardwalk barkers persevered ("Arright, at the sound of the buzzer, you want to press both buttons on the gun") but competed with a bazaar offering stylish Islamic headwear and Koranic commentaries. Standard food concessions were shuttered in favor of ritually correct halal vendors like Shalimar and Kabob King. There was no opposite-sex canoodling, and halter tops and shorts were replaced by a vast array of hijab head scarves...