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Extra bottled water 31% 69% Extra food supplies 30% 70% Vaccines for anthrax or smallpox, if available 25% 74% A gun or rifle 22% 77% An electric generator 18% 81% A gas mask...
...used to the martial atmosphere. Like Americans, Israelis own lots of guns, and they pack them more openly. Israel may be the only country where, unless you look like a Palestinian, you can enter a bank with a machine gun. In Israeli cities, soldiers are everywhere. In recent weeks, New Yorkers were astonished to see F-16s flying overhead. In Israel, warplanes are no more unusual in the sky than hawks. Police cars in Israel keep their blue lights flashing at all times as a deterrent to would-be attackers. When I first arrived, it unnerved me. Soon...
...last week to find people--even rescue workers at Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve and despair; the lines between prudence and paranoia blur. A three-year-old boy in Spotsylvania, Va., fatally shot himself with the gun his father had just brought home to protect his family...
...Cambridge resident contacted Cambridge Police Department (CPD) to report being held up at gunpoint. On the way to work, the resident was stopped by a black male who waved a gun and said that he wanted “his stuff.” The suspect then fled...
...there may be a kind of reassuring not-in-my-backyard quality to this fear - 62 percent of respondents believed their town or city would not be a target, and the percentage who have "considered" purchasing disaster-related items - a gas mask, a gun, an anthrax or smallpox vaccine - did not top the 31 percent who had considered stocking up on bottled water. Sixty percent said life in their community had returned to normal since the attacks, yet 58 percent said the country was in deep and serious trouble - the highest percentage since...