Word: gunness
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...guess, I would say she will not serve the full 15 years, but it would be a while before she was released. Nobody found her carrying a gun; she wasn't guilty of killing anybody. It would not be impossible for her to be released early...
...prisoners may grieve for lost opportunities and freedom, but where are the grief and remorse for the pain they caused their unsuspecting victims and their families?" In the faraway Maldives, a reader was more than content to keep his distance from our killer kids: "Please don't spread this gun disease. We don't care what is happening in the darkness of American jails...
...reach out," said a senior Administration official. At least for now, relations seem to have been smoothed, and talk of McCain's possibly bolting the Republican Party has died down. But the new detente will face immediate tests. McCain opposes Bush on a patient's bill of rights, gun control and government spending, issues likely to come up soon. Which means the White House chefs had better be on full alert...
...disintegrating confidence that it is immune from the kind of senseless violence it associates with the U.S. It was the worst mass killing of schoolchildren in Japan's history, but only the latest in a series of brutal crimes where a knife is often the weapon of choice (gun ownership is outlawed). "Schools were always regarded as sacred zones, but not anymore," says Yo Yoshino, who lives near the Ikeda school and tutored some of its pupils at an independent "cram" school...
...wounded or dead relatives, including the King, and fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent over her injured husband. The final time, he left and returned to pump bullets into those he had already shot. Then Dipendra turned his gun toward Paras. His cousin shouted, "Nai, Dai! Nai Dai! (No, Brother! No, Brother!)" He didn't fire. The bodies of his mother and brother Nirajan were found outside in the garden. None of the witnesses saw their or Dipendra's own demise. Maheshwar heard the sound of a gun, perhaps...