Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking the gun out of Irish politics is harder than it seems. Speaking out for the first time since the Good Friday peace deal, the IRA has rejected demands to scrap its massive stockpile of weaponry. And although the seven-member Army Council wrote in their weekly newspaper Republican News that the accord was a ?significant development,? they added that it ?clearly falls short of presenting a solid basis for a lasting settlement...
...your story, a seventh-grader in Jonesboro said, "Everybody at Westside [school] knows how to shoot a gun." I'm sorry, but someone who doesn't understand the difference between shooting a deer and shooting a human being over a rebuff does not know how to use a gun. Until the N.R.A. is ready to take on the responsibility of making sure every gun user thoroughly understands this major distinction, the gun lobbyists should shut up and let the U.S. have some decent gun laws. It is just too, too easy for irresponsible people to get hold of the means...
...school of which I am principal to have its first postwinter fire drill. I pulled the alarm, and the students quickly and quietly filed out. One student stopped me cold with a sincere question: "Did anyone go out to check to see if there was somebody with a gun out there before you pulled the alarm?" I will never conduct a fire drill again without remembering Jonesboro. JIM ROBSON Kincaid, Sask...
...surprising that the U.S. government refuses to ban weapons. In India our forefathers would not allow a child even to pick up a toy knife or gun in a shop or play cops and robbers. The idea was that seeds of violence should never enter a child's mind. KRISHNA RAMAN Chennai, India...
...gun lobby's familiar refrain that guns don't kill people, people kill people is transparent sophistry. In fact, people with guns regularly kill people. Without guns, it would have been impossible for two children to kill and injure so many people in Jonesboro. MAHMOOD ELAHI Ottawa...