Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone knows that late 20th century America, where no-parent households, Marilyn Manson and the National Rifle Association all converge, is not for the faint of heart. But how did it become a place where kids gun down other kids...
...that remains is for their world to be bristling with real firearms, which it often is. In a nation in which a third of all households have at least one gun, even an 11-year-old like Andrew Golden, the younger boy accused in Jonesboro, knows where to get one. Jonesboro is hunting country, so people there bridle at any suggestion that the simple availability of guns, especially long guns, had anything to do with the killings. But child-development experts say that for kids who never develop an internal brake on their own aggression, the pop-pop culture...
...hunt and kill. Captivated by effects that are ever more graphic, game boys learn to associate gusts of "blood" with the primal gratifications of scoring. In Golden Eye, a big seller, the player spends nearly all his time drawing a bead on his victims down the barrel of a gun...
...victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner becomes unruly, a guard pushes a button on a transmitter...
...meantime, Clinton's presidential alter ego is making a very conspicuous bid to get back to work. He kicked off five days of policy pronouncements Monday with an executive order on gun control. "The atmosphere at the White House is very different," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, who toured with the Clintons in Africa. "They feel they can go out and remind people what he used to do before the scandals started." That's just what Paula Jones was trying...