Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy of choice at the moment is the default strategy of politics: expediency. Both the Republicans and the Democrats have decided to play up morality by introducing relatively narrow pieces of legislation, such as bills pertaining to school choice, vouchers and gun safety. There is good sense in this strategy, since more contentious bills--like a sweeping anti-abortion bill on the part of the Republicans--have failed for their ambition. Of course, the people may not want good sense or politics-as-usual. To the lawmakers' chagrin, these narrower issues have not managed to excite the public...
...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...
...there be to share? All indications are that little, if any, has turned up for months. In the TIME interview, Hunter threw out tantalizing hints about an important test to be done on unspecified material found in the Ramsey house. But he conceded that it is "not a smoking-gun test" and added that "we've got lots of work yet to do"--implying it may be months, if ever, before he brings charges against anyone...
...interview was under way, other FBI agents conducted the search and brought the results back to the interrogators. Bags of ammonium nitrate--the fertilizer used to make the bomb--were found in Nichols' home. Confronted with this, Nichols said he planned to sell the ammonium nitrate at gun shows in small quantities. Asked why he hadn't mentioned it earlier, he said it was because "it would make me look guilty to a jury...
...year is still a fair carnage. Moreover, the really compelling comparison is this: alcohol is far more deadly than tobacco to innocent bystanders. In a free society, should we not consider behavior that injures others more worthy of regulation than behavior that merely injures oneself? The primary motive for gun control, after all, is concern about homicide, not suicide...