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...year after the deadliest shooting in America, when a sad and angry English major killed 32 people and himself at the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, only modest changes have been made to the country's gun control laws. These days it appears that the most lasting effect of mass-casualty shootings is to harden people's pre-existing opinions on emotionally loaded issues like gun control and privacy rights...
...thriller “Bullet in the Brain” and sorely disappoints, precisely because it doesn’t have the subtle simplicity of the other. The latter is rhythmic and nuanced, focusing on the main character’s queer sense of humor rather than the gun-pulling action. In contrast, the new story is stuffed into kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly...
That mood eventually settled on Heston. In the '60s he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and after Robert Kennedy's death, he called for gun control. But like many young liberals, he aged into conservatism. In the '80s he became a prime spokesman for right-wing causes and in 1998 the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). At the 2000 NRA convention, he invoked his own Moses, hoisting a rifle above his head and proclaiming that presidential candidate Al Gore could remove the gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands...
...notable conservative who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., he would later serve as the president of the National Rifle Association. Before the onset of the Alzheimer’s that claimed his life, Heston was often just a punch line for jokes about Soylent Green and gun nuts, but in truth he was a lot more than that...
...passenger plane from Urumqi to Beijing, one that was to have been carried out by a 19-year old ethnic Uighur woman "terrorist." The first two months of the year did not pass peacefully either. In January, police destroyed a terrorist camp in Xinjiang, "killing 18 terrorists in a gun battle and seizing 17," according to the official Xinhua News Agency. In February, two members of a "terrorist gang" were shot dead, and 15 arrested during a police raid in Urumqi city...