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...While the world can sympathize with the bereaved in the Virginia Tech killings, there seems little point in the American people getting too upset about them. Such killings are merely a form of blood tax that has to be paid for the imagined privilege of gun ownership. Paul Eastaugh, reading, england...
...skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will sit and drink Scotch after Scotch with disconcerting ease and tell of a bluesman's life-of scrapes with jealous musicians wanting to cut his fingers off, and of playing to audiences of gun-toting triads in Kuala Lumpur nightclubs. And like so many who have flirted with the devil, he is a product of the church...
...that often landed in court. In 2000 a teacher at Northwest School in Leominster, Mass., kicked Michael Demers, 15, out of class for talking. Another teacher asked Demers how he felt about the ejection, and Demers drew two pictures: one of explosives surrounding the school and another of a gun pointed at the superintendent's head. The principal did nothing until the next day, when Demers wrote on a paper "I want to die" and "I hate life." School officials recommended a visit to a psychiatrist, but Demers refused, so they suspended him for the rest of the school year...
...While the world can sympathize with the bereaved in the Virginia Tech killings, there seems little point in the American people getting too upset about them. Such killings are merely a form of blood tax that has to be paid for the imagined privilege of gun ownership. Paul Eastaugh, READING, ENGLAND...
...Still, there is no reason to believe that the gun dealers who sold Virginia tech shooter Seung Hui Cho the two handguns he used in the killings were in violation of any existing law. But congressman Mike Castle (R-Del.), a moderate Republican who penned the now-lapsed Assault Weapons Ban, thinks that making sure existing laws are enforced may be the most gun-control advocates can hope for in the current political environment. After the Virginia Tech shootings, even the Democrats that now control Congress didn't seem to have much stomach for a gun-control debate that many...