Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restated his support of stringent gun-control laws, including registration of weapons and licensing of owners. Nixon opposes federally mandated registration and licensing...
...first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...
...surprisingly, police get tough with Panthers. In April, the group's 17-year-old treasurer was shot dead by Oakland police after a gun battle. In August, three other members were killed in a shooting match with Los Angeles police. Shortly after Newton was convicted, two Oakland policemen drove a patrol car past the Panthers' local headquarters and riddled the front window with bullets. The men, on duty but obviously drunk, were immediately suspended from the force and charged with a felony...
...boxes of rifle cartridges. What was all the ammunition for? the clerk asked. "To shoot some pigs," Whitman answered calmly. In all its chilling banality, that scene is faithfully reproduced in this lightly fictionalized saga of a mass murderer. Self-consciously billed as the answer to the question "Why Gun Control?", Targets eventually falls victim to artistic overkill...
...movie, Charles Whitman is Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly), a clean-cut gun-toting Boy Next Door who mutters his frustrations in asides such as, "You think I can't do any thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror...