Word: guns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Syndicated Columnist Carl T. Rowan has been an advocate of strict gun control. But when roused from sleep last week by what he believed was an intruder at the bedroom window of his Washington home, Rowan forgot his own counsel. After calling the police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser...
Last year Smith's niece heard two men talking about him in her office. One said Smith "should be stopped." The other asked the first what he would do if he suddenly met Smith. "I'd take out my gun and shoot him," the first man said. "And they are Christians," Smith observes wryly after recounting this story. "Do you know that 78% of the people in this country are Christians...
...editorial piece, Rowan wrote that he kept the gun so that he would not be defenseless, "naked to the druggies and crooks out there." Yet he ended up using it on some half-naked youth who was guilty of no more than trespassing and could have easily been dragged away, along with his female companion, by the cops...
...gun not been there, Rowan would be the first witness for the prosecution in a misdemeanor court. Instead he now faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and up to 10 years' imprisonment. Had he killed or permanently disabled the teenager, Rowan would obviously be facing far more serious charges, and the NRA would be a lot less enthusiastic in twisting the incident to fit its own absurd propaganda...
...gun not been there, Rowan's reputation as an insightful and eloquent commentator would not be so suddenly called into question...