Word: guns
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...will be at the center of the debate, no matter what the justices ultimately decide, we believe that a constitutional protection of an individual right to bear arms is detrimental to the country. Instead, the Second Amendment should be replaced with federal statues designed to tightly regulate gun ownership...
...high level of violence in the United States as compared to other developed countries, if not directly related to the culture of gun ownership and distribution, is at least a strong argument that the Second Amendment is preventing aggressive federal gun regulation. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2005, 68 percent of the 14,860 homicides in the United States were gun-related. Given the pervasiveness of gun violence that occurs in this country every year, this sort of uneven gun control is unacceptable, especially when it comes to handguns. Unlike rifles and shotguns, a handgun has little...
...riots were brief but intense, featuring an unprecedented level of gun violence. And even as the fires died down, the underlying problems continued to boil. In the nation's poorest banlieues, where the residents are mostly black and Arab, jobless rates often near 40%. And Sarkozy has long been known as "the most hated man in the projects"--a reputation he earned before the last rioting, in 2005, when the then Interior Minister used racially charged language to denounce suburban thuggery...
...while playing in a way altogether different from what he is used to. Amaker, a defensive stickler, has always focused on strong play on the defensive end to pace his squad. New Michigan coach John Beilein will run a very differnt team.His strategy, as showcased with his run-and-gun teams at West Virginia, is one that focuses on the three, focuses on scoring, and in a Big Ten conference known for slow, grind-it-out type games, it will be tough for the Wolverines to adjust.The Crimson can only hope this is the case Saturday night...
...long ago, Medellin, not Baghdad, was considered the world's most violent city. Now where gun battles between drug gangs once raged in the Santo Domingo-Savio neighborhood sits a shiny new library: a perfect place to enjoy a book, and an even better place to witness the transformation of a city and of an entire country, Colombia, once known as the global capital of murder, kidnap and cocaine...