Word: guns
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...Gun when I was in eighth grade," says Marine Sgt. Rob Sarra, "and I knew what I wanted to do, I knew what I wanted to be. And then I saw a Marine when I was in high school. And I was like, that?s it! They?re mean, they?re tough, they got cool uniforms and chicks dig ?em." Sarra then recalls his interview with a recruiting officer. "?Here?s the big book of all the opportunities you have in the Marine Corps. What do you want to do?? Pushes it across the desk at me. I looked...
...Prudent but, as The Ground Truth shows, imprecise. You are told about a woman who put a hand inside her cloak to pull something out and, with a split second to decide whether she?s friend or foe, gun her down - noticing too late that what she reached for was a red flag. Or you see a car approach. Chad Reiber, an Army ranger, says: "I engaged a vehicle with a 50-caliber machine gun and blew it up. It was a pretty big explosion. I learned they had gasoline and a checkpoint book. I remember laughing after I blew...
...champagne-spraying, horn-honking bash that continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: berlin is berlin again. Beijing June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have...
...West to the same degree as the state of Israel is supported; if we stopped demonizing Iran and Syria; if we opened a meaningful and respectful dialogue with the states of the Middle East; if we stopped supporting corrupt Arab regimes; if Britain and America stopped their gun-running activities; and if Muslim leaders in Britain were making it sufficiently clear in the public forum that the taking of any human life is evil. Jim McCluskey Twickenham, England Anyone with even a casual interest in current affairs could see what was coming years ago, given the British government's attitude...
...questions of access to automatic weapons and tighter gun control were raised in 1989. Those questions will most definitely be raised again...