Word: guns
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...surrounding Victoria Snelgrove’s horrible death. Instead of trying to be proactive and control the crowd by employing undercover officers and a universal police presence, the Boston Police sat back in riot gear and waited for things to get out of control before using a dangerous projectile gun by officers that may have been untrained to use one. In response, Menino blamed alcohol and tried to take the paternalistic response of cutting off drinking altogether...
Kerry may still remain vulnerable to a wedge attack that can convince swing voters that he doesn't share their values. But the TIME poll shows that voters now find themselves closer to Kerry on stem-cell research, abortion, gay rights and gun control. That means the Bush campaign may not have done enough to convince voters that Kerry is an out-of-touch lefty on those issues. Of course, if the Republicans can do so in the next two weeks, 2004 could still look like 1988 after all. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston and Elaine Shannon/Washington...
...lead humvee. They have driven into an ambush. As Ryan steers through the smoke, red tracers streak through the air and bounce along the ground. RPGs fly from both sides of the road, and AK-47 fire crackles. Rapicault's gunner returns fire with the mounted .50-cal. machine gun; his counterparts in other vehicles do likewise. The convoy U-turns en masse, back to Michigan, then back to sanctuary in the government center. No one is injured. One humvee has a flat tire, and another has been hit with two RPGS, which were deflected by the armor. A Marine...
...right on in," says Captain Brian Chontosh, who heads the infantrymen of India Company. But they are protected. The deep percussion of artillery impacting the target area booms through the night, sending a huge black cloud into the sky. Aerial surveillance spots a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun moving in from the west. From above comes a deep rumbling sound. "Basher took it out," says a radio operator in Chontosh's carrier. Insurgents seen trying to set up a mortar position are killed with a TOW missile fired by another company. Around midnight, as the convoy approaches...
...turn the music back to Annie Get Your Gun, the Ethel Merman original score—of course—and belt out the words to “You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun...