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...Negotiating peace in Yemen can be lethal. Since 1997, when Marwani founded his non-profit organization to work against gun violence and revenge killing, 15 of his volunteers have been killed - most of them caught in the crossfire of tribal battles. Government officials estimate that there are around 60 million guns in the region - three for every person. "A poor man will save on food, just to buy a gun," says Marwani. "A man in Yemen without arms has no value...
...date - and preaching tolerance and reconciliation. The organization runs training camps for tribal leaders and offers internships to the sons of tribal sheiks, hoping to create a more peaceful mind-set in these future leaders. To bolster the point, the organization's office is decked with bloody photos of gun victims. Using funding from Yemen's banking and telecom sectors, and grants from Western governments as well as its own, the Dar al-Salaam sends theater groups and poets to enlighten tribes and schools. It also runs awareness campaigns, emblazoning water bottles and street signs with an anti-gun logo...
...Gun dealer Glen Parshall feels government should do little more than "protect the country's territory." The Constitution defines a much broader role for government, including the protection of our freedoms of speech, religion and assembly. I am sure Parshall understands that, absent that seminal document, which is the foundation of our government, our country might have become a dictatorship - a form of government I'm certain he would find more odious than our constitutional republic seems to be to so many Libertarians. Gary Nelson, Martinsburg, Pennsylvania
Thank you, Nathan Thornburgh, for drawing attention to a group of Americans who will play an important role in the presidential election, "The (Not So) Lunatic Fringe" [July 21]. Not all of them are libertarians, however, and many have little in common with rural gun lovers. As you point out, the central goal of libertarianism is freedom. There is a group of Americans who support free markets and social freedom but do not necessarily consider themselves libertarian. We are educated urban dwellers--Bobos even. As a member of this group, I find neither Obama nor McCain appealing. When are politicians...
Jeffs probably thought history protected him. Texas was probably gun-shy after the 1993 Branch Davidian conflagration near Waco. There was also one legal precedent that gave the FLDS comfort: the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, that struck down the Texas sodomy law, closing the doors on the bedroom. The decision was hailed by gay activists as a landmark, but it also apparently heartened Jeffs. (It was soon cited by defense attorneys in their plans to appeal the 2003 conviction of a Utah man found guilty of underage sex and bigamy.) Says Mankin: "They thought...