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...drastic need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels for national-security, environmental and basic supply-and-demand reasons. The physical and educational infrastructures of the country are badly outdated. In order to have an election about those big challenges, we need to shove some serious social issues - like gun control and, yes, even abortion - and phony character issues to the periphery. But Obama is going about it the wrong way. "After 14 long months," he said in his concession speech, "it's easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit for tat that consumes...
Rubinger, now aged 83, is on his seventh Leica and still snapping away. Apart from a period during the war of independence in 1948, when he put aside his camera for a gun, he has photographed Israel's tumultuous ups and downs; its wars and (all too brief) stretches of peace; its immigrants, soldiers and settlers...
...QinetiQ. For those who want to send out a stronger deterrent message, there's the "Protector," a 30-foot unmanned surface vessel developed by BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and an Israeli defence firm. In its military configuration, the Protector is equipped with a 7.62mm remote-controlled machine gun, enough to give most pirates pause. It could be used for commercial protection to investigate and intercept boats up to 10 miles away...
Despite their seeming frequency in recent years, shooting rampages on college campus do not occur on a regular or daily basis. What does occur on a daily basis is the interaction between students and faculty. Bringing guns into this equation is unwise in the extreme. Fear of random attack from a single deranged student is one thing, and a dormitory full of potential gun-owners is entirely another. The knowledge that a disturbed classmate or a creepy professor may have a gun in his or her desk would completely contort relationships—everything would be tinged with a faint...
...addition, the unique nature of a college community, with its intimate campus and close living quarters, make gun ownership additionally complicated. Such proximity implicates not only the gun owners, but also their roommates, neighbors, and friends by possessing a firearm. While a gun owner might be a completely responsible, law-abiding citizen, those around him may not share the same moderation or restraint, and the lack of a secure, safe space on campus results in a potential risk to all. Having a weapon on campus is a social contract with those who share living space—without the consent...