Word: gunshot
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DIED. CORDELL HULL REAGON, 53, civil rights leader and founding member of the 1960s Freedom Singers; of a gunshot wound; in Berkeley, California...
...hung out on Clinton's private putting green. Hillary wandered over and joined the conversation. "Shouldn't we do some testimonials to talk about the President's character?" she wondered. Penn liked the idea and suggested using emotionally charged "witnesses"--people like James Brady, the gunshot survivor whose walk across the stage at the Democratic National Convention had been one of the event's few moving moments. A spot in which Brady defended the President's character--"I say, look what he's done"--went up Oct. 17. After that, Knapp wrote an even more highly charged testimonial, one from...
...written in 1791, when our fledgling republic still had no regular army or stable government and was desperately afraid of losing its newly-found freedom to a foreign power. Today, we have a well-regulated militia--the U.S. armed forces--a stable government and hundreds of kids dying from gunshot wounds. Yet the gun lobby is desperate to carry the second amendment to the absurdity of letting any schmoe with a driver's license walk into a Wal-Mart and emerge with an assault rifle or handgun...
...stint. In the Administration's first few months, Foster seemed increasingly beaten down by controversies, especially the White House's inept handling of the staff firings in the travel office. On the afternoon of July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, dead from a gunshot wound...
...children will be arrested today for committing a violent crime; 9 of these arrests will be for murder. Today in America, according to the Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, one out of every four teenage deaths will be attributed to a firearm; more teenage boys will die from gunshot wounds than from all natural causes combined. Children in America are exposed to a tremendous amount of violence--in their homes, schools, communities, and through the media...