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...politicians seem to be aiming in the wrong direction. As a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes clear, the problem is not toy guns but real guns. Gunshot wounds are now the second leading cause of death among high school-age children in the U.S., and are rising at a faster rate than any other cause, a situation the Journal characterized as a public health epidemic. Yet the Brady gun-control bill, part of the crime package the Bush Administration opposes, is languishing in the U.S. Senate. And what few laws have been...
Preliminary figures show that the epidemic of murder -- fueled by access to cheap, powerful weapons -- spread to other large cities in 1989 and began moving to smaller cities this year. Says Ropp: "We're beginning to see children's homicides and gunshot wounds in places like Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, where we've never seen them before...
Many activists contend that they are on freely circulating "hit lists." Gumercindo Rodrigues, an adviser to Mendes' National Council of Rubber Tappers, is recovering from two gunshot wounds he suffered last September. Gumercindo was shot on a main street in Rio Branco, the Acre state capital. One shot in the back at point-blank range came from a police officer. Press accounts have also implicated Camilo Yunes Junior, a lumber baron, in the shooting. Yunes denies any involvement. No charges have been filed in what the courts have dismissed as a crime of passion because Gumercindo was involved with...
Northeastern University student Shanna Hyman and local residents Gregory P. Pappas and Martin C. Lewis, the victims in the shooting, were treated for gunshot wounds...
Take the Palestinian attack two weeks ago on a bus bound from Jerusalem to the West Bank Jewish settlement of Shiloh. Dov Weiner, 11, was returning home from therapy for a gunshot wound in his shoulder sustained during an October bus attack. In the gunfire on Jan. 14, the boy was hit again, this time in the leg. Later that night, Jewish men drove to the home of Riad Malki, a Palestinian hard-liner, pelted the house with stones, broke several windows and spray-painted Stars of David on all the entrances. Although Malki's house is under Israeli surveillance...