Word: gunshots
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...homicide rate has doubled and now stands at more than 150 so far this year, spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from 50 in 1989 to 160 so far this year. At Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 30% of spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown...
...crusade extends well beyond Washington, embracing local politicians and pundits and moral authorities across the country. Much of the attention is directed at kids, because gun violence among school-age children is skyrocketing, and because it is easier to form a consensus about the problem. The rate of gunshot wounds in children under 16 doubled in just three years, between 1987 and 1990. A survey about kids and guns by Harvard's School of Public Health yielded some stunning results. One parent in 6 knew a child who was found playing with a gun that was loaded...
...best, however, when he tries to go beyond the gangsta posturings. The most impressive track on the album is a classic story of a near-death experience leading to spiritual insight. In the song Murder Was the Case (Death After Visualizing Eternity), Snoop is gravely wounded by a gunshot but hears an otherworldly voice offering to change his life. "Will I be the G that I was?" Snoop asks. "I'll make your life better than you could imagine or even dream of," the supernatural voice answers. Snoop recovers, showers gifts on his family and tries to turn peaceful...
...vote, the Senate had made it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell handguns to minors or for minors to possess them under most circumstances. Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl, the sponsor of the measure, had the best argument for the ban: "A gunshot is the leading cause of death for both black and white teenage boys in America." Later that night, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to forbid the manufacture, sale and future possession of 19 models of semiautomatic assault weapons and their copycats, including the AK-47 and the Intratec TEC-9, favorites...
...general, soldiers assigned to the countryside found duty more gratifying and less perilous than those who were dumped into the chaos of Mogadishu. When Captain Ted Campagna and his infantry company arrived in the city of Jilib, an average of 60 local people died each day, mostly from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started...