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With tens of thousands of civilians armed to their caps or babushkas, the citizenry had turned into the proverbial mob with many heads but no brains. Hospitals have treated gunshot wounds day and night. Many people retreated from the streets altogether, but a housewife washing dishes in the city of Elbasan was reportedly killed by random gunfire...
DIED. LAURENCE AUSTIN, 70ish, silent-film devotee; of gunshot wounds inflicted during a holdup in his theater; in Los Angeles. The son of pre-talkie actor William Austin, he owned the only theater in Los Angeles that played films made in the era before sound...
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...