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...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...
...prey: an average of four a day are killed. The most shocking attack came around midnight two weeks ago in Rio. Five men opened fire on a group of 50 sleeping children, killing three, ages 11, 14 and 17, on the spot. Two more died in the hospital from gunshot wounds to the head. Two other boys were dragged into a car and shot, their bodies dumped a mile away. An eighth boy died five days later, never waking from a coma...
...streets for one more night. "The hour is getting late, and our children need us," says John Foster, a vice president of the city employees union, who founded the group four years ago after his son was badly beaten. The prayer is interrupted by the sound of a gunshot, followed shortly by the wail of an ambulance. Foster shakes his head. "It's becoming so common," he says. "Some of our young people are turning into cold-blooded killers...
...weeks later, as Foster patrols the largely black, working-class neighborhoods in north Omaha, a gunshot crackles through the air. Foster turns the corner. A mother and three children run toward his car. "Some kids are shooting at people just down the street there," says the woman, pointing nervously. Foster circles the block, slowing as he approaches a pack of kids mingling in front of a house. "We were just having a party, a birthday party," says one, "when these guys drive by and start shooting at us." Twenty minutes later and only blocks away, Foster comes upon a teenage...