Word: handgun
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...ills are nevertheless becoming more acute. The use of amphetamines and marijuana is growing, as is the fear of crime. In the past, only members of the Mafia, or yakuza, carried guns, and for the most part they killed only other yakuza. But last year there were several brutal handgun murders that did not involve mobsters. Three female employees at a supermarket, for example, were shot in the head in a Tokyo holdup. An advisory board to the National Police Agency last year endorsed the hiring of tens of thousands of additional police because Japan "is proceeding down the path...
...have guns. Here, in fact, lies the solution to our problems. Instead of taking guns away from our nation's children, we should arm them. Yup, no big bad gangster is come after little Billy with a gun if he knows the tyke is sporting his own firepower. Mandatory handgun training should be added to our elementary schools' curricula. Peace through superior firepower. It won the cold war, you know...
...avoid the disastrous misuse of guns is a duty of government and of every sensible citizen." Guns are relatively rare in Britain where there are about 400,000 privately owned firearms among a population of 58 million. In contrast, estimates in the United States put the figure at one handgun per person...
...epidemic of violence in America attacks the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society. Today in America, thousands of children will watch as 5,760 women will be beaten. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 children will be shot and killed by a handgun and 100,000 handguns will enter the 35,000 U.S. public schools. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 312 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...
...around I a.m. Wednesday morning, several students saw something quite different: a drunk man waving a loaded Colt .45 handgun...