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...crime-and the story's end proved deadlier than its beginning. Jacob D. Robida, 18, had become a fugitive just 40 hours earlier in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had entered the Puzzles Lounge and, after confirming that it was a gay bar, shot two men with a handgun and wounded a third with a hatchet. Authorities searched Robida's home and found neo-Nazi pamphlets and other hate literature aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. But the teenager was already speeding away in a green Pontiac, heading south and then west...
...make out what the words were," Beshears told TIME. But shortly after that he heard five or six shots. "It was crack-crack, then crack-crack-crack-crack," he says. His Air Force training and experience as a hunter led him to believe it was a .9 mm-caliber handgun. "It didn't take a second for me to realize it was gunfire...
...were of Lebanese background and aged between 20 and 31. In most cases the suspects were seized as they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar...
...front of dozens of bystanders was cold-blooded enough, but the hit man's next move was even more chilling. As Fortugno, a leading politician in Italy's deep-south region of Calabria, crumpled to the floor with five bullets in his torso, the masked attacker lowered his handgun and strolled calmly through the exit of the local polling station to a waiting car. The bleeding 54-year-old former physician and father of two, who had just voted in Italy's center-left coalition primary, died minutes later at the same Locri hospital where he had once worked...
...Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves), who wrote the film, and his protégé Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration), who directed. Set in a nameless U.S. town, the movie is framed as a letter written by a pensive idealist named Dick (Jamie Bell) to the love of his life--a handgun. Dick, who abhors violence but is fascinated by the workings and personalities of firearms, has gathered a few like-minded loners into a group of "pacifists with guns." This heavy-artillery youth club, situated in a mine shaft, has all manner of arcane rules, including that the weapons must never...