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Before they fired their last two shots into their own heads, the killers fired off an estimated 900 rounds, using two sawed-off shotguns, a 9-mm semiautomatic carbine and a TEC-DC 9 semiautomatic handgun. And as the smoke cleared, police discovered more than 30 bombs in all: several pipe bombs in the school and others outside in cars in the parking lot, an arsenal so large that suspicions immediately arose about whether Harris and Klebold could possibly have acted alone...
...anti-gun forces took some energy from public outrage over the shootings. California's assembly approved a bill designed to limit handgun sales. The gun lobby in Colorado had been expecting to get passage of three bills (to loosen restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, to ban local lawsuits against manufacturers and to pre-empt local ordinances on firearms). State legislators quickly withdrew two of them, and Governor Bill Owens promised to veto the third. Earlier in April, Missouri voters defeated a referendum to lift a constitutional ban on concealed weapons. So far this year, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska have...
...staff writes that "handguns have no place in American society". Clearly, this is hyperbolic. Law-abiding adults interested in self-defense might surely make legitimate use of a handgun...
...undeniably more complicated. He has a wife and baby he cares deeply about. He holds down two jobs as a clothing-store guard. He struggles to control mood swings and violent urges. When not wowing Century with gang-war stories and introducing him to a .50-cal. handgun known as the Desert Eagle, he alternates between sounding like a fatalist and a self-help guru. "Think negative, dwell on the negative, and somethin' negative is surely gonna happen," he tells his compliant Boswell...
What worries me most is the families you profiled in your millennium-bug cover. One has two rifles, a shotgun and a handgun. Another is buying rolls of toilet paper in Arkansas. While these people are shooting it out over the last piece of toilet tissue on New Year's Day, my family and I will be comfortably watching the Rose Bowl parade with all of our electric appliances working just fine. DOUGLAS A. HIKADE Mount Laurel...