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...mother and fatally shot two classmates with a rifle in October 1997; West Paducah, Ky., where a 14-year-old killed three girls with a .22 semiautomatic Ruger in December 1997; Jonesboro, Ark., where an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old ambushed their school, killing five with handguns and rifles in March; and Edinboro, Pa., where a 14-year-old attacked people at his school dance, killing a science instructor with a .25-cal. handgun in April. In Springfield last Friday, at the Lane County courthouse, 15-year-old Kipland Phillip Kinkel, the son of two schoolteachers, slumped...
...children. Allowing emotionally immature children access to firearms is opening the door to incidents such as the one in Jonesboro as well as suicides and unintentional shootings. I urge all Americans to reconsider the U.S.'s love affair with guns in light of this senseless tragedy. SARAH BRADY, Chair Handgun Control, Inc. Washington
Like sardines in mustard sauce, Harlan's accent has a taste whose enjoyment requires some concerted cultivation. At first whiff, the quirks of her character are so sharp as to be repulsive. Her prattling naivete as subtly disturbing as a toddler playing with a loaded handgun, Harlan gabs about everything from slavery to the aesthetic of rock-star fashion with the same maddening equanimity, made worse by her mingling of each topic's catch-phrases with the provincialism of her exaggerated Southern accent...
...manufacturers and many law officers argue that stun guns actually prevent worse abuse by police. Without a shock weapon, a cop is left with the choice of clubbing a dangerous criminal with a nightstick or shooting him with a handgun, which can cause more severe injuries. Indeed, law agencies in the U.S. have used stun guns thousands of times, and there have been relatively few documented cases of serious injuries. "These devices don't kill people," insists Nova's president, John McDermit. Rick Smith, Air Taser's president, has launched a publicity campaign to rebut Amnesty's charges. In restricting...
Critics of CAP laws say they are open to too much prosecutorial discretion and interfere with the way parents maintain control over their households, adding more grief, for example, after accidental fatal firings. Joe Sudbay, director of state legislation at Handgun Control Inc. in Washington, says that's nonsense: "The whole point of these laws is not to punish. The point is to prevent." Do they? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last October, unintentional deaths dropped 23% among children younger than 15 years old in the years covered by CAP laws...