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...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...

Author: By --david H. Goldbrenner, | Title: KEEP THOSE KIDS ARMED | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Push For Stricter Gun Control Laws | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Eric D. Dawson, | Title: Saving America's Children | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...around I a.m. Wednesday morning, several students saw something quite different: a drunk man waving a loaded Colt .45 handgun...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Disarm Man With Gun at Pennypacker | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

...Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans in the head with a small-caliber handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. Next, Ward and Caffey went into the bedroom of Evans' daughter Samantha, and stabbed the 10-year-old to death. The wounds on Samantha's forearms suggest that she died trying to defend herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPED FROM THE WOMB | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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