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...prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...
...from the beginning, they spent 11 months investigating and traveled to 20 states across the U.S. to avoid being accused of failing to examine other potential suspects, as happened to the O.J. prosecutors. Los Angeles police say they have recovered the murder weapon, a World War II-era German handgun found in a trash can close to the murder scene. Last week L.A.P.D. Captain Jim Tatreau said flatly that "Robert Blake shot Bonny Bakley." Police believe the motive was Blake's unhappiness with his marriage...
...week after the three-year anniversary of the rampage at Columbine High School, a similar horror played out in Germany. A 19-year-old, recently expelled from Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, returned to the scene of his humiliation armed with a pump-action shotgun and a handgun, killing 17 people, including 14 teachers, two students and a police officer. He then shot and killed himself...
...that’s before she dons a bullet-proof vest and the uniform of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), and straps on her gun belt, filled with a baton, two-way radio, pepper spray, handcuffs and a nine millimeter Glock 22 handgun...
Wanting to ensure that the easy success of my first caper was not a fluke, I decided to try and steal something else. This time, with a gun. Unfortunately, there is some sort of waiting period for purchasing a handgun. After explaining the pressures of my column deadline to Winthrop Vanderbilt, the proprietor of the Cambridge Shooting Shoppe, he suggested that I consider using illegal fireworks instead of guns. It wasn’t ideal, but I bought $700 worth...