Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When John Warnock Hinckley Jr., a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo., allegedly shot Reagan and three others on March 30, the debate over handgun control resumed full-force. Former Sen. John Culver '54 (D-lowa), a liberal who lost his bid for re-election last November and who was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that...
...defeatist attitude about the idea of a national gun control law. We hear the well-known statistics proving that the strong gun control laws of New York State and the District of Columbia do not work. Of course not, when there is no nationwide restriction that prevents a John Hinckley from buying a handgun in another state and bringing it into Washington...
...assured the reporters that he was feeling a little better each day. Joked Reagan: "I don't think I'm going to hurdle any tables here in the room for a while, but really, the recovery is astonishing to me." As for would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr., who last week was taken from a federal prison in Butner, N.C., to Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, for four hours of medical tests, Reagan said: "He seems to be a very disturbed young man. I hope he'll get well...
...Washington, D.C., police force. When his canine patrol partner, a German shepherd named Kirk, became ill last week, Delahanty was a natural choice for the Hilton assignment. The trio's diverse paths led them, for two tragic seconds last week, into the line of fire between John Hinckley's revolver and the man he allegedly intended to assassinate...
...wound seemed minor: a temporary loss of sensation on the inside of his left forearm, excessive sweating of the palm and erection of the hairs on his arm. In fact, doctors saw no reason even to remove the bullet from his neck ? until it was discovered that Hinckley had used explosive bullets...