Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.R.A. points out that autos kill three times as many Americans as guns each year, and asks archly: "Why not ban them?" (One reply: Autos are registered. Why not guns?) N.R.A. officials also cite a study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...guns were to be registered, the anticontrol fraternity maintains, so should knives, golf clubs, axes, beer bottles and every other implement occasionally used to kill. (Guns & Ammo facetiously suggests registering the genitals of all American males, since there are so many rapes in the U.S.) Still, nothing else can translate a fleeting murderous impulse into action more efficiently or finally than a gun. There is no need for contact, none of the effort required to stab or bludgeon a human being...
That solution is probably far too drastic. Some 20 million Americans are hunters, and though accidents kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
Even the Bedouins. Gun controls obviously cannot stop crime or wanton killing, and no one claims that they can. Laws can be circumvented. At the 1957 Apalachin "crime convention," twelve of the 35 New York residents collared by police were "clean" under the provisions of the state's tough Sullivan law?they had pistol permits. Unless an amateur psychiatrist in a gun shop or a police station had recognized him as a paranoid schizophrenic, Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper who killed or wounded 46 people two years ago, would have been able to assemble his lethal armory despite strict...
...open contravention of Halakah. As chief military chaplain, he allowed his troops to work and fight on the Sabbath, and even drive trucks if it was necessary for the security of the state. Although suicide is a sin for Jews, Goren also ruled that captured soldiers could kill themselves rather than risk revealing military secrets under torture. He also believes that Israel's Independence Day should be regarded as a religious rather than a secular festival...