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...though the law actually had practical effects other than to annoy gun owners. However, Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas was right to deride the ban as a meaningless “feel-good piece of legislation” whic bans some guns while keeping other, equally lethal guns legal and restricts freedom without promoting safety...
...control advocacy group, to tell NPR this March: “If the existing assault weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t pass...
...Iraq: "My opponent is too pessimistic," the President will say. "See, what he doesn't understand is that the President of the United States has to stand firm. We can't show weakness. And we won't on my watch." Unless Kerry can come off with a succinct, and lethal, response to those vaporous but compelling platitudes, he will lose this election...
...bird-flu expert at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. The fear is that this could all just be a preamble to a far greater catastrophe: every new outbreak and human infection give the unstable virus the chance to mutate further, increasing the chances it could become more lethal and contagious, spreading from human to human, and potentially triggering a global flu pandemic. Says Webster: "It's only a matter of time...
...Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had built an image as a leader whose uncompromising toughness could bring security to Russians. For more than a decade, the Kremlin has waged a brutal war to prevent the secession of the republic of Chechnya. But it has done little to defuse the lethal determination of Chechen terrorists, who Moscow says have links to Islamic fundamentalist groups, including al-Qaeda...