Word: littleton
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Maples and his two vanloads of kids were hardly alone. Since the April 20 massacre, sightseers and sympathizers have streamed to the Denver suburb of Littleton, turning Columbine into a tourist attraction. The attention will only increase this week as the school prepares to open on Monday for the fall semester. Last week the press was finally allowed to tour the interior, repaired for $1.2 million. Says principal Frank DeAngelis: "The kids wanted a promise that they would be able to return. Now we are ready to take back the school...
Judging from tourist reaction, many may be shaken. "It never seemed real, even on TV," says Jordan Brown, 13, of Bakersfield, Calif., prowling the building's exterior crannies with her mother. The Browns used to live in the Littleton area, and Jordan's brother Garrett, 17, who had friends at Columbine, was too upset to make the visit. "I thought the school was much bigger," says Greg Owens, 36, a Chicagoan who routed himself here after taking in Pikes Peak and Colorado sites. "But it sure touched me. For two teenagers to have done something like that...
After having failed to pierce the gun control impasse in Congress, the political bullets emanating from the Littleton massacre have landed in California with full effect. Following 2-to-1 approval margins in the state legislature, Democratic governor Gray Davis on Monday signed into law the nation?s most sweeping ban on the manufacture, sale and importation of semiautomatic rifles and pistols. "My friends, guns do kill people," declared Davis, mocking a favorite NRA slogan. The governor also signed separate legislation barring individuals from purchasing more than one handgun a month. "The second restriction aims to stop buyers from purchasing...
...pieces of legislation are most definitely a reaction to Littleton," says Booth. "They represent a major swing in public opinion from a region of the country, the West, which has traditionally loved guns." What?s more, she reports, further gun control legislation is headed to the governor?s desk. Seven more bills are in the pipeline, including measures that would require trigger safety locks, restrict cheap handguns and impose limits on the sale of guns from homes. After their defeat in the nation?s capital, gun control activists are overjoyed to have succeeded in passing the new legislation...
...years, the N.A.A.C.P. has lamented the flood of handguns into African-American communities. Yet the nation's oldest civil rights organization has had little impact on curbing the proliferation. But the shooting tragedies in Littleton, Colo., and Conyers, Ga., plus the recent court victory against gun manufacturers in New York, may give the organization the political firepower it needs to advance its public-safety agenda...