Word: magnum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly Magnum and Shorty Shotgun...
...focus on a young, hand-some doctor--straight--kinda like Magnum, but cuter. Maybe we can get Alec Baldwin, or somethin' similar. Now this young doc' REALLY knows what's happening, and the drama'll revolve around his efforts to get people to listen to him. We got your classic good guys against bad guys: on one side, we got the good doctor who tries to stop the epidemic, the good gays who believe him, and the good politicians who care, and on the other side, we got the evil doctors who won't touch the gaything, the evil gays...
...smoking section of the McDonald's in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when he noticed Dion Terres, 25. "I looked up and said, 'Oh, he's got a gun,' but I thought it wasn't real," says Hauptmann. Moments later, Terres yelled, "Everybody out of here!" and began shooting a .44-cal. Magnum pistol. As 10 panicked patrons dove for the exit door, Terres unloaded four shots. Two middle-aged customers were killed, and Hauptmann was shot in the right forearm. Terres turned the fourth bullet on himself, splattering his brain on the walls and ceiling...
...surge in youth violence started in 1986, when gang members from Los Angeles moved eastward to colonize smaller cities. Now teenagers throughout the area try to match the firepower of the gang members. "If one kid brings a little .22-cal. pistol and the other has a .357 Magnum, then guess who has status," Roberts says. The gunplay spread quickly beyond the gangs. "For some reason this particular generation of kids has absolutely no value for human life," he says. "They don't know what it is to die or what it means to pull the trigger...
Cover: Photograph by Patrick Zachmann -- Magnum Photos...