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...current wave of concern about TV violence seems oddly timed. The violent action shows that flourished on TV a decade or so ago--The A-Team; Magnum, P.I.; Miami Vice--have largely disappeared. The few crime shows left are cerebral dramas like Law & Order and NYPD Blue, which, though grittier than the older shows, have little overt violence. The sniggering sex talk on network sitcoms is a far more alarming trend. But even if there are some shows that young kids should be shielded from, the question is whether all TV should be held to the standard of safe...
...with plastic bags over their head. The remaining two then shot the others dead, set the bodies ablaze and killed themselves with pistol shots under the chin. One of the executioners was a policeman, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet. Two of the three girls shot through the forehead with a .357 magnum were his own daughters, ages 2 and 4, investigators disclosed last week...
...intrigued by his 1993 tape inviting "experts" in various types of weaponry to join the militia-at-large Raider Company based in Dexter. Last September in the Michigan town of Fowlerville, three men claiming to be Koernke's "bodyguards" and "unorganized militia" members were arrested while transporting a .357 magnum revolver, three semiautomatic pistols, three loaded assault rifles (an AK-47, an M-1 and an M-14), three gas masks and assorted other military gear. Two of the three are currently in custody. Local authorities say no further inquiry has been made into their connections with Koernke...
...regrets of those who had guns but found themselves outdrawn. And certainly Whitmore would be right to distinguish a tinge of the overheated in another of Anderson's satisfied customers, retiree Bob Chadwick. "I won't come downtown much anymore," he says, grabbing an application for his .44-cal. Magnum. "It's a jungle, and it's spreading. I don't want to become a victim." A national survey recently rated Chadwick's "jungle," Colorado Springs, America's 13th safest city...
Police recovered a fully loaded Smith & Wesson 9-millimeter gun, a Smith & Wesson. 357 magnum and a semi-automatic Tech...