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Your article on the spate of terrible shootings in American high schools addressed the wrong issue [SOCIETY, March 19]. Children the world over are exposed to bullying and teasing, yet they don't all seek revenge through bullets, blood and mayhem. Surely the real issue is the availability of guns. It is more than a coincidence that so many of these tragic stories involve parents who own guns. The presence of guns in the home sends the message to children that violence does indeed solve problems. LOGAN SCOTT Cape Town...
...indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay and the inspired bedlam of guitar-case rocket launchers. Rodriguez's tongue-in-cheek, violence-as-cartoon mentality was pushed to an even higher level...
...page two we get rompin'-stompin' mayhem, and by page five we get the first of three major plot twists. Dr. Doom has returned from his travels and immediately plots revenge against the Four, luring one of their members to his home. When the others come looking, each gets caught in an ingenious trap until just one remains. Then it's Dr. Doom vs. Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards, who sums it up this way: "You propose a battle in time? With the lives of my family as the stakes?" With this cliffhanger, it ends...
...special tragedy, but for many other readers, it was also puzzling in its senselessness. "What caused Earnhardt to take such excessive risks--a desire to commit suicide in a publicly acceptable way?" asked a reader in Minneapolis. "Those voyeurs of violence paid their money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman, while an Ohio environmentalist found even more...
...case with the high school student represented by Micki Moran, a family-law attorney in the Chicago suburbs. In 1999, nine days after Columbine, the student, a ninth-grade boy from Wheeling, Ill., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, though the police considered more serious charges, including mayhem. Classmates thought of him as an "unpopular nerd," Moran says, and made fun of his black clothes. One day at lunch, a group of kids approached him; one said, "You're like those kids at Columbine." The boy responded, "I could be." On the strength of those three little words, Moran...