Word: outgun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...massacre could have been avoided had the teachers at Columbine been armed was amazing. It was so cynical, so out of touch with reality, and showed a Dr. Strangelove kind of arms idolatry. I am a teacher myself. Shall I teach young people respect, tolerance and fairness while I outgun them? STEFAN BARTELS Dillingen, Germany...
...world is a weapon like [an AK-47] doing on the streets of Chicago? It was not there because any hunter needed it. It was there because the gangs and criminals and the psychos want to use it to kill as many people as they can and to outgun the police...
...irony is that for months local officials have been begging for the cavalry to arrive. The Freemen have spent much of the past year in a campaign of intimidation, confident they could outgun local law enforcement, which in those parts means Sheriff Charles Phipps and his deputy. Since April 1, 1994, when the Clarks first retreated to their farms, later to be joined by fugitives from other areas, the Freemen have posted $1 million bounties on the heads of Phipps, county attorney Nick Murnion and local bankers, threatened to kidnap and hang local judges, and put phony liens...
Other remote Muslim enclaves would be vulnerable if fighting escalated, but Serb forces in the Bosnian republic have dwindled through desertion. According to best estimates, only about 80,000 Serb fighters remain active in the republic, but they lack sufficient fuel and are stretched thin. Though they outgun the Bosnian army 6 to 1 in heavy weapons, Sarajevo's infantry has an edge in manpower and a mobility advantage over tanks and artillery in winter. , The Bosnian army has a chance of holding its own and even of advancing -- which is probably a major reason why Serb commanders undertook...
...military objectives, insisting that the U.N. take over the hard part of restoring the country as soon as basic security and aid deliveries were in place. Washington refused the job of disarming the warlords. Nor did the U.S. leave behind enough equipment to make sure the peacekeepers could decisively outgun the local thugs. The U.N. and the U.S. tacitly ratified the warlords' power by granting them a dominant role in all- party talks on Somalia's future...