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...thinking. Here comes another pistol-packing, Bible-banging, right-wing weirdo who believes every single word in the Gospels and will try to plead, con or force you into pistol-packing, Bible-banging and right-wing voting...
...died bloated with his own excess and everyone else's expectations. He did not invent rock 'n' roll, but he forged it and focused it, and he was the first great rock superstar. He haunted his contemporaries, like Jerry Lee Lewis, who once showed up outside Graceland waving a pistol and demanding an audience. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty -- all dreamed of him and were daunted not only by his gift but by his destiny. He was the rocker they yearned to be and feared becoming...
...Weeks, then 29, a black who was riding a subway train through Brooklyn in April 1980 when he was accosted by two white youths, both 17. One of them, Terry Zilimbinaks, leaned over Weeks in his seat and uttered a number of racial insults. Weeks took out an unlicensed pistol, according to police, and shot Zilimbinaks dead. Like Goetz, Weeks slipped away unnoticed. Unlike Goetz, he did not turn himself in or confess. Police finally tracked him down six years later. The grand jury refused to indict him, and so he went free. There were few headlines, and the case...
...having keys, a belt buckle or some other bit of metal set a detection device buzzing. But how well do airport guards spot passengers actually carrying guns? To find out, the Federal Aviation Administration conducted a four-month test late last year in which agents, each packing an inoperative pistol in carry-on luggage or clothing, tried to sneak the weapons through airport gates around the country...
Houston. News item: A 10 year-old boy shot his mother and father with a .38 pistol because "they refused to let him go outside to play...