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...borrowed from an artist friend. He lounged in bed a while, swigging Scotch companionably with his mistress, Josephine Rotch Bigelow, a beautiful young married woman from another prominent Back Bay clan. Then, apparently with her enthusiastic approval, and in the best of moods, he killed her with a pistol, and a couple of hours later shot himself. The soles of his feet were found to be tattooed with crosses and a sun symbol...
Gibrayan took a pistol and put himself out of his misery, though, and he wasn't the type. And why does Sartorius, one of the two remaining scientists, have a dwarf running out of his room? Why the ball?, and why the young girl who mysteriously prowls the space lab in a blue negligee? "Is she real?," Kelvin asks Snauf, the last astronaut. "Is she human?" Snauf only laughs, wildly, wickedly. A panic starts to grab Kelvin, like a pounding hangover on a clammy summer morning. No more Mr. Imperterbable. On a tape made just before his suicide, Gibaryan tells...
Robert Bell, a security guard, went to visit his mother's house in South Baltimore. He took with him his girl friend and her two boys, aged three and six. He also took along his .357-magnum pistol. He placed it in his mother's dining room cabinet...
...said, "I'm going to shoot you, and I'm not going to miss." Then the three-year-old grasped the gun in both hands and pointed it at another child on the street, Jeffery Krauch, 6. The three-year-old's brother cocked the pistol. The three-year-old fired it into Jeffery's chest. Jeffery stood for an instant, then fell, blood pouring from his wound. He was almost immediately dead...
Somehow, no one will be charged even with negligence. Bell had a permit for the pistol, so a strict gun-control law might not have mattered much. The question is beyond legality and illegality. There are simply too many guns in American closets and cabinets, waiting...