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...Drawing a .38-cal. revolver, White wildly fired six shots at nurse Elizabeth Staten, striking her in the abdomen and hand. The wounded Staten fled down a stairwell to the first-floor emergency room, with White in pursuit. "She caught up with Liz at the chart desk and pistol-whipped her. Then she shot her," says veteran nurse Joan Black, 62, who was in the triage area at the time. "She said ((to Liz)), 'You've destroyed my life. You've taken my husband and my kids. Prepare to die. Open your mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in the Safety Zone | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...corruption scandal. But having lost his empire, his power and now his honor, the thought of a prison cell was apparently too much for him. Lying on a bed in his 18th century Milan palazzo two weeks ago, just hours before he would have been arrested, Gardini pressed a pistol to his temple and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Before Disgrace | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Riding the Abortion Circuit | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...says the lanky 18-year-old, who wears three gold earrings and favors a black baseball cap emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. "I don't know why, but stuff just started getting hectic, real rough. I mean you can get jumped for no reason." The small, .25-cal. Raven pistol, which he bought from a friend, fit snugly in the pocket of his winter vest. He even took it along to his telemarketing job after work, where he earns $6.50 an hour manning the phones. He says, "If people know you have a gun, they just don't mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Mike got caught last April after running into a friend who had some pot in the school parking lot. "We smoked a lot," says Mike, who had his pistol in the right-hand pocket of his jacket along with two clips, one full and the other empty. As he entered the school, a rubbery smile on his face, a security guard stopped him and took him to the principal's office. "They knew I was high, and I was being a dick," he says. "They told me to empty my pockets, and I was like, man, everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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