Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such acts of madness occur? What, if anything, can be done to prevent them? These were the central questions to which the TIME team assigned to the story addressed itself. On that task force were 48 correspondents in the U.S. and abroad and 15 editors, writers and researchers in New York. They dealt with information from literally hundreds of sources, including interviews with 40 psychiatrists and psychologists...
...shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified for his guns even under strict controls...
Stricter arms licensing could certainly not prevent the sort of crime perpetrated by Whitman, but it would keep guns away from at least some who might misuse them. Since Americans usually need licenses to marry, drive a motor scooter, run a shop or even own a dog, it is difficult to see why a license to keep a lethal weapon would be any abridgment of their freedom...
...Cardinal Mazarin she sought to occupy the throne of Naples. When her plans were betrayed by her Italian equerry, Giovanni Monaldeschi, she had him murdered while she coolly waited in the next room. The scandal forever ruined her chances to gain any throne, but it did not prevent her from being the reigning connoisseur of Rome...
...fits and starts. First, World War I interrupted. Lee's head was finally unveiled in 1924 with a dizzying breakfast for 30 served atop the general's shoulder. But costs were skyrocketing, and a year later Borglum was fired. Furious, the temperamental sculptor destroyed his models to prevent further work...