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...post, the group embarks on a three-to-seven night journey into Indian-controlled Kashmir, traveling by night, hiding during the day. The group leader wears night-vision goggles. The rest follow blindly across the mountains. There are numerous obstacles: Indian mines, tracer flares, Indian border patrols anxious to shoot at them. "But whenever such a situation arises," says a Lashkar militant, "the Pakistani guns come to our rescue to provide cover...
Young Robert had turned around only a heartbeat before the shooting began. It looked as if his father had lurched forward, but he was not sure. He ran to his parents' bedroom, tearing open drawers. "Where's Daddy's gun? Where's Daddy's gun?" he yelled. The 9-mm handgun was missing. Robert opened the closet where Phyllis and Derwin kept shotguns and rifles inherited from her father and his grandfather, who had been hunters. Robert found the rifles but no ammunition. "Why are you even looking for guns?" his mother asked him, still thinking the shooting was next...
...theology guaranteed all comers "open access" to the air-control system. It's time to shoot that dogma. The new philosophy should be strictly capitalistic: If you want it badly enough, pay for it. In congressional testimony last fall, John Carr, head of the air-traffic controllers' union, pointed out that at Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where the departure rate is 11 aircraft in a five-minute period, airlines were scheduling 16 takeoffs at the very same time. LaGuardia Airport in New York City has become Exhibit A of airline excess. Although the facility can accommodate 75 flights an hour...
...doubts that without foxhunting, farmers will still need to keep the fox population under control. When they're not being adorable, foxes have a habit of invading farms and killing all sorts of other furry and feathery friends. So the farmers will be required to go out and shoot them instead, a means of execution less colorful but no less cruel than beagle munching. Without foxhunting, moreover, thousands of hounds will have to be euthanized, their reason for existence as evanescent as the morning mist in Shropshire. All the foxhunters need to do is film the mass killing of beagles...
...more comfortable you are with the firearm in your hand, the better trained you are, the more likely you are to make the right decision--to shoot or not," Simas says...