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...officers, Michael Falvo, shot and killed a 14-year-old Latino boy in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. The police version is that the boy, Jose Antonio Gutierrez, pointed a TEC-9 pistol at Falvo as the officer arrived, responding to a report of teens with a shotgun. Witnesses insist Gutierrez had already thrown his gun over a fence when the police approached and was holding a flashlight. Falvo has been temporarily assigned to a desk...
...seeds. This is vividly illustrated in a new book by Alice G. Marquis of the University of California at San Diego, Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding. Marquis, a history scholar and self-identified Democrat, notes, "The [National Endowment for the Arts'] shotgun policy of passing out masses of small grants has conjured up an unsustainable array of needy groups and individuals ... Well meaning in its objective, [it] has also produced unexpected consequences. Art is not a product like soybeans, but rather the outcome of imaginative endeavor by talented people, of whom there...
...alleged that he "bolted from the van ... pointing a handgun at them with both hands [and said] 'If you want problems, I'll give it to you. Stay off the road.'" The resulting search of Koernke's van turned up a gas mask, a (legal) 12-gauge shotgun with 10 shells, K rations, two military shovels and a canteen. He convinced a judge that he had been acting in self-defense...
...guzman is just the sort of person you'd trust with a gun. Three years ago, after buying a weekend home in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, Guzman decided to take up hunting. But before he bought his 12-gauge Remington shotgun, he enrolled in a National Rifle Association safety course. "I didn't want to be a hypocrite as a firearm owner who doesn't practice firearm safety," he said. But now Guzman, 41, a sign-shop owner, is thinking of quitting the organization. While he supports the N.R.A.'s education programs, he is disturbed that in the midst...
Diaz, who is 19 years old and whose last known address was in Cambridge, is said to have confronted the trio along with five accomplices and demanded their money. After the people surrendered their money, Diaz opened fire with a shotgun, wounding one victim in the shoulder and the other in the buttocks...