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...killer is more like an Indian man named Raju: a diminutive, ragged farmer who does not even own a gun. Nonetheless, as a member of the Jenu Kuruba tribe, Raju knows how to hunt the big cats. In 1993 he downed a tiger in Nagarahole Park with a borrowed shotgun...
...shell Nuh-day-gay-O-chel-lo). Not the usual stuff of rock stardom. Female rockers have a better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...
...months later she filed for divorce. At the same time, Harding sought a restraining order to keep Gillooly away. "He wrenched my arm and wrist, and he pulled my hair and shoved me," she wrote in her petition for the order. "I recently found out he bought a shotgun, and I am scared for my safety." A police report filed the next month quotes Harding as saying that Gillooly had cornered her in a boatyard and threatened, "I think we should break your legs and end your career...
...particular threat to society. These small, powerful weapons are easy to buy, easy to pick up, and easy to fire. Some models are prized for their concealability and "stopping power." The fact is, concealing a weapon is a felony, and you can stop someone just as easily with a shotgun. What can you do with a handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse...
...recent case where the murderer was caught, however -- the killing of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California, by Richard Allen Davis, 39 -- there was less interest in Davis' psyche than in his rap sheet. First booked at age 12 for stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again in 1985, he abducted a female acquaintance and forced her at knifepoint to withdraw $6,000 from the bank...