Word: slaughterous
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Shopping-Day Slaughter...
...alternative, though, is what we have now: Serbs slaughter and starve Bosnian Muslims daily, immigration officials in Florida deny asylum to Haitians fleeing political persecution, Harvard students shamelessly rig elections, and many readers pick up their newspaper and read about these things and shrug and say, essentially, "What do you expect?" and "Who am I to judge...
After the latest slaughter -- this time on a New York commuter train < -- America faces the paradox of its battle over guns. Each crime creates a fresh wave of terror, a louder demand for gun control -- and a larger demand for guns...
...slaughter produced a national shudder, the kind that follows any awful crime that bleeds into unexpected corners -- the toddler caught in cross fire during a trip to the Denver zoo, eight people gunned down in a swanky San Francisco law firm, and now five dead and 18 wounded by the gunman on the commuter train. These are the crimes that seem impossible to prevent, to avoid or to forget. And they have a way of focusing the mind...
...tougher laws and licensing and a ban on assault weapons. In his weekly radio address on Saturday, Clinton said the nation must fight "violence with values," and mentioned the well-publicized abduction and death of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in California as well as the commuter-train slaughter as examples of violence that "has left Americans insecure on our streets, in our schools, even in our homes...