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Williams, 58, is a shrewd businessman who grew up on a cattle ranch at Fort Stockton and built a $250 million empire in oil, gas, ranching, banking and communications. He boasts that his business endeavors have created jobs for 100,000 Texans. "I'm a survivor of the oil patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look...
...Stockton, Calif., massacre of little children was a warning to our policymakers. But Congress lacked the courage to do anything. During the year of inaction on Capitol Hill, we have seen too many other tragedies brought about by assault weapons. In Louisville an ex-employee of a printing plant went on a shooting spree with a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the AK- 47, gunning down 21 people, killing eight and himself. Two Colorado women were murdered and several others injured by a junkie using a stolen MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. And Congress votes itself a pay raise...
Then came Patrick Purdy. A year ago last week the deranged welder used a semiautomatic "assault rifle" to spray bullets at an elementary school in Stockton, Calif. When the shooting and screaming had ended, five children lay dead; 29 others and one teacher were injured. For many Americans, a long-held misgiving hardened into a compelling certainty: too much firepower was too easily available. One year later, California and five cities elsewhere have laws restricting or prohibiting weapons like the one Purdy used...
Within days of the Stockton massacre, several bills to prohibit the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons came before the state legislature. The proposed bans were supported by police groups, by Republican Governor George Deukmejian and even by Chief Gates. Enter the N.R.A. Mounting its typical take-no-prisoners campaign, the group mobilized California's 260,000 N.R.A. members and inundated legislators with mail and phone calls. This time it didn't work. The ban squeaked through by a single vote in the state assembly. Recall attempts launched by independent progun groups against three legislators who supported the law fizzled...
...year after the schoolyard massacre in Stockton, Calif., gave gun control a new impetus, the N.R.A. looks for a way to maintain its clout. -- TIME poll describes a nation where many share a devotion to guns -- and a willingness to accept regulations. -- For and Against: leaders of the N.R.A. and Handgun Control speak about firearms. -- Washington Mayor Marion Barry may finally have run out of luck. -- The McMartin sex case abused children, defendants, judge and jurors for six exhausting years...