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America has been so lax about firearms that even the most basic facts about gun violence are hard to pin down, which leads to uncertainty in making effective policy. A major statistical source is the FBI's yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable...
...departure of star players for lucrative contracts in the West have forced the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the team, to redeploy forces. At a game at the Red Army rink last week, the star performer was not a skater but a bear. A dancing bear. In a team uniform...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports}]CAPTION: U.S. HANDGUN MURDERS
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; National Center for Health Statistics; FBI Uniform Crime Reports; Journal of the American Medical Association; U.S. Justice Dept.}]CAPTION: Handguns in U.S. owned by private citizens...
Each team is forced to have the kid who can't shoot to fill a uniform. It's not that these players are bad, but they don't belong in the National Basketball Association. The league has decided to expand for obvious financial reasons. Basketball has become the most popular sport in the world, so the NBA Bigwigs, thinking like businessmen, thought they should profit from the popularity. Expand, get more cities involved. More markets, larger clientele, and bigger profits...