Word: violent
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Ferrara's assertion that guns and crime are not related is defeated by the experience of nations like Britain. Handguns are illegal in England--not even police carry them. And the number of murders, violent crimes and gun-related crimes is less than one percent of the number in America--a difference certainly not explainable in terms of population. British experience also disproves the idea that a ban of handguns is not socially feasible--there are simply very few handguns in Great Britain...
...found bitter opposition to his union from many workers and little support from most others. Many farmworkers felt they could do better on their own rather than through the union and resented Chavez's plan to impose a tyrannical hiring hall on them. The threatening, intimidating and often violent tactics employed by UFW organizers against recalcitrant workers only served to strengthen this opposition...
Chief M.G. Buthelezi, leader of one of the largest of the South African "homelands," last night told a Kirkland House audience of about 100, that "apartheid is one of the most violent and wicked systems ever developed to keep others in oppression...
Buthelezi, speaking at a Nieman Foundation Forum, said that although he has accepted a non-violent stance he is not resigned to oppression, because he said he believes only through the development of self-awareness can his people "be made to be able to see their struggle through to the very bitter end," he said...
World War III has happened again, and as usual, the earth has been nuked to dusty desert ruled by violent brigand bands...