Word: weaponeer
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...Championships two weeks ago, but junior captain saber fencer Samantha Parker and freshman foil Arielle Pensler became recent additions to the team traveling to nationals when they qualified through NCAA at-large bids. Early last week, Pensler received one of the bids, which go to two fencers in each weapon for men’s and women’s, while Parker captured a bid when a Cornell saber fencer withdrew...
...plans to arm its officers with Tasers—weapons that are used to subdue suspects by releasing a disabling electric charge—potentially making it the first Boston-area police department to add the weapon to its arsenal. Tasers have come under increasing scrutiny because of concerns about the risk they may pose to suspects, with an Amnesty International report released last year concluding that 61 people died in the U.S. in 2005 after being shocked with a Taser gun. Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said in a phone interview yesterday that no money has yet been...
...officers with Tasers is a waste of taxpayer funds, and, more importantly, a threat to public safety. While officers contend that the 50,000-volt stun guns are necessary in order to subdue drug users and the mentally ill, who apparently have preternaturally high pain tolerances, the weapons simply do not make sense in Cambridge. Carrying Tasers encourages the police to use painful force in situations when nonviolent methods would probably be sufficient. Becasue Tasers are not nearly as dangerous as guns—or at least are not perceived to be—police will be less likely...
...asked to hand over his wallet, gave his would-be attacker the impression that he was about to comply, only to throw his backpack at the ne’er-do-well, knocking him to the ground. According to the advisory, the student wrestled the suspect’s weapon away from him while he was on the pavement, before the foiled bandit took off across the bridge and into Allston...
Some journalists have even extended their unfair characterization of Wellesley as a weapon to level ad hominem broadsides at alumnus Hillary Clinton. In the 2005 book “The Truth About Hillary,” author Edward Klein tries to damage Clinton politically by pointing to Hillary’s time at Wellesley, the bastion of radical feminism and lesbianism, as evidence of her lesbianism...