Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Rifle Association, a 750,000-member organization that spends perhaps $2,000,000 a year pushing its official line in pamphlets, pressure on Congress, gun-magazine advertisements and its own publication The American Rifleman. In the face of renewed clamoring for congressional gun control action, spurred by Charles Whitman's recent sniper rampage in Austin, Texas, the N.R.A. last week turned for a change to newspapers, buying full-page spreads in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both of which have editorialized vigorously for stronger gun laws. Over the legend, "America needs more straight shooters...
...daresay that most of the whites who fear "the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos" would not have been alarmed had respectable, middle-class white families named Speck or Whitman moved in next door last June. This summer's headlines suggest that perhaps we crime-fearing white men had better investigate the violence in white souls before looking for it in black streets...
...half-outraged, half-defensive statement by self-described "gun fanatic" Charles A. Whitman, father of Mass Murderer Charles J. Whitman, that "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
...TIME calls Whitman "the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history." What about the charmer who a few years ago put a bomb in his mother's airborne suitcase and sent 44 innocents to a terrifying death...
...traveled the breadth of Texas last summer. Granted, everything is big, but when you say Charles Whitman carried a 35-mm. Remington, that isn't big; that's Texas...