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Studies in other states have produced similar results, Hemenway said yesterday, but this was the first study that specifically analyzed the age factor. The study was done through the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MYRBS) which asked students a series of 10 questions that measured their propensity for violent behavior...
...Congress, while Democrats were pushing stringent legislation, the boldest move by Republicans was to call for a "national dialogue" by religious and other leaders that would "inform the nation about modern culture and its impact on youth." Senate majority leader Trent Lott seemed intent on keeping his earlier vow that gun control legislation would never pass on his watch. He called the renewed push for gun control a typical "knee-jerk reaction" to the shootings and staved off for at least two weeks an effort to have a vote, in the hope that emotions will cool. The House, heavily mortgaged...
...site the user tries to see or simply blocking access to a list of sites ruled obscene or otherwise objectionable. In both instances, the filter will almost always work like a blunt instrument. If you tried to get to the home page of the Almaden Valley (California) Youth Soccer League and you had a filter, you would be blocked because the filter, tuned to look out for pedophiles, might have the phrase "Boys Under 12" on the proscribed list. If "sex" is labeled taboo, you can't read the poet Anne Sexton. Katherine Borsecnik, the senior AOL official involved...
...shoulder responsibility," he said in a brief statement before the gab-fest was closed to the media. He's got a better idea, a way to get to the head of the class on Littleton without upsetting anyone who can make him regret it. He's declaring youth violence a disease...
...rift that has existed for years within the firearms community emerged into public view on Monday in the wake of President Clinton?s national meeting on youth violence and the Columbine High School tragedy. With the NRA still sticking to its absolutist antiregulatory position, two industry groups, the American Shooting Sports Council and the National Shooting Sports Council, came out in support of several proposals aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of children -- among them raising the age for legal possession from 18 to 21, holding parents criminally responsible for giving children access to guns, and requiring locks...