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...came out in a full-body track suit and kept licking her lips to find moisture that could not be found. She took her stance. The gun went off. She got a fair start. She was clearly behind, but running easily. She went into the far turn in the pack, and came out the near turn still trailing the Jamaican. Flashbulbs seemed to spark the tension; the whole stadium was a live wire. Nothing that was happening was missed by anyone: not one meter, not what it meant to Australia, not the larger picture. No South African white...
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...
Five years later, moving onto the national stage and playing with quite different rules, nary a shotgun is to be seen in Bush's vicinity. Gun control, like abortion and school vouchers, is one of the few key issues that separate Bush from Gore. Neither candidate denies that gun violence is a problem. The numbers are indisputable--over 30,000 people die every year because of firearms, nearly 4,000 of them are under the age of 20. On the campaign trail to become President of the United States, Bush has downplayed his connections to the National Rifle Association...
...wait. As Governor of Texas, has Bush practiced what he preaches? What may we look forward to under a President Bush? In fact, five years after Bush became Governor, Texas still does not require criminal background checks at gun shows, and Texas has quite a few of those472 gun shows in 1998. Bush has said in the past that he would support mandatory background checks, yet his own words and their support by 85 percent of Texans have, in five years, resulted in no legislation. The full extent of what he has done in Texas has been to make empty...
...even schools. Bush still staunchly defends the law despite polls showing that less than a majority of Texans support it. Last year, he signed into law another NRA backed bill banning Texas cities and counties from bringing lawsuits against the firearm industry. In a recent survey of state gun laws, Texas ranked 45th in the nation, having some of the weakest gun control laws in the country. At a time when alarming shootings at Columbine High School and other schools across the country have shocked many into reassessing our current gun laws, Bush # has been the NRA's best friend...