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Established advocacy groups such as Handgun Control have helped Dees-Thomases and her moms refine their message, moving from a sheer expression of outrage over gun killings to a call for what they term "common-sense gun laws"--tougher background checks, longer "cooling-off" periods before buying a gun and mandatory safety locks on handguns. The Million Moms agenda also insists that Congress regulate guns the way states do automobiles: by licensing the owner and registering the gun...
...this publicity has energized the gun-control movement--and also its opponents. N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre says his group has added more than 300,000 members over the past 18 months, bringing its rolls to about 3 million. While the march organizers have planned 60 rallies across the country to be held simultaneously with the march in Washington, pro-gun forces in several states have scheduled counterdemonstrations by self-described "pistol-packing mamas." A pro-gun moms' movement, the Second Amendment Sisters, is also planning to march in Washington on Mother's Day, to call for more permits...
Your report on testosterone and its increased use revealed a depressing situation in America [HEALTH, April 24]. Men are striving for physical perfection but doing little about the degradation of basic moral values in society. Gun violence is becoming a regular occurrence. There are more pressing issues than trying to satisfy a man's insatiable ego by using testosterone gel. ROEL CONRAD E. JAMIS Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippines...
Bill Clinton may want to quietly drop Mideast peace from the trophy room of his presidency - because Israelis and Palestinians are already looking to the next U.S. president to resolve their dispute. Not only that, they're also shooting at each other. Fierce gun battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian police Monday left four Palestinians dead and a number of wounded on both sides in the worst violence since 1996. The outbreak follows protests demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the passing of yet another deadline for a framework agreement on "final status" issues with...
...Million Mom March over the Mother's Day weekend may have changed some minds about gun control. I doubt it somehow. Our minds are made up, one way or another, for better and for worse, on these issues. We have developed a theater of moral spectacle for our entertainment mostly - if preaching to the choir can be called entertainment. Sheer numbers generate an atmosphere of smugness and self-congratulation, as fatuous as George Bush the elder's "Message: I care...