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...good reason. Not only did the officers leave Ovando paralyzed for life, they also framed him, according to a new sworn statement from Perez. He also says Ovando wasn't armed and that officers planted the gun after they shot him. (Authorities aren't speculating as to why the cops shot Ovando, although sources told the Los Angeles Times that officials are probing charges the officers stole from drug dealers...
...mind. "I'll always feel a passion for what's behind the door." And he remains a trenchant critic of the record business and the "sound-alike, look-alike meaningless music" that rules today's pop but saps its relevance. He has bigger targets too: America's gun culture and the finger pointing of Washington moralists who blamed musicians for the Columbine massacre, which he blasts as "scapegoating" and "blurring the world of reality and fantasy. I don't have messages of Go kill yourself or Don't kill yourself in my music. People have to be given credit...
...Kaushik isn't bitter about his misfortune. "Everywhere I go," he says, "I make a point of learning something new." Launching his own start-up, he says, "seemed like absolutely the right decision but may have been a stupid one, looking back." So he's returned to programming, a gun for hire, although he's confident that his current employer, Corio, will finally hit the ipo payola. At times, though, he can't help sounding weary. "I don't foresee things anymore," he says. "If it happens, great. If not, I can't do anything about...
...Occasional-seller" unlicensed dealers and gun-show vendors should be regulated in the same way gun-shop owners are: with a waiting period required to allow for background checks, with their books maintained in the same way and inspected by the ATF, and with punishments meted out for those who sell to "straw buyers," those buying for criminals...
...save lives and make America a safer country. Citizens must stand up to the entrenched power of the National Rifle Association and see through its rhetoric. Most importantly, with the presidential primaries just around the corner, the American people should make it clear that a comprehensive plan for gun control must be a part of any serious candidate's campaign...