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Just a year ago in Jonesboro, teacher Shannon Wright, mother of a two-year-old, stopped a bullet for another mother's child. Two week ago, Dave Sanders bled to death after directing kids to safety. And we're supposed to think gun buyers can't endure a little red tape, a little delayed gratification in making their purchase? Without guns, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were menacing misfits in trench coats feasting on Internet swill. With guns, they became merciless mass murderers. We're hungry for a politician who can stand up to the gun lobby and convince...
...player blares misogynistic obscenities. In another room, the television features a teenage heroine contemplating violence against her classmates. The local sixplex is playing a film that spills more blood than a slaughterhouse hoses down in a month. And in most states, if you can't buy a gun with a few phone calls and a couple of hundred bucks, you haven't really tried...
...deeper unknowable, though, is who you were before the guns locked you into a sentence. The only question that ever ought to matter to my colleagues and our customers is the one we do not ask except in retrospect, after the guns or the scandal: Who are we all in silence--at a table in the cafeteria, at a table in the library? What can journalists tell others about the mind we all share, the innocent mind and the murderous? That is the real news of your death. That is the news I want to remember next week, when Kosovo...
DIED. ROMAN HRUSKA, 94, former conservative Senator from Nebraska; in Omaha. A longtime ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee before retiring in 1976, Hruska relentlessly opposed gun control and led the fight to restore the death penalty for various federal crimes. Among his most memorable battles: defending Harrold Carswell, a Nixon Supreme Court nominee accused by Democrats of being mediocre. "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said Hruska. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they...
Sporting a three-quarter-length parka, the 14-year-old boy sauntered toward the doors of W.R. Myers High School in Taber, a small town in the Canadian province of Alberta. Someone smirked, "Do you have a gun under there?" He did. Moments later, the ninth-grade dropout whipped out a .22-cal. rifle, killing a 17-year-old boy and critically wounding another...