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...obvious questions to be asked, then, are why this bill hasn't passed before, why it is still possible for ordinary (and not so ordinary) citizens to buy not only handguns, but also the deadlier semi-automatic weapons and indeed, why Americans are allowed to buy guns...
Handguns, semi-automatic and automatic weapons have only one use, and that is the taking of another human life. Therefore, they should be unavailable (and unacceptable) to us all. The right to own a shotgun should be limited to certified hunters, whose criminal records must be spotless. Only then can the mayhem in our towns and cities end, and only then can America call itself civilized in the 21st century...
...Vessenski returned to the Soviet Union to head up an ambitious project to publish a Soviet-American English-language newspaper, the Literary Gazette. But he left after producing only six issues of the semi-weekly newspaper, he says, because he realized his heart lay in writing, not administration...
...about 12:30 a.m., a semi-conscious woman was carried to the front entrance. Several men attending the party attempted to place the woman on her feet...
...Association--has voiced his support for the bill. But Bush, unlike his predecessor, still needs the support of the all-too-powerful gun lobby, and has instead chosen to play political games with Congress. The president offered up his own bill to prohibit the domestic assembly of military-style semi-automatic weapons that are banned for import. Bush's bill is designed to offend nobody; as a result, it helps nobody...