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...patron saint of militant gun owners, a living martyr whose infamous 1992 shoot-out with federal agents helped ignite "a seething backlash in the country," as the N.R.A. puts it. But as Randy Weaver looked out his window in a rural Iowa town last week, watching children play on the freshly mowed grass of a park across the street, he sounded more like a struggling single parent than an antigovernment desperado. The children on the lawn reminded him of Samuel, his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed by federal agents. "He loved the outdoors," Weaver told...
During the shoot-out at the family's cabin on Ruby Ridge in Idaho, Weaver's wife was killed by a federal sniper's bullet as she stood in a doorway holding her baby daughter. Weaver was accused of murder in the death of a federal agent in the shoot-out but was convicted of only two counts related to his failure to appear in court on an earlier weapons charge, for which he served a 16-month sentence...
DIED. PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, 32, founder of the "X-men," a group of paranormally gifted, socially conscious mutants; of an accidental zapping by his son Legion during a shoot-out with archenemy Magneto; in Haifa, Israel. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that due to Legion's ability to travel through time, he killed his father 20 years in the past, thus creating an alternate reality in which the X-men don't exist...
...classic" chain gangs. Still, working on a '90s-style gang is no picnic: inmates will be toiling through 12-hour workdays in the hot Alabama sun, serving sentences as long as 90 days. "If they try to escape," vows state corrections commissioner Ron Jones, "our officers are going to shoot them." No failure to communicate here...
...ourselves why youths have to handle weapons at all. This seems an especially cruel joke in the days when we anxiously talk about a Gringrichesque cut in such programs such as welfare benefits. Do we really want a world where kids not yet in their teens know how to shoot handguns but don't know how to read and write...