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...seen by first-hand experience. Jennifer Rea, 15, allegedly shot to death her two younger sisters one afternoon last March with a .22-cal. pistol. Carlos Fisher, 16, put a .38-cal. pistol to his head in May while playing with some friends at his house and pulled the trigger, killing himself. Police believe he either was playing Russian roulette or assumed the gun was unloaded. Travis Hogue, 18, is accused of shooting and killing Nikki Chambers, 19, a male rival, in the rest room of a McDonald's in April with four shots from...
...grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger...
...blank as death. And with a quick, simple motion, he grabbed the baby's head with one hand, twisted it, and pulled it off." Across the hall, Junior, 11, turns the pages of Christopher Pike's Monster: "Mary pointed her shotgun at Kathy's face and pulled the trigger. The blast caught Kathy in the forehead and took off the top of her skull, plastering a good portion of her brains over the railings of the nearby staircase...
...first listen, the love songs sound lighter than the rest of the album, but beneath the sunny surfaces, Sweet's view of secular relationships is equally bleak. The brokenhearted narrator of Someone to Pull the Trigger implores his lover to take him back or "shoot." And on the mid-tempo Devil with the Green Eyes, Sweet laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid...
Last week in the cavernous hearing room of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam Nunn was again belaboring the proposed regulation on homosexuals in the military. The Senator from Georgia wanted to nail down exactly what sorts of statements by a soldier would trigger a "rebuttable presumption" that he or she was engaged in gay conduct -- a legal finding that, despite its name, experts say is almost impossible to rebut...