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From obscure textbooks to formalwear to freshly baked brownies, if a Pfoho resident wants to buy it, borrow it, sell it, use it or just talk about it, he or she can turn to Pfoho-open and have a reply in minutes...
...yahoos love to rebut any gun control argument with, "guns don't kill people. People kill people." But despite their at times over-zealous rhetoric, there is some truth to this statement. Most who use guns for violent crimes are smart enough to acquire them illegally. If someone is going to be running drugs or robbing liquor stores, they are probably not attending gun shows at local expo centers or stores where they must deal with licensing. Instead, they turn to the illegal market for guns; something only controllable through tougher crime measures. This market is what needs regulating...
...use of guns in connection with violent criminal behavior must be stopped. But it can be stopped without penalizing law-abiding citizens. If other parts of the country follow the lead of cities like Richmond, Va. whose "Project Exile" began enforcing existing gun legislation and putting felons caught with guns in jail for five-year minimums cut crime numbers in half, we would not need more regulation...
...efforts have suffered from a lack of structure (_Snake Eyes_) or moments of utter incomprehensibility (_Mission: Impossible_), and the trend isn't stopping anytime soon. Not if his latest effort, _Mission to Mars_, is any indication. What De Palma improves on his previous problems is negated for rampant use of overdone sci-fi conventions...
...this case, there was a slip-up in the use of the mouse and only the column of names was sorted, resulting in grades being assigned to the wrong people. The error raised the grades of two students and lowered the grades of 20 students," it said...