Word: weaponeer
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Because of incidents like that, lots of black parents won't let their kids drive flashy cars--even Mom's or Dad's--which can attract unwanted police attention. Other parents have given an emphatic thumbs-down to cell phones. Why? A police officer might mistake it for a weapon in the hands of a young African-American male, just as the cops say they mistook Diallo's wallet for a gun. Other parents restrict their kids' clothing. New York City police detective Clifton Hollingsworth won't let his sons wear hip street fashions. No backward baseball caps or pants...
...even jaded watchers of Washington's spit-and-counterspit noticed that a dollop of peace was settling over the nation. New York Governor George Pataki, a Republican, announced a broad set of gun-control reforms that include a plan to identify guns easily by keeping a record of each weapon's unique characteristics. On Friday, Smith & Wesson, the largest U.S. gun manufacturer, agreed to provide safety locks with its handguns and make its guns child resistant within a year. "We can get so much done when we find the courage to find common ground," said a triumphant President Clinton...
ROCKET SCIENCE In the future, missiles loom as the key Chinese weapon for intimidating, and perhaps attacking, Taiwan. That's why Taiwan is eager to develop, with U.S. help, a missile shield. Such a system, however, would use much of the same difficult and costly technology that doomed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Perfecting it now will be daunting--if not impossible. EDGE China, which could try to use the threat of missile attack to lure Taiwan back to the motherland...
...criminals, but also out of the hands of dangerously ignorant citizens. In order to buy a hunting license in most states, hunters must go through extended hunter safety courses. For public safety, drivers are required to demonstrate a minimum degree of competence. However, to purchase a handgun, a lethal weapon, citizens need only have cash. It is well within the bounds of reason to require some kind of training on the part of soon-to-be handgun owners...
CHARGED. MARTY MCSORLEY, 36, Boston Bruins defenseman suspended for 23 games by the NHL for using his hockey stick to club an opponent in the head; with assault with a weapon; in Vancouver. The 17-year hockey veteran is the third most penalized player in NHL history...