More Guns Not the Answer
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While I am not against gun ownership, Richard LaFontaine's letter (Readers' Forum, Feb. 20) displays the same kind of wishful, naive thinking he criticizes. Proponents of gun rights generally take a very optimistic view of people who face stressful, traumatic situations.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: To arm Sunni gangs smacks of desperation. America seems not yet to have learned that it will never win by arms alone.
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The ferocious battles of the last three days could open the way to wider conflicts. But there may be both more and less than meets the eye.
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To meet a pressing need for more ground troops, the US armed forces have begun eyeing some of the most dramatic cuts in high-tech weapons since
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One version of the story said the gunfire was an assassination attempt aimed at interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Another dismissed it as a misunderstanding that erupted in gunfire simply because there were too many weapons around.
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 11--If you were to walk around the Inner Harbor firing bullets wildly into the air, would you get a ticket and have your gun handed back the next day?   No way.
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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence.
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More troops and sophisticated equipment are needed to bolster Afghanistan's security forces, but it is not clear whether more U.S. troops will be deployed there, U.S. and Afghan defense officials said Tuesday.
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Progress continues to be hampered by Iranian-supported militias, latest update says
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The spray of bullets that killed a police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets: a high-powered assault weapon, fast becoming the gun of choice for gang members and violent criminals.
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No one has done the right studies to  prove whether gun ownership laws increase or decrease crime, or  whether the tens of thousands of gun deaths in the United  States each year could be prevented by gun control, a committee  of experts said on Thursday.
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The proposal to change the Iraq resolution may be more about stockpiling ammunition against Republicans than changing policy
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BAGHDAD : The argument for last year&#39;s invasion was undermined by a US admission that Saddam Hussein had no banned weapons at the time, as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the capital.
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Vardell Taylor makes a good point quite humorously ("Concealed guns on campus," Readers' Forum, Sept. 19). However, a gun pulled by a civilian in a situation in which a criminal also possesses one does not help. This is not Hollywood, where any Joe Shmoe can whip out a pistol and save the day.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after it was born out of the carnage of three California mass shootings, the federal assault weapons ban is fading out of existence Monday.    While manufacturers look for a boom in business as people buy up previously banned weapons like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s, police chiefs warn of an upsurge in crime...
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Note to delegates and other convention attendees: Leave your guns at home. As New York increases security for the Republican National Convention, the event's organizers are making sure nothing's left unsaid. That's why "weapons" topped a list of prohibited items sent out in advance.
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CHICAGO _ The idea of turning the Great Lakes into a giant shooting range didn't sit well with boaters, anglers or politicians, especially since it almost happened with little public notice.  Surrendering to a barrage of complaints, the U.S.