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From: Vin Suprynowicz <[email protected]>
To: Duncan Long <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: How Gun Control Is Working in NYC

>>Friday April 7 3:27 PM ET
>>
>>Robber in New York Threatening Kids With Gun
>>
>>NEW YORK (Reuters) – A mugger targeting mothers with young children who
>>reportedly puts a gun to the toddlers’ heads and threatens to kill them
>>has put two Queens neighborhoods on high alert with increased police
>>security, police said on Friday.
>>
>>In the most recent attack on Wednesday night, the man, described by three
>>mothers as in his 20s with a scar on his face and brandishing a silver
>>handgun, forced a 20-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter from a
>>subway platform to a secluded area where he held a gun to the child’s
>>head.
>>
>>When the girl cried the gunman warned the woman, “Shut her up or I’ll
>>blow her brains out.” The young mother turned over $100 and a diamond
>>wedding ring and was told, “Today is your lucky day” as the gunman fled.
>>
>>In late March two women with children were threatened and robbed in broad
>>daylight in the area of Forest Hills.
>>
>>Cheryl Mendl, the mother of a 6-year-old girl, called the attacks “a
>>nightmare. How can you protect your child in a situation like this?” Her
>>husband Norman said, “It’s like the lion going after the weak and
>>helpless.”
>>
>>The couple, who live in the exclusive Forest Hills Gardens enclave where
>>homes sell for as much as $1 million, believe the area “is being targeted
>>and that the gunman is going after women as they leave neighboring banks
>>and ATM machines.”
>>
>
>
>But of course, no one asks them when they’re going to start carrying guns
>of their own.
>
>Vin Suprynowicz, [email protected]
>
>”The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” — John
>Hay, 1872
>
>”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and
>thus clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series
>of hobgoblins