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The killings in Missouri led ABC's Pierre Thomas to round up vignettes from a week's worth of handgun rampages--a family slain in Maryland, shoppers in Chicago, a SWAT confrontation in Los Angeles, coeds at a Louisiana college--and to inquire into the status of firearms control legislation proposals. "They have been losing ground," he concluded. Opinion polls show that three quarters of the population endorse Second Amendment rights, albeit with restrictions, and "just today 55 Senators and more than 250 Congressmen filed a brief at the Supreme Court opposing Washington DC's handgun ban."
NBC sent George Lewis south of the border to check out the violence in Tijuana. Alberto Capella, the city's Secretary for Public Security--aka Chief of Police--had his home shot up by a gang of 20 gunmen from narcotics cartels. Capella even took Lewis to his clothes closet to show the holes in his shirts where bullets flew. Capella called his fight "really two wars," first against narcoviolence, second against "corrupt police officers who take drug money."
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