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<p>A Des Moines teenager died Wednesday from a gunshot wound to her head suffered when her boyfriend mishandled a weapon that he had been carrying for weeks, police said.</p> <p>Alexis Jordan, 16, died about 16 hours after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in her boyfriend's home at 1303 Sixth Ave. Cordara "Cory" Lewis, 16, is charged with reckless use of a firearm as an adult and involuntary manslaughter as a juvenile. He is in Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond.</p>

WEST LINN -- Sgt. Neil Hennelly of the West Linn Police Department spends his days wearing a gun. But at home, the father of two teenage boys locks it up, knowing that rules alone don't keep children safe. " 'Don't go in my dresser' might as well be, 'It's in here, come on down,' " he said. Lt. Terry Timeus of the Lake Oswego Police Department, a longtime hunter, said his first child was less than a week old when he ordered a gun safe. "It's incumbent on the parents to keep firearms locked up," said Timeus, the father of...

Bound to Misfire By John R. Lott, Jr. This week President Bush's program, Project Childsafe, begins distributing 20 million gun locks. Over 712,000 locks will be given out just in New York. It seems like such a reasonable program, who could oppose it? After all, if a gun lock can save a life, it seems a small cost. Unfortunately, despite the obvious feel-good appeal of these rules, gun locks and safe storage laws are more likely to cost lives than to save them. Many have seen the public service ads put out by the Clinton Justice Department showing the voices...

<p>COHOES, N.Y. — In its 19th-century heyday, pioneers, immigrants and cargo swarmed the Erie Canal, a bustling gateway that opened up the country's heartland and the West. When the canal faded from prominence at the turn of the past century, a myth arose that it had been destroyed.</p>

<p>In this high-tech, fast-paced world of supersonic flights and bullet trains, the long, flat barges that continue to crawl along the nation's rivers and canals seem a forgotten relic of a bygone era.</p> <p>Yet they remain an integral part of the nation's interstate commerce, transporting almost 800 million tons of cargo a year -- about 16 percent of all inter-city freight -- via a 25,000-mile waterway system.</p>

Does anyone know of a good website or post that gives statistics for gun control and how inneffective it is? I went to www.keepandbeararms.com and all I could find were statistics from 1992. Anybody know of a current website that gives these current statistics?