News Crawl

160 News Crawl Research suggests a gun’s ba­ ng bang is our world’s lingua franca. • Weapon play is tribal, one expert claims. • Local weather on the 8s. • University studies say our sons strap on goggles to play “air-soft,” waging epic plastic-BB battles across the verdant lawn. They shoot each other on the run, as men do in Jerusalem or Fallujah. • Marketing suggests guns make family entertainment. • An unnamed source confirms I’ve played air-soft, a lurch of misguided parenting to shoot at one’s son. • Reports speculate some ungodly force makes guns fun. • Can we kill it, too? • Film at eleven on KNN. • Linguists say the raised fist with pointed index and thumb shot means, universally, “You’re dead.” • It drives me nuts to think of my son with a gun. • Local weather on the 8s. • Nutritionists advise nuts are good for the heart. • Nuts, critics say, the good father who tries to be by waving a pistol. • Like father like son. • Tonight’s prime time, a KNN exclusive , features footage of puddled Baghdad blood. • Studies conclude forgetting is merely a click away. Kevin Stein ...